Fallout 76’s sixth year is coming to an end, and while the hit game has seen dozens of fresh additions to date, Skyline Valley, which officially released on June 12, is even more exciting!

From unprecedented map expansions to finally being able to play as a Ghoul in 2025, each update is pretty impressive. Follow this guide to learn more about these six updates for all players!

A Bigger Appalachia

Fallout 76 has expanded its map in previous updates, adding new locations, such as Pitt Expedition in 2022 and Atlantic City last year. But this time, Skyline Valley seamlessly connects the core area to the south and extends south to Shenandoah region.

Creative Director Jon Rush has publicly stated that Fallout 76 development team wanted to make previously unused space on the map truly relevant to the story and have a certain impact. Previous Expeditions have been very isolated experiences, lacking any genuine opportunity for exploration outside of the map or specific quest lines. Skyline Valley gives wastlanders their first chance to continue their Fallout 76 experience in a new location on the over-world map.

Players typically participate in Expeditions with specific Fallout 76 items in mind or for a very specific reason, and Skyline Valley provides players with a world to venture out and explore at will, and even create alternative stories just for them.

20 New Points Of Interest

Skyline Valley is more than just a side quest in Fallout 76. As the map expands, players can explore 20 new points of interest. Some of these points of interest are based on real-life locations in Shenandoah, such as Mary’s Rock Tunnel, Rapidan Camp, and Skyline Drive.

There are also new factions, quests, and activities in this expansion, including a new activity called Dangerous Pastimes, which requires you to play as a storm chaser and try to activate a giant lightning rod in order to start a light show.

A New Vault

Vault 63 is no stranger to Fallout 76 veterans, a mysterious bunker that has been closed since its release. For the first time in Skyline Valley, this mysterious mechanical door is open for players to explore.

A lot of the actual nature of Vault 63 remains a mystery, which is what the development team wants players to explore for themselves. But what we know so far is that Skyline Valley is exposed to the surface by an event that blows Vault 63 out of the way and blows its previously closed door to the other side of Appalachia. As for what is inside, we know very little.

Many players only know that Vault 63 was unfinished before the bomb, and all the residents are living in radiation and have become ghouls. Their leader, Hugo Stolz, appeared in Skyline Valley, and you need to talk to him and choose to help him or choose another plan.

The Lost

The Lost are the former residents of Vault 63, who now live out their lives as electrified and almost feral ghouls. They just live in their own twisted reality, with no way to communicate with the outside world, but still protect themselves from all outsiders.

As for why they are electrified, and why Hugo’s mind is not homogenized like everyone else, this is yet to be explored by the player. But you must know that once Vault 63 is exposed, The Lost regularly wanders around Skyline Valley, and they are the principal enemies you need to fight. There’s no rhyme or reason to their movements, only a focused urge to hunt you down and swing their melee weapons at you.

Unfortunately, The Lost aren’t the only new enemy type in Skyline Valley.

Storm Goliaths

So far, we’ve only seen a few brief shots of Storm Goliaths in trailers. But for what it’s worth, Storm Goliaths are a trio of giant, rampaging robots that seem to use the weather to shove their weapons into your face.

Storm Goliaths are three oversized robotic brains created by the great minds in Vault 63, and they’re going to bring a lot of bad things to Appalachia. But you’re not just dealing with technological monsters, you’re dealing with Thrashers.

Skyline Valley continues the tradition of irradiated mutations, bringing a very strange mutant turkey hybrid to the Shenandoah region. This thing is about the size of a cow and is currently wandering the hills of Shenandoah.

But in the future 2025 update, you won’t just fight radiated nightmares, you’ll even become one.

Play As A Ghoul

For the first time, Fallout 76 gives players above level 50 the ability to wear a leathery, noseless skin called a ghoul, which not only changes your appearance but also makes you radiation-proof. If you wear this suit, you no longer have to fear the effects of radiation on you, and it can even heal you. There are also dozens of ghoul-specific perk cards that can expand those benefits.

This not only has this one benefit, but it also changes the game experience for experienced players. In the conventional thinking, players often wear power armour to avoid radiation, but when you wear this suit, power armour is no longer needed.

This encourages players to create a play style that does not require power armour and frees up a lot of extra points that can be used in different ways. Playing as a ghoul broken the meta-game of Fallout 76 before, and change the way players optimize their characters, and encourage players to experiment like never before.

After reading this guide, did you learn more about the update to Skyline Valley? Looking forward to exploring the possibilities in Skyline Valley and having fun!