Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

[Dr. Tremolo]

Ah yes, the Japanese school of development. Tie everything to framerate.

This used to be the way in Western games too but at least it was more acceptable in say, GTA games from 2001-2004.
https://www.speedrun.com/gtasa/guide/ux8e4

 

[Penultimo]

Every day It gets more clear why The Elder Scrolls Online was developed by Zenimax.

 

[Antique Rice]

This is going to be the new Ultima Online. Remember when you could kill someone, steal their house key, and loot everything they had?

My favorite was the grandmaster carpenters ambushing people in chokepoints out in the wilderness and building tables around them, then charging a ransom to set them free.

 

[An Ghost]

Never buy bethesda games day of release or preorder. Fallout is one of my favorite series and I’ve played all the games.... years after they came out with cheap dlc and fan stability patches.

 

[The Sorcerer]

I am not touching anything beth related ever again due to the sham that was Fallout 4.

 

[Red Hood]

HOWARD, YOU FUCK! You got your code at ZhengFong's Discount Programming in Chinatown, you CHEAPSKATE!

I know because I SOLD IT TO YOU!

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

My favorite was the grandmaster carpenters ambushing people in chokepoints out in the wilderness and building tables around them, then charging a ransom to set them free.

Or those guys stealing stuff from people at the bank and putting it in their bank vault before the guards whacked them.

 

[Fagnacious D]

I wonder if this means the game will be easy to crack / pirate.

 

[An Ghost]

I wouldn’t be shocked if they left the command console in.

Good luck fucking with code client side, ps4 and Xbox plebs #pcmasterrace

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Like you wouldn't believe. Expect people to have built cheats for this game before it even comes out that will let them teleport to your position, instakill you, take all your items away, teleport you to a remote location on the map, turn you into a fucking mole rat, force your character to dance or perform a dick sucking animation, literally whatever. It's going to be fucking magnificent. Honestly even if they implement some simple cheat detection after this point it's going to suck and be easily worked around.

Edit: this is NOT optimistic I'm telling you people have already ported fallout 4 mods into fallout 76 in working condition, all of what I just described will be trivially easy for modders to pull off if not already by launch then within a day after it. THE GAME DOES NOT EVEN KNOW WHEN YOU'RE CHEATING LOL.

So, this game literally allows fat neckbeards to do the " *teleports behind you* Nothing personal kid" meme?
Looking foward to this in the streams.

My favorite was the grandmaster carpenters ambushing people in chokepoints out in the wilderness and building tables around them, then charging a ransom to set them free.

That's some Monty Python shit right there...

 

[Antique Rice]

That's some Monty Python shit right there...

Ultima Online will live on forever as the Wild West of MMOs. Players could do all kinds of unexpected shenanigans because of the freedom given to them and the weird interactions of the game engine that nobody had yet discovered were a bad idea.

It wasn't all chaos though. There were players using the dye system and stacking dropped cloths and wood to create the illusion of structures and furniture that were impossible naturally.

Of course, then there's stunts like stealing a fireball scroll and publicly assassinating the lead designer of the game for giggles.

 

[Red Hood]

Never buy bethesda games day of release or preorder. Fallout is one of my favorite series and I’ve played all the games.... years after they came out with cheap dlc and fan stability patches.

Never buy a Fallout game on release day, period. As true now as it was in 1997.

 

[Bagronkleton]

This is going to be the new Ultima Online. Remember when you could kill someone, steal their house key, and loot everything they had?

Oh yes. I did this quite often. In Sanct Ylem In Jux Hur Ylem In Nox Grav Kal Ort Por, motherfucker. Yo shit is mine! Then break the house down to a deed, kill a rat, put the deed on the rat, and camp until it decayed.

 

[A Witty Name]

GTA V is going to look like a sanctuary compared to Fallout 76.

 

[waffle]

A lot of you guys are way underselling this. The mistakes that Bathsheba is making here are basically unfixable and will totally tank a game. Didn't they almost go bankrupt over Brink totally flopping? This shit is stuff that would be considered rookie mistakes in like 1997.

 

[Slap47]

People were basically speedhacking by changing their FPS.

This game is hilarious.

 

[Medicated]

Couldn't you, in theory, make a multiplayer mod in Fallout 4, and have the same experience as Fallout 76?

Some modders have been theorizing and starting to test whether they can actually rip out all the assets from Fallout 76, and simply make it run in Fallout 4 as a singleplayer game. So far they are quite optimistic.

 

[vertexwindi]

Some modders have been theorizing and starting to test whether they can actually rip out all the assets from Fallout 76, and simply make it run in Fallout 4 as a singleplayer game. So far they are quite optimistic.

I'm pretty sure Bethesda will shut that down as soon as they can, like the FO3 remaster.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Some modders have been theorizing and starting to test whether they can actually rip out all the assets from Fallout 76, and simply make it run in Fallout 4 as a singleplayer game. So far they are quite optimistic.

I'm pretty sure Bethesda will shut that down as soon as they can, like the FO3 remaster.

Bethesda: “we want to empower our fans to create great content using our engines, and come together as a community for something more than playing a game.”
Community: “okay we’re going to do all the work you should have and make your games function”
Bethesda: “NO NOT LIKE THAT”

 

[Bagronkleton]

For sake of counterarguments, it doesn't look like f76 totally doomed. Not in the best shape, but not entirely doomed.

Either the OP in the initial linked reddit thread doesn't know how to configure or read wireshark or is an idiotic scaremonger. Perhaps both?

So either bethesda put in some all-nighters shortly after the discovery was popped or it was a buncha malarkey to begin with. I'm still going to be holding off on this for a while, see how things shake up when it launches.