I explored the connected rooftops of Point Pleasant and revisited all its Mothman-themed tourist traps.įallout 76 has transformed into a chillout game for me, one where there's no need to rush and exploring is funįallout 76's best cryptid, the Mothman has its own statue, museum, and riverside shrine with eerie bone replica, which is how I'd like to be memorialized too. I gradually rinsed each location, finding oddities like a dog kennel with the periodic table of the elements written inside (maybe by a genius dog?), and a holiday camp with a computer that sets off spooky noises and makes the paintings on the walls spin around. So I made a new character and started over, abandoning my rush for the endgame in favor of a gentle stroll through the noob zone. All these things were bricks in that wall. A crafting treadmill that involves murdering endless mole miners for their scrap to turn it into black platinum and hoarding clipboards because they're a good source of springs and valuable as gold. Storylines that keep building to the same revelation that every NPC involved is dead or a robot. Bugged-out quests like the one to kill a specific ghoul who has inevitably been murdered by another player by the time you get there. High-level bulletsponge enemies with damage resistance. Assuming the same of Fallout 76 saw me sprint through questlines to join the Enclave and get ready to take part in the nuclear loop-whether using a warhead on the Fissure to draw out the scorchbeast queen raid boss or just dropping one on Whitesprings Resort for the sweet loot like 90% of players seem to-and that led me to a high-speed collision with the wall of No Fun. The received wisdom about online games is that the endgame is where it's at and everything between logging on and hitting the level cap is just hours of guff. It's easy to miss stuff like this, though.

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