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It’s going to be a colossal culture shock for people going from Fallout 4’s comfy towns to getting obliterated and teabagged by gangs of gibbering randos though.” “It’s not as catastrophic gameplay wise as it sounds, games like this getting your base eradicated by people who play 24/7 is fairly standard. “There’s a similar mechanic in similar-looking survival game Conan Exiles where you drop a God on other people’s bases,” said video game fan Phil Hartup on Twitter. Base-wiping super weapons, along with unpleasant experiences like getting enslaved by other players sometimes drives people who enjoy multiplayer survival games to play on private servers.
Multiplayer survival games like Rust, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Conan Exiles are all notoriously harsh experiences where dedicated players can wipe the floor with people who don’t spend as much time in-game grinding out resources and gear. Players have good reason to worry about some elements of Fallout 76, based on how similar mechanics have played out in other games in the genre.
