Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard explains that some of the gameplay features within Fallout 76 take inspiration from the multiplayer plans for Fallout 4.<\/b>
\nWithout a doubt, when Bethesda officially announced the release date for Fallout 76 during its E3 2018 press conference, fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise were elated to learn that they would be able to explore the West Virginia Wasteland with their friends later this year. Interestingly enough, though, some aspects of the title might have been playable as early as 2015, as it has now been revealed that the forthcoming title was essentially built upon the foundation of Fallout 4\u2018s scrapped multiplayer.
This much was divulged during Noclip\u2019s documentary on the making of Fallout 76, which can be found below. In it, Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard explains how the forthcoming online-only survival game came to be, by initially detailing that the studio collectively wondered during Fallout 4\u2018s development, \u201cHey, should we do multiplayer? \u2018Probably not.\u2019 What would it be? \u2018OK, it would be this.\u2019 Let\u2019s talk it through. \u2018OK, that\u2019s pretty awesome.’\u201d
As evidenced by the product of Fallout 4, Bethesda decided to focus solely on approaching the post-apocalyptic RPG title as a single-player game, but that doesn\u2019t mean it discarded the aforementioned work done on multiplayer. According to Howard, after getting an understanding as to how multiplayer could work, \u201cThen we put it away. .. Then every once in a while we\u2019d keep talking about it. \u2018We should\u2019ve done that, we should do it.\u2019 And as Fallout 4\u2018s going on, it becomes \u2018no, we should really do it as its own thing.\u201d
For those unaware, as explained in Noclip\u2019s documentary above, Bethesda had been experimenting with multiplayer in Fallout as early as 2013, but it didn\u2019t have many people experienced with development in that domain. However, the opening of a new studio in Austin, Texas\u2014BattleCry Studios, which was then rebranded as Bethesda Game Studios Austin\u2014brought in team members who worked on such multiplayer-heavy titles as Ultima Online, Star Wars: Galaxies, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
With Fallout 76 being the first completely online experience for the post-apocalyptic RPG series, it will be interesting to see just how much fans who were looking forward to a traditional campaign narrative will take to the title. For now, though, we will simply have to wait and find out just what kind of gameplay it contains once its first beta period rolls around, which is supposedly set to be an Xbox One timed-exclusive.
Fallout 76 is set to launch on November 14,2018, for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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