The game Fallout 76 was supposed to be a hit, but failed. Fans are furious at the stores (and mock its creators)

In the material about the main games of November, we wrote: “Add to Fallout online is a brilliant idea. Walking on radioactive American wastelands and plundering roadside snacks to the sounds of jazz will be much more fun with friends. ” So - we were mistaken. Sorry. The post -apocalyptic role -playing game Fallout 76, released by the Bethesda studio on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, turned out to be a real failure - the first in the history of the series. Its average score on Metacritic is held around 50 out of 100 (in all previous ones - from 85 to 90). Yetub is torn from the video with bugs, in the reality of which it is difficult to believe. Bloggers loudly criticize the Bethesda studio and producer Todd Howard, who was developing and promoting the game. Only a week after the release of Fallout 76 is already sold at a discount.

Why do Howard Todd scold everyone? Who is this at all?

In Bethesda Todd Howard is a game designer and producer, the main person of the company. But on the Internet, this is a meme, who wants to sell more copies of Skyrim -games eight years ago, which can now be launched even on a smart toilet .

In the summer at the E3 2018 game exhibition, Howard represented Fallout 76. He explained that this is the biggest game Bethesda, and promised the elaborate world, as well as a new view of the series. At the same time, Howard showed gameplay rollers under the country-song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.

The game designer sounded convincing, and the players believed him. As it turned out, in vain.

With Fallout 76 is everything so bad?

Yes. Even open beta testing failed-the game worked extremely poorly. At first she accidentally removed herself from the computer. And after the completion of public testing, on the contrary, it was not removed if the user did not preach the full version of the game. Howard immediately remembered the meme associated with him - “It Just Works” (“It just works”). In 2015, he praised Fallout 4 in 2015. Now, in the context of Fallout 76, the quote sounds maximum mocking.

After the release of the game on November 14, the situation only became worse - it turned out that Bethesda did not fix anything to the release. As a result, Fallout 76 cannot be played, and some bugs look very funny.

Firstly, the power armor for some reason “stripes” the hero. And many after that cannot remove it!

Secondly, when users simultaneously launch several nuclear warheads (yes, it is possible here), all the players simply throw it off the server.

And the user Reddit spoke about the immortality of his character. His hero cannot kill monsters and even a nuclear explosion.

The best problem Fallout 76 describes a 20-minute video with the promises of Todd Howard. They are illustrated by the real shots of the game, which shows that he did not fulfill his promises.

One of the buyers Fallout 76 was so upset that he could not return the disk back to the store that she began to destroy racks from powerlessness. The stand with Red Dead Redemption 2 did not touch the stand.

Are they still buying a game?

Yes, but not as good as the previous part. In British charts, the game shows itself 82% worse than Fallout 4.

In a commentary for the DTF game publication, the representative of the Russian store GameBuy said : “If you compare the first week of Bethesda game with the starts of other autumn games, then 8 Assassinʼs Creed Odyssey discs, 12 spider-mana disks and 30 Red Dead RedMption 2 discs were sold. The publisher does not disclose data from digital sales of the game. At the Twitch streaming service , Fallout 76 is half the spectators than the fourth part after the release.

Bethesda is trying to rectify the situation, but so far it doesn’t come out: the patches are weighing 50 gigabytes each, some of them lead to new complications (due to the update, many had to download the whole game again). In addition, it is not clear how the company will cope with problems that are not technical mistakes: in Fallout 76 - an empty open world and boring plot tasks. This component of the game is criticized no less than bugs.

Maxim Ivanov