Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

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AnOminous said:
Haven't seen the latter
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Its another Hitchcock film involving a young sportsman and an odd but sophisticated man who meet for the first time on a train, though its a meeting one of the two would greatly come to regret.
The fancy pants is a fucking Patrick Bateman-like psycho who takes shit literally, and the scenes on the train only make up a very small part of the overall movie.
Much like Citizen Kane, Strangers on a Train was also celebrated for its cinematography and iconic shots, as well as its suspense.
 
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TVBForever said:
Man, if I was legit--a filmmaker--I would make a biopic of the life of Todd Howard and made it in the same style as Citizen Kane; actually just thinking about it. Having his lies and Fallout 76 being the third act equivalent to Foster Kane and his downfall during the late-20s/early-30s before and after the Stock Market Crash.
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Cliffy B would fit the role even better.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Everything they do to save this turd solves an issue and causes a dozen more. It's getting surreal at this point.
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I mentioned this before as a theory, but now I'm almost convinced. That's exactly what happens when you have gigabytes of undocumented spaghetti code and a developer trying to unravel it on the fly.

Take a drink for every time the developers mention how much they really need to refactor the code instead of trying to fix defects directly.
 
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Zaryiu said:
You know who was a Better Citizen? Scrooge McDuck (Anyone who read The Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck knows the reference)
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Can I just even say that Mr. Krabs or Mr. Burns are better Citizens than Charles Kane. But yes, Scrooge McDuck is also better. And the sad truth is; all three fictional cartoon characters have more hearts of gold than Todd Howard.
 
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GeneralFriendliness said:
Its another Hitchcock film involving a young sportsman and an odd but sophisticated man who meet for the first time on a train, though its a meeting one of the two would greatly come to regret.
The fancy pants is a fucking Patrick Bateman-like psycho who takes shit literally, and the scenes on the train only make up a very small part of the overall movie.
Much like Citizen Kane, Strangers on a Train was also celebrated for its cinematography and iconic shots, as well as its suspense.
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Really excellent film for the period. As with most of these older films the pay off is there, you just have to be patient and actually take in the story.

Now if only Fallout 76 had a story that was half as interesting as the bodge job of hack development that went into it!
 
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Secret Asshole said:
The Outer Worlds is going to rape Fallout 76 and Starfall in the ass with a shotgun. Bethesda could only coast for so long before it got fucked.

Just re-release Skyrim again faggots, that's all you are good for.
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Starfield is a toss-up since it's new IP, but it's extremely unlikely that TES VI won't be a massive critical and commercial success. Fallout 76 was a cheap, hasty cash grab but they'll pull out all the stops on their marketing for TES VI.
 
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RJ MacReady said:
Starfield is a toss-up since it's new IP, but it's extremely unlikely that TES VI won't be a massive critical and commercial success. Fallout 76 was a cheap, hasty cash grab but they'll pull out all the stops on their marketing for TES VI.
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The only reason it will be is because modders will be there to save it. Yet again. If Bethesda didn't have modders, the developer would have died long ago. They'd only be a publishing house. Bethesda is STILL using Gamebryo. They're still pasting parts of that Fallout 3 shitpile into 2018. Its only a matter of time before that engine collapses in on itself.
 
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Today, on "Things Bethesda Manages to Fuck Up", someone reported that they logged in to another player's characters instead of their own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comme...in_and_uh_im_playing_someone/?sort=confidence

I don't have any words for this. Then again, this hasn't been reported on any other major gaming sites, as far as I know, so this could be either a hoax, or someone's account got compromised.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
that Fallout 3 shitpile
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It's so much worse than that. Gamebryo is over two decades old, with the first version in 97. It was already a generation old when Morrowind came out.

I can't imagine why they still use it. Literally, my imagination fails me. What possible situation could force them to keep using such shit tech?
 
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BillionBisonBucks said:
It's so much worse than that. Gamebryo is over two decades old, with the first version in 97. It was already a generation old when Morrowind came out.

I can't imagine why they still use it. Literally, my imagination fails me. What possible situation could force them to keep using such shit tech?
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That's something of an unfair comparison, but only to a degree.

Wikipedia still uses an engine that they created in 2001 to this day, and despite MediaWiki's flaws, they have no intention of tossing it out despite any long in the tooth issues because it still does what they need.

It's a practice known as "eating your own dog food", meaning they save money and don't toss aside their expertise in their areas of technological prowess by continuing to improve the wheel they have instead of making a new one.

The part of this where any reasonable grounds ends is determined by the availability of the wheel. MediaWiki has evolved considerably over time and was designed to be able to be modified to do nigh anything so long as it fulfills the very basic function of displaying text and images via a database in human readable format.

Gamebryo is scalable to a degree as a well, though unlike MediaWiki, the degree to which it was designed to do this is a valid question that certainly seems to be diminishing faster than it can be improved.
 
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