Official Thread Fallout 76
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I put in a good chunk of time into the game last night, maybe 7 hours. I was enjoying it so-so by myself, but I really started having a blast when two of my friends jumped online and we were able to quest together. It truly has be a great solution to the "wouldn't it be awesome if we could play coop in a Fallout game?!" request many of us have had for the last 10 years .
I didn't play any of the beta, or pay much attention to any of the pre-release media, so I was surprised and quite happy by how few bugs I experienced on the first night. Don't get me wrong, it's an open worth Bethesda game, there were definitely bugs, but nothing close to the extent of what New Vegas and 4 had right off the bat.
There are some gameplay elements I'm not thrilled with initially (water and food survival elements, excessively long holotape recordings, excessive terminal lore reading in some areas, camp building, etc). The questing, gameplay, and world have all been really fun so far though. I've enjoyed it much more than I was anticipating on day one. I've actually already put about double the time into this than I have in Red Dead 2 at this point.
I didn't play any of the beta, or pay much attention to any of the pre-release media, so I was surprised and quite happy by how few bugs I experienced on the first night. Don't get me wrong, it's an open worth Bethesda game, there were definitely bugs, but nothing close to the extent of what New Vegas and 4 had right off the bat.
There are some gameplay elements I'm not thrilled with initially (water and food survival elements, excessively long holotape recordings, excessive terminal lore reading in some areas, camp building, etc). The questing, gameplay, and world have all been really fun so far though. I've enjoyed it much more than I was anticipating on day one. I've actually already put about double the time into this than I have in Red Dead 2 at this point.
I ended up picking it up and found it to be loads of fun as well. Graphically I think its very rough around the edges and I hit different bugs that causes me to restart but neither of those things have dampened my enjoyment of it. Actually it was one of times that when I finally looked at my phone I realized 4 hours had past and it was nearly 2am despite saying I'd only play an hour before bed.
It doesn't sound as bad as some of the reviews are making it out to be. An open world adventure that you can explore at your leisure and set in the Fallout universe? I don't really see a problem with that.
People always want the next story in the franchise and i get it. No NPCs leaves something to be desired but obviously if you go into a game like Fallout 76 with a clear mind and accept it for what it is then it's not a bad game.
I guess it's kinda relatable to Metal Gear Survive. Maybe if i was as big of a Fallout fan as i am a MGS fan i'd understand the outrage but at the same time Survive was just a mess and an abomination to the franchise on so many levels so.. lol.
People always want the next story in the franchise and i get it. No NPCs leaves something to be desired but obviously if you go into a game like Fallout 76 with a clear mind and accept it for what it is then it's not a bad game.
I guess it's kinda relatable to Metal Gear Survive. Maybe if i was as big of a Fallout fan as i am a MGS fan i'd understand the outrage but at the same time Survive was just a mess and an abomination to the franchise on so many levels so.. lol.
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I'm playing with a party of four and everyone is loving it. We played yesterday for 8-9 hours straight with people staying up when they had to work the next day and taking off work because they didn't expect to enjoy it this much. Seems alot of the hate is coming from people that are mad its not mainline solo experience. I've haven't ran into any glitches yet but the framerate can tank in towns.
I've had a similar experience playing solo. It's actually refreshing to see someone else roaming around since your knee deep in super mutants most of the time.
I agree that the graphics and framerate are a bit rough, but I found opening up my PIP Boy and closing it helped to snap it out of "choppiness". Hopefully within the next few months they'll iron out some of the performance issues with a series of patches.
While I wasn't originally interested in this, the player reviews have me a little hyped for it actually. Might wait a few months and pick it up, hopefully the bugs will be taken care of by then.
I have zero interest in this and I love the series. The video and blogs about it just didn’t click with me at all. I watched a few of the review videos posted on this thread and some streaming after it came out and ended up buying it. I absolutely love it. It’s just loads of fun. It’s pace all depends on how you want to play it but it’s generally kind of slow and methodical which suits me to the ground. I highly recommend this if you like the series or survival/rpg style games.
I really like it. My biggest gripe is that it crashes from time to time. It's a tad buggy I find. Its great fun to play though.
Didn’t read the review. Definitely wouldn’t call this an ‘avoid’ though. That’s seems really hard.
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Ok, started reading it and notice something immediately wrong with one of the first comments:
“But there are no human, ghoul or other non-robot characters anywhere in the game”
That is flat out wrong. There are ghouls, mutants, super mutants, death claws, some crazy flying monsters and whole bunch of other stuff.
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Yeah the reviewer is completely wrong on a couple of points. I agree with the bugs and graphics comments but nothing else. I didn’t find base building to be hard. In fact I found it amazingly easy and fast to do. The point about loading a world where another player has built a base causing yours to vanish is minor annoyance alright. It’s omly happened to me once so far so I guess it’s dependent on where you build and if it’s an active area.
Yes in principle. But it just works much more smoothly when it comes to snapping pieces together. I have a small ish two two storey shack on a mountain with a couple of turrets in the roof facing the enterance and some crafting tables and a bed in it. But you can go all out on it if you want providing you have the supplies.
So only robot NPCs. Yes that’s correct so far but that does not subtract from the feeling of it being a fallout game in any way at all. There are NPCS, like I always said there would be. They are just robots this time.
Plus, if they want to add other kinds of NPC, they can do that easily.
Not sure how that works. Interesting NPCs are a big part of fallout games.
My take based on feedback thus far is that this a fallout game without the stuff that makes fallout games fallout games. Also, it seems like another Sea of Thieves type game where you have to make your own story and fun but with nothing in the game to do that with.
I’m glad I waited to get this. This seems like one of those games that could be really good 6months - to a year out with updates and added content.
The world is exactly the same as Fallout 4. The only difference is no human NPCs because the game is set twenty odd years after the nukes drop and all the people you were meant to help are dead and their robot servants are all that’s left.
And it’s nothing like SoT. That had three missions. This has tons of missions in it, given from dead bodies, radio messages, old holo tapes etc, just like any other Fallout.
I like the world a lot more in terms of its varied environments and world story telling. I felt lie FO4 felt very samey and uninteresting. In this game, I'm always curious what's around the corner. I just could care less in FO4.