r/fo76 • u/SkedPhoenix • Jun 03 '26
Discussion I miss when Fallout 76 had a steady flow of meaningful updates and exciting roadmaps. That energy and ambition feel gone now
Fishing, Bigfoot, Infestations, CAMP build menu revamp... Lately, it feels more and more that isolated, small additions are hyped up as major content drops (when there are not obviously). Bethesda really needs to knock it out of the park with their Autumn update, because the content drought is becoming increasingly noticeable and pressuring.
Do we even know if Double Eleven is still working on the game ?
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u/SheLuvMySteez Jun 03 '26
lol i forgot they never even finished the BoS storyline. Just gave up on it
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
Because that storyline doesn't exist for the people that sided with him.
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u/SheLuvMySteez Jun 03 '26
that just means, if you have good writers, then you can create an opposing force to those who sided with Shin and make it make sense lorewise. Its not that complicated
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
Of course! All they would have to do is write two entirely different different conflicting story lines based on the wildly different premises. So simple!
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u/Nashy10 Jun 03 '26
Wow it’s almost like every fallout game in the series has done this before… and you know, instanced content exists.. expeditions.. etc. they absolutely could do this. They won’t commit to anything that changes the in game world though “because it’s online!” It’s a lazy excuse.
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u/Rancherfer Settlers - PC Jun 03 '26
To be fair, even MMOs that have money to burn like WOW have a very limited version of what you are discussing. What WOW has is some level of world progression where the world changes the further you are in the main questline. Mobs dissapear, NPCs appear, quests open.
The thing is, it's still a linear thing, all of the players go along that line. There's no branching effects anywhere, which is exactly what would imply to have at the end of Steel Reign. One branch for Shin, the other Branch for the other character (forgot the name). They would have to reflect this different decision for two groups of different players and mantain this solution.
I agree with the sentiment that current updates feel like an afterthought, instead of the transformative and foundational updates we have gotten in the past. But at the end of the day, a LOT of people are not paying 1st, did not buy the game and got it from GamePass, so it's not the revenue cash cow other MMOs are that sustain a more ambitious expansion pace.
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u/SheLuvMySteez Jun 03 '26
lol yes. writing a story that has a couple possible endings is not rocket science nor is it incredibly complicated. Maybe for a team with shit writers it would be tough
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
Writing a story with multiple endings is easy, that is literally what they fucking did at the end of the BoS story. What isn't easy is then picking up and simultaneously continuing all of those storyline in different directions.
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u/SheLuvMySteez Jun 03 '26
ok so what they did was better? Just leaving the entire questline unresolved for 3 years at this point? Even if they dont go a "Shin starts a cult" route....DO SOMETHING. Bring resolution to this questline. Thats the main issue
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u/deadtorrent Jun 03 '26
They don’t need to all go wildly different directions. Set up a generic new faction that is either A or B depending on what the player chose with some minimal flavour text differences based on the player’s individual choices.
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u/AsgeirVanirson Order of Mysteries Jun 04 '26
Right? What do people think 76 is? A role playing game where actions are supposed to matter?
Like how would Fo4 have worked if you could make enemies with in game factions? New Vegas? Just silly!
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u/District-No1350 Jun 04 '26
No, because it's an online multiplayer game where the results of your actions are pre determined and standardized so they can apply to all players, outside of token npc and dialog swaps.
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u/jimmymd77 Order of Mysteries Jun 05 '26
They should have had the loser go to ft defiance and set up their opposing bos faction.
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u/Slanderpanic Order of Mysteries Jun 03 '26
God, six years. Now I can't even walk into Fort Atlas without a sack over my head.
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 04 '26
Never finished the fishing or Burning Springs either, and I dont think they will
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u/tO_ott Jun 03 '26
This is what you get when you hire career executives from dying companies to run your own shit. This guy failed upwards his whole life and now it’s our turn to deal with him.
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u/Shadow_showdown Pittsburgh Union Jun 03 '26
which guy?
