The big question is not just how fun Fallout Worlds is to the average player, but how helpful it is to the people who have kept the game alive. So as I tested the new features out the past week or so, I sifted through countless online discussions between builders, roleplayers and PVPers, and spoke to key figures in the Fallout 76 community to see how the new content will affect how they play and create content within the game. Gauging the usefulness of such an expansive feature in a multiplayer game is not unlike a game beta: to establish a consensus, you have to reach a lot of people. Between these five servers, along with Custom World (where players can tweak the worldвЂ™s settings to their liking), players can somewhat fill the void left by the loss of Nuclear Winter and Survival Modes, while enjoying features that would otherwise disrupt Adventure Mode, like permissive building rules. Public Worlds brings five new rotating servers to the game: Happy Builder, a building-friendly mode that reduces CAMP placement restrictions and relaxes building restrictions High Risk, a PvP mode that rewards additional loot upon opponentsвЂ™ deaths and disables Legendary item attributes Dweller Must Die, which adds вЂњgreatly increased enemy difficulty, increased damage, increased equipment durability, and вЂDark BogвЂ™ weather effectsвЂќ Quantum World, a setting that plays on the gameвЂ™s mutated effects and ButcherвЂ™s Delight, which removes AP costs and adds infinite ammo and dismemberment effects. ItвЂ™s not new content, itвЂ™s reinvented content, like finding new ways to serve last weekвЂ™s leftovers. Between the two, thereвЂ™s a sense that Bethesda is forcing a laborious gameplay loop in lieu of creating new stories and experiences, and Fallout Worlds, which isolates certain rulesets in thematic public servers that rotate out frequently, is in that vein. Not only do players have to amass enormous amounts of scrapped materials to create CAMPs (which often act as open roleplay settings), they also have to navigate BethesdaвЂ™s build rules, which are far less permissive than that of its predecessor, Fallout 4.

The sandbox features that facilitate both offer a wide world of player expression, but their limitations can also be frustrating.

While the past few years have seen a slight uptick in new Fallout 76 content, for the most part, the gameвЂ™s post-release longevity can be attributed to its content communities, like roleplayers and build streamers. Now that Fallout Worlds is here, the big question is how the changes affect players on a practical level. Instead of Bethesda taking the risk of introducing permanent game modes, players would be able to tailor the ruleset until it suited them, all in a low-risk environment that doesnвЂ™t affect Adventure Mode world, stats, or progress. With the closing of Nuclear Winter mode and the still-missed Survival Mode, this feature was to be a remedy to the problem of canceled features. When I spoke to Jeff Gardiner and Mark Tucker back in June about the future of Fallout 76, they spoke of an upcoming feature that would let players customize the experience to their liking: Fallout Worlds.

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