Contrary to the belief that some might have gathered about Fallout 76 from watching scathing reviews of the game or vocal ex-fans online, Bethesda's Fallout-themed MMO continues to have a thriving online community. In fact, thanks to Bethesda continuing to support Fallout 76 this far along, players have been able to meet up online and fill the Appalachian wasteland with events of their own.

A recent event, hosted by player Northern Harvest and live-streamed to Twitch by player FalloutFive0, brought several players together across several consoles to celebrate not only Fallout 76, but also William Shakespeare. Considering the franchise's reverence of classical music and theater, an afternoon of Shakespeare in The Park isn't too out of place for Fallout, even if it isn't from the specific turn-of-the-century style the series is famous for.

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For this event, players gathered together in the Swan Theater in New Gad in order to read through a collection of some of the more well known of Shakespeare's Sonnets. These players read a total of 14 Sonnets, giving small introductions to each one as each new reader came to present the classical works. While many of these players joined the session live for the stream on PS4, the player run Fallout 76 event also included recordings from other participants who performed their readings on Xbox and PC.

Even with some of the event being pre-recorded, much of it was acted out like many other role-playing sessions in an MMO, with some players watching the readings peacefully and others standing guard to hold off any of Fallout 76's various threats. According to host Northern Harvest in comments made to PCGamesn, who first covered the event, it felt like a Shakespeare reading done by a College English class. From how those who were involved described it, this was a unique gathering for a lot of players and a pleasant way to engage with Fallout 76's online capabilities.

Online titles have a strange way of bringing players together sometimes, be it a Shakespeare poetry reading in Fallout 76, or a new sport built out of the systems found in Red Dead Redemption 2. As pointed out by Northern Harvest as well, with social gatherings being increasingly rare across the world due to the pandemic, online titles have a unique ability to still bring people together. So, while fans continue to wait for Bethesda to bring much needed improvements to Fallout 76, the community keeps finding ways to keep the world relevant by finding their own ways to build it up from the inside.

Fallout 76 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: PCGamesn