Fallout 4 Discussion Thread (Coming 11/10/2015)
Release Date: November 10th of 2015
Official Fallout 4 Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE2BkLqMef4&feature=youtu.be
Originally posted by DragonButter:
For those who don't normally go on Game Informer to browse game news: here are 19 new details that most of you may not know about the game! I'll list them here and provide the link at the end.
• Fallout 4 is the most detailed, dense environment Bethesda has made to date. The world has so much content even game director Todd Howard hasn't seen everything in the game.
• The extra graphical horsepower provided by the new console gave the team a tech backbone to iterate on its Creation engine and add more dynamic details. Physics-based rendering and volumetric lighting help create more atmosphere in the world, opening the game up to more environmental storytelling.
• Fallout 4's narrative has a lot more branching paths and overlapping of "if that than this" than Fallout 3. They want the game to handle all the fail states of missions instead of forcing players to reload saves.
• Boston and its surrounding regions offer more varied, vivid colors than Fallout 3, though the color palate still relies heavily on grays and browns in the blast zone where the nuke was detonated.
• Fallout 4 has a full weather system that sends radiation storms across the world.
• Bethesda has always valued player freedom above storytelling, but with Fallout 4 the team wants to bring more emotional resonance to the plot thread running through the game. This is why they chose to recruit voice actors for both the female and male protagonists the player can make their own.
• Combat is receiving a major stimpak thanks to some consulting with id Software to improve the second-to-second shooting. Bethesda's goal? To have the shooting stand shoulder to shoulder with the other great options on the market. The studio even hired away some Bungie talent to help with this remodel. With the new, built-from-scratch shooting system, Howard says Fallout 4 plays much more like a modern shooter. You can aim down the sights, use V.A.T.S., and play in first or third person.
• V.A.T.S. has received some slight overhauls. It no longer completely pauses the action, and critical shots are no longer random. If you look at the videos, you'll notice a "critical" bar on the bottom of the screen that the player fills. Once it is fully filled you can decide when to use it. Your luck skill determines how fast the bar increases, and there are perks that dig into how criticals work and how you use them.
•Bethesda is tweaking the way auto-scaling works for Fallout 4 to create more challenge. "We call it rubberbanding; we'll have an area [where enemies scale from] level 5 to 10, and then this area will be level 30 and above," Howard says. "You'll run into stuff that will crush you, and you will have to run away."
• Bethesda's proprietary Radiant A.I. and story system are also being used for your settlements to drive random encounters. It will determine if someone should be sent to your town, if raiders should attack the settlement or abduct your caravan, etc.
• People will come to your settlement on their own but there are also others you can recruit.
• A list of your settlements will appear in your PipBoy. You can send caravans between the various bases to get your supplies where you want them to be.
• As you could see in the trailer, Fallout 4 introduces new modes of transportation in the form of the gunship, but Howard says they aren't doing cars or anything as well.
• The workshop system is quite deep for weapons crafting. You can mix and match everything from scopes, muzzles, barrels, stocks, grips, and more. You can also scrap old weapons and use their parts for furthering the creation of your master weapon.
• All the junk in the world you collect can now be used to build up your settlement and customize your weapons rather than be sold off. Because of these additional uses, Howard says he's noticed more playtesters hoarding items for customization rather than selling it off to merchants.
• Companions have always played a role in Fallout games, and that extends into the new game as well. So far Bethesda has only shown off your trusty canine Dogmeat (who Howard confirmed will not be killed off in a cruel fashion) but expect to see several others as well.
• The mod community has always been strong with Bethesda games. With Fallout 4 their creative ideas will reach beyond PC and into consoles. Modding tools are expected to become available on PC in early 2016, with Xbox One owners getting access to their creations shortly thereafter. Once the modding is thriving on these two platforms, Bethesda hopes to work on extending this content to PlayStation 4 as well, but Howard wasn't comfortable putting a timetable on that.
• Howard says Bethesda has been advocating to get mods on Microsoft consoles since 2001. Its hope is to not curate the content much at all but have its ecosystem stay as close to the PC experience as possible.
• When you play a modded version, the game will make a copy of your save file so your pure state game will be preserved.
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After survivor2299,i dont trust anything related to fallout 4,except for official teaser.
Edit: It's undoubtedly from Bethesda.
The URL belongs to Bethesda so this looks like it could be real
This is official.
Fallout 4? There's already a Fallout mmo. A Fallout Telltale game would be pretty cool now that i think about it.
Im too excited. I'M TOO FuCKING EXITED OH HELL I CANT WAIT
Gary?
......gaaaaaaary
A little more information. If you right click on the countdown and click "View page source" you will be met by this page of code with some interesting stuff on it...
I just replayed Fallout 3 and now this.
I'm halfway through a playthrough of it right now!
I had forgotten how much I loved it and this just could not be better news.
Yeah I love New Vegas also they better have hardcore mode in Fallout 4 that was one of the great things about New Vegas.
I think New Vegas is better, mainly because Bethesda are pretty much incapable of actually writing a story, but both games are sweet
There were a lot of things in New Vegas I liked better than Fallout 3 so I hope the keep those changes or improve them. I like the story for New Vegas better also who doesn't love football pad wearing Romans.
I love this post.
I love Fallout I think the best part of my last game was at the end I had Sgt. RL-3 save the waste land and in the slides it said RL-3 was the true hero best ending.
It's this happening for real! 31 hour left, what's happen!
Only 17 hours left!
That's what TT should have made instead of that other game...
nohopeleft which fallout game should i try 1st since a most likely new fallout is coming out i wanna be up to date on fall out games and i have never played a fallout game
That's weird, it says 17 for me..
Well, for starters, you don't need to play them in order to understand the story since they're individual stories are self-contained in each game.
I'd recommend getting started with either Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas. Both are great games, but I'd say Fallout 3 might be a better place to start, while Fallout: New Vegas is better in many aspects, it mainly personal preference. I'd say you should play 3 then move on to NV.
so are these 2 games on xbox360?
Yep. They'll also really cheep by now, so you can probably find both of them under 10 dollars.
Since this a Fallout thread. Do you guys prefer Fallout 3 or New Vegas?
At first, it was Fallout 3 for me, but playing more and more of Vegas showed me how great it was. I remember actually hating it cause I got so used of being an overpowered god in Fallout 3.
New Vegas. Fallout 3 had more memorable locations, but I like the gameplay and mechanics of NV better.
I would laugh if when the clock hits zero it was an announcement of Fallout!!!!! The mobile game xD. But in all seriousness I hope it is fallout even though I never played a Fallout game.
I can't decide I just want more.
i keep on randomly remembering this is happening then like smiling massively from joy and my husband keeps on giving me these looks like what the hell is wrong with him but I DONT CARE
I'm hyped.
Honestly, as much as I love Fallout, I'm not really hyped for Fallout 4. After what happened with Skyrim, I'm pretty worried that Fallout 4 will be a massive disappointment.
Gary? Gary! hahaha Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary!
Yes such a massive dispointment Skyrim was that almost everyone loved it.
You mean that all the casuals loved it. Compared to the previous games in the series, Skyrim is absolute trash.