Fallout 76

dreamers75 · 10-10-2018 9:07pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

The more I look at it the more I feel like its a baby, heavily downgraded with carebear mechanics Rustwith fallout skins. This thing will tank to the bottom and fast.

Fallout universe is interesting, because of the setting, characters, world, humour, oddities etc. When you take out characters and npcs the whole world just falls apart.

Yeah its an SP game for me, not really arsed with that type of PVP and babycore.

10-10-2018 9:09pm

Fallout is dead

Osmosis Jones · 10-10-2018 9:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Fallout is dead

To you maybe, otherwise not even slightly.

10-10-2018 9:33pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

To you maybe, otherwise not even slightly.

Yeah to me. Its an RPG in my mind. Whatever this is and fallout 4 was are garbage.

TerrorFirmer · 10-10-2018 11:09pm

Why even put them in the same sentence. This is an online PVP/PVE base building game. Fallout 4 is still an RPG, bit diluted maybe but still an RPG at its core. Pretty sure it's the best selling game in the franchise too. I probably prefered FO3 or New Vegas relative to when they came out but it's still a great game.

Kiith · 11-10-2018 9:05am

Yeah, i've absolutely no interest in this tbh. As above, Fallout is a single player game, with interesting characters and quests. Remove all of that, and VATs, and you can barely even call it a Fallout game. The gunplay in Fallout 4 wasn't exactly good, and that's pretty much what this will be judged on.

Shiminay · 11-10-2018 2:57pm

All I want from the Bethesda RPGS - be they Fallout or Elder Scrolls - is the ability to play one of their games co-op. None of this only online with PVP and no NPCs, but have a drop-in/drop-out co-op option and be PVE only. It's not a small ask from a technical POV, I understand this, but that's what I'd wish they'd made this game into.

Dcully · 12-10-2018 9:17am

I will admit to not watching much gameplay but reading all the negatives i just had to turn to one of the good fallout content creators for his thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wDfWVlBWg

gimli2112 · 12-10-2018 9:58am

I get caught in the hype every time. 3 was OK but I never finished it, 4 was worse, the whole settlement building thing felt off and overall I was sorry I got it. Saw that video yesterday (a little of the gameplay) and it piqued my interest

but I don't think I'll get it.

degrassinoel · 12-10-2018 10:21am

Shiminay wrote: »

All I want from the Bethesda RPGS - be they Fallout or Elder Scrolls - is the ability to play one of their games co-op. None of this only online with PVP and no NPCs, but have a drop-in/drop-out co-op option and be PVE only. It's not a small ask from a technical POV, I understand this, but that's what I'd wish they'd made this game into.

This.

Black Isle-style isometric CRPG with co-op would be brilliant.

It's not the first time i've heard/read people wishing for it either. Even in different genre, the demand seems to be there and seems to go on deaf ears/blind eyes. There are some great co-op games and some great RPG's, but never the twain shall meet it seems.

12-10-2018 12:15pm

No NPCs, what's the mission structure. Fetch quests and random encounters with PVE
Such Meh

Taking out NPCs is like taking out the one of the best parts of what makes Fallout a Fallout game.

Lone Stone · 12-10-2018 2:06pm

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Currently downloading the stress test for XB1. Looking forward to checking this out tonight!

https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1050058017742495745

so how was it ?

ERG89 · 12-10-2018 2:18pm

Fred The Red wrote: »

No NPCs, what's the mission structure. Fetch quests and random encounters with PVE
Such Meh

Taking out NPCs is like taking out the one of the best parts of what makes Fallout a Fallout game.

It'll still have bugs and run like a pig until a few patches so its got the fallout motif

Really Bethesda lost my interest when Fallout 4 came out; it just felt so bland, out of date on day one and out of any good new ideas.
Oh but you can build a settlement and have not at all annoying repetitive quests as a result; don't worry we've also butchered the dialogue system in case you liked that too.

MiskyBoyy · 12-10-2018 2:33pm

Lone Stone wrote:

so how was it ?

I was wrong, it was just to pre-load. Not live until tomorrow (Saturday)

Retr0gamer · 12-10-2018 10:08pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

This.

Black Isle-style isometric CRPG with co-op would be brilliant.

Divinity 2 says hello

MiskyBoyy · 14-10-2018 10:47am

I played the stress test last night for the 4 hours it was open.

At the end of it, I was disappointed I couldn't play more. I was genuinely enjoying it.

There's definitely enough quests to keep you going anyway, I was overwhelmed as usual with any of these games with the amount to do.

I know there's not supposed to be any human NPC's but the robot ones I came across were actually funny and engaging.

