Fallout 76 Infestations Update is Now Live

Bethesda has announced that the “Infestations” update for Fallout 76 is now available alongside the game’s PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions. 

Bethesda describes the update as follows:

Answer the call now, help defeat Infestations!

Play the latest free update today! Redeem FREE daily rewards June 7 to June 15. Explore, quest, build, craft, and fight across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Appalachia’s familiar places can host some unfriendly faces with Infestations!

Rediscover “infested” areas across the map teeming with high-level foes and high-level loot, including new 4-Star Legendary weapons and armor mods! (That is, if you don’t all wind up exterminated instead.)

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions offer the following improvements: 

• Targeted 60 FPS across Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PS5 Pro.
• Improved draw distances.
• Improved shadows.
• 4K resolution (on compatible displays) on Xbox Series X, Xbox One X, PS5 Pro.
• VRR (on compatible displays) on Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS5, PS5 Pro.
• PS5 and PS4 Pro will support 1440p while previous generation platforms will continue to support 1080p.

Fallout 76 is also available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. Here’s an overview from its store pages:

Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe.

Uncover the secrets of West Virginia by playing through an immersive main quest, starting from the moment you leave Vault 76. Befriend or betray new neighbors who have come to rebuild, and experience Appalachia through the eyes of its residents.