{"id":865352,"date":"2025-12-17T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/fallout-76-playable-ghoul-update-announcement"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:32:22","slug":"fallout-76-to-introduce-playable-ghouls-for-the-first-time-in-series-history-in-early-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fallout-76-to-introduce-playable-ghouls-for-the-first-time-in-series-history-in-early-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 76 to introduce playable ghouls for the first time in series history in early 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fallout-76-to-introduce-playable-ghouls-for-the-first-time-in-series-history-in-early-2025.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/fallout-76\">Fallout 76<\/a> is set to introduce playable ghouls as a standalone update coming in early 2025, in what&#8217;ll be a first for the series. Yep, all those years you&#8217;ve spent in Appalachia dreaming of being exempt from worrying about radiation, you&#8217;ll have the option to bring them to an end soon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cool time for Bethesda to be introducing this in 76, given how much everyone loved Walton Goggins&#8217; ghoulified presence in Amazon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/tv-shows\/fallout\">Fallout TV show<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/fallout-showrunners-talk-season-2-plans-and-release-window\">second season of which is already in the works<\/a>. It&#8217;s also fitting because, in addition to being able to rock his outfit right now, a lot of Appalachia&#8217;s most hardened veterans probably feel like they&#8217;ve amassed just as much wasteland weathering as Cooper Howard by this point.<\/p>\n<p>Once the update drops, you&#8217;ll be given the chance to play as a ghoul via a special quest that&#8217;ll become available once your vault dweller hits level 50 &#8211; obviously if you&#8217;re one of the many players who&#8217;re already well past that point, it should hopefully pop up from the get go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/fallout-76-playable-ghoul-update-announcement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/fallout-76-playable-ghoul-update-announcement\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallout 76 is set to introduce playable ghouls as a standalone update coming in early 2025, in what&#8217;ll be a first for the series. Yep, all those years you&#8217;ve spent in Appalachia dreaming of being exempt from worrying about radiation, you&#8217;ll have the option to bring them to an end soon. It&#8217;s a cool time for Bethesda to be introducing this in 76, given how much everyone loved Walton Goggins&#8217; ghoulified presence in Amazon&#8217;s Fallout TV show, the second season of which is already in the works. It&#8217;s also fitting because, in addition to being able to rock his outfit right now, a lot of Appalachia&#8217;s most hardened veterans probably feel like they&#8217;ve amassed just as much wasteland weathering as Cooper Howard by this point.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fallout-76-to-introduce-playable-ghouls-for-the-first-time-in-series-history-in-early-2025\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2879,601,773,199,8711,8673,59,44,34,86,3987,60],"class_list":["post-865352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-bethesda-game-studios","tag-fallout-76","tag-first-person","tag-mmorpg","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-multiplayer-cooperative","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-rpg","tag-shooter","tag-third-person","tag-xbox-one"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fallout 76 to introduce playable ghouls for the first time in series history in early 2025 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fallout 76 is set to introduce playable ghouls as a standalone update coming in early 2025, in what&#039;ll be a first for the series. 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