Ahead of Amazon’s launch of “Fallout” Season 2 this December, the makers of the video game franchise that inspired the Prime Video drama have unveiled plans to incorporate Walton Goggins‘ The Ghoul character and other aspects of the TV series into the ongoing “Fallout 76” video game.
The upcoming downloadable content (DLC) for the game is titled “Burning Springs,” and it was designed by Microsoft’s Bethesda Game Studios in partnership with the creative team behind Amazon’s “Fallout” adaptation. The game maker touts the update, which is “Fallout 76’s” 64th major DLC offering, as its most expansive addition to date.
Per publisher Bethesda Softworks’ description for the new update, “‘Fallout 76: Burning Springs’ takes players to a new region in its largest update since 2020. In this free update for all ‘Fallout 76’ players, explore post-nuclear Ohio, meet new characters and factions, and take on all-new Bounty Hunting missions hosted by Walton Goggins as The Ghoul, featured from Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ television series.”
An official release date has not yet been set for the “Burning Springs” update, but Microsoft confirms it will debut in December, with “Fallout” Season 2 set to premiere Dec. 17 on Amazon’s Prime Video. Bethesda Game Studios is set to reveal additional details about the update during its “Fallout Day” presentation Oct. 23.
For uninitiated players, “Fallout 76” is the “Fallout” video game set the furthest back in time for the franchise. That puts the game’s storyline well before the events in Amazon’s “Fallout” Season 1 and its upcoming Season 2, so the most natural way to incorporate aspects from the show into “Fallout 76” was to include a character that has been around in this post-apocalyptic wasteland for quite a while: The Ghoul. The character will now be implemented for the PTS on Oct. 2, featuring Goggins’ likeness and voice.
Voiced by “Fallout” TV series star Goggins himself, The Ghoul will introduce bounty hunting to the game in the “Burning Springs” update: “Players can interact with this iconic character, who hosts bounty missions that can be found all throughout Burning Springs. New bounties will always be rolling in, so players should check with The Ghoul often to pick up the latest bounties – and their rewards upon completion, of course. While not available as a playable character or companion, players can encounter The Ghoul at ‘The Last Resort’ in Highway Town and see which of the many wanted folk in Burning Springs will be the next target.”
“I think the biggest thing across the show and with the games, in general, is the stories, the characters, the dialogue all very much match,” “Fallout 76” lead producer Bill LaCoste said. “In terms of the stories we’re trying to tell, the characters we’re developing, people who watch the show but had never played the game we’re asking, how is that representative of the game? Like, are people in The Vault acting like that? I was like, ‘No, that’s real. That’s how they are in the game; they’re a little bit follow-the-leader type sheep. And then people in the wasteland, the Raiders, are exactly like that. It’s a great benefit to us to take a look at what they did in the show — the toasters, cabinets, shelves, everything is like, that’s what is in the game. So people coming in from the show will notice that there’s a lot of similarities, and for good reason.”
When Variety spoke with the “Fallout 76” team back in July during Summer Game Fest, the developers were already hinting at an upcoming tie-in with the Amazon show — and the game makers say there still could be more to come after “Burning Springs.”
“The good part about working at BGS is how full of creative folks it is,” Bethesda Game Studios’ “Fallout 76” creative director Jon Rush told Variety. “So there are a lot of possible pathways we have forward for future features, or for expanding on existing features, that could have light tie ins to the show, or very direct tie ins to the show.”
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