Fallout 76 - My Favorite Game of 2021 

Happy to see people having fun with a game, but let's be honest we need to keep holding companies accountable for delivering an objectively bad game at launch, instead of sugar coating it

The community is super nice, I remember when I first started someone was chasing me in PA which freaked me out abit but then he/she were only trying to give me some stuff lol, now 350+lvls later I'm the one doing the chasing and gifting.

the minute i walked out of vault 76, some rando was waiting and just gave me a 10mm pistol, a pipe pistol, and 1000 of a few ammo. I got very lucky in the beginning. Edit: Hey look ma I made it

Wanted to give this game a go, spent like an hour in character creation and then I named my character and then the game crashed....

Those crashes might have been player inflicted by other players trying to duplicate items

I gave Fallout 76 another chance back when season 4 was released, it has been my go-to game ever since. I remember buying a physical copy on launch and selling it a week later, this game has evolved greatly and I recommend it to any fallout fans that felt betrayed at launch

I was genuinely like 1 minute out of the vault and this fella with a pretty green monster mask and some weird costume dropped a witch hat and a witch costume, it wasn’t much, but it absolutely made my day because I love Halloween stuff. Thank you to whoever gave me it.

Bought the game used in GameStop a week ago, haven't bought a physical game in years. Really enjoying it so far!

I got into this game a couple days ago because I wanted to give it a shot. My first experience after stepping out of the vault was some super high level guy walking up to me and giving me 50 water and 50 radscorpion steak. This really helped me want to continue exploring the game and seeing what it had to offer. While it certainly isn’t the best game and I already have some complaints, so far the game seems alright for what it is. ps: I wasn’t expecting the world map to be so big lol

I love the idea of a live service game that continually updates and gets new content, but I wanna play it like a single player game. Mostly by myself, exploring, looting. Not a lot of games that let you do both. I'm gonna check this out

when i picked the game up about 4 months ago, a high level guy gave me 150 stims, it helped a lot.

I’ve been playing it again and am actually having fun

I'm at a business trip right now and can't wait to get back home and playing it. I LOVE it.

I've been thinking of giving 76 another go, it seems you've convinced me and its installing as I speak! You've got my subscription 🤘

I picked the game up April of 2020 after Wastelanders released. I’ve put a few hundred hours in and I’m at level 329. I love it

At the moment we have a few more bugs due to the update. I’m getting stuck at my crafting stations. If it happens to you just fast travel. But server crashes are more common.

After watching your video I’m starting a new character (haven’t played since launch) and going to give it a shot with the plan of playing all weekend. Thanks for a good informative video

Started playing 76 2 weeks ago, I has level 12 and this level 300+ runs up to my camp and dropped a crap ton of Shotgun ammo, now I use mainly double barrel shotguns and loving this game through and through

I played at the beginning and hated it but now it’s absolutely amazing. Give it a try it’s so much fun. The player base is so helpful and is the complete opposite of GTA players

I just started playing yesterday and I’m really enjoying it so far

I have almost two thousand hours in 76, enjoyed every single second of it. Plus the updates make it better and better.

I am level 450 been playing since launch and the current state of the game is great and very enjoyable. I cant wait for expeditions to the Pitt and the 2 other updates this year! They really did this game justice and the amount of fixes, improvements and new content in the horizons looks even better! I am also really happy to see new players getting into it as we have had a massive player increase due to E3, upcoming Steel Reign and free week.

I started a new character & immediately get a workshop, this level 400 pulls up and fights me for it then messages me telling me to get better..

Just saw the game in my catalogue and thought about checking it out once again if there has been anything new, last time i played It was 2019. This video sealed the deal to start installation 🤘🏻 Could even say that i'm feeling pretty hyped 😅

I downloaded the game from gamepass to give it a try about 3 weeks ago since it was free and by far it's my favorite game of 2021 as well. I can't stop playing it and I've played a ton of RPG games to know a good one from a bad one. This Fallout title turned out to be one of the best in my unbiased opinion. It's extremely good and I totally recommend it to anyone.

''What's the point of choosing if there are no consequences'' my issue with Bethesda games in a nutshell.

I played at launch and got to level 25ish but it felt like I was forcing myself to play so I quit. I recently came back, restarted and I’m hooked it’s so dramatically different from what it was at launch. I remember the opening quests were so lifeless and dead and just thinking how weak the end game and side quests were. It’s so nice to play quests that feel like they have some weight to them just all around the game feels like the devs have poured a lot of love into it and I’m excited to see where it goes from here

Man your videos are so fuckin solid, they keep my attention more than most shit on RU-vid. Keep up the great work

Been playing since launch, glad people are finally giving it a try

The average fallout NV fan: how dare you challenge me

Thank you for the video it helps to bring awareness to people who are still hating Fallout 76 without even trying it out.

