

Also known as non-cosmetic microtransactions. Bethesda is now saying that due to “community feedback,” people want items with more utility. In other bad news, the whole “cosmetic only” claim for microtransactions ( which is still up) just got a whole lot more muddled. More updates are also planned for the year, like the recent public event overhaul. In other words, once NPCs and private servers are both in play, we might get a full multiplayer Fallout game, a full year and change after 76 actually launched.

In essence, you can now play with just friends if you want instead of jumping onto some random server. To tide people over they’ve provided us with a few new screens of the expansion, and noted that “Private Worlds” (servers) are coming next week. That entire quote could be applied to Fallout 76 as a whole, but here we are. This is by far the biggest, overhaul-worthy patch to dateīad news everyone: if you were still holding out hope that Fallout 76 would be magically morphed into a real Fallout game by the end of the year, it looks like that isn’t happening anymore.īy way of a big blog post, Bethesda explained that the “biggest free update yet,” the Wastelanders expansion, “needs more time to be the best, most polished update it can be,” so the publisher is delaying it into the first quarter of 2020.
