Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

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I just can't help but marvel at how Acti-Blizz and now Bethesda have shat on their most loyal fanbase out of sheer stupidity and greed.
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Apparently, Bethesda have pushed back their shitty Elder Scrolls mobile phone game a couple months cause it's a buggy mess and with the latest uproar against Diablo, they are afraid this will be another nail in their coffin.
 
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My thoughts on this game coming from someone who just bought it a week ago:

Fallout 76 is a downright unfinished game(as you probably can already tell). At the reveal, Todd Howard states they can use multiple times the detail for textures in this game than they could in fallout 4. So what happened? The textures and graphics in 76 are horrid. It seriously looks like a game from 2009.

Glitches are more prevalent than all of Bethesda's other games combined, and that's saying something. Enemies constantly morphing around and character models freezing. This is the most rushed project I've ever witnessed from Bethesda. If they ever pull anything like this again, they will be in some serious shit(even worse than they are now).

Also, saying "the game is only bad if you have no friends" is an :autism: argument.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
I just can't help but marvel at how Acti-Blizz and now Bethesda have shat on their most loyal fanbase out of sheer stupidity and greed.
Who's next?
Apparently, Bethesda have pushed back their shitty Elder Scrolls mobile phone game a couple months cause it's a buggy mess and with the latest uproar against Diablo, they are afraid this will be another nail in their coffin.
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I'm reminded of when there was a WoW killer monthly subscription model MMO coming out every 6 months. They pretty much all failed and the market adjusted. So long as gamers aren't so stupid as to reward this behavior, companies will stop doing this. Eventually. They can be pretty thick so the lesson tends to take years to sink in.
 
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Things are getting worst for Bethesda
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https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-players-given-lifetime-ban-for-homophobic-attacks/
Bethesda has banned a group of high level Fallout 76 players for life as a result of their homophobic attack on others in the game. As reported by Eurogamer, the trouble began when a player by the name of NathanTheHicc asked a trio of other players for a Disease Cure item; when one of them said he had a cute outfit, NathanTheHicc responded with, "I don't fuck with that homo shit," left, and then came back several minutes later with friends and attacked them while hurling slurs over voice chat.

Fallout 76 reduces PvP damage inflicted on players who choose not to fight back as a way of discouraging griefing, and so AJ, one of the victims, told the site that they tried to wait it out in hopes that the attackers would get bored and give up. It didn't happen. "They stuck with it and even joked about how 'this is the strongest queer I've ever seen'," AJ said.

AJ and his friends moved to a different server once they respawned, but because there are no in-game reporting tools in Fallout 76—an absolutely astonishing oversight for a game built around PvP-enabled multiplayer—they were forced to report the matter via Twitter. They eventually connected with community managers who were "very kind and helpful," but the support page they were directed to didn't work properly.

"The site asked for a video file of the incident but the accepted file types weren't video files. So we couldn't send one," AJ said. "For me, the page would not even load. It seems very difficult to report players."

Eventually Bethesda got the full story, possibly because NathanTheHicc actually uploaded a video of the incident from his perspective, titled 'Cleansing of the queers', to his YouTube channel. He admitted to Eurogamer that AJ's claims about the attack are accurate, although he claimed that he doesn't actually hate gay people.

"It was just a late night of having fun and after the first encounter (seen on my channel) we felt it would be fun to offend them somehow. You can call that evil but I think it's just playful immaturity," he said. "I do not regret the incident. I will not apologize, given the opportunity. I don't plan on doing anything like this in the future but to be fair I didn't plan the initial incident, I just found them and decided to go through with it."

He may feel differently about that now, however. After initially slapping him with a three-day suspension, Bethesda made the ban permanent after reviewing the matter. As for AJ, they said the incident was "draining" but expressed greater concern for how that kind of behavior could impact other players who aren't equipped to handle it.

"What if they targeted a kid playing that was struggling with their identity? What if they said all those things to someone that was playing solo and didn't have anyone to talk to? That can really mess someone up. Playing a game to escape reality and then that happens," they said. And while Fallout 76 players can permanently block others, AJ said that's not good enough.

"Simply blocking someone from a session is only temporarily protecting yourself, but not stopping anything from happening again or to other people. For 76 specifically, non-PvP servers would be great. Maybe things would have been different if they were not able to kill us. Despite all the bugs and glitches, the game is fun when you're with friends and can casually explore and play."

PvE and roleplaying servers are two fixes our our Fallout 76 reviewer Chris Livingston called for.
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