The whole time I could see other real players on the map and in the world going about their business but apart from using the emoji wheel towards each other, that was the only contact we had.

There's also live events that occur at random points on the map (you can fast travel straight to them using bottle caps) that get you to work together with other players. The last one I did last night was to get a cumulative 50 firefly lights between all players and deposit them in the light at the top of the lighthouse. You get random rewards such as stimpacks and building supplies.

All in all, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Who knows how long it would keep you engaged for post-release but the amount I played was definitely fun. The biggest downside now is its release window. Bang right between Red Dead and Battlefield V.

EoinMcLovin · 14-10-2018 11:38am

Full World map

The Specialist · 15-10-2018 8:41am

Watched some of the gameplay of this over the weekend and it just looks completely soulless - nothing at all about this game is saying "buy me". It's like they took F4, removed all the NPC's and settlements, and turned it in to a multiplayer. Add to that the insane release window and I think this is really going to bomb hard.

15-10-2018 8:52am

Having loads of things to do is all well and good but I'd rather have a select amount of engaging / innovative things to do.
This is where this game will suffer I suspect. A social aspect carrying a game.

GavRedKing · 15-10-2018 11:15am

I was going to pick this up as a day one purchase but the last few weeks I've soured my opinion on it so I'll probably wait until around Christmas to pick it up.

None of my mates will be picking it up either and I don't think it will be a great game to go solo through the wasteland.

Frankie5Angels · 15-10-2018 12:57pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

I was going to pick this up as a day one purchase but the last few weeks I've soured my opinion on it so I'll probably wait until around Christmas to pick it up.

None of my mates will be picking it up either and I don't think it will be a great game to go solo through the wasteland.

This is pretty much exactly what I'm thinking. Agree with the comments on how poor Fallout 4 was by comparison to its predecessors, so that doesn't fill me with hope on 76.

Has it the potential to completely tank? Or is there enough of a loyal fanbase to buy it anyway?

MiskyBoyy · 15-10-2018 2:24pm

For some reason, this thread and only this thread is causing the boards app to crash on my S7.

15-10-2018 2:38pm

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

For some reason, this thread and only this thread is causing the boards app to crash on my S7.

Fairly Standard as this is a Fallout thread :pac:

MiskyBoyy · 15-10-2018 9:41pm

Fred The Red wrote: »

Fairly Standard as this is a Fallout thread :pac:

:pac:

degrassinoel · 16-10-2018 12:40pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Divinity 2 says hello

i just didnt like it, but i wont be rude, hello.

MiskyBoyy · 17-10-2018 10:31am

The BETA can now be pre-loaded for those who have pre-ordered on XB1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/fallout-76-beta/bxrlgwwbj9r7

All progress from the BETA carries over to the full game.

Lone Stone · 17-10-2018 10:07pm

when is the pc beta might try get in to give it a bash with extremely low expectations or is that xbox one the same for pc ehh... windows store confuses me.

froog · 17-10-2018 10:42pm

the lack of any meaningful endgame is worrying. drop nukes, farm. that seems to be it. which would be fine if this was a traditional full storied single player effort but it seems like a watered down version of previous fallouts with more emphasise on co-op survival. I hope I'm wrong.

dreamers75 · 17-10-2018 10:49pm

Lone Stone wrote: »

when is the pc beta might try get in to give it a bash with extremely low expectations or is that xbox one the same for pc ehh... windows store confuses me.

There is no windows beta.

Strange your progress is carried over for Xbox users.

Temptamperu · 17-10-2018 11:14pm

I love fallout but this dont interest me much.

22-10-2018 11:48am

After watching videos for this recently, I must say I've gone from being on the fence to being aboard the hype train.

Someone in a previous comment mentioned the lack of music being meh but according to one of the videos I watched the guy playing said they weren't allowed use the music stations because of copyright.

I like the wilderness and to me it suits the game, especially since you are one of the first out of the vault only twenty years after the bombs hit. I like to think that what we do in the game will be shaping the previous games we played etc.

Kiith · 23-10-2018 3:35pm

Bethesda warns fans to expect spectacular bugs at launch. I guess bug testing is a thing of the past, when you can just launch the game in a broken state and rely on the people who paid for it to report them.

https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-warns-fallout-76-fans-to-expect-spectacular-bugs-and-issues/

J. Marston · 23-10-2018 7:31pm

The balls on them. You can forgive or expect that stuff from a dev making a game on their own or a tiny team but a quick google says this shower are worth anywhere from $1.3 to $3 billion. Up your standards.

But looking at the replies to their tweet, people adore being ridden by game companies.

