According to the stats available on SteamDB, Starfield has a rating of 71.67% based on a total of 84,103 user reviews, while Fallout 76 has a rating of 71.75% based on a total of 89,542 user reviews, putting the former at a lower ranking than the latter on Steam.

In comparison to other games from Bethesda Softworks, there is only one game that is ranked below Starfield, and that is Fallout 4 VR. As such, Starfield’s reception is unexpectedly low compared to other titles from the studio. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a rating of 93.88% based on a total of 314,019 user reviews, which is significantly higher than that of Starfield.

Previously, speaking during an interview with Famitsu, Starfield Director Todd Howard mentioned that the game will receive mod support by next year. He added that him and his development team are huge fans of the feature, so they’ll be implementing it in a “big way”.

Starfield is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was unveiled at Bethesda’s E3 presentation in 2018 and is set in a space-themed environment. It marks Bethesda’s first new intellectual property in 25 years. The game became available for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 6, 2023.

Players can seamlessly switch between a first-person and third-person perspective. The game presents an open-world setting situated within the Milky Way galaxy, featuring a blend of fictional and real planetary systems. Players have the capability to land on over 1,000 planets, numerous moons, and space stations. The majority of the in-game landscapes are procedurally generated, with subsequent manual modifications and the addition of handcrafted content. The game generates terrain, alien flora and fauna, and points of interest on planets based on their star system and atmospheric conditions as the player approaches them.

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In a new Reddit AMA, Todd Howard, the creator of the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series, talked about the lessons that they learned from the failure of Fallout 76 and what they think about it now.

“I can only speak to the issues we’ve had, such as Fallout 76. We let people down and were able to learn and be better from it, ” said Todd in a reply to a question that asked them about their reaction to the Cyberpunk 2077 launch.

“We’re fortunate 3 years later to have 76 be one of our most played games, and it’s thanks to the 11 million players who have made it an incredible community. It’s made us much better developers in the end, ” concluded Todd.

Fallout 76 is also available to play on Xbox Game Pass so that could be one of the factors for such a huge player count. 11 million players having played the game is not a slouch, but it definitely took some time and incentive to get such a figure after the launch ended up in a major failure due to multiple issues ranging from bugs to lack of content.

All of the issues were subsequently patched out or fixed. There have been several updates to the game which added major new content, and the story has been expanded with post-launch content.

Fallout 76 is available to play now on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC.

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Fallout 76 fans have been asking for an increase in their Stash limit for a long time now, and this patch might have resolved their issues once and for all with an increase to the limit all the way to 1200 pounds. It gives the player more room to find and keep the loot during their exploration of the wasteland in Fallout 76.

Of course, no Fallout 76 update is inevitable without any bug fixes and there are quite a few included in the patch that has released today. The file size of this Fallout 76 update is 1.6 GB on PC through Bethesda and 2 GB through Steam, while it is a lot higher if you have the game through the Microsoft Store, weighing at 5 GB for the update. Console owners have to grab 4.2 GB to 4.8 GB of update data on PS4 and Xbox One respectively.

You can have a complete look at the Fallout 76 1.49 update patch notes below. The official update version is 1.5.1.26 on almost all platforms aside from Xbox One, where it is 1.5.1.25.

Fallout 76 Update 1.49 Patch Notes

Inventory and User Interface Improvements

• Stash Increase: Hold onto extra gear with a Stash increase! We’ve increased the amount of weight your Stash can hold by 50%, giving you 1,200 pounds to work with.
  
• New Inventory Tabs: We’ve added a few new tabs to your inventory menus so that you can better organize your gear, from your snacks and Stimpaks, to your outfits and armor.
  • New – This tab will keep track of all the items you gather during a play session, sorted by newest to oldest.
  • If you already have a stackable item in your inventory, like Steel Scrap, then new Steel Scrap you pick up will not appear in the “New” tab. Instead, it will be added to your existing stack.
  • Additionally, the “New” tab will reset if you leave your current world.
  • Armor – We’ve split Armor into its own menu tab so that you can keep your defensive gear separate from your other Apparel.
  • Food/Drinks – Your food and drinks are now split out from “Aid” into their own “Food/Drinks” inventory tab.
  • Please note that your Chems and Serums will remain in “Aid.”
• Stack Weight: What’s weighing you down? From now on, when you select a stacked item in your inventory, the Pip-Boy will show you the individual weight and the stack weight.
  
