Fallout 76

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2.8

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  1. Blenderhead
    Jun 19, 2019
    4
    There just isn't much here. I played this for a few hours during the free week from 6/10/19-6/17/19. I'm a big fan of the series, but this just seems empty. I hoped that maybe after 7 months of work, the initial mistakes had been fixed.

    Maybe they have? The game crashed once during my few hours with it, but that's something that Fallout 4 and Skyrim still do from time to time, long    There just isn't much here. I played this for a few hours during the free week from 6/10/19-6/17/19. I'm a big fan of the series, but this just seems empty. I hoped that maybe after 7 months of work, the initial mistakes had been fixed.

    Maybe they have? The game crashed once during my few hours with it, but that's something that Fallout 4 and Skyrim still do from time to time, long after official support has ended. I just don't know what's supposed to drive the player experience. There are no characters. The only story is one giant fetch quest. The game actively punished me for exploring how mechanics work before the story had drip fed me how to use them. There were meters that ticked down, and resting restores health *very* slowly, maybe 1% per second.

    The end result was that this was a game that seemed to be all about busywork. I don't need that. I have a day job. I'm not really interested in spending 2% of my gaming time for the day watching my character sleep.    … Expand
  2. Athelm
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    After completing the main campaign in Fallout 4, I poured dozens of hours into building up a robust network of settlements. My hope when Fallout 76 was announced was that it would play like Fallout 4 settlements, minus the NPCs, but with other players present.

    I'm hoping Bethesda will get Fallout 76 there someday, but as it stands, Fallout 76 has too many bugs, one being nearly game    After completing the main campaign in Fallout 4, I poured dozens of hours into building up a robust network of settlements. My hope when Fallout 76 was announced was that it would play like Fallout 4 settlements, minus the NPCs, but with other players present.

    I'm hoping Bethesda will get Fallout 76 there someday, but as it stands, Fallout 76 has too many bugs, one being nearly game breaking. But lets start out with some positives:

    Fallout 76 looks nice. Its huge and there's great variety in the landscapes. There are lots and lots of quests, which seems to be one of better ways to get nice loot/gear. There are plenty of broken quests, but there are enough great ones so you can continue to the next and hope Bethesda patches them later. Fallout 76 also has tonnes of written and spoken flavor (in the form of holotapes), much like fallout 4. Perhaps even more.

    Here is where Fallout 76 takes a huge hit: this game has no NPCs, but the community is supposed to build CAMPS and settlements where a lot of cooperative game play happens. On live servers however, you never see other player's camps, and the camps, settlements and farms you laboriously build vanish randomly. This makes the social part of Fallout 76 extremely one sided. Group up, kill stuff. No civilization building here.

    Hopefully Bethesda has plans to fix this (God forbid this is functioning as designers intended!) Till then, 4/10 is the best I can give a single faceted multiplayer game.    … Expand
  3. VectorX
    Nov 16, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 is a Fallout fanatics dream. But much like Elder Scrolls Online, it was rushed and the execution was severely lacking.

    Being a Bethesda game, one can go into it assuming glitches and bugs galore. While it may not be GOOD to be known for it, it does speak towards the company's ability that millions of people have played their games despite the hiccups because the game is    Fallout 76 is a Fallout fanatics dream. But much like Elder Scrolls Online, it was rushed and the execution was severely lacking.

    Being a Bethesda game, one can go into it assuming glitches and bugs galore. While it may not be GOOD to be known for it, it does speak towards the company's ability that millions of people have played their games despite the hiccups because the game is engaging. Bethesda's removal of typical NPCs removes much of the charm of their Fallout games. Many people will remember their favorite characters from previous games, but that no longer exists here.

    Further plaguing this game is the infuriating UI. Fallout's UI has never been pleasant to use, but it typically is at least pragmatic. This game was clearly created with consoles in mind. The UI is built so that triggers and a small amount of buttons can be used to navigate menus. The problem is, when you hamstring a UI to use a small fraction of the available buttons, the user is left wondering WHY?

    Another item that bogs down the fun that could be had in this game is the servers. I haven't experienced lag like other reviewers, so I am more willing to think this is a combination of high load, poor connectivity, and performance that isn't actually lag related. My main gripe, is that you do not connect to the same server every time and you cannot choose which server you are connecting to. What does this mean for you, the player? Why bother claiming an outpost and building a massive base (while using massive resources) when the next time you connect, the world you built it in may not even be there? I experienced this first hand and I didn't even have to wait very long. I claimed a base and built a simple shack with turrets on it. Not wanting to die AFK, I disconnected for a few minutes to run to the bathroom. Post reconnecting, I found all of my work gone. The base was not claimed by another user, it was not destroyed, it just did not exist.

    Another point of frustration is the Social UI. It's a multiplayer game, so there is a Social tab so that you can play with your friends. But getting into the same team can be a huge task. I understand that this is Fallout's first multiplayer game, but there was clearly only very rudimentary testing done on this feature. In my first attempt to play with a single friend (not even a group of more than 2), we were unable to join parties because we both attempted to invite each other to a party. Fallout continued to say this was not possible because we were both already in a different party. It took a complete exiting of the program for both of us and a concerted orchestrated effort to get the party together.

    There are also still the myriad of glitches and bugs from general game play contend with after major gripes as well. Normally in single player Fallout installments, this can range from hilarious to frustrating. For a multiplayer installment, it ranges from frustrating to infuriating. The base game was $60, it was not worth $60. The beta should have told them exactly what they (should have) known, this was not ready for release. Laden with bugs that extend far beyond basic and performance that leaves users wanting.

    I have to sadly rate this game poorly. While it isn't a 0 or 1 like the salty reviewers might leave you to believe, this game is definitely one you should wait for huge sales on (this game is worth MAYBE $15-20). I love Bethesda and the Fallout series, but not even my love for the game can outweigh the mistakes that run plentiful in this installment.

    I also need to chastise Bethesda briefly. If all you were using the BETA for was play testing, fine. But the response you received from the BETA should have prompted you to ask "should we push back release in exchange for a better product?" We would all have shouted YES, PLEASE YES. I understand you have deadlines, there are investors and higher ups that demand results, and you just have internal time tables that require certain goals be met. But you failed. Horribly. And while the feeling may not be ubiquitous across the gaming community, I can guarantee you if you asked your player base if they wanted another ESO experience where they had to wait years for the game to be polished and enjoyable, they'd say no. You should have learned from ESO's mistakes and ensured you had a polished game before release. Now the player base will be tiny and what people will remember about this game is that it is terrible. Because first impressions last. You've relegated this game to maybe being picked up as a curiosity once it goes on mega-sale. You had better work fast in the next few weeks to snatch it from this label.    … Expand
  4. Ilya3L
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    - Terrible controls. Even when using gamepad, still terrible.
    - No plot (?), entertain yourselves
    - Found nothing to enjoy within the game
    + Good character editor
    I would call this game a Vault 76: MMO, Not "Fallout 76", cuz it doesn't feel like Fallout game.
  5. okottekoneko
    Dec 12, 2020
    4
    UPDATE: i originally rated this game much higher, being hopeful things would improve.
    I did genuinely enjoy the base game.
    But instead of putting real effort into fixing the game, instead they focused on adding in monetization features, and each time they "fix" something 10 more things get worse. The story content released post launch is not worth the time to play. Bethesda have made    UPDATE: i originally rated this game much higher, being hopeful things would improve.
    I did genuinely enjoy the base game.
    But instead of putting real effort into fixing the game, instead they focused on adding in monetization features, and each time they "fix" something 10 more things get worse.
    The story content released post launch is not worth the time to play.
    Bethesda have made it clear they just don't care, and are incapable of releasing a polished game.
    Hell have any of their fallout and elderscrolls games in recent decades ever been polished?
    I don't think they have, they like to release broken games, and let the community fix it for them.
    but when they cannot rely on the community to repair their game, you get the mess that is FO76.
    While there could be a great game here, bethesda wont be able to deliver it.

    Fallout 76 is by no means an award winning game, but its no where near deserving of the hate bashing its been getting, seems the hate is being thrown in large part by the ignorant masses who have not actually taken any time to try the game, or even find real information about it, the amount of misinformation about the games content is crazy, and those who immediately want to hate it jump on the fake news and just ignore anyone trying to tell them otherwise.

    YES the game was very overpriced on release, but prices have come down, the game is NOT empty, there is a LOT of content that will keep you going for some time, the game is set to release periodic content updates to keep more coming in, including new vaults opening and new factions cropping up.

    You are playing though as one of the first people to leave a vault, of course there is not the same level of life as the other games, it makes sense.

    The game plays pretty much like Fallout 4, with a few extra bells and whistles, and MP added on top to make it a small scale MMO.

    The game has its issues, but its NOT a broken disaster that others would have you think.
    I dont have a high end system, i57600k 8gb ram and a 1070, and i run this on max graphics at 1080p
    with a solid 60 fps, i get the occasional hiccup but a lot of that could be server related, the servers where not set that well, but have been getting regular stability updates, and its gotten better.

    If you are interested in the game, don't listed to the hate train, its lying to you.
    If you liked fallout 4, there is a VERY high chance you will like 76 and play the hell out of it.    … Expand
  6. Oraakkeli
    Nov 29, 2018
    4
    I was actually looking forward for an empty world, being a builder and a pioneer in a dangerous frontier. That's what I expected when they said there was going to be no human NPCs. I didn't expect any/many moral choices to be made. I've found some of the stories I found in the game interesting and I think there's a lot of potential. I understand that not many people are with me on thisI was actually looking forward for an empty world, being a builder and a pioneer in a dangerous frontier. That's what I expected when they said there was going to be no human NPCs. I didn't expect any/many moral choices to be made. I've found some of the stories I found in the game interesting and I think there's a lot of potential. I understand that not many people are with me on this one, but I like how little I'm given and how much it is up to me to find the content. These are the factors that made me give any points to this game.

    However the technical implementation has been sub par by a large margin. T-posing enemies, wildly buggy EVERYTHING, truly underwhelming combat and quite honestly it doesn't even look that great.

    I really wanted to like this game but I just can't at its current state. This was the last time I pre order anything from Bethesda. They have utterly failed. I'll probably give this another go once the worst bugs have been fixed, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm no longer looking forward for the next Elder Scrolls or Starfield and that makes me sad.

    I would not recommend spending your money on this game, unless they fix the bugs and you enjoy an empty and desolate world where you need to find the content, instead of being given content.    … Expand
  7. WillGamer
    Nov 16, 2018
    4
    If you are on the fence then wait for Bethesda to fix Fallout 76, I mean Encumbered 76. This and the technical issues like constant server crashes are enough to make me drop the game until a couple of patches come out.
  8. REEDDLES
    Jul 19, 2019
    4
    Main evaluation criteria:
    -Story: 4
    -Atmosphere: 5 -Characters: 2 -Graphics and design: 4 -Gameplay: 5 -Sound and Music: 6 -Animations: 5 -Bugs: 3 -Interface: 9 -Completeness of the world: 5 -Balance (Multiplayer): 3 -Donates influence on the game (Pay to win): 9 Аdditional evaluation criteria (Do not really affect the assessment): -Freedom of choice: 6 -Coop in Story    Main evaluation criteria:
    -Story: 4
    -Atmosphere: 5
    -Characters: 2
    -Graphics and design: 4
    -Gameplay: 5
    -Sound and Music: 6
    -Animations: 5
    -Bugs: 3
    -Interface: 9
    -Completeness of the world: 5
    -Balance (Multiplayer): 3
    -Donates influence on the game (Pay to win): 9

    Аdditional evaluation criteria (Do not really affect the assessment):
    -Freedom of choice: 6
    -Coop in Story mode: 5
    -Multiplayer: 4
    -Mods and the ability to change the game: 0

    Scores from 1 to 10, the higher the better    … Expand
  9. Felice_Enellen
    Nov 20, 2018
    4
    This game is neither terrible enough to deserve a 0, nor is it anywhere near good enough to deserve a 10.

    Put simply, it's Fallout 4 in a far-less apocalyptic setting, where you have no relationship of any kind with in-world characters. It's basically the experience you get when you wander ruins in FO4, which is fine in moderation, but it gets really old when it's the only experience    This game is neither terrible enough to deserve a 0, nor is it anywhere near good enough to deserve a 10.

    Put simply, it's Fallout 4 in a far-less apocalyptic setting, where you have no relationship of any kind with in-world characters. It's basically the experience you get when you wander ruins in FO4, which is fine in moderation, but it gets really old when it's the only experience available.

    Everything is holotapes, fetch quests, killing anonymous NPCs, and finding people's corpses. Everything.

    Worse, the tech in the game is barely upgraded from Fallout 4, which is a serious problem when you consider that Fallout 4 itself was technologically dated, not to mention very buggy.

    Worse still, most of the well-known bugs in Fallout 4 persist in this brand new game, except this time, we can't mod them out when Bethesda is too lazy to do it themselves.

    Worst of all, many of these bugs blend in with an extremely-naive server/client architecture that will see people exploiting the game, cheating and griefing to their heart's contents, because almost no forethought seems to have been put into the idea that the client is enemy territory and you must not trust anything coming from it. Instead, almost all game state appears to be done client-side and synchronized periodically with the server via "checkpoints", which appear simply to be savegames sent to the server instead of the hard drive.

    This game is a horrendous mess in terms of technology, and the hubris of Bethesda in thinking they could push out yet another barely-modded version of their engine into an ONLINE MULTIPLAYER space without having to put actual work into it is just mind-boggling to me. That's all to say nothing of their stubborn refusal to admit that PC players don't all have 16:9 1080p displays.

    Speaking of multiplayer, the ludicrous choice to ship on PC with always-on voice chat, rather than push-to-talk, is a staggeringly-bad idea. Unlike console players, a lot of PC players use built-in mics, not clever directional mics on their headset that live two inches from the player's mouth, so you'll be walking around your wasteland hearing people eat, argue, watch TV, constantly clack their mechanical keyboards, etc., and it will utterly ruin your immersion.

    Also speaking of multiplayer, the PvP has been utterly gutted. For me, a PvE fan, it's not a big deal, but if you're a PvP fan, save your money, it's just going to be frustrating and boring. The game should have shipped with a per-character flag, set during creation, that would shuffle you to one or the other set of servers, each with either a PvE ruleset or a PvP ruleset. This attempt to force the two together is totally built out of fail.

    Bethesda's response to almost all criticism is stubborn refusal to listen. There's a reddit thread where they "respond" to our "beta" feedback, requests, and criticism and it's almost entirely "yeah, we hear ya, but nah." The game's first patch, which was the full size of the original game by the way, has almost nothing worthy of mention.

