I ended up grabbing Fallout 76 for practically nothing after playing it on the trial week to see if it was any better. It is better than when it first launched, it's mostly about the performance level of what Fallout 4 was, just with some added online jank. Overall, it's alright. I'm treating it more purely as just another singleplayer Fallout game as I needed something I could play that didn't require me to focus on it too much so I could listen to podcasts and nothing else was hitting me. Getting lost in the exploration gives me that regular Fallout feel when the server doesn't disconnect.
Not that I'd recommend it, like I'd have trouble recommending the Fallout games normally to people unless I know they are into this type of stuff due to their normal jank, it's still a 6/10 game at best, but come the fall and they add in more regular NPC's, it'll be ALMOST like a usual Fallout game.
One thing I do like more in this game compared to Fallout 4, is the games take on actual survival. Before, there wasn't even really a needed to have food and water or harvest certain things or do much with crafting in general, but now that you need food and water, and that they give some vary helpful benefits, and you can't easily pick up all the best gear right away, and money is much more limited, it just feels like a better game for it. It's something that needs to be in the next main Fallout game for sure.
