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Todd Howard to Fallout 76 fans: "Impressed you're still here"

Todd Howard had a few things to say about the last year at Bethesda Games Studio, and it has fans reacting to his snark.

Asif Khan

June 9, 2019 8:30 PM

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The Bethesda E3 2019 Showcase is wrapped up, but some fans are talking about Todd Howard's brief appearance on stage. "We have had an incredibly exciting year at Bethesda Games Studios. Given some of that excitement, impressed you're still here." This was clearly directed to Fallout fans who did not have the best reception to Fallout 76's release last year. Please take a look.

Howard had already let Bethesda fans know that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 would be skipping E3 2019. Bethesda Games Studios did have a whole gang of announcements for TESL fans, though as the company revealed The Elder Scrolls Online Dragonhold expansion. The fourth chapter of the Season of the Dragon brings fire-breathing dragons and all that good stuff. That wasn't all for TESL fans as the mobile game Blades is heading to Nintendo Switch this fall. Fallout 76 players did get some news in the form of a new Wastelanders DLC and a Nuclear Winter battle royale mode coming later this year. 

Howard boasted that Bethesda Games Studios has over 60 million players across their intellectual properties, which is a company record. He went on to say that Fallout 76 had a lot of difficulties at launch and "we got a lot of very well-deserved criticism." He continued, "We made a post-apocaltypic survival game where you can do whatever you want and everybody's nice to each other. They don't go on killing/griefing sprees. They leave food and water for the newbies and wave to each other. I don't know about you, this should give us all hope for humanity when the apocalypse does come."

Seems like old Todd has been able to look on the bright side of things surrounding Fallout 76 development, as he praised his community of players. He is clearly "impressed" by the loyalty of Fallout fans, even if some of them aren't super jazzed about how Fallout 76 turned out.

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