All Fallout 76 changes coming after Fallout Day update

Bethesda has now held the first-ever Fallout Day Broadcast, a livestream detailing the future of the franchise as a whole. Here’s everything you need to know about what went down.

The Fallout brand has grown significantly beyond the bounds of the main series, single-player RPGs. An increasingly impressive MMO and the lauded Prime Video original series have done plenty to elevate it this year, but fans are keen to know what’s coming next.

The Fallout Day Broadcast gave us an insight into the future of the series, here’s everything we saw:

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Fallout 76

Fallout 76 was heavily featured in the Fallout Day Broadcast and as part of the celebrations, new players will be able to try Fallout 76 for free until October 29, 2024.

Pets

Players will be able to recruit a pet before the end of 2024. They’ll have access to a cat and a dog, whom they can pet and dress up in little outfits. Special gifts can also be given to pets, like bones and scratching posts.

Bethesda also teased that more pets will be added and these will be “less furry”. This implies they’ll be geckos, giant bugs, or other irradiated creatures.

Gleaming Depths Raid

A new raid will also soon be added to the game and will be for endgame players only.

Players must be at least level 300 and in a team of four. The raid will be set in an abandoned Enclave research laboratory and will feature the Ultracite Terror as a final boss – a massive mutated snake.

Turning into a Ghoul

The ability to turn into a Ghoul will be added in a 2025 update and this won’t just be a cosmetic change either. After reaching level 50, you’ll need to complete the Ghoulification quest to trigger the transformation.

After this, you won’t need to eat food or protect yourself from radiation. Rads will actually heal you instead, making life easier. However, monitoring your feral meter will be essential to remain civilized.

If you do choose to go feral, a new set of perks will be unlocked that can be seen in the Broadcast video below. Becoming a Ghoul will make you tougher in battle but will also make life harder when interacting with NPCs.

Even civilized ghouls will struggle with some factions, especially ones like the Brotherhood of Steel who shoot ghouls on sight. However, becoming a ghoul will unlock some new narrative options that wouldn’t be open to human players.

Finally, Bethesda teased adding fishing in Fallout 76 — something the community have been requesting for years.

Fallout 5 and Amazon’s Fallout TV series

There were no updates regarding Fallout 5 or Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV series. However, Fallout 5 is in development and so is the second season of the critically acclaimed show.

You can watch the broadcast in full below:

Bethesda will likely offer release dates for the various updates listed above in the near future. Until then, check out what we thought of Fallout 76’s The Pitt and the TV series.