Ahahahaha!

I've got two words for you: Downtown Boston.

Maybe you'll be able to buy an optimization patch for each problem area in the Atomic Shop or whatever they're calling their micro-transaction* system.

Spoiler: Rant

There are probably interns at Bethesda that were born at the same time as their current game engine. I won't beat a dead horse (which, incidentally, is how Bethesda produces new games), so I'll just direct people HERE. That's the changelog for the Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch. All those entries represent bugs the fans had to fix, because Bethesda was too busy counting their money to be bothered.

Hell, instead of patching their game, they made Creation Club, and even then the majority of the creations that aren't palette swaps of the pip boy are created by modders, not Bethesda. They'll fix some of 76's obvious (T-posing scorched, everywhere) showstopping (freezing when entering power armor, a vintage FO4 malady) bugs, I'm sure, but don't hang your hopes or your $60 on them diligently crushing bugs, when they could be designing an "I'm with stupid" shirt to sell in the Atomic Shop for $10.

A Youtuber recently said something to the effect of 'Only in this industry could Bethesda get away with putting out products this faulty. If they were in the automotive industry, their company would be dissolved and they'd be in prison for murder.'

My point being: Since FO76 is FO4 with a new coat of paint, all those bugs are probably still in the game... unless they swiped the work from the Unofficial Patch to fix their shit. I believe they legally own the content of any mod put out for FO4 (but I could be wrong), so that's fair enough and I'm sure those modders would rather they steal all they want if it will make the game better, but it does speak to the monumental laziness and disrespect for the fans going on here.

If they were going to rehash something for a cynical cash grab, they could have sold an FO4 expansion that added peer-to-peer cooperative play... ORRRR they could have put New Vegas out on the FO4 engine. Grateful customers would have lined up, cash in hand, for that, but I think it must really eat Bethesda's lunch that most fans regard NV, the one they DIDN'T make, as the best Fallout game... or at least in regard to the FPS ones. Sure, it inherited FO3's bugs, but for being made under such a mind-boggling time constraint, it was an amazing piece of work.

For what it's worth, I enjoy FO4 and have played it a lot, but most of those hours were spent playing with stuff the modding community made or fixed. Even with the OC tendencies, I wouldn't have made over 100 retextures of the Ushanka if I didn't like the game... and Russian hats.

tl/dr: It remains to be seen if the lure of all those sweet, sweet, micro-transactions will be enough to get Bethesda to really try crushing all their bugs. Caveat emptor.

That's actually another sore spot for some people. They kind of took a sledgehammer to the Fallout lore in order to fit things in this game that shouldn't have been in it. If you don't care about the internal consistency of the Fallout world and its lore, though, I'd imagine this is a non-issue.

*(More like macro-transactions: 5 dollars for a hat after paying 60 for an unfinished game? lol)

 

My sole source of solace in this whole debacle is the grim satisfaction I have for having seen this coming and hard passed on preordering this... I want to say 'polished turd' but really, microtransactions aren't polish, they're just more turd.

My only hope is that enough people give Beth the finger that they get their act together and don't ruin TESVI.

 

Same here, man. Last night I set my alarm for 9:30 to tell me to stop playing. Wife finally came and grabbed me at 11 after I turned the alarm off in annoyance. As usual, call me easily amused, but I'm not regretting this for a second.

Let me tell you, I absolutely hated the idea of the story being delivered by audio logs when I heard about it - totally scoffed at the audacity to just say "fuck NPCs" altogether. I was so, SO wrong. Some of them are incredible, and fucking haunting to listen to - there's a few in particular that are from kids that are just gut-punches. They really pulled it off well, to me at least.

I'm kind of confused as to how it decides to level areas up sometimes - I fast traveled to a place where an hour previous there were level 8-16 scorched, only to narrowly avoid being cornholed by a level 32 sentry bot, and I'm level 13. Those things are terrifying compared to FO4 too - what a complete ordeal that asshole was to get away from. Couldn't manage to blow the fusion pack out of it to shut it down either. Good times.

I can totally see people that didn't play survival on FO4 being pissed at the inventory management - that ammo weight is a real pain in the ass at first, and I think that's probably what's causing people most of their problems, that and hoarding disorders. I just break everything down and mod things constantly, and it keeps most of it manageable. I hear the stash gets a bit cramped after a while, but I'm nowhere near that point yet I guess. Oh well, it'll get modded out or it won't.

All in all, I think if you enjoyed FO4, this will be worth it to you.

 

Fallout 76 is on sale for 34.99 USD on amazon if anyone wanted it but didn't want to pay full price. No idea if its just a cyber monday deal or not.

49.99 for the upgraded version

 

Going by the reviews they need to pay me! :3

 

To be fair, all you need is a packet-sniffer to cheat at basically everything in the game (wallhacks, infinite ammo, infinite health, etc). Which tells me it's a pretty fundamentally poorly implemented game, and that Bethesda are lazy hacks who don't give a fuck about the quality of the product they deliver.

Though admittedly, the last half-dozen games they put out attest to the same thing, so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point.

 

I mean, I expected exactly what we got from the moment the trailer finished in E3, being honest, which is "a steaming pile of buggy, poorly-implemented shit made up of terrible ideas and failure". That it matched my expectations doesn't make it any better though.