The second I got my first set of power armor, and I do mean the exact second the animation finished. A level 260 dropped 20 fusion cells*cores* on the ground emoted then logged out, this community is really accepting and open.

A lot of the quests in 76 are genuinely amazing and engaging, so many of the areas are unique and distinct. I specifically remember one little camp site near Flatwoods that is haunted, when you're there you can hear screams, the doors will randomly shut on you and the pictures move on their own, the best part however is the holotapes you can find there, which are all talking about how there's something strange going on there. This is the kinda storytelling I play the game for

This video: "They fixed a lot of bugs. Here are bugs that happened to me... ...these bugs happened a lot but mostly during dailies which is every day."

FYI if you do pick up any items on the map, for example the can chime traps, you'll only get them once per 2-3 days per character as the game remembers what you've collected so server hopping for the same item won't work. Either collect, swap character and collect again or go back with the same character after a few days. I believe collecting around 250+ items inbetween refreshes it too.

as much as bethesda shouldnt be forgiven for their launch, I definitely apreciate the improvements. Also nice awesome video - not a one sided talk but a honest critique of the current state of the game!

currently reinstalling the game I can't wait

I just came back to the game about 6 months ago, and I have to say it's pretty awesome now. I don't have any game crashes at all. The only bug I've found so far is NPC's walking backward and that is not game breaking for me. I especially love the private custom worlds with FO1st. My friends and I are having a blast.

I really appreciate your videos about 76 and 4! I think too often people focus their critical gaze on what is negative about the games when being critical really should be about what is good as well as bad. I've put around 250 hours into 76 now but I didn't touch it until last year because I heard the initial reviews. I played my first 70 levels alone because I've never played online with other people and I was nervous. But it is SO MUCH BETTER when you join teams and quest together. You also gain a lot more atoms that way- which helps with the Atomic Shop. 😁

I walked around with my buddy for about 2 hours, we both fell asleep with the controllers in our hands and never picked it up again. Love your videos though so I might check it out again 🙏

I did the same thing at launch and came back a few weeks ago. Already level 70 and loving it.

I sometimes drop a couple plans , 10mm, shells ,38 rounds and few purified water and stimpak at the countainer at overseer camp near the wayward while doin event around forrest region, since i didn't really use those ammo, i hope that can help a low level and new player

I love just listing to the radio as I gather wood for my mountain night club💜⚡️

The only problem today with fo76 is the option of no single player

hopefully the game eventually becomes free to play

In world items resets for you after you pick up 255 items or 20hrs...if you are farming certain things...that could also be a reason you don't see the tin cans or lead

Should have made the title “hear me out”

I don't think it's a good thing that core features such as the campsite & private worlds is locked behind a paywall. Private worlds at least should be accessible to everyone!!!

Finally, someone who actually still plays the game talking about the game. So many RU-vidrs haven't touched the game in years and still talk shit about it and turn it into a 10 minute video. Also, yes. The community is super neat. I remember when I first bought the game right when it launched and I accidentally shot a dude's camp so I got a bounty, which meant I couldn't see other players on the map, which sucked. And then one day a player comes by, greets me and then kills me. I respawn and go back to him, he gives me a thumbs up and then goes away. Props to that guy for getting rid of my bounty ❤

This review is really well done and almost mirrors my exact journey for the game the past 2 months. Perfect for anyone wondering if they should pick up fo76 in 2021.

Some high level player dropped me stuff outside my camp window and waved to me , but then another noob standing outside my camp grabbed the stuff before i could get to it . I was pissed because i heard rumors of high levels doing that and i literally missed my chance for juicy loot

My favorite 76 bug is when they gave people nylon bags instead of canvas, or when they leaked consumers public info. Though one of the cool ones was when the nukacola dark was actually a plastic shell surrounding a normal beer bottle.

A little tip that some may not know about the event respawn bug, despite being dead you are still in the event. Once the event ends you will be given the rewards despite still being dead. You will have to change servers as discussed but at least you will be given the rewards. - you will have to remain in the server till the end of the event to get the rewards.

If ya care I upgraded to an ssd and most of the stuttering and load issues mostly dissapeared

is there a (tiny) delay between shooting and hit indication? It seemed slightly off in the vid. minor for some but it would feel significant to me personally

this guy has a raspy voice due to giving Todd Howard daily mouth hugs.

Playing the game on a Series S is an amazing experience!

