am I missing something with all these fallout 76 things? I haven’t been able to find any lore retcons, or official trailers/videos, or find out where/how people are getting gameplay footage of the game. where is it all coming from? D:

fallout-is-cancelled:

A few people were given access to stress-test the game. Official Trailers and such can be found on Bethesda’s Youtube Page.

As for retcons: YeaYong explains how the Brotherhood have been retconned to be included into Fallout 76, but doesn’t go into detail about the Supermutants or Deathclaws.

I’ll try keep this as short as possible:

Deathclaws and Supermutants were made in tiny numbers pre-war, and were extremely incomplete. The Master would refine them into their complete forms at the same time as Fallout 76: Thing is this is on the West Coast, not West Virginia.

Supermutants were also worked on in Vault 87 on the East Coast, however this was entirely enclosed inside the Vault until many years later.

Deathclaws would migrate across the wasteland in the next 100+ years since their completion, eventually thriving all across the USA, West Coast to East Coast.

SPECULATION: The FEV in the Deathclaw’s DNA allowed them to evolve to survive better in their new environments, which is why they look different in Fallout 4. Their models in Fallout 3 are to be ignored, or corrected if a remaster is made.

Now, Fallout 76: This is based 25 years after the war, and a whole year before the original Fallout. The driving force of Fallout was that Supermutants were starting to appear. 50 alone was way too fucking many, and The Master was trying to make an entire army of them. They existed no where else in the USA at this point (except for Vault 87, still enclosed until 20~ years prior to Fallout 3).

This was exactly the same for Deathclaws, as they were considered legends at this point, no one believed they existed.

So here’s the problem: Fallout 76 includes Supermutants, Deathclaws (in their modern East Coast forms) and the Brotherhood of Steel. None of these were on the East Coast until a hundred years later.

Having Supermutants in this game alone completely disregards the entirety of the original Fallout, retconning the BASE EVENTS THAT THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE IS BUILT UPON.