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If you've pre-ordered Fallout 76, then you'll be able to partake in Bethesda's "break-it early test application", aka the B.E.T.A. for the game. Xbox One users will receive access on October 23, while PC and PlayStation 4 players will get it a week later on October 30. There will be limited windows of time that the beta is playable; only in increments of four to eight hours at a time. This is done in order to force as many people as possible to be online in a short timeframe to test the servers to their limit. An opening cutscene movie for the game was also uploaded, which you can check out in the linked video above. Fallout 76 launches on November 14, for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.

The B.E.T.A. will include the full game, and all progress made will carry over into the full release in the following month. Despite PlayStation having finally accepted cross-play for third party games, such as Fortnite, developers at Bethesda have stated that cross-play will not be a feature in Fallout 76, and there are no current plans to implement it in the future.

On any given day the game might be up for anywhere between four to eight hours. Focusing as many players as we can into these windows is our prime objective. Then we’ll fix what we need to fix and do it again and again from the start of B.E.T.A. until a few days before launch. We’ll give you as much heads up as possible because we need you to log in during these times and play the game. We’ll also keep you posted through our official @Fallout and @bethesdastudios on Twitter as well as the Bethesda.net forums and our Bethesda.net Status Page to learn when servers will be online.

 

[Deleted User]

Despite PlayStation having finally accepted cross-play for third party games, such as Fortnite, developers at Bethesda have stated that cross-play will not be a feature in Fallout 76, and there are no current plans to implement it in the future.

This displeases me greatly.

 

[APartOfMe]

Rip crossplay... Again

 

[Kioku]

This displeases me greatly.

Me too. It's something that should be a standard feature in online gaming. :/

 

[Owenge]

Sony just said they would be okay with it.... now this

 

[OkazakiTheOtaku]

Disappointing. It's in Bethesda's court now, though. So hopefully they will implement it in future titles.
At least they can stop complaining about that Elder Scrolls spinoff on PS4.

 

[Dubbicakes]

I'm not seeing the big deal about crossplay, it just complicates games and in some cases gives other players unfair advantages like controls or performance.
Example, Fallout gun play is awful and stiff on consoles, PC players would rule the servers if Bethesda allowed it.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

"haha its sony's fault"
>sony allows crossplay
"..."

 

[SuperNintendho]

Wasn't it Pete Hines that said Fallout 76 will not have crossplay because Sony is "not as helpful as everyone would like"?
Sony has revised their draconian stance and yet according to Bethesda it's not going to happen anyway. Seems a little disingenuous.

 

[BiggieCheese]

Not surprised, to be honest. Sony took their sweet time to start allowing crossplay and by the time they finally did Bethesda likely already had their servers set up with individual platforms in mind. The lack of crossplay between Xbone and PC is a little odd though, i’m guessing that they either had no intent to do console-to-PC crossplay or they just wanted to go for an all or nothing approach that was probably heavily benched on the PS4’s presence.
Could also be possible that they ran into development difficulties (this is bethesda we’re talking about after all, they’ve never been able to program anything particularly well) so any plans for crossplay support were scrapped.
It’s either one of those scenarios, or their statement on crossplay wasn’t made with Fallout 76 in mind, and they only said it to get some easy “good guy” points AKA positive PR.

 

[jt_1258]

Maybe they had the statement about no crossplay in place before Sony made there anouncment meaning they wrote with the assumption sony would never budge

 

[the_randomizer]

*Whew* good thing I had no interest in the game.

 

[Pluupy]

Wasn't it Pete Hines that said Fallout 76 will not have crossplay because Sony is "not as helpful as everyone would like"?
Sony has revised their draconian stance and yet according to Bethesda it's not going to happen anyway. Seems a little disingenuous.

You mean Sony has JUST revised their stuff. It's not like Bethesda is savvy to the then behind-the-scenes decisions of Sony.

 

[PrincessLillie]

developers at Bethesda have stated that cross-play will not be a feature in Fallout 76

Yikes. That's a bit concerning.

 

[blahblah]

The cross play thing is a Fortnite only exception for the moment.

 

[chartube12]

The cross play thing is a Fortnite only exception for the moment.

But Bethesda was one of the companies theatening to pull out of the Sony ecosystem of Sony didn’t they didn’t allow cross play. Hmmm probably other reasons why fallout 76 won’t have cross play. Like for example online in fallout is supposed to be a very limited number of people in each instance. So cross play wouldn’t make sense then....at least not until private instances get added

 

[supergamer368]

That’s kinda dumb. I might have picked this game up and played with my friend (he’s getting it on Xbone, I would’ve had PC) but if we can’t even play together I’m not interested anymore. Ah well. Not a big fan of online only games anyway.

 

[Hells Malice]

I can understand no crossplay between xbone and PC due to the whole Mouse vs controller thing.

Though really given Bethesda absolutely does not want you ever interacting with anyone online, it doesn't really matter either way so it is a bit silly.

 

[Xzi]

I can understand no crossplay between xbone and PC due to the whole Mouse vs controller thing.

Though really given Bethesda absolutely does not want you ever interacting with anyone online, it doesn't really matter either way so it is a bit silly.

Yeah it's definitely mouse vs controller thing. Unless you include a sloppy approximate aiming system like Fortnite, crossplay in shooters isn't really doable for PC. A lot of other genres, sure, the advantage isn't necessarily as big.

 

[blahblah]

But Bethesda was one of the companies theatening to pull out of the Sony ecosystem of Sony didn’t they didn’t allow cross play. Hmmm probably other reasons why fallout 76 won’t have cross play. Like for example online in fallout is supposed to be a very limited number of people in each instance. So cross play wouldn’t make sense then....at least not until private instances get added

Grow up. No publisher was going to drop a major console on account of cross play policies.