I'll come back when they add a text chat, it's such a basic feature yet they haven't added it...

Ehh. When you claimed to die in the rad zone, therea like a 20 second buffer where rads dont happen. I saw this happen on your screen, and instead of bringing up your inventory and putting the hazmat suit on, you stood there jerking the camera around in 3rd person until you died.

I'm surprises that some people think high level players giving new players stuff is because Fallout76 community is super nice. The phenomenon is often seen in online games that has significantly low number of players that newly enter or return. For online games, high level players also want someone, anyone, to populate the in-game world and interact to have fun. So unless there are sufficient number of lower level players actively catching up, high level players tend to give away help to new/returning players to boost the fun during earlier stages & to keep them playing the game longer.

I've recently just started the game and other than a few frame drops it runs pretty well. there is a slight delay with damage and looting but it's mildly annoying.

I gave it a go during the free trial and I can't wait to buy it. I put off buying it because it was so buggy but I'm looking forward to exploring the map.

Last time I played was around release and I was a level 30. Do you think it's worth restarting over?

I had to take a 7 or 8 month hiatus from this game just simply because I wasn't having fun, but now jumping back into it I'm enjoying my time spent on this game especially playing it with friends. Over the past 2 weeks I've spent over 100 hours on this game causing me to rank all the way up from A fresh character to lvl 63. I'm currently running a bloodied shotgun build (The bloodied prefix increases the weapons damage the lower your hp) and since my health is always so low I can constantly have the nerd rage perk which gives me an extra 20% dmg, as well as the mutation adrenal reactions (which also give me more damage the lower my hp) constantly running pushing my double barrel up into the 500+ dmg range, which lets me 1 to 2 shot most of the normal enemies in the game, and do big chunks of health to some of the beefier enemies. Overall I believe this game has gotten much better since the last time I played and I'm definitely enjoying myself a lot more than I was before. I'd say its definitely worth a buy. After all you do get to launch nukes.

I downloaded this game a couple weeks before the wastelander update, not long after lockdown started. I’ve been hooked ever since. I got the platinum trophy on PS4 before the end of 2020. It truly is one of my favourite games.

Tried to give this game a second chance cause of this video. Its still a bad game please don't bother people!

@7:25 when I had the enclave mission, I had to do the missile silo 4 times before I had to complete it. I had enough so I went on a friends private server. As every one of those times someone glitched into the walls to gain a shortcut to get to the launch sequence while I had to figure out the puzzles. My gripe is that the missile silos are exactly the same, nothing changes, and players are probably tired of doing it the legitimate way. One of my other friends was a rank 250 and didn’t even know how to do the silo legitimately, they skipped through using the photo mode glitch and I showed him as a level 120 how to do it. I got better each time doing the silo, but it felt like it didn’t really matter because so many people just jump through the walls anyway.

The guy walking through the door was a glitch you can use to skip everything in the silo he probably left or disconnected after he did it people can join you on the first quest

I don’t want to support 76 because it’s not Fallout and it will prevent more fallout being made

I just recently got the game and it’s good I guess I just don’t have any friends that play fallout

Your point about the endgame is very true; now that I’ve optimized my build and have a pretty good weapons load out, there’s not much left to do...however, I did get a solid 2 years of regular gameplay before I reached this point, so I don’t really feel that I didn’t get my money’s worth...

I have been enjoying Fallout 76 over the past few months. The game does have a lot to enjoy especially when it comes to exploring. The quests are probably my least favorite part as the things they have you do are usually quite boring. The dialogue system is very buggy for me. In addition on the PS4 version of the game there is a pretty serious problem with loading in objects that happens almost every time I play. If I am running(not even sprinting) through an area, the buildings and terrain will be very low res which shouldn't hinder gameplay much but the issue is that enemies will not have spawned. This becomes an even larger issue when I noticed that I die out of nowhere. From my experience this is from two separate issues. One is that objects can spawn inside of you like cars which can kill you, the other is that the game spawns the enemies yet you can't see or hear them because the game has not loaded them. It is beyond frustrating to have this happen. I still have enemies(especially scorched) not hold weapons correctly or shoot me with weapons that they are not holding. For instance it is common for enemies to shoot you with one type of weapon but when you search the enemy and the surrounding area that weapon is nowhere to be found. It isn't even similar weapon types either. I can kill a raider that is holding a missile launcher and he might drop a baseball bat. The game is still very flawed and feels very choppy at times but has the ability to be fun. Just buy it when it is on sale.