    Oh, and lest I forget: the balance is all over the place. Sometimes, you can fight an enemy twice your level and it's a pushover, and sometimes you're the pushover fighting something your own level. I really feel like the game simply wasn't finished and they shipped it anyway. Given how short the "beta' was, I feel very strongly this was the case.

    The only upside here is that there's a little bit of Fallout lore to be discovered, and if you're a Fallout fan, then you want to discover that lore. Mind you, a lot of it seems to be convenient retcons and/or riddled with continuity errors that are just blatantly inappropriate for the time frame and location in the universe. Still, there's some fun to be had discovering the minimal story in the main quest and I'm okay with doing that.

    So yeah, it's a 4 from me. If you're a fan, get it some time if it's on deep sale and play the main quest for the lore. And hope that by then they've fixed the bugs. But it's Bethesda, and their track record of fixing bugs is almost non-existent, so... good luck with that.

    Bethesda should have simply made a co-op version of the original Fallout 4. That's what people actually wanted and asked for. Not this.    … Expand
  10. CoreGamer1408
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    FO76 ran like an asthmatic pig uphill on PS4. However it runs pretty dreamy on PC. Personally I liked everything that FO76 had to offer except one thing a major deal breaker. The base game stash limit is a measly joke of 1,200 lbs. Not 1,200 items, but 1,200 numbered in weight. Ok back off to play FO4 for the umpteenth time. No problems hording to my hearts content in that one.
  11. dimbak
    Dec 6, 2018
    4
    So, what's Fallout 76 is? It is a big mistake of Bethesda, made from a great idea. Multiplayer with your friends in world of Fallout is fantastic! And Bethesda made it. No, it isn't a bad game - it's good game. But sometimes I think that all these bugs, this bga from collector's and etc. made this game awful. Only one thing good there is CHARACTER CREATOR. THX, bethesda.
  12. Vargas78
    Nov 29, 2018
    4
    I initially gave this a 7 because i was enjoying it to begin with. I was finding the world interesting to explore and enjoying the sandbox nature as well as improving my gear and skills. I also had some fun interacting with other players for a bit. 30 hours in it started to feel a bit boring only due to generally just finding the same old scrap, and fighting dull enemies. Worst case beingI initially gave this a 7 because i was enjoying it to begin with. I was finding the world interesting to explore and enjoying the sandbox nature as well as improving my gear and skills. I also had some fun interacting with other players for a bit. 30 hours in it started to feel a bit boring only due to generally just finding the same old scrap, and fighting dull enemies. Worst case being the scorched but even other enemies don't feel that exciting. So i thought to myself, i'm going to get more into the main quest-line. But compared to quests from Fallout 4 the ones here felt very dull and that was when i realised this was not a good game and needed a lot of work to be improved.
    Does it still have potential to be a good game? Maybe, but i think bethesda are kind of hamstrung by using an engine that was never designed to be online. That's why we have such a low player count per server. But expanding on the PVP (which would need higher player count) and adding human npcs, settlements and raiders, maybe in a new zone to the east would help improve things.    … Expand
  13. PeaceMan
    Dec 3, 2018
    4
    This Game has nearly no real Content and the Content it has is mostly bad presented or is just boring. The only way to have fun with that game is when you Play with Friends in a Party Chat and just explore the World of Fallout 76 but no matter how big of an Fallout Fan you are, do not pay 60€-90€ for that Game, a good Price would be 30€. I have the Tricentennial Edition but the DLC or whatThis Game has nearly no real Content and the Content it has is mostly bad presented or is just boring. The only way to have fun with that game is when you Play with Friends in a Party Chat and just explore the World of Fallout 76 but no matter how big of an Fallout Fan you are, do not pay 60€-90€ for that Game, a good Price would be 30€. I have the Tricentennial Edition but the DLC or what ever you get isn't even out yet!… Expand
  14. Maffia
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    I won't give it a 0, that's an insult to Bethesda, but I will be unbiased in saying this is not a good game. Game breaking bugs left and right, horrendous FPS, PC FPS cap, empty world that plays like a walking simulator. This isn't the Fallout fans fell in love with. It only appeals to a certain niche of gamers, and even then it doesn't have enough content to last very long in the current state.
  15. blinddog
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    Although you can, this is not a game you should play solo. If you play Bethesda games for the main story, interesting sidekicks and a healthy modding community, you probably should give this a pass. If you are an explorer who likes falling into small sidequest stories or want to explore a large map with friends, it's not bad. Mechanically the C.A.M.P. system is superior to theAlthough you can, this is not a game you should play solo. If you play Bethesda games for the main story, interesting sidekicks and a healthy modding community, you probably should give this a pass. If you are an explorer who likes falling into small sidequest stories or want to explore a large map with friends, it's not bad. Mechanically the C.A.M.P. system is superior to the settlement building system in Fallout 4 and playing in a group will allow your group to set up multiple camps throughout the play area. Too many issues (bugs, mapping keys, fov, etc...) to give a positive rating. Too much fun exploring the map with friends to join the review bomb squad handing out all the 0's. Would have rated this higher if the solo experience was more fun. I really enjoyed the game with my friends but found the world very boring on my own. I can't rely on my friends to be on everytime I want to play. At this moment, it gets a 4, but I'm willing to change it if improvements are made.… Expand
  16. gettygg0040
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    People been asking for a fallout multiplayer and they delivered. What I don't like is the lack of actual story and human NPC's. Also the netcode looks bad.
  17. Prevash
    Nov 27, 2018
    4
    ​I have bought almost every Bethesda game, including this buggy mess of a game. In my book Bethesda were the good guys making awesome games and listening to the community. Now they released a super buggy game, making it almost 50% off in the first 2 weeks, not listening to the community and denying refunds. If Bethesda continues to walk down this path they'll be the most hated gaming​I have bought almost every Bethesda game, including this buggy mess of a game. In my book Bethesda were the good guys making awesome games and listening to the community. Now they released a super buggy game, making it almost 50% off in the first 2 weeks, not listening to the community and denying refunds. If Bethesda continues to walk down this path they'll be the most hated gaming company behind EA next year.​​… Expand
  18. TtotheC
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 is fundamentally flawed and is certainly not worth the £40-£50 asking price at launch. Even spending £30 on it makes me want to wince a little. The game is a schizophrenic jumble of poor design choices and a re-jigging of a game engine which ill-fits the tasks being asked of it.

    What do I mean? Take the size of the map for instance. Four times bigger should make a Fall    Fallout 76 is fundamentally flawed and is certainly not worth the £40-£50 asking price at launch. Even spending £30 on it makes me want to wince a little. The game is a schizophrenic jumble of poor design choices and a re-jigging of a game engine which ill-fits the tasks being asked of it.

    What do I mean?

    Take the size of the map for instance. Four times bigger should make a Fall Out fan squee with glee, and I did...to start with. All that extra land to traverse and find easter-eggs in? That sounded like heaven. And in places it is. Until that is you discover the fast travel costs caps...

    ...which would be fine if caps were readily available.
    ...which they're not because then it would impact on the survival aspect.
    ...because of the thirst and hunger bars needing to have some gameplay impact to warrant their inclusion.
    ...and you'd be able to buy the over-priced gear in the shops too easily.

    And a lack of caps would be fine if:

    ...four times the map size means you can spend five-ten minutes just trouncing around, and sometimes longer just to get to the next quest point.
    ...which would be fine if you didn't keep running into random encounters, slowing you down further.
    ...in larger groups than other Fallout games, because of y'know...multi-player?
    ...and ridiculously short respawn timers, because of y'know...multi-player?
    ...and that means cutting into your hunger and thirst bars.
    ...which in turn means an excessively large amount of busy bodywork just to get from point A to point B.

    I wish this was the exception to the rule, but this game design *is* the rule. Which is a real shame, because occasionally a side quest or a holo-tape recording is intriguing enough to lift it out of the put of mediocrity. Heck, going into flaming caves as a Fire Breather is actually visually stunning in places, but there's just never enough of it to justify the game overall.    … Expand
  19. elihup
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 reminded me of Destiny except with horrible combat mechanics, even worse UI, and tons of bugs.
  20. roflmonkey
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Remove the stash limit!
    The game isn't absolute trash, but it is all about collecting trash. Sadly collecting stuff isn't possible in this game since you will reach the stash limit within the first few hours of the game and you will struggle with the carry weight limit for the rest of the game.
    Found the best legendary rocket launcher in the game? Too bad that you can't possibly carry    Remove the stash limit!
    The game isn't absolute trash, but it is all about collecting trash. Sadly collecting stuff isn't possible in this game since you will reach the stash limit within the first few hours of the game and you will struggle with the carry weight limit for the rest of the game.

    Found the best legendary rocket launcher in the game? Too bad that you can't possibly carry it with you or use it since rockets weight the equivalent of 1km3 of lead.

    Anyway fix the stash limit first then we can talk about why you haven't fixed any engine related problems since Morrowind, why the game has 10000 bugs, why you have removed all RPG elements from the game, why there are no NPC's that make the world feel less dead, why in a coop focused game you decided to tell the story through tapes and terminals that can only be accessed by one player at a time.    … Expand
  21. Grantsco4117
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    Honestly, the game looks bad you almost never see people unless in the church area and the game is just not fun after the first 5 hours but I will give Bethesda credit if fallout happened in real life the world would look bad and not be fun at all and everyone would never explore outside of the first base we make.
  22. Wastelander700
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    Playable for what it is, but it's just not a whole lot. Fans really wanted a more typical Bethesda game with NPCs and a storyline. How complicated is that? Why can the fanmade TES3MP provide that almost flawlessly for Morrowind with only 2 developers working off tiny donations, while Bethesda had a budget of tens of millions of dollars here and got nowhere close to that? It should reallyPlayable for what it is, but it's just not a whole lot. Fans really wanted a more typical Bethesda game with NPCs and a storyline. How complicated is that? Why can the fanmade TES3MP provide that almost flawlessly for Morrowind with only 2 developers working off tiny donations, while Bethesda had a budget of tens of millions of dollars here and got nowhere close to that? It should really make people stop and think.… Expand
  23. gold1412
    Dec 4, 2018
    4
    One big BUG.
    After 10 hours boring.
    Playing with friends - boring.
    Play alone a bit better but also boring
  24. Scarface04
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    "The Worst Game Of The Franchise"

    -Poor performance and the game looks like Fallout 4 -Boring History, no npcs, the game just feels soulless -Lore Contradictions -PvP has no sense and there is no incentives to play PvP -The Difficult system is a joke -Tons of bugs, the game is unfinished! Creation Engine is outdated now! in 2018! -Horribly loose combat -Dumb AI -Filled with    "The Worst Game Of The Franchise"

    -Poor performance and the game looks like Fallout 4
    -Boring History, no npcs, the game just feels soulless
    -Lore Contradictions
    -PvP has no sense and there is no incentives to play PvP
    -The Difficult system is a joke
    -Tons of bugs, the game is unfinished! Creation Engine is outdated now! in 2018!
    -Horribly loose combat
    -Dumb AI
    -Filled with fetch quests
    -It seems that there is no Anticheat system
    -Seems to have great locations but hold up, they are mostly a waste of time.

    -Exploration is fun

    The game have a lot of potential but it just doesn't works.    … Expand
  25. Atomic-Fire
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    I am a big fan of the Fallout series. Contrary to others opinions, I really enjoyed Fallout 4 where some people did not. However for this title, I sadly cannot say the same. I'm not going to give this game a 0 out of spite like others, but I'm also not going to sit here and pretend like this game has no glaring problems. I've experienced broken quests, a-posing enemies sliding around onI am a big fan of the Fallout series. Contrary to others opinions, I really enjoyed Fallout 4 where some people did not. However for this title, I sadly cannot say the same. I'm not going to give this game a 0 out of spite like others, but I'm also not going to sit here and pretend like this game has no glaring problems. I've experienced broken quests, a-posing enemies sliding around on the ground, de-buffs from items that can't be cured, very poor hit-box registration and unresponsive combat, insane performance issues, and many more bugs that were present in the beta, and still made it into the final release. There are no NPC's, no dialogue, and no choice. Instead, you discover the dead bodies of NPC's and you have to listen to holo tapes that provide no immersion and seem ramble on for ages. You can hear people speaking to you, and quest objectives telling you to "meet the mayor" or something along those lines, only to reach this person and realize its actually a robot or a giant computer terminal. It results in a dead, boring world that sadly has no life to it. If I were to go into hardcore fan mode, I could complain about the lore established by previous titles, and how this game absolutely shatters everything that has already been set in place. As a positive note, I do have fun playing with my friends. Interacting with each other to fight a group of enemies or just exploring the world can be fun, but after a while it just isn't enough to keep me playing. I have given this game 25 hours minimum, to ensure I have seen and done as much as possible, the last thing I want is to create a lackluster negative review based out of spite. I can admire Bethesda's interest to push the series into a new direction to offer something fresh, but sadly this risk was not worth it. A return to normal single player RPG stories would be a much welcomed return in my book.… Expand
  26. CrimsonTide
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 at its core is a game designed in a similar fashion to that of Fallout 4; split between too many directions and attempting to cater to too many different groups that it fails at everything it does.

    Fallout 76 utilizes an aging engine, which in and of itself is actually a very good engine, but one that isn't kept up to the recent gaming market standards, nor one that is    Fallout 76 at its core is a game designed in a similar fashion to that of Fallout 4; split between too many directions and attempting to cater to too many different groups that it fails at everything it does.

    Fallout 76 utilizes an aging engine, which in and of itself is actually a very good engine, but one that isn't kept up to the recent gaming market standards, nor one that is utilized to even a fraction of its potential. This is evident by the numerous mods that outstrip the vanilla product that are produced by unpaid, [at times] hobbyists without the resources of a massive business at their back.

    Fallout 76 attempts to appease both PvE and PvP players using a failed system that in the end only detriments both groups. Throw in the poor shooter mechanics, framerate/graphics issues, server issues and numerous bugs and you're left with simply a poor gameplay experience.

    Furthermore, Bethesda's attempt at creating any meaningful story once again falls quite short in a world devoid of human NPCs, adequate quest systems or progress. The world and story are poorly crafted as is, hidden behind the logs of newly deceased West Virginia residents rather than a living, breathing world, but take into account the multiplayer nature and you're hard pressed to enjoy a narrative with others talking over audio logs.

    All in all, if you're looking for a proper Fallout entry (by that I mean Fallout 1, 2, 3, Tactics and NV), then you're out of luck here. If you're looking for a poor attempt at a console port and Fallout 4 multiplayer devoid of anything of substance, then this entry is for you. This of course is subject to change in a year or two with the addition of private servers, mods and bug fixes, but this hinges on the fact that Bethesda actually cares to fix their game's issues which doesn't seem likely given that these core issues were in place three years ago with Fallout 4 and the contention of the game's criticism.

