**** Official Fallout 76 Thread ****
Patch on 11th Dec fixes 21:9 along with an FOV slider!
Yeah I love it
tons of content loads to do Solo. Think of it as a slightly better looking Fallout 4 DLC which also includes Co-Op, team & other MMO game modes which you can take or leave (I prefer Solo but have helped randoms out in tough battles). The issues people have are also very valid but if you like Fallout 4 think of this as more DLC just 3 years late just minus VATS & decent base building!If you liked Fallout 4 (minus VATS & base building) there is less to moan about
especially with the current price being so low!
Yes. The fact that it's so bad it can only get better. Hopefully...Also, I quite like the sound effects.
I've added you as well, will keep an eye out when I'm next on.
@AWPC I think the team thing might be two-way, so you both have to add each other rather than it being requested on one side.
Man of Honour
Yes...it's a mediocre new Fallout game that's a bad idea badly implemented with bad design decisions and bad quality testing that's full of bugs and has horrendous performance issues. Lag spikes can be measued in seconds, not milliseconds. That's not hyperbole - lag spikes of several seconds happen. Every now and then, the lag will get so bad that it triggers the "connection to server lost" process and the controls are disabled so all you can do is look at the screen and wonder if it's the usual superlag on steroids or a complete failure that will kick you back to the menu.
But...it's a new Fallout game and I'm a bit happy about that. It has new stories to discover. I like the new crafting system, despite it being frequently annoying and not at all explained. For example, you learn most mods for armour and weapons by scrapping armour and weapons of the same type...but you'll only know that if you're told outside the game or you accidentally find out by scrapping an item for the scrap and getting the message that a mod has been unlocked. I liked the varied biomes. I think the graphics are fine, especially if you're running on a PC with ultra settings. The sound is only 2D. That's really WTF? territory nowadays in a game that has a fully 3D gameworld. For example, if you hear a sound in a building (like an enemy, for example), you can only locate it in 2D. Is it on a different floor? Above you? Below you? You have no way of knowing. That's crap, but some of the sound effects are nicely done. While much quieter than in reality, guns have a loud, hard, urgent sound that fills a room and echoes off a valley's sides.
It still has at least some of the worldbuilding that Fallout games should have. I still like walking around to see what I haven't seen before, to climb that hill to see further, to poke around in that broken house, to look into that crashed lorry, to find out what that blue thing in the distance is. Or, in one particular example, to sit on a chair on a board at the edge of a partially ruined huge bridge, play a banjo and take a photo. Gorge bridge...something like that. It's in the forest area and it's large enough to be two locations on the map - east end and west end of the bridge.
FO76 is sort of like a lovely cake that a lunatic with a hammer has smashed to bits in a frenzy. It's a mess. It's all over the place in bits that don't fit together. Some of the bits are on the floor and have been licked by some stray dogs. But there's still some tasty bits of cake on the plate.
Soldato
Anyone else had godrays coming out of rocks?
Ok I will try to add you when I am next on. I just hit lvl57 after a 10 hour mega session this evening! Finding late UK PM is best as that is when all the server hopping XP & resource stealing cheaters go away!
Make sure you check the challenges daily & constantly as you can farm at least 5000 Atoms (to buy cosmetics instead of using real money). None of the cosmetics are essential at all as they are literally new skins or items but as you can earn so many Atoms ingame you may as well do the challenges. I have about 2700 Atoms so far & reckon I get another 2000 or so. But the one for 7600 hours ingame is going to take forever! (about 1 year constant play so real world time about 5 years LOL).
That's a good shout. Hopefully they'll release more skins too, i bought the blackbird skin for my X-01 armour yesterday. I've seen too many players in the camo, or vault-tech skins, so figured i'd be different.
Soldato
Guys just putting it out there again. I'm off for two days after today my username is Nbktom add me all and we can get some games in.
10 mins inactive you get disconnected plus now the weekly server maintenance takes another 6-8 hours to complete so this is going to take many years for anyone to get!Log in and stay AFK 24/7