Fallout 76 has come a long way since Eurogamer branded it a “bizarre, boring, broken mess” back at launch in 2018, and Bethesda will be marking the post-nuclear online multiplayer game’s fourth anniversary with another year of updates – introducing alien invasions, a trip to Pittsburgh, and more – as detailed in a newly released content roadmap.
2022 will bring four seasonal updates in total, each spread roughly three months apart, starting this “spring” with a collection of additions including the new Invaders From Beyond event. “Save Appalachia from an otherworldly, all-encompassing invasion,” is how Bethesda explains this one on its roadmap, “including Public Event takeovers, new random encounters, a new seasonal Public Event, and more!”.
All this – detailed more thoroughly in the developer gameplay video below – arrives alongside a new Fallout Worlds update as part of Fallout 76’s eighth season, A Better Life Underground. This will bring the usual refreshed progression track and related rewards when it arrives around the end of March once the current season, Zorbo’s Revenge, comes to a close.
Season 9, currently without a name, will accompany “multiple new heart-pounding Public Events” designed to test players’ armour, weapons, and “grit”, including arena fights against deadly automatons. It’ll also bring Fallout 1st scoreboard progression when it launches sometime this “summer”.