Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

[Stylus]

Lol what kind of deep morality did Fallout ever have? They had a freaking Karma system since the first game telling you exactly how good/bad you are. Its a joke to say the game has "tough morality" when it gives you goodboy points if you do what it wants to. The choices where just as shallow in the first Fallout games (and New Vegas for that matter). For example that "nuke an innocent town" had a 1-1 equivalent in Fallout 2. There is a city full of ghouls living around a Nuclear Power Plant. A racist but powerful person wants you to blow them all up to get citizenship in the Vault. You can go in and blow them up or fix the plant so it stops leaking radiation. Both make you progress down the story equally. How is that any better than Fallout 3's example?

The nostalgia factor is what does it for a lot of people. A bunch of the old fans hate Bethesda for how they snatched away the Fallout IP from Interplay, (Which was a doomed company anyway) and they often ignore that Fallout 1 & 2 were buggy as all Hell. Barely functioning in many places. They also rarely mention the last Fallout game made by Interplay, that being Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The most dumbed down and straight up awful game in the entire series.

Fallout 3 saved the Fallout series from disappearing into irrelevance. It isn't a bad game, it's just that people have rose tinted glasses for the old games, Fallout 4 was mediocre enough that people think poorly of all Bethesda style Fallout games, and 76 was such disaster that it solidified that for a lot of people.

 

[Snekposter]

I think what makes it worse is in between FO3 and FO4 you have Fallout New Vegas, which is the Fallout game everyone wanted and thought the earlier games had given them thanks to nostalgia.

 

[Creep3r]

So will Microsoft buying Bethesda mean any non-shit changes for 76? Or will Bethesda end up as neutered as Rare?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I like Fallout 1 and 2 a lot but if you're familiar with them there's times when playing it feels like carefully navigating through your crazy uncles house of glow nigger traps bugs. I can't believe to this day that the base of Fallout 1 is straight up broken even with patches. Back in 97 I thought it was broken because I played a rip, then I bought the game and it was broken and on dial-up patches weren't something you looked for. Then I played the GOG version and that shit is still broken beyond belief.

 

[Stylus]

So will Microsoft buying Bethesda mean any non-shit changes for 76? Or will Bethesda end up as neutered as Rare?

Odds are they'll drop support for the non-Xbox servers, and keep 76 on life support until Fallout 5: The Xbox Series X Exclusive is released. After that they'll shut the Xbox servers down and Fallout 76 will be forgotten with the exception of people laughing at how bad it was.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I like Fallout 1 and 2 a lot but if you're familiar with them there's times when playing it feels like carefully navigating through your crazy uncles house of glow nigger traps bugs. I can't believe to this day that the base of Fallout 1 is straight up broken even with patches. Back in 97 I thought it was broken because I played a rip, then I bought the game and it was broken and on dial-up patches weren't something you looked for. Then I played the GOG version and that shit is still broken beyond belief.

Out of curiosity, what kind of bugs have you experienced? I've played the hell out of Fallout 1 and I don't recall running into that many glitches. I keep hearing how buggy 1 and 2 are, but I don't know if I'm just lucky or what.

 

[2021Murder]

I like Fallout 1 and 2 a lot but if you're familiar with them there's times when playing it feels like carefully navigating through your crazy uncles house of glow nigger traps bugs. I can't believe to this day that the base of Fallout 1 is straight up broken even with patches. Back in 97 I thought it was broken because I played a rip, then I bought the game and it was broken and on dial-up patches weren't something you looked for. Then I played the GOG version and that shit is still broken beyond belief.

when people mention how great fallout is they mean fallout 2. fallout 1 was more of a proof of concept game, a knockoff of wasteland with a lot of the same "skills and builds that are fucking useless, you can only role play how we want but wont tell you lol" mechanics. the game's time limit and rather shit combat (dont you dare waste time with melee or unarmed builds there aren't any end-game level items) hinder any attempt to level up from combat. most of the skills are useless. perks are useless as well, with the best ones impossible to get pre-13 year patch. you almost never have to backtrack either so youre reputation and karma is fucking useless stats for the most part as well.

the atmosphere is good and they did seem to think a lot of stuff out. its just that the game ends up being the beloved game series with the 2nd one, where you really get to experience what an RPG really is supposed to be.

if bethesda brought the rights after the 1st one came out, people would have never given a fuck about the CRPG originals.

the 2nd one is played with a shitton of mods too now that i'm thinking about it, its like vampires, or KOTOR everyone considers them amazing games because they never play the release version but one with all the mods from decades of improving it. for fucks sake the original Watch Dogs is pretty great to play and better than the 2nd one graphically after only 6 years of mods, living city gives it missions and events they dont even try implmenting in the 2nd one, they're much harder too.

a lot of the rose tint was added onto fallout after the fact by bored PC users.

