Is this basically the Bethesda Fallout game I have been waiting for?
No main story, just go out... scavenge, explore and kill stuff?
No main story, just go out... scavenge, explore and kill stuff?
Fallout 76 Stress Test Impressions [No pics, screens, content, etc]
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What's the deal with The Mire, anyway? I guessed a few months back that it was a radioactive swampland created by the nuking of nearby Washington DC and the failure of the Potomac river, but I can't find any real gameplay footage or screenshots with which to verify.
The Mire is kind of an open area with "clusters" of pink forests.
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Unfortunately, yes. No human NPCs to meet, side quests, main quests, etc. Just explore, and other human players will be exploring too. My worst nightmare. Couldn't come up with a less appealing Fallout concept.
I wouldn't post it but I appreciate the description for sure.
NPCs doesn't just presented you quest in previous games, they gave and showed you story in cutscenes and stuff, that will be completely missing here. Also the human race as enemy in general.
It's fine that there is "lore everywhere" but to be honest. While I liked it to read through stuff on PCs and more here and there in previous games, if the whole game is just that, read stuff on paper, notes and PCs, that's unacceptable as core element in the year 2018 in my eyes. That's just cheap and boring and nothing more then an excuse. That's, uhm, simply is just not fun.
I agree with most of the pvp stuff tho, there seems to be some ideas behind it at least and while I'm not 100% happy about it, it could work.
pics or I don't believe you
Nah, it also wasn't me, Austin.
For me I see at as survival game with much more to do than every other survival game I've played. More enemy variety, quests, a world I want to explore and tons more items. I don't mind the lack of NPC and story elements because I knew it wasn't in the game from the second they announced it and what they proposed seems right up my alley. I can see how others might be disappointed in this as a Fallout game though.
Do the robots or Scorched talk or have dialogue, or do they just shoot and try to kill you?
Some robots will talk to you, all the Scorched have just tried to kill me to this point.
Don't want to say too much, but there are robots and other things that talk to you and direct you places (quests). Scorched actually do say some phrases, seems like they're sad and suffering.
New to Fallout intros? What were you expecting from the first 90 minutes of a world building game?
I get where you are coming from. New Vegas is my favorite game of all time... and the way Bethesda has treated the series is a disgrace. However, there was a lot fun to be had in F4 on survival mode. All the different mechanics just combined into a really great experience as a shooter. It reminded me a lot of the Stalker series. The only thing holding it back was the pesky insistence on having a story and characters that had some agency.
If this game can be a true standbox, focusing on all the good stuff from F4 with only "ambient" stories I'm going to find myself playing this a lot.
From what I saw it looked pretty decent and I hated FO4. If the launch build really improves on this we could be in for something special. Obviously, we'll have to contend with drive by posts from people who wanted a singleplayer FO, but that's a given.
Actually, yes.
My biggest take away - by making a multiplayer game, they accidentally made the best single player game. It's haunting. There's actually a ton of stuff to do and world building (including deeply personal quests played out by audio tapes and notes). Also lots of lore - it fills out a bunch of Fallout lore.
It's really sad and haunting. There's just you. From 3 hours I only saw a handful of other players the entire time, the map is absolutely huge and only has 24 players across the whole thing. It was a ghost town. I loved it.
My thoughts exactly. Whoever is writing these little scenery pieces is great.
Some of the audio tapes are amazing. Truly. Because they don't have to worry about lip syncing NPCs they've let the voice actors go to town - I found one with a woman recounting, in tears, about her whole family starving to death. And found the bodies.
It's super grim. I ended up with a ton of tapes, quests and new marked map locations from 3 hours random exploring.
It just works. Really, you get use to it very quickly. It looks awkward in a video but it feels great during gameplay.
You can still aim at specific body parts and can initiate a critical if you absolutely need one
You can also just aim at a body part using your analog stick or cursor lol.