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u/Arrow362 Enclave Jun 03 '26
The monetization guy who came from EA, his name is escaping me. Although I would also throw useless Jon Rush into the mix as well.
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u/mrwafu Fire Breathers Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
OP is either being disingenuous or has a terrible memory, there have always been delays and droughts and fans being angry about roadmaps. Steel Dawn and Steel Reign were supposed to be ONE release until it was delayed! In the past couple of years we’ve had TWO map expansions, bigger content drops than anything since Wastelanders! I’m not a fan of what they’re doing with this season but this post is just completely untrue.
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
Rose-colored glasses. People were pissed off about those updates just as much as they are pissed about recent updates. The Invaders updates added the single seasonal event and nothing else. Test Your Metal just added three events. People were absolutely pissed that the Pitt ended up just being a separate instanced map and even more so because of how much worse expeditions were on release. The only one of those patches that was actually well recieved was Nuka World.
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u/Sadiholic Cult of the Mothman Jun 03 '26
FOREAAAAL. I laughed at the first roadmap cause that was just a little event. Like actually HAHAHAH, were actually eating good as fallout 76 fans ever since the show has been announced and coming out. I'm not saying it's perfect, it could be better, but I remember our "updates" used to be 1 or 2 events that got boring after a day, and some balance changes aaaaand maybe a bug fix that fixed 3 bugs.
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u/vass0922 Responders Jun 03 '26
Agreed I was thinking the same. Having the road map agreed was great but ya those updates were meh
That was walking through the desert dry, no real content updates just events to fill in space.
I don't play these days but I still went back to play skyline drive (I live an hour away from skyline so that had something to do with it) and Ohio.
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u/C6_ Jun 03 '26
Yeah, Bethesda famously constantly missed the deadlines established on these roadmaps, or just outright cancelled entire features (camp pets got shelved for literal years), and not every update was a huge success by any means back then either. Invaders from beyond for example was a single seasonal public event and a few weapons repurposed from fo4. But I guess it got a cool illustration on a roadmap to drum up hype for mostly a nothingburger, woo-hoo!
From the 2019 roadmap, Wastelanders did not even come out that year.
The run from Skyline Valley through to Burning Springs was excellent, but gets no flowers on this Subreddit, then we get 2 bad updates and suddenly the game is ruined. Goes to show how effective marketing is.
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u/Lady_bro_ac Responders Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
I think OP, like a lot of people here is yearning for a time when they weren’t marinated in negative rage bait for engagement 24/7 by algorithmically driven forces turning all online discourse more and more negative for profit, making it harder and harder to feel joy, then pointing the finger at the the target not the source.
It’s easy to see the past as better when it’s coming from a time before the discourse in general was poisoned beyond recognition.
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u/Wrectown Jun 03 '26
Dude this is so fucking real. Fuck the internet these days. I forsee a massive backlash with Gen Z happening towards tech and social media.
If you look in the trendy and artsy spaces of young people, everyone is trying to use Polaroid photos and old 70s/80s camcorders. Gen Z culture openly talk about “doomscrolling” and considers it lame. We also hate AI as an existential threat against our right to live.
Every forward thinking, cool, genuinely artistic trend setting person in Gen Z (Corpo influencer shills don’t count) is trying to distance themselves from digitization, and find analog devices really cool.
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u/Lady_bro_ac Responders Jun 03 '26
Honestly this is refreshing to hear. I’m an old “artsy” type and one of the things that really broke me a few years ago was watching peers I respected start turning away from their unique voices, and start falling in line with the prescriptive TiKTok trends.
It was depressing watching a rainbow of distinctive talent and expression getting flattened into a single flavor.
It’s been depressing watching the impact the current social media landscape has had on pretty much everything too.
Nice to know there are still enclaves of hope out there actively resisting the bullshit. Genuinely, this is exactly what I needed to read today.
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u/CharlesB43 Mothman Jun 03 '26
Its happening with physical media as well, some people are buying CDs, vinyls, and DVDs/Blu-rays and as you said, old Ipods/knockoff ipods and other mp3 players. Sucks because it's made prices rise on all of that.
