Xbox honcho Phil Spencer’s Fallout 76 C.A.M.P. was NUKED. To keep your virtual homestead safe, here’s a guide to not following in his radioactive footsteps.
How to avoid becoming just another hole in a nuclear wasteland.
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What you need to know
The news surrounding Xbox has been gloomy recently. There have been numerousstudio closures, exclusive gamescaptained to other platforms, rumored and loomingGame Pass price increases, and potentially more cuts on the horizon. So much talent was lost in the blink of an eye.
Microsoft seems to have been relatively quiet lately, failing to keep up with the hype train. Despite the impending release ofHellblade 2, their advertising efforts have been absent. Their marketing strategy, in general, has been lackluster at best. To make things worse, they launched a new controller on the same day as the layoffs, accompanied bythe tagline “Feel the burn.“Yikes. Needless to say, it’s been challenging to be an Xbox fan as of late.So, who do we take our frustration out on?
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That someone, at least on the surface, wasPhil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division (and the one many blame these days for those layoffs and studio closures). Having come across him in the hills of West Virginia, an X user namedreal1090jakehas claimed he nuked Phil’s C.A.M.P. site. After attempting some PvP, which Spencer supposedly declined, the player decided to take matters into his own hands. It’s a lesson for all of us: nuking some companies means getting nuked yourself.
In an interview withKotaku, Jake said, “It’s not much to it. I’ve planned to catch him for a while now to see if he would agree to a fight. Trying to take him down was just a personal goal for me after I finished the main quest line.” He continued, stating this didn’t have anything to do with the recent layoffs, “I joked about attacking him because he hurt our feelings…[but] it’s been my mission weeks before.”
To verify, he shared some more screenshots with Kotaku. “He was the final boss in my eyes. In an RPG, I prefer to be the bad guy.” Me too, Jake, me too!
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So, how could Phil have prevented this? By hiding is C.A.M.P., of course! It’s straightforward to do as well. All players need to do is:
That’s it! Now, you won’t get nuked unless someone manages to find your C.A.M.P. through sheer luck!
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Michael has been gaming since he was five when his mother first bought a Super Nintendo from Blockbuster. Having written for a now-defunct website in the past, he’s joined Windows Central as a contributor to spreading his 30+ years of love for gaming with everyone he can. His favorites include Red Dead Redemption, all the way to the controversial Dark Souls 2.