    Lastly, Fallout 76 is of course a Bethesda game riddled with Bethesda bugs tied to an engine that's been modified and remains unfixed with the same bugs present since Morrowind. One can hope the numerous bugs will be patched, however, given that Bethesda hasn't cared to do so in several game releases (Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76), this doesn't seem to be a good hope.

    Overall I've given this game a 4/10 due to subpar and poor visuals, performance, narrative, quests, world building, gameplay and bugs. Visuals, performance and bugs are fixable which would give this game (IMO) a 7/10. This is, I believe, generous considering the fact that this is an entry in a once renowned, beloved and masterpiece RPG series: Fallout. If one were to look at this game from a Fallout perspective, then this game would score far lower in my mind considering its inability to remain true to the tenants, lore and core that is Fallout.    … Expand
  27. Jreed22
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    Unoptimized garbage PC port. Constant stuttering on a 1070ti and 4790k, halfway done graphics settings, no option to disable the god awful godrays and depth of field, and no anti cheat or client validation, making cheating easy and already available. exploring was fun, but the world felt empty without NPCs, and once you complete the short main questline there isn't much for you to do.Unoptimized garbage PC port. Constant stuttering on a 1070ti and 4790k, halfway done graphics settings, no option to disable the god awful godrays and depth of field, and no anti cheat or client validation, making cheating easy and already available. exploring was fun, but the world felt empty without NPCs, and once you complete the short main questline there isn't much for you to do. Bethesda built this game off player interaction, the players being the only NPC's, but this was a mistake. the world feels empty and forcefully built around this premise, people dying soon before you discover them or everything and everyone being a robot. This focus on interaction with other players is a bad idea, as most players either stay away from others for fear of PVP or try and kill each other, and there is no good way to communicate since there is no text chat or push to talk, its all of your mic all the time. Microtransactions are abhorrent in a 60$ game, and the gameplay gets extremely grindy once you hit level 25. Settlements are limited and the inability to craft storage not tied to your stash makes no sense. Not worth full price, and not even worth the 42$ you can get it for on a CDkey site right now. If it gets some major content updates in the future and the issues get fixed it has the potential to be a decent fallout based survival game… Expand
  28. Yerite
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    I'm scared to like this game as a Fallout fan. On the other hand it is a nice idea for a game but the execution could be way better and I don't want this theme of not finishing a game fully before releasing thing to continue any longer.

    The game can be extremely fun with friends (like most things). For the most part, the funniest things are usually bugs or glitches though which isnt a    I'm scared to like this game as a Fallout fan. On the other hand it is a nice idea for a game but the execution could be way better and I don't want this theme of not finishing a game fully before releasing thing to continue any longer.

    The game can be extremely fun with friends (like most things). For the most part, the funniest things are usually bugs or glitches though which isnt a good sign. Exploration and the world on the other hand are amazing in my opinion. It is way more interesting and detailed and colorful than Fallout 4 was and so it gives sort of more insentive to look around and find cool places. I have to admit, F76 has some of the best looking areas in any Bethesda game to date. I have't explored the whole map yet so I cannot say if the game gets boring after that, but it certainly isn't that yet.

    I haven't played the main quests or really any quests for that matter, since they are not interesting at all. There are no memorable characters. Unless a roaming super mutant merchant or a 100th Mr Handy bot with the same exact voice is memorable to you. It really is you making your own story and fun which isn't really what Fallout has been nor what people want it to be.

    The technical side is a mess. Graphics to me do not look as bad as some people are saying but they're not good either. Animations are janky and outdated, lack of push to talk makes it so nobody is ever talking, game lags when loading things in (almost as badly as Subnautica for instance) and there is a lot of pop in in certain areas. Enemy AI is braindead for the most part and either run right at you or run away as fast as possible so you can't even hit them with VATS.

    Gunplay to me is also very outdated and takes some getting used to and I suppose it has its own charm to it but it could be way better. VATS seems fine to me, though I do only use it on enemy npcs and not other players. PVP is a complete mess. The system doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. I was being shot at and all I had to do was ignore it and not shoot back even though I was in someone elses base. The gunplay does not fit pvp at all and the hitboxes being weird in this game, I don't see a reason to do any PVP at all.

    Overall I do enjoy the game even if I don't want to. It could be a good game but Bethesda has taken a wrong way to go with the game. I do hope they fix the issues that are present in the game right now but knowing Bethesda that might not happen. I guess my final verdict is that the game is NOT worth 60 dollars but if you can get it somewhere cheaper, sure go for it. It can be fun    … Expand
  29. SkyroHD
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    I'm gonna try to be the most neutral as possible to not fall into hate.

    I was awaiting this game, and that despite of all the hate around it. I liked Fallout 4, and i was pretty exciting about a multiplayer version of this game. And i am very disappointed of the result ... I'm not mad against what is the game now, but for what it could have been. There was so many ways to turn Fallout    I'm gonna try to be the most neutral as possible to not fall into hate.

    I was awaiting this game, and that despite of all the hate around it. I liked Fallout 4, and i was pretty exciting about a multiplayer version of this game. And i am very disappointed of the result ... I'm not mad against what is the game now, but for what it could have been. There was so many ways to turn Fallout into a really good multiplayer experience, and this one doesn't work.

    The main problem of the game is not his bugs (even if this is a shame to release a game full of bugs with the same price of RDR 2 ...), it's his heart.
    It's like if bethesda didn't carry his balls and made an unassumed version of their successfull game. This is neither a good MMORPG or a good COOP game, however they try to put the maximum of multiplayer contents in their game like if the quantity took precedence over quality.
    This is not how you do Bethesda. You have to make a choice, choose to make a Fallout CO-OP, or a full MMORPG but not a **** mix of the two games.
    I really hope they will learn from that and wont do the same mistake anymore. I have been refunded, but i hope they will at least work on the bugs to show a minimum of respect to those who bought the game 60$.

    Thank you, now a quick reviews of the good and bad points of the game :

    + Map size, and how it's done
    + Diversity of it
    + C.A.M.P. original idea ...

    - ... but done the wrong way
    - 2010 graphics
    - PVP is horrible
    - SVAR vision , seriously ? (That's basicaly an aimbot in a multiplayer game)
    - Tiny stamina (at least at the beginning)
    - Useless hunger/thirst bars
    - Poverty of the history (if we can call that an history)
    - Some perks are useless (very very useless)
    - No NPC
    - Tons of bugs (including the CAMP reseting if there is another camp near to yours)
    - A lot of things in the world, but soon enough you realize it's pretty empty

    I really feel bad about this as i used to love bethesda productions ... But this is a shame. Don't buy it if it costs more than 10$.    … Expand
  30. TarnisCross
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    Okay so lets get this started. First and foremost I am giving this a four not that it may deserve it entirely, in fact a three would probably be fair but hey its Fallout and no matter what I **** with Fallout. Truth be told this game is majorly lacking especially for a game in the Fallout world.

    1. NPC's or therefore the lack of any. There is just no life to this wasteland in 76, no    Okay so lets get this started. First and foremost I am giving this a four not that it may deserve it entirely, in fact a three would probably be fair but hey its Fallout and no matter what I **** with Fallout. Truth be told this game is majorly lacking especially for a game in the Fallout world.

    1. NPC's or therefore the lack of any. There is just no life to this wasteland in 76, no settlers, no people, nothing but ghouls, robots, super mutants and obviously the scorched. It is literally a dead area with nothing but limited enemies, no bandits and few other players far an between. It majorly takes away from what made the Fallout series so good, and that is interacting with the settlers and kicking bandit ass.

    2. Caps. It is a major pain in the ass to get caps, the vendors in my opinion are a joke on top of a **** pile. They charge way too much, don't pay you **** for your goods and have a very low amount of caps to buy with. An once they run out of caps you literally have to wait for them to get more caps which is not worth the wait. Not even to mention that you literally have to pay caps to quick travel, like seriously, caps are a **** to get already and now we have to pay for quick travel?

    3. C.A.M.P Stash. This has to be one of my biggest peeves with this game. I am a hoarder, I like to collect everything and anything so I can craft and have a ready supply. The only small issue though or rather biggest issue is that your camp stash has literally no room for anything. I filled the damn thing up before beta even ended. An now I am stuck with the fact that my armor keeps breaking, my guns need repairing, I need to make stimps and everything else and I can't because I don't have anywhere to put my damn materials. I sure as hell can't carry the **** with me as I get over encumbered too quickly. Want a better review by a mile from me? Make the damn stash unlimited space like all Fallout games.

    4. I don't even need to mention the bugs, I feel like that has been established enough as it is. All games have bugs when they come out so I won't go into this deeply, but I would love when I killed something that it doesn't hump into the ground and I lose my ****.

    This could go on an on but I won't bore you. This game is really lacking what made Fallout so great. The story, the lore, the npcs, bandits, it has good features to it but they are being drowned out by the ****ty features. At this point your just going through the motions and getting annoyed at the same time because you can't keep enough materials on hand to keep your armor fixed and your guns ready.    … Expand
  31. The_Papa_Bless
    Nov 16, 2018
    4
    Fun game. Bad bugs. Bad story. Bad gameplay. Bad graphics. Expensive. Cash grab. Goodbye.
  32. Lozak
    Nov 17, 2018
    4
    Really disappointed, I've played almost every bethesda games to date and I'm a passionate fallout fan.
    I don't care about the many bugs the game has, like many other I expected there to be many bugs even at launch.
    But for the firs time, I found myself bored and not wanting to keep playing for many hours as I do with every other game, after a few hours of play i dont know what else to    Really disappointed, I've played almost every bethesda games to date and I'm a passionate fallout fan.
    I don't care about the many bugs the game has, like many other I expected there to be many bugs even at launch.
    But for the firs time, I found myself bored and not wanting to keep playing for many hours as I do with every other game, after a few hours of play i dont know what else to do, there's no point in anything.
    I purchased the pre order just to be able to participate in the beta because i was hyped for it.
    This games tries to be so many things but doesn't achieve none.
    Its sad, i never thought i'd be bored playing a new fallout game
    The pvp doesnt make sense, its badly designed.
    The crafting system doesn't makes sense either because of the small limit of how much you can put in your base. Just a small house, worktables and a few turrets, nothing else because of the cap limit for construction.
    If you are a crafter or hoarder, the game is unplayable, a few guns will leave you criplled permanently in the game, the weight limit is the worst thing for me.
    If you want to save scrap theres no way to have many materials and good armors / weapons without permanently losing the fast travel, weight limit for the stash is dumb, not having a way to increasing it is worse.    … Expand
  33. EltyElizabeth
    Nov 18, 2018
    4
    Alright to start this game has plenty of problems, the world void of human npcs makes it feel soulless and dead. if i am being totally honest im suspicious that the only reason they went with the npcless world is so they could try and get away with not bothering to build the npcs in the studio so this is a shameless attempt at saving time. i know their reasoning for it unfortunately itAlright to start this game has plenty of problems, the world void of human npcs makes it feel soulless and dead. if i am being totally honest im suspicious that the only reason they went with the npcless world is so they could try and get away with not bothering to build the npcs in the studio so this is a shameless attempt at saving time. i know their reasoning for it unfortunately it seems that reasoning was incredibly flawed in that it has had the exact opposite effect that they were going for.

    The quests are all lazy and the game design itself is lack luster with random holes in the map and floating foliage and rocks. the idea of the game is very interesting but if this game is to be taken seriously it will most certainly need to have a lot of work put in.

    i have not experienced any game breaking bugs in game all of the bugs i have suffered are directly tied into the launcher they have developed. the launcher works poorly at the best of times and at the worst of times it just doesn't even work at all, it doesn't launch it doesn't download properly and frankly they should have just left the launcher to the people who know what they are doing with it and just bit the bullet for steam.

    The PVP in this game is just as well completely pointless it would have been perfectly acceptable to just not include pvp at all and simply give us much more cooperative content plenty of mmos have succeeded without pvp and i feel like if it must be like this then pvp is just entirely unnecessary. a possible way to at least simulate it is you could handle it similar to how you handled settlement attacks in fallout 4 a large group could attack a fellow player and rewards could be offered to people who pop by to help out.

    the game has potential and it disappoints me to see it in a state like this and be marked as released, this game feels and looks like an early access game in the vain of no mans sky and we all know how much of a fiasco that was. i sincerely hope Bethesda learns from this especially with this amount of community outcry.

    All that said i will admit that i have had a fair amount of fun in the world especially when i am playing with my friends the building is certainly a little better done then in fallout 4 but unfortunately this game is one step forward and 5 steps back. i will play the game but i can see this game get very boring very quickly.    … Expand
  34. exosus
    Nov 18, 2018
    4
    My first impression of Fallout 76 were unintelligible background sounds of another player while I tried to create my character. It's a pretty bizarre feeling when you try to immerse yourself in a world of long awaited game but the game doesn't allow you to.
    From exiting uninspired vault 76 to late high level areas of the map, game falls short in presentation, atmosphere and most sadly    My first impression of Fallout 76 were unintelligible background sounds of another player while I tried to create my character. It's a pretty bizarre feeling when you try to immerse yourself in a world of long awaited game but the game doesn't allow you to.
    From exiting uninspired vault 76 to late high level areas of the map, game falls short in presentation, atmosphere and most sadly gameplay. Yes, the exploration is still there, and in most basic way it still feels like a Fallout, but all of the other aspects are disturbingly lacking.
    The story feels gutted and 80% of the quests are fetch quests or killing mobs in a location. In time it becomes obvious that despite the setting, you're doing the same two-three things over and over again, and it becomes dull and repetitive. Without npc's the world feels empty and generic and your journey in it feels the same - pointless and insignificant. Logs and quest goals that read about people you'll never see become annoying in time, and you, without a hitch predict that in the end of it all you'll find a robot or a dead body, There are few good quest, but they only remind you how dull are all of the rest and what possibilities this game could have.
    Playing with friends mostly solves this problem, but not the rest. That is if you are relatively same level and didn't already finished quest that your buddy didn't. If you're in the same area of the map have comparatively same playing time. It's fun to run into a boss monster in the woods and have a long fight together just to find that your reward is level locked, your guns and armor are broken and you ran out of stimpacs.
    Managing your inventory is a chore. You'll find yourself building your camp so often to throw all unusable high level stuff in to the box that have a limit that will force you to question yourself what do you hold in it except materials that you desperately need to repair your gear and craft ammo for the guns that you have to use, not want to use. Selling all this stuff is pointless, because trading in this game is useless - you get 12 caps most for some rare loot - the same you spend on fast travelling to the other area of the map. Disassembling your gear is pointless too because you can't build anything useful without perks which forces you to the same character build that everyone else have, so in the end you just throw your loot away, searching for the particular things, again not because you want to, but because you need to.
    You don't need to build your base, because nothing interesting happens near your base, you just take your base with you, because of a stash. You want to create a fun character build? Well, you need more inventory space and loot from behind locked containers too, so that's that. You want to fight interesting enemy? You'll fight generic 5 types of mobs that spawn from the ground near you and bosses that glitch out on the level design, for the loot that you don't need or can't use. In the end game progresses from sandbox tutorial to repetitive grind without a purpose.
    Is it fun for you? I don't know, but it weren't fun for me. But the saddest part is not that this game has dull mechanics, nonexistent story and an empty world, it's that this is a Fallout game. More than other this game is a disappointment. Playing this game I thought about what this game could be and never will be, and it makes me sad. Not angry, just sad. This is a one sad game.

