Earlier this week, users discovered an unfortunate bug in the Fallout 76 Beta client on PC that deleted the whole 50GB installation. Bethesda’s Pete Hines has apologised for the issue, saying its “it's not going to be the last bump on the road.” And he was right.

Fallout 76 is a big game. It’s also a big game that’s made by Bethesda, so it’s going to have numerous bugs, glitches and otherwise unwanted issues. Bethesda even warned users to expect “spectacular” bugs, asking users to help find them during the beta process. There's already one big one..and it's in the beta client.

Over on the Nintendo Switch, you can easily grab a session of DOOM and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus while you’re on the go. Bethesda’s premiere first-person shooters may require plenty of graphical downgrades to fit on the Switch, but the fact that you can take a game of Nazi and demon-slaying with you and still have a relatively smooth experience while retaining the core gameplay of those titles, is nothing short of amazing. So what about Fallout 76 then? Surely Bethesda has plans to port over the benchmark in post-apocalyptic action to the Switch…right? Yeah, that ain’t happening.

Fallout 76 has a special platinum edition that doesn’t even include the game its various bits of plastic are based on, all for the low price of $115 in the US of A. That’s like a whole case of bottle tops.

Fallout 76 will require an internet connection to play, and every character you encounter on your questing is another human being. It’s a significant change, and one that’ll take a fair bit of getting used to. It’s not just odd, it’s also risky. What if Fallout fans aren’t enamoured with the change? Speaking to Gamespot, Bethesda’s Marketing VP Pete Hines said that making the shift was “really scary.”

Bad news: You can’t play Fallout 76 right meow. Good news: You can play it on Saturday, as the game’s stress test will kick off on October 13. Provided that you meet several requirements.

Will developers ever cease focusing on single-player games and pump more resources into the potentially more lucrative fields where games exist as a service for new content and streams of revenue? With Bethesda releasing Fallout 76 soon, you’d think that at least one big name developer is bidding farewell to games where story comes first and online takes preference. Bethesda apparently, is far from done when it comes to making the kind of games that made the studio famous in the first place.

As expected Fallout 76 will be hosting its beta ahead of launch, with builds up on Xbox One a week earlier than other platforms. But don't expect to play it 24/7 until launch day.