Concernant le PvP, qui inquiète bon nombre d'internautes par rapport au harcèlement, Bethesda a pensé la chose en amont. Si nous croisons un joueur et l'attaquons, nous lui infligeons peu de dégâts, comme si nous le frappions avec un gant pour amorcer un duel. Il peut riposter et le combat s'ensuit. S'il ne réagit pas et que nous le tuons quand même, nous sommes considérés comme un criminel ; nous avons une prime sur notre tête qui viendra de notre propre trésor, et nous sommes marqués d'une étoile rouge sur la map des autres participants, tandis que pour notre part nous ne voyons personne sur la carte. De quoi nous y faire penser à deux fois ; notons aussi qu'on peut s'engager dans le PvP à partir du niveau 5, et qu'il est possible de bloquer un joueur en particulier
 
Au sujet de la construction de camps, nous pouvons faire un plan et garder en mémoire nos constructions pour les déplacer ailleurs ou bien les reconstruire si une bombe venait à tomber dessus.
 
Il y aura du tchat vocal parmi les membres de notre équipe, mais aussi à destination des joueurs étrangers.

Au sujet de la mort, les développeurs n'ont pas voulu la rendre trop amère, sans non plus en faire un non événement. Le juste milieu a été trouvé dans le fait de nous faire perdre au sol notre bazar, c'est-à-dire les matériaux de craft, qui sont essentiels mais toujours trouvables ailleurs si l'on ne parvient pas à les récupérer sur notre dépouille. Lors d'un duel, le gagnant peut s'emparer de ce drop en plus de sa récompense en capsules.

So there is no reward, you get no caps, you get no XP, you get nothing for becoming a wanted murderer except for the kind of social incentives people have online to be assholes.

if you're being 'slapped' by another player and do not want to engage, "we have a lot of ways you can get away from them", said Howard. But it is possible for the aggressor to kill you, to grief you. Fallout 76 has a clever way of dealing with this, though: the griefer gets no caps, no XP, no junk, no nothing for the killing, and is also labelled a wanted murderer by the game. "We turn the assholes into interesting content," said Howard

allout 76 is not an easy game to define, even in a post-Destiny world. People are desperate to categorize it, Hines tells me, but it doesn’t neatly fit into any one box.  “If you just try and take any game concept and say, "So, 76 is like this?" I promise you you're wrong. It's not. I've played the game. I know.”

• The Overseer left the vault before everyone else. The main quest is long, longer than in other games because it takes you across the entire map, and at the end the player is expected to be of a higher level. The quest finale has to do with launching your first nuclear bomb. After that you can search for access codes for other nuclear silos.

• Similarly to Skyrim, some quests are immediately given to a player when they approach a location or point of interest. For example, you come close to a mine, and a quest pops up telling you to explore the mine. The goal is to have the player full of tasks as soon as possible. Again, this design philosophy is similar to the "gamey" approach Bethesda took with Skyrim.

• The map is divided into six regions, but even the regions are divided into level zones. The Cranberry Bogs offer the most difficult areas in the game (aside from the radiation-generated zones that the player creates using nuclear warfare). The game does scale with the player that enters a zone, but it's in favor of the world, not the player. What that means is that if a level 40 player enters a zone, the world will be around level 40-60. However, the game does have some levers in place for solo players to succeed as well.

• There is no dialogue in the game and your character is voiceless. The NPC robots still speak, and you can still barter with some of them, but no "real" dialogue trees or choices.

• There are side quests as well as new world events in which PvP is turned off. These world events are more geared towards groups, and as such everyone in the server will get them. You can fast travel to them. An example of an event is a mission where you need to escort a group of robots to different locations, and they will make comments on the locations you take them to. If they're alive at the end you get a reward. World events give some of the best loot in the game.

• There will be hundreds of perk cards available on release, but Bethesda is planning to add even more in the future, as well as themed-cards (probably for Holidays and the like). Perk packs are given each 5 levels and cannot be purchased with real money.

• The cap is 24 players per game, and 4-player squads. However, Bethesda implied that it's possible that the limit may be raised for special servers some time down the road. You can fast travel to your teammates.

• Not all robot NPCs are generic vendors or fillers. There are some actual characters in the game with defined personas, but no details were given. Regardless, they are not the focus of the game.

• You can build harvesters to harvest special resources near your camp, like aluminium deposits. If you're playing in a group, the four players can connect their camps together so they can form bigger settlements, but after a player logs out their segment will be gone with them. Technically speaking, if all the players in the server somehow coordinate to build their camps together, they actually can. There are public settlements that are bigger and offer more resources, but are also raided by battalions of hostile mobs.

• If you take lesser valuable resources from another player's settlement, like fruit or vegetables, you'll get in trouble.

• As the map is four times the size of Fallout 4, it's less dense with a bigger focus on distance between points of interests. However, it is still more packed with content than any other Bethesda game. "It has a scary amount of content", said the game lead, Jeff Gardiner.

• You can now pick up Power Armor frames in your inventory after you run out of battery in your fusion core.

• Aside from thirst and famine, you also need to watch out for radiation and toxic air.
  

As the map is four times the size of Fallout 4, it's less dense with a bigger focus on distance between points of interests. However, it is still more packed with content than any other Bethesda game. "It has a scary amount of content", said the game lead, Jeff Gardiner.