**** Official Fallout 76 Thread ****

I'll almost certainly still buy it because there is a decent Fallout game inside the mess of very different games, bad game design, bad porting and bugs. But not right now. I'd feel bad about giving Bethesda the impression that this is the right road to follow. I'll probably give in and buy it at some point, though.
I feel exactly like this. I'll end up buying it because I'm desperate to wander about a new Fallout world even though I don't like what they've done.
 
Fallout would probably be better served in it's original turn-based role-playing video game style of old.

Playing Divinity 2 at the moment has really given me a taste for the old style of RPG.

Just give us a modern Fallout 1 and 2.
 
Fallout would probably be better served in it's original turn-based role-playing video game style of old.

Playing Divinity 2 at the moment has really given me a taste for the old style of RPG.

Just give us a modern Fallout 1 and 2.

I think the closest we'll ever get to an old style, turn based Fallout, is Wasteland 2. Which, although good, doesn't have the same charm as F01 and 2.
 
What is wrong with this game? Do we need a headset to play it, and a gaming chair?
I love the damn game 110 level. Walked to tesco, massive posters? . I saw what they did to online skyrim? Empty
 
So what's peoples verdict then on this?

Any good single player?

I'm playing on xbox, but I can give a bit of help... Performance is probably the main difference from pc, it suffers a lot of slowdowns and frame rate issues at the moment so I'm hoping they fix that.

As for the gameplay, its essentially just playing fallout 4 so expect it to feel similar to that, I enjoyed it so I'm enjoying this. I'm playing solo and just roaming around finding holotapes and other lore so can't speak for playing as a team, but I'm enjoying finding out about places and events using these instead of NPCs, however I do wish there were at least some to chat to.

Overall I wouldn't pay full price for it at the moment, unless you loved fallout 4 and love fallout lore then I'd say the 30 quid on PC is maybe worth it. Hopefully they fix the issues and can add plenty of extra content to keep me playing.
 
It looks and plays like a game from 2012?

that's where a new console comes into it... I got an xbox x but im beginning to thinks its a filler? faster... but its money for the business and when the new tech comes out then we see the new generation of games? shiny junk to look to look at? but then fallout 5 isn't due for 8 years??
a new xbox & starfield isn't that far away ? end of 2019?
 
Any good single player?
Its passable I have around 50 hours solo now. If you like Fallout 4 you will find something to like here. The game is not perfect it has a lot of flaws but as its the last piece of BSG Fallout content until Starfield & then Fallout 5 in about 3-5 years its all we got :eek:
 
I've seen some people saying that there aren't any stories in FO76. That particular criticism is invalid. In addition to the main story and the faction stories (yes, there are factions - all dead of course, but factions none the less) there are numerous side stories and they're fitting for Fallout, i.e. mostly very grim. Here's one story from one location in the game, told in various holotapes and notes and some environmental storytelling:

You find the corpse of a young woman with an odd veil, which triggers a quest to investigate Riverside Manor. If you go there, you find a large mansion and guest house that was the home of Shannon Rivers. The name might be familiar to anyone who played Fallout 4 - she was the voice actor who played the Mistress of Mystery in the radio plays for decades, the one who was dumped by Hubris Comics for the upcoming Silver Shroud film that had the two characters working together in favour of a pretty young woman who didn't fit the character at all. In her home, you find that her husband (working with Kent Connolly, the avid Silver Shroud fan from FO4) had a precise replica of the Mistress of Mytery's training facility built under their house and hired a variety of trainers for her - he knew how worried she was about playing the character on screen so he gave her the chance to train to be able to do it for real in order to help her gain the necessary confidence. A lovely story...which doesn't stay lovely. This is the Fallout world, not the Disney world.

After the war, Shannon Rivers used those real combat skills she'd learned when some raiders attacked. After that, she decided to take in orphaned girls and only girls. Boys were turned away by force (she presumably killed those who wouldn't leave and presumably some starving desperate children wouldn't leave), as were adults (presumably - the only adults mentioned were old men and nothing was said about what she did to them). The girls were trained the same way, forming an organisation - The Order of Mysteries.

But it gets even grimmer than that. Shannon and her husband had a daughter, Olivia. A big turning point in Olivia's life was when she watched one of her childhood friends being turned away to fend for himself (and probably die) in the post-apocalypse world because he was the "wrong" sex. Olivia went through the Order of Mystery training, but was skipped for any important role in the organisation. Correctly so because she was rather lacking in any sort of leadership ability and not a very nice person anyway, but it festered and took her further along the path she followed. All the killing she did certainly didn't help, especially since it didn't matter how many raiders she killed - more kept coming. Nor did it help that her mother kept the Order secret, not openly helping anyone, because the Mistress of Mystery was a secret identity in the comics. She came to consider her mother to be deluded, ludicrously trying to apply a pre-war comic book to post-war reality. Then she met that childhood friend her mother had dismissed to fend for himself or die because he was the "wrong" sex. He'd survived by joining a band of raiders. Olivia devised a scheme to become a raider leader, planning to unite all the local raiders under her command. That childhood friend was her essential liason with the most powerful local raider leader and through him she sold out the Order, providing that raider leader with information about Order movements that enabled him to ambush and kill Order members one by one. In exchange, she'd get a high position in that raider gang. Finally, she killed her mother and thus ended the Order...and her childhood friend then killed her because she was no longer useful to the raider gang and was now a threat. The raider leader wasn't an idiot - he knew she'd betray him sooner or later, killing him to take his place as part of her plan to become grand dictator of all raiders. So he had someone she trusted kill her in exchange for favour. You find the final part of the story on the corpses of Olivia and Shannon Rivers.

Now that's a Fallout story - grim and ugly and all round nasty.

There's a lot that's wrong with FO76, but storytelling isn't one of the things that's wrong with it. It's not just fetch quests that are for long dead people and thus completely pointless even in the context of the game.
 
https://fallout.bethesda.net/articl...-76-upcoming-features-and-fixes-november-2018

Lot of fixes coming next week. Then after that before the end of the year 21:9 support & an FOV slider as well as push to talk. The stash size limit is a technical issue nothing to do with paying for more storage space its because the game world tracks all objects. All DLC is free to all users only the cosmetic items cost money but you can even get them for free by earning Atoms ingame!

Currently lvl25 & finding a lot more content which was previously unavailable to me its still Fallout 4 DLC afaic but the game is starting to reveal a staggering amount of content so I think I am more than getting my moneys worth!
 
Worthabuy review is out now I've removed the link as Macs swearing is not fully bleaped out and there is a lot more of it than normal which kind of reflects on his opinion of the game.

I am a big fan of the fallout series but won't be touching this. Bethesda need to up their game and not just rest on their outdated laurels and a loyal fan base.
 
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