The game files of Fallout 76 include significantly more content than what is currently available in the game. Resourceful players have taken a closer look at the available files and have come across a lot of unpublished content.
The user Tepiltzin shared a list on reddit of text and audio files that he found in the Fallout 76 game files. He simply read the list from the existing files. Thanks to our user Kai Walter on Discord for this discovery.
In the process, he came across some content that we might expect in the future. This includes several events that may not have made it into the game but are still lingering in the files. A small glimpse of what is still to come in Fallout 76 has also been given by Bethesda.
Cut and upcoming content for Fallout 76
What has been found? Specifically, Tepiltzin found game files for numerous previously unpublished contents. These include:
- Events
- Quests
- Dialogues
- Boss mechanics
- Features like diseases and mutations
Among the files were also many notes from the developers that had nothing to do with new content. Remarks and notes like: “Success! You have found the test message of this terminal. Just look at yourself.” or “This is the test of the tutorial system. This is just a test. If this were a real tutorial, you would have received important information by now.”
This could come in the future: Tepiltzin and other fans have actively discussed and speculated in the post about which of the found contents could still come in the future. Some of them they consider very likely:
- An Enclave event for the presidential election
- Events in other vaults. The vaults already exist in Fallout 76
- “Challenge” quests for the Order of Mysteries. Here’s how to join the Order of Mysteries
- Legendary mutations for legendary enemies
- Multiple PvP modes
Especially the information about the different PvP modes such as “Quick Play” or “Team Deathmatch” seems to fit well. Bethesda already announced in December 2018 that a new PvP game mode for Fallout 76 is in the works.
What seems to have been cut: Other contents have apparently already been introduced in other ways, are incomplete, or pertain to events that already exist. Therefore, they will probably not make it into the game. Among the discarded plans are:
- A romance quest with an Assaultron
- A chem collection for Rose, the Raider bot
- The mutation “RAD Walker” and the “Burned” disease
- A repeatable quest for the “Tomahawk Scouts”
- A gift that players were supposed to receive on New Year’s
As with all found contents, it is important to note that none of this has to be true. They are remnants in the game files that can still be used or not. The complete list of datamines can be found on Reddit.
Which change would make you happiest?
The feedback from players is meant to carry more weight in the future development of Fallout 76:
