The Fallout 76 ghoul update just enabled its players to become irradiated scum for the first time in franchise history. The ghouls have existed as both friends and foes across Fallout's many games from its CRPG origins until now. Walton Goggins even played a ghoul in the Fallout Amazon Prime show. Until this update, radiation has always meant certain death for the all-too-weak player characters. Now, you can embrace humankind's nuclear fate and thousands of players have logged on to do so. Since the ghoul update's release, Fallout 76's player count has doubled. Monday, March 17's concurrent user count was 8,479. Tuesday, March 18 hit 16,421, corresponding directly with the patch's launch.
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