Bethesda has reportedly permabanned a group of players for their incredibly offensive actions in the newly-released Fallout 76.
Branding themselves the “gay eliminators,” a group of friends took it upon themselves to shout homophobic slurs during the online multiplayer game whilst killing other players.
Twitter user AJpls shared a video of the offensive attack and it’s led to the permaban of the “eliminators.”
So @bethesda, how do we report people in @Fallout? @ChipWhitehouse @Handsandhead and I literally had our characters hunted down and killed by homophobic players. I’ll post more of the video in a thread. Strong language warning. pic.twitter.com/gN1rsRFz1h
— AJpls (@twitch_ajpls) November 16, 2018
Called themselves the “gay eliminators” “cleansing the wasteland of the queers” “know what we did to your people back then, we killed them” THIS is the stuff said to us tonight when playing Fallout. @bethesda @BethesdaStudios @Fallout #Fallout #Fallout76 pic.twitter.com/zwPuz7AbsG
— AJpls (@twitch_ajpls) November 16, 2018
Watch the video above, but be warned – it contains NSFW content.
Speaking to Eurogamer, AJ said: “The three of us were having a good time and talking to [the troll] and then one of us commented on his character or his characters outfit being cute. He replied, ‘I don’t f*ck with that homo shit’ and left.
The player, named NathanTheHicc , then returned – with back-up.
AJ explained: “The game notified me that if I didn’t fight back, they would do limited damage so I didn’t fight back and hoped they would just get bored and leave.
“They stuck with it and even joked about how ‘this is the strongest queer I’ve ever seen’.”
After AJ’s character had been killed, he left the game for another server.
To all those who say they’re just joking and it’s funny, if you replaced “faggot” with the N-word would you think the same? Would it be funny and just a joke then as well? Young struggling LGBT youth may be playing this, and have 10x the suicide rate of the straight population.
— Digital_Nomad (@Digital18296342) December 1, 2018
The players have been banned indefinitely for their offensive actions.