{"id":123349,"date":"2022-01-26T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123349"},"modified":"2022-01-27T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:51:18","slug":"why-i-could-not-stand-fallout-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/123349-why-i-could-not-stand-fallout-76","title":{"rendered":"Why I could not stand Fallout 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With high expectations, promises from Bethesda&#8217;s development team and a history of classic award-winning games, I wanted to like Fallout 76.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the launch in November 2018 was plagued by bug-infested servers, broken promises and scandals surrounding Bethesda.<\/p>\n<p>Not even a 50Gb day one patch could solve all the games issues.<\/p>\n<p>This tarnished my beloved franchise and made <strong>Fallout 76 the video game I hate the most.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years, Bethesda has improved the game through DLCs and patches that fixed significant game-breaking bugs, but the initial release left such a bad taste in my mouth that I never had the urge to go back to it.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Lack of Story<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123345 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-map-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Bethesda is known for making games filled with dialogue choices and exciting storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>The world of Fallout 76 felt empty. Bethesda promised the ultimate open-world experience. They delivered with a map of vast scale, but it lacked substance.<\/p>\n<p>Paired with the over-reliance on multiplayer interaction to make the game fun, playing Fallout 76 without your friends was just plain boring, well&#8230;except for the hilarious bugs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Bugs, bugs everywhere<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Falloout-76-bug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123340 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Falloout-76-bug-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Fallout titles are infamous for their bugs, but Fallout 76 was on a different level. From 20 T-posed ghouls storming you out of thin air to people unlocking immortality, infinite ammo and infinite inventory space. <strong>The game was broken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Players who used glitches to their advantage were overpowered gods and ruined the multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dorito-dude-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123348 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dorito-dude-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dorito-dude-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dorito-dude-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a full-blown three hour YouTube deep-dive detailing glitches titled &#8220;The 1001 Glitches of Fallout 76.&#8221; It should be considered a documentary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The 1001 Glitches of Fallout 76\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6HdBplLmuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda&#8217;s willingness to &#8220;fix bugs later&#8221; and leave servers to crash whilst blindly continuing to produce merchandise seemed disingenuous to their fan base.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Money Grab<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123341 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fallout-76-bag-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Since its launch, Fallout 76 has been no stranger to scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In late November 2018, Bethesda\u2019s refund strategy resulted in a class-action lawsuit where the failure to return players money within the refund period was questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda made low-quality merchandise, including bags that were not the same quality that was advertised.<\/p>\n<p>They even made an $80\/R1200 bottle of rum which, according to reviewers, if you got your hands on it after a three-month shipping delay, was pretty atrocious.<\/p>\n<p>Placing funds towards merch instead of fixing an obviously broken game showed me that they were putting profits ahead of players.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted a good game that improved on past issues and built on Fallout 3, New Vegas and Fallout 4. But Fallout 76 was a step in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/123333-the-video-game-i-like-the-most\">The video game I like the most<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 2018 game is the game I like the least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":123339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1593,25684,21],"class_list":["post-123349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fallout","tag-fallout-76","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}