This page lists all Fallout 76 trailers.
The teaser trailer was released on May 30, 2018. While Bill Danoff's, Taffy Nivert's, and John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" plays in the background, the view pans through a lived in bedroom within Vault 76's living quarters. An announcer on a television relays "For when the fighting has stopped, and the fallout has settled, you must rebuild." The view continues to pan across a dwellers room, through the laundry and past the den and kitchen before showing the vault's atrium, decorated in a Vault-Tec color scheme to celebrate the nation's tricentennial. The clip ends with a vault dweller strapping on their Pip-Boy 2000 Mk VI and the view focuses on the 76 on the back of their jumpsuit as the song ends. The television announcer returns, espousing, "In Vault 76, our future begins."
E3 2018 trailer
The E3 trailer was released on June 10, 2018. The first scene depicts an American soldier in T-51 power armor walking to the edge of a road outside a military installation while an air raid siren whines in the background. He witnesses three nuclear warheads cascading toward the distant forest, and a somber piano tune begins to play. The nuclear warheads impact the ground and the shock wave throws the soldier to the ground.
The piano continues as the Bethesda Game Studios logo fades in, transitioning to a TV in Vault 76 displaying the Indian-head test pattern and the fiddle of Take Me Home, Country Roads begins to play. The TV picks up a signal, showing a man delivering a speech: "300 years after our great nation began, we gather to honor the completion of Vault 76." The speech transitions to an unseen narrator as the view pans across the interior of the vault. The narrator continues, explaining, "This sprawling underground shelter may have been engineered by Vault-Tec, but it was built by you. So that if the bombs do come, our way of life will endure."
From there, "Country Roads, Take Me Home" prominently plays as the view pans over the backwoods and forested locales of West Virginia, including the half buried remains of the power armored soldier from the beginning. Vault dwellers pass it by, until one of them picks up the helmet and contemplates.
The narrator returns, and remarks as the view pans across the hellish landscape and virgin settlements, "For when the fighting has stopped and the fallout has settled, you must rebuild. Not just walls, not just buildings... but hearts and minds, and ultimately, America itself." "Country Roads" picks back up again, showing the vault dweller putting on the soldier's power armor. The narrator returns for his final statement: "In Vault 76, our future begins," before it fades to black and the Fallout 76 logo fades in.
You Will Emerge! Introduction to Multiplayer Gameplay trailer
This trailer is intended to introduce players to the shift toward a multiplayer Fallout game. The trailer begins with a cartoon of Vault Boy emerging from Vault 76 into the wasteland. A title card introduces "Today's Episode, Let's Work With Others: The Art of Cooperation," before switching to in-game footage, and an announcer warning that not all survivors in the wasteland will be friendly as one ventures out the vault.
A battle ensues between the player and an enemy player; after spraying suppressive fire into the forest with a machine gun, the player hides behind a trailer, pulls out a flintlock pistol, blows off the enemy's arm before executing him. However, the announcer reassures the audience that not all dwellers will be hostile and encourages them to find friendly dwellers so they can join forces.
Ray Smith's "Right Behind You Baby" begins to play as the trailer depicts various scenes from the game of players working together, fighting various enemies, interacting with each other, and ends with four players on a cliff side looking down upon a valley. The trailer cuts to black before transitioning to the Fallout 76 logo.
The Power of the Atom! Intro to Nukes Gameplay video
This trailer introduced players to how nuclear weapons are used in Fallout 76. It begins with an announcer introducing "today's episode: 'Atomics for Peace: The Keys to Lasting Success'". Laid over a cartoon of Vault Boy relaxing in a cozy shack, the announcer warns the audience that when they emerge from the vault, their friendly neighbor might not be too friendly anymore; instead of coming over to borrow a cup of sugar, they may come over for murder. He then introduces the concept of nuclear armaments for your own personal protection, and how to acquire them.
The trailer then shifts to in-game footage as the announcer instructs players what to do: "Begin by inquiring with the locals. Gently coax them into cooperation, [and] use a little elbow grease if you have to!" The announcer encourages players to no give up in the likely event they don't find complete nuclear launch codes, and search for others with pieces of the code. Afterward, footage shows a team of vault dwellers accessing a missile silo, and selecting their target, the Charleston Capitol Building.
No matter what is targeted, the announcer then encourages players to take advantage of the resulting fallout to gather rare resources and alludes to mutations that may result from entering the blast radius. The announcer leaves us with the challenge, "The fate of this new world is yours to command with the power of the atom!" The screen then fades to black before the Fallout 76 logo fades in.
Vault-Tec Presents: Being a Better You! Perks Video
This trailer introduces the SPECIAL system in Fallout 76. The announcer presents "today's episode: 'Being a Better You'". and explains that everyone must play the hand they have been dealt in life... but after nuclear Armageddon, that hand gets shuffled. "The common workman must also be a covert operative. The farmer? A master of the martial arts! The ice cream man: a nuclear physicist! How will you make sense of it all?"
Official Vault-Tec training materials (perks) are toted as the solution: these help you make the most of your natural abilities, and reminds you of what makes you SPECIAL! The announcer also states that these training materials can be shared with like minded dwellers, as three Grognak-esque dwellers disembowel a megasloth, before they are taken out by a scientist, marksman, and alcoholic explosives expert as the announcer reminds that listener that diversity can be even better.
Then the announcer notes that dwellers might go through changes out in the wasteland: "No, it's not puberty; it's mutation!" For example, one might gain the abilities of a marsupial, but in exchange for a "mild neurological impairment," seen as a dweller discharges a shotgun at a ghoul as they hop over the ghoul... and straight off a cliff, splattering on the ground, and being devoured by vultures.
Now that the viewer knows how to be a better dweller, they are better equipped to achieve their full potential in the wasteland. The announcer urges the viewer to carefully review the films provided by Vault-Tec on an annual basis "to fully prepare for the day when you will emerge!" The screen then fades to black before the Fallout 76 logo fades in.
Vault-Tec Presents: Let's Work with Others! Multiplayer Video
This trailer introduces the main aspects of multiplayer gameplay in Fallout 76. The announcer presents "today's episode, 'Let's Work With Others: the Art of Cooperation'" as Vault Boy emerges from Vault 76 and travels through the wasteland, all alone. He soon encounters other dwellers and is urged to practice his nonverbal communication skills by the announcer to befriend them.
The group of dwellers runs off together, fighting various mutated creatures as a team; after all, "there's no 'I' in 'nuclear wasteland'". However, the announcer also warns that not all dwellers are friendly, and catastrophe can strike at any time. Should one find themselves alone again however, friends are easy to come across again. The dweller now knows how to better survive the wasteland when they emerge, as long as they review their Vault-Tec provided training films on a yearly basis. The screen then fades to black before the Fallout 76 logo fades in.