One of the victims, AJ from Chicago, took to Twitter to publicise the incident with disturbing video footage that has been viewed over 16,000 times.Ĭalled themselves the 'gay eliminators' 'cleansing the wasteland of the queers' 'know what we did to your people back then, we killed them' THIS is the stuff said to us tonight when playing Fallout. Their ringleader, who goes by the username NathanTheHicc, is heard saying 'queer down' and 'decontaminate the aids'. The group of high-level players proceeded to follow and kill the other group of players over a period of about 10 minutes.
This is by design - Fallout 76 is a multiplayer-only game that is meant to spark interesting player interaction. The move relates to an incident in which a group of Fallout 76 players targeted and harassed another group of players, saying over the proximity chat: 'we have come to eliminate all gays.'įallout 76 employs a proximity-based chat system which means, by default, you can speak to and hear other players when you're near them. The following contains language some may find offensive. Bethesda has banned a group of Fallout 76 players for life after a shocking in-game homophobic attack.
