Fallout 76

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 30-05-2018 3:50pm #1

I don't know how to feel about this.

I was very underwhelmed by Fallout 4 so I'll wait til E3 to see/hear more.

Who's developing it?

wes · 30-05-2018 3:54pm

Some details from Kotaku about an online component:

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/05/30/bethesda-announces-fallout-76

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 30-05-2018 3:57pm

Ah feck sake if it's an online game I'm not interested.

Venom · 30-05-2018 3:59pm

wes wrote: »

Some details from Kotaku about an online component:

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/05/30/bethesda-announces-fallout-76

Isn't Kotaku still blacklisted by Bethesda? Seem's odd them having the scoop on this.

I'd be ok with a Fallout Online if its done as well as Elder Scrolls Online.

quinnd6 · 30-05-2018 4:04pm

I agree with the second last post. If it's an online only game they can stick it.

wes · 30-05-2018 4:05pm

Venom wrote: »

Isn't Kotaku still blacklisted by Bethesda? Seem's odd them having the scoop on this.

Don't know, but they do have form when it comes to rumours.

Sonics2k · 30-05-2018 4:07pm

I was woefully underwhelmed by Fallout 4. As much as I love the theme of the game, I found it be really bland.

Also getting sick of Bethesda just using the same engine over and over again. I am, however, really hoping this is a decent game.

J. Marston · 30-05-2018 4:11pm

If it's single-player, I'm going to be very cautious after Fallout 4.

If it's an MMO, that isn't really my thing so won't be interested.

Falthyron · 30-05-2018 4:13pm

I am more interested in playing a Fallout MMO than I am an Elder Scrolls one. I like the world of Fallout more, I find it to be far more interesting. When I consider the possibilities of a MMO-styled Fallout, there are ideas there that would appeal to me. Guilds building their own Vaults, the different factions to ally yourself with and therefore different mission types, an even bigger map(!) to explore, building vendors to sell the stuff you craft, building your own place and customising it, etc.

Not sure how PvP would work, but the PvE stuff would be enough to get me to try the game at the very least.

ShadowHearth · 30-05-2018 4:19pm

I wonder if they will try pull some sort of Destiny games as service thing.
I am huge fallout fan and I played since very first one and the last one was pretty damn ****. I guess anything will be better then 4 at this stage.

VinLieger · 30-05-2018 4:20pm

So Vault 76 is in Virginia somewhere and its also a control vault, meaning no messed up experiments, that was scheduled to open after 20 years which im guessing is what the ''reclamation day'' banner is about

Falthyron · 30-05-2018 4:25pm

VinLieger wrote: »

So Vault 76 is in Virginia somewhere and its also a control vault, meaning no messed up experiments, that was scheduled to open after 20 years which im guessing is what the ''reclamation day'' banner is about

That seems about right. What is interesting about Vault 76 is that it supposedly contained around 500 dwellers. Anyone know how many dwellers was the average for a vault? The large number might be a hint as to whether or not this is a MMO. 500 people breaking out of a vault into the Wasteland would be a nice number to have on a server for a MMO.

ShadowHearth · 30-05-2018 4:34pm

Falthyron wrote: »

That seems about right. What is interesting about Vault 76 is that it supposedly contained around 500 dwellers. Anyone know how many dwellers was the average for a vault? The large number might be a hint as to whether or not this is a MMO. 500 people breaking out of a vault into the Wasteland would be a nice number to have on a server for a MMO.

Battle Royal Fallout? :pac:

TerrorFirmer · 30-05-2018 4:34pm

Thought Fallout 4 was great myself. Not as good as 3 or New Vegas but realistically an excellent, deep game, haven't even finished it yet with about 200 hours in it so far.

Wouldn't write off an MMO though typically not my thing at all.

Falthyron · 30-05-2018 4:36pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Battle Royal Fallout? :pac:

We should start a poll in the E3 thread where we can guess how many Battle Royale games or Battle Royale modes for games will be announced this year. :pac:

ShaneU · 30-05-2018 4:41pm

76 wastelanders fall out of a brotherhood of steel airship onto a island......