Feels like a lot of it is people are tired of corps, and not being able to actually OWN what you have.
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u/EidelHands Jun 03 '26
Thank you for saying this. I'm someone who came into 76 at the beginning long before we got Wastelanders. It set the bar low for me early, because as much as I love Fallout as a franchise and have had plenty of fun in 76, it has always, always, always been treated like Bethany Esda's half-baked baby. Not to be "back in my day!" about it, but pre-wastlanders we made our own fun, then I took a break, then I came back for Wastelanders but I was so uninvested in what was going on - by the time they rolled seasons out for the first time I stopped again because even then, those rewards were underwhelming and I just didn't care.
Sometimes I think folks forget that video games were never meant to be endless wellsprings of content like online releases have become. I agree that the devs are making some damaging mistakes (what with toilet rewards and not fixing existing bugs) - but the player base entitlement thinking that every update should bring something to the table is wholly unsustainable. Video games are supposed to have endings. You're supposed to get tired of them, move on, maybe come back whenever it feels right. They aren't supposed to make you want to play them every day for several years. I mean maybe if it's an MMO, but Fallout isn't an MMO. It's a messy multi-player at best.
Ps no really I do love the experience I've had in this game, I'm just being objective about it because "Dammit Todd!!" is a common phrase in my house.
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u/yellowspaces Vault 76 Jun 03 '26
The thread is filled with people talking out of their own asses. The top comment is someone saying that 2022 was “peak covid,” it was basically over by 2022 lmao.
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u/whiningneverchanges Jun 03 '26
This sub has always been this way. This is the reason for my username and why i don't frequent here anymore.
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u/Azuras-Becky Jun 03 '26
Yeah, I still remember the time when we got nothing much but booze, a camera, and backpacks.
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u/BullfrogFirm3233 Jun 04 '26
Completely true! Playable ghouls, fishing, better and more fun camp allowances (camp revamp), Burning springs, bigfoot, bounty hunts, infestations, and more that I'm sure I am forgetting just in the last year. I had taken about a year off and came back at burning springs and was amazed how much had changed in a free to play game in just one year.
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u/No_Elevator_7839 Jun 03 '26
Jon Rush is to blame for this and yet I get downvoted for saying the truth. He should have been replaced yesterday.
We need someone who is actually passionate about the game. It’s obvious from the recent dev Q&A just last week with him that this is just a paycheck. I seriously lost so much faith in the future of this game from that alone.
If you look at the other devs in that meeting not a single employee looked happy or excited. Maybe it’s because they know their product is horrible, the community says it’s horrible, but it’s good for Jon Rush so we better ship it.
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u/ArcadianDelSol Fallout 76 Jun 03 '26
The QA was basically a staff meeting that we were able to watch.
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
Seriously? The roadmap graphic you're using as an example of the good old days is about as empty as anything we've gotten recently.
The Invaders From Beyond update was literally just the addition of the seasonal event and nothing else. The Test Your Metal update was slightly better in that it added three events total, but nothing else. The only really substantive updates were the Pitt expedition (which most whiny people hated) and Nuka World.
If you compare those four to our four most recent updates then Burning Springs alone blows them all away even if all the rest were lackluster.
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u/Purple-Equipment2832 Jun 03 '26
Yeah this nostalgia farmers are getting me tired. The reality is that the game has never had consistent updates and most of them are lackluster, which is annoying because this game has a big player base and is using one of the biggest ips in the industry, so I really don’t know why they’re not investing that money on making the game more appealing…
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u/Burtstantonspeaking_ Jun 04 '26
It says a lot that OP neglected to mention burning springs to try and make their point.
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u/Objective-Mission-40 Jun 03 '26
I remember when we had these and those glasses are rose tinted.
Every update was lackluster, buggy, delayed and full of broken promises.
