Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is taking loads of warmth on-line for current choices to shut beloved studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. Final evening the long-time gaming exec was apparently exploring the wasteland in Fallout 76 when one other participant nuked his complete campsite.
“It’s not a lot too it I’ve been planning to catch him for some time now to see if he would comply with a battle,” consumer real1090jake informed Kotaku over Twitter DMs. “Attempting to take him down was only a private objective for me after I completed the principle quest line.” He shared some extra screenshots from the encounter which has been weeks within the making. “The Huge Common, Phil higher not let me catch him,” real1090jake tweeted again in April.
Spencer’s popularity for being the gamer’s gaming boss has taken a serious hit this yr on the again of a number of large controversies. The primary was mass layoffs at Microsoft in January that hit Blizzard and different improvement groups. The second was a brand new technique to start bringing some main first-party console exclusives to PlayStation 5 like Sea of Thieves, which some Xbox followers noticed as the corporate abandoning an ecosystem it spent many years build up. Then there was this week’s closures of 4 extra studios, together with the workforce behind critically acclaimed 2023 rhythm motion platformer, Hello-Fi Rush.
Final evening, Twitter consumer Sam_Snydes shared a screenshot of Fallout 76 that instantly went viral. It confirmed the campsite of the exec, whose Xbox deal with “P3″ and penchant for taking part in lots of of hours of video games annually is well-known amongst followers, engulfed in purple circle indicating a lately exploded nuke. “Lmao somebody nuked Phil Spencer’s camp in Fallout 76,” Sam_Snydes wrote.
Real1090jake instantly took credit score within the feedback. “Responsible,” he wrote again with shrug emoji. Connected was extra proof, together with a screenshot of Spencer waving to him and a short video clip of the the exec’s campsite shrouded in radioactive fog. “He was the ultimate boss in my eyes,” real1090jake informed Kotaku. “In a RPG I desire to be the dangerous man.”
He mentioned he’d been working towards the objective of dropping a nuke on Spencer since finishing Fallout 76‘s essential questline final month. “He jumps across the map as a result of he’s all the time instantly crowded by gamers,” real1090snake mentioned. “I truthfully simply wished my 1v1 however he wouldn’t assault me again he waved and did a few hearts after I caught him alone.”
Whereas the timing has made the episode meme fodder for players dunking on a model that’s presently having one of many worst weeks in its historical past, real1090snake wasn’t making an attempt to make any type of assertion in regards to the standing of Xbox or the current layoffs. “I joked about attacking him as a result of he damage our emotions…[but] it’s been my mission weeks earlier than,” he mentioned.
As an alternative it was extra about embracing role-play within the wasteland and chasing a brand new meta goal. There’s no precise Xbox achievement for nuking Phil Spencer but when there have been it will most likely be one of many rarest within the platform’s historical past. “This was a calculated assault lol I’ve no beef with Phil,” real1090snake tweeted final evening. “Phil’s cool Fallout 76 is cool.”