Falthyron · 30-05-2018 4:49pm

ShaneU wrote: »

76 wastelanders fall out of a brotherhood of steel airship onto a island......

Not only do they have to try and become the last Wastelander standing, but they also face the perils and creatures that already live there.....

marcbrophy · 30-05-2018 4:49pm

Falthyron wrote: »

We should start a poll in the E3 thread where we can guess how many Battle Royale games or Battle Royale modes for games will be announced this year. :pac:

56?

nix · 30-05-2018 5:01pm

An MMO would great, pvp can easily be done, just get rid of the auto lock-on pit boy aim crap and aim the old fashioned way :pac:

CatInABox · 30-05-2018 5:09pm

I couldn't see any real improvement in their engine between Skyrim and Fallout 4, and at this stage I just don't think that they're interested in fixing what wrong with it, so unless it changes, I'll have a very low interest in this.

Mr Crispy · 30-05-2018 5:18pm

I'm reading Rust meets Fallout on a few other threads.

degrassinoel · 30-05-2018 5:19pm

I guess it wont be a crpg then

Varik · 30-05-2018 5:23pm

Could just be a state of decay kind of game, you've got you game you can play fully SP but friends can join in.

TheValeyard · 30-05-2018 5:26pm

Im fallout obsessed, so its all good with me

madcabbage · 30-05-2018 6:57pm

Cant wait to give this a lash irregardless of the type of game. Now for a Fallout Marathon!! :pac:

Zero-Cool · 30-05-2018 7:13pm

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

I'm reading Rust meets Fallout on a few other threads.

Yeah Kotaku reporting the same thing from 3 sources who wish to make anonymous who have worked on the project. Apparently they say it's an online game inspired by rust and dayz hhhmmmmmm

https://kotaku.com/sources-fallout-76-is-an-online-survival-rpg-1826425333?utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow&utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook

30-05-2018 7:50pm

An MMO similar to ESO would interest me a bit i'd say but if it's going to be a survival/basebuilding type thing i'm out.
I get the feeling Bethesda are overestimating the pulling power the Fallout brand has if they think the stunt they pulled with their live stream warrants a Rust clone

TheValeyard · 30-05-2018 7:51pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Yeah Kotaku reporting the same thing from 3 sources who wish to make anonymous who have worked on the project. Apparently they say it's an online game inspired by rust and dayz hhhmmmmmm

https://kotaku.com/sources-fallout-76-is-an-online-survival-rpg-1826425333?utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow&utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook

So another Elder Scrolls online then?

dreamers75 · 30-05-2018 8:45pm

ummmmm

Still fallout tho?

super_furry · 30-05-2018 9:15pm

It's clearly an Overwatch tie-up with Soldier 76 awoken from deep freeze in the Wasteland.

Really hated the base-building stuff in Fallout 4 and if this is an online game centred around that and survival mechanics, I don't think it will be a game for me.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 30-05-2018 9:27pm

This whole battle royale thing still looks like a fad to me. But then again I thought survival games were fads and look how many of them were shat out over the years (thanks, Minecraft).

I don't know. This might be the first Fallout game since New Vegas where I'm like "meh, I'll wait" because of all of these rumours and possibilities of it being an online-centric experience.. I am even more ashamed at myself for jumping for joy at the Battlefield 5 trailer more than I really should be doing for Fallout 76, and this guy doesn't even play online anymore. The last time I played online was Call of Duty WW2 and that was back on the first 2 weeks of its existence. I haven't touched it since.

Just like Pokémon Let's Go, I'm taking Fallout 76 with a grain of salt -- I'll form my level of excitement when E3 arrives.

My most anticipated game of this year is still Flashback for the Switch, and that game is technically 25 years old....... I'm old.

Zero-Cool · 30-05-2018 10:08pm

Good article breaking down the trailer like how the date is actually before super mutants were created. Not sure how long it takes ghouls to become feral? Trying to think what would be a common enemy to fight.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/30/17409604/fallout-76-trailer-breakdown

pixelburp · 30-05-2018 10:16pm

Survival games have been the one genre I keep falling for; I buy a game from the genre (usually highly hyped or recommended), only to remember that I actually hate the core gameplay loop of all survival games. So, yeah, Survival Fallout is a hard pass from me, no matter how great the franchise has been. As single player games at that.