24-10-2018 12:11pm

I watched alot of the Beta
It actually looks like a mod for Fallout 4 without a story / plot or NPCs

Terrible game-play, and the performance is awful

Sonics2k · 24-10-2018 2:26pm

Kiith wrote: »

Bethesda warns fans to expect spectacular bugs at launch. I guess bug testing is a thing of the past, when you can just launch the game in a broken state and rely on the people who paid for it to report them.

https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-warns-fallout-76-fans-to-expect-spectacular-bugs-and-issues/

Totally shocked and astounded by this. It's so unlike Betheda to release a game that's bug-riddled, glitchy and broken as hell on release.

:pac:

god's toy · 26-10-2018 7:15pm

The PC beta is preloading now.

Sephiroth_dude · 29-10-2018 2:36pm

Any thoughts on the beta?

ShadowHearth · 29-10-2018 11:07pm

I think some article hit perfectly about 76.
" Its going to be new No Mans sky. "
Enough said in one sentence and thats how I feel about it too.
I might pick it up after very heavy discount just to feck around in it for Fallout flavour. Not going near this at launch.

Notorious · 31-10-2018 10:11am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Any thoughts on the beta?

I saw a few posts on reddit slating low frame rates and an empty open world.

31-10-2018 11:13am

I played the beta on PC last night and absolutely loved it. It was so atmospheric . I quite enjoyed the fact that there were no npcs there. Picking up holotapes and notes gave me a real sense of the destruction. Would definately recommend the game .

Kiith · 31-10-2018 2:33pm

Apparently the pc version is an absolute cluster****. Looks terrible and runs like ****.

god's toy · 31-10-2018 8:51pm

Littlefinger wrote: »

I played the beta on PC last night and absolutely loved it. It was so atmospheric . I quite enjoyed the fact that there were no npcs there. Picking up holotapes and notes gave me a real sense of the destruction. Would definately recommend the game .

Would not let me log in at all, kept saying I was offline, then without warning started to re-download the entire 44 odd GB... so missed the whole thing. Lease we get a super long play test in a days time.

Sephiroth_dude · 01-11-2018 1:20am

They should have just made fallout 4.1 with npcs and all that good stuff that we love,bring back certain elements of fallout 3, having to repair weapons etc and forget about this multiplayer game until they can perfect it.

J. Marston · 01-11-2018 1:29am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

They should have just made fallout 4.1 with npcs and all that good stuff that we love,bring back certain elements of fallout 3, having to repair weapons etc and forget about this multiplayer game until they can perfect it.

Perfecting anything isn't really Bethesda's MO. This probably boils down to "We're missing out on microtransactions big time here. Slap Pip-Boy on something and throw it out there."

Nody · 01-11-2018 7:52am

Littlefinger wrote: »

I played the beta on PC last night and absolutely loved it. It was so atmospheric . I quite enjoyed the fact that there were no npcs there. Picking up holotapes and notes gave me a real sense of the destruction. Would definately recommend the game .

Seems other would disagree on that due to the issues around picking them up etc.

And honestly there is some great stupidity in design decisions such as locking game speed to frame rate in a game with PvP (i.e. faster movement speed AND faster shooting/melee rate) that is only going to be fixed after go live...

Kiith · 01-11-2018 10:27am

I probably wasn't going to get it anyway, but i'm definitely not getting it after everything i've seen over the last few days. The main issue it'll face is the fact that the combat in Fallout 4 wasn't particularly good, and this entire game is based on the combat. Without a proper story or npc's, it loses what most people actually played Fallout for.

Notorious · 01-11-2018 10:52am

Kiith wrote: »

Without a proper story or npc's, it loses what most people actually played Fallout for.

Hold on. I saw someone mentioned no NPCs earlier, but I assumed that was just for the beta. Is there no NPCs at all?

Kiith · 01-11-2018 11:18am

Nope, none at all apparently. You get some recordings of dead people but that's about it. bar enemies and player characters).

GavRedKing · 01-11-2018 11:32am

Its an interesting enough idea, I just dont think it warrants a full game release.

They probably could have tacked it on as a DLC for Fallout 4 and charged €15/20 and it might have been worth it.

I dont think I'll be spending money on it anyway, it sounds like a right mess and I was hyped for this when it was first announced.

MiskyBoyy · 01-11-2018 2:12pm

GavRedKing wrote:

They probably could have tacked it on as a DLC for Fallout 4 and charged â‚¬15/20 and it might have been worth it.

Agreed, full price is too much for this. I managed to pre-order it digitally on Xbox from Argentina for e20 or so. Otherwise I wouldn't bother getting it.

Fallout 76

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