"Fallout 4" is almost ready for shipping and fans are doing whatever they can to secure a copy for themselves--one of them, who collected thousands of bottle caps, even used his collection to pay for the game. Luckily for the fan, Bethesda has accepted his payment.

It has previously been reported that Reddit user, GatorMacheteJr, in post-apocalyptic "Fallout" fashion, collected a total of 2,240 bottle caps--weighing a total of 11.2 pounds--over the past seven and a half years after playing "Fallout 3" to cover his pre-order of the latest game in the series. And it seems that game developer Bethesda Game Studios and publisher Bethesda Softworks have received the said bottle caps and are accepting this as payment, even promising to ship GatorMacheteJr his copy of "Fallout 4" once it launches later this year.

Bethesda global community manager Matt Grandstaff posted on Twitter last June 24, a picture of the bottle caps sent out by the fan. He captioned it, "Yes, my office smells like beer #Fallout4." One Twitter user also asked about the bottles caps, to which Bethesda replied and confirmed that they are honoring these bottle caps as payment for GatorMacheteJr's pre-order.

But those looking at following GatorMacheteJr's footsteps can expect that the tactic will not work anymore. Grandstaff informed fans, still via Twitter, that "for being first, [GatorMacheteJr] deserves the recognition."

GatorMacheteJr also confirmed the news on his Reddit account. He posted, "[Bethesda's Matt Grandstaff] told me since I was the first person to do this, I would be receiving a copy of the game this November, and that he would be running my caps over to deposit them at the People's Bank of Point Lookout."

The "Fallout" series is set in a futuristic post-war setting and is influenced by post-war America of the 1950s. "Fallout 4" is the fourth installment in the open-world role-playing series. It will start shipping for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC this November.