Fallout 76 Gameplay and Accessibility Settings Guide

Many of the settings in Fallout 76 allow for personalizing your experience.

ameplay are below. Since the launch of Fallout 76, multiple settings have been added to the game to improve the experience of our players.

Recent Accessibility Highlights

Recent accessibility additions to Fallout 76 include:

Speech-to-Text

• Turning Speech-to-Text ON will add a new message window to the UI that will transcribe all voice communication from other players in the area.
• Message Window Fade Time – Changes how long the message window stays on screen after the last message has been received.
• Message Window Visibility – Changes the transparency of the message window.

Text-to-Speech

• Turning Text-to-Speech ON will allow players to type text into the message window and have that text converted into audible speech for other players in the area who have Text-to-Speech ON.
• Text-to-Speech Voice – Allows you to choose between a masculine or feminine voice type.
• Chat Volume – Allows you to adjust the volume of the incoming voice chat and text-to-speech audio.

Screen Narration for Emotes

• When the Screen Narration setting is ON, you’ll hear the audible description of emotes from other players in the area. For example: “[Player] wants to team up!”
• Two English voice options are available for narration.
• Note that other UI or Menu text outside of the emotes is not narrated when this setting is selected.

UI Navigation

• Digital Input - Several screens relied completely on analog stick input and that has been addressed to allow keyboard control on PCs and d-pad control on consoles. This includes the Challenges, Scoreboard, Map, and Character Creation screens.
• Analog Input - Several screens didn’t support analog inputs to navigate the UI, so that analog functionality has been added to the Favorites Wheel and Social Panel.
• Fast Travel Countdown Cancel – Now allows a single button command to cancel the fast travel instead of clicking both the left and right analog sticks.
• Social Menu – Allows a single button command to enter the Social Menu instead of having to hold CTRL-TAB on PC.

Accessibility Features in the Menus

You can access settings menu on the main menu of Fallout 76, select the Settings tab prior to logging into a character. While in game, you can get to this menu by opening the Map, using the keybinding for Menu from the map and then navigating to Settings.
The map page also provides access to the Social menu.

For more information about the social system in Fallout 76, such as adding friends or joining public teams, please see this help guide on our support page: https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/44125

Audio Menu

• Voice chat mode – Set voice chat to None, Auto, Area, or Team. Setting to Auto will allow the game to automatically prioritize team or area chat. Team only will limit communications to only team members. Area will allow for chatting with any nearby players on the map. If you wish to disable voice chat entirely, set to None.
• Push to talk (off/on) - Enable or disable push to talk. Turning off push to talk will set your microphone to always be on.
• Adjust separate volume levels for Master, Chat, Menu Music, World Radios, Voice, Music, Effects, Footsteps, and Pip-Boy radio.

Controls Menu

• View current keybindings for controls.
• Remap gameplay controls (PC keyboard and mouse) - Remap most of your gameplay controls for keyboard and mouse on PC.

Gameplay Menu

• Invert controls – Separately invert controls for both X and Y axis
• Look Sensitivity – Modify the look sensitivity X and Y axis
• Toggle aim – Enable or disable toggle aim
• Vibration (on/off) for controller – Enable or disable controller vibration
• Pacifist mode (on/off) - In pacifist mode, you can’t hurt other players and are choosing not to participate in Player versus Player.
  -- Control which quests are active when started (Main, side, miscellaneous, event, or daily quests) – To help focus on the most important goals to you, control which quests are active when the game is started, so that you can more easily jump into the activities that interest you the most.
• Controller Aim Assist (on/off) – Enable or disable controller aim assist.
• Grenade/mine targeting mode – Choose between all, none, or Only My Own
• Show muzzle flash effects – enable or disable muzzle flash effects
• Show non-explosive weapon impact effects – enable or disable showing weapon impact effects
• Start in Free Cam in workshop build mode – Allows the player to set default camera in Workshop mode to Free Cam
• Start free cam at last location – Change camera view from your last location
• Free cam controller press & hold toggle – Change free camera controls between a Hold or toggle action.
• Free cam movement and rotation speed – Adjust the movement and rotation speed for the free cam.
• Show C.A.M.P. Weather – enable or disable showing C.A.M.P weather
• Show intense weather effects – enable or disable showing intense weather effects

Display Menu

• Depth of Field – Modify depth of field.
• Field of View – Adjust field of view.
• Crosshair (on/off) - Show or hide crosshairs.
• General Subtitles (on/off) - Enable or disable general subtitles.
• Dialogue Subtitles (on/off) - Enable or disable subtitles for dialogue.
• Conversation History Size – Adjust the size of your conversation history.
• Show floating markers (on/off) - Show or hide floating markers.
• Floating markers draw distance - Adjust the draw distance of floating markers.
• Show floating quest text – enable or disable showing floating quest text.
• Show active effects on HUD – Set to All, Disabled, or Detrimental.
• Highlight Corpses – Adjust the highlight for corpses.
• Pip Boy Color (Adjust R/G/B values) - A set of settings are available to customize the color of your Pip Boy.
• Quick-boy Color (Adjust R/G/B values) - A set of settings are available to customize the color of your Quick-boy.
• Enable larger alternative note view – Enable or disable the larger alternative note view.
• Alternative note view color (Adjust R/G/B values) – A set of settings are available to customize the color of the alternative notes, including the foreground and background color.
• Enable Camera Shaking – Enable or Disable camera shaking
• HUD Opacity – Adjust the Opacity of the HUD. Allows for improved visibility of HUD elements.
• Enable Power Armor HUD – Show or hide the power armor HUD
• Enable public team notifications – Show or hide public team notifications.
• Show damage numbers (Adventure) - Show or hide damage numbers.
• Show other players’ names - Show or hide other players’ names.
• Show other players’ pings – Show or hide other players’ pings.

Accessibility Menu

• Speech-to-Text – Enabling this setting will add a new message window to the UI that will transcribe all voice communication from other players in the area.
• Message Window Fade Time – Changes how long the message window stays on screen after the last message has been received.
• Message Window Visibility – Changes the transparency of the message window.
• Text-to-Speech – Enabling this setting will allow players to type text into the message window and have that text converted into audible speech for other players in the area who have Text-to-Speech ON.
• Text-to-Speech Voice – Allows you to choose between a masculine or feminine voice type.
• Chat Volume – Allows you to adjust the volume of the incoming text-to-speech audio.
• Screen narration for emotes - When the setting is ON, you’ll hear the audible description of emotes from other players in the area. For example: “[Player] wants to team up!” Note that this screen narration setting does not narrate other UI or menus.
• Some additional duplicated settings from other menus also appear here for ease of discovery.