‘Fallout 76’ Devs Plan ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Tie-Ins
There’s still no release date for Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout series, but that’s not stopping the Fallout 76 team from planning some fun surprises. The developers at Bethesda Game Studios are already thinking about ways to connect the upcoming season of the show with new updates for the game.
Creative director Jon Rush talked to Variety during Summer Game Fest in June, saying the team is always working on fresh content for Fallout 76. He explained how the game and the show take place at very different points in the Fallout timeline, which gives them space to do their own thing.
“I think a distinct trait of the ‘Fallout 76’ game is that we’re the furthest back in time. And it’s kind of funny, because the show’s the furthest into the future,” Rush said. “So there’s a lot of room where we don’t necessarily need to overlap… but we largely try to keep those pretty simple.”
Still, the developers are having ongoing conversations with the team behind the show. “Lining things up with the seasonal releases of the show, it’s stuff that we talk about all the time, and we do have plans for things here and there,” Rush said. “I’m not going to go into detail on any of those now, but the two teams do talk to one another.”
On June 3, Fallout 76 got a major update called Gone Fission, which added a long-requested feature: fishing. According to Rush, players had been asking for it for a long time, and summer just felt like the perfect time to finally roll it out.
“Fishing is a very summer activity,” Rush said. He explained that it made sense for players who know the Fallout 76 map well, especially since Appalachia is full of water. “Streams, ponds, rivers, creeks… once you say that, the imagination just kind of starts going, what kind of crazy things am I going to be pulling out of Wasteland waters?”
And it turns out, players are getting really into the fishing feature. Lead producer Bill LaCoste shared that people aren’t just fishing, they’re building entire camps around it.
“We’re seeing a lot right now is people are finding these really like niche areas of streams and lakes… and they’re going, I’m going to build a camp there,” LaCoste said. “And then they build a camp, and then they put up a weather station.”
The weather stations, which can create things like rain or rad storms, actually help with fishing too. They increase your chances of catching rare fish, so players are now using the feature in smart and strategic ways. LaCoste said it’s exciting to see how it’s getting players to explore the map and try new things.
Fallout 76 continues to grow years after launch, and with Season 2 of the Fallout show on the way, the devs at Bethesda are clearly working to make the game just as exciting. Between new updates and plans to tie into the TV series, it looks like there’s plenty more coming for fans of the wasteland.
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