Well yea. I found myself using VATS when there were a bunch of enemies.
Yes, the stress test is only on Xbox.
Also, it clearly stats in the FAQ and in game it's an old build which hasn't yet had performance optimisation done.
The open beta is next week, and progression will carry forward - so we're close regardless.
After seeing their retcon for the brotherhood of steel i dont want them "filling fallout lore". Rather have them doing (and ruining) their own things.
Which is why i dont mind the scorched, better than if they made ghouls be this hivemind, aggressive but still intelligent entity.
I really liked what they did with the lore that I saw (and the press coverage on BoS is bad, as it's a very partial picture).
How was the press coverage "bad"? There's no sense or reason for the brotherhood to be in West Virginia this soon. Would take a really well written explanation for it to connect the dots and i don't trust Emil Pagliarulo to be the man to write it. Hopefully he isn't the lead writer for 76 then (do we know who the lead writer for 76 is after all? there were some empty rumours about Avellone that were quickly shot down and then nothing)
Doubt it. This isn't meant to test the client, but the backend. Otherwise they wouldn't push people onto an already outdated build.
that's basically what i want out of it. just a chill experience - with MP but it's not a theme park with 50 guys running around you collecting 11 iguana bits for the some quest or whatever
How old is their graphic engine?
It is 2018, but I am not seeing anything even remotely close to other modern MMO/MP graphic at all.
Trees are flat, edges on everything, environments look like low setting ARMA/PUBG, and human and enemy models on par with Second Life.
Grasses look good though, but then again, tall grasses always look good.
And those movement/animation...They can't be releasing the game in that state, right?
Looking at your party members and their crab walk animation is so janky and weird af.
It is 2018, but I am not seeing anything even remotely close to other modern MMO/MP graphic at all.
Trees are flat, edges on everything, environments look like low setting ARMA/PUBG, and human and enemy models on par with Second Life.
Grasses look good though, but then again, tall grasses always look good.
And those movement/animation...They can't be releasing the game in that state, right?
Looking at your party members and their crab walk animation is so janky and weird af.
Played from the start to the end of the test with a friend. Didn't touch on any story stuff, but we had some fun. My only major complaint would have to be the frame rate at times. Hoping the Beta or final release build fixes that, but I'm not holding my breath.
Also, kind of disappointed there wasn't a nuke dropped at the end of the test like they did at the press event. Me and my friend went back to Vault 76 at like a quarter till 9 incase it happened lol.
Also, kind of disappointed there wasn't a nuke dropped at the end of the test like they did at the press event. Me and my friend went back to Vault 76 at like a quarter till 9 incase it happened lol.
Creation Engine predates Fallout 3 so incredibly old.
This game looks so unappealing it's not even funny, I legitimately wonder who the crowd is for Rust Lite without any other things to prop it up.
Is this confirmed the same build as the recent press event and not later?
Just trying to gauge if what they were saying regarding optimization and framerate is true
Just trying to gauge if what they were saying regarding optimization and framerate is true
We don't know, all we know is that the beta will have a new version.
I've participated in a couple betas recently that had my username and a unique code watermark that's always on-screen and switches places every few seconds. Those were pretty strict about not sharing screens and video.
So, for those who played. We can all agree that the OST is beautiful, right? Fits the setting so well. I also think I heard a couple of Fallout 4 themes in there, but they weren't abundant.
Were they heavily advertised as features of pre-ordering?
The stress test and the beta aren't the same thing, though. The stress test was announced last week, and you can't share its content. You can share all you want about the beta that's coming out in a week and a half.
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I think I'm going to pass on CoD this year and put my money towards this. I wonder if the beta will run on a more updated build as well as give an accurate representation of players within the world. With so many players on when I played, I could indeed seeing the framerate suffer. However, with a small group of friends I think I will most definitely enjoy playing this.
With the beta progress rolling into the full version, I would anticipate it to either be the launch code or damn near close.