50 Fun Facts About Fallout 76

Which singer's hit about West Virginia was covered for the Fallout 76 teaser trailer at E3 2018?

John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads was re-recorded for the trailer, and Bethesda put the cover on music services with the proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

Fallout 76's giant flying Scorchbeasts, carriers of the Scorched Plague, mutated from which animals?

Bats were mutated by Enclave experiments at an old mine, grew to enormous size and now steer the plague's human victims through a hive mind.

Which winged cryptid from Point Pleasant folklore stalks Fallout 76 and is worshipped by a cult?

Mothman is hailed by cultists as the Bright One, and the game recreates the real museum devoted to the legend in Point Pleasant.

Which material replaced the promised canvas in the duffel bag of Fallout 76's Power Armor edition?

Nylon bags went out instead, and after an outcry Bethesda agreed to make canvas replacements, which reached buyers in June 2019.

The Whitespring Resort in Fallout 76, which hides a government bunker, is based on which real hotel?

The Greenbrier really did hide a Cold War bunker built to shelter the US Congress, and the level designer behind the Whitespring had visited the resort every year as a child.

Which 2020 update gave Fallout 76 its first human non-player characters, after a launch with none?

Wastelanders brought in the Settlers and the Raiders as rival factions to befriend, and reviews of the game grew warmer once it arrived.

Which Fallout TV series actor voices the Ghoul, a bounty hunter in Fallout 76's Burning Springs?

Walton Goggins returns as the Ghoul, who now runs a bounty business from a saloon called the Last Resort and contracts the work out to other hunters.

Fallout 76's nuke-launching quest I Am Become Death borrows words made famous by which physicist?

Robert Oppenheimer recalled the phrase, which comes from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, after watching the world's first nuclear test.

Which soft drink does Fallout 76's Overseer use to hand out a mass-produced Scorched Plague vaccine?

Nuka-Cola carried the vaccine because it was mass-produced at a disused bottling plant, though the faction leaders first had to be convinced the threat was real.

What do Vault 76's residents in Fallout 76 call the morning they leave to resettle Appalachia?

Reclamation Day follows a countdown party the night before, where the vault opens its last liquor rations and official Vault-Tec party hats.

What kind of entity is MODUS, which runs the Enclave bunker beneath Fallout 76's Whitespring Resort?

An artificial intelligence, MODUS kept the bunker running after its human Enclave tore itself apart, and now recruits Vault 76's dwellers as new members.

On Fallout 76's Enclave entrance questionnaire, which answer is correct for the 18th US president?

Ulysses S. Grant is the answer the terminal marks correct, though the score is only for show: MODUS remarks on it, and no result can keep a player out of the bunker.

Fallout 76's Enclave questionnaire asks which fork is the only one placed to the right of the plate?

Oyster forks alone sit to the right in a formal setting, a point of manners the terminal files under knowledge alongside its history questions.

Which officer, per Fallout 76's Enclave questionnaire, retook Anchorage, Alaska, from China?

Constantine Chase commanded the campaign to retake Alaska, which players of Fallout 3 can refight as a military simulation in the Operation: Anchorage add-on.

Which Enclave rank do ten commendations earn in Fallout 76, unlocking the nuclear command center?

General is the rank, and it comes with a seat on the Joint Chiefs; commendations come from killing Scorchbeasts or legendary enemies and finishing Enclave events.

Thomas Eckhart, self-declared president of Fallout 76's Enclave, had held which pre-war cabinet post?

Secretary of Agriculture Eckhart took charge after more senior officials died, then unleashed man-made monsters to trip the threat threshold of the automated missile silos.

In Fallout 76, MODUS wants its link restored to Kovac-Muldoon, which is what kind of installation?

An orbital satellite, Kovac-Muldoon gave the bunker an eye over Appalachia until the link was wrecked; players reconnect it from a signals base at Sugar Grove.

The trail to the Enclave in Fallout 76's Bunker Buster runs through a cave guarded by which creatures?

Deathclaws guard the cave at the Abandoned Waste Dump, and a holotape hidden in one of their nests opens the elevator to a dead senator's bunker.

At which Army base do Fallout 76 players complete the Back to Basic course demanded by MODUS?

Camp McClintock is run by a robot Master Sergeant, who refuses to start the course until recruits turn up in military fatigues and an Army helmet.

Which Fallout 76 mutation boosts jump height and carry weight but dulls a character's wits?

Marsupial comes from a serum whose first trial runs, by the Enclave's own records, caused serious internal injuries before the formula was refined.

Which ore from beneath Fallout 76's Appalachia grows as crystals in the skin of the Scorched?

Ultracite crystals break through the skin of the infected, and victims who stop moving eventually petrify into radioactive statues of the stuff.

Which Scorchbeast nest must Fallout 76 players nuke to draw out the plague's queen?

Fissure Site Prime hides a laboratory at its heart, a clue that the Scorchbeasts were made rather than born; killing the queen there breaks their hive mind.

Which Fallout 76 faction of survivalists in the Mire built the Scorched Detection System?

The Free States lost Harpers Ferry to the Scorchbeasts in 2086 and answered with detectors and lures to track the creatures' movements.

What can the Scorched, Fallout 76's plague victims, do that ordinary feral ghouls cannot?

The Scorched use firearms because Fallout 76 launched without human characters, so Bethesda designed infected enemies that kept enough of their minds to shoot back.

Which Brotherhood of Steel member sets a pop quiz in Fallout 76's quest Mother of Invention?