    p.s. And yes, it's glitchy, buggy mess with broken quests, awful frame drops and mind blowing spec requirements for what this game offers.    … Expand
  35. Warrrlock
    Nov 18, 2018
    4
    This games pretty fun but if i could not have to hunt down a custom ini file to turn off your awful motion blur and fix your FOV slider i'd say it's perfect, also as a side note for the love of god turn down your god rays it's like the Egyptian god Rhaa shining a flashlight in your eye.
  36. Adelicia
    Nov 18, 2018
    4
    they're lying about the reason why they didn't put the game into the steam, the good side about steam it let us know the opinion of buyer of the game, just imagine how many more people will bash on the game and affect the sale.
  37. Ebiii
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    Very flat game, the story has no taste, mobs are bugged and clunky. The multiplayer is a draft version of what it should be, and the game is not very smooth on my setup (gtx 1080 and i5 7600k)
  38. Kalaharidemon
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    I wanted to wait before fully submitting what I think of Bethesda's latest title. Sinking consistent time over the last 5 days plus the beta with a group of other Fallout Devotees. I am over level 55 and have set the nuke off with my party and now don't have any urge to play from that 'great launcher' anymore... Fundamentally - Yes, this game is fun in parts but its veneer is soon lost andI wanted to wait before fully submitting what I think of Bethesda's latest title. Sinking consistent time over the last 5 days plus the beta with a group of other Fallout Devotees. I am over level 55 and have set the nuke off with my party and now don't have any urge to play from that 'great launcher' anymore... Fundamentally - Yes, this game is fun in parts but its veneer is soon lost and highlights how empty and truly flawed of an experience it is. I want to leap up and defend the developer that graced my child and adult life but God they have made this a difficult task. I have found myself running mission to mission and event to event questioning what the purpose is for anything. Each holotape becomes as dull as the first and its got to a point where I just lost interest being attacked as I try read why everyone is questionably dead and I just have to accept it baby but don't worry they got their memoirs on the desk for you ;) The laughable bugs I come across have become anything but funny and quite sad at this point. Fallout has lost its soul and quite clearly the cash grab element is coming to light. What are players supposed to do in this world? Journalists and YouTubers alike praised the environmental story telling yet 85% of the locations are barren and regurgitated with spawning ferals popping out of the air as you find a corner of the workshop to cry in. I started asking my party 'what do we do now then?' and its just lets go... ummm.... We could ..... Try that cave again ... Yeah I am gonna scrap this stuff... i hate being over-encumbered ... My stash box is full ... Take a picture of this bug ... Probably going to log out now guys ... i have great fear that this will lose its core player base very quickly as people reach the end of their aimless quest lines and I don't blame them. To save a title like this Bethesda would have to completely overhaul the game and start listening to what their consumers love about their worlds. Is it going to happen. No it is not. Myself and many others have taken the financial hit on this and I thinks its a bust. Please invest your money in a company that listens to you and delivers a quality product. I have seen the price drop already quite considerably on key sites and this just reflects the market value depreciating at a rapid pace. Don't worry though guys/gals we can always go back to New Vegas and calm our fears, it runs on the same engine anyway haha… Expand
  39. dschelske
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    A game with no meaning.

    Ive played Fallout 76 for many hours now, and come to the conclusion that the game is highly unsatisfying. The stash limit is set to 400, which is way too low, and leaves you with the choice to choose between what valuable resources you want to throw out, very unsatisfying, if you like to hoard stuff and sell it later. When u try to sell stuff, the vendors have    A game with no meaning.

    Ive played Fallout 76 for many hours now, and come to the conclusion that the game is highly unsatisfying. The stash limit is set to 400, which is way too low, and leaves you with the choice to choose between what valuable resources you want to throw out, very unsatisfying, if you like to hoard stuff and sell it later. When u try to sell stuff, the vendors have only 200 caps a day. So u can sell what you loot for 30 minutes value. Theres nothing really to use your caps on. The skill system with the skill cards, is another annoying feature, where u need to switch them around constantly if you want to hack or unlock chests. The camp system where u can build your base is much worse than fallout 4, and you dont really use your base to anything other than convenient crafting methods.    … Expand
  40. blackcell1
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    i do really love survival fps games, I've spent over 300+hrs on games such as rust/7days and other similar games but fallout 76 is a TERRIBLE survival game. I've also really wanted to play fallout 4 as a multilayer, the idea of running around a fallout universe with a friend or as a solo player with having a random player either giving me a helping hand or just being a complete nobhole.i do really love survival fps games, I've spent over 300+hrs on games such as rust/7days and other similar games but fallout 76 is a TERRIBLE survival game. I've also really wanted to play fallout 4 as a multilayer, the idea of running around a fallout universe with a friend or as a solo player with having a random player either giving me a helping hand or just being a complete nobhole. but fallout 76 feels empty and really incomplete.

    its easy to see that they've just used every asset from fallout 4/3 and even skyrim, its full of game breaking bugs (nothing new from Bethesda but when its online its really important to be in a good working order.)

    a survival game without any really thought on how to really survive this world, I've pretty much built my house in a middle of forest with a bunch of looted pencils and clipboards. I cant run around punching trees or chop them down with an axe but i can loot 8 pencils and build a platform for my house.

    The empty world is really plain and there's **** all to do, you'll run around for hours and auto given random stupid quests.

    a super super stupid PVP system, you can see EVERY person on the map, you can see there name tag when their close by. how is that a good PVP system when you cant hide or stealth around the map when its beyond easy to pick and hunt a player down ?

    4/10, find it cheap on a key site or wait until we have more content released ?    … Expand
  41. EdoP78
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    Bought during pre-order and tried during the B.E.T.A. access, I was already bored and confused during it, now the game is available but I can't find any enthusiasm for playing it again :-(
  42. warmachine996
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    For my opinion this isn't a fallout game
    NO RPG NO NPC NO STORY

    this game is only a DLC
    this game is simply a fallout version mixed with call of duty, just for the sake of shooting something, without any stimulation, no story, no multiple choice dialogs, no hard decisions, no ending to remember
  43. DaddyDummy
    Nov 19, 2018
    4
    Sadly, not much fun.
    First, this is a "real" Fallout game. Game play and feel is the same, controls (good and bad) are consistent; it's feels like Fallout 4. I enjoyed seeing a new wasteland to discover and new lore to learn. But that's all I enjoyed and that's the problem; other than being the next step in Fallout's development there is nothing else to recommend the game. The side quests    Sadly, not much fun.
    First, this is a "real" Fallout game. Game play and feel is the same, controls (good and bad) are consistent; it's feels like Fallout 4. I enjoyed seeing a new wasteland to discover and new lore to learn. But that's all I enjoyed and that's the problem; other than being the next step in Fallout's development there is nothing else to recommend the game. The side quests feel dreary. The constant, and I mean CONSTANT, stopping to play holotapes or read long terminal entries is annoying in the extreme. NPC interaction was fun in prior games, especially New Vegas, but it doesn't exist here. If I weren't a Fallout fan, I'd see no reason to play this. And banking on nostalgia just isn't enough to keep even a fanboy interested for very long.

    In summary, the graphics are better than ever but its a dull, grey game with limited play time potential. Spend your $60 on RDR 2.    … Expand
  44. Jesterskull
    Nov 21, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Giving up an Fallout 76:

    So this is how my adventure goes, I plan out my camp location weeks before the game starts. Loved that spot for about over 3 weeks.

    Yet seems there is a glitch, when C.A.M.P.'s get too crowded or near other camps, they delete camps.

    So mine got deleted this morning.

    So I decided to move camp to area I been looking forward to moving to anyway…

    Encountered way too many high level enemies to set up shop. (I am just about Lvl 30)

    Second area was on a cliff, near by some tough enemies to some, but I should be able to deal with.

    Leave because Maintenance

    And return to a Super mutant that is glitched under my tent, and is able to see me across the map.

    Literally running out of Options I decide to set up C.A.M.P. in the behind the Summer Villas

    (Enemies here are literally lvl 15 to lvl 1)

    And my home was destroyed by a Big Bat literally seconds after setting it up.

    Now I have nothing and no where to set up C.A.M.P.

    Game Over I guess.

    Literally can't play without a C.A.M.P. ..... What make angry more is how much was shared between Fallout 4 during development and how that likely made Fallout 4 worst because of it.

    They really should have never planned to do this game.    … Expand
  45. WhiteChedda
    Nov 21, 2018
    4
    I so wanted this game to be a success. I've been playing Fallout games since the beginning and I have always wanted to be able to do it with friends. The core of my gaming is casual games with a co-op element. I've always had a soft spot for the Fallout universe and the particular humor in the stories contained within. Even when Bethesda took the reigns I personally think they have been aI so wanted this game to be a success. I've been playing Fallout games since the beginning and I have always wanted to be able to do it with friends. The core of my gaming is casual games with a co-op element. I've always had a soft spot for the Fallout universe and the particular humor in the stories contained within. Even when Bethesda took the reigns I personally think they have been a responsible custodian to the franchise. Then came Fallout 76. It really feels hollow and lonely. The lack of NPC's is a really poor choice. It feels like the world is dead and its hard getting the motivation to explore somewhere because you know that its just going to be more of the same. You'll find a holotape or talk to a monotone robot drivel on about something you could care less about. There really is no human connection or interesting characters to care about. "Story" aside. The bugs. Oh my god the bugs. I've been beat down by invincible enemies, invisible enemies, teleporting enemies, and magically respawning enemies. Even when I finally make it through a zone somehow to progress on a questline I'll magically be disconnected. Then when I log back in my quest progress is nullified and now I'm on a different server with all the mobs respawned. I have items missing from my camp, junk magically disappearing, item carry weight bugs, perk cards missing, and worse frame rate with every update. This is definitely the last Bethesda game I preorder. The Bethesda bugs are no longer funny to me. Someone else can be the Beta guinea pig. The solitary funny thing about all this is that this game played better in "Beta". I wish I could get a refund at this point so I can buy this game when it actually comes out for real.… Expand
  46. SpectrumScholar
    Nov 22, 2018
    4
    A game with promise. Unfortunately the lack of notable in-depth story or fleshed out npcs make the world feel lifeless. The game has far too many bugs for a final game release, and the servers are unstable. It feels as though this game was rushed to market.
  47. Tughlaq
    Nov 22, 2018
    4
    I found myself wandering through the wasteland and towards the end of the 4 or so hours I played, had to stop and ask myself "when does this game actually get fun?". No NPC's ABSOLUTELY hurts the game. The lack of literally anything to do (no quests, basically you run around playing audio-logs) means that when you do encounter another player, you're just as clueless as they are.
    The    I found myself wandering through the wasteland and towards the end of the 4 or so hours I played, had to stop and ask myself "when does this game actually get fun?". No NPC's ABSOLUTELY hurts the game. The lack of literally anything to do (no quests, basically you run around playing audio-logs) means that when you do encounter another player, you're just as clueless as they are.
    The biggest mistake is mine, that I fell for the hype and actually bought this game.    … Expand
  48. Spoonage
    Nov 22, 2018
    4
    I realized what the issue with Fallout 76 was, from a lover of Fallout 3's perspective.

    This game is the near equivalent of GTA online, without the expansive campaign mode. All of the bugs and monotonous loot hunts aside, the biggest thing missing was the obvious lack of NPCs. Bethesda's decision to remove non player characters and their storylines, quirks, and all other attributes that    I realized what the issue with Fallout 76 was, from a lover of Fallout 3's perspective.

    This game is the near equivalent of GTA online, without the expansive campaign mode. All of the bugs and monotonous loot hunts aside, the biggest thing missing was the obvious lack of NPCs. Bethesda's decision to remove non player characters and their storylines, quirks, and all other attributes that add to a rich atmosphere are lost, to be replaced by the occasional run in with another real world person that may or may not care about your existence. But unlike Rockstar's GTA V, where they first released a full campaign, then a bit later released their moneymaker online mode, Bethesda tried to capitalize on this by combining the two, leaving us with a half made single player game and a half made multiplayer game, which don't combine to create a full experience.
    Full review on Youtube search Spoonage    … Expand
  49. 3614235
    Nov 22, 2018
    4
    This game, in its current state, is a buggy mess. It saddens me that I paid $60 for this, and what's even worse is that the game is currently on sale for $40, only 9 days after it went live. Worse yet is the fact that this is just outside the Amazon price match window, so I can't even recoup a few bucks on this waste of drive space. Maybe it will be good someday, but that day mostThis game, in its current state, is a buggy mess. It saddens me that I paid $60 for this, and what's even worse is that the game is currently on sale for $40, only 9 days after it went live. Worse yet is the fact that this is just outside the Amazon price match window, so I can't even recoup a few bucks on this waste of drive space. Maybe it will be good someday, but that day most certainly isn't today.… Expand
  50. Orami
    Nov 23, 2018
    4
    The Pros:
    The world looks nice and it is fun exploring.
    Weapons handling is pretty good and reaction times are fair. Strangely reminiscent of fallen earth for some reason. The Cons: No NPCs and no real story arc. If anything just having some people still around would make the world seem more realistic, but all you see are enemies no one wants to talk or offer trades even little    The Pros:
    The world looks nice and it is fun exploring.
    Weapons handling is pretty good and reaction times are fair.
    Strangely reminiscent of fallen earth for some reason.

    The Cons:
    No NPCs and no real story arc. If anything just having some people still around would make the world seem more realistic, but all you see are enemies no one wants to talk or offer trades even little things like do you have extra rad away? Nope if it is AI it is there to be killed nothing more.

    What little tidbits of story you do get are in holo tapes and notes.

    Very few players online and when they are online they generally stay away from each other. Although I did have a visitor come to my home one day Lemonz or something like that they gave me some radaway and rad-x and then they left... there was no other real interaction between players that I have seen.

