Fallout 76is currently in the phases of its “comeback” moment with the recently released “Wastelanders” update. In an attempt to keep the good news rolling, developer and publisher Bethesda has announced a slew of community events for the next month.
TheFallout 76community calendar shows the upcoming April and May events which include a Double XP weekend alongside someFalloutflavored oddities including season events and treasure hunting.
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Running right now are two simultaneous events with the “Purveyor Mystery Pick” and the “Around Appalachia Springtime Gallery.” These events are running throughout the weekend and will end on Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28 respectively. Following a two week break, on May 14th the Double XP long weekend kicks in, which will let players level up faster for five days. Following that is a treasure hunting weekend and the return of the “Fasnacht Seasonal Event.”
Also featured in the announcement was the date for theFallout 76Reddit AMA, which was held on April 23 with Project Lead Jeff Gardiner and Lead Designer Ferret Baudoin. Two notable pieces of information came out of the AMA with one possibly being in error. The first is the tease that pets could be coming to the Wasteland down the line. The more notable piece of information came in a now deleted answer that suggestedplayers may be able to trek outside the Appalachiasoon.
Alongside the community event breakdown was the announcement of the return of private test servers. The plan is to open the test servers on April 30 so early feedback on the next update can come from those chosen through the signup process. With bugs being a core point of criticism leveled againstFallout 76,the inclusion of private test servers is a welcomed re-addition to the game. Public Test Serverswere announced in September of last yearfollowing a year of updates breaking the game in news ways. Even now, the bugs are still getting weirder with the newly added NPCs looting the player’s corpses.
Fallout 76has been one of the bigger punching bags of the video game industry. It became a news section in itself, to see the next blunder in the long lead-up and post-launch. It recently received its biggest update with “Wastelanders,” which turned the online survival shooter into a more traditionalFalloutexperience. This “traditional experience” brought along NPCs and dialogue to add more interaction to what many called a barren world. Some have considered Wastelanders to be themuch needed step forwardin fixing one of the bigger gaming mishaps of the decade.
Fallout 76is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
