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Why Some Fans Don’t Consider Fallout 76 To Be Canon
Fallout 76 can be said to be one of least popular Fallout titles among the community. Even for Bethesda, Fallout 76 was a significant departure from Fallout 3, Fallout 4 and even Fallout: New Vegas, and its unpopularity can be chalked up to several reasons: its lack of an overarching narrative, its sheer bugginess at launch, frequent disconnections, and that some features—such as additional inventory space—were locked behind an additional paywall on top of an already steep price point. More than that, however, is that many Fallout fanatics felt that many elements of its tale were retconning existing stories to explain the gaps in the series’ lore. The fact that Fallout 76 is the series’ first game in terms of in-universe chronology means that it has to accommodate existing lore even more than ever, since it may very well set a precedent for future Fallout titles.