    Mobs are easy to kill. There isn't much of a challenge in the enemies (I haven't seen the entire map so this may change). They vary between HPs like a tank or 1-2 shot kills.

    Your fast melee attack is bound to the same key as throw a grenade for some odd reason.

    Other thoughts:
    I came across some dude and some chick talking while killing stuff I thought to myself what a perfect time to stay hidden and eavesdrop. Yea.... that was a highlight of the game play. I also followed a guy into an instance once. He somehow pulled the entire instance on us every living thing was on us in a matter of seconds. It was a hard fight we both died, but only because the aggro was really weird. Either the quest pointers aren't clear enough or the event quests are glitched in some areas, because I spent a good hour if not more running in circles looking for something I could actually hit 'e' on at the power plant. Steam leaking from pipes? Yup, but they are not repairable.... Glitchy .... This game in it's current state is lacking a lot of polish. I think they might be able to do something with it, but there will need to be a lot of work done to the world to make it feel more like a fallout game.    … Expand
  51. Dungeon_
    Nov 27, 2018
    4
    I should start this review off with stating that I'm not a fan of survival games at all so I came into F76 as a very skeptical person however that said, it's not an entirely terrible experience either.

    Pros: - Improved animations - Usual Bethesda environmental storytelling - Ability to run around wreaking all sorts of havoc with pals - A non pay-to-win cosmetics shop that with a    I should start this review off with stating that I'm not a fan of survival games at all so I came into F76 as a very skeptical person however that said, it's not an entirely terrible experience either.

    Pros:
    - Improved animations
    - Usual Bethesda environmental storytelling
    - Ability to run around wreaking all sorts of havoc with pals
    - A non pay-to-win cosmetics shop that with a currency that is extremely easy to obtain while playing the game (With the whole free DLC bit, I figured it'd be a royal pain to even get the currency but so far its pretty easy, a bit tedious at times but generally easy.)
    - Environment is really pretty - there are some places that are a bit breathtaking when looking around and viewing, great for screenshot potential and building a C.A.M.P
    - Base-building has been upgraded - It feels a lot more responsive compared to how FO4's base-building mechanic worked, parts snap easier and are easier to handle.

    Cons:
    - Random FPS drops (I've noticed it happening a bit more frequently but it could be attributed to my AV)
    - Soft-locks on workstations - Every now and then, I'll encounter a soft-lock on a workstation when trying to use it that requires me to end the process via task manager
    - Not enough graphical options - the graphical options you can toggle feel very limited currently and the player has to resort to an .ini tweak to be able to turn off motion blur.
    - Lack of meaningful PvP - as it stands PvP isn't even worth the time/attempt. Better off making a team and PvEing. If they alter it to allow Raider types and/or Faction-typed PvP, it'll be an improvement.
    - Engine's age is definitely starting to show - The engine(Creation Engine) has slowly started to become a hindrance to the game's true potential with the hiccups it has.

    Overall, I'd say the game's a solid 6, it's not great but not terrible, has plenty of room for improvement. If Bethesda works on it and provides a lot of great content additions, it could potentially become greater.

    Side note: Bethesda has confirmed they're looking into Push-to-Talk as well as an FoV slider and an increase to their stash limit so that wasn't listed as a con, it'd of been nice at launch but I cannot in my right mind fault them for having a messy launch for their first actual online experience.

    -- EDIT 11/27 --
    Reducing score to 4/10, dailies are causing a hard PC crash/lock which is making the game nearly unplayable as is. The bug/error only seems to happen on loading screens when fast traveling back to the objective.

    -- Review may change positively/negatively after major patch --    … Expand
  52. KoboId
    Nov 28, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I went into this game expecting a good multiplayer and story based game, but after 80 hours of play and being level 76 the game has become boring with little content after you finish the main quest and the main quest is worse the the story of tactics and bos with the main quest not even having an ending, the few npcs like rose and modus become nothing but background characters after you finish their quest. The maintenance systems are more hassle then anything, when your gun breaks mid quest and have nothing else you just have to give up and waste time. Most of the assets from 4 are just ripped out of it and slapped onto 4 from far harbor to nuke world, even the buildings from 4 are slapped into 76
    The good things about this game are less often then the bad things but playing with friends in a beautiful environment but other then that the game is highly mediocre and not worth 60$    … Expand
  53. ArtilleryJay
    Nov 29, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 is a perfect example of why I no longer get hyped over games. It has been, for lack of a better term, underwhelming. I really wish it would have been better, I really want to score it high. I just can't! Bethesda broke a winning formula with their bast installments. There is a complete lack of interesting stories, there are no fun characters, PvP is a joke, base building isFallout 76 is a perfect example of why I no longer get hyped over games. It has been, for lack of a better term, underwhelming. I really wish it would have been better, I really want to score it high. I just can't! Bethesda broke a winning formula with their bast installments. There is a complete lack of interesting stories, there are no fun characters, PvP is a joke, base building is frustrating, inventory management is maddening, and Bethesda's complete lack of communication to the community is the rotted cherry on the crap cake. The only redeeming quality is exploring a lovely and large world. The game turns it's back on all of the things that made Fallout such an amazing adventure. There is a reason that I have thousands of hours invested into Fallout 3 and NV. Story trees are a big part of the past games and there is none in this game. It takes away the player's ability to make choices that can effect the story line. I can understand some of the changes from a development standpoint as being necessary for an online multiplayer game (such as VATS being changed drastically), however, there are other changes that I cannot look past and thus, a score of four. Should be noted that I own two copies of the game and have invested over 100 hours into it. I'm not just writing a bad review to lower the game's score.… Expand
  54. shenannergans
    Dec 1, 2018
    4
    If you purchased the Power Armor Edition, please skip to the part marked with asterisks first for actual important legal information.

    That being said, this is nowhere NEAR a finished game. Even for a Bethesda title, this game is bug city. I truly challenge anyone to play this game for 30 minutes without experiencing a game-breaking glitch that renders the game literally unplayable (The    If you purchased the Power Armor Edition, please skip to the part marked with asterisks first for actual important legal information.

    That being said, this is nowhere NEAR a finished game. Even for a Bethesda title, this game is bug city. I truly challenge anyone to play this game for 30 minutes without experiencing a game-breaking glitch that renders the game literally unplayable (The no-damage bug, being stuck in power armor, getting stuck on terrain and being unable to get out, and more!).

    Pros:
    --Story (This one some of you might disagree with me on -- I actually find the story to be extremely interesting, though extremely short. I love the personal tales of West Virginians who did or didn't make it to any kind of shelter. You can see a lot of great storytelling through holotapes and terminals, much like reading a book. That being said, it's pretty questionable how it ties into the lore whatsoever)
    --Lots of potential
    --Fun with friends (though honestly, there's very few things in the world that aren't more fun with friends)
    --Good time waster (Easily sunk 40 hours into the game, at least until it started to get too repetitive for me to want to continue)

    Cons:
    --Glitches and Bugs (easily thousands, at least 20-30 of which completely destroy the playability of the game)
    --No motivating factors to complete quests (In many games like Fallout:NV or Skyrim, there would be quests that you'd receive from a distressed NPC, and you'd feel that motivation to go save their friend/retrieve their special item immediately. Depending on the quest, that even had an impact on the later game! Not so in 76!)
    --Quests are bland and boring (FETCH. QUESTS. I've been racking my brain on this one and I can't think of a single quest in this game that amounted to more than "Go here. Get this item/kill this enemy/clear this dungeon. Return.")
    --Repetitive gameplay (What is there really left to do after launching a nuke and killing the Scorchbeast Queen? Go scramble around for more junk? Complete more fetch quests/events?)
    --PVP (LOL Nobody on Bethesda even thought about how to make this enjoyable. This could be as easy as what World of Warcraft does. Designate PvP and PvE servers, and allow players to choose. No "duel" system, none of that garbage. Let me battle ANYONE within 10 levels of me [to avoid ganking] on a PvP server whether they're aware of it or not. There's no fun in setting up an ambush on another group if they can see you on the map, and if they have to shoot you back to actually engage in combat.)
    --Leveling System (Why do I level up if the levels mean nothing? I understand wanting to keep the game difficult, but the levels don't even matter! As a level 18, I was able to kill multiple level 68 scorched with very few issues, but struggled against a level 20-something Deathclaw.)
    --Price Drop (Are you kidding me? I paid $60 for this game, and less than a week after release, it's selling for $35. I understand you want to sell the game by any means necessary, but my god Bethesda, way to dump on your pre-order/release day fans.)
    --Gameplay Issues (The Pip Boy is designed terribly and the menus are overall clunky. This isn't an issue in single player Fallouts, where the game pauses while you access your menu, but in 76 it is truly a nightmare. Live-action VATS is also poorly executed in my opinion, and I also find that clunky and difficult to use.)
    ***--Bethesda Response to Controversy (I'm sure by now the "canvas to nylon bag" switcheroo is common knowledge, but if not, here's a brief summary: Bethesda's collector's edition of the game cost $200~ and came with a replica T-45 Power Armor Helmet, and a canvas bag to put it in. When people got their orders, they found that the bag is actually nylon. This is false advertising and controversial in itself, but it gets worse.)

    ***They offered 500 Atoms (approx. $5 worth of in game currency) to anyone affected by this. That's a spit in the face alone, but even better is the fact that in the United States, that is legally considered an out-of-court settlement and means that anyone that takes the Atoms deal is not allowed to sue for false/deceptive advertising, which leads me to believe this wasn't even a genuine "Yeah, we messed up, sorry guys", but was in fact a scheme devised to avoid as much legal liability as possible. This is no longer the Bethesda we know and love.)

    This game really has/had the potential to be the best game in the series. After all, I really think all people wanted was a Fallout 5 with co-op. God knows that's all I wanted. Instead I got this mess of a game that, had I waited one week, I could've got for $35 instead of $60.
    It's not the worst game I've ever played in my life. I've had a few funny moments with my buddies. It could've been a good game. That's about all the praise I can muster up for this game.
    Release a finished game next time.    … Expand
  55. Dolphman
    Dec 5, 2018
    4
    Fallout 76 game was a game I was really hyped about. A game I wanted to succeed. I thought the hate at the beginning was just the normal internet backlash, but as I've continued to play this game (to the point where I simply couldn't continue to handle it's flaws) my score has gone from a 8 to a 7, 6 to a 5, and now a 4.

    Fallout 76's world is one of it's only bright spots, and obviously    Fallout 76 game was a game I was really hyped about. A game I wanted to succeed. I thought the hate at the beginning was just the normal internet backlash, but as I've continued to play this game (to the point where I simply couldn't continue to handle it's flaws) my score has gone from a 8 to a 7, 6 to a 5, and now a 4.

    Fallout 76's world is one of it's only bright spots, and obviously the only part Bethesda seemed to finished. This game is extremely rushed, bugs are rampant, the quests are repetitive, and exploits continue to spread.

    This game can be fun, but once you realize how everything works it becomes an absolute drag. In previous Bethesda games this has happened but made the game better for me, not worse.

    PVP is worthless, the only time it's fun is when you are tracking down a wanted person (as you can freely attack them).

    I don't agree with the Engine complaints, the engine poor performance is an issue, but it isn't what ruined this game (if anything I was impressived by the improvements they made to it). To bad all of that is lossed in a huge amount of bugs and graphical glitchs.

    This game is an beginning BETA state at best. It begins to crack quickly.

    Overall this game needs major imporvements to become worthwhile. This game needed another year atleast to be fully finished.

    The good: This game, if you go into without expecting to hate it, is fun for the first 20 hours (Before you realize the paper-thin facade). This length time is extremely short compared to bethesda usually play-times, but atleast I was able to get some fun out of it.    … Expand
  56. metapoor
    Dec 8, 2018
    4
    Есть основные баги которыми исписан весь метакритик и кишит весь ютуб. (как переносить любой вес, как на ловушках набить себе лвл). спустя дней 10 после обнаружения этих багов 50%+игроков покачалось на них. теперь, и как быть? вайпа нет, банов нет, где баланс? Беседка вводит патч где фиксит баг с лвлапом на ловушках, но не фиксит баг с возможностью переносить любой вес.
    По началу    Есть основные баги которыми исписан весь метакритик и кишит весь ютуб. (как переносить любой вес, как на ловушках набить себе лвл). спустя дней 10 после обнаружения этих багов 50%+игроков покачалось на них. теперь, и как быть? вайпа нет, банов нет, где баланс? Беседка вводит патч где фиксит баг с лвлапом на ловушках, но не фиксит баг с возможностью переносить любой вес.
    По началу аудиозаписи оправдывались тем что 76 убежище открылось первым и мы единственные люди в "пустоши", но через часов 10 игры сплошные тонны текста воспринимать становится нудно, слушать или читать голозаписи, читать записки на бумаге, читать терминалы.    … Expand
  57. ApacheHeli
    Dec 13, 2021
    4
    Updating this Review, lowing my rating, they are continuing to monetize this game, exploration is fun, I like playing the game, but it's just not worth a good review.
  58. glomman
    Aug 26, 2020
    4
    I have played Fallout 76 for a reasonable amount of time, long enough to form my own opinion on it, and I'm not that positively overwhelmed, although I don't think the game is complete garbage.
    You can't really objectively rate a game, so all I can say is that I'm a huge fan of the Fallout series, with Fallout 4 being my favourite out of the bunch, so I'm simply more interested in the    I have played Fallout 76 for a reasonable amount of time, long enough to form my own opinion on it, and I'm not that positively overwhelmed, although I don't think the game is complete garbage.
    You can't really objectively rate a game, so all I can say is that I'm a huge fan of the Fallout series, with Fallout 4 being my favourite out of the bunch, so I'm simply more interested in the single-player aspect of these games. Fallout 76 doesn't offer that in the slightest, sure there are some quests you can do while playing on your own, but the game is truly meant to be played with a group of friends, which lies not in my field of interest, when it comes to fallout titles. Also there are lots of bugs, even still after one year, albeit not game-breaking and mostly of visual nature, it will throw some people off.

    Update for Wastelanders:
    I still don't think Fallout 76 comes close to the other Singleplayer Fallout games, but its gotten better over the recent updates. I still hate the multiplayer aspects, the game as a service-model, and the in-game microtransactions, though.

