After three years of close to silence on the undertaking, we now have each a setting and a tough launch window for the present.
It seems that it will likely be set in Vault 33 — a nuclear fallout shelter in Los Angeles. And we’ll discover out what goes on inside and past it in some unspecified time in the future subsequent yr.
Alongside this tweet, attendees at Bethesda’s Starfield presentation at Gamescom had been additionally handled to a brief one-minute Fallout teaser trailer, which has subsequently leaked on-line.
The footage reveals elements of the Fallout universe delivered to life, together with the RPG’s iconic troops in Energy Armour, the cog-like steel gates shielding the underground vaults from the wasteland, a ghoul in a hat, and a Vertibird plane taking off.
Whereas the trailer doesn’t reveal a lot, we do know that the variation is written and developed by Jonathan Nolan — the brother of Christopher — and Lisa Pleasure, who had been beforehand accountable for the favored TV adaptation of Westworld.
Even when it’s launched on the very finish of 2024, it’s nonetheless extraordinarily more likely to be the following official launch for the Fallout universe.
Developer Bethesda — now owned by Microsoft — is simply wrapping up work on its spacefaring RPG Starfield, coming September 6, and after that, it’s full pace forward for the following instalment within the Elder Scrolls collection which possible gained’t drop till 2028 on the earliest.
In different phrases — until Microsoft decides to farm the Fallout licence to a different studio or the TV collection is sufficient of a megahit for Bethesda to alter priorities — it doesn’t appear to be we’ll see Fallout 5 this decade.
Fortunately, the modding neighborhood is on the case, and deliberate conversions intriguingly embody a model set on this aspect of the Atlantic in London, due later this yr.
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