• Vending Machine Map Previews: The tooltip that appears when you’re previewing another player’s Vending Machines on the Map will now show the number of 1-, 2-, and 3-star legendary weapons and armor they’re selling. This way, you’ll have more information about the legendary goodies players are selling before you choose to Fast Travel to their C.A.M.P.s.
  • Additionally, Vending Machine categories that are empty will no longer appear in the tooltip to help you more easily see what types of items players do have for sale.

Additional User Interface Updates

• Atomic Shop: We’ve added a button to each category page in the Atomic Shop that will let you show or hide the items you already own, so that you can browse what’s still available with less clutter.
  
• Build Mode Visual Improvement: We’ve changed the color of the outline that appears when you build objects in your C.A.M.P. from green to light blue, which should be more friendly for our builders who have colorblindness.
  • This change is only visible when the object you’re trying to place is in a valid location, and invalid placement outlines are still red.

Daily Ops

• Elder Tier Rewards: In response to community feedback, we’ve adjusted Daily Ops rewards so that you will always receive an item from the rare rewards pool whenever you complete an Op fast enough to reach Elder Tier.

Spread the Love: New Challenges and Rewards

• Starting today, and lasting until February 16, you can claim a free “Heart Wrencher” Skin for the Pipe Wrench in the Atomic Shop, and then use it to complete Challenges that will unlock new cosmetic and consumable rewards!
  • Earn Lunchboxes, Perk Card Packs, and Repair Kits by defeating enemies with your Heart Wrencher every day during the Spread the Love event.
  • You can also claim outfits, and even a new variation of the Backwoods Bungalow, by completing Weekly Challenges with your Heart Wrencher equipped.

Bug Fixes

Allies

• Settler Forager: Corrected missing player dialog options for Settler Forager.

Art & Graphics

• Apparel: Fixed texture issues with the Samurai Helmet.
• Apparel: Reduced the gap between the Deep Cave Hunter Backpack and the player’s back.
• Apparel: The Pip-Boy light no longer shines behind the player in the Brotherhood Recon Helmet.
• Apparel: Fixed a texture issue with the Fasnacht Beret.
• Décor: Updated the explosion seen when destroying Wrapped Presents.
• Décor: The flame on Skull Candles no longer appears offset from the wick.
• Items: Updated the explosion effects when destroying Mr. Handy Fuel and Portable Fuel Tanks.
• Lights: Yellow lighting effects no longer persist after the Color Wheel has been turned off.
• Lights: Adjusted the lighting on the “Kill, Laugh, Love” Sign so that the word “Laugh” is no longer too bright.
• Power Armor: Headlamps no longer shine in an incorrect direction when wearing a T-65 Power Armor Helmet that has a paint applied.
• Power Armor: Addressed missing textures and reduced clipping issues with the Captain Cosmos Power Armor.
• Power Armor: War Rider Power Armor now properly protects the player’s posterior.
• Vending Machines: Adjusted the explosion when destroying the Slocum’s Joe Vending Machine.
• Weapons: Mind over Matter’s visual effects no longer appear to come from the player’s shoulder in third-person view.

C.A.M.P. and Workshops

• Exploit: Addressed an exploit affecting item storage in the Stash box.
• Shelters: It is now easier to place structures, like the Seedy Shed, Backwoods Bungalow, and others inside a Shelter, as long as there is enough space to do so.
• Stairs: Stairs can now snap to the front of the Brotherhood of Steel Scout Tower.
• Super Mutant Tube: Players can no longer get stuck inside the Super Mutant Tube while building it.

Challenges

• World: The “Discover Beckley” subchallenge for the “Discover Locales in the Ash Heap” Challenge can now be completed.

