Fallout 76 Announced - Are you in?

Demascus

Demascus
Jenner said:
Rightly so. :) F4 was not nearly as good as it should have been.
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I did enjoy Fallout 4 but I missed a of the quirkiness that made the old fallout games.... well...fallout.

Where is my "being mugged by a gang of old ladies with rolling pins"? The conversation options range from "Sarcastic, grumpy, nice" wheel. Not to mention loss of a lot of rpg elements and the skill point system.

My biggest issues with 76 is not so much the buggy and lack luster game. It is the utter laziness, lack of effort and shady business practices as a whole with 76's launch.
 

krylite

krylite
It seems to me that it almost feels like somebodies at Bethsesda ventured to adopt some of the shenanigans of CIG's marketing (the exorbitant imagery trailer /w the spinning shooting girl lol) or earlier HG's hype train for some attempted extra cash grab. Bethesda was still far above CG in terms of a history of released quality games, but now what an unnecessary stoop to a new low.

Captain Willard said:
The purists wanted FO-3 and FO-NV done over and over with new maps.
ME got better and better with me2 and me3. The purists wanted Me1 done over and over.
Oh Well.
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Similarly with some of the rpg mechanics of Daggerfall & Morrowind subsequently diluted throughout ES4: Oblivion and then ES5: Skyrim.

Having not been a regular partaker of the Fallout franchise, my first foray into the franchise was some of Fallout NV which I got late on a bargain sale, I also just got Fallout 4 this past month on the holiday season sale. With some added nexus mods, I've found the settlement building and settler management an interesting and fun new feature although I do miss the desert vistas of NV and hope they update it or make another game in the setting someday.
 
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Demascus

Demascus
I found FO:NV to be the best of the series in regards to the rpg and story telling. Ironically the best of the series, new vegas, was made by obsidian entertainment and not bethesda.
 

Manticore

Manticore
I've played all the Fallout games; currently playing Fallout 4 and 76.

76 is pretty unforgiving. I've been walking around with a pipe wrench as a weapon; ammo is scarce and you have to do a lot of trading.

I'm not passing judgement on 76 yet though, I haven't played it enough.
 

Spacecat

Spacecat
Manticore said:
I've played all the Fallout games; currently playing Fallout 4 and 76.

76 is pretty unforgiving. I've been walking around with a pipe wrench as a weapon; ammo is scarce and you have to do a lot of trading.

I'm not passing judgement on 76 yet though, I haven't played it enough.
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Get the scrounger perk and you'll be overflowing with ammo in no time. Get all 3 levels of the water and food perk. Also, build a base and set up a couple of water purifiers.
 

Flyinspaghetti

Flyinspaghetti
Manticore said:
I've played all the Fallout games; currently playing Fallout 4 and 76.

76 is pretty unforgiving. I've been walking around with a pipe wrench as a weapon; ammo is scarce and you have to do a lot of trading.

I'm not passing judgement on 76 yet though, I haven't played it enough.
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I bought this game on the cheap to bide my time for DW2, I knew it would be awful but I didn't know to what extent and this is the one thing that's killing it for me.

At first you start of getting very decent supplies of ammo, materials and chems but after you hit level 10 or so they start to diminish. Before long you barely get any ammo and when you do there's hordes or ghouls/scorched that you end up emptying it with. You can spend hours gathering crafting junk that'll only give you 20 rounds or so only for yet another horde to be dealt with, earning caps is also slow and the vendor prices are too expensive. Radaway is the worst, I had a dry spot where I didn't find a single one in like 4 hours of play and you can't even craft it until a later level quest unlocks the vendor.

Also the perk system is a joke and straight out of a microtransaction instruction book, sort of like they pulled the paid perk packs at the last minute. No choice and just pure luck what cards you get, and you can't really specialize early on as what cards you get is based on pure luck.
 

