Dropping the price of FO76 to $8 probably had something to do with that.
Its had steep discounts since launch.
A price drop alone wouldn’t boost player counts without some additional interest at the same time.
Didn’t they recently have a free weekend too?
Yes! I tried it again this weekend because of this. After all this time, you still cannot rebind the keys of the building mode, which is ridiculous and makes this game difficult to enjoy for me.
Its honestly not a good game and I’ve played all of them since fallout was released. Insisting on a world that requires other players to seem complete is an idiotic idea for a userbase that loves spending thousands of hours by themselves collecting trinkets.
I get the idea and a fair MMORPG would be dank but hard to pull off.
I have no interest in playing FO76, but for games where I really want to play but can’t rebind I use autohotkey. It’s trivial to write a rebind script to run before opening the game.
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I play via proton so autohotkey is not an option. I tried autokey which is a linux alternative but weirdly, while the key swaps worked on the desktop, it didn’t have an effect within the game for some reason. I’m sure there is some way it can be done but I couldn’t be bothered spending the time fixing it for this game which I don’t have much hope i’ll even like.
Hey which proton version do you typically run? I see people recommending experimental over GE a lot these days and it’s got me wondering if it’s even worth it to find+download GE for my deck.
I just run proton 8 and switch to experimental or GE when troubleshooting a game that doesn’t work, which is rare.
Breaking their weak ass player count record for 76 is such a low bar. For reference Fallout4 is at 471,955 palworlds peak player count was 2,101,535 and stardew is 236,614. Puts 39,434 into perspective
Has it got any better? I played it once at launch on Xbox, and needless to say I havent ever gone back to it. Can I play in a private world with just friends or do I have to be subjected to the ill treatment of other players?
People in the reviews say it’s gotten much better since release but it’s still an average game at best. Private servers are only available if you pay a subscription.
Private servers are only available if you pay a subscription.
You don’t suppose there are… other …means of private servers yet, are there? Or is the game just that bad that even nefarious folk have no interest in it?
I checked it couple months ago and it felt like a regular fallout game with npcs and story missions. Wasn’t a great coop though, since game didnt handle progress for each player.
Other players in FO76 are actually very nice. If your low level, high level people will just go up to you and give you things. PVP is optional and I never turned it on. You’re incentivised to join teams with many perks. You can just follow a team mate around and help them, and I’ve done that many times. Teams are temporary and small (max 4 players) so people are very open to you joining a team.
Ill treatment? This is the most friendly game I ever played.
I mean sometimes I do go around leaving bags of poop on people’s beds so…
How ironic.
Tried it last month on PS5 and gave up. Frequent crashes, disconnections breaking ongoing quests; you log in and your camp is removed because someone else build theirs in that spot; shallow, linear, often annoying quests; overall feels empty, discouraging exploring; seems like all better items are earned for killing something and all you find looting surroundings is junk; very limited carrying capacity; repeatable enemies; constant push to pay for subscribtion; cosmetics breaking immersion like pride flags, xmas hats etc.; disappointing graphics.
Overall I’d rate it avarage - 6,5/10.
In plus: Fallout world and lore (the Fallout 4-esque one, not the classic 1 & 2), friendly community happy to show off their camps. Except that one high-level asshole who one-shot my noob character when I was browsing a stash box :D
It’s fun for what it is. It has a very positive community. Lower level players are always gifted high level armor and weapons from vets when they see them. If you do decide to play, you can do most of the game and quests solo. That’s how I did it and it felt more or less like a regular fallout game. You should do the events even though you’re not prepared for them. High level players will make it so you pretty much don’t have to do anything and that’s where you’ll get your highest level rewards.
The card perk system is different and overwhelming at first. Basically good some good builds and pick one or two that fit your play style. Then you’ll know what to focus on.
My buddy for me into it a few years ago. It was fun for what it was, but it’s not GOTY or anything.
