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

[spoffle]

How the heck do you figure that a walkthrough/guide is like a review?

A review is supposed to not contain spoilers, but to tell you how the game stacks up in terms of writing, performance, bugs, etc.

Do I live on a different planet to the rest of you or something?

I thought you lived in Pretend Land?

 

[Ghosteh]

Spent ages wondering why my VPN connection wasn't chaning my location in Steam... Realised my Macbook was still logged in lol.

Unlocking now, just in time to go back to work.

 

[chrismelling]

Anyone got a free VPN then works? I've tried VYPRvpn and freedome but both are failing when connecting to a Melbourne vpn.

 

[grant666uk]

I was getting a annoying judder affect even thought I was locked at 60fps. changed to borderless window mode and it has gone, Oh and I am using a joypad.

 

[spoffle]

Anyone got a free VPN then works? I've tried VYPRvpn and freedome but both are failing when connecting to a Melbourne vpn.

https://www.worldvpn.net/free-vpn/

 

[Ayahuasca]

Still haven't bought it yet. Not sure I'll get my money's worth with it to be honest. Majority of single player games bore me within minutes now

 

[TNA]

Loving the graphics. Working fine here on 4k. Just turn off God rays and depth of field and it is playable. Also loving the story already

 

[Ghosteh]

Anyone got a free VPN then works? I've tried VYPRvpn and freedome but both are failing when connecting to a Melbourne vpn.

Vypr worked for me, and HideMyAss probably would have done too if I realised my Macbook was still logged into Steam.

Try different servers, I used the NZ server myself and it connected after about 3 tries.

 

[Glanza]

Still haven't bought it yet. Not sure I'll get my money's worth with it to be honest. Majority of single player games bore me within minutes now

Wait for it to pop up for £5 in the not too distant future.

 

[Drake5]

Is there no vsync settings

 

[robmol]

Caved and unlocked with a VPN, if I get banned it's all your faults

 

[Antony101]

Is there no vsync settings for this game

Just force adaptive in your GPUs control panel.

 

[Punt]

I'll not get to give it a go until tomorrow evening. Not too fussed about that!

Got Friday off to do a jobs around the house, I reckon not as many as planned will be getting done

 

[Drake5]

On max settings wit a 970 and 4690k I'm getting 40fps and it doesn't really look great

Any one know what the performance hogs are

 

[Scythian]

On max settings wit a 970 and 4690k I'm getting 40fps and it doesn't really look great

Any one know what the performance hogs are

Just a wild guess, but have you tried shadows?

 

[kinger8938]

On max settings wit a 970 and 4690k I'm getting 40fps and it doesn't really look great

Any one know what the performance hogs are

What res u at mate? Have nvidia released drivers for this?

 

[WarmachineAaron]

On max settings wit a 970 and 4690k I'm getting 40fps and it doesn't really look great

Any one know what the performance hogs are

meh same setup as me, hopefully its not too bad when optimised

 

[chrismelling]

Vypr worked for me, and HideMyAss probably would have done too if I realised my Macbook was still logged into Steam.

Try different servers, I used the NZ server myself and it connected after about 3 tries.

Where am i going wrong? Ive closed steam, connected to NZ, reopened steam but its still showing preload only?

 

[Drake5]

What res u at mate? Have nvidia released drivers for this?

1080p - No drivers for this game that I can see

 

[Seanspeed]

So how are the graphics on high then people? They looked dire on early screenshot leaks, but that could have been xbox.

It's still not amazing looking overall, technically. Some weak areas, poor textures(by modern standards), but it does seem to have decent enough object and shadow draw distances. Detail level draw distance is a sore point in certain areas, though. Geometry isn't particularly noteworthy either, though I think most people who have played these games know Bethesda dont get too crazy here.

Lighting is impressive and absolutely next-gen looking. Combined with an improved art style(in my opinion) and removal of nasty color filters in most areas, along with physically based rendering for materials, it's overall a shiny new coat over what is still recognizably a Bethesda open world RPG.

Aliasing also seems to be surprisingly clean for a game with as much environmental detail as it has. Not perfect, but nothing some downsampling wont fix or improve.

All in all I'd say I'd be reasonably happy with it and it provides a good base for modding, as one of the weakest aspects - textures - should be one of the most heavily pursued modding areas.