Fallout 76 Launches Season 12 With Mutant Invasion Update

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Fallout 76 has just begun its 12th season, which is themed around cryptids and features a variety of rewards along with some changes to the seasonal challenges that should make earning those rewards a much smoother process. Additionally, Fallout 76 has pushed a new update that touches on many aspects of the game, with changes ranging from new accessibility settings to bug fixes, performance improvements, and balance adjustments.

Bethesda's first attempt at a multiplayer game in the beloved Fallout universe had an extremely rough start, with the effort widely panned by gamers and critics alike due to a world that seemed to be more populated by bugs and glitches than with meaningful content. In the years since the game's 2018 release, Bethesda has continually updated the game in response to feedback and has been remarkably successful in its efforts to win back the game's reputation. As a result, Fallout 76 is now Mostly Positive on Steam after spending a year and a half in the dreaded Mostly Negative and Mixed rating brackets.

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As a live-service multiplayer game, Fallout 76 uses a seasonal system to drive player engagement by offering limited-time rewards earnable by completing in-game challenges each day. Season 12 is out now, entitled Rip Daring and the Cryptid Hunt, and it's centered around the game's unusual cryptid creatures and Rip Daring's safari-like hunt. Season 12's rewards are mostly cryptozoological in their theme, with mothman sculpture lamps, a hunter's lodge C.A.M.P., and mountable taxidermied cryptid creatures. There are plenty of functional rewards as well such as Rip Daring's Jetpack, the Cold Shoulder shotgun, and the Daring Heavy Cryo Turret. Season 12 will run from