#SHADY SANDS FALLOUT 1 HOW TO#

Starting off as a Vault Dweller, again, is old hat for the Fallout franchise. but it’s a tenuous world that’s tough to inhabit. This is a world where we are the cast, where players make up the merchants, couriers, raiders, and protectors. This ranges between bleak and boring, depending on your sensitivity. Every single NPC quest has the same ending in this game: no moral. After the third or fourth time you find a “survivor story” next to a corpse, you stop caring. Everyone died, and worse yet, the clues and stories they left behind are uninteresting. The problem is that all of the prebuilt story is incredibly weak. There’s plenty of story and fiction strewn around the world, with players getting a quest to follow their Overseer and rebuild Appalachia after the bombs fell and the world succumbed to nuclear fire. The bigger problem, and one that will be harder to solve, is the hurdle it takes to invest in the fiction of Fallout 76, and the struggle players will have if no one does buy into the world. That’s irritating, but it’s also to be expected from a launch day multiplayer game.

#SHADY SANDS FALLOUT 1 HOW TO#

My friends and I had to go back and forth over a few sessions, figuring out how to join as a team and occasionally getting dropped or barred from entry. First, you have to wrangle with the considerable technical issues. The problem with these moments is that it takes too much to get to them. At one point, I met a sharply suited man in Flatwoods, who put on his best accent to ask us about the local nightlife. My team ran through an airport lot to the gates and slamming them shut to keep a line of Scorched out until we can reload and ready ourselves. There was building a line of camps up the banks of a dried out riverbed, and venturing out to the nearby town to find supplies to build defenses, only to find a much more prosperous neighbor nearby under attack by super mutants. As I journey through West Virginia, there are moments where I really feel like my goal to rebuild this little corner of America matters, and is within reach.

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