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Fallout First subscribers are being actively targeted in Fallout 76
- Thread starter Komo
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Sell the Fallout IP to Microsoft.
And Cal Ripken Jr. I am sure he has been present at 1200 board meeting in a row.
This is probably the most fun Fallout 1st subscribers have had in this game in months.
Just sell an insurance policy in the Atom Shop: for 2000 atoms you get Brotherhood of Steel protection. Whenever a non-premium player dares lay hands on a Fallout 1st Player, an armored Brotherhood airship will swoop in and strafe the rabble into a bloody pulp (one time use, buy in bulk for extra discount!)
It's all about giving the player options.
It's all about giving the player options.
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Agreed, this could very easily backfire on the people celebrating and doing this as we've seen so many times when gamers decided to target the most easy targets because their upset with a company. Not to mention that a lot of this expensive DLC is usually targeted at people with issues with FOMO and addictive personalities and not rich people with money to spend.
Fallout 76 is a crappy game no doubt about, but this is not the way to express this, it's Bethesda fault, not the players.
Icons, clothes, moves and unique bases.
Icons would be a start though.
I personally see it as toxic going by the way I've seen people use the word before, no. Or rather, if it is every single MMORPG or any game that allows you to kill/rob/whatever someone else I've ever played is absurdly toxic. Toxic for me is something like LoL or CoD which are games I love playing but end up playing very little because of the constant harrassing I'm subjected to for being a woman (avoid overtly female usernames, gals) or because I'm not playing at the skill level someone wants me to be. That is completely unrelated to the game itself, in a game like Fallout as far as I see it this is part of how the actual game is supposed to be played, no?
Not trying to be disingenuous here, I've just never seen toxic used in such a context but maybe it's just ignorance on my behalf and if so I'd very much appreciate it if you'd point it out!
itt: people defending rich kids butthurt that their privilege cant protect them from the common people.
Lmao good. Anyone who buys into this insulting bullshit deserves to get griefed. It's fairly harmless fun, guys, nobody is bawling their eyes out over getting killed in FO
So part of how the actual game is supposed to be played is to grief players who wanted these extra benefits? Interesting
No one is arguing that being able to kill other players is toxic, that is silly. People are saying rampant griefing is toxic. When a group of players is actively targeting another group, that is not a game feature, that is a community trait. In this case, killing other players becomes harassment when they are actually being hunted for being premium subscribers. Griefing is a actually an issue devs try to tackle when developing their multiplayer games, because it's completely caused by the players and it's something that could hamper people's enjoyment.
Paying $12.99/month for something hardly qualifies as being rich, so if you're going to bring actual class conflict into this, at least have the notion that this ain't it, chief. We're in a gaming forum, we're all privileged enough to be able to spend money on something as frivolous as games.
I mean...PvP is a system built into the game, and Bethesda themselves wanted there to be players acting as Raiders
Raiders raiding players who are marked as 'elite' shouldn't be surprising, and works within the systems in the game
Besides, can't you opt out of PvP in this game? (I could be wrong)
Raiders raiding players who are marked as 'elite' shouldn't be surprising, and works within the systems in the game
Besides, can't you opt out of PvP in this game? (I could be wrong)
This might be the best thing that happened in this game. I mean it even fits with the lore and world.
I feel bad for the people who paid the extra money only to get a target on their back, but I can't help but laugh at how everything Bethesda does with this game seems to blow up in their face.
It makes me sad to think that people have dumped $160 (or more, hello Atom Shop) into this dumpster fire of a game.
I've never played it, I have no idea... but having played Fallout 1, 2, 3 and New Vegas I assume actively targetting others is part of the game, no? This sort of stuff was already around back when I played UO in the late 90s and is something I've seen in every MMORPG I've ever played (none at all for the past 13 years, admittedly) that allows for it. That the targetting stems from external causes could indeed classify it as something else but since these external causes have direct implications within the game itself (and only there) I honestly don't see what's so out of place here. Also, what's with the derisive tone, are we teenagers here?
I've never played any MMO where such things are possible (and not optional such as in WoW) without rampant griefing then. I completely agree it's not a positive since that's exactly why I stopped playing such games in general (I stick to Soulsbornes and Monster Hunter for my online stuff since those have fantastic communities and don't even allow for targetted griefing at all) as I've always assumed these things are just par for the course and part of the appeal for those who play them in such games.
If you play New Vegas without going out of your way to fuck over both the Legion and Mr. House, you're playing it wrong, just saying.
Get out with that defensive tone jab and the "are we teenagers here?"
nice personal attack. Classy stuff
This is amazing. Almost makes me want to grab a cheap copy of the game just to join in. But then I'd have to buy 76...
Inquiring about your derisive (not defensive) tone ≠ ad hominem. Don't be disingenuous...
Okay, but imagine being the type of person that wants to pay $100 a year for Fallout 76.
*shudder*
*shudder*
This is probably my favorite thing I've heard come out of this whole fallout 76 shit show over the last year.
"Private" servers, for that authentic Dark Souls invader experience
The word toxicity is starting to mean absolutely nothing. This is an online multiplayer game where players fighting other players is a fundamental design.
That's not much better tbh esp since I thought it was an interesting concept that the game was "supposed" to be griefing players.
nice to dodge the shaded maturity comment
who's being disingenuous? I kinda think we're done here as since you are going for just straight up personal attacks now
have a good day
Idk I understand that PvP is part of the game.
This isn't a fundamental design
Yes. This is ERA afterall, and a bunch of the posts before yours are basically unironically saying what you said in jest. Like the genius below.
Where do you live that paying the cost of a fast food meal for a service makes you rich and privileged? And the common people, really?
Some of you guys need to lay off the pipe.
What fundamental design is there for attacking other players? And how is it better or worse than this?
