Fallout 76 Developers Still Investigating Crossplay, Won’t Come Out in the Short Term

Fallout 76 creative director Jon Rush had previously spoken about the multiplayer post-apocalyptic shooter potentially getting cross-platform multiplayer at some point in the future. In a more recent interview with Polygon, however, Rush, along with production director Bill LaCoste both reaffirmed that Bethesda hasn’t taken crossplay off the table. While neither could provide any concrete details about it, they acknowledged that the studio is investigating “technical hurdles” stemming from the initial development of Fallout 76.

“We are looking into it, and we have plans to try to scope out what that work is going to entail for us,” said Rush. “It’s just not in the immediate plans for us. We know players want it.”

LaCoste noted that retrofitting new features like crossplay into the Creation Engine that powers Fallout 76 isn’t quite a simple task. “It’s just huge technical hurdles that are things that you tackle before release, during your actual development of the product,” he explained. “So going back and retrofitting it to do that, when you have different places that players are pointing into, and now you’re having to worry about entitlements and account purchases and currency.”

Ultimately, LaCoste said that Bethesda will continue working on some day bringing crossplay to the multiplayer title. However, players shouldn’t expect it to happen for quite some time. “What we can promise players is that we will continue to investigate, we will continue to try to establish plans to make that a thing in the future, just not in the short term,” he said.

Last time Rush spoke about bringing crossplay to Fallout 76 was in March 2025, celebrating the success of Amazon’s TV adaptation of Fallout, which also brought more players to Bethesda’s RPGs. At the time, Rush spoke about the same technical limitations that LaCoste mentioned. “We’ve had discussions about crossplay in the past,” he said. “There’s a lot of technical limitations with that. I wouldn’t rule it out, but I wouldn’t be waiting around for it, either.”

In the meantime, Bethesda has continued to support Fallout 76 by releasing new content through major updates. The most recent one of these was December’s Burning Springs, which introduced an entirely new zone to the multiplayer game. The developers have previously described Burning Springs as the biggest update made to the Fallout 76 map so far.

The update also introduced a host of new activities, like Bounty Hunting, which allows players to take on contracts to fight powerful enemies for rewards. The activity can be done either solo or as part of a group. Along with this, there are also new public events where players have to take on creatures native to the land like more powerful versions of Deathclaws and Radscorpions.

The team behind Fallout 76 capped off 2025 with a lengthy community post reflecting on all of the updates that had been made to the game over the year. More interesting, however, was the end of this post, where the developers started teasing the next major content drop for the game. While no details were revealed, we were left with a simple message: “The Barndoors in Graninger Farmstead open once twilight has drawn nigh,” said by an unknown person.

Fallout 76 is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. While PS5 and Xbox Series X/S owners can play it through backwards compatibility, bespoke versions for the current-gen consoles are in the works and slated for release this year.