Daily Ops

• Rewards: Fixed an issue that could result in no rare reward being granted if the item the player would have received was a non-tradeable item Plan that they had already learned. Now, players will always receive a reward when this occurs.
• Operation Report: Addressed a visual issue that could incorrectly mark reward tiers as already earned in the Daily Ops Operation Report.
  • Please Note: Daily Ops rewards reset at 12:00 p.m. ET each day.

Diseases

• Rad Worms: Rad Worms now only increases Radiation damage taken from consuming food and drinks.

Enemies

• Spawning: Fixed an issue causing enemies to sometimes spawn grouped together at an incorrect location.
• Giant Hermit Crabs: Players can no longer clip through Giant Hermit Crabs.

Items

• Apparel: The Feral Ghoul Mask and Cuddles the Clown Mask no longer obscure the Pip-Boy light.
• Apparel: The Plague Doctor Mask now correctly states that it prevents air borne diseases.
• Apparel: The Swamp Camo Hazmat Suit can now be repaired.
• Armor: Raider Armor now correctly works with the Funky Duds and Sizzling Style Legendary Perks.
• Armor: Recon Armor now correctly adjusts to the players body style.
• Flora: Thistle now correctly turns into Irradiated Thistle when nuked. Irradiated Thistle can now be harvested for Raw Fluorescent Flux.
• Magazines: Fixed an issue causing “Live & Love 8” to cancel out the Very Well Rested bonus from a fourth Lunchbox.
• Magazines: The “Astonishingly Awesome Tales 3” bonus has been changed to allows the player to breathe underwater and regain health while swimming.
• Mods: Weapons with mods that add fire damage, like the War Glaive with the Flaming Blade mod, now work with the Friendly Fire Perk.
• Mods: The Heating Coil mod now correctly states that it deals fire damage.
• Mods: Applying Brawler Armor mods to Brotherhood Recon Armor arm pieces now boosts unarmed damage by 7.5% each.
• Mods: The Reduced Ammo Weight Legendary effect now correctly reduces explosive ammo weight.
• Mods: Adding Pocketed mods to a Boiled Leather Chest Piece no longer incorrectly increases the item’s durability.
• Plans: Fixed an issue that caused players to unlearn Plans for Lawn Flamingos and Wooden Desks.
• Power Armor: The Targeting HUD mod now only highlights hostile targets.
• Power Armor: The Explosive Vents mod has been renamed “Cooling Vents.” Cooling Vents slow Fusion Core drain by 5%.
• Weapons: Fixed an issue where certain weapons that shoot multiple projectiles were taking too much condition damage.
• Weapons: The Crusader Pistol Reflex sights no longer appear distorted when the Pyro receiver is equipped.
• Weapons: The Stabilized Bull Barrel now correctly counts towards mods learned on the .44.
• Weapons: Baton that have a paint or skin applied can now be changed back to their default appearance.
• Weapons: Changed the Plasma Cutter’s speed description to Medium.
• Weapons: Crossbows can now be changed back to their standard frame.
• Weapons: Players can now correctly reapply the Wounding mod to a Bone Club after switching it to No Upgrade.

Mutations

• Plague Walker: The Plague Walker Mutation’s description no longer incorrectly states that it removes Disease durations. This was only a description change, the Mutation’s functionality has not been adjusted.

NPCs

• Brotherhood: Brotherhood of Steel Hopefuls and Initiates will no longer take damage when nuked.
• Brotherhood: NPCs will no longer say hello to the player while they are talking to Russell Dorsey.
• Brotherhood: Addressed dialogue issues with NPCs during “Property Rights.”
• Putnam Brothers: Now have appropriate dialog if neither were recruited to Fort Atlas when the player revisits them.
• Settlers: Fixed the collision on Settlers at East Mountain Lookout Tower.
• Scribe Valdez: No longer comments on documents players have already collected during Mother of Invention.
• Scribe Valdez: Fixed an issue that prevented Valdez from playing certain voice lines during “Mother of Invention.”
• Scribe Valdez: Valdez’s clipboard will no longer clip through her while in a downed animation.
• Vendors: The Flatwoods Vendor will no longer sometimes appear invisible to players.