Demascus

Demascus
Anyone still giving this game a go?....because if so, then my condolences

[video=youtube_share;ONYi895HZ9I]https://youtu.be/ONYi895HZ9I[/video]
 

widderic

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Demascus said:
Anyone still giving this game a go?....because if so, then my condolences
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When it first launched I downloaded immediately. Played for a few hours and was like yuck this is awful. Waited for the next patch, played for like 10 hours and experienced terrible frame rates even with a beast of a PC and constant server crashes, it was unplayable. Waiting for the next patch and the frame rate was fixed but had a problem with enemies re-spawning by the dozens essentially wasting my ammo. Constantly ran into areas where would be level 5 ghouls mixed in with level 60 ghouls which you cannot escape and subsequently die (even at level 40). My final straw was when I was minding my own business and then 3 other people pop up out of nowhere and start fighting a level 99 creature and the server crashed which reset a long and grueling "go here, then go here, now go back here, now go here" mission. Screw you Bethesda, don't ever make another online Fallout again.
 

askavir

askavir
On the positive side, after Fallout 4's significant decrease in quality (compared to their previous games in their major franchises) and Fallout 76 complete but predictable disaster, Bethesda just cannot risk another major blunder in their big franchises, so Elder Scrolls 6 will be at least as awesome as Skyrim or Oblivion. :D

Or not, and Bethesda it simply collapsing... I hope not, several of their previous games gave me many thousands of hours of great entertainment, more than all the other games I have ever played combined.

I wonder if this is just a bad phase that will pass, or Bethesda is just so obsessed with jumping in the microtransaction bandwagon to even notice (or no longer care) why their older games used to be huge, legendary successes...

Bethesda's last huge hit was still Skyrim (which was the last of an incredible streak of 5 consecutive game of the year bethesda releases), but that was already 8 years ago. Time to forget about the microtransaction and paid mods bullpoo, and remember why people used to love their games.
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
askavir said:
On the positive side, after Fallout 4's significant decrease in quality (compared to their previous games in their major franchises) and Fallout 76 complete but predictable disaster, Bethesda just cannot risk another major blunder in their big franchises, so Elder Scrolls 6 will be at least as awesome as Skyrim or Oblivion. :D

Or not, and Bethesda it simply collapsing... I hope not, several of their previous games gave me many thousands of hours of great entertainment, more than all the other games I have ever played combined.

I wonder if this is just a bad phase that will pass, or Bethesda is just so obsessed with jumping in the microtransaction bandwagon to even notice (or no longer care) why their older games used to be huge, legendary successes...

Bethesda's last huge hit was still Skyrim (which was the last of an incredible steak of 5 consecutive game of the year bethesda releases), that was already 8 years ago. Time to forget about the microtransaction and paid mods bullpoo, and remember why people used to love their games.
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I certainly hope they are not on on a irreversible decline as they've been one of my favorite development for years. They've had bad times before and have pulled through, though. Just like in the late 90's when they churned out two flops (Redguard and Battlespire), they now have to re-focus on what they do well. Back then they went all-in on TES 3: Morrowind and it saved their rear ends. They need to make the same call today.
 
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DefiledDragon

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I'm not feeling optimistic for TES6. Fallout 4 was so far removed from 3 as to be unrecognisable as one of the franchise, beyond aesthetics. Fallout 76 is indicative of Bethesda's further foray into EA territory. Skyrim was to Oblivion what Fallout 4 was to Fallout 3 and TES6 will likely be a further devolution of the R in RPG.
 

Demascus

Demascus
Problem is the Todd Howard already stated that the next elder scrolls and their new IP are being created on the same aging buggy engine. Kinda a pre slap to the face to hoping to the future.
 

jonluv

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Manticore said:
I've played all the Fallout games; currently playing Fallout 4 and 76.

76 is pretty unforgiving. I've been walking around with a pipe wrench as a weapon; ammo is scarce and you have to do a lot of trading.

I'm not passing judgement on 76 yet though, I haven't played it enough.
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Bought Fallout 76 for £10 yesterday —played about 4 hours got to level 6, am finding it to be like a junior ( amateur) version of it’s predecessors.

So far no depth to the game but the scenery is very impressive, feel sorry for those who paid £50 for it
 

Memnoch

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Jezzah said:
Sick of that awful engine.
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I can't believe they don't have the money to create a new engine.

Then again, looking at recent FO76 news, where a new patch they released managed to re-implement previously fixed bugs, I guess anything is possible.

I wouldn't even buy this for £10 right now, mainly because I have better games to play.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
I guess Ed didn't read this thread: https://twitter.com/edwardclewis/status/1097964861965942785

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Memnoch

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Oh, sweet Jesus, what has he done!?

I hope he took some military grade armour with him as the community is likely to eat him alive.
 
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