I'm not defending Bethesda at all they have dropped the ball here clearly
But there is still an enjoyable time to be had from the game in its current state just playing solo exploring & levelling up to get the required perks to complete the higher level missions. Some of the existing mission are quite lengthy in nature they just tell the story via text, holotapes & robots.
Judging by how few players there are online I would not be surprised if it goes free to play in a few months. There are so few players online now compared to the beta sessions you can easily get a server with only 2 or 3 other players. Its not a concern meeting other players anymore as so few are playing you would be lucky to find anyone in hours
I'd noticed that while watching Oxhorn streaming. Other players show on the map, so you could see how few there where each time he checked his map. But even so, there were still several occasions when someone else intruded on his play.
The lack of players is a positive thing overall, I think. The MP is one of the biggest problems with FO76, so the fewer players the better.
Glad I didn’t touch this pile lol.
It looked promising but how can you have no npcs in the game. Ok you grind 40 hours but to what end? Doesn’t look like there’s a reason for any of it. If you’re ok with than then more power to you!
That's not true, though. There's a main story, various faction stories and numerous individual stories. There's as much "reason for any of it" as there is with other games. The lack of living NPCs is a handicap but it's not a fatal one. It's certainly very far from being the worst aspect of FO76. They still sort of function as NPCs, with their dialogue spoken from a holotape. There's still some sense of people, albeit very limited.
The main story is what caused the Scorched and how to stop it, of course.
And here we have another problem, as far as I know. I may be wrong, but I think you can't finish the main story solo. It requires a party. You can do most of it solo, but you can't finish it. Which makes sense, as FO76 is a party-orientated multuplayer game. Sure, almost all of the small number of people who are playing it are doing so solo, but that's not what it was designed for. It's what customers wanted, but Bethesda don't give a rat's arse about what customers want. Nobody has been sending messages to Bethesda saying "Please charge me $3 real world money to be allowed to build a slightly retextured door in my camp! Please make building even worse than it was in vanilla FO4! Please make it impossible for modders to fix the problems you cause! Please force me to play MP even though you know I want to play SP! Please includes lots of bugs that will cause me to lose items I spent hours grinding for! Please make many of the NPCs robots with really annoying voices and make it impossible to skip their dialogue and make them speak their full dialogue every time I come within range of them for any reason, over and over and over again! Please make me spend a large proportion of my time deciding what to throw away because for no sane reason I can't store more than 400lbs of stuff regardless of how many containers I build! Sincerely yours, a sucker who will give you money even when you blatantly insult me!"
And I'm still going to end up buying it because there is an adequate Fallout game buried in the steaming pile of ordure and insults.