Performance and Stability

• Client Stability: Fixed multiple crashes that could occur during combat.
• Client Stability: Addressed a crash that could occur while scrolling the Notes tab in the Pip-Boy.
• Connectivity: Fixed an issue that could cause PC players to receive a “Disconnected due to modified game files” error during normal gameplay and kick them from their current world.
• Server Stability: Addressed an issue that could cause a server crash.
• Performance: Addressed an issue that could cause the game client to hitch while viewing the Aid tab in the Pip-Boy.
• Performance: Addressed an issue that could cause the game client to hitch when sorting the Pip-Boy by spoil.
• Performance: Fixed an issue that could result in framerate drops inside Fort Atlas.

Perks

• Dodgy: Now has a 2 second cooldown on AP drain. The damage reduction is still active during the AP cooldown. This prevents players’ AP from completely draining when hit by high rate of fire weapons.
• Friendly Fire: The health regeneration effects from Friendly Fire no longer stack, but heal faster. This makes it so all weapons heal at the same rate.
• Stabilized: Fixed an issue that prevented Stabilized from working correctly while wearing Power Armor.
• Super Duper: Fanfare and sound effects no longer incorrectly play when crafting Legendary Items.

Quests and Events

• Disarming Discovery: Dagger will no longer attempt to talk to the player if they are in the shed.
• Disarming Discovery: Dagger’s Key will now longer reappear on her corpse after logging out and back in if the player has already looted it.
• Dogwood Die Off: Fixed an issue where the quest target does not appear correctly on the trunk.
• Fasnacht Day: Players will now correctly earn a three-star legendary item upon event completion.
• Fasnacht Day: Super Mutant Suiciders will no longer continue to spawn after Fasnacht ends.
• Fasnacht Day: Addressed an issue that could cause the Master of Ceremonies to spawn outside of the event area.
• Fasnacht Day: The Robotics Expert Perk can no longer be used to Hack the Parade Marcher bots.
• Fasnacht Day: Looting Porcelain Steins during the Fasnacht Day event no longer prevents players from picking up additional Porcelain Steins during the next Fasnacht on that same world.
• Field Testing: The Putnam parents are now more visible during the intro scene.
• Field Testing: Fixed a rare issue that could cause the player to see a blank dialogue box when speaking with Paladin Rahmani.
• Forbidden Knowledge: Addressed several issues affecting Forbidden Knowledge and Technical Data, and this quest has been re-enabled.
  • Please Note: Technical Data can no longer be dropped, traded, or Sold.
• Mother of Invention: The Mysterious Component now remains a quest item after relogging.
• Mother of Invention: The bag of dirt in the Ultracite Battery housing will no longer disappear when the player returns to the instance.
• Mother of Invention: Addressed an issue that could cause Scribe Valdez to not fight back when attacked by enemies.
• Mother of Invention: The Mysterious Component in “Mother of Invention” will now display an inventory message when the player extracts it.
• Mother of Invention: Addressed a lore continuity issue in Rahmani and Shin’s dialogue regarding Paladin Taggerdy.
• Over and Out: The animation of the transmitter getting destroyed no longer plays prematurely.
• Overseer, Overseen: Dialogue and quest will now progress appropriately when returning the security footage to Head Engineer Brass.
• The Best Defense: A quest target now correctly points to Paladin Rahmani after being directed to speak with the Brotherhood upstairs.
• The Best Defense: Fixed an issue that could cause more enemy waves to spawn than intended during the quest’s final encounter.
• Trade Secrets: The quest marker to collect the Pip-Boy Construction kit now consistently points to Vault-Tec University.

Sound

• Scoreboard: Entering the Scoreboard quickly no longer causes the sound to disappear.

