There’s a whole month of Fallout-related happenings planned
Believe it or not, this month marks 25 years sinceFalloutbrought its take on post-apocalyptic survival role-playing to PC. Bethesda are makingFallout 76free to play for a week, starting today, to mark the occasion. There’s a bunch of other things happening during the rest of October to celebrate the Wasteland too, ranging from events in Fallout 76 to long overdue updates toFallout Shelter.
Fallout 76’s free to play week includes the recentExpeditions updateheading back toFallout 3’s The Pitt. If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber then you can pick up Fallout 76 for free all this month by claiming a codehere. There’s also a return for the seasonal Invaders From Beyond alien invasion event, which runs from today until October 18th. Later in the month, you can dress up as a pumpkin or some kind of skeletal person for the Spooky Scorched in-game event, running from October 25th to November 8th.
It wouldn’t be Fallout without having to take some kind of weird personality test, so Bethesda have come up with a new one. The Post-Apocalyptic Loyalty Simulator, or P.A.L.S. for short, is pretty much the Atom Punk equivalent of Hogwarts’ sorting hat, sifting you into whichever one of Fallout’s many factions your responses seem to indicate you belong to. You can have a gohere. I ended up with the Enlightened, Fallout 76’s worshippers of the Wise Mothman.
Fallout 76’s free to play week runs from today through to October 11th. Bethesda have set up an anniversary site for Fallout’s 25th, which you can check outhere.
