Fallout 76’s new free update goes live and includes an alien invasion

Bethesda went through the lengthy process of getting fixed up Fallout: 76It has been reimagined as an online experiment in Fallout, tweaking its bugs and making it more accessible to people. In 2022, the game will be receiving a series of four free updates: Invaders From Beyond, a series of public events and random encounters starring alien invaders; Test Your Metal, a series of arena fight events against combat automatons; Expeditions: The Pitt, the players’ first trip out of Appalachia; and Nuka World on Tour in the summer.

Tuesday: A new update Fallout: 76The Invaders From Beyond 8 season 8 was released. It also introduced the possibility to get seasonal rewards for Fallout Worlds. Custom Worlds now offer great settings that make it easy for builders. It’s a strong start to the roadmap, and the game has finally figured out how to deliver upon the best parts of its post-apocalyptic fantasy.

Requested by the players for public events

“Within Appalachia, a big emphasis this year is renewing and reinvigorating our public events,” said Fallout: 76Polygon calls Mark Tucker, design director. “We’ve been listening to the feedback loud and clear that they want more public events, so we’ve made a concerted effort this year to really focus on providing that kind of content to our players.”

Although admittedly experimental, this first event features an alien invasion on Earth. Fallout has had aliens since its inception. Fallout 1 2. They play a slightly more prominent role in Bethesda’s Fallout titles, but this is their biggest stage yet.

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“We’ve been batting around an idea like [Invaders from Beyond]It has been around since before the launch. It’s popped up in a lot of our brainstorms along the way when we started talking about seasons,” said Tucker. “It’s one of those delicate situations because the aliens are a mystery; we don’t want to over-explain it or […]Jumping the shark would be the best way. So instead of doing a big update, it’s something more time limited — it happens, then it’s over, and we May revisit it in the future.”

Two other public events focused updates will come in the future, and according to Tucker, Nuka World is a little more high concept, although the team can’t share too much about that update quite yet.

“It’s a traveling roadshow, it kicked back up when someone who was a part of it when the world came to an end or stumbled upon it and figured out how to get this thing going,” Tucker said. “They’ll be bringing it into Appalachia, and there’ll be some new characters to talk to you and other things.”

Expeditions for the Future

While the team has figured out a way to slowly update and reignite areas around Appalachia, the big experiment is going abroad to other parts of the post-apocalyptic country — or perhaps world. Expeditions, a brand new mode for gaming that The Pitt introduced with The Pitt is intended to offer a completely different experience from the daily grind of building steel and stabbing sheepsquatches back at home.

“We call it Expeditions, colon, The Pitt, because we want to make it clear we’re dedicated to the idea that there’s going to be more of these,” said Tucker. “That’s for when we want to pull off some different experiences that are harder to pull off within Appalachia. It is — and this is the worst way to put it regarding The Pitt — but it’s a nice breath of fresh air.”

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First appearances of the Pitt were in Fallout 3 A premium DLC expansion that allowed players to enter an arena called The Hole, and possibly lead a revolt against their captors. It’s possibly best known as the Fallout DLC that lets you eat a baby, and which die hard fans have even learned to speedrun.

“It’s a place that has a lot of distinction from our current world, but it’s also kind of fun to go to a place you’ve been to before [in Fallout 3’s DLC] so you’ll see The Pitt earlier in the timeline,” Tucker said. “Newsflash: It’s still not great! We’ve gone into a lot of detail to the point where our team is building Pittsburgh fire hydrants and streetlights to make it really feel and look like the Pitt, with the atmospheric events and lighting and everything. Our goal is it becomes a new gameplay loop we can build upon, and we’re structuring it so we can build upon it, adding more locations in future.”

Tuesday’s patch also brings a host of improvements to Fallout Worlds, including the ability to earn seasonal SCORE progress there, and new custom settings. This includes the ability for dead enemies to become clouds of confetti and changing your carry weight. There are also very flexible building restrictions that can be applied to very dense and silly buildings.