Only one person needs to be a Fallout 1st subscriber for you and your friends to play on a private world together.įallout 1 st may not be for everyone, the price is a bit off-putting. And, if I hit it off with anyone cool, I can invite them back to my place where we can be alone. Best of all, I can always use my characters in a regular game server if I want to mingle with strangers. It does get a little lonely when I’m playing by myself now, but that’s just because playing Fallout with people I like is actually a lot of fun. There’s no PVP to speak of – though, I suppose we could invite some rowdy friends – and if I don’t like the way someone’s acting I can just kick them off my server.
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My fiancee and I can have uninterrupted date nights in the West Virginia wasteland and we always get first crack at the best loot on the server.
The subscription comes with a monthly allotment of currency for use in the game‘s cosmetics store worth more than the cost of the subscription itself, and a number of subscriber-only benefits and items.įor me, it’s a no-brainer. Enter Bethesda‘s private server subscription, “ Fallout 1st.”įor $13 a month you get access to a private Fallout 76 server for you and up to seven other players. So the problem was that I finally got to be the unique, mysterious character I’ve always wanted to be in a Fallout narrative, but so did everyone else. In fact, about 20 levels in, I like my 76 character a lot more than my 3 and 4 primaries (though, The Courier from Fallout: New Vegas will always have a special place in my heart).
Maybe I don’t want to have a family in the nuclear apocalypse.įallout 76 doesn’t try to tell you who you are as much as the other entries, and that suits me just fine. They’re both great stories, but I always wished that my character’s role in the wasteland was more generic. I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t played them, but both games have you searching for lost family members. In Fallout 3 and 4, you’re kind of shoehorned into this big dramatic plot that centers on your character. Wastelanders makes 76 feel like a real Fallout game to me, but all the random players made it difficult for me to immerse myself in what was finally going to be my story. However, despite the fact that the players I came across were friendly and helpful, I still wasn’t satisfied. There doesn’t seem to be much griefing in Fallout 76. The servers I played on were busy and over the course of a handful of hours playing publicly I didn’t have a single negative experience. In fact, you might even make some friends in the wasteland if you’re more social than me. And, honestly, with just the Wastelanders DLC, it really does finally feel like Fallout. If you were on the fence at launch, Wastelanders should be enough to make it worthwhile. Normally, I’d just walk away and play something else.īut this is Fallout, and Fallout is extremely my jam. This is why I don’t usually play online-only games. It’s hard for me to get into a game when there’s dozens of human players bopping around all over the place serving little-to-no purpose other than to remind me I’m playing a video game.
That’s all well and fine, but it doesn’t solve my biggest problem with MMORPGs: immersion. Instead of trudging along the Appalachian wasteland following a breadcrumb trail of notes, you’ll engage actual NPCs in conversations just like you would in traditional Fallout games. The former adds in an entire new quest line complete with a variety of NPC characters. Bethesda‘s since remedied both of these issues with optional add-ons in the form of the Wastelanders DLC and its new “Fallout 1st” private servers.