Bethesda does not want to call "Fallout 76" a survival game

Just because "Fallout 76" is an element of survival, it's far from a survival game – says Todd Howard.
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At E3 2018, Bethesda still called his "Fallout 76" a game of "softcore survival". However, game director Todd Howard does not want to love the multiplayer game more like a survival game: the comparison with this genre is not justified.

In the "Fallout" series swaying in one because of the post-apocalyptic setting, nuclear wasteland automatically using some survival elements. Until now, however, games have never been full survival games in the sense of "DayZ" or "Rust". When "Fallout 76" was announced, it initially seemed like the series was now going completely in the kind of survival. Todd Howard of Bethesda has now corrected some things against The Guardian

The word "survival" is shunned by developers

In the interview, Howard points out that developers avoid the word "survival" themselves, as with the players Create badociations to games like "DayZ" or "Rust". But these comparisons are inaccurate and do not reflect what they are working on. "Fallout 76" is a reminder of the survival modes that are playable in "Fallout 4". He plays himself the game designed as an online game, mostly alone. Bethesda appreciates this experience as much as the fans.

The ghosts I called …

Compared to the survival genre, Howard had "Fallout 76" at E3 2018 as the announced "Softcore Survival". By saying that the fans would pay so much attention to this statement, he probably did not expect it. Howard's comment that he plays mostly "Fallout 76" alone is a glimmer of hope for fans who believe the game will be in absolute chaos because of the online feature.