I have a lot to say about this Fallout game, because it's history has a lot of controversy. I'm honestly surprised it lasted all these years (i'm happy it did)
Let's start with the begining.
When the game first launched, We can all agree that this game was probably the most broken game ever created or at least one of them. yes, i'm talking about crashing, balance issues, bugs, save loses, game-breaking bugs, lack of content, Lack of NPCs (the game had only robots as npc for the story), pay to win content, FOMO, lack of storage space, underwhelming camp building system.
Since the wastelander update in 2020 that has changed the game a lot. Human npcs was added, faction was added, new events were added, new questlines, voicelines and various improvement happened before, during and after Wastelander. This update gave a second wind to the game, it really saved the game and pushed the game where it is today. They expended the Brotherhood of steel the same year with the Steel Dawn expension.
In 2022 they added a major update "Expeditions: The Pitt" those expedition are 10-15 minutes long and bring back a known location from Fallout 3 "The Pitt" where you have to complete a set of objective with side objective being RNG. this update added the stamps as a currency.
In 2023 they added more expedition with the Atlantic City update. that features 3 different location. various changes to stamps was added, lowering the cost of plans and adding more plans and rewards to buy.
2024 would prove to be the most successful and important year for Fallout 76. Adding a new area to explore called "Skyline Valley" added a lot of storyline, a new nuke boss, new weapons, new enemies , new animals, new camp mechanics (weather control machine), and one of the best looking area to create a camp.
The 4th major update would add the second raid added to the game called "Gleaming Depths" it is a enclave based raid that is more like a dungeon with 5 rooms with 5 different objectives/mechanics. This is the first time in 6 years that Enclave get content.
2025 was another important year for Fallout 76. adding a few things from the TV Show such as dom pedro (Ghoul's pistol), burning springs (Desert area), bounty hunter mechanic, fishing mechanics and playable Ghoul.
2026 seasons so far prove to be the weakest year since 2018-2019. While some cool mechanics such as.. "World Pet" is getting added (give the ability to use a pet to fight and follow you in the appalachian world). This season also added infestation, which is an underbaked bounty system that is spawn once every hour. which brings very few to the game.. and just overall a grindy activity to get 4 stars plans.
As a whole, Fallout 76 is a game that improved on many of it's issues, such as.. space from stash getting increased, crashes got mostly fix (still crashes a lot), fps issues still present, visual bugs are still present, audio bugs are still present, FOMO is still present and is actually very aggressive lately, lack of free camp items/wallpaper/kit (forced paywall to have a decent camp), still has balance issues with some weapons, but it's so much better and variety is decent.
My wish for the Fallout 76 team, is to fix the main storyline that was never changed, add more human NPCs to it, expend enclave faction which was never expended other then the raid. Add a reputation system for the enclave and brotherhood of steel. fix the bugs and add long requested feature that are asked since launch.
Solid game, but there's still so much to do.
PS: stop removing content from the game, (yes still thinking about you "Raid: vault 94 and "Nuclear Winter")
