I had just traveled through miles of subway tunnels, and I was out of supplies and near dead. Honestly, it’s kind of like a real trip home to visit mom.Ĭontrast this, say, Fallout 3, where I stumbled upon a ghoul community. She’s maintaining the polite fiction that this is an OK way to act and ignoring everything I’m doing. I’m not even looking at her, and the sound of her audio is muffled by constant shuffling noises as I grab dozens of items off her shelves. Meanwhile, I’m just vacuuming up everything around her house.

She’s exclaiming about how good it is to see me, and how relieved she is that I’m safe. In a recent play session, I reunite with the Overseer of my Vault, who fancies herself a maternal figure. In Fallout 76’s new update, Wastelanders, the denizens of Appalachia do not give a single fuck if you rob them blind. In the past, Bethesda games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 have allowed players to swipe whatever they want - provided, of course, the item’s owner didn’t catch you.