User Interface

• Atomic Shop: Once owned, the Brotherhood of Steel Icon now correctly appears in the Player Icons page in the Atomic Shop.
• Fast Travel: Added an error message when trying to fast travel to a C.A.M.P. that the player is too close to.
• Map: Fixed an issue where the map could be opened while viewing a terminal.
• Map: Fixed a rare issue that could cause item counts in a player’s Vending Machine preview on the Map to mismatch the number of items in that Vending Machine.
• Notifications: Fixed an issue where fanfare would sometimes not play after completing a timed challenge.
• Perk Coins: Fixed a visual issue that could cause the player’s Perk Coin total to display an incorrect number of Perk Coins after scrapping Perk Cards.
• Pip-Boy: Items with long names are no longer cut off in the Pip-Boy.
• Quests: Fixed an issue causing the “Forging Trust” objective tracker to remain on the screen after the quest was completed.
• Scoreboard: Fallout 1st exclusive rewards are now claimed separately from standard rewards on the Scoreboard.
• Social Menu: Improved mouse controls on pop-ups in the social menu.
• Teams: The Team UI will no longer flash while repairing items at a workbench.

World

• World: Fixed several locations in the world where players could become stuck.
• World: Fixed several locations where players could view out of world.

While Fallout 76 launched with a lot of criticism from fans, it has evolved quite a bit over the course of its lifecycle with updates that have added free post-launch content. The patch today is an example of the on-going support for Fallout 76.

Fallout 76 is available now for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

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In an interview with The Guardian, Todd Howard talked about the launch of Fallout 76 and its evolving nature as a GaaS model. He admitted that there were a lot of fans that were disappointed with how the game turned out at release. “We let a lot of people down,” said Howard.

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As for single-player games, which have been the highlight for Bethesda Softworks, he stresses their importance saying that the studio is a big fan of this genre.

“Obviously, we’re big fans of single-player and we’ve had some success with some multiplayer-focused games,” says Howard. “We have found that even if it’s multiplayer, whether it’s Elder Scrolls Online or Fallout 76, a large number of our players want to play it like a single-player game and not have the other players distract from it. Games handle multiplayer in different ways, and I think it all has merit.”

We have already covered that the upcoming Starfield will be an SP game, and based on the comments of Todd Howard, there is no reason to doubt it. The Elder Scrolls VI is another upcoming project that is currently in development at Bethesda along with Starfield.

Howard also shared his vision of the next-generation future praising the fast load times as a big factor for the new generation.

“Let’s just cast forward to the next five to 10 years of gaming – for me, it’s more about access than clock cycles,” he says. “Just the time it takes to even turn [a console] on and load up some of these games is a barrier – it’s time that you’re not enjoying being in that world … The kind of games we make are ones that people are going to sit down and play for hours at a time. If you can access a game more easily, and no matter what device you’re on or where you are, that’s what I think the next five to 10 years in gaming is about.”

“I’d like to see more reactivity [in game worlds], more systems clashing together that players can express themselves with. I think chasing scale for scale’s sake is not always the best goal.”

Bethesda Softworks has been recently acquired by Microsoft paving the way for a partnership that is worth billions of dollars. While it hasn’t materialized yet, Microsoft hasn’t clarified whether this affects the upcoming major projects of Bethesda with Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI in the near future.

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Fallout 76 might have slowed down after its terrible launch but Bethesda was still supporting the game with free post-launch content updates, making it into a live service game that improved the quality and added new in-game content. Today, Fallout 76 has received update 1.20 on PS4 which is also available on Xbox One and PC.

According to Bethesda, this new Fallout 76 update has made the Nuclear Winter Battle Royale mode jump from its pre-Beta to Beta phase. They have made some design changes as a part of this new update. This is in addition to various tweaks and adjustments that were made in Fallout 76 update 1.20. It also includes many bug fixes for the game.

Nuclear Winter Design Changes

Items and Loot

• Underarmor: Players can now favorite one Underarmor in the Atomic Shop for use in Nuclear Winter, in addition to one Headwear item and one Outfit.
• Automatic Combat Rifles: Can now be found in Small Supply Crates rather than pre-existing containers in the world.
• Submachine Guns: Can now be found in Medium Supply Crates rather than Small Supply Crates.
• Supply Crates: Adjusted Supply Crate density in a few areas where more Crates were spawning than intended.

Perks

• Dead Man Sprinting: This Perk previously was not applying its effects correctly and has been redesigned. Dead Man Sprinting now causes Action Points to drain 25% slower while under 30% HP.

Overseer Progression

• Terminals: New entries have been added to ZAX Terminals that can be unlocked by reaching Overseer Rank 100.

