[News] An Enclave-themed group in Fallout 76 roleplayed the villains so hard it turned everyone against them

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been presented as an objectionable act, and that the Enclave, Fallout's traditional villains, should be portrayed as a more heroic faction.

 

Fallout Wastelanders in vault suits viewed from behind

 

Aqua(opens in new tab), a Fallout 76 roleplayer who has been at the helm of several groups over the years, attested to being pressured by the EAF to abide by its rules and exclude certain players, including Green. "Hearing that the EAF and Grey Fox forcefully curated their members' friends lists is unsurprising," Aqua explained, "given my own personal experiences with him trying to dictate who others played with."

 

[The Fallout 76 RP community] is kind, welcoming, inclusive, and creative. It is filled with wonderful people, from all over the world, and from all walks of life.

 

Further, while the group's website condemned intolerance and asserted allyship with the LGBTQ+ community, Aqua noticed some EAF members letting slip disturbing ideological commitments that dovetail with the group's fantasy. Aqua describes lamenting to a group of EAF players how some Fallout roleplay groups attract a white supremacist element, with an EAF officer replying: "Well, what's wrong with white supremacists?"

 

Zero, the former EAF member who spoke to us, said that group leader Grey Fox and other members expressed an uncomfortable interest in the military of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was a white apartheid state in what is now Zimbabwe, and fought a bloody war from 1964 to 1979 in an effort to suppress democratic rule by the country's majority black po[CENSORED]tion. It has a similar "Lost Cause" mystique to white supremacists as the American Confederacy. The anonymous Fallout roleplayer we spoke to said they didn't observe right-wing or white supremacist rhetoric, but were repeatedly called a homophobic slur by an officer in the group.

 

During the initial wave of public scrutiny, the EAF's official accounts attempted to remain in-character, conversely arguing with critics or proceeding as if nothing had happened. On January 7, however, the group deleted its website, Twitter, and Instagram, with only a private Discord and bare RedBubble(opens in new tab) store remaining to mark its passing.

 

It's unclear how many members remain devoted to the group, but the members of the Fallout 76 roleplay community we spoke to seem optimistic about the scene's future, now that the EAF has left. Groups like The Outriders and Five-0 New Responders condemned the EAF and its actions, while Aqua stressed to me that "[The EAF] do not represent the vast majority of Fallout 76's player base or RP groups… [The Fallout 76 RP community] is kind, welcoming, inclusive, and creative. It is filled with wonderful people, from all over the world, and from all walks of life."

 

Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/an-enclave-themed-group-in-fallout-76-roleplayed-the-villains-so-hard-it-turned-everyone-against-them/