In just not interested in anything Bethesda any more. I played a ton of FO3 and Oblivion back in the day. A good bit of Skyrim. New Vegas was pretty decent. But the engine just feels so incredibly stale and outdated. The dead eyed characters barking their lines at you. Everything just feels clunky and unimmersive. It feels more like a chore than a fun game.
I ended up getting Starfield on release day for about $30 off through some deal, and I still felt ripped off. Honestly cannot be bothered to care about the next Elder Scrolls or whatever at this point.
It’s weird, playing fallout and starfield on their engine feels terrible but playing skyrim on it feels great. I don’t know how to explain it but I think the new elder scrolls will actually be good.
Could be any number of things. Could be nostalgia, the people who were working there at the time/the studio’s methodology, or maybe you just don’t like how they make fps games in their engine.
For me, the big things are their lack of innovation and the lifeless worlds of their games from about Fallout 4 onwards. Starfield’s procedural generation really showed just how average everything except for their environmental storytelling is. Without the little hand-placed tidbits to make the world interesting, everything else just kinda falls flat for me. Everything else about how they design games is outdated at this point and hasn’t really changed since the days of Oblivion. Even their much vaunted spaceship builder turned out to largely just be a loading screen that you walk through between other loading screens.
I still like Skyrim, it’s a great “Run around, steal stuff and stab people” simulator. But the Bethesda Fallouts have never really clicked with me. Three was okay-ish, NV was in the “good-ish once you get used to the jank” range and 4 felt like a grab bag of half finished ideas. Since 76 seems to to be mainly drawing from the FO4 well, I never bothered playing it.
NV was non-Bethesda developers creating a game with Bethesda’s software. Hence the very different writing and structure.
If you want something that captures the experience of older Fallout games, the new Wasteland games have a lot of overlap while still being their own thing. Wasteland 3’s main structure resembles New Vegas in that you’re always trying to figure out what faction or combination of factions to support.
I really liked new vegas bavk in the day. But didn’t really care for Bethesda themselves. I never looked at anything fallout 4 before it was released, because i didn’t care. On launch day i had an injury and was bored, so i blindly bought fallout 4. This was the weirdest experience i ever had. I relaunched the game like 3 times because i thought i bought the wrong fallout or some rip off, because the game looks disgusting. Or pretty good for Bethesda standards. I had no idea what was going on because some quests were broken and a lot of things didn’t work, texures missing and all that good stuff. But according to fans this was a 9.5/10 game. I don’t know what’s up with these people.
While the engine doesn’t help, I feel that Bethesda games have fallen into a trap of being bigger and bigger with every release which has resulted in the games being less and less focused. While the level of detail in a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game is amazing, I personally find I reach a saturation point and just stop caring about the game. With Skyrim, the only way I managed to complete the main quest line was by forcing myself to just speed-run it to the exclusion of doing nearly anything else. If I let myself wander off and start exploring or doing side quests, I just run out of steam at some point and never finish.
I’m still waiting for Fallouts 5-75.
I instead started a new Fallout 4 game. Currently helping Valentine get out of a bind.
I don’t hate Fallout 76 but I can’t get into it. I think because of the lack of story, the fact that I can never find any good gear, and the quests I’ve found have been pretty boring. I need some semblance of structure or my ADHD brain is saying bye bye.
I was ready to pounce on you for F076 but you are absolutely right for disliking it.
There’s a few quests that have a satisfying conclusion. But a lot of it is just go in a direction, pick up side quests and see what happens. I have a lot of fun just wandering, looting, then returning to my giant house full of all my loot.
I think at some point I have to get over the hump and establish a nicer camp. I see so many elaborate ones that blow my mind and that honestly looks like where the source of the fun comes from for some people. I still go back to 76 somewhat regularly but it never sticks for long. The community is always really nice which is definitely a draw since I’m pretty hesitant to talk to other players sometimes.
I saw that the next-gen update for 4 is coming out next week, so I went ahead and bought the PS4 version for $5 in preparation for the free upgrade. I already have all the DLC from back when it came out, but I had the disc and traded it in years ago.
I got 76 cheap on Steam a few years ago (because I refuse to pay to play online), but didn’t get very far. About what I expected, but I wanted to at least try it out.
