Bethesda has introduced {that a} native model of Fallout 76 will probably be coming to Xbox Sequence X and S and PlayStation 5 in early 2026.
The announcement was made as a part of Bethesda’s Fallout Day broadcast, together with the information that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gamers can even obtain “optimizations.” Bethesda hasn’t revealed any additional details about what these new variations of Fallout 76 will really do.
Nevertheless, Bethesda used Fallout Day to additional tease Fallout 76’s Burning Springs replace, scheduled for launch on December 2, 2025. This can be a large replace that expands the map to incorporate a model new arid area of Ohio, the place gamers will encounter the Raider-like supermutant The Final King, battle Desert Deathclaws, and be part of up with associates in two new public occasions.
However the headline here’s a new bounty searching system led by the ghouls from the TV present Fallout. Actor Walton Goggins has reprized his function in Fallout 76 with new voice work. It is a well-timed replace, contemplating Season 2 of the Fallout TV present launches on Prime Video in December.
When it comes to timeline (Fallout 76 and the Fallout TV present are each canon), it seems that The Ghoul arrange store for bounty searching operations in Ohio earlier than the apocalyptic occasions of the Fallout TV sequence, which happen after each Fallout recreation.
It is price remembering the place we’re within the total Fallout timeline. The TV present is about in 2296 and Fallout 4 is about in 2287, however Fallout: New Vegas is about in 2281, a full 15 years earlier than the occasions of the present.
In the meantime, Fallout 76’s timeline begins on October 23, 2102, often called Frontier Day. That is the primary recreation within the Fallout sequence, set 25 years after World Battle I in 2077, when a nuclear bomb destroyed the Earth. We all know from season 1 of the Fallout TV present that ghouls have survived within the wilderness for over 200 years. Now we all know a part of what he was as much as.
For extra data, try every thing introduced through the Fallout Day broadcast.
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