Fallout Fallout 4 Thread

[Lemming42]

This is the type of stories I would like to read here, give me more!

Here's one for you:

It turns out you can kill your son, leader of the Institute and also kill the leader of the Railroad. I tried to do both and wondered what would happen.

Spoiler

Nothing happens. You leave the institute and, unless I missed something, the game's just over. No more main quests on the quest screen, it's just over. It's like they wanted to imitate New Vegas's kill-faction-leaders thing but couldn't be bothered coming up with any consequences, so there are none.

Another classic, which I wish I'd screenshotted:
The Railroad want to incite a synth-vs-human race war at the Institute. Some science nerd has a plan to free the synths by hacking a door (?) or something, but the Railroad want the synths to violently break out. When you talk to the synth rebellion leader, you have four near-identical options, all of which incite the race war. There is absolutely no way to use the suggested nonviolent hacking plan.

Later, when you're assisting the synths, he asks if you have any objection to murdering some guards. The responses, paraphrased:
WHO ARE THE GUARDS? (this just takes you back to the other 3 options)
WANT TO FIGHT
NO PROBLEM
IF NECESSARY

Absolutely no way to refuse the quest or avoid killing the guards. It's hilarious.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Unwatching this thread. Summon me up again if you find my other Easter Eggs I forced Todd to include.

 

[Quatlo]

This is the type of stories I would like to read here, give me more!

I finished a quest for Paladin Danse, but he is now a "companion" so thanks to the retardo dialogue system I'm unable to turn the quest in becase all he wants to talk about is "Follow you? Y/N"

 

[Raghar]

Yeah, worse than any Bethesda quest I can think of. The quest was broken to the point of being literally unplayable, as in I can't actually finish it. Basically the context is that the Institute want you to attack some place to kill some escaped synths, but before the quest you have the option to betray the Institute and inform the Railroad, who order you (you can't turn them down) to fight the Institute. But when you get there, the game still thinks you're with the Institute so nobody - Institute or Railroad - is hostile. The BoS show up out of nowhere so its a 3 way battle where absolutely nobody is hostile towards you, but the game demands you take part in the fight anyway. Nobody turns hostile when you shoot them or their friends.

After killing a lot of people who don't fight back, you go inside to rescue the synths, except you still have the objective "kill the synths" which the game forces you to do. After killing them all, the Railroad congratulated me for saving the synths who I just killed. The quest isn't even over but I quit to resume it later, it's the fucking worst.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that inside the area with the synths, I lost the ability to shoot everyone but the synths. Couldn't enter VATS, bullets didn't register. I was being shot at by turrets who I could not return fire at.

That's normal. It's at release of a Bethesda game.

 

[Morgoth]

Daymn.

 

[Killzig]

I finished a quest for Paladin Danse, but he is now a "companion" so thanks to the retardo dialogue system I'm unable to turn the quest in becase all he wants to talk about is "Follow you? Y/N"

lol. Did you try giving him the dickish response when first meeting him? He says "COME BACK WHEN YOU LEARN SOME MANNERS" and just turns away. Dude, do you want to get your signal boosted so you can get rescued or not? Pretty sure your stranded-ass squad needs me more than I need you. The game forces you to kiss ass at just about every turn.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I changed the FOV values in 3 different files like the RPS article said, but it still doesn't work

From what I know of Bethesda's shit games, you should alter the FOV from the console at least once, then save your game, in addition to changing the ini settings. Using the console isn't mentioned in that guide. To change the FOV to 90 from the console type "fov 90". You use the ~ key to open the console.

They Far-Cry-ed that game. It totally plays like Far Cry now.

Same thing I thought. The ratio of RPG-to-FPS appears to be the same.

 

[msxyz]

Daymn.

Riding on the popularity of FO3/NV/Skyrim. It was expected.

It will be interesting to monitor the concurrent number of players in the next few weeks and of course the long tail of sales. If I remember correctly, also Dragon Age 2 sold more than Origins in the first 48 hrs. Then word of mouth and the gamers' feedback killed it real fast.

 

[Daedalos]

[eXPERT level hacking required]

Have Expert level

Game says: Please get higher hacking skill

LEEELZ okay Todd. fuck you.

 

[Lemming42]

The most helpful-rated reviews on Steam are all negative. A couple of people on my friends list seem to have given up on it already, too.