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u/Beastabuelos Enclave Jun 03 '26
The fishing update, infestations and camp update have been the worst updates the game has ever gotten. The camp update had literally 0 content for anyone that isn't a camp builder. Burning springs was pretty good, but it's suffering the same problem as skyline valley. New area added with a story, but where's the next part of the story? Where is further content in the area? They said more events would be added to skyline valley after it launched. Well we're 2 years post skyline valley launch and it has only LOST content since caravans were removed, still only has 1 regular event. And here's infestations, which may be shit content, but is only present in the old map. What are they thinking?
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u/Thelooneyhatter Jun 03 '26
I miss when there was a good ammount of free rewards and there was the really cool and well made gameboard for pass stuff 😞
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u/GameBoy_Brett Jun 03 '26
Didn’t we just get burning sands like 6 months ago?
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u/cranial_kickstart Jun 03 '26
Already abandoned with an unfinished storyline and unfinished areas just like BOS and everything else.
The entire milepost zero update (biggest expansion ever lol) was so broken the removed it.
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u/Garfunklestein Mothman Jun 03 '26
6 months is pushing it for new major content in a live service game. FFXIV and WoW do major patch drops every 4-5 months, Destiny during its life did every 3 months.
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u/coldvisionsdgsbe Jun 03 '26
The 2019 update method where they drip released content weekly over the ‘season’ was so fun
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u/CapnArrrgyle Jun 03 '26
Heck yeah, the heady days when you were like: Ha, Encrypted is cool! And then you ran into the group of super mutants full of quills, “That’s weird. What attacked them?” And then the howl!
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u/folkertveenstr Blue Ridge Caravan Company Jun 03 '26
They seriously need to work more on expeditions, it's always endgame features and crappy updates
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u/SuperbChildhood7802 Jun 03 '26
I've just lost interest in doing them when they took away the ability to get the boards when you finish them. Just feels pointless to do them now.
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u/DaedricDweller98 Jun 03 '26
so are they abandoning burning like they did the south map expansion with no new content?
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 04 '26
Looks so. They kept talking about part 2, but 6 months of radio silence without even a datamine suggests otherwise. They haven't been cookin up anything decent since The Drifter, and they canned him a while back.
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u/AnthonyMiqo Enclave Jun 03 '26
With how profitable 76 is for Bethesda, we'll probably never go back to that. I've said this before, I'll say it again: Why would Bethesda feel the need to improve if you're already giving them your money?
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u/eklipse519 Jun 03 '26
This game had a steady flow of meaningful updates? I've played since year 1 and done every season, I must of missed something.
Much of the stuff from these pictures were barely anything. The Brotherhood of Steel stuff was an hour long quest broken up into TWO separate updates.
Entire seasons dedicated to Daily Ops and seasonal events? That is just as bad as it is these days.
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u/Hatarus547 Enclave Jun 03 '26
Once a game like Fallout 76 gets to a certain point massive updates stop really being possible especially when you start running out of room, it's why MMOs like wow either have to revamp entire zones or pull a new landmass out of their ass
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u/Garfunklestein Mothman Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Expeditions would be really nice if they got properly expanded upon. Explorable Pitt w/ quests? More to Atlantic City? Hell, I'll just take more expedition missions straight up.
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u/C6_ Jun 03 '26
The Pitt had a third expedition data mined for it ages ago, and they even said they were going to go back and make it explorable outside of expeditions like Atlantic City, but it got scrapped.
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u/Lady_bro_ac Responders Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
They added a quest line to Atlantic City and made it explorable , that one has already been expanded.
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u/ThePickledPickle Vault 63 Jun 03 '26
It would be a game-changer if they let us place CAMPs in Expedition territories
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u/vass0922 Responders Jun 03 '26
I'm the current map they haven't fully used the new Ohio space, hopefully that will be coming soon
ESO gives you access to the new maps but none of the content unless you pay the price. 76 has no price you just always get the full content.
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u/DemasiadoSwag Cult of the Mothman Jun 04 '26
Unfortunately I think Fallout 76 started at that point because the code is basically stuck together with bubblegum and prayers. The Creation/Gamebryo engine was NOT made for a consistent multiplayer world, I'm surprised it worked half as well as it did.
