I’m about 30 hours into Fallout 76 so far and I’m surprised how much I am enjoying it. There’s a lot of unique locations and creatures that make exploring fun. The MMO part of the game isn’t super blatant outside of the microtransactions for skins and certain items. When I do come across other players it’s usually because I stumbled into their camp and we just emote at each other a couple times before I move on. I don’t think there is a way to actually talk with other players outside. I think there might be voice chat but I haven’t tried it. The story seems pretty shallow though and mostly done through terminal entries and notes. I haven’t really felt compelled to follow the main story line. I’ve been slowly working my way East then South doing miscellaneous quests along the way and exploring.
I’ll probably play at least another 30 hours. I am not too sure how grindy late game quests will be. It costs caps to fast travel and they aren’t as easy to come across as they are in Fallout 4 so if quests objectives have me wandering back and forth across long distances I’ve already explored I could see that getting tiring in a hurry for example.
The only bug I’ve come across was being unable to move sporadically in the over world and consistently being unable to move indoors. It turns out this was due to my high FPS and I needed to cap it using AMD Chill.
I do wonder what was added in the Wastelanders DLC and how the game was before it.
TL:DR I’d say it’s worth picking up on sale and if you want to explore a bit. It doesn’t feel as deep as other Fallout games but it’s something.
Does anyone here want to play together? I’m on PC and mostly wandering around exploring but keep dumping most of my ammo into Sheepsquatchs. If you do want to play together shoot me a message and I’ll give you my Steam ID.
Fuck, not again. I just rejigged my perks after previous update and they just tweaked my hunting rifle. Can’t they just leave perks alone and focus on new content and fixing/improving existing features (caravans for example).
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… Buckethead… 😈
Single shot rifles are big winners on the PTS. All of the old damage bonuses from perks are built into the base weapons now. The damage perks you already have equipped will be renamed and help you do additional limb and weak point damage.
I appreciate their concern but I am fine at present. I wish they would do something productive instead. For example fix fucking caravans with Brahmin being stuck in the same place every time. Add the missing trader to the caravans. Add new way to earn stamps. Add “adjust gamma” option. List goes on.
I hear ya.
I wish we had more raids and they would finish the Skyline Valley content.
Not raids, thanks. I tried few times and it is enough. This is not what Fallout is about for me.
I would love them to fix caravans and allow us to do them properly, with the starting/ending points on the main part of the map. More missions or quests also wouldn’t hurt. Plus bug fixing - rubberbanding is infuriating.
I mean honestly, who fucking asked them to tweak perks again when they just did? This is another example of some developer/marketing moron knowing better than customers what customers want.