Fallout 76 Beta Bug asks for more

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The beta testers at Fallout 76 encountered problems this afternoon when the B.E.T.A test countdown timer expired two hours earlier. The Bethesda launcher was to be launched at 4 pm Pacific, but PC Gamer reported that the launch had been brought down to 14 hours. instead, causing several problems for those trying to play. A partial failure of the system has wreaked havoc on the BethesdaNet forums and forced many players to re-download Fallout 76's 48GB beta code shortly before the last test went live.

According to PC Gamer, the article's author, Chris Livingston, noticed that the timer would expire two hours earlier and attempted to contact Bethesda on Twitter. "I was sitting here today watching Bethesda launcher's Fallout 76 beta timer, knowing that it would expire two hours earlier and ask me why. All that Bethesda published indicated that the beta version of PC would start at 4 pm Pacific time, but that the stopwatch was two hours early, and that it was clicked on, it indicated a departure at 2 pm I even kindly tried (not so usefully) to try to report this to Bethesda on Twitter. "

After the delay, the caster told Livingston that his copy of Fallout 76 was being unlocked and displayed a "preloaded" button that he had clicked on. However, after clicking the preload button, he tried to download the preload again. Livingston then tried to reload the launcher, which then caused the appearance of an error message when he tried to reconnect. After finally having access to his account, his game library was completely empty.

Bethesda addressed the problem on Twitter stating that she was aware of the problem with the client and that she was investigating. In the meantime, they urged users to "click no button on the client at this time."

This quickly became a problem for many beta users who either did not notice Bethesda's warning, or ignored it completely, and eventually lost all of their preloading and were forced to download it. new.

An update later in the evening said that if someone is actively downloading the beta or has a "visible progress bar", he must allow the download.

Although several irritated players were forced to download the game again by almost 50 GB, many were understanding and thankful for the beta despite everything, as it gave Bethesda the opportunity to grasp the problem before the official launch. November 14th.

Beta sessions are also scheduled for November 1st and 3rd and November 4th.