fallout 76

[smilodon]

There's a couple of big updates coming on 4th and 11th December with a promise of more patches and stuff into 2019.

At the moment reviews are mixed

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-76

so I'm waiting for Duvel, Evil etc to either praise it or trash it once they've spent time in game.

[Evilntwisted]

I personally love it. 3rd night in the row I have been so emerged I went to bed around 2am. Makes getting up at 630 tough.

There are so missions, Storylines and quests you could do it alone but more fun with friends. I have had no issues with the game whatsoever.

[Mikep1212]

This is my go to guy for reviews:

[video]https://youtu.be/7L1UAglcaa0[/video]

[smilodon]

Well that's that then. Fallout 4 it is. 'Worth a Buy' tore it to pieces as well.

[DuVeL]

Liking it so far and the same thing as Evilntwisted, I find myself checking the time and it´s like, ah cr@p, work tomorrow, a tad late...

[albert]

So 2 real dMw vs 1 YouTuber. Looking for a deal!

[smilodon]

There are quite a lot of mixed and negative reviews out there. Some reviewers have utterly trashed the game as being the worst game of 2018 which seems harsh on reflection. Generally though the reviews come in as 'mixed'.

Reviews are of course just opinions not statements of fact. I've hated games that get great reviews and loved games that get universally trashed. But Fallout 76 does look like a game I'd love exploring for a little while and then quickly lose interest in. It also looks remarkably similar to Fallout 4 which I'm already playing and enjoying.

[Mikep1212]

buy it on steam and refund it before 2 hours, if necessary.

Everyone has different rigs and different standards of acceptable optimisation.

If a game drops below 20FPS, glitches and can't load textures on a "youtubers" rig with a i9 + 1080ti then i'm not gonna think it's playing well on a "real dMw members" rig (no offence).

Here's another video, from a well known youtuber (massive fallout fan) with amazing gear:
[video=youtube;SjrDbSgB9IU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjrDbSgB9IU&t=851s[/video]

[albert]

I watched Joe's review and also his followup and I am bitterly disappointed in what the devs have thrown out in this game. I would go so far to say that some of the mess Joe shows in his video was worse than what Star Citizen threw at us the other week. I mean objects you can just walk through, light rays originating from rocks, zombies with no animation at all that attack you. No push to talk, no FOV slider. Ridiculous grind, microtransations for items that were free and normal parts of every other Fallout release for the last 10 years. It's been reduced to an under a tenner game for me and then only if it's been fixed, a lot.

[albert]

Ok call me horribly inconsistent, I picked it up for about a tenner. I've played many rubbish EA games (early access for Electronic...) and they tend to be a bit unpolished and rather disappointing for quite a while before they get their act together. This I've found a real pleasure for that price, yes AAA price no way. What I'm saying is if you don't mind a 10-15 quid grey market key price and you're curious, it does ok.

[OldBloke]

£8.79 @ CDKeys

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/fallout-76-pc-879-lowest-price-so-far-cdkeys-3160318

I've picked it up for that price.

[Mikep1212]

There's a rumour stores are pulling it from shelves and digital copies are being sold off dirt cheap as it's going free to play very soon.

[smilodon]

The Original Story

Seems a bit speculative and you have to wonder what the poor souls who forked out £50 for this will think if it does go free.

On the other hand it seems clear Bethesda didn't actually create any new assets to speak of, just reused a lot of Fallout 4 stuff, nor had to create any real narrative or mocap & voice any NPC's. So the cost of actually launching the game was probably quite low. Their name is mud in the gaming community now, so what do they have to lose. Just crank out a load of delightful play to win microtransactions and they'll be back in the money.

[albert]

It's still ok for a tenner. For £50 it's a disgrace. Although given our recent experience with Atlas and the unpredictability of well... anything in there, 76 is ..ok. But from a major studio, it's nonsense business.

[Chaosphere]

Yeah, Bethesda would have to pay me to play Fallout 76 at this point, and even then I'd not be happy about it.

Despite this, I've still hope for the next Elder Scrolls. If Bethesda somehow drop the ball on that they'll really be in hot water.