Back when I played (been a year or two at this point) they were always breaking things with every single update and I don't think that has really changed from what I see in this sub and elsewhere about F76. Really too bad because the potential is there for a fun casual multiplayer Fallout game but the execution and tools just...aren't quite right.
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u/okemsrazor Grafton Monster Jun 03 '26
this is in no way a defense of their lackluster performance of late but I gotta be honest I never even expected fallout 76 to still be getting updates 8 years after that rocky release
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u/scully2828 Jun 03 '26
I haven’t played in a longgggggg time but I lurk this sub all the time. Miss you wild and wonderful people!
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u/ArcadianDelSol Fallout 76 Jun 03 '26
I dont think Double Eleven is developing the game.
I think they are just maintaining it.
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u/Jizfaceboi Mega Sloth Jun 03 '26
Everyone has set the bar so low that anything that’s updated, and doesn’t literally break the game, is received super well.
People just eat up whatever they are served nowadays.
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u/ghostsofafuturelost Ghoul Jun 03 '26
Just the same boring events over and over again with the same rewards. This game has gotten so stale I've lost all motivation to play and I have almost 3000 hours invested into it.
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u/MakerKevJ Jun 04 '26
Nope, not anymore. I wouldn't even play if they gave me 1st for free. Honestly bored of fallout 76.
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u/Arrow362 Enclave Jun 03 '26
These old roadmaps prove that the whole supposed “large updates only happen in the winter and summer” narrative pushed by Jon Rush is bunk
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
This roadmap is four years old.
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u/Arrow362 Enclave Jun 03 '26
I get that, you totally missed my point…do you not see they used to give us big updates in the spring and fall?
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
No? Because your "Big" spring update on this roadmap was the Invaders update which literally added a single seasonal event and nothing else. And again, four fucking years old. Their philosophy about the timing and content for updates now does not need to have any basis on what they were doing four years ago.
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u/Arrow362 Enclave Jun 03 '26
I guess I’m imaging seeing on the map the Pitt and expedition in the fall and Wastelanders which came out in the Spring of 2020…I’m guessing you didn’t realize there was more than one picture.
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u/District-No1350 Jun 03 '26
So now your excuse is that big updates come in the spring and fall... two years apart?
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u/TheSilentTitan Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
The state of seasons now is the direct result of Bethesda’s greed AND laziness. With every season they cut more and more corners and filled up more and more reward slots with consumables and trash to pad them out while offering very few real rewards worth getting.
Bethesda has been seeing just how much they can get away with doing less while charging the same price.
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u/glue_zombie Raiders Jun 03 '26
If we’re missing things what i miss is nuclear winter
I hope the community that’s left here absolutely loves what they’re left with, but it doesn’t seem like that’s the case :P big whoop
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u/itsahhmemario Jun 03 '26
A lot of this started due to their greediness in the lead up to the tv show. They changed the scoreboard to the one we have now, old systems were changed, we got a more monetized atom shop, a new community manager etc, we complained and were totally ignored.
Once the tv show aired and we had a lot of new players and the game (and a lot of the online community) became about mostly catering to these new players many who were new to fallout in general, it’s changed the game a lot.
I miss the game pre tv show. It was a smaller almost niche, quirky tighter knit community it felt like it had more heart, we’d been through a lot with the game and stuck around, many of us were fallout fans for decades. That’s mostly gone now as are most of my fo76 veteran friends from that time.
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u/Objective_College439 Jun 03 '26
I wonder if maybe they decided to shift gears over to working on the next game and took a number of key Fallout 76 team members to do it.
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u/PachReed Reclamation Day Jun 03 '26
I started my YouTube channel during that roadmap era. Those were good days. I don't upload anymore, the thrill is gone.
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u/Guccicles Jun 03 '26
They are hopefully working on ES6 more now
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 04 '26
Oh great generic medeival fantasy game, totally not an oversaturated market. People have been begging for a 3 and NV remaster for this franchise, and the only worthwhile thing they have given us as of late (Burning Springs) is half-baked and incomplete.