    Update for The Legendary Run:
    Well, they **** it up by introducing a genuine GAS aspect.
    I will probably never play this game again.    … Expand
  59. Dom20
    Dec 19, 2020
    4
    Nicht das schlechteste Spiel was Ich jemals gespielt habe aber auch nicht wirklich gut.
  60. Tattool
    Nov 5, 2019
    4
    I consider myself an advent Bethesda fan, considering I have put thousands of hours among the titles of Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4. And I was really excited for Fallout 76, even though it wasn't the traditional rpg experience I expected from Bethesda. I played for about 50 hours on PC when it was first released for the PC beta and when the hard release came around. It was a freshI consider myself an advent Bethesda fan, considering I have put thousands of hours among the titles of Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4. And I was really excited for Fallout 76, even though it wasn't the traditional rpg experience I expected from Bethesda. I played for about 50 hours on PC when it was first released for the PC beta and when the hard release came around. It was a fresh feeling going into it at first with the new wasteland and the potential for new story elements and world building that we haven't experienced since the game is set before the events of the original Fallout 1. Unfortunately none of the story I found via holotapes or terminals really got me engaged, despite me trying to get into it. The game became repetitive and disinterested me very quickly and I haven't been back to the game since the second week of release.… Expand
  61. moonlaba
    Jan 17, 2022
    4
    우리가 폴아웃을, 더 나아가 베데스다의 게임을 사랑했던 이유는 뭘까? NPC들을 만나고 그들의 생각을 듣고, 그들과 세계를 탐험하고 세계가 변화하는 과정을 사랑했기 때문이다. 세계의 변화는 그것을 꾸며주는 장치중에 하나였다. 자신의 최대강점을 없애버린 베데스다는 결국 잘하는걸 빼고나면 할줄아는게 없다는 알고싶지 않은 내용만 증명했다.우리가 폴아웃을, 더 나아가 베데스다의 게임을 사랑했던 이유는 뭘까? NPC들을 만나고 그들의 생각을 듣고, 그들과 세계를 탐험하고 세계가 변화하는 과정을 사랑했기 때문이다. 세계의 변화는 그것을 꾸며주는 장치중에 하나였다. 자신의 최대강점을 없애버린 베데스다는 결국 잘하는걸 빼고나면 할줄아는게 없다는 알고싶지 않은 내용만 증명했다.
  62. Skyware
    Feb 12, 2020
    4
    Fallout 76 - это самый большой провал Bethesda за последнее десятилетие.
    Мы ожидали ролевую игру с огромным миром и умопомрачительным сюжетом?
    Bethesda сказала "Выкуси!" И сделала Fallout 76. Нет,конечно в игре есть потенциал, например хорошая музыка, да и игроки в ней стали ролеплеить и отыгрывать по настоящему и это круто! Но на одном этом далеко не уедешь,а потому лишь 4 балла, не    Fallout 76 - это самый большой провал Bethesda за последнее десятилетие.
    Мы ожидали ролевую игру с огромным миром и умопомрачительным сюжетом?
    Bethesda сказала "Выкуси!" И сделала Fallout 76.
    Нет,конечно в игре есть потенциал, например хорошая музыка, да и игроки в ней стали ролеплеить и отыгрывать по настоящему и это круто!
    Но на одном этом далеко не уедешь,а потому лишь 4 балла, не более того .    … Expand
  63. Kelen
    Oct 13, 2021
    4
    4.5 / 10 - Acceptable
    (after 650 hours of playing & completing story threads)
    The plot of everything is boring, and the whole game is underdeveloped and buggy. They keep adding new bugs and rarely fix old ones. A lot of content has been added, but everything is average quality at best. At the beginning, you can have fun getting to know everything and hoping that it will get even    4.5 / 10 - Acceptable
    (after 650 hours of playing & completing story threads)

    The plot of everything is boring, and the whole game is underdeveloped and buggy. They keep adding new bugs and rarely fix old ones.
    A lot of content has been added, but everything is average quality at best.

    At the beginning, you can have fun getting to know everything and hoping that it will get even better.
    It won't.    … Expand
  64. UnknownPlayer
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    2 for the first experience and 4 for the new DLC, -2 for the bug and the inside store.
  65. m4s4t
    Jun 10, 2023
    4
    This game should 've been a Multiplayer add-on for Fallout 4 because it's basically the same game without an offline mode and that's it.
  66. PsychoSimatic
    Dec 4, 2018
    3
    EDIT::: I was wrong.... so very very wrong. Honestly any game is probably fun with friends, and this game is the same. But the bugs... my god the bugs. There are just so many... It honestly cripples the game completely. I wanted to love this, I came on here to defend it and gave it a 7/10 and the bugs were SO bad that I had to come back with my hat in my hand asking for forgiveness andEDIT::: I was wrong.... so very very wrong. Honestly any game is probably fun with friends, and this game is the same. But the bugs... my god the bugs. There are just so many... It honestly cripples the game completely. I wanted to love this, I came on here to defend it and gave it a 7/10 and the bugs were SO bad that I had to come back with my hat in my hand asking for forgiveness and posting an edit. This game is bad because its broken and in some ways its even broken fundamentally. Dont buy this game unless you want to find yourself miserable at being stuck unable to play it because of legit game crushing bugs (unable to do damage to mobs or players, no loot dropping, mobs glitching constantly, your character becoming completely stuck and unable to move, or interact with objects or just falling through the world repeatedly (those are 3 separate bugs not just one big super bug).

    ORIGINAL REVIEW LEFT IN BELOW::

    I've probably put several hundred hours into this game already, currently level 80 right now and I have to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the game. The negative reviews that you see complaining about bugs, glitches and overall wonky behavior in the game are all true. I dont deny the game has issues (hence the 7/10) but overall the world, the lore and the feeling of exploration and just good ole fashion crazy slaughter are all very fun. The nuclear launches are awesome and if you can get a couple of friends to play this with you the game is very rewarding. I am lucky enough to have a a group of 4 that play this with me and I will admit this likely makes a big difference since the lack of push to talk is pretty bad. They are adding many of the things people are complaining about in future patches but overall I certainly wouldn't give this game a 3/10 as it stands now. This game is fun and if you can roll with the punches of some of the weird stuff that can happen then you'll have fun playing it as well.    … Expand
  67. Cytheria
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    This is a Fallout 4 expansion, masquerading as a stand alone game.

    What Bethesda have done, is seen the recent trend towards crafting survival games, cobbled together a map and a multiplayer mod under the Fallout 4 engine, and bundled what should have been a $10 DLC into a full game. What backstory there is, is sparse and lacks any kind of draw. The introduction of the "scorched"    This is a Fallout 4 expansion, masquerading as a stand alone game.

    What Bethesda have done, is seen the recent trend towards crafting survival games, cobbled together a map and a multiplayer mod under the Fallout 4 engine, and bundled what should have been a $10 DLC into a full game.

    What backstory there is, is sparse and lacks any kind of draw.

    The introduction of the "scorched" is clearly just a case of needing an in-universe reason to include the zombies every other crafting survival game has, without actually referring to them as zombies, because they couldnt just reuse the ghouls.

    Nuke codes, on the other hand, stink of hastily bolted in end-game/raid mechanic to appease the needs of anyone who actually manages to stick with the game long enough to need an end game mechanic.

    The enemies are pretty lackluster, and boring.

    The Vats system is so watered down, its pointless. The Special system, Isnt.

    The camp system takes the FO 4 outpost system and turns it into a money sink of a portable crafting system that no one with half a brain has any reason or inclination to use.

    In a game where the greatest "risk" is loosing 10-20mins of progress to one of the games intermittent, unpredictable server hiccups, it shouldn't come as any surprise that the "reward" is similarly lackluster.

    If you're looking for a multiplayer crafting/survival game, try 7 days to die or rust for a much better experience.

    If you're looking for Fallout, this isnt it. If it wasnt for the skins, music and Bethesda's marketting budget, this would just be another in a long line of really shoddy "to avoid" early access titles that no one would bother playing any more.

    At best, its a fallout 4 expansion, and you should steer well clear till its priced accordingly.    … Expand
  68. Fishydude23
    Apr 1, 2019
    3
    I played Fallout 76 when it was first released and was not impressed. Many bugs, server lag, no story and general lack of interesting content. Many of the games issues stem directly from being an online only game. I am constantly playing will lag, damage takes about half a second to register and many shots seem to miss despite aiming at the target. Enemies sometime spawn, but are notI played Fallout 76 when it was first released and was not impressed. Many bugs, server lag, no story and general lack of interesting content. Many of the games issues stem directly from being an online only game. I am constantly playing will lag, damage takes about half a second to register and many shots seem to miss despite aiming at the target. Enemies sometime spawn, but are not animated until you attack them. Other players are also a big issue, not necessarily by intent, but many time i have encountered other players during 'events' and they are often much higher level than me, meaning i am basically useless during the event as higher level players are just one hitting every enemy, whilst i have to shoot them several times. I have had other people approach my area after i have killed all the enemies, only for the other player to inadvertently trigger all the enemies to respawn and at a higher level. Leaving me surrounded by high level enemies that i have already killed.
    There is also next to no story in the game. No NPCs. No plot motivation. The small amount of meaningless story is delivered through occasional holotape recordings and terminal entries or notes to read. But even those are hard to actually consume seeing that the game is online, you can't pause. Therefore stopping to read a note or hack a computer leaves you standing there whilst enemies are free to attack you. Not very immersive in the story if i feel i need to rush read so i dont get attacked.
    In general the game feels like a chore to play, with nearly no motivation to play. No story. And the Looting really isnt very great either, i rarely find any stash of interesting loot and i dont feel rewarded for any of my actions in game.

    I have just come back to the game to give it another go. Maybe they fixed the issues from launch?
    Well, not really. Certainly LESS bugs, but still buggy. Lag issues still persist (likely on part because my internet is trash, but despite that other game have very little issues with lag). And the game still feels very empty and pointless.

    Cant recommend this game at all really. Some people seem to enjoy it, and i guess if you can see past all the issues, then maybe you could enjoy it, playing with a group of friends may be enjoyable for a short time?
    If they added the option to play entirely client side (offline), then that would likely improve at least my experience. But even with that, the game will still be empty and pointless.

    As a side not regarding reviews of this game: Many people think its fair to give this game a 0 whilst others think 10. Both are very wrong, really no game is zero, and very few would have justified reason for giving them a 10. Perhaps people should think more fairly about how they review rather than be angry at the game or at people who say bad things about something you enjoy. Fallout 76 is objectively a bad game, that doesn't mean no one can enjoy it.    … Expand
  69. KesslerCOIL
    Aug 9, 2020
    3
    Update:
    Wastelanders update along with some previous updates have made improvements, but the game still frankly shouldnt be released. Still too buggy even for a Bethesda game, monetization is more predatory than at launch, Fallout 1st is capitalist garbage and the overall gameplay experience hasnt improved much.
    I wanted this game to be done well, but after playing ~26hrs I just cannot    Update:
    Wastelanders update along with some previous updates have made improvements, but the game still frankly shouldnt be released. Still too buggy even for a Bethesda game, monetization is more predatory than at launch, Fallout 1st is capitalist garbage and the overall gameplay experience hasnt improved much.

    I wanted this game to be done well, but after playing ~26hrs I just cannot continue.
    It's easily the buggiest game I have ever played, devoid of content and the VATS system has been stripped down to a point where it may as well not even be in the game.    … Expand
  70. jenorris
    Nov 27, 2018
    3
    An absolute insulting asset flip from fallout 4 that is a shame. Game breaking bugs, graphics that are hideous . boring . Thinking about how complicated and intertwined even Oblivion was years and years ago. Looking at Fallout 76 is sad. Bethesdas games are getting dumbed down more and more. They have lost alot of goodwill from fans. Im so sad and disappointed in them.
  71. damaged
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    Has so much potential, that being said. Bethesda really should have used a new engine, this one is showing its age. Bugs...they do not have the crutch that is the modding community for this game, and it's shone a light on their inability to react to and fix bugs, call it lazy or incompetent, you choose. If you are on the fence with this game, wait, wait for a large patch that address whatHas so much potential, that being said. Bethesda really should have used a new engine, this one is showing its age. Bugs...they do not have the crutch that is the modding community for this game, and it's shone a light on their inability to react to and fix bugs, call it lazy or incompetent, you choose. If you are on the fence with this game, wait, wait for a large patch that address what the community wants, instead of a patch that barely changes anything except a color on a in-game comic. Wait for a deep deep sale, and only then pick it up with the possibility that private servers will be a thing, and the community can once again do the job that Bethesda obviously cannot be trusted to do.… Expand
  72. still_guns
    Nov 23, 2018
    3
    I really wanted to love this game. As such, I can only 'like' it. I've wanted a multiplayer Fallout game for some time now, but 76 is not the answer.

    Whilst the combat is, for the most part, fun, there are those glitches that see my hunting rifle that should one shot kill some of these enemies, not do any damage at all for maybe three shots in a row. I'd like to do more quests, but I    I really wanted to love this game. As such, I can only 'like' it. I've wanted a multiplayer Fallout game for some time now, but 76 is not the answer.

    Whilst the combat is, for the most part, fun, there are those glitches that see my hunting rifle that should one shot kill some of these enemies, not do any damage at all for maybe three shots in a row.

    I'd like to do more quests, but I spend almost all of my time looking for junk to scrap so I can repair my weapons and armour, which seem to break incredibly often. The hunting rifle in Fallout 3 could fire over 650 rounds before breaking. In 76, it feels like I'm only firing 50 or so before the rifle breaks and needs repairing.

    Survival mode is a permanently on feature. In 4, you could switch it on and off, but 76 makes it mandatory. I get there are some people who like survival mode, but I'm not one of them, and I feel it should have been an option like it was in 4.

    You have to scrap weapons just to see weapon mods, let alone unlock them. At one point my entire inventory was made up of hunting rifles, just to unlock some mods, many of which ended up being mods I didn't even want.

    The game has features that it doesn't even tell you about. Juicehead has already identified 30 different features that the game straight up neglects to inform you of.

    The way weapons and armour levels up is nonsensical. Leather Armour should be low level armour, with combat and marine armour being higher level, but you can find leather armour at any level.
    And the lack of human NPC's... ugh, the world is so empty.

    Frankly, the game is tedious, the only good bit is the combat and even that is marred by terrible weapon condition and bugs.    … Expand
  73. KFFAO
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Игра не серьезна, в ней нет как такового контента. Из интересного могу выделить лишь то, что хочется сбегать туда и посмотреть локацию, некоторые побочные истории написаны, как говорится, на ура. В целом, эта игра для подросшего поколения майнкрафтеров - мамкиных выживальщиков (для них же урезана ПвП система, чтобы какой-нибудь PewDiePie не начал пилить грифер-шоу на потеху народу),Игра не серьезна, в ней нет как такового контента. Из интересного могу выделить лишь то, что хочется сбегать туда и посмотреть локацию, некоторые побочные истории написаны, как говорится, на ура. В целом, эта игра для подросшего поколения майнкрафтеров - мамкиных выживальщиков (для них же урезана ПвП система, чтобы какой-нибудь PewDiePie не начал пилить грифер-шоу на потеху народу), которым дай пособирать мусор да покрафтить, оба этих действия занимают 80% времени геймплея, 20% - беготня со стрельбой. Игра сырая, недоделанная, портированная с консолей с кучей багов, и продается за большие деньги. 3 из 10.… Expand
  74. slauterhause
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    In a word, boring.

