Ways to Prepare for Fallout 76
Clear Some Hard Drive Space & Preload if Buying Digitally
Fallout 76, like most other open world games, has a pretty hefty install size. You’ll be looking at around 45 GB on all platforms for the game itself. As such, if you’re purchasing the game digitally, and don’t have the fastest internet speeds, you could be waiting quite a while before you can hop into the West Virginia wasteland.
As an added launch day headache, according to PSU, there’s a pretty huge 54.6 GB update players will need to install before they can even load up the game. That means you’re looking at about 97-100 GB total to download before you can begin playing the game if you’re downloading digitally.
If you’re picking up a physical copy, or if your internet speeds are just insanely fast, then it’s always best to just do some spring cleaning of your console’s hard drive before you preload or pick up the game. Any minutes you can save yourself now just means more time shooting Scorched in the face with a Pipe Pistol once the servers finally go live, and who doesn’t want that?