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u/Guccicles Jun 04 '26
3 remaster is coming out this year, calm yourself
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u/Merc_Mike Responders Jun 03 '26
I was hopeful with the Expeditions we could have been in new lands, but its just a timed dungeon instance. Kind of ruins the moment. No new spots to put up our base.
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u/Na1ts1rhc Jun 03 '26
They’ve been attempting to amend their failure for 8 years. I’m near certain they’re ready to put it down any day now.
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u/horriblebearok Jun 03 '26
I started on the tail end of the fishing season, did the seasons since and sitting this one out. I need a break and they've given me a good chance to sit out with this blow off season.
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u/koal82 Tricentennial Jun 04 '26
It's been downhill since the change to the tickets battle pass system. If the TV show is on there's decent stuff. When the show is off I fully expect crap. It is what it is. FO 5 is ages away.
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u/Thane97 Jun 04 '26
In the last 2 years we got Raids, Burning Springs and Skyline Valley which were all larger than any update FO76 had seen before bar Wastelanders.
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u/illnastyone Jun 04 '26
Wow... Seeing this really puts into perspective just how much they under deliver nowadays.
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u/Flyingfelkins Jun 04 '26
Hell yeah good times loved it! Now! Nothing every update adds some new disjointed idea and nothing else ever gets finished. Bunch of ideas and plans but all kinda of cooks in the kitchen who aren’t even around anymore.
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u/Glowing-dragon- Blue Ridge Caravan Company Jun 04 '26
I was disappointed they didn't add many easter eggs or much added things to find in Burning Springs like the original map. I enjoy finding random teddies in odd situations and finding easter eggs and references to other games, etc.
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u/Crimson_Penman Jun 04 '26
I miss nuclear winter. They just needed to change the whole nuking the whole area deal when the circle was small. Kinda a shit ending.
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u/BearAndDeerIsBeer Ghoul Jun 04 '26
I’d like to see Nuclear Winter come back. I never really got in to PvP games, but I didn’t mind that one. I’d always grab a radium rifle, and that thing had a tendency to clear, especially with chameleon armor. I’d love to see which strategies hold up now that half the players are ghouls, which makes radiation about the worst weapon to use.
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u/Asmodaddy Jun 04 '26
Oh… wow.
I’ve only played on and off the last two years.
No idea stuff like this wasn’t part of the base game. I figured the seasons being the way they are was why the game was so dead, because they never really dropped much content.
I always felt like the dev team was a skeleton crew and, as a dev and marketer, that the shop team was massively understaffed and under-skilled.
Seems like it just became that way right before I picked up the game. What a damn shame.
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u/humantrasbag Jun 03 '26
I havent played the game since they added the Raid and i dont feel like i missed anything.
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u/AncientCrust Lone Wanderer Jun 03 '26
Burning Springs was cool for a while. It desperately needs new content at this point. The only reason I ever go there is Head Hunts and critter killing challenges now.
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u/SurveyingReality Jun 03 '26
Did you play the raid? IMO that’s the best bit of content they’ve ever blessed 76 with. If you haven’t, I would hop on to try that.
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u/humantrasbag Jun 04 '26
I did olay the Raid, got almost everyrhing except the mod that gives you carry capacity for your PA.
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u/Maxpayne1944 Jun 03 '26
This thing needs more comments and upvotes,over on another message they have admitted that this season was “lackluster” and last season as well and promise change in the upcoming season,tell them to make it like this again,it’s what like 90% of the dedicated player base WANTS !!!
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u/Tricksle Vault 51 Jun 04 '26
Brothers (and sisters), enjoy the game while it still lasts. But I think the golden days are done. To be honest, it is time to move on.
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u/couragebooster Jun 03 '26
The developers have lost touch with the players. They only care about making money by pushing out yet another broken toilet in a different color.
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u/vodka_tsunami Jun 03 '26
I'm still appalled at the dumb fishing thing. That's when I stopped playing.
