Helmikuun alussa Gamereactor uutisoi, että Bethesdan niin sanottu live service -peli Fallout 76 vahvistuu huhtikuussa NPC-hahmoilla. Fallout 76 julkaistiin raakileena 14. marraskuuta 2018, ja sen jälkeen peli on kulkenut skandaalista toiseen.
Bethesdan Pete Hinesia haastatteli We Have Cool Friends (joka on osa Kinda Funnya), jossa Hines kertoi olevansa iloinen siitä, että Bethesda kokeili jotain uutta Fallout 76 -pelillä, ja että fanit toivoivat juuri sitä: jotain uutta.
"It was definitely a reminder that anytime you try and do something pretty different....Like, we knew that there was risk, we weren't just doing the safe and narrow 'Let's just churn out single player Fallout or Elder Scrolls games every year or every other year'."
"We tried something that was a pretty big change of change of direction for that studio. And just because it didn't go well doesn't mean you shouldn't do that, it just means you need to learn the lessons from what didn't work well so the next time you try something really different, hopefully you avoid some of those problems and issues."