User Interface

• Tutorials: A “More Info” button has been added to the Nuclear Winter Perk Card menu, which can be used to re-open the Perk Card tutorial.

This applies to the design changes for Nuclear Winter, to get the full details on what is included in this patch, please check out the official patch notes.

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fallout 76 recently went free-to-play for a week in order to get fans back into the game. This happened after the release of the Nuclear Winter Battle Royale mode although it applied for a single week only.

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Fallout 76 has continued to receive updates from Bethesda Softworks since launching back in November last year. These updates have changed a lot of elements within the game and fulfilled its purpose of functioning as a live service game. Even though some of the changes that were made in Fallout 76 were negatively received by fans, like the ability to purchase in-game items, there have been plenty of great content as well.

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Fallout 76 didn’t launch with a season pass as Bethesda Softworks promised post-launch free content for the game. They wanted to make it function like games as a service so they continued to release new updates for it. Today’s update is another patch that adds free content and implements some bug fixes.

Fallout 76 update version 1.16 is available now on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Bethesda is calling it Fallout 76 patch 9.5 on all platforms. Here are the details about this new update as shared by Bethesda.

Patch Version

Download sizes for today’s patch will be approximately 5.5 GB for consoles and under 1 GB for PC.

• PC: 1.1.5.4
• PS4: 1.1.5.4
• Xbox: 1.1.5.4

Wild Appalachia

Project Paradise Event

• Sink your teeth into some experimental testing by joining the Project Paradise event, which takes place in cavernous Biome Labs that are now available for exploration beneath Arktos Pharma.
  • To start Project Paradise, head to the Arktos Pharma building in the Forest region of Appalachia. Enter the building’s lobby, and then use the elevator to descend into the labs.
• Product research has never been so wild! Aid Arktos Pharma with their experiments on the Appalachian creatures that inhabit the labs and you’ll be rewarded with new loot and XP.
  • All three Biome Labs will require your attention if you’d like to claim the best rewards, so most adventurers will find it beneficial to form a group.
• Note: This event will be daunting for Dwellers who are fresh from the Vault, as you will encounter enemies who are level 50+.

Player Vending Machines

• The “Inspect” option can now be used to view additional details about items in other players’ Vending Machines, making it easier to find that perfect Legendary for your collection.

You can also find out a list of bug fixes that Bethesda Softworks has shared along with the Fallout 76 update 1.16 patch notes. These bug fixes will be included in this new update.

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Fallout 76 received a new dungeon called “The Burrows” recently in an update. Bethesda Softworks is now following it up with an update that will make it easier to take snapshots in the game using a new camera system.

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This camera system is also part of a new quest that will be implemented along with the update that is set to release today. Here are the highlights of this new update.

• ProSnap Deluxe Camera: Find and equip this new functional Camera to snap photos more easily than ever before, begin the “Bucket List” quest, and complete Camera-related Challenges!
• Basic Repair Kits: New single-use consumables that can be used to repair one item to 100% Condition without using any crafting materials. You can visit the Atomic Shop to purchase Basic Repair Kits.
  • Further below, we’ve also shared additional details on our thinking behind adding utility items like this to the Atomic Shop.
• Improved Repair Kits: New single-use consumables that can be used to buff one item to 150% Condition without using any crafting materials. These are rare items that can be earned by completing some types of in-game content.
• Balance Adjustments: Aluminum Trays, Oil Cans, and Empty Cans now provide Aluminum when scrapped and we’ve increased their base Cap values.

Repair Kits have started to cause a controversy in the game after Bethesda ended up taking a U-turn on their statement when they said that the game won’t offer any microtransactions aside from cosmetic stuff. Repair kits can be used by purchasing them through the in-game Atomic shop.

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For those who own the game on PS4, this patch will be available as Fallout 76 update 1.14. The official version for every platform is different.

• PC: 1.1.3.11
• PS4: 1.1.3.9
• Xbox: 1.1.3.7

The download size of this new Fallout 76 patch is 2 GB for PS4 and Xbox One and under 1 GB for PC. It should be available to download after the scheduled maintenance ends today. This is a client-side update requiring you to download the patch files before playing the game.

