Bethesda Softworks has announced that the content will be requested until April 14, a week later than planned.
Bethesda Softworks has released a statement confirming that the expected Fallout 76 Wastelanders update will not be released on April 7. The severity of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has precipitated that the company's employees have applied telework, which is hindering the estimates they had to finish everything. Thus, Wastelanders will arrive on April 14.
The situation of working remotely, without being able to access all the tools available to them in the offices, "has affected the final tests that we need to apply to Wastelanders," they indicate. A week is what they need. "We have done everything possible to minimize the delay and we are hoping that everyone can play it," explains the North American publisher. "We especially thank all the players on the private test server for their help," they conclude.
We remember that Wastelanders will be available to anyone who has purchased the standard or Deluxe or standard editions of the game on PS4, Xbox One or PC. In addition to introducing voiced NPCs to the world of Fallout 76, this expansion will bring new faction bundles with exclusive cosmetic items. In this article we explain how your dialogue system will work.
Fallout 76: Wastelanders
Pete Hines recognizes errors, but believes Fallout 76 must exist
Pete Hines, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication at Bethesda, recently reflected on the highlights and shadows of this particular title, where everything was bet on the online experience in a huge open world where there was initially no NPC. According to him, they have learned a lot from Fallout 76 although sales have not accompanied. “We tried something that was a big change in the direction of each study (…) Just because it didn't turn out well doesn't mean you shouldn't have; it just means you have to learn the lesson of what didn't work properly so that the next time you try something really different you can avoid some of those problems. ”
Fallout 76 is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC; for months it has had a periodic payment subscription to access private servers.
