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Fallout 76 Severs Down for Maintenance

Gamers out there who were looking to set aside some Turkey Day festivity time to travel along some Country Roads in West Virginia will be disappointed, as the servers for ‘Fallout 76’ are currently down.

‘Fallout 76’ is quite possibly, the most disastrous video game release of 2018. After a relatively exciting announcement at this year’s E3, it appears that Todd Howard has pulled a Peter Molyneux. Not only is the game a complete technical mess, filled with a plethora of bugs and glitches (as is expected from Bethesda titles at launch), but it is also doesn’t live up to Todd Howard’s claims. Despite asserting how much time, resources, and employees were allocated to ‘Fallout 76’s’ development, Howard made promises that he isn’t keeping. Instead of releasing a groundbreaking and innovative entry into the ‘Fallout’ series, what Bethesda gave us appears to be little more than an asset flip of ‘Fallout 4.’ Needless to say, fans are not at all happy with what many feel to be a full-priced $60 ‘Fallout 4’ multiplayer mod.

Bethesda released a day one patch in an attempt to fix some of the technical issues plaguing gamers, and this patch is bigger than the game itself. ‘Fallout 76’ takes up 45 GB, and the Day 1 patch takes up 52 GB. That’s a lot of space. Making it worse, is the fact that most problems remain in the game even with the patch downloaded.

Adding icing onto the cake, just two days after the November 19th update, Bethesda suddenly took the servers for ‘Fallout 76’ offline for maintenance. Bethesda made an announcement on their social media accounts about the maintenance, but have not given players any estimate as to when the maintenance will be over. Many players are worried that they won’t even get to play the game Thanksgiving weekend. Bethesda did link a post to their official where players can receive progress updates, but that link is down as well.

Bethesda has received constant criticism over their decision to continue recycling a game engine that they first began using with ‘Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind,’ 16 years ago. The shortcomings of their past-expiration-date game engine have been well-documented across numerous titles in their catalog, such as ‘Skyrim’ and ‘Fallout 4,’ yet they continue to use it. It’s more than possible that some of the technical issues in ‘Fallout 76’ are a result of a game engine that should have been put out to pasture 10 years ago.

We will keep you up to date on any changes, but as of now, Country Roads are closed.

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