Source (Bethesda)

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There is also a Subterranean dungeon “The Burrows” that will be released on April 16 and it is included with this Fallout 76 update. This dungeon won’t be available to play in the game until on the specified date.

Let’s talk about the download size of this new Fallout 76 update first. It will be approximately 6 GB on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. How do you know this is the latest update that has been installed on your systems? Well, it is easy since the updated version will be 1.1.2.7 on PC, and 1.1.2.2 on PS4 and Xbox One respectively. You can see the updated version on the menu screen before jumping into the game.

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The patch highlights for Fallout 76 update 1.13 confirm the following changes.

• Lying Lowe Questline: Separate fact from fiction as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of Calvin van Lowe.
• Design and Balance Adjustments: Vendors, Turrets, Glowing Mass, V.A.T.S. and more have received design and balance updates.
• Item Renaming: Add a personal touch to your Apparel, Armor, Power Armor, and Weapons by giving them custom names.
• News Screen: A splash screen will now automatically appear upon logging into Fallout 76 to notify you of the latest game news and announcements.
• The Burrows (Coming April 16): Explore The Burrows, a new subterranean dungeon that offers a challenging experience for even the toughest of Wasteland adventurers.

So now that you have the update installed and ready to go, how do you start the new questline? To do so, you will need to find and read one of the “Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother” posters in Lewisburg or at Train Stations around Appalachia.

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Todd Howard talked about the success of Fallout 76 in a new interview stating that the game has millions of players. Bethesda is committed to offering strong post-launch support as they are doing with this new update.

Source (Bethesda)

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Todd Howard talked about the success that Bethesda Softworks achieved with Fallout 76 despite the rocky development cycle and the controversies that surrounded its launch. He shared his view on it at Bethesda Game Days last week.

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“We have a huge, millions of players, and a large player base in this game; we are receiving tons of feedback. We aim to build a kind of Fallout platform. We have tons of ideas, it’s been a crazy journey so far, and we are excited, there’s a ton of cool content on the way, ” said Todd Howard.

“It’s been an incredible experience. We will do anything we can to reward that, this year, next year and in the coming years we have big things planned.”

Howard stressed the importance of traditional games like Skyrim and Fallout 4. “We continue to do more traditional things, or what I would call them, Bethesda games.”

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He was also upfront about the difficulties that they faced with Fallout 76 during its development. Despite this all, the game seems to have done “very, very well” for Bethesda.

“For us, Fallout 76 is a very, very new thing for our studio, We knew we would have a lot of stumbling blocks in the game and had some, some of them a lot more difficult than we anticipated. This is a very different and new project for us. We’ve built up the studios, we’re now four different studios in North America, in Rockville, Austin, Dallas, and Dallas. Montreal and this was a game that demanded so much for the people of these four studios to work on the game. We knew the launch was going to be just the beginning. We’re excited that the game did very, very well.”

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Reddit user Glorf12 claims to have played more than 900 hours of Fallout 76. He made a thread on Reddit where he detailed his experience with the game after playing it for more than 900 hours. He wrote a guide that explained the farming locations for the various in-game loot including legendary and rare loot. After he made the thread, he was banned by Bethesda Softworks with the following message.

This was apparently against the terms of service for Fallout 76 and they claim that this was done through an exploit. The email does state that depending on a future patch that might fix this exploit, the account will be allowed again but any further violation can lead to a permanent ban.

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The user speculates that his ban might have to do with trading with another secondary account that was used to trade some of the loot that he farmed, and players could have reported him after seeing such a high ranking character trading with a low ranking one.

Another issue was with how the system kept check of the ammo that was owned by him. Due to the weight limit, it was simply not possible for him to keep a stock of more than 100,000 ammo as reported in the ban message. He dropped the ammo to free up inventory space and get over the weight limit but apparently, the system keeps track of every ammo that the player collects in the game.

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Bethesda Softworks has replied back to the user with a message that they want him to file a support ticket so the team can look into the case, but banning such a dedicated player on the chance that he is exploiting in-game doesn’t really paint them in a positive light. It will simply add more to the mess that is Fallout 76 and its launch, and this is not ending any time soon.

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