Fallout 76 is giving us an outpost that you can customise like 'your house in Skyrim' but you'll have to run the gauntlet first

Fallout 76's latest update, Skyline Valley, may add a whole new section of the map for players to explore with new quests and points of interest to experience. But later this year, the Milepost Zero update will introduce escort missions with the chance to build a new customisable outpost and raise brahmin. 

Set in the new location of Shenandoah National Park, you'll join the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, which has been running routes up and down Blue Ridge Drive, and help them escort a brahmin carrying important supplies.

I'm actually strangely excited about another Fallout 76 escort mission, as it's a good chance for Bethesda to iron out the issues present in previous missions. I found the escort job in The Most Sensational Game to be slightly overwhelming as it's set inside the cramped and confusing Showman's Pier, and there were also a couple of problems with buggy NPCs blocking doorways or simply freezing in one spot. 

But instead of being shut away in a building guiding someone who almost always gets in your way, you'll be outside in the wild with a slow-moving brahmin. However, in typical Fallout fashion, it won't be completely smooth sailing as the mutated cow will have a mind of its own. «There's a lot of typical Fallout humour in all of this,» lead producer Bill LaCoste says. «It's something we have to keep in mind a lot of the time. So, I think that we're also going to have distractions for the brahmin. We'll see how that goes, but that would be very Fallout if you're escorting something and all of a sudden you turn around, and the brahmin is off grazing.» 

No escort mission is pain-free—that's part of the twisted fun—but one aspect that'll help ease the frustration of guiding a slow and stubborn brahmin is the chance to customise your own outpost: «Successfully running missions for the Blue Ridge Caravan Company will unlock a Caravan outpost of your own,» creative director Jon Rush says. 

Once you have a new spot away from your main camp, you can keep on