Is that only for 3rd person view? Because if so, then just no. Nope. That link wants me to verify I’m 18 years or older so I’m definitely not clicking that link while I’m at work. Or probably at home, for that matter.
One thing I do like is the feeling of familiarity–I know, instinctively now, pretty much what to do and (crafting excepted) how to do it, for the most part, so I can instantly feel at home in the game. That might be a negative for some, but I’m not that imaginative, so it works for me.
And, um, Vault-Tec has to qualify as one of the most evil corporations evah.
No, it works in 1st person view. It’s pretty similar to Far Cry 3 - when you get close to a wall or something, the character will lower their weapon. If you aim from that point, you’ll move sideways to get out of cover to shoot, and when you stop aiming, you get back into cover.
This is all it leads to. I’ve no idea why it’s marked NSFW.
http://imgur.com/a/EGwRQ
Believe me, it’s nothing.
JeffL
1859
Hey, I’m one of those who started out saying I just liked Skyrim better than W3 because it gave me a very cool, huge, open world to do whatever I liked and create my own story and history, where W3 gave me no freedom to role play anything other than this predefined character.
I still hold my hundreds of hours in the Skyrim world as being in the very top of my 30+ years of gaming experiences. It supported my role playing itch, let me define in my head who my character was and let me play that way, and just walking through the Skyrim world with no goal beyond just exploring to see what I would find was a wonderful experience. Running into someone who needed help, finding a ruin and exploring it and discovering a cool backstory and history in it, building a house for my wife and kids on the lake, etc. I barely remember anything about the main story line, it was totally forgettable, as was the civil war. The Dark Brotherhood story line was cool, never did the mages line as I was a stealthy archer and didn’t really do much magic. But if I got another Skyrim that was even bigger and filled with even more cool places to explore and things to discover, I’d be ecstatic.
Witcher 3 is totally different, and at first having all of the question marks show me “go here, go here, don’t bother going anywhere else because there’s nothing of interest” was a huge negative - but turning them off made exploring much more fun. There’s not as much to find or run into as Skyrim, no location that I’ve stumbled into that just fills me with awe the way some of the locations in Skyrim did, but OMG the writing and the story and the complexity and depth of every little side quest, not to mention the main story, is incomparable. A simple “Someone stole my horse and now I can’t plow my fields, can you find it and bring it back for me?” quest that is routine in every other RPG ends up with a challenging moral decision on your part.
I don’t expect W3 writing or complexity or depth in Fallout 4. But if it doesn’t give me that, I want the fascinating open world of Skyrim in which I can role play, and enough interesting and fascinating “stuff” packed in to keep that role playing and exploring constantly interesting.
I actually think I hold Skyrim in higher esteem than The Witcher 3 just for the freedom to create your own character, as well. Fallout 4 the different types of characters you can make aren’t nearly as diverse as they felt in Skyrim, though. Could just be a lack of a magic/spell system, though. :)
Reemul
1861
This game has a ridiculous amount of content. I’ve done a few faction quests, noted their length, looked at the strat guide to see how many other faction quests and factions there are, and I’ve determined that I could easily spend 100 hours in here before I’ve “finished” the game. Of course, sheer quantity is one thing, and it will take some time before I’ve been able to gauge the quality.
That settlement interface, though, holy shit. I gotta use a weird mix of the E key to select, arrow keys instead of WASD to navigate, the Tab key to back out of a menu – but if you press Tab while you’re looking at a placed settlement object, you’ll get a show-stopping prompt asking you if you want to bank the object for later. There’s also no guidance on settlement defense or power distribution, so it’s all time-chewing trial-and-error, which could end in disaster for the inhabitants. Do enemies come from any direction, or just through the path that we saw in the official videos? I think I need to ring the town with defenses, which could get expensive in terms of crafting mats, which I can’t fully recover once the defensive item is built.
You also can’t sprint in this mode, so you have to exit the settlement interface if you want to get somewhere in the settlement quickly, then open the mode again. Also, some pre-existing objects can be banked, while others can only be scrapped, and it’s not clear where the divisions are.
Ninja edit: I’ll check out that video, Reemul, thanks.
It’s true Fallout 3 was pretty similar. Lots of sewers and metro stations with enemies and that’s it. But accompanying that there were a few more settlements, and in them there were a few more with colorful characters, quests with a few options, etc. I think even the “environmental storytelling” that it had going has been pared down here.
Who knows, maybe the game content is badly distributed, and this is the 1/3 of the game, with the other 2/3 having more meaty content.
Of all Bethesda games the closest thing, apart from Fallout 3, it’s maybe Skyrim. You remember how people said “Oblivion with guns” to refer to Fallout 3? It was kind of ironic/insulting, though in the end it half true. Well, I think it’s 100% true, this is “Skyrim with guns”.
PantsVZ
1864
Just a heads up for some PC players annoyed by using ENTER. Every time it prompts for ENTER you can use E as well. It’s not in the tooltip but it’s works for me.
TurinTur
1865
I thought the one made on GAF before release was pretty funny
Scott123
1866
Thanks for the detailed reply. It sounds like they’ve built it on the principle of flexibility. I have this hard-to-define line where I go from loving crafting to getting bored with it.
Bateau
1868
How is that hat called? I must have it. Currently I’m using a military cap with those same glasses, looks pretty nice.
Someday Bethsoft will fulfill its true destiny and just not write a m/k interface for their games. Holy moly, this is actually worse than Skyrim. I may have to wait for a SkyUI type mod to fix it.
Neat intro so far, though. And in theory I’m way on board with “Skyrim with guns.”
Quick crafting question - if I dump crap into a crafting station, does it magically teleport to every other crafting bench in the world, or is it local to that place?
Bateau
1870
It’s local but if your charisma is high enough you can set up supply routes between settlements and get a unified stash that way.
peacedog
1871
Btw there’s some screenshots on Reddit showing that #2 likely works the way it ought to. But there’s still a little bit of vaguery (e.g. what if you need 1 steel from somthing that produces 3? Screen shots only revealed needing material A in an “auto scrap” scenario with material b showing up in the crafting storage afterwards).
There’s a lot of crafting that’s not based on making your gear better, which is the whole “building settlements” aspect. It looks involved for players who dip into it (Settlemens can attract random “settlers”, there’s various needs you need to meet like “happiness” probably through diversity and quality of crafted items or something). And according to what I’ve read, there are items referred to as legendaries that will have properties you cannot craft (though you can modify these items from their base). So that points to being able to get by without crafting.
RickH
1872
Since I’ve already hit a game-stopping bug before emerging from Vault 111, that ding may be deserved.
jpinard
1873
Ok I must ask because I’m indecisive. What is an optimal s.p.e.c.i.a.l. Build for someone who is OCD in games and wants everything? I’d wondered if I could boost strength and intelligence at the expense of some other stats. Strength just so I can carry more and intelligence so I’d level up faster. But worried I’d gimp myself somehow.
lordkosc
1874
So about 4 hours into the game, I found this! I just hit level 5!
