Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

i was gonna wait for reviews but then this thread psyched me up a bunch and now i've preordered too

For some reason, somebody thought it a good idea to throw a big LA opening party last week.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/fallout4party?src=hash

I'm digging the art direction of it, but I dig Fallout-y design. Also, Vault Tec insignia donut layout!

One of the more amusing reactions was Max Landis on Twitter going on about the obvious LA-standard party fillers in the place just there to look pretty and hep and getting squicked-out by the post-apoc imagery on the walls.

my copy got delivered early on saturday, so i played a fair bit over the weekend cuz my wife was out #wastingmylife

it's very much a bethesda fallout game, for better and for worse, so there's shitloads of stuff to do, most of it pretty interesting, but i've already run into a few bugs (characters walking on tables, a madly spinning box that followed me all the way through a building, an important npc decided to try and kill me for some reason and i had to reload, losing 20 minutes of progress)

the graphics are fucking weird - there are some super-beautiful lighting effects which sometimes make the wasteland look awesome but it's very obviously based on the old graphics engine so the characters are ugly as sin and in flat lighting it often looks like total butt

i've also recently found an npc who might end up being my favourite in the whole series

in summary: more of the same so far, kinda wish it was a little bit more of a progression from 3/new vegas, but i'm enjoying it all the same

Finding the whole, Bethesda:"we will let you play but don't talk about this game until 9th nov" thing a bit over the top tbh

i've played fallout 4 ama

not sure what you're talking about ste. bethesda can't stop anyone from playing the game if they got it legally, they have every right to pull down streams of leaks

have they been embargoing reviews? i thought that was ste was referring to

yikes that xbone freezing

http://i.imgur.com/MYpPSnZ.gif

Disappointed to hear it's based on the old 3 engine. Sounds more like a dlc but they are treating it as a standalone.

Did gta 4 or 5 use the previous gen engines as well?

oof, that xbox gif is painful

i've seen framerates tank occasionally on ps4 too. also, semi-regularly i'll be in the middle of a conversation with someone and be interrupted by a 5-10 second pause while the game struggles to load up the next section of speech. the characters just stand there looking blankly at each other, it's kinda hilarious

holy shit, just realized i have the day off wednesday! really excited. i purchased a ps4 over the weekend, and i'm already really sick of uncharted.

xp review embargoes until day before release isn't abnormal for games. beth wasn't preventing anyone from talking about it except reviewers, unless you're seeing different stuff than i am

*aren't abnormal

The embargo about mentioning when one's review embargo being lifted was some dumb shit. Like, everybody couldn't even mention until Thursday/Friday that they'd have their coverage on Monday.

Either way, my Steam copy unlocks in about 12 hours

so apparently buggy bethesda engines never changes too

maybe by spring 2016

Does the companion app work yet?

Also, should we resurrect our old FO3/FONV MP3 playlists?

Searching for a FO4 track list, I find this amusing speculative playlist from a guy who included multiple Ink Spots tunes as well as digging up stuff on Dot Records(who pressed the "Atom Bomb Baby" single):

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/fallout-4-soundtrack-list-heres-23-songs-youre-likely-hear-commonwealth-454276

this whole collection is on point: Atomic Platters, Baby!

Polygon did an awesome timeline feature:

http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/11/9/9646378/fallout-timeline-4-3-2

Cool

the wiki says its using skyrim's creation engine, not the yucky fallout 3/oblivion gamebryo engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_4

But wasn't that engine just a glorified Gamebryo?

and here we are:

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/?

GiantBomb quick look:

https://youtu.be/R7BQqt-jhhw

They seem to be enjoying themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BQqt-jhhw

Unpacking now. Wish I would have remember to install all this to the SSD first.

i'm glad bethesda's char model creator caught up to mario 64!

Vault Tec salesman modeled after Harry Dean Stanton, only with far creepier mouth articulation.

they deflated special! i think! i was very confused. it was deflated to begin with; imagine how confused the d&d kids are.

meanwhile elder scrolls stats are all like 72.

picking stuff up is definitely improved.

as the wife (accident, but going with it) i was very resistant to the vault idea, but guess how much my opinion counted with "nate".

"quick look"

1:22:11

Digging it, minus the weird character mouth animations and the fact that I don't know what the threshholds for speech checks are. As a speech-heavy player who was taught thru several Black Isle games, I don't like not knowing what the speech thresholds should be.

Thresholds for speech checks?

i finally got the hang of the base-building system after an embarassingly long period of total confusion last night - it adds a pretty interesting new mechanic to the game

Speech checks, which looked like this in FO3

http://s700.photobucket.com/user/gtg633w/media/fallout3_lp/03_Goat/067.jpg.html

speech checks: you try the jedi mind trick, and if you don't pass the speech skill threshold they gun you down like a raider in the street

P. Much.

Also, can't get the phone app to connect to my game, even with the setting enabled. Wonder if it's a Windows firewall/public network thing.

last time i played f1 i put my int just at the threshold of dumb and took the "night person" perk, so i could pass speech checks at night but not in the daytime. highly recommended.

hell, add an alcohol dependency and... me irl

nuka-cola quantum hasn't made it out to the big island target yet. considered buying some spam instead as a kind of diy tie-in, but (a) it wouldn't be CRAM and (b) i'd like to keep my consumption on a musubi basis

DLH where did you move to? You were in Portland for years, right?

i went back to vvardenfell.

(i live in my hometown which is on the east coast of the largest hawaiian island. i have an actual savings account these days so the inchoate plane is to leave, again, soon, probably, unless i buy land, or possibly, ideal scenario, even if i buy land.)

the dog in this is pretty cool!

(on the other hand they sure shove you into power armor fast. my battery ran out and i'm hoping they don't give me another one for a long time, but even so it was very DON'T GET BORED, EVENTUALLY YOU'LL BE A GOD LIKE ALWAYS, WE PROMISE)

Yeah, Gerstmann mentioned that, too. As if they were either over-correcting for FO3's delayed usage of the dog and power armor or just reaaaallly wanting to draw attention to these things they dumbed a lot of time into.

The users have spoken:

http://i.imgur.com/9qrch0L.jpg