Fallout 76 Maintenance Announcement Patch Notes (17th April 2026)
Bethesda is taking Fallout 76 offline on April 21 for a scheduled update. Details are slim, but here's the heads-up.
Bethesda has scheduled Fallout 76 maintenance for Tuesday, April 21 at 10am ET / 9am CT, with servers going down across all platforms to apply an incoming update. If you're planning a session that morning, plan around it.
The official announcement is light on specifics, no patch version, no change list, just a maintenance window and a pointer to the Bethesda.net Status Portal for live server updates. That's frustrating, and it's exactly the kind of vague communication I'd rather not see from a live-service game. Players deserve to know what's actually being deployed before they log off for a few hours.
We'll update this page with the full notes once Bethesda publishes them. Full patch notes below.
Full Patch Notes
On Tuesday, April 21 at 10am ET/9am CT, Fallout 76 is being brought offline on all platforms to apply an update.
For server status updates, keep an eye on the Bethesda.net Status Portal.
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