 

[Somberlain]

Yeah, worse than any Bethesda quest I can think of. The quest was broken to the point of being literally unplayable, as in I can't actually finish it. Basically the context is that the Institute want you to attack some place to kill some escaped synths, but before the quest you have the option to betray the Institute and inform the Railroad, who order you (you can't turn them down) to fight the Institute. But when you get there, the game still thinks you're with the Institute so nobody - Institute or Railroad - is hostile. The BoS show up out of nowhere so its a 3 way battle where absolutely nobody is hostile towards you, but the game demands you take part in the fight anyway. Nobody turns hostile when you shoot them or their friends.

After killing a lot of people who don't fight back, you go inside to rescue the synths, except you still have the objective "kill the synths" which the game forces you to do. After killing them all, the Railroad congratulated me for saving the synths who I just killed. The quest isn't even over but I quit to resume it later, it's the fucking worst.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that inside the area with the synths, I lost the ability to shoot everyone but the synths. Couldn't enter VATS, bullets didn't register. I was being shot at by turrets who I could not return fire at.

Fallout 4 is something special. Something special indeed.

No, scratch that.

It’s downright S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

9.5/10
Superb

-Jim Sterling

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

rigid backstory is great if it is relevant to the plot, like Witcher. The fact that some of you are saying the character in F04 has zero issues with suddenly waking up in a post post-apocalyptic world is downright terrible.

Would you say Bethesda are...

...

...guilty of being trite?

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

And only 78% on steam

 

[Zeriel]

And only 78% on steam

Age of Decadence has a better review score on Steam than Fallout 4. The salt mines are working over time.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

This really is quite surprising and remarkable:



Bets on where the score bottoms out at?

 

[Wilian]

Yes, which led to my favorite gaming journalist quote ever, from Jeff Gerstmann (paraphrasing from memory): "There was more enemies on screen than frames per second."

At 5 FPS it's not really an achievement.

 

[Gerrard]

Really appreciate them putting indicator lights on frag mines. Wouldn't want someone walking into one in the dark.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Age of Decadence has a better review score on Steam than Fallout 4. The salt mines are working over time.

Pretty much every major cRPG from last few years has

 

[Killzig]

I changed the FOV values in 3 different files like the RPS article said, but it still doesn't work

Set the ini files in your documents to read-only after you make the changes. Also, apparently this fixes that texture streaming issue on PC.

Go into the Fallout4Prefs.ini in C:\USERS\YOURNAME\DOCUMENTS\MY GAMES\FALLOUT4 and find "iTexMipMapSkip". Change the value to -1 and it should fix it. There is a similar bug on ESO that was fixed in the same way.

 

[Zanzoken]

"Vast amounts of unpolished content with no emotional investment" is the most accurate description of post-Morrowind Bethsoft I have ever read.

You grind through hours of meaningless exploration and questing, kill hundreds of meaningless enemies, collect dozens of meaningless items. All of the NPCs you meet are essentially there just to give high fives and affirm how special and exceptional you are. You are imbued with this compulsive drive to get to "The End" so you can hopefully receive some sort of payoff, but it's not really satisfying. And then you look back and realize that throughout the whole experience, you had very little of what could be described as actual fun.

It almost reminds of F2P design at this point. Maybe Beth will shred what little dignity the Fallout franchise has left and turn it into a mobile game... oh wait.

 

[Zeriel]

"Vast amounts of unpolished content with no emotional investment" is the most accurate description of post-Morrowind Bethsoft I have ever read.

You grind through hours of meaningless exploration and questing, kill hundreds of meaningless enemies, collect dozens of meaningless items. All of the NPCs you meet are essentially there just to give high fives and affirm how special and exceptional you are. You are imbued with this compulsive drive to get to "The End" so you can hopefully receive some sort of payoff, but it's not really satisfying. And then you look back and realize that throughout the whole experience, you had very little of what could be described as actual fun.

It almost reminds of F2P design at this point. Maybe Beth will shred what little dignity the Fallout franchise has left and turn it into a mobile game... oh wait.

They did say that as an exercise they have developed multiplayer modes for their last few games that they never released. So they're just one decision away from going full multiplayer popamole.

 

[Reinar]

"Vast amounts of unpolished content with no emotional investment" is the most accurate description of post-Morrowind Bethsoft I have ever read.

100 times 0 is still 0.

 

[Gerrard]

I can't wait for them to start selling item packs for the building mode.

Also
BLOWOUT SOON FELLOW STALKER

 

[Nyast]

Managing my inventory in Pip-boy is one of the most atrocious experiences I've ever had in my gaming life.

 

[Excidium II]

Managing my inventory in Pip-boy is one of the most atrocious experiences I've ever had in my gaming life.