Pretty much the same reason I bought 76 too. I think I’d like it with a crew, but I don’t really play like that these days. I do find that the community is really friendly and helpful though when you come across people.
Had no idea there was a next-gen update coming. That’s exciting! Fallout 4 already looks great on my Xbox Series X so I can’t even imagine what better looks like.
Yeah, it’s coming out April 25th. It’s been long enough since I played it that I think another playthrough at 60fps would be worth it. Especially since I already know the story and characters are meh (except for Valentine, he’s cool) and will be in it for the exploration and looting. It’s certainly a better game than Starfield, at least!
I liked Starfield… for a little while anyway. It felt way too empty though. I finished the story and then there wasn’t really much else to do. I built a cool ship and then got bored.
Valentine is pretty much the character I spend almost the whole game with as a companion. Piper isn’t bad but Valentine is my favorite.
The show has been surprisingly good. Especially impressive since it would have been super easy, barely an inconvenience, to screw up.
For anyone not wanting to play 76, and to try Fallout 3/New Vegas for the first time, or for a different run, I HIGHLY encourage you to get the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. Once set up (I got ALL the optional mods that they have a link to or something) you will have a better experience than vanilla Fallout 3, and more cohesion between the gameplay of FO3 and NV.
For anyone wanting to play 76, just play literally any other fallout.
Prepare for a rush of new game-based TV now that this is working
I’m fine with that. As long as they do at least a decent job of adapting it.
Best I can do is another Halo style series where the director straight up says that he didn’t look at any of the source material.
They won’t though (usually).
And that’s how it goes.
- Good TV show that respects the source
- More people consume more of the source and related products
- Different IP looks at this and had a brilliant idea
- Bad TV show that doesn’t respect the source
- Everyone shits on toxic fans and how making adaptations is not worth it
- Different IP decides to challenge this
- Go back to step 1
Yeah, it boils down to media companies not understanding what people like and wanting an easy cashgrab
Twisted Metal was good.
That one was a nice surprise
As long as they do at least a decent job of adapting it.
Narrator: They didn’t.
Can’t have been much of a record then, I never bought it, most of my mates didn’t buy it.
The all-time peak sits, as of writing, at ~41k and was set less than 24 hours ago.
The peak when the game first launched was ~33k, a record it broke last Sunday, some three days ago.
Completely unsurprised by this.
Just started playing New Vegas, never played it before. I’ve played FO3 and FO4 though. I love Fallout lore.
Want to hijack your comment to tell people that might not know about the tale of two wastelands mod which combines 3 and nv into one fun game and does so really well. You need to own a copy of both.
I’ve been playing through it, just about finished up in fo3 and about to head over to nv.
I hope you enjoy it! It’s such a good game
Almost just gave in to give 76 a go, then remembered I had just bought GOTY edition FO3 because my love for Fallout started when my friend lent me FO3 on… either Xbox OG or PS3, so I am long overdue to do a full FO3 GOTY playthrough.
Use Tale of Two Wastelands! Much better experience.
Anyone know if it’s possible to add the game key to Steam from the Amazon Prime promo?
No, it is redeemed as a Microsoft Store/Xbox Store game.
Best you can do is add it as a non-Steam game to your library after installing it with the Xbox app.
I passed on this because the reviews were dismal but the comments have me considering picking it up on sale.
It’s mediocre at best. Lots of fetch quests and a pretty hollow storyline.
If you want I have a Fallout 76 Windows and also Xbox code I can give you. Just send me a PM for which platform you want it for, since code will go to waste if nobody uses it. I think works for NA.
Gave away the PC version. Have the **Xbox **version left for anyone who wants it.
Thanks I’m on PC and someone beat me to it. Very generous. I can afford it on sale anyhow though so no big deal!
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It’s pretty decent, I’d say it’s worth a try at least for the main Wastelanders story.
Last I saw, 76 was free when you bought a pack of gum or something. Is that still the case?
I got it through Humble Choice. Never played it though.
