Official mod support for the space RPG arrives sometime this year, but the game's modding community is already quite active.
Only 28 percent of recent user reviews for Bethesda's space-faring RPG are positive, with its overall reviews dropping to "Mixed."
The upcoming third-person action-adventure title could arrive six years after Arkane Lyon's Deathloop, launched in 2021.
The supernatural action-adventure game from Tango Gameworks is available free on the storefront until December 25th, 8 AM PST.
Fallout 76's map expansion will bring the wooded heartland of Shenandoah into its world, along with a new questline, factions, and rewards.
The lifetime player count for Bethesda's online RPG was confirmed to be at 15 million players in June.
The "major expansion" will contain new story content, locations, gear, and more, with additional details coming next year.
Also, starting early next year, Bethesda's sci-fi RPG will receive an exporter, and players can access a new Creation Kit for mods.
Various stats also revealed, including over 22 million days of playtime, an average of 40 hours per player, and nearly 2 billion planets visited.
The reviled executive will finally step down after 32 years, with Activision Blizzard leadership reporting to Microsoft's Matt Booty instead.
Obsidian co-founder Chris Avellone says one of the pitched projects was meant to be a smaller spinoff similar to Fallout: New Vegas.
The third-person action-adventure title is in development at Deathloop and Dishonored studio Arkane Lyon.
It adds Performance and Quality modes to the game on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 while serving as a free upgrade for previous-gen owners.
The LinkedIn profile of the game's campaign director suggests it entered development nearly two years ago.
Bethesda Game Studios is also working on adding city maps, mod support, FSR3 and XeSS support, and several other fixes.
"Xbox still being one of the bigger marketplaces for games, we didn't feel like we were going to be overly exclusionary," says Disney's head of gaming, Sean Shoptaw.
It will likely be a while before we see more of Arkane Lyon's single player action-adventure title.
Announced at The Game Awards 2023, Arkane Lyon's next title is a third-person action-adventure based on Marvel's legendary vampire hunter.
Marvel's Blade is a mature, single player, action-adventure game developed by the team behind Dishonored 2 and Deathloop.
The update seems to indicate that Bethesda might give paid mods another shot with the new Creations menu in Skyrim.
