Roughly two months ahead of Amazon Prime’s Fallout series’ second season debut, Bethesda surprised fans by announcing that Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul will be coming to Fallout 76 later this year in the free Burning Springs update.
This will be Walton Goggins’ fourth video game role, and his second role working with Bethesda in video games. He previously played Aaron Ingram in 2017’s Prey.
With Fallout 76 taking place in the early 22nd century, the game will shed more light on The Ghoul’s mysterious life between his time as an actor and Vault-Tec spokesman in the late 21st century and his current life as a tough bounty hunter in the late 23rd century.
While it’s certainly exciting to see Goggins reprise his Emmy award-winning role in the Fallout games themselves, the Burning Springs update has a lot more in store for Fallout 76 players.
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Burning Springs will have the Vault Dwellers of Vault 76 travel to the irradiated wastes of southeastern Ohio to take part in new Bounty Hunting missions hosted by The Ghoul.
In a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. message from Goggins himself, the actor expressed excitement at getting to play The Ghoul in a Fallout game, saying, “… to be The Ghoul after finishing season two in the actual video game itself, there are rainbows coming out of my heart.”
Burning Springs will be the most expansive update Fallout 76 has seen yet, with the free update expanding the map westward in a primarily new desert-like environment featuring tameable Radhogs, 25 new fast travel locations and one new workshop.
Some of the new areas featured in the update will be the Rust Kingdom, ruled by a one-eyed Super Mutant known as the Rust King, and Highway Town, which serves as the update’s main hub, filled with a plethora of new characters and vendors such as The Ghoul himself.
Two new public events will additionally debut with the update, including Gearin’ Up, which will have players defend an Armored Deathclaw, and Sinkhole Solutions, which will have players fight waves of creatures such as Oguas.
Burning Springs is set to launch in early December, around the same time as Amazon Prime’s Fallout season two, but players can partake in the Public Test Server for the update early, starting on Thursday, October 2nd.
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Author: 360 Technology Group
