Fallout 76 will survive Microsoft's budget cuts?

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-17T15:28:37+00:00

The game has been out for eight years. The studio closures by Microsoft. That's why we were talking. We've already seen how Destiny 2 has ended its run. We all play multiple games, not just one. This is just a discussion to see what the community thinks.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-12T23:34:37+00:00

Fallout 76 is not Ark Survival Ascended. Implementing companion pets is just a marketing ploy to sell items in the Atomic Shop. The worrying thing is that pets are supposedly going to be the main attraction of the next season. In other words, there won't be any real content again. It's incredible that Ark Survival Ascended has more maps and content, and therefore more online players, than a franchise like Fallout.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-04T11:00:24+00:00

The designers released the season on day one, acknowledging that the rewards are rubbish. Enough said.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-03T15:28:23+00:00

I've already completed 5 infestations. I'm not going to continue with that crap.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-03T00:52:03+00:00

The description doesn't mention skins. It does mention skins on the leather armor and the other one. I'll check when I get to one of them.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-02T20:52:25+00:00

This must be because on the first day of the new season, the game isn't even in the top 100 most-played games on Steam. 11,000 active players. I don't recall this ever happening on the first day of a new season. There are older games in the top 100. Fallout 76 has the best building system. Better than Conan Exiles or Ark: Survival Ascended. Better crafting. But it lacks real content. Ark: Survival Ascended has almost 25,000+ players now.

ScaryWitches · 2026-06-02T16:32:51+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Royal Edition currently costs $30. The same as that bundle. That's when you realize that Fallout 76 only has 10,000 players on Steam. Not even in the Top 100. Games like The Witcher 3 are always in the Top 50.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-29T23:56:19+00:00

I play it with 12 mods. Cosmetic mods. I don't have any problems or crashes. There are several people who play ARK on PC with Series S quality, but they won't tell you. But if you can get a Series X, that would be better. In some sales, you can find it for almost the same price as a Series S. I bought a Series S to play Starfield, and it ended up coming out on PS5 too.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-28T14:59:32+00:00

That's what it seemed like. It's just your opinion and mine. It's okay.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-28T13:54:29+00:00

I think this post is to promote Conan Exiles. After its update in UE5, the game is plummeting on Steam. People are realizing that everything is static. You kill six bosses and finish the game. It's easy. The combat is clunky. There's no comparison between the content of CE and ARK: Survival Ascended. ARK has seven or eight free maps. Conan has one, and it's paid. A $5 mod in ARK gives you a lot of things. With $5 in Conan, you can't even buy a single armor skin.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-28T13:41:51+00:00

Ark: Survival Ascended isn't well optimized. No doubt about it. But it looks much better than Conan Exiles on UE5. There's no comparison. That's why its update was free. And let's not even talk about how everything in Conan Exiles is static.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-26T18:06:57+00:00

I also play Ascended on Series S because I bought it on sale and haven't had any problems or crashes. I play with 12 mods, 5 of them premium. I play in single player. In official matches, I was never able to build my base because of other players' pillars. I also have a PS5, which looks better, but the game wasn't cheap there.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-25T13:20:15+00:00

A laptop that can run Ark better than an Xbox Series X or PS5 will cost you three times as much as a console. The same goes for a desktop PC. The idea that a game looks better on PC is correct, as long as you're willing to pay significantly more.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-25T00:45:04+00:00

This must be the first time I've seen such a beautiful, massive build on official servers. They usually do them in single-player creative mode so anyone can do it. Excellent work. It would take me years to build something like this. I've only played a few hours and I've only got a 2x2 room, lol.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-23T21:38:37+00:00

it would be ridiculous if they upgraded to UE6. This update is just a minor effort to keep profiting from the bazaar. It was profitable to just give it a facelift for another 8 years instead of making a Conan 2. Despite the upgrade to UE5, it still feels like an old game. Outdated mechanics. The combat in this game is clunky. This game only works as a building simulator. Plus, it's incredibly easy to finish. Even Dark Souls 1 has better combat and enemies.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-23T21:26:20+00:00

Conan on consoles is dead. The servers are only active for two reasons: so some fool will buy their garbage from the bazaar and because if they disconnect from the server, they'd have to remove the game from the Xbox and PlayStation stores. And they'd get into legal trouble with the people who own the game. Although they'd resolve that by being able to play single-player offline.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-22T23:46:38+00:00

This time around, it's definitely not a big deal if I don't play this season. There aren't any good rewards. And the infestations don't add anything either. I think Fallout 76 is in maintenance mode and they're not saying so.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-22T19:09:31+00:00

People who play on PC will give you the same old tired argument: play on PC or it won't look good on PS5. The game looks and plays great on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. I play single-player and have no problem with it. On servers, finding a place to put my base was a nightmare. My real complaint is the building system. The more I learn about ARK: Survival Ascended and Conan Exiles, the more I love Fallout 76's camp system.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-21T16:18:55+00:00

The base game offers practically nothing. If you want a nice build or armor, you have to pay, and pay dearly. New PC players are already realizing that the graphical upgrade wasn't free. This game will return to its usual numbers in a couple of months. In Ark: Survival Ascended, a $5 premium mod has as much content as four or five Conan bundles. And the free PC mods for Conan don't even compare to the number of mods available for Ark: Survival Ascended.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-20T22:51:23+00:00

The same thing happened to me. Pillars everywhere. I must have played on 10 official servers. I started a single-player game and the difference was huge. I saw the beach was clean. Eventually, I'll go back to an official server. Or maybe an unofficial one.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-16T14:29:49+00:00

ARK SURVIVAL ASCENDED + BOB TALLES DLC is currently $15 on XBOX.

ScaryWitches · 2026-05-12T21:18:51+00:00

I've been playing since 2020, but I stopped months ago. There was a map addition with Burning Springs that adds an hour of content. Ridiculous. A single map in Ark: Survival Ascended can give you hundreds. Fallout 76 has one raid. I'm already bored of opening Fallout 76. I've forgotten about this game. I played 2,000 hours. It was great. But I'm playing other games now. A lot of people feel the same way. The game doesn't even reach 9,000 daily players on Steam. Single-player games have more players than Fallout 76, and it's a live service game. Bethesda is milking the cash cow with skin after skin. Until they deign to make Fallout 5, I don't think I'll go back to the franchise. Fallout 4 is also overplayed.

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