Fallout 76 players are making wonderful postcards from bugs and glitches
Having a most unusual vacation. Wish you were here?
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
Fallout 76 has a nice photomode, which is a relief because it's difficult to find a way to compliment the game these days. One of the features of the photomode is the ability to include a little postcard frame around the borders of the pictures you take. Reddit member PaulrusKeaton has been making lovely keepsake postcards from glitches, and other Fallout 76 players are joining in, painting a picture of a vacation gone completely buggy.
(It helps to enlarge the postcards by clicking the upper right corner, to fully appreciate the glitches.)
I don't get the feeling these postcards are in any way mean-spirited. Games have bugs, that's just how it is sometimes, and there can be a certain charm in that. Kind of a 'it's better to laugh than cry' attitude. As PaulrusKeaton puts it:
"But seriously, as much of a buggy, lawsuit-worthy mess this game is, I'm having fun and, while it reflects poorly on the developers that most of the issues were not handled before release—for whatever reason—I hope it all gets fixed soon... and I get $20 worth of Atoms to account for paying full-price. :|"
I'm not sure that last request will come true, but in the meantime I'm enjoying all the postcards, which often involve posing next to enemies who have had AI misfires but also include floating garbage, floating players, and floating corpses. A lot of floating, in fact. Have a look at a few more.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