 

[Adamska]

Hilarious, because the second game was what killed the studio since it was so goddamn buggy that people were infuriated with it. Hell, the Deathclaw mission remains bugged to this day, no matter what.

As for Microsoft buying Bethesda, 50/50 on it just dying as a name and basically just existing to hold the rights.

 

[Creep3r]

Hilarious, because the second game was what killed the studio since it was so goddamn buggy that people were infuriated with it. Hell, the Deathclaw mission remains bugged to this day, no matter what.

As for Microsoft buying Bethesda, 50/50 on it just dying as a name and basically just existing to hold the rights.

Basically the Rare treatment. What a waste of 7.5 billion.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

So does this serve as a general fallout thread as well. If so I recently got fallout new vegas and im really really enjoying it. Im currently level 33 and doing Dead Money (Its a complete dick but the characters and atmosphere carry the experience). Ive also completed both Honest Hearts and Old World Blues. Honest Hearts has a great setting and Joshua Graham is probably my favorite character in the game so far and I love the setting but the rest of the DLC falls into the category of good but not great. Old World Blues on the other hand was fucking fantastic. As for the main game outside of the first main quest I havent advanced the main story much mainly because I keep doing the sidequests on the way to my objective and every 10 levels I do one of the expansions (also Im doing an NCR affiliated playthrough for my first run). After I beat this game Im going to do fallout 1 and 2 then 3 and 4. Also should I play tactics? also also what mods should I install for NV

 

[GhostButt]

So does this serve as a general fallout thread as well. If so I recently got fallout new vegas and im really really enjoying it. Im currently level 33 and doing Dead Money (Its a complete dick but the characters and atmosphere carry the experience). Ive also completed both Honest Hearts and Old World Blues. Honest Hearts has a great setting and Joshua Graham is probably my favorite character in the game so far and I love the setting but the rest of the DLC falls into the category of good but not great. Old World Blues on the other hand was fucking fantastic. As for the main game outside of the first main quest I havent advanced the main story much mainly because I keep doing the sidequests on the way to my objective and every 10 levels I do one of the expansions (also Im doing an NCR affiliated playthrough for my first run). After I beat this game Im going to do fallout 1 and 2 then 3 and 4. Also should I play tactics? also also what mods should I install for NV

General fallout thread is here: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/fallout-series.4186/

Consider yourself lucky you can even run it, I'm still trying to get 3 to launch

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Out of curiosity, what kind of bugs have you experienced? I've played the hell out of Fallout 1 and I don't recall running into that many glitches. I keep hearing how buggy 1 and 2 are, but I don't know if I'm just lucky or what.

It's the military base that stands out in my memory, I don't remember the specifics but it always felt like I was unintentionally cheesing/breaking the game. The laser grid/door at the entrance was completely fucked in a way that I don't remember, I only remember loading a save over and over again, leaving and coming back hoping it would reset something and that it would work in the way that it seems like it should. Maybe it was that I could just walk over them(not through them, depth sorting problems) while super mutants/bots/turrets just stood there instead of activating.
Whatever it was it completely broke my immersion to the point where I stopped playing it despite my schedule for the past two weeks had been using 100% of my free time obsessively playing Fallout.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

I think we're entering the final phase of the death spiral.

I'd be tempted to pick it up just to fuck around with exploits and get myself banned but that would require owning a console and paying for the online service for said console.

 

[The Last Stand]

I think we're entering the final phase of the death spiral.

I'd be tempted to pick it up just to fuck around with exploits and get myself banned but that would require owning a console and paying for the online service for said console.

On the bottom of said page, Wolfenstein: Youngblood Deluxe Edition is currently on sale for $8.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Go woke, desperately dump retail stocks?

 

[Tanner Glass]

So will Microsoft buying Bethesda mean any non-shit changes for 76? Or will Bethesda end up as neutered as Rare?

76 is probably going to stay "as is", can't imagine that Microsoft sees any possible revenue there that would be worth investing in.

In a few years under Microsoft Bethesda might release a non-shit game, but Microsoft doesn't seem interested in polishing games that released pre-MS acquisition (such as the recently released The Outer Worlds, which was much less fucked than FO76).

