Fallout 76

Does this game actually suck as bad as all the reviews seem to suggest ?

 

I think that depends on what you want out of it. If you are the sort of guy who naturally just explores the game without any direction from quests, then I think you will like it. If you like the game for the more story-telling aspect of it and quests...then you might be left wanting as there are no NPCs in this game so besides some note in your quests of where to go...thats it besides random events going on. I am still pretty green myself, but after 12 hours thats what I am coming up with. Not sure if it will keep my interest in the long run since I enjoy the stories and interactions with NPCs, but if I had people to game with and team up to achieve something...that could probably motivate me too.

 

So do they actually plan to have NPCs later on when it makes sense as like you said? That would be cool if that is their real intention.

 

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Since they dropped the latest patch on January 10, the game has performed better for me. I'm back in the wasteland after taking a month+ off and having a blast, even when solo.

However, there are some odd things I had happen:

• The capitol has so much lag, it made the game stop responding. Once I quit the game and loaded back in, all was fine. This is both if you walk or fast travel in. Just a poorly built/optimized area
• Glitch where when I'm on a team, my teammate can't see me anymore

But the goods:

• I can claim workshops again and hold them for hours. No crashing while going to a workshop or different region
• I can do my story line quests without crashes (sans DMV)
• Power core production brought back up to 8/hour
• The game seems more stable since they addressed the dupe bugs and applied bans to those exploiting the system which made it crash. I was in a server with 2 consecutive nuke drops and it was fine

High end stuff is the pits right now. Going on lvl 94 and you're just on waiting for the next Schorchbeast queen or other general nuke drop. And the worst is your weapons cap at 50. So I'm fighting lvl 80 scorchbeasts with a lvl 50 shotgun. But you do the nuke raids for those nice weapons and items for PA.

These three client side informational mods are a godsend. These don't interact with server side information, which are the ones to get you banned.

Better Inventory - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout76/mods/32
Perk Loadout Manager - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout76/mods/124
Save My Stuff - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout76/mods/137

 

A big changing coming up with the 5th update; balance changes to TSE

https://fallout.bethesda.net/articl...Z/fallout-76-inside-the-vault-january-17-2019

 

Yeah. It's the double of both shots being fired and doubling that damage with explosives that is the problem. I don't think that removing it from the loot table is the answer. It just needs a huge rework.

I've been griefed with one. It's not cool. Worse is when you're doing an event, like Uranium Fever, and someone walks in and uses their TSE before you can even get a tag in.

 

And they just posted another Inside the Vault

https://fallout.bethesda.net/articl...Q/fallout-76-inside-the-vault-january-24-2019

Talks about new mode (PvP & PvE separated) and patch 5.

 

Is there even anything to be excited about... The story line gets old quick so here's more ways to kill each other... Except this is Fallout, has largely been a solo survival game, and most importantly the Overseer wants us to work together (rebuild the world and NOT kill each other). Another good job to Bethesda... good job following your own story line..

 

Yeah, 'rebuild' but there's only the Camp things. I'd think it'd be more like start a town and begin trade routes etc.

 

It must be easier to write kill each other code than build a cooperative CAMP/town code, probably just cheaper.. I'm sure Multi-player towns would take up a good bit of cloud storage.

 

I mean, you did that in Fallout 4?

 

I just want a stable server now. Not a PVE & PVP server that are both busted.

 

Did a SBQ fight last night. 5 CTDs mid fight. Luckily, it kept me in my power armor and I didn't end up dying. Plus I got the loot (worthless chest piece). There were only 15 players out there. So I'm not sure how/why I ended up crashing so often.