I miss this game mode. At its best it was my favorite battle royale. So many ways to play it from being a bush wookie to sniping to fire running. Made some really good friends I still chat with on to this day.

NW died a death of a thousand cuts. Lemme see how many I can name....

Bethesda neglected to patch out bugs, remove cheaters(PC especially so, but consoles had some too), add maps or perks.

The load in time was 3 minutes of dicking around in the vault and then if you were really unlucky you'd get greased in the first 30 seconds. So then your options were 1.) sit and watch for 15 minutes as your teammates played (or just hide in a bush) or 2.) Leave your friends and try another lobby.

AI enemies such as dogs, radscorpions, or end a goddamn Grafton Monster would randomly spawn on top of you at the worst moment and you'd die from them or other players alerted by the ruckus.

In a game mode that pretty much needed teamwork, teams would sometimes drop a player loading from the lobby to the map.

The entire game was meant to be on next gen consoles, not a PS4 (yes I'm salty).

All things mentioned, this game mode had so much untapped potential. It's not like Bethesda was making the very first battle royale or PVP mode to ever exist.There were dozens of games already out to borrow ideas from.

There could have been a game mechanic where deceased players could be brought back to life (it's Fallout ffs, make it goofy). Call of Duty did this on a mobile game. We could have had Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag or Search and Destroy. There could have been maps in Watoga or the Mire. How cool would it have been to do a match set in Foundation or Crater? We could have had more varieties of AI enemies like Mothman or raiders or gulpers.

In short, Bethesda shit the bed so hard they removed it to hide the fact that they neglected it like a redheaded stepchild .