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A new nightclub has opened up in Appalachia quite a concept in the early 22nd century.
Tired of blasting raiders for critical limb damage in VATS?
Try your luck with the club’s one-armed bandits instead.
Leisure time has finally reached the wasteland.
Mind you, we’re still a long way from an Adele residency.
This blunt review prompts a firefight, and an exasperated exchange between The Rose Room’s owners.
“Vincenzo,” demands matriarch Evelyn Russo, with the energy of Tilda Swinton at her most unhinged.
“Why is my audience dead?”
Over time, however, Appalachia has become much less lonely.
NPCs returned to Fallout in 2020’s Wastelanders overhaul, and proved chattier than ever.
Since that change, Bethesda has embraced more traditional RPG quest design.
“Because when we launched, we were very much more of a survival RPG.
“With this, we wanted to tell a more personal story,” Moretto says.
“A small story about the lives of ordinary people essentially living in this situation.”
Today, the different layers of Fallout 76’s identity stack in satisfying fashion.
Thanks to half a decade of build-up, Fallout 76 is especially satisfying to excavate.
“Our level design team are big fans of that,” Moretto says.
“A lot of our environmental storytelling originates with them.
On the tonal spectrum of Fallout, Atlantic City trends lighter.
“It makes traversal a lot more engaging and fun,” Rush says.
Family ties
“And we gotta have the Jersey Devil.
We’re a game that loves cryptids.
Bethesda has long drawn on the real-world history of its locations to shape the personality of its open worlds.
“It’s a question of making sure that the voices felt right.
And we gotta have the Jersey Devil.
We’re a game that loves cryptids.
We cannot go to a place with a native cryptid and not have the cryptid involved.”
Even while building a holiday destination for its players, then, Bethesda is still thinking of Appalachia.
“We’re always going to keep the primary focus there.
You’ll be seeing a lot more of that soon.”
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