Scribe Valdez grades the answers: each correct one counts towards the letter of recommendation she writes, and good standing with her brings extra rewards.

In the Mother of Invention pop quiz in Fallout 76, which status is the correct answer for ATLAS's ion focus?

Misaligned is the answer wanted; the same diagnostics terminal lists a defunct core processor and a flux disruption in the induction loop.

In Fallout 76's Mother of Invention, what does the diagnostics terminal say of ATLAS's intake valves?

Ruptured is the terminal's reading, and the inspection is no safer than it sounds: turning the release valve sets off an explosion.

Fallout 76's ATLAS Observatory posed as an astronomy lab but was really a military project to do what?

Built to control the weather, the prototype could whip up near-whiteout blizzards in mid-August, and its director hoped to sabotage enemies by manipulating their skies.

Which Brotherhood of Steel elder sent Paladin Rahmani's expedition east to Fallout 76's Appalachia?

Roger Maxson's expedition crossed some two thousand miles of wasteland, and only three of its original members arrived to set up a base at Fort Atlas.

In Fallout 76's Mother of Invention, swapping a component for a sack of dirt nods to which film hero?

Indiana Jones swaps a golden idol for a bag of sand in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the quest offers the same trick with a heavy sack of dirt.

Which Fallout 76 faction, wiped out before Vault 76 opened, later regrouped at the Whitespring Resort?

The Responders began as emergency workers who banded together after the bombs, and their return brought a working Vertibird for trips beyond Appalachia.

Agents of which agency are found trapped in Fallout 76's Vault 79, still guarding America's gold?

Secret Service agents were sealed in with the bullion, and the vault's number is a clue to its cargo: 79 is the atomic number of gold.

Which fortified Fallout 76 town did Paige's Settlers build around a tourist lookout at Spruce Knob?

Foundation is home to Settlers who followed Paige south from Pittsburgh, and its timber comes from the town's own sawmill.

Rose, the self-styled raider boss at the Top of the World in Fallout 76, turns out to be what?

A Miss Nanny robot, Rose was rebuilt to talk and act like a dead raider, the lover of the gang leader who modified her, complete with a scrap-metal mohawk.

What kind of creature is Grahm, the Fallout 76 merchant who wanders with a brahmin called Chally?

A super mutant with a taste for fair trade, Grahm also hosts the Meat Week cookouts, where players bring him fresh meat for the grill.

Which festival from the real Swiss-settled town of Helvetia does Fallout 76 stage as a robot parade?

Fasnacht in the game has players escort five Protectron marchers through Helvetia for a chance at a festive mask; the real town has held its public celebration since the 1960s.

Which city do raiders drown in Fallout 76's lore by blowing up a dam on Christmas morning?

Charleston was flooded when a raider leader rigged stolen mini nukes to the dam, an attack so brutal that some of his own gang deserted him.

Which Fallout 76 town was built before the war as a fully automated showcase city run by robots?

Watoga rose where an old ghost town had stood, with a mining company paying the bills and machines handling all the municipal work.

What is the first rank a Fallout 76 player earns in the Pioneer Scouts, ahead of Possum?

Tadpole is where every Pioneer Scout starts; moving up means showing kindness, helpfulness and bravery and earning three merit badges.

Which Fallout 76 cryptid was impersonated by a rogue Assaultron built to hunt the real creature?

Sheepsquatch hunter Calvin van Lowe built the machine, codenamed Mary's Little Lamb, only for it to maim him and escape.

What do Fallout 76 players slot under their S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats to gain upgrades such as Rifleman?

Perk cards can be swapped or removed at any time, and the points in each attribute set how many cards a character can equip under it.

How does V.A.T.S. targeting in Fallout 76 differ from the version in earlier Fallout games?

It runs in real time, with no pause or slow motion while a target is picked, though it still shows the percentage chance of landing each shot.

Which feature can Fallout 76 players use only through the paid Fallout 1st membership?

Private servers hold a subscriber and up to seven invited friends, and their launch stung because players had asked for them before the game came out.

Which Fallout 76 currency, earned from challenges or bought with real money, pays for cosmetic items?

Atoms can be earned through in-game challenges such as crafting armor or leveling up, as well as bought, and are spent on outfits and emotes.

What kind of game mode was Nuclear Winter, which Fallout 76 added in 2019 and switched off in 2021?

Battle royale matches pitted up to 52 players against one another inside a closing ring of fire, the winners earning the title of overseer of Vault 51.

Fallout 76's engine was adapted for multiplayer with netcode from which classic shooter series?

Quake code was the fix because the engine, parts of which dated back to Morrowind in 2002, had only ever powered single-player games.

Which Bethesda producer unveiled Fallout 76 at E3 2018 and later conceded that its critics had a point?

Todd Howard said Bethesda had expected a bumpy launch, and wished the studio had run a beta months earlier to gather feedback.

Which spirit, sold as an $80 Fallout 76 tie-in, drew complaints for its plastic-shelled bottle?

Rum was the drink: buyers expected a rocket-shaped glass bottle like the one in the game, and instead got a standard bottle inside a plastic casing.

Among Fallout 76's controversies, collectible helmets sold by GameStop were recalled for what hazard?

Mold was found at high levels in the helmets, though only 32 of the 20,000 made had been sold and no injuries were reported.

Which New Jersey resort did a Fallout 76 Expedition add, home to the Showmen and the Lombardi Family?

Atlantic City is reached by Vertibird, and its story sends players after the blood of the Jersey Devil to help the daughter of the Russo family through withdrawal.