**** Official Fallout 4 Thread ****

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The only problem I have with the game is at first I had no idea what I was suppose to do after talking with the butler and exploring the neighbourhood.

So basically you "create" settlements and get people to join you (team up) ?

Spoiler on the first few hours

I got up to the part where you get the dog, explored the cave and moved on to get the suit and minigun.

would have been a lot better to have a slightly lengthier (forced) tutorial on the settlements and in general WTF you are doing in game. :D
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I strongly disagree.

For example, the forced tutorial in Fallout 3 nearly put me off the game and that game had the excuse of a much better story than Fallout 4. It might have helped if they had labelled it as a tutorial, but they tried to integrate it into the game and so it appeared to be the game. I didn't like and then disliked FO3 until I left the vault and realised that everything prior to that was just a tutorial and that was why it was rather dull. Had I not persevered with an increasingly tedious and limited "game" just out of stubborness, I wouldn't have got to play FO3 at all.

Tutorials might be necessary but they should be clearly laballed as tutorials and limited to what's necessary to play the game. Controls, mainly. For example, I would have liked it made a bit clearer how you turn your Pip-boy torch on in FO4. But that was my fault - the information was available so I should have found it earlier.

A tutorial on what to do in an open world exploration game like FO4 is an odd idea. You explore. That's why the devs put so much time and effort into making a highly detailed world. You choose what to do. You get quest information from NPCs and objects in the game. You choose what to do with that information. In many cases, particular early in the game, you don't even have to choose to talk to a quest-related NPC - they'll come up to you and give you the information. FO4 already holds the player's hand a bit too much for my liking, but the player still gets to choose, i.e. to play.

Forced tutorials are a bad idea piled on a bad idea. It would be more honest to just put up a screen saying "We don't care what you want. You will do what we order you to do. You must look at this screen for 10 minutes before we allow you to play the game you've bought from us, because we say so". I would find that less annoying because it's the same thing but more honest.


Settlement building could have used some documentation from Bethesda rather than being left to players making it for them and sharing it online. It's obvious that settlement building was tacked on late in the day as an afterthought and given little or no development resources.
 
As a result of the Storyteller videos on Shoddycast, I've got into Fallout machinama. Unfortunately, I've watched all of the good ones I've found so far. Storyteller and Psycho on Shoddycast, Raiders on Azychrony and DC Chronicles on Drakortha. I've tried Wasteland Travels and got as far as the the episodes where they started the jerky-headed speech and awful voice acting before giving up on it.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
 
Well, here's one from me. This series is so good that I might even make a Google account just to post a reply on Youtube. There are only 2 episodes so far and it's all done by 1 person who's having a rough time in their personal life, so I'm hoping some more people will watch it. Sole Survivor: New Adventures starts a story set after the end of the main quest in FO4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOzaWXo8Hls
 
So I have R9 390 8GB crossfire now, and in Ultra 4K (god rays low) I get 30FPS with Crossfire disabled, and 26FPS with Crossfire enabled... I was hoping for about 50FPS. Any ideas..? Drivers up to date.

Someone in here said Crossfire support had been fixed. :eek: :p
 
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All settings maxed? Including AA/AF/view distances, the lot?

4K is over twice the pixels of 1440 though remember :eek: :p

I'm now getting between 40 and 60FPS with most things on ultra, few things dropped to high, view distances dropped a bit, and AA on the middle one, AF on 8x.
 
Sorry mate yeah wasn't saying you should be getting 100fps at 4k, was just saying scaling for me is like 95% on both cards. And yep, maxed out I truly mean maxed out, all settings highest....actually thinking of it, I might have ingame AA turned off as I've 60+ mods with lots of 4k textures mods plus I use sweetfx and reshade to control my SMAA levels instead of ingame.
 
Yeah that doesn't seem right at all.

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Cant see the image sadly.

Tested 1440P maxed out aside from AA which I left off, and got 40 - 60FPS whether Crossfire was enabled or disabled!

I've tested using heaven benchmark (2013) and I'm getting an average FPS of 102 which is good for 390 crossfire, so I'm at a bit of a loss... Metro Last Light runs 4K on High at 90FPS as well.
 
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