Thargor · 30-05-2018 10:40pm

Multiplayer can feck off, Fallout is all about a lone wanderers journey through the wasteland. This probably means we wont hear about FO5 this decade now :mad:

Sephiroth_dude · 30-05-2018 10:57pm

Wish they had just announced it today and then given gameplay footage at e3.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 30-05-2018 11:06pm

Thargor wrote: »

Multiplayer can feck off, Fallout is all about a lone wanderers journey through the wasteland. This probably means we wont hear about FO5 this decade now :mad:

Back in 2006 I was all about online multiplayer. I wanted every game to have online multiplayer - - I loved it. I played every popular online game there was - Halo, Gears, COD, Battlefield, FIFA, Left 4 Dead and all the obscure ones - FEAR, Army of TWO - I just wanted every game to have an online component.............I was also 17/18/19 years old with no job and no responsibilities - a lazy bastard, to say the least. Fallout was never something I wanted to have online, even at my age at the time I knew it would never appeal to me. I had my go-to online games, and I had my go-to single-player experiences. Fallout was one of the big latter ones for me, and I personally think now is the time to start separating dedicated multiplayer franchises from singleplayer ones.

Fallout has never been the former, and I honestly do not think it's welcome in that infrastructure. I'm going to be 30 next year - I have a life to establish and a job, like so many other people here, who don't want another game-as-a-service shoved down their throats. This is why I never bothered with The Division, or Rainbow Six Siege, or Fortnite or indeed any MMO. I have my go-to online experience now and it's either Call of Duty or Battlefield if I can even be bothered, because games are all about the f*cking grind now and I hate it so much..... I love Fallout, I want Fallout 5 or a "New Vegas 2" kind of game.

This does not interest me going by the info...
I don't know if I speak for a majority when I say I don't have the time to be grinding out an umpteenth online survival game at this age. Like give me a break.

................. I kind of went off on one there........ I am more bothered about this than I should be!

That pinch of salt no longer exists. I'm very salty now :P

Rant over. I'll probably regret half of the ****e I said in a few weeks - or after more of the game is shown.

ShadowHearth · 30-05-2018 11:36pm

I love survival games. Risk vs reward. Actually care about your life and equipment. I had some fantastic gaming moments playing classic Rust with Boardsies. Then playing Arma exile mod with my friends. Its my favourite type of experience in video games outside of strategy and proper single player rpgs.
Saying that, I am 32 year old fart with proper misses, kid, full time job etc. The time I have to play is very inconsistent. I might be able to play one day for 5h, then next time it will be 3 days later for 45min. So these games are out of reach for me.
So no way I'll be able to dedicate myself to Fallout/Rust game. Thanks god for battle royal games, because I can get at least some taste of good old times.

Fallout was always about that cool retro futuristic adventure that I could tackle at my own pace. So this spin off might ne the first fallout I won't own.

Lone Stone · 31-05-2018 12:09am

Good lord if this is a rust/
ark clone i'l be so very dissapointed. If an mmorpg I would love that I'm a mmorpg fan.

degrassinoel · 31-05-2018 8:18am

anyone remember the interplay saga with fallout online? No? Interesting read if you havent heard of it before - specifically the legal dispute with bethesda and it's cancellation nearly ten years ago, when it had been 2 years into development and been announced as so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_Online

Plague Maiden · 31-05-2018 9:30am

I'm also somewhat disappointed by this. Credit to Bethesda for at least trying something new, but this seems to be another game built with that engine. Even worse, it sounds like it's Fallout 4 with a new mode, the type of thing that started as a mod.

More than anything else though, I'm worried about how they'll implement the storytelling and questing in an online game, when so much of the pacing is taken away from you. The Fallout games have a certain feel, from Fallout 2 to Fallout 4 (I assume the first title is the same, although I haven't played it). Even the recent Fallout board game managed to capture that renowned feeling of isolation and exploration where you create your own story. They'll have a hard job of capturing that in an online game. But as a fan of the franchise I hope they pull it off.

