Summary
Fallout 76caravan routes aim to significantly change the game’s multiplayer experience, a senior Bethesda official has said. Caravanning is set to arrive inFallout 76as part of the game’s next big update, Milestone Zero.
The upcoming content drop is planned to debut afterFallout 76Season 17 comes to a closein September 2024. Aside from marking the start of yet another season, Milestone Zero will also introduce a variety of new content, including the ability to start and run one’s own caravan company in Appalachia.
Milepost Zero Aims to Make Fallout 76 Multiplayer Experience Snappier
Aside from adding to the ever-expanding list of in-game activities, this feature will also aim to change the game’s pacing. That’s according toFallout 76Creative Director Jon Rush, who suggested as much in a recentinterviewwith PCGamesN. Specifically, Rush explained that the ability to run a caravan company has been envisioned as something that players can do in between tacklingFallout 76events. Right now, those focused on farming Treasury Notes or simply engaging in community activities have a lot of downtime during their gaming sessions, at least if they aren’t constantly hopping servers to discover new world events.
Fallout 76: Milestone Zero’s Caravan Escort Missions Will Be Easily Farmable
“The caravanning keeps the action from going event, wait, event, wait, event; it just keeps it more snappy,” Rush explained. Aside from escorting one’s own caravan company,Fallout 76playerswill also be able to support others trying to do the same. If a mission is successful, everyone who was part of the escort party will be rewarded for their contribution, as is the case with existing world events. These quests will usually take between five and ten minutes to complete, which Rush estimates makes them ideal for killing time in between events while still playing alongside others. At the same time, Bethesda made caravan escort missions repeatable, allowing players who want to farm them solo or in groups to do so.
The caravanning keeps the action from going event, wait, event, wait, event – it just keeps it more snappy.
While anyone on the server will be able to join the escort missions, they can only be initiated by players who progress through a new Milestone Zero quest called A Bump In The Road. This questline unlocks at level 20 and will essentially walk the player through the process of starting their very own caravan company. Caravan outposts will act as instanced zones that can be customized, much like C.A.M.P.s.
Milestone Zero can already be previewed on PC, having been launched as part of the latestFallout 76Public Test Serverupdate on July 26. The progress from the PTS build of the game doesn’t carry over to the stable channel, so beta testers will have to start anew once the update rolls out to everyone. As for when exactly that will happen, Bethesda’s current plan is to launchFallout 76Season 18 and Milestone Zero sometime in September 2024.
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
