Fallout 76 Season 20 Allows Players to Turn Into and Play as Ghouls

Fallout 76 Season 20: Glow of the Ghoul arrives across platforms on March 18. The new update allows players to transform into and play as ghouls, which is a long awaited mechanic within the Fallout series. 

Ghouls are people who have been exposed to an inordinate amount of radiation – so much so that they mutated. 

Here is a quick guide for playing as a ghoul: 

To become a ghoul, the player must complete the Leap of Faith Quest – which brings them to the Whitespring in the Forest. The quest has a minimum level of 50. 

Ghouls do not have to worry about radiation, eating, or drinking – ghouls heal from radiation. But ghoul players do have to keep an eye on their Feral Meter, which decreases with time. The lower the meter, the more Feral the ghoul becomes. 

Going Feral makes aiming more difficult while negatively affecting Charisma. The tradeoff is melee attacks become more powerful. 

Glow is another mechanic for Ghouls, indicated by a green striped pattern over the player’s health bar. Glow increases as the player takes radiation damage – it offers more health and can be paired with new ghoul Perks. 

Here are a handful of ghoul perks revealed by Bethesda: 

• Bomb Scientist is a great ghoul Perk and activates with Glow. This card increases the power of your grenades when you expend Glow. All you need is the right amount of Glow and to throw a grenade, blasting your enemies away.
• Want to be the scariest, baddest, most in-the-mix ghoul? Bone Shatterer is perfect for that, Pair it with going Feral, and you’re going to be a force to be reckoned with. Speaking of Feral, the Feral Presence Perk reduces a target’s damage after you attack for five seconds.
• A dev favorite, the Wild West Hands Perk card gives you a chance at an instant reload of your weapon’s magazine when emptied. You’ll be the quickest shot in the whole wasteland.
• For those who want to build a Vault-dweller ghoul with more control and play on a team, there’s Moral Support, which makes your Feral meter decrease more slowly.

Fallout 76 initially released in 2018, and sold 1.4 million copies during its year of release. The action role-playing game is set in the Appalachian region of West Virginia, and is a multiplayer live-service title, available on PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and PC.