What is a Cryptid Fallout 76?
Fallout 76 is a popular online multiplayer role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, based on the popular Fallout series. Players in this game take on the roles of explorers, scavengers, or vault dwellers in a post-nuclear world. But besides battling mutated creatures, radiation victims, and rival factions, many players are curious about the mysterious cryptids lurking in the shadows.
A cryptid, in simple terms, is a mysterious, misunderstood creature from mythology, folklore, or pseudoscientific sources. These creatures often defy explanation, generating controversy and intrigue around their very existence. In the world of Fallout 76, they refer to unexplained and undocumented cryptid-like beings spotted throughout the West Virginia wilderness by game players.
Spotting a Cryptid
While scouring the Fallout 76 wasteland, you may catch sight of peculiar creatures that do not easily fit into the game’s taxidermied and radiation-struck norm. They may appear dusty, with a fog-shrouded aura, as if part of a long-lost chapter. If Fallout 76 guides tell us anything, spotting such elusive cryptids demands high-risk reconnaissance, careful attention, late-night expeditions, or exploring uncharted regions without reliable radar or technology aid.
Here are the main forms a cryptid may adopt:
| Data Types | Telltale Signs | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Bones, No Fat (Missing Flesh), Eye Details Unseen | Mysterious beings covered from neck to toe with long
fur and seemingly lack skulls for eyes, faces and or bodyparts. |
no body stats visible. |
Absence, absence and absence; little game knowledge left by unknown, elusive events like hidden, moving in or around terrain shapes |
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