How long is the story campaign in this game?

[Dirty Wizard]

About how long does the story take to complete? And are there any side quest missions? Thinking of getting back into it but I'll wait for more content if it's going to be short.

[FormerFishFarmer]

There are now a couple of different stories going on, and I think we're going to get another one soon.
How long it takes will depend on how fast you want to go, how much you skip, how much you use guides, etc.
It can take quite a long time, these days, if you don't try to rush or speed run it. I take my time, explore, and get side tracked easily, so for me, it's over a hundred hours, maybe even more. Speed running it, with guides, only going where you need to, maxing your daily Caps, and buying gear, avoiding side missions and exploring, I don't know, maybe 20-30 hours? Probably even less, honestly, especially if you avoid the Seasons, Events, skip all the Lore, don't listen to NPC's,
don't do Dailies, etc.

[Dirty Wizard]

So they've been updating the actual story content since they released it?

[Seithan]

The story continues with the comming update, landing around December. In general, the story is long, lots of ministories too, comprised by audio and text.

But since its an MMO, once you finish the stories, and start doing the events, cause thats all you get after all stories are told, it starts to get grindy. Its severely missing multiplayer content thats deep and engaging tbh. No dungeons to grind for example. No raids. Two big events, one is on the free roam and the other within a dungeon (the only dungeon multiplayer content and its fun, but its one boss so it gets old fast).

[RMPyro]

Campaign is short, the game is more focused on multiplayer content.
It takes maybe 5 hours to finish the main campaign as a high level. Around the same it takes to finish on other bethesda games if you just doing the main quest at high level.

[Dirty Wizard]

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Campaign is short, the game is more focused on multiplayer content.
It takes maybe 5 hours to finish the main campaign as a high level. Around the same it takes to finish on other bethesda games if you just doing the main quest at high level.

Are there side quests and NPC's that give side quests?

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Dirty Wizard:

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Campaign is short, the game is more focused on multiplayer content.
It takes maybe 5 hours to finish the main campaign as a high level. Around the same it takes to finish on other bethesda games if you just doing the main quest at high level.

Are there side quests and NPC's that give side quests?

There is the original main quest.
Wastelanders main quest.
Side quests in the world.
Side quests given by NPCs you "invite" to your camp.
Side quests that aren't given quests, but things you need to do to get something (Alien Blaster + Ammo).
Group events.

[RMPyro]

Originally posted by Dirty Wizard:

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Campaign is short, the game is more focused on multiplayer content.
It takes maybe 5 hours to finish the main campaign as a high level. Around the same it takes to finish on other bethesda games if you just doing the main quest at high level.

Are there side quests and NPC's that give side quests?

Yes what the other guy said, there are two main quests, the old one and the new one after wastelanders. Most ppl don't like the old main quest. But I liked it after you got to the mire region because there was more interesting backstory added to it then.
Also there are those quests you get from camp companions, and the quests for raiders and settlers with is the split part of the mainquest later in the game.

There are some old side quests from before wastelanders aswell, but most ppl don't like them either. Some of them are required if you want to craft for example BOS power armor or enclave power armor. The side quests are quite long, like the figher guild quests in skyrim.

Later in december they will add a new mainquest involving brotherhood of steel, there will be a small quest first, leading to a bigger quest later.