If you’ve been on the Fallout 76 subreddit over the past few months, you’ve probably seen them. Huge, grandiose and utterly outrageous; these are player traps which seem to hoodwink dozens despite their sinister facades.
They’re the work of Vault101manguy, also known as Mike: a Canadian Fallout 76 player who by day works in IT, but at night terrifies the citizens of Flatwoods. So far he’s created three traps, including a murder church, player oven and his latest masterpiece: a Deathclaw maze.
The posts have gained significant traction on Reddit, even inviting comment from a Bethesda dev, and Mike has plans to make even more traps in future. I had a chat with Mike to ask him a bit about his work and the process behind constructing the devices. Oh – and how he got that Deathclaw into the maze.