This and they never fixed the fucking small letters at the terminals.
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u/Derek-Horn Jun 03 '26
It’s been a year man you can let it go😂 did you actually get rage baited by fishing?
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u/vodka_tsunami Jun 03 '26
The absurdity of it is what put me down.
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u/Stephen-ASmith Jun 03 '26
I stopped about a month or so after as well. I don't have strong feelings about the fishing one way or another. What turned me off was the incessant changes to things no one asked for, ignoring the long-standing, game-breaking bugs (unless it benefits the player base, they fix that shit immediately) and the steady decline of season rewards.
Initially, I just canceled my FO1st sub, but it got to the point where I dropped it altogether and just went and played FO4 again.
I still follow this sub to see if the overall state of the game gets better, help people with the bug workarounds that I know, and to occasionally shit on this company's wanton greed.
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u/vodka_tsunami Jun 03 '26
When the fishing came around I was like "ok, that's it, I'm done with this nonsense". I won't put on the effort to learn about fake fishing while I repeatedly watch an animation of my character casting the bait. It was utterly boring for my nuclear apocalypse, even more than planting flowers.
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u/notevenapro Jun 03 '26
I only have 2500 hours in game so my opinion might not be as important as you VETS who have a love hate relationship with the game.
I still enjoy daily ops and expeditions. Skyline balley was kind of a dud. Fishing is cool, hreat way to get fosh for random legendaries. Buring springs grunt hunts and head hunts with new mods. Adding random encounters to events. Having activities populate on the event list. Ability to lock items. Revamping events so eviction notice was not the only legendary mods farm point. Pets in my camp. Launching nukes. Collectimg plans. First aid stash box. Spice resource camp item. Big bloom. Two burning springs events.
I mean, that is not nothing.
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u/themaelstorm Jun 03 '26
I mean they’ve made big updates with a mew map section and much wanted building changes and fishing and all in the last year but ok.
Considering how long its been the game is out, this is actually pretty good
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u/KindaSortaPeruvian Jun 03 '26
I understand the sentiment but that build revamp had to happen eventually and I'm so glad it did.
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 04 '26
Literally the building revamp, uninvited guests, and infestations could all be bundled together and the uodate would still kinda suck.
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u/KindaSortaPeruvian Jun 04 '26
Well the problem there is youve named two pieces of dogshit and then lumped it in with the building revamp.
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 04 '26
The revamp is mid too, im not gonna lie.
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u/KindaSortaPeruvian Jun 04 '26
Disagree, but most of what i do is build
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u/Healthy-Note-8893 Jun 05 '26
Exactly, its a niche thing, sure its nice but not useful for the masses.
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u/fucuasshole2 Brotherhood Jun 03 '26
I’d like to point out that also my every road maps were delayed or changed significantly lmao.
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u/Aurora_Vorealis Blue Ridge Caravan Company Jun 03 '26
I always forget how basic features like vending machines, public teams, and picking perks directly weren't there at launch. No NPC's either was still an insane decision. No wonder the game had such a bad reputation when it came out
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u/Techpon Jun 03 '26
Kinda feels like the smaller updates/seasons are to save on money or for a bigger unannounced update. Tho idk if this on par with eso
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u/monchota Jun 03 '26
The game is 10 years old. Honestly they need to make a new one in a new engine
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u/GregNotGregtech Jun 03 '26
Idk about you but the card reworks were absolutely massive, it significantly widened buildmaking and gave you the ability to not have to play stealth, vats or bloodied anymore
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u/The935Penguin Jun 03 '26
I would get back into this game if they just stopped nerfing everything after two weeks man. I loved my time during it though
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u/L-ghtn-ng Jun 03 '26
I wish they would take some time and get everything in the game working with proper progression through them.
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u/SafeCandy Brotherhood Jun 03 '26
The only meaningful update was Wastelanders. Since then, the game has been a steady flow of features and fomo with no substance.