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

So does this serve as a general fallout thread as well. If so I recently got fallout new vegas and im really really enjoying it. Im currently level 33 and doing Dead Money (Its a complete dick but the characters and atmosphere carry the experience). Ive also completed both Honest Hearts and Old World Blues. Honest Hearts has a great setting and Joshua Graham is probably my favorite character in the game so far and I love the setting but the rest of the DLC falls into the category of good but not great. Old World Blues on the other hand was fucking fantastic. As for the main game outside of the first main quest I havent advanced the main story much mainly because I keep doing the sidequests on the way to my objective and every 10 levels I do one of the expansions (also Im doing an NCR affiliated playthrough for my first run). After I beat this game Im going to do fallout 1 and 2 then 3 and 4. Also should I play tactics? also also what mods should I install

I thought tactics was okay. If you want a good isometric TBS try wasteland 2 and 3. If you want non-apocalypse TBS, I can't recommend Jagged Alliance 2 enough. As for NV mods, I have a shitbox PC so I don't really mess with Hi-res textures or 4k support. Project Nevada is great. It adds bullet time and grenade hotkeys. Most importantly it adds a lot of features and lets you tweak game balance. Another winner is someguy's mods. It adds massive quest lines with bounty hunting and assassinations. Eventually there's an all new area that's okay but it stil fun. Those are the 2 best NV mods in my opinion.

 

[thisighuf]

I've played this game for over a year now, definitely gotten a lot better but still buggy at times. There are all sorts of people on this game though, casual players, cheaters, roleplayers and factions people choose to be. A few months into playing, I kept seeing this Sinseer person mentioned so I looked into him a bit, added him and just thought he was your average tard playing the game. After joining a few of Sinseer's sessions, I decided to look into him, but when I looked the deeper the rabbithole went from here.

I heard that Sinseer left his ex wife to play this game and modeled the female clown he plays as after her, might not be worth a thread but definitely worth a post.

Sinseer Sinseerdiscordia Thesinseer

https://www.youtube.com/c/SinSeerDiscordia

He has a habit of starting drama with other players and accusing them of hacking items, only embarrassing himself in the process.

People apparently got his dox over pizza being ordered in the background

He was apparently banned from twitter on his main account over trying to dox other players for doxing him so he uses this one while pretending to be somebody employed by him and starts multiple personal army threads on people mocking him.

He spends his whole time trying to expose cheaters but makes an ass of himself in the process.

More Youtube drama

More rant from Sinseer

He is very paranoid about his dox or getting doxxed

When looking up the Sinseer website, a John Dimitriadis shows up in East York Ontario

I'm not sure if this is his current residence but it does point to Canada and correspond to events

I'm not sure if anyone came across this dude but I feel like there's a lot of content about him out there.

 

[thisighuf]

Hello again kiwis, Making one more post about the great Sinseer before I head out, I've had him added both on Discord and his Siniclass account on Fallout76 for awhile, he has many friends on both platforms so I don't worry about him figuring me out anyway. He is too busy watching players on the game and looking for players to report for his amusement as he digs his hole a little deeper. The content should be worth while, considering being over a videogame.

Discord ID for those interested SinSeer#4971

Sinseer still engages in drama as usual and proceeds to scream at random comment

So recently, Sinseer John Dimitriadis was sent random emails by a proton account who I believe is Sinisterhand / SHgames (another massive retard who happens to be a major creep on fallout 76) sent him some porn gif which Sinseer believes to be depicting children.

Threats From Fallout 76 Players Via Protonmail - 2 Years of Harassment - #fallout76

Pause to read, I don't start babbling till after. Bet some of you watching this video know exactly who used that protonmail account, right? Heck, I only have...

www.youtube.com

Screencaps of the drama were taken from the video Sinseer made regarding the situation, He uses voice changer and hides behind the clown girl he made because others mocked him for his tantrums over the years.

Having a publicly displayed email when attracting unwanted attention to yourself on an every day basis will attract some people like this, I don't encourage emailing Mr Sinseer since he also logs IPs of every sent which I believe most do not use VPN or Proxy.

Sinseer proceeds to report the proton mail

 

[thisighuf]

I cannot edit posts, if somebody wants to merge them for me, but Sinseer Vicidiscordia John Dimitriadis made a video of what he looks like, other posts I made are right above and one in another thread. He recently got mad at a few dupers ect in another video for messing with him and listed them on his website's blacklist. Out of the couple times I have joined his team on 76, he usually just perches on a ledge and watches people for most of the time aside from his usual runs around the map. I will provide major updates on the content if possible so stay tuned 76 kiwis. You can catch up on the Sinseer drama with the posts above.