    It's a weird version of fallout 4 with worse graphics, several bugs, and clunky multiplayer. Honestly, at this point it's a hard pass.

    What it needs:
    Better graphics settings - and utilization. It's not good.
    Better ways of editing game settings, other than messing with the .ini
    Improved Key Mapping
    Weird Mob re-spawns.
    Etc.
  75. vahadar
    Dec 9, 2018
    3
    I have been playing Fallout since the first one, the franchise has evolved quite a lot since then, in good and bad, and with Fallout 76 it is definitely not in good. Fallout76 is not an RPG anymore, but just another action shooter with RPG flavor.

    I'm not going to expand on the hundreds of bugs i have yet encountered (CAMP issues, duplicate items, weapons reload issues, vanishing items,    I have been playing Fallout since the first one, the franchise has evolved quite a lot since then, in good and bad, and with Fallout 76 it is definitely not in good. Fallout76 is not an RPG anymore, but just another action shooter with RPG flavor.

    I'm not going to expand on the hundreds of bugs i have yet encountered (CAMP issues, duplicate items, weapons reload issues, vanishing items, invisible enemies and countless others which make my gaming time not fun when i have to relaunch the game every 20 minutes, or when it crashes every hour or so...).
    It is almost one month after release and most big issues are not yet corrected.

    Anyway here my pros and cons :
    Pros:
    - huge beautiful world,
    - many locations to discover,
    - new perk card system (i like the fact that the SPECIAL are again limited),
    - legendary items farming.

    Cons :
    - no npc,
    - very poor atmosphere (reading terminals and listening to holotapes is not rich world background),
    - no impact on game world at all,
    - extremely poor high level content, it is just a farming game in the end,
    - very bad UI for CAMP, even worse than in Fallout4, not designed for PC users for sure but just for console,
    - perk system (again yes, but this time because you cant choose perks you want, it is randomly given to you, you must hope you get the right card. Anyway you get access to all cards at level 50, i had to wait till this level to get some BASIC cards for my play style like for rifleman perks... this is not good at all, i want to develop a character the way i want, not thanks to random card drops!!!). Also swapping perks every 3 minutes because you need to do something or you need to use another kind of weapon is really annoying.
    - very bad player interaction (no chat, no player vendor...),
    - it feels like a Fallout 4 mod, same assets, just revamped visuals, and it is 3 years after Fallout4,
    - every items from Fallout4 and DLCs are here, makes lore not really consistent with other games, when the nuke fell just few decades ago. IE trapper armor from Far Harbor is found in appalachia.
    - no AZERTY keyboard support again in CAMP mode (was like this already in FALLOUT4), not possible to remap keys for CAMP mode, so with a french keyboard i just cant move forward or left, without switching to QWERTY everytime i want to build my camp.
    - Many bugs from Fallout4 STILL present in Fallout76, this is not acceptable at all...
    - i'm running on fiber optic internet 1gb/s, and still i get too much disconnected... some servers are laggy as hell when some others are just fine.

    But i keep playing it, level 103 at this time, i just hope most issues are going to be fixed soon. So far the road map for patches is not very promising...

    Unfortunately, even if most bugs are fixed, some core design decisions are probably not going to change so this make this Fallout quite dull in the end.

    At the time of this review, i consider that the game is still in BETA stage.

    3/10.    … Expand
  76. Hack
    Dec 23, 2018
    3
    I'm level 43 and I've just finished the main campaign so I've given the game a fair shot before reviewing, overall it's not a great game, it's technically stuck in the stone age, with terrible performance, server issues and bugs galore. Looking past that it's just not a good game either, the PvP is pointless, and the world feels empty with no NPCs, factions or any real story, it just feltI'm level 43 and I've just finished the main campaign so I've given the game a fair shot before reviewing, overall it's not a great game, it's technically stuck in the stone age, with terrible performance, server issues and bugs galore. Looking past that it's just not a good game either, the PvP is pointless, and the world feels empty with no NPCs, factions or any real story, it just felt like I was doing busy work for no real reason, it just lacks any Fallout flavour.

    On the plus side the locations are varied and interesting, and co-op is fun with a friend, but apart from that it's just a worse Fallout 4 and not really worth the time unless you're a massive fan of the series and you're playing with a friend, because solo it's extremely dull.    … Expand
  77. ScienceAdvisor
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    tl;dr ignore any review for any product telling you to "Ignore reviews". Reviews are research. Just focus on the reviews that list objective points that can be refuted, and ingore the shills handing out 9-10s that inflame the trolls to hand out 0-1s.

    This game is Early Access, content bare, and is just an expansion map for Fallout 4, to the point where mods from that title are working    tl;dr ignore any review for any product telling you to "Ignore reviews". Reviews are research. Just focus on the reviews that list objective points that can be refuted, and ingore the shills handing out 9-10s that inflame the trolls to hand out 0-1s.

    This game is Early Access, content bare, and is just an expansion map for Fallout 4, to the point where mods from that title are working without any changes in Fallout 76. That is how little work was done to fix the engine. If you want to see the OCD cleaning simulator, they by all means grab it at full price and hope that they sell enough copies to eventually add in all the missing content and fix the *amazing* array of bugs. It would also be nice if they can stop all the cheating that is already being noticed two days after launch. Just Google "Fallout 76 Nulear Codes" and you will see all Bethesda'a claims about nukes being limited and not overly useful for PvP, just became a lot less true. All because they implemented it in the laziest way possible that took one whole day to bypass.

    Fun Fact: They made a profit of $400m+ from Fallout 4, and now have a team size of 400 people. Apparently 85% are all level builders...    … Expand
  78. Mamoulian
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    I ve been a gamer for quite some time and I have to say this is THE lowest Bethesda ever fell. I loved Skyrim and I liked Fallout 4 pretty much even though they were both buggy as hell but this game sets a new low level entirely both in being extremely buggy and being very very empty. In all other Bethesda games there actually IS something to explore, in Fallout 76 the world is unpopulatedI ve been a gamer for quite some time and I have to say this is THE lowest Bethesda ever fell. I loved Skyrim and I liked Fallout 4 pretty much even though they were both buggy as hell but this game sets a new low level entirely both in being extremely buggy and being very very empty. In all other Bethesda games there actually IS something to explore, in Fallout 76 the world is unpopulated and empty, completely devoid of anything interesting, not just the lack of NPCs. It looks the same as Fallout 4 but its as empty as a desert. The only "fun" there is is to either search for someone to kill or wait to get killed. For that kind of fun though it is MUCH better to buy Hunt Showdown for example or anything similar. This is just a sad milking cow of Bethesdas own making. Just an RPG publishing company trying to get in the multiplayer PvP arena genre and only groping in the dark. Save your money and dont buy this nonsense.… Expand
  79. Lostframe
    May 21, 2019
    3
    And after 8 months , still the worst game in history (almost like E.T. from 1984)And after 8 months , still the worst game in history (almost like E.T. from 1984)
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  80. DukeBalek
    Nov 22, 2018
    3
    so bad i cant believe they dare release it... bethesda like bioware are out of the game ^^
  81. Serenityinaz12
    Apr 27, 2020
    3
    Well it's not as bad as I heard it was but it's very clunky, the UI for pc is atrocious as is the building camp US, quite literally the worst I've ever seen for a survival game and I've played a lot. Inventory management is a mess, too much junk to pick up that is worthless, loot isn't great.

    Even worse, they are soon adding an update that makes all enemies scale to your level, like    Well it's not as bad as I heard it was but it's very clunky, the UI for pc is atrocious as is the building camp US, quite literally the worst I've ever seen for a survival game and I've played a lot. Inventory management is a mess, too much junk to pick up that is worthless, loot isn't great.

    Even worse, they are soon adding an update that makes all enemies scale to your level, like they did in Oblivion, so bye bye any sense of progression or danger in the world.

    Why is it not allowing me to hitt submit    … Expand
  82. strangefruit
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    I haven't found standard PvP much fun. A proper fight between players basically requires that they both agree to combat: if you shoot someone, they'll take nearly no damage unless and until they return fire. This isn't a bad concept because it means less griefing, but it also means no real ambushing or surprise attacks: it's more of a pistols at dawn arrangement. There's also little in theI haven't found standard PvP much fun. A proper fight between players basically requires that they both agree to combat: if you shoot someone, they'll take nearly no damage unless and until they return fire. This isn't a bad concept because it means less griefing, but it also means no real ambushing or surprise attacks: it's more of a pistols at dawn arrangement. There's also little in the way of stakes, as killing someone only lets you collect their junk, not their weapons, ammo, or other gear. There are no PvP or PvE-only servers—there's no server browser at all—and so this compromise to include PvP but make sure it's not too deadly or damaging results in making fights between players feel toothless, and even pointless.… Expand
  83. dape
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    Pros:
    - It turns on (if you are lucky)
    - You can meet most of Fallout menagerie - It has Fallout names on things Cons: - Bad Graphics - Bad (and lack of ) Story - Bad shooting mechanics - Bad bugs (and lot of them) - Bad world building - Bad building mechanics (it will disappear anyway - or get nuked) Looks feels and plays more like a steam early access game for $2 and not    Pros:
    - It turns on (if you are lucky)
    - You can meet most of Fallout menagerie
    - It has Fallout names on things

    Cons:
    - Bad Graphics
    - Bad (and lack of ) Story
    - Bad shooting mechanics
    - Bad bugs (and lot of them)
    - Bad world building
    - Bad building mechanics (it will disappear anyway - or get nuked)

    Looks feels and plays more like a steam early access game for $2 and not fully fledged experience. Bethesda... no. It's hard to say what this was supposed to be - it's easy to say it did not worked. This game is con, don't get played.    … Expand
  84. Northwain
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    This is basically Fallout 4 but with no story, no NPCs, no side quests, no side activities, no mod support, PvP that made sense in theory but in practice is utterly awful and has real-life players that don't want to play together because they're treating the game as if it were single player.

    Is this game for you? Ask yourself these questions I asked myself: Did you like Fallout 4? I    This is basically Fallout 4 but with no story, no NPCs, no side quests, no side activities, no mod support, PvP that made sense in theory but in practice is utterly awful and has real-life players that don't want to play together because they're treating the game as if it were single player.

    Is this game for you? Ask yourself these questions I asked myself:

    Did you like Fallout 4? I sort of did but it was my least favourite Fallout game by a large margin.

    Did you enjoy wandering about exploring in Fallout more the story stuff? I did not.

    As a PC gamer do you like the idea of playing a Bethesda that has no mod support. Nope!

    Do you like the idea of survival games such as Conan Exiles? I didn't know before I played this and now I'll probably never touch the likes of Conan Exiles.

    Do you like the idea of broken PvP that punishes both players? Obviously no.

    If none or maybe only one of these applies to you like does with me... This maybe isn't the game for you. At the very least for those of you who are interested... maybe wait a year or two and see what they do to improve upon it.    … Expand
  85. Poloski
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    In all seriousness? No, you're not missing out anything by playing this. Just because the gunplay was improved doesn't make it good. It's actually mediocre, just like FO4, which is another thing that I don't like about this game, it's just FO4 multiplayer, the difference being a different map, removal of a great amount of NPCs and having other players to play with.
    The game is also very    In all seriousness? No, you're not missing out anything by playing this. Just because the gunplay was improved doesn't make it good. It's actually mediocre, just like FO4, which is another thing that I don't like about this game, it's just FO4 multiplayer, the difference being a different map, removal of a great amount of NPCs and having other players to play with.
    The game is also very prone to hacking. Mods won't come unitl next year, but people can modify the. ini files of the game just like FO4, and alolws them to change stuff like lockpicking being easier and god knows what they might come up with next. A quick look at the game's anti cheat system reveals it's just a joke: https://imgur.com/eIOcWOA
    Even while there's definitely a lot to explore, the fact that the game feels empty makes discovering stuff barely exciting, and reading or hearing stuff is just tedious as it makes just want to finish already, after all the mission objective updates itself. You no longer discover stuff that can affect the people around you, all because they are already dead, and all you have to do is launching nukes and boom, that's all.
    If you honestly want an online game where exploring is better, you can play minecraft instead. I know it might sound as a joke but the game is actually fun, and has a great replayability.    … Expand
  86. Berserklemming
    Dec 1, 2018
    3
    Boring boring boring boring.......

