Sure! Here’s a rewritten version of the title: “Alright, Fallout 76’s Ghoul Within update: I’ll play as a ghoul, but please drop cringy terms like ‘Ghoultastic.'”

What’s the pettiest reason you began to distance yourself from an old friend? I once casually suggested to a mate that I found toast more filling than bread, which prompted them to bang on for far too long about how I was actually wrong, since the act of toasting necessarily diminishes the structure of bread or somesuch. I’m not sure whether that’s true and I don’t care. I was speaking my truth about toast and you undermined it. Jog on, toast denier.

Fallout 76‘s new Ghoul Within update is 18.9 GB, which may well conclusively prove that searing ghoulification actually ends up with the victim weighing more than they did previously. I wish I’d known this at the time of my yeasty bust-up, because I’d have probably tried to make the same argument about toast. We might have stayed mates then. Maybe we could have played Fallout 76 together? Why, that’s the subject of this very Steam blog! Incredible.

Your journey to “Ghoulification” begins with a new questline named “Leap Of Faith” in the Savage Divide. Do that, and you’ll be able to transform into a Ghoul, complete with 30 new perks and two new abilities. Glow increases your maximum health depending on how radiated you are, and Feral confers combat buffs and penalties depending on how many drugs you’ve eaten.

Being a Ghoul will negatively affect your interactions with factions like the Brotherhood Of Steel and lock you out of certain questlines. If you’re starting to feel isolated, you can either don a disguise or reverse your ghoul-hood altogether. This is permanent, though. If you want to become a ghoul once again, you’ll need to cough up 1000 atoms – about £8/$10.

Alongside a new Level 50 Character Boost and a new event starting April 29th – “The Big Bloom” – the patch notes also detail a host of balancing tweaks. I’m particularly fond of the helpful mundanity in “adjusted some Perk names for better alphabetical sorting”. The game’s also 75% off on Steam right now, in case you aren’t saving for the rumoured imminent Oblivion remake. It’s… actually only slightly more expensive than that ghoul reversal charge. Love to be a fan of videogames in 2025. Probably just play Skyblivion, innit.