Fallout Fans Think The Next Game Should Ditch The Building Mechanics

Although base building was one of the most unique mechanics introduced in Fallout 4, it seems that fans don’t want to see it make a return in the next game.

As excited as everyone is to see what Bethesda ends up doing with the next Elder Scrolls game (even if it’s clearly not coming for a while), it’s fair to say that the recent release of Fallout show on Amazon has made everyone far more interested in returning to the Wasteland. Todd Howard has made it clear that the team is interested in doing that eventually but, for now, we don’t know anything about what that will look like.

Even if we’re not likely to find out what the next Fallout has in store until the next console generation at the earliest, that hasn’t stopped fans from discussing the things that they want to see from Fallout 5. There are already a lot of ideas about what the next post-apocalyptic RPG should feature, but there’s one mechanic that fans really don’t want to see return – base-building.

Fans Say Fallout 5 Should Leave Base-Building Behind

Fallout 4 introduced a bunch of new mechanics to the formula and generally refocused the gameplay to focus less on being an RPG by leaning more into the combat. The biggest change it made, though, was the introduction of some base-building mechanics that let players create their own settlements in different parts of the map.

Although Fallout 4’s base-building mechanics seemed to be pretty well-received at launch, it seems that the court of public opinion has changed over time and it’s no longer as welcome in the series. Over on ResetEra, a thread was made by Genesius that asked fans if they wanted to see building return in Fallout 5 or whether it should be abandoned.

As of the time of writing, the thread currently has over 1,300 votes and the overall result is pretty much a landslide. 70 percent of fans don’t want building in Fallout 5, while 21 percent are open to seeing it return. The final eight percent apparently didn’t even know that building was a thing in Fallout 4, which might say a bit about how much it was used.

In the comments underneath the thread, most fans seem to agree that it isn’t a necessary feature and that the best thing to do with it is to make it completely optional, just like in Fallout 4 and Starfield. Others think that it’s “awful” and feels out of place since there are games that do it a lot better by making it their full focus.

There are a few fans who would like to see it return and say they had a lot of fun with it in Fallout 4 but it seems that, at best, everyone thinks it should be optional and, at worst, they don’t want it in the game at all.

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