A consistent stream of information from developers to the audience is often one of the most important aspects of keeping a live service title like Fallout 76 alive from season to season. So, a recent post in the Bethesda Discord of a possible AMA happening later this year is a welcome sight to fans looking to see how the developer will continue supporting Fallout 76 with development of new features and content.
This post comes from Senior Community Manager Nate Valenta, more commonly known to fans as Valseek both in the Bethesda Discord server as well as on the developer's forums. Valenta was specifically responding to a fan asking about the possibility of seeing an AMA, or Ask Me Anything, event with a roadmap for Fallout 76, similar to what the developer had hosted the last two years.
For the last two years of development, Bethesda has hosted these AMAs in order to best connect with the wants and needs of fans, while also using these as an opportunity to introduce roadmaps for future changes. From Valenta's response, however, it doesn't look like there is a roadmap prepared to inform players of what to expect in the way of changes to Fallout 76, or new content being primed for release. That being said, Valenta is still interested in doing an AMA later in the year without the addition of the roadmap that previous years have structured the events around.
This unfortunately doesn't give players much to go on in the way of any new updates to expect throughout 2022, aside from confirming that Bethesda is still actively working on development. Considering that Fallout 76 continues to struggle with players reporting bugs and controversy over the Fallout 1st subscription service, any amount of open dialogue is good news for fans. So, even without a roadmap an open AMA could help to boost morale among the community and keep players engaged for the time being.
Past AMAs conducted by Bethesda in regards to Fallout 76 have been overall successful, usually giving players a chance to both air their grievances as well as peek behind the scenes of development. That latter look at how a game like this gets made can especially go a long way to getting players to understand the timelines for updates, fixes, and expansions. Altogether, fans should be excited that Bethesda is still looking to make good on Fallout 76's potential and keep an open dialogue between both the developer and player communities.
Fallout 76 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
