Fallout 4

Xbox One bugs I've found:

-I lose textures randomly, sometimes the nukes have no explosion effect but things go flying and damage is done. I also occasionally have all the railings lose their textures
-NPC's will randomly go into seizure mode if someone is firing a weapon and they try to talk to me.
-The optics from the laser turrets stay exactly where I shot them. In other words, I'll blow up the turret but the spot where the lens was sitting will begin glowing red.
-NPC's giving quests will sometimes not talk to me after a fast travel. I have to wait an hour and then they will talk to me to resolve the quest story line.
-If more than two explosions go off at once, good bye frame rate. They are working on a fix for this because it effects both consoles. If PS4 fanboys don't believe me try hitting a suicide mutant with a fatman shell while a fire fight is taking place and watch your precious framerate superiority go bye bye. I've seen it myself on my buddies PS4, that drop hurts both consoles and they should find a work around since in battle drops to single digits are unacceptable.

 

My fps in dense towns are in the low 30s to high 20s on high with my PC. Which doesn't make sense because it runs skyrim at ultra with mods without ever going below 60. 4 definitely needs optimizations. Look one direction and you have 60 fps, tilt your head 2 inches and you're down to 30

 

I've had a single graphical glitch twice....weapons not being 'visible'. They're still there and still shoot and reload, you just can't see them. Love the PC version.

I'll say though: I don't have a console, and far prefer the keyboard/mouse combo. HOWEVER, on the advice of a buddy I went and bought a standalone used XBone controller and plug that in just for crafting and settlement building. Hella easier

 

Makes me think even more that my games broken, I get glitches regularly. I've seen people with my exact setup holding rock solid 60fps on ultra so something's gotta be wrong.

 

Yup. I've heard this from my brother who plays both versions. He plays for the combat on Xbox and the mods on PC. I know the Xbox version will have mods too, but he loves messing around in console with games so he often plays a console and PC version just to stop himself from cheating on one lol.

 

No, it's not broken. Have a look around. Lots of guys are having problems on both nVidia and AMD cards. It'll get better as the fine tuning gets better. nVidia will be better right now because their drivers are much less broken from release.

 

Apparently theres an update scheduled for this week so I'm hoping that'll help a little. My biggest issue with graphics right now is tree branches and bushes look like they're having seizures rather than blowing in the wind, they just vibrate super fast. It looks pretty dumb haha

 

It feels like a dick move but send dogmeat to attack suiciders. He'll tackle them and blow up but he will heal.

I have my .308 hunting rifle modded all that I want besides .50 I one shot a lot of people though. I have the non auto rifleman perk which adds 20% damage though.

My Sanctuary is so stacked. I'm helping myself before my other settlements though. I'm trying to move all my settlers to Sanctuary.

 

Fallout series has always had a mass amount of bugs. Its one of the draws backs from having a mass sandbox game. Kind of sucks but most go in knowing that it will be buggy.

 

This is the only glitch I've seen on my PC too. If I go from first to third person, it immediately corrects the glitch. Other than that, mine runs very smoothly. No frame drops or freezes. I'm running a 4790k with 16gb RAM, a GTX 970 sc, and a 500gb SSD.

 

nVidia driver dominance FTW right?

 

Last night I finally leveled up the local leader perk so I could share my pile of crap accross all my settlements. Now every settlement is armored, trapped, and armed to the hilt. Suddenly the raiders and super mutants don't want to play . Too bad, I wanted to watch them show up again at one of the smaller farms only to receive an artillery bombardment.

 

Been this way for YEARS

Going back to the 90s the ATIs sucked more power, ran hotter, had crappier drivers, and were just a PITA. They exist only to keep nVidia honest. Every other gen or so they make one card line that beats nVidia for a while, then they suck ass again for two more gens.

 

Haha my smaller settlements are always being attacked. It's fun to defend!

 

I decided overkill was the best policy. Too bad I'm out of aluminum and oil now though .

 

I just got local leader, and I'm running all over connecting and setting up turrets and such now....got a dozen + settlements to get to !

 

I found the settlements to be rather unrewarding. I built up 2 or 3 of my favorites and didn't do anything to the rest. It is nice to have one with everything to use as home base.

 

Except AMD is honestly giving a better price point by a large margin on their cards over nVidia and has done so since AMD acquired the business.

Who cares about the very top end card every year? Only 1% of the 1% of people who could afford that would upgrade their Titan class card every year. All of the AMD problems stem from subpar firmware and terrible drivers. The hardware itself is on par or, usually, much better from a price perspective with nVidia throughout the range until you hit the very top end card.

I run nVidia right now. If AMD could get their shit together and get the driver support up to the level of nVidia I'd switch back in a heart beat. It'll never happen, but here's to hoping it does. I don't know why nVidia has to be the only company figuring out new things fast and efficiently, well fairly new like PhysX, and coming out with well tested drivers. The hardware side is harder to design and AMD has that down to a T on the graphics cards but they can't do some simple programming. It's chaps my ass.

Sorry, rant over, back to Fallout 4...

 

Oh jeez guys...should we open up a AMD vs. nVidia thread?
That way Oz doesn't get upset with more technology talk.

 

Tell OZ-T PS4 sux. That should complete the butthurt .

Yeah, sorry to bust out into the AMD rant. I just like real competition out there. Right now it's hard to want anything from AMD no matter how good it is in raw power due to the crappy software. It'd be like if Toyota released a Supra with Mustang/370z/Camaro slaughtering stats at a great price point but made the steering wheel only 6" across.

Honestly, right now, Fallout 4 is struggling on more devices than it is excelling on. By struggling I mean it's not perfect because, let's all be honest, this isn't an EA product where crappy but still easily playable glitches are just the best case scenario. There is some fat to be trimmed and muscle to be optimized I'm sure.