The Fallout 76 update we've all been waiting for is dropping this week and brings a new area with it as well as a new vault, characters, enemy types and more.
Fallout 76 Skyline Valley opens up a new area in the southern part of the map that takes players to the rolling hills of Shenandoah.
Fallout 76 – along with Fallout 4 and the rest of the Fallout series at large – is having a resurgence in popularity thanks to the Fallout TV Series. While Amazon's show dropped on Prime Video back in April, the Fallout party has kept on going thanks to various deals on the games in the wake of the TV series, as well as PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass both offering titles from the series as part of their subscription services.
While the Fallout 4 next-gen update has breathed new life into the game for those who care enough about such things to replay the entire thing all over again, Fallout 76 has been happily pootling along, with Bethesda making a series of meaningful updates since its disastrous initial launch and winning back favour with the community. The next update is Fallout 76 Skyline Valley, which rolls out alongside Season 17 this Wednesday, June 12, most likely at the usual time of the game's patches, and is the first update to open a new part of the map.
As well as new places to explore (with the new POIs listed below) there's fresh story content, new enemies, and a new vault to explore. Plus you can play as a ghoul! Here's everything new coming in Fallout 76 Skyline Valley when it releases this month.
Fallout 76: new Skyline Valley map
The Fallout 76 Skyline Valley map has been available for players on the PTS since April and straddles the Savage Divide. In terms of the enemy level in the area, if it's the same as Savage Divide, you're looking at level 15-99 enemies in Skyline Valley.
There are 26 new POIs with a sprinkling of unnamed areas to poke around in for good measure:
- Abandoned convoy
- Big Meadows Gas Well
- Camp Liberty
- Dark Hollow Manor
- Grindstone Arch
- Hawksbill Weather Station
- Hemlock Springs Dump
- High Knob Lookout
- Makeout Point
- Naked Creek
- Old Crimora Mines
- Old Rag Lookout
- Park ranger radio bunker
- Ranger monitoring bunker
- Rapidan Camp
- Research Site Bavaria
- Research Site Rhineland
- Research Site Saxony
- Shenandoah Visitor Center
- Shining Creek Cavern
- Slumber Mill Motel
- South River Bridge
- Stony Man Lookout
- The Trading Post
- Three Ponds
- Thunder Mountain substation TM-03
Fallout 76 Skyline Valley – what's new?
As well as the new area which is a big deal enough on its own, there's plenty to get stuck into with the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley update as Bethesda delved into in its release date blog post. Here's a brief rundown, with the quests being based on the PTS content.
- Vault 63 opens up
- The Lost (electric ghouls)
- 10 new questlines (at least!)
- Play as a ghoul
- New part of the map
- Threshers (new enemy type)
- Dangerous Pastimes and Neurological Warfare public events
Fallout 76: Season 17 – what's new?
Fallout 76 – Season 17: Pioneer Scouts Skyline Valley is bringing a host of new content into the game, with Fallout first subscribers having access to the Season Pass and everything it holds as part of their membership. Otherwise, you can pick it up in the Atomic Shop. Here's what Season 17 of Fallout 76 is bringing with it.
- Vintage camper survival tent (1st)
- Archery shooting target (1st)
- Joke arrow headwear
- Light blue vintage camper
- Outdoor movie projector (1st)
- Icegang mask
- Pioneer Scouts T-45 and T-51 paint
- Slocum's Joe inner tube chair
- Pioneer Scouts inner tube chair
- Canoe (1st)
- Rowboat
- Blue lobster trap (1st)
- Lobster trap
- Scout's Life poster: identifying rabies and other diseases (1st)
- Blinky (1st)
- Dissection kit
- Tato lamp (1st)
- Morse code poster (1st)
- Pioneer Scouts squirrel Mr. Fuzzy plushie (1st)
- Telegraph
- Arrowhead flair
- Marshal Mallow flair
- Camp counselor outfit
- Scoutmaster collection station
- Roast thrasher (1st)
- Pemmican collector
- Picnic basket stashbox
- Butchered meats (1st)
- Camping cooler (1st)
- S'more hot chocolate stein
These are all of the new rewards showcased in the Fallout 76 Season 17 preview trailer so you can take a look ahead of time and decide which of them you want to add to your collection.
