The prospect of playing as a Ghoul has lured players since they first turned to these decrepit, nose-free creatures in the first fallout. The series had plenty of fantastic ghouls, including Dean Domino and Raul Tejada in Fallout: New Vegas, John Hancok in Fallout 4, and an introduction to Chinese remnants spies in Fallout 3, an ancient intelligence operative looted in the United States when the bomb was dropped. 

They were made for great antagonists and companions, but playing as one was always possible only with mods. Because until now, the online series spin-off Fallout 76 is finally making players ghouls. 

Bethesda announced the intended changes during the Xbox showcase, but we had to watch a sneak peek a while ago and discuss the changes with Bethesda producer Bill LaCoste. The basic thing you need to know is that you can change it to a level 50 ghoul. 

However, there are also some drawbacks to choosing ghouls. A faction that does not take kindly to the ghoul, like the Brotherhood of Steel, will not want to work with you. This also affects the end of the main quest, where you can fight the scorchbeasts together with the knights of the Brotherhood. You can also say goodbye to all vendors who belong to the Brotherhood of Watoga Shopping Plaza and White Spring Resort. 

"[Ghouls] also won't be able to play the bloodied build, which is a pretty significant loadout of fallout 76," LaCoste says. "So you'll be able to see what the players are going into and what builds they're going to build," he said. So it will be a different play style that we are really excited to see.

The popular "bloodied" build style revolves around deliberately taking radiation damage to keep your health low, in order to maximize the effects of certain armor and perk cards that do more damage the lower your health. But the ghoul is not subject to radiation damage, so you can not draw this trick. 

Now fans of TV shows and anyone craving ghouls can cosplay as their favorite character, but before watching Fallout on TV the developers

"Funnily enough, the idea of playing as ghouls was developed before Cooper became very popular." "It was a great experience," says Lacoste. "It was already something we were kind of looking at. We knew the show would have [ghouls], but we just thought it would be great if it exploded among the fans.

It's an opportunistic coincidence, but Lacoste makes it clear that Fallout 76 doesn't have big plans to work on future seasons of the TV show. "The game exists in their own small region of the country," LaCoste says. "Fallout 76 continues to be in the Northeast/Appalachian region, and TV shows are now expanding to Las Vegas. So I think they will be separate adventures, I don't think we have a lot of intentions to have a lot of crossovers with it."

Since Fallout 76 and Fallout TV shows are also hundreds of years away, collabs would have presented some sticky lore issues anyway. Honestly, my ability to finally play as a ghoul outweighs any other hope for a new crossover event, I can't wait to see what my characters will look like after their noses are cut off and their genetic mutations kicked in, they'll get a real glow (or you'll get a real glow). (Depending on how you see it).