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Fallout 76: Uninstalled
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Fallout 76: Uninstalled
An evil editor demands yet another Fallout 76 article from Red Thomas. Stepping once more into the “breach,” Red decides to stick it to the man by writing about why he’s uninstalling the game. Will Red get fired? Will he usher in a new golden age of post-apocalyptic entertainment with his no-holds-barred WWF-quality smack down?
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Then they release the game. I wasnt interested in fo76 because i didnt like my only FO experience with FO4, but it clearly was going to have problems. It was setup for failure from the beginning and the BETA confirmed it was not ready and then they release it.
Seemed like the writing was on the wall. The whole thing didnt surprise me whatsoever.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Hopefully they have learned that they should stick with what they do best and that are things that don't involve MP. I wouldn't be surprised though if they doubled down on MP and included it in one form or another in future games. Too much money to be made with MP or lost in the case of Bethesda.
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
They know when their product is not good enough and we here on the other side of the fence,really don't know who is responsible,the CEO,the board,investors,someone in management,the owner who knows.
All i know is i comment on the games themselves and i have a criteria for every single system that i look for.Some systems at least to me do not matter as much as others but some matter a lot.Example hair dos and colors don't mater to me one bit,my player could have brown hair or white,idc.
Point being,we don't all share the same criteria,heck some people play games just because it looks like a popular game,because the internet says so.
FO76 is not alone in the dumpster,there are a lot of games of late but then again the market is full of new upstart developers and old ones trying to compete.
Thing is we already have a VERY large stable of games to draw on,we don't NEED any more games unless they are better or creative and that does NOT include games giving me points to allot or levels to grind,been there done that ,seen it a million times,i need MORE.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
This is the perfect example why HYPE is BS,wait until the game comes out ,unless you are POSITIVE of it's design.
I have mentioned a few times the new FFXI mobile will be better than most of these PC mmorpg's but i also realize it is Nexxon and hey are awful when comes to monitizing.
There lies another problem,cash shops,pricing,i have seen some awful pricing on games that should be 10 bucks,not 70-80.I have seen f2p that SHOULD be f2p with NO cash shop.There is yet another problem,we are hearing a LOT of devs bull crap us with "our cs is only cosmetic,it is not p2w".
Developers in this era will flat out lie to us,deceive us and not really care one bit about us.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
One disconnect after playing for 3.5 hrs one evening, the same night I experienced some in game lag at the start of the session which dogged me off and on until the d/c. They installed the latest patch the next morning.
Weird graphical glitches. A couple perhaps, not enough to recall a specific instance where it was memorable or blocked me from something.
Shovels, lying everywhere in the Forest and Toxic lake areas, stepped right over one several times last night as it was in a room with a convenient crafting station. I normally scrap them but my stash is already at 550 just 2 days after its expansion.
I'm assuming Red needs a specific quest related shovel, but I'm going to save one in my stash just in case though shovels are actually weapons and not tools.
Human NPCs...I agree their absence does feel more like the devs ran out of time and omitted them for efficiency reasons more than anything else.
I did feel a touch of sadness after reading all the notes and holos about the Responders only to find out what eventually happened to them all. The lore however did explain how they all disappeared at one swoop. Pro tip, sometimes falling back to "Helms Deep" really is a bad idea.
Never the less, I am hoping humanoid npcs will be introduced in future expansions, it would make for a better experience.
Like Red I did not buy the power helmet edition so I'm not sure how the handling of the situation is a "final straw" in deciding to stop playing. Showing solidarity for his fellow gamers perhaps?
Not a concern for me, I hold most gamers in contempt anyways (none of the fine folks here of course, well..maybe one clown) so a total non factor but Red got really worked up as he used the word nylon twice in his write up where I think he meant to say canvas, and he's usually more careful than that.
I think it's fair to say Bethesda is a very sloppy game developer, has terrible customer service, poor data security, struggles to control exploits and makes what appear to be terrible business based decisions with an incredible level of nativity.
At days end they still are game developers who tell good stories and FO76 actually has some great tales to tell, but you have to be willing to learn it in manner very different from previous efforts. Players who dislike reading or listening to sometimes quite long holo recordings will likely scream in agony at some point, I teeter on the edge at times.
They remind me of Turbine and Funcom, two other long time dev houses who struggle to deliver quality.
Speaking of quality, past few days I've had an issue with holo tapes needed to be stopped / restarted when first played, even after the Tuesday patch. Last evening for some reason the problem went away....magic fix I guess, or just a lucky break, not sure.
So I'll play on, though I'm reconsidering my decision to play a melee build. With no AOE it's a real struggle to deal with Super Mutant packs as they have very high damage resistance, at least to my axe or baseball bat. If It could get my hands on a power sledge perhaps things would go better.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Definitely a wiser choice.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Gaming has just gotten too big with too much money at stake and attracted the kind of people to the boardrooms of these companies who wouldn't know gaming quality if bit them on the ass.
That's who's really calling the shots and it shows.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
I guess, congratz mmorpg.com hitting new low!
I don't think you'd have any problem pointing out a number of very smart design decisions, though. I'm still damn impressed with their SPECIAL/Perk system. Think it needs a little refinement, but it's a great idea that's nothing like anything else I've seen in this genre.
I vote with my time and money constantly. I buy plenty of games that I'll probably never play because I like the company or like the risks they're taking. I'll write nice things about games I don't intend to give much time sometimes, too. By the same token, I withdraw that support when I believe a company has acted unethically or has made a poor decision.
On that note, if anyone is looking to replace that hole in their heart from FO76, I've been playing X4 and I am damn impressed.
The thing about being a studio with great storytellers is that there's always another story to be told. If they step back and refocus on what they're good at, they'll be fine.
I do think they've got some leadership problems, though. Someone calling the shots at Bethesda doesn't really understand their core audience well. They've made this hard pivot towards consoles, which is fine, but they've started making it harder for modders to contribute to the IP's ecosystem (which is why I think you can't host your own FO76 server). They're in the process of killing their golden goose, which is a shame. They could turn it around, though.
Now this game is not what was asked for, but no one would be crazy enough to do a full scale MMO for such a small franchice as FO.
I do agree with a fair amount of red´s points. I am right now stuck on the kill Evan quest (a quick reminder why i hate questmobs that do not repawn in a proper way.) so shit happens.
But i still enjoy the game, i really like the simple fact that the game does not give a flying fuck about what you do, even by Bethesda standards.. =P I can just mill about without feeling like there is a overarching quest that needs to dealt with.
In a way FO4 had that too since the main breadcrumb quest was so low stakes it hardly did matter. But i still felt i should try to find out if my kid was still alive or not. =P
It is a very flawed game but much like cherry coke it fills some tiny role in the grand universe.
This have been a good conversation