If you’re seeing Fallout 76 down reports surface this July 18, don’t be alarmed, as Bethesda has taken the FO76 servers down for maintenance, where we’ll also see a patch be released.

Update: Fallout 76 update 1.79 patch notes for July 18 listed here.

Fallout 76 Down With Server Maintenance Schedule and Status for July 18:

Here’s the announcement from Bethesda:

Tomorrow, July 18th at 10 am ET we will be bringing @Fallout 76 offline to apply an update. Please check here for updates!

— Bethesda Support (@BethesdaSupport) July 17, 2023

While there’s no schedule released regarding the downtime, it usually lasts 2-3 hours, and once new info about it is shared, we’ll update the article.

As for what’s in the update, Bethesda shared that this will be a smaller patch which will focus on gameplay improvements and bug fixes. The full patch notes will be released once the update is out, we’ll provide a link out to it in this article (as well as post the patch itself once it’s live).

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