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The Atlantic City Boardwalk is a district of Atlantic City in Fallout 76, introduced in the Expeditions: Atlantic City update part one, Boardwalk Paradise.
Background[]
The historic Atlantic City Boardwalk seems to have survived the nuclear devastation intact and is home to the Showmen, notorious for their daring, lethal games, and firmly controlling the scenic boardwalk.[1]
Layout[]
The boardwalk stretches along a roughly north-south axis, alongside a beach facing the Atlantic Ocean. Entering the water or even simply getting too close to it will expose the player character to very high radiation, roughly +50 rads per second, providing a hard limit on exploration. The two built-up piers (one with a white building, the other with a yellow one) divide the Boardwalk into three sections: The southern beach, central beach, and northern beach. The map has a degree of verticality, rewarding players who enjoy platforming up or exploring with Marsupial and/or jet packs.
The southern beach is the arrival point for Expeditions and it is here that Lennox lands her Vertibird during The Most Sensational Game. Veracio Cruz and the Baatsuri twins are just up the stairs from the beach, amid many stalls and picnic tables. Some of the inaccessible buildings here have signage for a pharmacy, as well as a pub. The roof of a building behind a blue trailer is accessible by jumping, containing the skeleton of a cash register thief. To the east, opposite of the thief's rooftop, there is an outdoor lounge above the entrance to the boardwalk hotel, also only accessible by jumping. It contains two ammo boxes, a cooking station, and multiple spawns for chems and RadAway. The white building flanking the beach has a gaping hole in it, containing an intact mobster's terminal and a safe with a submachine gun on top of it two floors above.
The central beach extends much further and has two beached trawlers, surrounded by multiple high-level mirelurks. The boats contain no loot, but are used as spawn points for the firework spawns during the Expedition. The fountain plaza in front of the Atlantic City sign is a useful orientation point. Past the colonnade lies an interior courtyard, while the northern alley contains a chemistry station and leads to the back alleys with minor loot. The fenced-in part of the boardwalk facing the ocean conceals a power armor station, as well as some competitors during the Most Sensational Game. It leads to the internal passageway, connecting to Saltwater Sam's gift shop. The gift shop contains minor loot and clothes spawns, as well as a weapons workbench in the employees-only area and evidence of Sam's other pursuits.
Past the section with the power armor station, going east toward the actual central beach itself, there is a yellow brick building facing the sand. This building has a collapsed billboard on it that leads up to another hole, providing access to a sniper rifle spawn and the old coot note. The other side of the building, facing the Showman's Pier, has two holes. The one closer inland is a second sniper's nest. The other contains a clown shrine.
The Showman's Pier lies at the end of the boardwalk, on the northern beach, with a beached cargo carrier barring further passage. Walking alongside it will eventually trigger irradiation. Some of the other unmarked, inaccessible buildings on this side of the boardwalk include a gift shop, two restaurants, a barber shop, a drugstore and a bookstore. There is also a "NOW SHOWING" sign above the covered shopping plaza area, indicating there was once a theater or cinema there. Directly above the entrance to the Showman's Pier interior is the My babies note, near a skeleton embracing a doll, surrounded by more dolls, and multiple Day Tripper spawns on the bookcase. Directly to the west, across from the entrance to the Showman's Pier, is a covered shopping plaza area with an inaccessible restaurant and some of the cells where imprisoned civilians are freed during the Most Sensational Game. The walkways in this area lead south, returning to the back alleys near the central beach.
For more specific information on the interiors of the Showman's Pier and the Aquarium of the Atlantic, see their respective pages.
Clown shrines[]
Throughout the area, three rooms have been converted into shrines, involving severed human eyes, mannequins, and clown paraphernalia. Each features a pair of words scrawled on the wall such as "hE sEe," "hE iS sEeN," etc. as well as a nearby record player which will activate several seconds after a certain item is collected, playing a loop of nightmare clown ambience.
Collecting the clown painting in the shack shrine near the vertibird will cause the nearby door to slam open or closed for no apparent reason, as well as damage the player and cause a green, distorted visual effect for several seconds. Doing this will also cause several animatronic clowns to appear throughout the level.
A second shrine is found in the shopping area, featuring a male mannequin holding a tomahawk, and a tipped-over baby carriage.
The third shrine is in an elevated room in the building opposite Showman's Pier: A mannequin is filming a female mannequin wearing a bucket on her head, with a federalist desk nearby that has a chalk sentence written on it: SHE SEES. Removing the bucket will reveal two more buckets beneath. Once these are removed, it is revealed that the female mannequin has bloody, fleshy eyes. The gramophone nearby will also turn on, playing a skipping, demented clown tune.
The mannequin behind the camera at the third shrine is identical in design to a static model of a man seen in Fallout 3, during a hallucination at Dunwich Borers.
Map[]
Inhabitants[]
- Saltwater Sam, Showman cleaner
- Ticket clerk
- Generic civilians
- Generic Showmen
- Client (during Custodial Compulsions)
- Stanley Soriano (during All the World's a Stage)
- Stratton (during Custodial Compulsions)
- Juchi Batsuuri, half of the Batsuuri twins and competitor.
- Jullian Batsuuri, half of the Batsuuri twins and competitor.
Expeditions[]
- Competitors, hostiles during the Most Sensational Game.
- Veracio Cruz, organizer of the Most Sensational Game.
Notable loot[]
- Do You Want to Feel Alive? - Note, on a table on the upper walkways of the southern beach, where one spawns in during The Most Sensational Game.
- My babies - Note, near a skeleton above the entrance to the Showman's Pier.
- Old coot - Note, found in the sniper nest inside the yellow building, facing the middle beach.
- One last bet - Note, at the edge of the concrete fence near the boardwalk at the middle part of the beach.
- Supreme Gourmet - Note, in various locations along the southern beach side of the boardwalk.
- The Ultimate Challenge - Note.
- Vitality jelly - Note, on a table at the boardwalk, across from the Batsuuri twins.
Notes[]
During the Public Test Server for Expeditions: Atlantic City's Boardwalk Paradise update, there was a door in the southern beach area (where one spawns in) that led to the Casino Quarter and could be accessed during Expeditions. It was disabled and made inaccessible for the live release, where the player can travel between districts using manhole covers (when not on an expedition).
Appearances[]
The Atlantic City Boardwalk appears only in Fallout 76, introduced in the Expeditions: Atlantic City update part two, America's Playground.
Behind the scenes[]
- Although unnamed, the Madison Hotel (behind the Atlantic City sign) and the Claridge Hotel (near the shipwreck and Showman's Pier) can both be seen in the skybox. Both are real historical Atlantic City hotels. The Claridge is seen again in the flooded city center, and has the name McShaw on it.
- The clown shrines allude to Juggalos in several ways.
- In the shop area clown shrine, a tomahawk has been placed in the right hand of a bloodied male mannequin, evoking the Hatchet Man icon central to Juggalo culture.
- The text at the clown shrines is written in aLtErNaTiNg CaPs, which appears to be a reference to the typing quirk of Gamzee Makara, an alien Juggalo character from Homestuck. He wrote similar messages on the walls of a space station while hunting and killing other characters.
- Gamzee killed with bowling pins, and was responsible for the deaths of three characters. The first shrine prominently features three bowling pins.
Gallery[]
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Creepy clown story[]
References[]
- ↑ Fallout 76 loading screen hints: "The famous Atlantic City Boardwalk remains the heart of the city's seaside entertainments. As the seat of the Showmen's power, casual visitors are advised to be wary when their more lethal games are under way."