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

bushmins said:
I managed to get a fatman from the Motherload quest that I stumbled on when trying to find part of the main quest. I can't use it yet, but its there patiently waiting. Seen a few nuke warnings but not been near enough to see on yet. I'm wondering why everyone goes into the nuke area, maybe some resources are generated?
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Yes. Unique resources that can't be obtained in any other way. Specifically, raw flux and the materials needed to turn raw flux into stable flux. Nuked plants generate raw flux (different colours of flux for different plants) and some enemies in nuked areas generate the materials needed to turn raw flux into stable flux. Stable flux (of various colours) is required for crafting the highest level mods, such as Prime Receivers for guns.

But as far as I can tell from gameplay videos I've watched, most of the people who enter nuked areas do so because it's an event and for the xp and potential loot. Particularly if the prime fissure is the nuke target (which it very often is) because then you get to fight a scorchbeast queen (and about a bazillion very high level scorched).
 
chroniclard said:
Think its almost at a price I will give it a shot. :p
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I think it's worth a bet at that price. It's really not very good at all, but some people find it fun despite the bad design choices, bad implementations of bad design choices and more bugs than a rotting carcass. Me, for example. I paid £27 for it and I think I'm getting my money's worth. There's no legs in it, of course. It's not a game you'll be playing months from now. No building, no mods to change things or bring new content. But it is a game you might find entertaining for a while and there is a fair bit of content in it particularly if you like exploring, scavenging and reading notes for quests and stories. Not worth betting £50 on maybe enjoying it despite the slew of flaws, but worth betting £15 on that possibility. If you pay only as much as you would for FO4 DLC, you're more likely to be able to enjoy it. However, it is fundamentally very different to FO4. Not so much for the multiplayer, which is only a minor annoyance as long as the game is so unpopular that you won't often get other people interfering in your play (not necessarily deliberately - a more common scenario is that you explore a new location and miss a lot of content because another player has been through and taken the plans, the recipes, the notes, the power armour, the fusion cores, the weapons, the useful junk, etc, etc...stuff in most containers is instanced per player but everything else is not). The really big difference between FO4 and FO76 is that 76 is a survival game, not a building game.

I talked about that a bit in some posts earlier in the thread:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32343055/

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32342920/

It's not about needing to eat and drink and cure diseases. That's just the most obvious mechanics. The entire game is about survival only and if you try to play it like you played FO4 you'll probably find it much less fun. I found it much more fun when I realised that key difference between FO4 and FO76 and approached 76 solely as a survival game.
 
Never played a Fallout game so going in blind, but at the price it has dropped to, it's worth a Xmas punt.
Does it have an end so to speak, like a linear path that you follow then the credits roll?

Or more of a make your own world mmo type thing where it never ends you just keep getting slightly stronger/richer the more hours you put into it until one day you put the pipe down and quit.

Guess I should watch a review/guide.
 
Well when they said it was a buggy mess, they aint lying.
Can get as far as opening the game (yay) but there is no mouse cursor and it's not responding to keyboard, as though the window is not focused, but it is as it's 120fps and using GPU.
10/10 would spend £15 on it again. :D (goes to the google, I really hate pc gaming sometimes) it just works....
 
If you've got a gamepad connected, it will assume you want to use that, and disables the mouse cursor and keyboard.

I only found that out last night when I went straight from Rocket League to this, and it took me a moment to realise I needed to flick the batteries out of my pad to turn it off.
 
Found this video about the game. The thoughts he presenting is slightly different then others have said, or thought, about Bethesda's tactics as to why the released the game as they did. Maybe he right, or maybe they just royally messed up.

 
YoungBlood said:
Well when they said it was a buggy mess, they aint lying.
Can get as far as opening the game (yay) but there is no mouse cursor and it's not responding to keyboard, as though the window is not focused, but it is as it's 120fps and using GPU.
10/10 would spend £15 on it again. :D (goes to the google, I really hate pc gaming sometimes) it just works....
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Sounds like you have a joypad plugged in.

Had the dreaded power armor freeze bug this morning despite my thinking it had been patched?
 
justwondering said:
Wow £13.57 using the like code at cdkeys https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/pc-fallout-76-1357-3-discount-cdkeys-3139947
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It will be basically free when the loot box system starts, there is evidence in the .esm files that you'll be able to pay to do more damage and carry more stuff.

I wouldnt buy in currently at any price now, theyve just nerfed the XP in the latest patch and now we know why. They'll be more gameplay changes coming for sure that try and push you to your wallet.
 
What am I trying to achieve with a CAMP?

Is it purely about being able to get at my stash without having to go to a petrol or railway station?

And if so, do I need to build a stash box in the camp? Or does the camp itself act as a stash box?
 
I really dont get all the hate. I'm having a blast. Just to pick out one of the above; Slowing down xp gain in any game is good for me. So many people expect to be able to lvl to max in a few hours. I come from a past of having to earn xp through graft and team work (and loose it much quicker) not get it thrown at you. That way you actually get to learn how your charactor and skills work. Gamers seem to have forgotten what gaming is all about.

Nearly all of the latest games that have been released I found boring, Fallout 76 is definetally not boring for me. The only bug I have noticed is the exiting bug.

Is it mob mentaility, people hating big corporation, people salty that it was not single player? Its obviously hitting a sore point for a lot of people (although I understands a lot of people just 'jumping on the band waggon of hate' without experiencing the game) judging the way people feel the need to keep coming back to this thread to put the game down.

Gamers are so very confusing now.

EDIT : I just watched the video above. Its showing nothng that every other company isnt already doing. Its also complete speculation and doesnt look like its a necessity. Just a childish person trying to get youtube views.
 
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bazzabear said:
What am I trying to achieve with a CAMP?

Is it purely about being able to get at my stash without having to go to a petrol or railway station?

And if so, do I need to build a stash box in the camp? Or does the camp itself act as a stash box?
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You build a stash box, but you can use other peoples. CAMP is an aspect of the game, you can build a base which also gets you free quick movment around the map.
 
Columbo said:
Pay to win Loot boxes on the way guys, as if this game wasnt in enough of a mess and you think Bethesda cannot stoop any lower, particularly when they blantantly and openly said pre release microtransactions would be cosmetic only. Absolutely unbelievable...!!

https://youtu.be/M2nBh6AFXWs
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The Elder Scrolls Online already has loot boxes, and it's not play to win. Along with the other cosmetic items, it makes absolutely no difference.

It's already got cheap enough, so why all the doom and gloom.
 
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