We got to see and hear more about Fallout 76 at E3, which will be quite the departure from prior games in the franchise. With the release date set at November 14 2018, you may have questions. Here are 5 of the biggest features coming in Fallout 76 later this year.

5. Always Online With Dedicated Servers

Todd Howard assures us that we can still experience the game solo. However, every character we will come across in game will be a “real” player. Fallout 76 will for the firs time, add an online multiplayer experience. Players can interact with other real players in the huge open world of West Virginia and must make friends or become foes. What does this imply regarding NPC characters? While nothing is confirmed at the moment, it does appear that NPCs will play a somewhat limited role outside of the main story, which could be a deal breaker for many who prefer a solo experience.

4. Fallout 76’s Map Size Is 4 Times Bigger Than Fallout 4

Bethesda are boasting that this game will be its biggest yet in the franchise. The world will be four times the size of Fallout 4, which on paper sounds enormous. What’s exciting though, is that Howard says that this new world is built with new technology. That means it will feature all new landscape tech, lighting, environment rendering and more. We had a glimpse of the character models too, and while it may still be an early alpha build, they do look good.

3. Neighbor Warfare With Nukes

We already know that the game will be always online, where you can interact with other real players. To complement this, Fallout 76 will have some interesting multiplayer features as well, in the form of Nuclear sites to wipe out areas of the map. With a group of friends, you can hunt down these nuclear silo sites in the world to gather launch codes. Each player will get a set of codes that must be activated at the silo, to launch it anywhere on the map, including the base of your most hostile enemy players. I guess we can think of this as some form of PvP.

2. Brand New Monsters Inspired By Local Folklore

West Virginia may be foreign to a lot of players, but Bethesda are giving us the tour of the land with montages of new monsters and enemies that players will face. Fallout 76 takes place in West Virginia, and outside the Vault, things are not looking good. You will encounter ghouls, nasty beasts, bugs and some flying monsters that are apparently, urban legends of West Virginia.

1. Base Building Returns

If you’re let down by the multiplayer aspect of Fallout 76, don’t worry. Other staples will be returning and among them will be the settlement building system. In the last title, the freedom to get creative when building, decorating and upgrading your settlement became a big deal for players, offering hours and hours of content there alone. We’re happy to report that this feature will be coming back. It will have a smarter system too, allowing you to build wherever you want, and packing up to move whenever you want.

So are you excited for Fallout 76?

The post Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Fallout 76 #BE3 appeared first on Mmos World.

Tonight at Bethesda’s E3 conference, many bombshells were dropped including The Elder Scrolls Blades. Todd Howard himself took the stage to give us the exclusive scoop about the franchise’s latest mobile (yes mobile) Elder Scrolls experience, Blades. Here’s what we know about its features and why we’re excited.

5. Immersive iPhone and Android Experience

Make no mistake about it, Elder Scrolls Blades will offer the quintessential Elder Scrolls experience, even on mobile phones. It’s launching with gorgeous vistas and graphics that we’ve come to expect, and on iPhone X it will look stunning. More impressively, the game can even be played in portrait mode on your mobile screens. That’s handy for long boring meetings at work of course. But the good news is that it won’t be exclusive to mobiles. It will be cross platform, so expect to see it everywhere from PC to Nintendo Switch.

The game play itself is what you’d expect. You can tap the screen to move and attack, or use external sticks to play and they’re responsive. Folks at #E3 can already check out the game at the Bethesda booth, but the rest of us can also pre-order the game on the App Store or Google Play tonight!

4. Three Game Modes Available

The Elder Scrolls Blades will have three game modes available. They are Arena, Town and Abyss. Arena will be the game’s PvP mode, where players can duel other players across platform for glory. Abyss is more for the PvE adventurers who want to test themselves against the AI. You will have to try and survive for as long as possible in a dungeon in this game mode. The dungeons are a mix of handcrafted and procedurally generated dungeon crawls, so expect to see a good mix of both. And finally, the Town is the main mode of Elder Scrolls Blades, where players focus on the main story, town building and more.

3. Story Driven with Town Building

As we mentioned above, Elder Scrolls Blades will have the story mode that us players demand of a game like this. In the Town mode, players are a member of the Blades – the Empire’s top agents. Forced into exile, you find your home town destroyed and have to rebuild it. The town building mode includes decorating, upgrade stations and more that will help you in the story and dungeon adventures.As your town levels up, you get to unlock new quests, NPCs and more. You can even visit towns belonging to your friends!

2. VR Capable Across Platforms

Another awesome feature the game will have is through VR. Remember what we said about playing in protrait mode on your phone in meetings? The cool part is that you could be playing with another player who’s at home with a VR set on, on their PC. That level of connectivity among players and platforms is something we’ve not seen before from both Bethesda and Elder Scrolls in general.

1. Free to Play

Most importantly however, Elder Scrolls Blades will be a hundred percent, absolutely free to play for everyone regardless of platforms. There’s no mention of micro-transactions or an in-game cash shops like other mobile games tend to have. But then again, we never know and will wait to see if they finally add one. Players can head to playblades.com later this week to sign up for early access, and you can already pre-order Blades on the App Store and Google Play later tonight!

So are you excited for Elder Scrolls Blades?

The post 5 Reasons To Be Hyped About The Elder Scrolls Blades #BE3 appeared first on Mmos World.