Fallout 4 will receive another patch on all consoles, this time focussing on graphical options.
30.04.2024 - 18:56 / gamerant.com / Todd Howard / Alexander Moore
Bethesda Softworks has discussed the possibility of bringing cross-play and cross-progression to Fallout 76. Todd Howard, the senior game director behind the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises, has laid out the developer’s plans for these features in not only Fallout 76 but all future Bethesda games.
Bethesda Softworks' most recent foray into America’s post-apocalyptic wasteland has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the last month, as Amazon Prime’s well-reviewed Fallout TV series propelled the franchise into the spotlight. After its abundance of performance issues and online-only nature divided many fans at launch, Fallout 76 is now more popular than ever before, having recently achieved more than one million consecutive players in a single day. Since its release in 2018, continuous support and regular updates have fleshed out the originally sparse world, and Fallout 76 now enjoys a comfortable “mostly positive” rating on Steam.
While players can choose to traverse Fallout 76’s Appalachianwilderness alone, the franchise’s only multiplayer installment encourages cooperation, and competition, between players as they scavenge for supplies and construct camps to survive in the wasteland. However, Bethesda has just addressed the potential implementation of cross-play to Fallout 76, a feature that many fans have been calling for since launch to allow them to join friends on other platforms. Speaking to Kinda Funny Games, Todd Howard has revealed that cross-play is something the developers “would love to have” and “keep looking into”. However, it’s unlikely that cross-play will be implemented in the near future, as Fallout 76 “wasn’t designed that way from the beginning,” meaning the feature would require a complete overhaul of the game’s servers and databases. Similarly to Fallout 76, Bethesda’s other multiplayer behemoth, The Elder Scrolls Online, does not allow cross-play, but due to backwards compatibility, both games do feature cross-generational play within each family of consoles.
While Howard doesn’t rule out the possibility of cross-play for Fallout 76, he does affirm that for Bethesda “the more important thing is cross-progression.” The practical feature has become common in modern games, allowing players to transfer data between platforms and continue from where they left off no matter what device they are playing on. Currently, Fallout 76 only allows for saves to be shared between Steam and Game Pass on PC, but it seems likely that this could soon be expanded to include other consoles. Bethesda’s latest release, Starfield, featured cross-progression from launch, and Howard emphasized that “going forward [...] it’s something in our future games we are going to be really, really mindful about.”
Fallout 4 will receive another patch on all consoles, this time focussing on graphical options.
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