As you would possibly count on, the Fallout TV collection on Prime Video has despatched plenty of new and returning gamers to Fallout 76. However not even Bethesda may have predicted the nice and cozy welcome that these newcomers obtained from the preexisting gamers within the recreation.
Whereas talking with The Game Business, Fallout 76 artistic director John Rush expressed his shock on the cooperative spirit and sense of camaraderie that is emerged within the recreation.
“I might say plenty of the onboarding was executed by our fantastic group who was recognizing all of those contemporary vault dwellers rising from Vault 76 and establishing camps outdoors of that and giving them free stuff and displaying them issues and ‘take a look at what I constructed,'” mentioned Rush. “So it was very a lot a concerted effort between us and our group welcoming this new inflow of brand-new gamers and returning gamers alike.”
In accordance with Rush, this was was opposite to the response Bethesda was anticipating.
“Earlier than we launched the sport, we have been like, ‘Oh, it is post-apocalyptic, it is Fallout. Let’s allow them to know. They’re gonna wanna kill each other,'” recalled Rush. “It is the exact opposite … It has been nice to see that. I’ve by no means skilled a group as nice because the Bethesda Sport Studios group.”
As a part of Bethesda’s drive to create a crossover viewers with the present, Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul was added to Fallout 76 in December’s Burning Springs replace. That replace additionally added a brand new area, extra wildlife, and bounty missions. Bethesda launched a brand new patch for Fallout 76 in January to deal with a few of the bugs that got here out of that replace.
Fallout has been renewed for Season 3 by Prime Video, however there’s presently no launch window for the present’s subsequent season.