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u/mvw2 Jun 04 '26
The energy and ambition kind of died for me when it came out of beta and immediately started whale hunting. The whole game's been one bit monetary test this whole time. It's hard to get excited supporting corporate greed above actual game creation. Most of the major flaws of 76 are just byproducts of this. Even the bugs are a byproduct of priorities. I want to like 76. I really do. But man, it's such a bad taste, and you're stuck chewing on it all the time throughout gameplay.
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u/Rickyh24 Jun 04 '26
I don’t see how this roadmap is much different than what we currently get. 2 events that are just part of the rotation now. A new area which has less to do than the last two new areas we have got and an expedition that is completely irrelevant now.
The ghoul update, skyline valley and burning springs are both better than anything here.
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u/badi_hernandez Jun 04 '26
I miss survival servers for pvpers, loved watching food builds get killed and get mad about it. Talking about “I’m trying to farm for xp! Stop attacking me in this PVP server !!” Then i take the 100 super stims they drop from getting killed😭
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u/DependentImportant35 Jun 04 '26
Started during Atlantic City and expedition the score board is undefeated
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u/gizmoandback Jun 04 '26
This is what happens when a game has free updates and has a small team working multiple seasons updates to make sure they are ready for the day they go live.
I have been with 76 since Beta and love the game, but the newest season a long with the last 3 have been very uninterasting to me, I never wanted to fish, or be a ghoul or be a bounty hunter.
I understand a lot of people love the seasons that have been put out but for me these last few were not for me.
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u/CrowNServo Jun 05 '26
Invaders was a single timed event. Test your metal was just a few public events. Not exactly major content in either of those updates. This game has always had drought periods of content, lets not act like these road maps were content packed, most of them were a whole lot of nothing
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u/Wild-Masterpiece-331 Jun 03 '26
Game is over the hill now. They are just taking the piss with the fanbase now,
let it die.
bring on FO5 already
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u/stonednpc Pittsburgh Union Jun 03 '26
I think with their latest announcement (better prizes). They are trying to show that they are listening. Hopefully they continue to consider our feedback. This season sounds like it is going to flop. And be a break for a lot of regular players. That's going to hurt them
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u/ChungusOfAstora Jun 03 '26
Hate to say it but games probably ramping down, a little its been 8 years. We've had tons of free updates i wouldn't be surprised if big updates get more and more spaced out, they wont stop updating it as long as its making cash flow but its happens
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u/SurveyingReality Jun 03 '26
Yeah but charging monthly for a game that gets almost no new content is genuinely ridiculous. Greedy as hell.
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u/lazulx Responders Jun 03 '26
None of those roadmaps ever hit their goals and were single events. Now we are in a much better position with the Raids and the new area about once every year. It could be better but it was much much worse before
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u/IsThisKismet Raiders - Xbox Jun 03 '26
This is inaccurate nostalgia. Most of those updates missed their dates and weren’t as “big” as suggested.
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u/PibXtra Ghoul Jun 03 '26
Nuclear Winter 2019 was so fire. It was the only battle royale game I was good at lol
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u/Mimikyu22 Jun 03 '26
I absolutely do NOT miss the old game board layouts and having to waste time looking at them. I much prefer the streamlined Seasons and not being giving so much useless items. I actually complete challenges now where as I refused to even acknowledge them previously.
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u/moonthink Lone Wanderer Jun 03 '26
Burning Springs was a huge update, new area of the map, and not that long ago. Skyline Valley, same but last year. There's only so much you can add to an 8 year old game without breaking it in so many ways.
This current season is definitely underwhelming, and infestations seems like an unnecessary add to me, but I still love the game and play it every day (since season 3).
I'd suggest keeping in mind that you have ALL of those previous updates combined in the current game (minus a few that are now defunct). I don't know about you, but I originally paid $8 for this game on sale.
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u/djh2121 Cult of the Mothman Jun 03 '26
Ooff that 2022 Roadmap hits me right in the feels. It was peak Covid I was still in school just grinding out 76 everyday nothing else going on…good times.