How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)

As Fallout fans we’ve lived through numerous Reclamation Days. But with the launch of the TV show on Amazon Prime, this might be the busiest yet. New dwellers are flooding out of their vaults, and you may well be among them—warily eyeing 2018's online multiplayer Fallout 76, wondering whether the kind of Fallout you like is hiding in its cranberry bogs and toxic valleys.

Here’s my guide to what Fallout 76 is and isn’t—and some advice for getting the most out of the Appalachian wasteland...