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Fallout 76 grants player request to add wheelchairs to the wastelandBrotherhood Of Wheels
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The Brotherhood Of Steel brought a lot of metal with them when they arrived inFallout 76. Power Armour, weapons, you name it. But in a more quietly pleasant addition to the wasteland, it looks like Bethesda also added wheelchairs with last week’s update, following one fan’s request to see their own real-life mobility aid represented in the post-apocalyptic sandbox.
one month ago I posted this. Thank you so much, and excuse my tears.@Fallout@bethesda@bethesda_nl#Fallout#Fallout76pic.twitter.com/VHmy0LRcKO— Kelly (Kel) (@Kytahl)November 25, 2020
one month ago I posted this. Thank you so much, and excuse my tears.@Fallout@bethesda@bethesda_nl#Fallout#Fallout76pic.twitter.com/VHmy0LRcKO
— Kelly (Kel) (@Kytahl)November 25, 2020
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“I know it’s just a furniture item, but I hope in the future of gaming we can get more disabled characters,” Kelly added, in conversation withKotaku. “I know it would’ve helped me as a teen, as I struggled immensely with how I viewed myself. It often gets connected with being useless, and that’s how I felt growing up.”
“I just wanted to add: proctor Ingram is disabled. She uses her power armour to get around. Mama Murphy was supposed to be disabled but due to engine limits, she wasn’t. Disabled people aren’t useless, you guys. Even if we can’t physically keep up, sometimes our smarts are enough.”
As it stands, it’s a small addition - but evidently a welcome one. Games so rarely recognise the full range of body diversity, especially when it comes to how we move through their spaces as player characters. It’d be nice to think that, in some future Fallout, Bethesda may go that one step further and give us a wheelchair-accessible wasteland to explore.
