This causes minor problems, like how you’ll have to retrace your steps a ways instead of appearing exactly where you want to be, but there are larger issues as well. Since this is on a live server, the best you can hope for is the ability to respawn rather than reload. It takes a few hours to get used to the new VATS, which does become bearable at a certain point, generally during mid-range encounters, and yet the system is never anywhere near as good or useful or intuitive as slo-mo VATS, and it’s a big loss for what has always been a relatively shaky combat system at baseline.Īnother sacrifice, and possibly the biggest, is that players no longer have the ability to manually save or load their games. Weirdly, the barrel of your gun does not track the target when you’re in VATS, and if you instinctively try to move your barrel anyway, that’s the input to select different body parts in one of 76’s countless baffling UI decisions. You can still target body parts, the percentages still appear, but it all happens in real time, meaning the percentages can plummet from 95% to 5% in a split second, and there’s no cool “action movie slo-mo” shot that accompanies traditional VATS kills. It cannot slow down time, due to uh, the laws of physics in what needs to be an always-live game, and so the result is that it just turns into a very wonky aimbot. VATS, the hallmark of Fallout combat, has been severely altered to work with a live server. ![]() Bethesda made a big show of trying to pitch the idea that other players were the humans of the story, and yet in practice you are either barely ever running into anyone else, or if you are, they’re sure as hell not acting like Fallout NPCs as they munch on chips or yell at their kids in the background as the mic picks it upīut the desire to make this a “players tell the story”-style live game also comes at the expense of gameplay in a number of pointed ways. Like a blank No Man’s Sky world where you roam a dead planet alone. The lack of any human NPCs makes the entire game feel incredibly lifeless. I ran into one Super Mutant vendor who didn’t have anything to say, but at least he didn’t try to kill me. The only NPCs in the game are robots, and most of them don’t have more than a few canned lines, and only a handful are actual characters. ![]() The vast majority of the story, including most of the central storyline where you track your old Vault 76 Overseer across the countryside, is told through holotapes you remove from corpses, holotapes that are often difficult to listen to due to everything else happening in the game as you try to hear what’s being said. One head-scratching decision Fallout 76 has made is to entirely remove human NPCs from the game. Exploring is still fun, and I’ve found some neat areas and surprises that caught me off guard, as Bethesda always excels at environmental storytelling.īut what Fallout 76 does not excel at is actual storytelling. I really do love the West Virginia map, which does produce some beautiful sights, despite the overall aging look of Bethesda game. So, this was kind of a positive for me because it felt like yes, I could play this solo and make it loosely resemble a more traditional Fallout game. ![]() I teamed up with one player to take down a Super Mutant outpost once, and I killed another player trying to take over my workshop and.that was pretty much the entire extent of my experience with randoms in 30+ hours of play, which seems a little weird for a game that effectively designed the entire experience around online multiplayer. ![]() 24 players per server on a map this big means you will simply not run into other people very often unless you purposefully seek them out. Rather, probably for 95% of the game, I’ve been playing alone with no one else in sight, not even during public events which are supposed to purposefully cluster players. I pictured getting spawn killed and robbed frequently, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. And what I was not expecting about Fallout 76 was just how often I wouldn’t see other people, which was sort of the opposite of what I feared. Soon enough, however, you’ll start to spread out. At this point no one is a high enough level to troll in any meaningful capacity or even initiate combat, but you will already start to see annoyances crop up, like how you can’t use a workbench someone else is at. You will see a lot of other players at the start of this adventure since everyone is asked to effectively do the same starting quests.
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