Watched part of this video and it seemed like a very honest review and I gave it a shot. Honestly having a fun time and have had a fairly overall good experience so far

Fallout is getting better each season. I decided to start making content to help out the newbies coming along. Thanks for the coverage Gingy. Let's get folks to gravitate to Appalachia

Are u able to play by urself and survive? I honestly couldn't play it by myself because it was extraordinarily difficult. Literally everything killed me

Super late, at least to me, 76 is fairly good it feels like a game built more around having friends cause I’m playing solo and have been stuck for the longest and I’m so impoverished that I have to die to reset rads and such. Not my type of game but it’s not bad in most ways as it’s definitely fun but just not what I like tbh

I've noticed that Fallout 76 has a lot of interesting unmarked locations scattered around the map

Been having a really good time with the game for the past 2 weeks

I remember I got and played quite a while. I think I reached level 80? After I had my fill, I turned my home into a factory. I would use the ammo factory glitch and make 5.56 ammo and collect scrap. My personal mission was to equip new players. I gave new players the lowest level Handmade Rifle (lvl 15) and 1000 5.56 rounds and hoped they had fun. After I ran out of resources, I left the game feeling somewhat satisfied. Pretty sure I supplied at least 8 new players.

I've been playing F76 since a couple months after launch. Love it. Actually liked it more before they added human npcs. It helped me realize that I prefer my objectives to be found organically, either through stumbling across something in the environment or reading something and getting a quest. NPC quest givers feel very "gamey" to me and take away immersion, so even now I rarely interact with them.

It's in a very good place right now, friends and I are loving it

The game has come a long way. People often pontificate Fallout 76 as a bad game but It deserves it’s come back story as much as No Man’s Sky. There are NO other FPS/MMO style games with the gameplay and freedom of expression that 76 offers. They’ve fixed a lot of the bugs and continue to release free DLC, while monetizing the game responsibly. There is good reason why it’s the most played game on game pass.

My only problem 75 hours in is I grind too much for supplies and currency, and don’t explore and enjoy enough.

Let me add something, I have 1000 hours on this game(I work at home🙂) I play daily, so the only bugs that I encounter are “server not responding” (that’s due to the duping that’s currently going on sadly).vault 96 & 94 are open now to explore and holotapes are there to find out what happen. Each update adds A TON of stuff. The bugs aren’t game breaking, only bug that will annoy some people (me as well) is the “stuck on crafting bench” bug, a old bug that got fixed but is back for some reason lol. I really recommend this game to anyone that’s a fallout fan, please try it out and make your own decision..

i dunno about fallout 1st. 13 bucks for something that imo should just be a part of the base game. basically they're monetizing convenience and you're okay with it, and recommend it because you enjoy the game. it sounds very similar to something with ESO with bottomless bag.

1500 hours. Finally got bored. I won't return until a new map is updated. I can't wait. Love the game. Just tired of West Virginia.

Community is so nice, was lvl 5 and some guy gave me a really good armor and weapon set up. I have 999 .38 ammo for a marksman Rifle. Not too strong with only 34 DM but it gets me through the wasteland. I’m now lvl 12 and have great guns I earned myself. Thanks KN-48. You are a great person and hyped me up for a game that finally works and has such great content

My biggest gripe with Fallout 76 is that you can't run a private server on your own, so at some point, this game will be unplayable because all of the servers are gone.

Walking through doors is a glitch that you can do with photo mode its a glitch most people use

I really appreciate this rereview. All the specific details were very helpful. I was one of the many that was utterly disappointed in Fallout 76 and everything surrounding it at the time, even months later I was still quite disgusted. Recently I've been having a huge craving for these types of games that still have yet to be filled by any releases. So naturally I recalled Fallout 76 and wondered where it was now. This was the first video that popped up. Can't wait to give this game another go later today. I'll probably start a new character too.

I'll come back when they implement a Mailing System (delivery between characters on account) and a Confirmation-based Trade System.

what settings do u use? its choppy on my pc and i have fairly good one

They said we will be able to go through vault 51 in Sept when they close nw

Gonna have to give it a try again. Haven’t played it in a couple years

Some server crashes are players who dupe intentionally crashing said servers -- the crash is needed to dupe. Other times, you can tell when a server is acting weird and get out before issues arise.

I’ve had this game since the second season or whatever, today I just fired it up for the first time in half a year or so. the first thing I did is a random daily, that daily was the one w inert explosives, you just happened to do it in this video too lmao

The players now are the best, I've been given so much stuff for free like OP weapons and 1000s of ammunition

Bought the deluxe edition on sale and gave my friend my disc copy

did they fix the camp where it was impossible to find a suitable location and are fast travels cheaper?