Any Fallout 76 players here?

[Stealthie]

Nodded off while watching video game reviews on Youtube last night and when I woke up there was a video of somebody playing F76 and it didn't look too bad.

I know it had big problems at launch but a bit of googling revealed that a lot of the bugs have been fixed and NPCs are supposed to be coming at some point.

I'm a big fan of Skyrim and Fallout 3/4.
Not especially keen on "shooter" games but I like RPGs with exploring and crafting etc.

One thing I did find with Fallout 4, though, was that once I started getting preoccupied with base-building, I lost interest in the story... and then I lost interest in base-buidling as well, which meant I lost interest in the whole game.
If base-building is a big part of F76, that might put me off.

Anybody playing it?
Is it worth a go?

 

[Vasea Azure]

I only played it during the recent free weekend so my experience is limited. But lets start off with pretending that entire "pay to win" controversy dont exist and that Bethesda didnt screw up like 25 times during development.
Pluses - the Appalachia is nice, the map is really big and there are some locations that are really beautiful and you can see that significant amount of creativity went there.
And for me thats the end of pluses. If you played Fallout 4, I dont really see the point in investing in F76 at this very moment. Unless you have a party of buddies to roam around with. If you like base building you can do just that as in Fallout 4 but all other aspects that made F4 interesting are absent. And lack of modding prevents you from making the experience any better, including fixing plethora of issues with base building.
If they add decent human NPCs with actual quest lines then maybe as a coop adventure it will have some merit over moddable Fallout 4 as a MP expiriance but at this point there is nothing there that makes me think you should buy it if you already have F4.

 

[Mxpower76]

I've thought about getting it for the exploration/walk sim aspect because the world looks interesting. But the lack of real mods and weird/interesting companions still has me put off. Not a big fan of base building or running into other players either. But adding NPCs is a step in the right direction though.

Also if you don't like base building in FO4 check out the Sim Settlements mod. Your settlers will build up the base themselves. I've used it for a while and seems to work pretty well. They'll build their own 3 level buildings, shops and defences. There's a bit of randomness to it though so you'll see beds clipping through a wall or other randomly placed objects. Although I've not updated in a while so it might have been fixed.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21872

 

[Ezren]

Not really worth it. The best fun for me, exploring the ruins of the world, is there, but the personalities and stories that flesh it out are mostly absent. Combat's standard fare, a bit more buggy than previous games.

The idea of "Fallout with a friend" was great, but the execution was "small-scale MMO with bonus bugs". I had been pretty excited for 76, too. Some good ideas were in there.

But it was a disaster in reality. I found myself thinking "this could have been more fun if it was done right", and all I could see where the hard lines drawn between "good idea" and "good enough for release" slapped together.

 

[askavir]

Take Fallout 3 or 4, strip away everything that makes it good in the first place (quests, stories, characters, modding, RPG elements), then add multiplayer and microtransactions. That's Fallout 76.

It's funny how it ended up stinking even more than what I was already expecting. On the other hand, it's far less funny that this is the future of Bethesda's flag franchises, so enjoy Fallout 3/4 and Skyrim, as you may never see games like those again.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

It's online. They're gonna screw you over so much more than FD does, simply because they dont mind cashing in via tweaking game balance and selling you "time savers" or other crap like that.
Forget about SP experience, this is all about milking you. Maybe sell some paid cheats and mods to you. It's the new norm now, so better get used to it.
Apart from that it's a dead world with dead things in it. It's buggy as hell. The story is pointless. You can build stuff, but rather buy FO4 and DLC. Or some other building game that can do it better.

 

[Demascus]

I think the utter disaster that was the fallout 76:
launch, marketing, security breaches, leaking of personal customer information, false advertising (just naming a few) has utterly destroyed any faith I have in any current or future bethesda product.

Now they are patching in more grind and selling the fix in their stores. Doubling back on the "store will be cosmetics only"

Recommend staying away from 76 or any future bethesda titles for that matter.

 

[Vasea Azure]

From what we know there is literally almost no one playing F76 and I`m pretty sure Bethesda will just try to milk it as much as possible and when it fails they will just drop it.
Worth mentioning there will never be modding for F76 as it would make the in game store obsolete. Just take a look at Fallout 4 official creation club items and then head to Nexus. Simple free outfit made by modders is 100 times worth real money than anything that Bethesda puts out.
And that brings me to question - will future Skyrims/Fallouts be as open for mods as they used to be? No one buys Creation club items as modders makes much better content for free. I`m seriously worried that they will block modding in the future just so they can sell "fixes" for intentional grind and poorly made cosmetics.

 

[askavir]

From what we know there is literally almost no one playing F76 and I`m pretty sure Bethesda will just try to milk it as much as possible and when it fails they will just drop it.
Worth mentioning there will never be modding for F76 as it would make the in game store obsolete. Just take a look at Fallout 4 official creation club items and then head to Nexus. Simple free outfit made by modders is 100 times worth real money than anything that Bethesda puts out.

Additionally modders on Nexus fixed loads of stuff that Bethesda never bothered to patch themselves... It's sad how they have been trying for years to get a piece of the mods cake for their own profit, when free mods is what turns their latest game into absolute masterpieces.

I still regularly play Skyrim (heavily modded) which I would otherwise have abandoned years ago. Fallout 4 was already nowhere near the same league as Skyrim, but becomes rather enjoyable with mods.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

If you care for the setting, probably better spare yourself the travesty. I wonder if they will give the same amount of ejaculate about Elder Scrolls lore after what they put into FO 76. I mean I'm certainly no lore purist but the bending over you need to do to get sold this crap is a bit much in my opinion.

 

[askavir]

If you care for the setting, probably better spare yourself the travesty. I wonder if they will give the same amount of ejaculate about Elder Scrolls lore after what they put into FO 76. I mean I'm certainly no lore purist but the bending over you need to do to get sold this crap is a bit much in my opinion.

I don't think Bethesda can now afford to botch Elder Scrolls 6... Bethesda's popularity is in an all-time low, and the community distrust in an all-time high.

Elder Scrolls is Bethesda's flag franchise, it's the reason why Bethesda is (still) seen as a triple-A game studio. Doubling back on their latest acts of douchebaggery and microtransactions and mod scene appropriation, and doing something great again is their golden opportunity to earn back the love of their fans and regain the fans trust.

Or, they can give in the greed and botch it again, push microtransactions into it, put more barriers to free mods, dumb it down even more, and join EA in the "most hated publisher of mediocre games" club.

Time will tell. I admit my hopes are very low, but we'll always have Skyrim I guess...