Highlights
- Fallout 76 is introducing playable ghouls to the game in 2025, along with new areas and weapons in the Skyline Valley expansion.
- The new Skyline Valley expansion brings players to Vault 63, hinting at a disturbing storyline centered around ghouls in Appalachia.
- While players have to wait until next year to become Ghouls, Skyline Valley is releasing in just a few days on June 12, 2024.
Bethesda has announced that Fallout 76 players will be able to explore Appalachia as ghouls in 2025, while also detailing the game’s upcoming Skyline Valley expansion. The Skyline Valley trailer for Fallout 76, which aired during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, promises fans a slew of brand-new content, including new areas to explore, fresh events, additional weapons, and more.
Released in 2018, Fallout 76 is the first multiplayer game in the Fallout franchise, as well as the first of the Fallout franchise to feature online gameplay. Fallout 76 players emerge from Vault 76 into the devastation of a post-nuclear-war West Virginia. They must explore what’s left of the world around them, gathering resources and building bases while piecing together the history of the area and the stories around its inevitable collapse.
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Now is The Perfect Time to Start Playing Fallout 76
It’s been almost six years since Fallout 76 first launched, and it’s finally become the Fallout experience that fans always wanted it to be.
In a trailer aired as part of the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, Bethesda announced that Fallout 76 players will be able to travel through post-apocalyptic West Virginia as ghouls beginning in early 2025. Much sooner than that, however, is the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley expansion, coming to players on June 12, 2024. Considered to be the first major expansion to the Appalachian map of Fallout 76, the trailer introduces fans to the new area of Skyline Valley and its mysterious Vault 63. This information, delivered in the Fallout franchise’s typical retro style, makes Vault 63 sound particularly ominous.
Fallout 76 Will Finally Let You Play as a Ghoul
While not much is known about Vault 63, the gameplay footage from the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley trailer focuses heavily on ghouls, perhaps hinting at the possibility that the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley expansion centers around an entire group of vault dwellers who met this unfortunate, irradiated fate. In the Skyline Valley expansion, players will be able to travel further south into Appalachia than they have previously been able to, including venturing into Shenandoah National Park, all in search of the location of Vault 63.
Due to the popularity of the Fallout Amazon Prime Video series and fan-favorite character The Ghoul, as played by Walton Goggins, it’s no surprise that Bethesda wants to further capitalize on the show’s success. The Fallout Amazon Prime Video series has led many new fans who were unfamiliar with the video games to seek out further apocalyptic content in Fallout 76 and the franchise’s other games. With The Ghoul being a particularly popular character, this upcoming addition is well-timed. Whether future Fallout games continue to let gamers control Ghouls remains to be seen, but given how long gamers have requested this feature, it is easy to imagine it proving popular once it is added to Fallout 76.
Players can start exploring the new locations and features available in the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley expansion upon its release on June 12, 2024. Fallout 76 fans looking to channel their inner ghoul will have to wait until early 2025.