On April 7, the big Wastelanders update for Fallout 76 will be released. Finally, you will meet NPCs. They will talk to you so much that the developers exceeded their budget for voice acting.
What is Wastelanders? The big update for Fallout 76 introduces NPCs into the game. You can talk to them, learn more about them, and receive quests from them. There are even companions waiting for you.
This will make Fallout 76 play more like the single-player parts Fallout 3 and 4. Wastelanders will be released on April 7.
NPCs talk a lot
How much do the NPCs have to say? Apparently, you should not expect short dialogues, as Pete Hines from Bethesda explained that the developers even exceeded the budget.
They went far beyond what they had budgeted for because designers just can’t help it. So they exceeded their budgets for the words.
Pete Hines, Bethesda in an interview with USGamer
So you don’t need to worry that you will encounter NPCs with little to say. Apparently, you can have quite long conversations with the new inhabitants of Appalachia. This should especially please those who criticized Fallout 76 at launch mainly for the lack of NPCs.
How much content can we expect? It is still somewhat unclear how extensive the content will be. However, Pete Hines also had something to say about this:
There is simply no reasonable frequency at which you can release large amounts of quest content to keep up with the players. It takes six months, nine months, a year to create content that players then run through in two weeks.
Pete Hines, Bethesda in an interview with USGamer
Quests need to be repeatable
What does this mean for the quests? The missions need to be repeatable. Otherwise, the content will be exhausted too quickly and then boredom sets in until new content arrives.
The focus in creating the missions is therefore on making them repeatable.
What does this mean for voice acting? It is currently unclear how this interacts with the repeatability of quests in the conversations. Are there perhaps additional quests that cannot be repeated if they tell an important story?
We will find out on April 7 when the Wastelanders update for Fallout 76 is released.
- We have compiled all the information about the Wastelanders update for Fallout 76 for you.
- With Wastelanders, Fallout 76 is bringing what players really want. Surprisingly, it was not PvP for the developers.
