The game is a hot mess. There are whole locations that are half-baked and full of glitchy planes and world geometry. The quarry area with Sully, near the starting area is just fucked. I’m trying to upload some screens of it to Steam but it keeps failing.
DeepT
1738
Ill be starting this in a few hours when I get home. Is hard level quite a bit more difficult than normal mode? I am trying a new build idea, something I never have done before and I do not want to get in over my head if “hard” is a lot harder than normal.
PantsVZ
1739
Just had a really enjoyable event where I was scouting from a rooftop in a city and watched a Fatboy using heavy and some turrets up against a horde of ghouls. Exploding stuff everywhere! (and my dumb dog running around in the middle of it all)
A turret and a few of the ghouls were the only survivors which left me to easily mop up and collect the loot.
PantsVZ
1740
You can change difficulty on the fly so there’s really no risk involved.
Giant Bomb has posted their review and they’ve scored it differently depending on whether you’re reading the console or PC version of the article.
Basically, consoles got a star lower due to performance issues.
At this point I’m finding Ark more compelling to play and it’s not even close to being completed.
Bethesda and their ham fisted systems are getting more annoying instead of more compelling imo.
How is this for hand holding? Is there a mode of play which is like W3 with the question marks off? I can’t remember how FO3 and Skyrim handled that.
The open-world stuff really clashes with the main story. The fact that my character starts as a pre-war suburban citizen and then wakes up in the post-apocalypse is really not handled very well. In fact, it’s just bonkers. After the initial couple of minutes of “Oh no! What’s going on!?” and “Am I the only one left!?” stuff, he just calmly takes everything else in stride. Deathclaws? Ok. Raiders? Shrug. My old neighborhood reduced to rubble? Meh. Time to scrap some chairs and build stuff!
Why? I mean, really? Why am I building a fortified area for settlers with scraps? Wasn’t I supposed to be looking for ______? I don’t get it. I guess it’s good for all that random junk to have a purpose, but it seems to be creating an answer for a question that didn’t really need to be asked.
stusser
1745
There’s something wrong with your game, it isn’t supposed to look like that. Re-verify your download, maybe.
@mono: I had the exact same experience. It turns out that your first quest leads to some guidance on crafting in Sanctuary. It’s actually kinda fun, you run around grinding up/scrapping entire cars, cleaning out all the houses, then building beds and whatnot.
Oh, I think E doubles for enter. Which it probably did last game, I don’t recall. So that’s good.
Having to go tot he arrow keys to navigate the crafting menu, not so much.
I still haven’t got around to buying a copy yet, I’ll take it off you if it’s still available. I’ll send a pm.
JeffL
1748
I want to finish (LOLOL!) Witcher 3 before starting F4. I’m still not yet level 20. At lunch I played for an hour, talked to Triss, decided to escort her on a specific mission she had, every step of the way had multiple choices, conversations, ended up with a complication I didn’t expect, led to going to a huge estate with a huge masqerade ball, with levels and huge tables of food and drink and a million characters having conversations, ran into a couple of characters in masks I already knew from other parts of the game, had conversations with them, found the person I needed to help, was given info on how to find someone at the party, spent a while trying to find that person amongst the dancing, drinking, games, etc. going on, had a conversation with Triss in a garden while we waited for a distraction to occur, she got drunk, chased her into an area with a fountain, we had a touching moment, then started the primary goal I had to accomplish with the kid. Paused at that point. This is a side quest, optional, nothing you have to do or need to do. One of a gazillion.
I have loved the Fallouts and Skyrim, but I fear W3 may ruin “missions” and choices and character for me in all other games.
ElGuapo
1749
I found a miner’s helmet that has a nice bright light on it that replaces the Pipboy light.
You haters must be on PC, game runs smooth and flawless on Xbox One. Great combat, better animations, better movement, just totally improved over previous games.
Unless you have a magic Xbox One, that’s not true. In all tests that I’ve seen, the Xbox One has major framerate dips, random stutters, and texture loading issues. The PS4 less so, but they’re still there.
On PC, you can brute force your way past some of this stuff, but you need a really good rig.
ShivaX
1752
It doesn’t help that it’s ugly as sin after playing Witcher. These character models from Oblivion aren’t cutting it anymore.
As far as story, so far I haven’t felt railroaded, though I see two potential stops on the line if it does happen. Still, they didn’t force me into it without a choice, they just left the door open for me to come back later if I wanted. Overall the gameplay has been pretty good, but the game seems uglier than F:NV. I run into textures with high settings that wouldn’t pass muster in Half Life 1. Seriously folks, don’t make a texture of a sign with words on it at the lowest resolution ever. It REALLY stands out. It’s easier to overlook a crap texture on a piece of random wall. Not so much when you strain your eyes trying to read the damned thing.
Still, a side quest in W3 would blow this entire story out of the water, while looking amazing in a world that I’m pretty sure is actually bigger. I really feel like they tried to float this in on basically no budget. I mean the engine is… the same. Exactly the same. Humans still look bad, though they look remotely human now, they’re still models from 2010 at best. They did pretty much ZERO advertising for what should’ve been one of their biggest releases for years. I literally never heard or saw a single ad for this game. I saw ads for Halo 5 and AC 542 several hundred times each. I saw more ads for Colgate, in Spanish, than I saw for Fallout 4.
It’s nearly a mod to Fallout 3. A REALLY good mod with lots of interesting things, but still a mod. Only a mod would probably look better.
Playing on the PC, that quarry is the only goofed up thing I’ve seen so far, except some clipping (nothing major). I was honestly expecting a lot more jank. No stealth weapons, no getting stuck on geometry and having to reload, nothing like that. I’ve been just using the dog, so I can hop over him when he’s in my way, which could be helping a lot, though. I’ve put about 9 hours in so far, and of course now I’ve said something I’m sure it will be crashing on me or my character will appear nude or something, but so far so good.
I want to shoot the fucking dog for constantly blocking me in narrow places like hallways and stairs.
Only a handful of hours in and fighting the horrible interface and dog along with occasionally teleporting enemies and I am getting fed up.
