Fallout 76: in the beta contradictions with respect to the lore of Fallout

Fallout 76 is set in a historical period, although of course it concerns the lore of the saga, significantly different from the period recounted in the last chapters of the main series of Fallout. We find ourselves, in fact, in West Virginia in 2102, in a historical moment closer to the Great War and for this reason with a world more similar to the pre-nuclear world.

On Reddit an inconsistency was identified between this type of contextualization and the presence of the Brotherhood of Steel, one of the typical and most iconic factions of the Fallout lore. The Fallout 76 beta is in fact now available for selected players, while it will be open to everyone on October 23 on Xbox One, and a week later, on October 30, on PlayStation 4 and PC.

The user of Reddit Baffodil has found the incongruity in one of the documents with which the players learn how to complete the new quests and the secondary missions. In these messages, in fact, we mention the Steel Brotherhood, whose presence in the region at the time of the facts, however, is unlikely.

The Brotherhood of Steel is a faction that remains distant from the other factions contending for political power in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout. Specifically, the Brotherhood took refuge in a bunker in the Lost Hills area of ​​California, and did not emerge on the surface until at least 2150. It is therefore unlikely that members of the Brotherhood will be in Virginia, which is also on the opposite side. of the United States.
Will Fallout 76 offer an explanation for this apparent contradiction or maybe changes will be made following the brilliant reporting of Baffodil? Fallout 76 is set relatively a few years away from the Great War, a pivotal event in Fallout's imagination. Exploded on October 23, 2077 and lasted only one day, when nuclear weapons were launched from all nations with nuclear capabilities. Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, however, have a subsequent contextualization, since the respective events are set 150 and 200 years after the nuclear explosions.

Another element that has struck the first players of Fallout 76 is the almost total absence of non-player characters, who instead play a very important role in the game balance of traditional Fallouts. Being a predominantly multiplayer game, the game mechanics are much less tied to elements normally used to convey the narration, and for this the npc will be infrequent.