GavRedKing · 31-05-2018 10:42am

Plague Maiden wrote: »

I'm also somewhat disappointed by this. Credit to Bethesda for at least trying something new, but this seems to be another game built with that engine. Even worse, it sounds like it's Fallout 4 with a new mode, the type of thing that started as a mod.

More than anything else though, I'm worried about how they'll implement the storytelling and questing in an online game, when so much of the pacing is taken away from you. The Fallout games have a certain feel, from Fallout 2 to Fallout 4 (I assume the first title is the same, although I haven't played it). Even the recent Fallout board game managed to capture that renowned feeling of isolation and exploration where you create your own story. They'll have a hard job of capturing that in an online game. But as a fan of the franchise I hope they pull it off.

Tickle me interested in this.

31-05-2018 10:52am

Zero interest in this. Fallout 4 was a disgrace to the series. More of the same. I was hoping for a new IP altogether. Why would they bother though.

Zero-Cool · 31-05-2018 11:01am

Fallout has brilliant lore and potential for great story telling. Looking up vault 76, I started reading about other vaults and being reminded of the lore history, so intriguing. They just need to upgrade their engine and hire better writers. Fallout 4 was so boring and awful to look at. I don't think it helped releasing after The Witcher 3.

Zero-Cool · 31-05-2018 11:07am

A guy on Reddit was so sure the announcement would be a fallout 3 remaster, he said he'd drink a bottle of tobasco hot sauce of it was a new game...

fixXxer · 31-05-2018 11:10am

I wish Bethesda would just lease the use of another companies engine instead of persevering with the creaking mess they currently have. I think the jump from PS3 to PS4 made things worse as everyone suddenly looked like animated plastic face puppets. I'll keep praying for a Fallout 3/New Vegas remaster for the Switch in the mean time.

bigphil2 · 31-05-2018 11:16am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

A guy on Reddit was so sure the announcement would be a fallout 3 remaster, he said he'd drink a bottle of tobasco hot sauce of it was a new game...

They'll announce that at E3 as their,"Its available right now.." mic drop at the end..

Varik · 31-05-2018 11:25am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Good article breaking down the trailer like how the date is actually before super mutants were created. Not sure how long it takes ghouls to become feral? Trying to think what would be a common enemy to fight.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/30/17409604/fallout-76-trailer-breakdown

That's flawed, Super mutants weren't just created by the master. The Capital wasteland mutants predate them and this game (2102) and Washington is close to both Virginias (game might not be set in West Virginia) and borders one.

Ghouls were around but I'd say you can justify a feral with just excessive radiation.

Zero-Cool · 31-05-2018 11:34am

Varik wrote: »

That's flawed, Super mutants weren't just created by the master. The Capital wasteland mutants predate them and this game (2102) and Washington is close to both Virginias (game might not be set in West Virginia) and borders one.

Ghouls were around but I'd say you can justify a feral with just excessive radiation.

Would Fallout 1/2 be worth paying if I could get my hands on them. An android port would be ideal

SeantheMan · 31-05-2018 1:33pm

I think it's really important to reiterate this: Anyone who spends the next two weeks expecting Fallout: 76 to be a new traditional single-player RPG will be VERY disappointed - Jason Schreier (Editor of Kotaku)

31-05-2018 1:36pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

I think it's really important to reiterate this: Anyone who spends the next two weeks expecting Fallout: 76 to be a new traditional single-player RPG will be VERY disappointed - Jason Schreier (Editor of Kotaku)

I'm actually happy to hear that

31-05-2018 1:39pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Would Fallout 1/2 be worth paying if I could get my hands on them. An android port would be ideal

Depends if you like that type of game. It is not like Fallout 4. It has some similarities to Fallout 3. It is a turn based rpg where your decisions really do affect the world. You genuinely do have a choice in how to carry out a objective rather than the illusion of choice. I think fallout 2 is the best of the lot.

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