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So far, Fallout 76's content updates and story additions have been free. Over in The Elder Scrolls Online, ZeniMax Online now roll out new explorable zones at a yearly pace, sold as expansions. As they're just now narrowing in on a setting for an Expedition, Gardiner says it's 'a ways out' but that they're hoping to fit it in next year. They'd originally been planned for late this year but were an early victim of Covid-19 delays. Gardiner cautions that Expeditions, a feature that Bethesda have yet to explain in detail, aren't coming soon. 'We know that those are some of our most successful expansions for our previous games and we want to be able to bring that experience to Fallout 76 for certain,' he says. He likens it to other Fallout expansions like Far Harbor in which you interact with a vehicle and head to an entirely separate map. So is this potentially entirely new, open world areas? Yes, Gardiner says, that's what they're hoping. 'We are looking at Expeditions to be a way to maybe do something off map. So we are looking at those to be the ways for people to experience different areas of the Fallout universe.'

'To be honest with you, we've saturated it pretty well now with Wastelanders and Brotherhood Of Steel,' Gardiner says. Will Fallout 76's map continue to change over time? Steel Dawn has added another dedicated to the Brotherhood Of Steel.

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Fallout 76 already made significant changes to its overworld in the Wastelanders update by adding two huge cities for the Settler and Raider factions. Given Schneider's mention of new places to explore, I ask about planned map changes. Last year brought raids to the game, and recent months have added daily dungeons, a season pass, and a public grouping system. While bolstering its RPG credentials, Fallout 76 has become more like an MMO as well. 'What kind of places are there for you to explore and what stories are there to tell about the Wasteland?' 'For me, it's less a question of systems and more of, who are the people that you meet and what kinds of decisions can you make as a player,' she says. For Gardiner, it's even more faction-based gameplay.

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I'm thinking of the other singleplayer Bethesda series gone multiplayer, The Elder Scrolls Online, which added a justice system and a number of other Elder Scrolls conventions after launch. On that note, I asked both Gardiner and Schneider if there are Fallout series staples that they still want to see arrive in 76. 'That's my number one goal, personally, is to make sure that the people who want to have a really great Fallout experience can come to Fallout 76 and get it - and I'd like to say we're starting to succeed at that.' 'I just want to make sure that the people who love Bethesda games and love Fallout are getting the best experience out of this game,' says Gardiner, who's worked on the series since Fallout 3. 'We've made efforts to make more community friendly - to increase the ways and means and rewards for playing with other people-but to still serve our core fans, which are singleplayer gamers,' he says. Fallout 76's journey to become less focused on PvP survival and more of an RPG is a trajectory that anyone who's played the game will likely recognise, and Gardiner seems sure the journey will continue.

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