Highlights
- Fallout 76's upcoming updates include a new location called Organ Cave, which is causing frustration for players who have built their CAMPs near it.
- The proximity of the popular junkyard CAMP site to Organ Cave means that parts of the junkyard will become non-buildable, forcing players to move their camps and rebuild.
- Bethesda is facing a dilemma when adding new locations to the game, as it limits the available spots for players to build CAMPs while adding value to the map. The situation surrounding Organ Cave is an unfortunate predicament for affected players.
Fallout 76 has received a massive amount of updates, ranging from balancing patches and quality-of-life improvements to new story content and locations. While many players are happy to jump into the new story content and expeditions from the upcoming Atlantic City updates, one particular feature of the new updates highlights a growing problem for Fallout 76.
In the upcoming Atlantic City updates for Fallout 76, the game will be reinventing parts of the new-player experience in addition to bringing new content to the game. During the period of Fallout 76’s Public Test Server where players could playtest a sample of the first Atlantic City update, players discovered a new location coming to the game, named the Organ Cave. While this location will offer new players a chance to become familiar with one of Fallout 76’s many factions, players who previously built CAMPs near this location will consequently have to move them. Considering how popular this location is as a CAMP site in Fallout 76, many fans are frustrated about the upcoming changes to this particular location.
Fallout 76’s Map Updates Are Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When it arrives in the Atlantic City updates, Organ Cave will be located just West of Vault 76 where players begin the game. Immediately outside of Organ Cave is an abandoned junkyard that is currently an unmarked location with unique features that players can incorporate into their CAMP when building here. Specifically, the junkyard includes existing structures that players can build onto as well as piles of wood and junk resources where players can place harvesting machines. Additionally, because this location is extremely close to the game's starting area, it’s a hotspot for driving traffic to player vending machines in Fallout 76. These are some of the main factors that players consider when selecting a spot to build a CAMP, so this junkyard is an extremely popular CAMP site.
The junkyard that players use as a CAMP site in Fallout 76 and the new Organ Cave location are actually two separate locations, but their proximity to each other means that parts of the junkyard will be considered a non-buildable location. Players will still be able to build in the old junkyard near Organ Cave, but anyone who currently has a CAMP site here will likely be forced to move their camp, which means rebuilding it. This isn’t the first time that players have faced this problem, but this location’s popularity makes it a much more delicate situation than the previous times this topic has arisen in Fallout 76.
This predicament puts Bethesda in a tricky situation when deciding to add new locations to Fallout 76’s Appalachian wasteland. Introducing new locations to the game is ultimately a slippery slope where as a result, players have fewer and fewer locations to build CAMPs, while at the same time, adding new points of interest generally brings more value to the map. For any players affected by the new Organ Cave location overhaul, it’s truly an unfortunate situation.
It’s worth mentioning though that this controversy has come from the Public Test Server for Fallout 76 and not the full release of the upcoming Atlantic City updates, which means that the content that players experienced may not be what ends up in the final release. However, the level of detail present in the new Organ Cave location indicates that this location will likely still arrive in the update despite players’ feedback and reactions so far. Instead, it’s more likely that the building restrictions around Organ Cave might be adjusted so as to not affect players who build their CAMPs in the nearby junkyard. Ultimately though, players will have to wait until the updates arrive to see if their CAMP is impacted by some of the new locations being introduced.
Fallout 76 is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