    Now begone heretic for thou hath spurned the very name fallout....

    lack of enjoyable content, can be fun with friends, but be aware you have to make your own fun due to the lack of interesting content, simply put a great boredom simulator.
  87. slackerrudie
    Oct 26, 2019
    3
    I have put over 400 hours in this game. There is not much to the "game." Its basically just a junk collector time sink. I did enjoy making camps and just wasting time finding crap. So why the review and score? Because of the new subscription. They are making people pay for things that should have been in the game. They lied and said they couldn't increase the camp and junk stash sizesI have put over 400 hours in this game. There is not much to the "game." Its basically just a junk collector time sink. I did enjoy making camps and just wasting time finding crap. So why the review and score? Because of the new subscription. They are making people pay for things that should have been in the game. They lied and said they couldn't increase the camp and junk stash sizes because of server issues. Well now you can dump more cash to them and get these. They lied and said they would never have pay to win. They postponed the DLC to include NPC characters, to dump this pay to win on players.… Expand
  88. Soles
    Dec 7, 2018
    3
    Start game, play play, bug, play play play, bug bug, play play, bug bug bug, play, bug, play, bug bug, disconnected... >=/. Reload game, play play play play play, bug bug, crash. Reload game, play play, bug, play play, bug, disconnected. Reload game AGAIN, play play play, bug, play, bug, play, bug, play, bug....getting super annoyed and angry..play, bug, play, bug...grinding teeth...playStart game, play play, bug, play play play, bug bug, play play, bug bug bug, play, bug, play, bug bug, disconnected... >=/. Reload game, play play play play play, bug bug, crash. Reload game, play play, bug, play play, bug, disconnected. Reload game AGAIN, play play play, bug, play, bug, play, bug, play, bug....getting super annoyed and angry..play, bug, play, bug...grinding teeth...play play play play play play..starting to enjoy it a bit more..play play, bug, play play play play play.....play play, bug bug, play play play, disconnected...reconnect..play play disconnected..reconnect..play play bug bug bug bug..crash...reload...play bug DISCONNECTED AGAIN! >=| ...*rampaging mood...* calm down....reload game...play play bug..DISCONNECTED!!! *throws mouse into wall*....uninstall game...bit more happy now..what an experience..bug spotting, disconnections, alot of *woooosaaa* and learning to be super patient..not the gaming experience i was expecting or hoping for...Fallout 76...the buggy disconnected experience… Expand
  89. ArgusLVI
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    There is no reason why this game should exist; Fallout 76 is a watered-down version of an already watered-down Fallout 4. Simple, finicky, glitchy, empty, and a waste of time. Thumbs down.
  90. Voloxi
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    I can't score this game very high, because I've encountered a lot of problems. I've played to level 11 so far, maybe put a solid 15-20 hours into it. Problem number 1, if you don't put points/cards into Endurance, you will be dying of hunger and thirst every five minutes. It totally breaks the immersion and exploration nature of Fallout, and forces you down a select path. Even then, theI can't score this game very high, because I've encountered a lot of problems. I've played to level 11 so far, maybe put a solid 15-20 hours into it. Problem number 1, if you don't put points/cards into Endurance, you will be dying of hunger and thirst every five minutes. It totally breaks the immersion and exploration nature of Fallout, and forces you down a select path. Even then, the cards you get are random, so good luck planning your build. An example being, I have encountered opportunities to lock pick, but skill isn't high enough, and I can't advance it until that card randomly appears. Next, the camp building is full of frustrating bugs and limitations, from appearing and disappearing walls, to the environment working against you, and always having to rebuild it when you move it because the terrain won't accept the camp you spend hours creating. Also, good luck crafting any gear above level 1. I couldn't figure it out. I could find some stuff of higher levels and had options to mod, but its kind of rare and most my armor is still level 1 because I can't craft anything but level 1. Also, you will run out of storage space very quickly, and it's bugged (where's your QA dept Bethesda?). It's limited at 400 pounds, and between guns, ammo, food, armor, and of course junk, you will fill that in a heartbeat. The buggy part? You could have a note or holotape that weighs 0, but the stash won't accept it. You have no room, until you take an item out, stash the 0 weight item, and then try and replace what you took out. But it doesn't always work. I could go on, and I will. Graphically, it's gorgeous, and I love it, but the overgrowth is insanely annoying. You can't see anything up ahead because all the flora is as tall as you are. Crouching for a sneak attack outdoors? Not impossible, but not the greatest. Finally, the game tells you very little. It's like the old days of Everquest. Plop! Here you are, now suffer as you try and figure out some base mechanics of this game. Have fun dying a lot as you do.… Expand
  91. borisjohnson
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Played this for about 4 hours and the only thing positive I got from this is HIV. Anyway, the point is this: the game is half broken; lags even with a good PC. The experience when in combat is "clunky" and despite being a "social" game, there's not any motive to communicate with other players. Suck your mum.
  92. smilodon142
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    I've played every Bethesda game and every Fallout game.

    After 30 hours of game play I can say this game isn't worth sixty dollars. The story is limited to notes and recordings in a medium that's "Let the player do" instead of "Tell them what happen", normally that kind of story telling is an optional addition to the games experience. Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 both have lore that    I've played every Bethesda game and every Fallout game.

    After 30 hours of game play I can say this game isn't worth sixty dollars.

    The story is limited to notes and recordings in a medium that's "Let the player do" instead of "Tell them what happen", normally that kind of story telling is an optional addition to the games experience.

    Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 both have lore that goes against established cannon, retconning those previous games is disrespectful to the writers and developers of past games.

    The PC edition launched without a number options typically found in sixty dollar triple A titles. From the options menu you cannot, turn off depth of field, bloom, god rays, bloom, change the Anti Aliasing settings, or set an ultra wide screen resolution. The strange thing is the game does support all those settings if you change them from the configuration files. However the normal user would have a difficult time figuring out how to go about that process. Bethesda omitted those options from the game for seemingly no reason.

    After exploring the map, the size of which is one of the games few positives, the gameplay would consist of mostly building your camp and controlling public workshops. The building mode in the game while aggravating at times does work and is improved slightly from Fallout 4.

    Other players from my experience will have voice chat turned off and will ignore you after a wave. After twenty hours of leaving my microphone on in hopes that I would make a lasting connection with someone I decided to turn it off so I could listen to an audio book without having to worry about others at all.

    All of the good things in Fallout 76 can be better found in Fallout 4, and basically this game is Fallout 4 striped of it's substantial story elements and combined with the restrictions of a multiplayer game.    … Expand
  93. Tengill
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    This is a Fallout game with out the heart of a Fallout game.
    It is buggy, it even has buggs that are in Fallout 4 and that they still have not patched.
    Yes that is right, this is the same engine as Fallout 4, with all the same bugs. The downside is that the modding community fixed a lot of the buggs in that game, but they can not fix them in Fallout 76. That is because this is a online    This is a Fallout game with out the heart of a Fallout game.
    It is buggy, it even has buggs that are in Fallout 4 and that they still have not patched.
    Yes that is right, this is the same engine as Fallout 4, with all the same bugs.
    The downside is that the modding community fixed a lot of the buggs in that game, but they can not fix them in Fallout 76.
    That is because this is a online game played on dedicated servers and mods would be considered cheats.
    Not that it matters any way, you will get bored long before.
    There are quests in the game, told by robots and holotapes.
    The holo tapes can be long narratives recorded by people that lived there before.
    One problem is that they can be so long that they get interrupted by radio transmissions and there is no way to go back and listen to that holotape again.
    So if there was important information at the end of it, you wont here it.
    Right now you should not buy this game, wait a year for the 2019 winter sale.
    Perhaps by then they will have put in the options for setting your FOV and added a Push to Talk option.    … Expand
  94. SinitarGaming
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    This review will, hopefully, help you to understand what's actually happening.
    It,s indeed pretty much true that some of "0" reviews may be posted by people who didn't even play the game. But, there is one "but"...
    The true darkness is on the other side. Take a look on several random profiles that gave "10" to this game. Almost like 90% of them have only 1 review (for FO76) and profile    This review will, hopefully, help you to understand what's actually happening.
    It,s indeed pretty much true that some of "0" reviews may be posted by people who didn't even play the game. But, there is one "but"...

    The true darkness is on the other side. Take a look on several random profiles that gave "10" to this game. Almost like 90% of them have only 1 review (for FO76) and profile names like "superplayer1984". In their reviews, there're writing everything via one of two copypastas: 1) describing all the game features were named by bethesda in trailers (some of which simply even don't exist) and literally telling everything is working perfectly. 2) callin everyone who left a bad review a hater who never played the game.

    The second part is as you all know, Bethesda initially released game only on Beth.net - not on Steam, GOG etc. Why? Yes, eaxactly. You can't leave a review there. At least, so easily. Question is - what is it like?

    Yes, we all know (especially those who are reading political news) how it looks. Bethesda (I'm not saying directly Pete Hines, obviously not, but through the hands of sub-companies, "family" bloggers and "friendly" game journalists) is litereally using the bots to leave positive reviews and leaving 10 points to at least somehow save catastrophic ratings of the game. Almost all accounts that made 10/10 FO76 reviews were made not by real players behind them, but by certain people, for only one goal - try to save the game ratings on the platform they can't affect directly.

    Don't get me wrong. Bethesda was and today still [IS] my favourite game company. But the abyss they are making between themselves and community, how they allow marketing stuff to rule the PR company and game development itself, and how obviously they are trying to hide any possible negative critics about the game - it's really, really sad.

    I'm neither FO 76 fan or hater. I just don't care about it - I won't play it and wait for Starfield and TES VI.
    Though, I played more than 20 hours on my friend gaming PC to not let myself make a prejudged review.
    I also wish every player who bought it to have the best possible time in it.
    Fallout 76 is not a "zero" game. But it's a very, very bad game. Extremely outdated engine. Terrible performance. Awful cheating/hacking protection. But what if most important, it's a soulless game which has even less to have at least something in commong with FO series than FO4 had. It's empty, repeative and just boring.
    I won't give "0" to this game. But I'll give as maximum as "3" because this is what FO76 deserves.    … Expand
  95. Melvorn
    Dec 6, 2018
    3
    My girlfriend purchased this for me on my birthday and got it for herself too. After playing it I am pissed as hell. I can't believe that she paid full retail, for a game that was missing most of what Bethesda promised at launch and has the same bugs as Fallout 4! I don't care that they are trying to fix it. That's not an excuse for asking customers to pay for a Triple A price and thenMy girlfriend purchased this for me on my birthday and got it for herself too. After playing it I am pissed as hell. I can't believe that she paid full retail, for a game that was missing most of what Bethesda promised at launch and has the same bugs as Fallout 4! I don't care that they are trying to fix it. That's not an excuse for asking customers to pay for a Triple A price and then releasing a buggy piece of **** with graphics that aren't even an improvement from Fallout 4 and which feels empty and boring as hell. Go spend your hard earned money on God of War or Red Dead Redemption 2 instead; hell if you -want- to play a survival game, go play ARK if your PC can handle it, at least it's better than this.… Expand
  96. sieden
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    Bethesda - "Should we make Rust or Fallout?"
    "Lets make both but leave the bits out that make each of them great"
  97. TylerJL1
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Yet again Bethesda proves they are incapable of making a decent Fallout game. Fallout 3 had a pass because it was their first take on the series but it seems that Bethesda keeps taking one step forward two steps back with Fallout. There is just no sustainable value in this game other than to make fun of it with friends. Playing with friends makes anything enjoyable. Watch The Room byYet again Bethesda proves they are incapable of making a decent Fallout game. Fallout 3 had a pass because it was their first take on the series but it seems that Bethesda keeps taking one step forward two steps back with Fallout. There is just no sustainable value in this game other than to make fun of it with friends. Playing with friends makes anything enjoyable. Watch The Room by yourself and you'll want to blow your brains out. Watch it with friends piss drunk and you'll make memories. "Fun with Friends" should not be the only selling point.… Expand
  98. tehga
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    I was actually excited for a multiplayer Fallout game, but this game is just boring. People can't attack you unless you want them to. The enemies are extremely easy to defeat and mostly they just stand in place and shoot, doing little damage. There is a VERY thin story that really is only there to get you to walk around. The events are "keep spawning bad guys until timer runs out."I was actually excited for a multiplayer Fallout game, but this game is just boring. People can't attack you unless you want them to. The enemies are extremely easy to defeat and mostly they just stand in place and shoot, doing little damage. There is a VERY thin story that really is only there to get you to walk around. The events are "keep spawning bad guys until timer runs out." Your base is meaningless because people can't steal your stuff anyways. So what are you supposed to do in this game? I'm level 10 now and I honestly don't know. You can complete "go press a button on a computer terminal" and/or "kill enemies until the timer runs out" quests to gain experience then haul stuff back to your stash. That's basically it. With almost no plot, no NPCs, no penalty for dying, such a low difficulty to play, very little extremely casual PVP... I really don't see why anyone would put more than a few hours into this game. The point of the game really seems to be to explore the map and look at the pretty scenery. With no real in-game motivation to keep progressing, it almost feels like you would be better off running through all the areas without fighting anything so that you can see all the sights without having to waste time leveling up. I'm willing to give it a 3 for now, maybe it's just the beginning content that is bland but I really see no hope for this game getting better as I rank up.… Expand
  99. Flower_guy
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    This game is way to restrictive and lacking of content to be a Bethesda game. This is no real main story or purpose to the game but just to grind. Once you traveled around the map you pretty much have seen all there is to offer with only a few exceptions. Not only is it overpriced at $60, the games micro-transactions were up and running before they even fixed most of the bugs that wereThis game is way to restrictive and lacking of content to be a Bethesda game. This is no real main story or purpose to the game but just to grind. Once you traveled around the map you pretty much have seen all there is to offer with only a few exceptions. Not only is it overpriced at $60, the games micro-transactions were up and running before they even fixed most of the bugs that were reported in the B.E.T.A. Pass on this game and maybe pick it up when it's on sale if you have someone to play it with. It was not designed for, or even balanced playing for playing solo even though Pete H. insisted that it was.

    In summary, probably not the game you are wanting it to be, more bugs than previous Bethesda games, severely under preforms in combat, UI and AI when compared to other AAA titles. but decent enough to pass the time if you have someone to play it with or when you are waiting for something else to come out.    … Expand
  100. Xemnuz
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Good god what a mess of a game. Fall out 4 was a mess but with a few fixes and cheats it became enjoyable, though I was too young to play Fall out 3 at the time. But good god, Fall Out 76 is really bad. I have what 12 hours in I haven't even met a npc other than 2-3 bots yet, I know no names, there is absolutely no story thus far. To force multiplayer on you is to top it off, someone atGood god what a mess of a game. Fall out 4 was a mess but with a few fixes and cheats it became enjoyable, though I was too young to play Fall out 3 at the time. But good god, Fall Out 76 is really bad. I have what 12 hours in I haven't even met a npc other than 2-3 bots yet, I know no names, there is absolutely no story thus far. To force multiplayer on you is to top it off, someone at your door? Then either exit the game or die of starvation and thirst, and people can kill you, no idea how it happened but I lost most of my stuff and that was that. Running across the map to locations that look like diaper, your running breath lasts about 3 seconds because it's cool to catch your breath every 3 seconds like not even overweight people do in real life. They didnt even fix the damn combat system which has been the weakest point since Skyrim, it's worse than fighting on a cellphone app game... So disappointed, there was some magic in Fall Out 4, some fantastic characters, maybe some here but I don't even see them, the world looks like **** the combat is **** the multiplayer aspect is **** They even ruined the settlements/camp, you cant even make outposts around the place and make it your own you have to choose one location and thats it with no other survivors... Do not buy. Totally forgot, in a game where looting is the main thing, to cap the weight of 150 lbs without perks is suicide, people walking around because they dont want to throw things yet cant run or fast travel to salvage, 2 guns and gear and a few scraps is 150 lbs, good luck finding a ton of cool stuff only having to throw it, **** that.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 46
  3. Negative: 13 out of 46
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    35
    Fallout 76 represents a big disappointment and the lowest point of the series so far. Riddled with bugs, repetitive and dull gameplay, nonexistent story and outdated graphics, it fails as a both multiplayer and singleplayer experience for fans and newcomers alike.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 6, 2019
    55
    Miracles do happen once in a while and No Man’s Sky proved that sometimes it is possible to get back on your feet even after a terrible failure. Right now though Fallout 76 is botched spectacularly on so many levels that even talking about this game is a waste of time. [01/2019, p.46]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 10, 2019
    40
    An unfinished game with bifurcated identity and in an almost dysfunctional state. It's hard to build on a bad base, that will never change. Like the war. [Issue#292]
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