Fallout 76

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  1. eloney1
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I was so excited about the release of Fallout 76 with the great job that was done on Fallout 4 I was sure that this game would just blow it away, however I was wrong I am so sorry I bought this online only piece of garbage. Fallout should always be single player so we can create mods and so you are not stuck with a bunch of idiot kids playing online with you, an online option for thoseI was so excited about the release of Fallout 76 with the great job that was done on Fallout 4 I was sure that this game would just blow it away, however I was wrong I am so sorry I bought this online only piece of garbage. Fallout should always be single player so we can create mods and so you are not stuck with a bunch of idiot kids playing online with you, an online option for those that want it would be fine. Fallout should also have NPCs, without them this game is dead and dull, the graphics in Fallout 76 are also a joke they look like any other game from five years ago or more they are just plain outdated. The load times are very long and the controls are confusing, ammo and weapons are garbage and hard to find so defeating enemies is extremely difficult, so really all you can do is try to run away and hope your stamina will last long enough to escape. I was going to buy five more copies for others I know but having played it for about thirty hours now I am just going to delete the game and hope they do better on the next Fallout or they will surely go bankrupt as a company. Don't Buy This Game!!!… Expand
  2. Vareba
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    They really need a way to check if people actually bought the game, before allowing them to post here.

    The game is buggy, but it's not bad at all, it's not broken. It's incredibly fun, runs great, and is secure.

    Actually research before you judge - don't jump on the arbitrary hate fad, just copy/pasting the same nonsense.
  3. Machpell
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Hello, I will try in brief ...
    My story with Fallout began in the distant 1997-8 years, when I first played the first part, my happiness knew no bounds, played it for many hours, climbed every grain of sand, then the women of Fallout 2, all that I very fond of, now twice as much !!! Juhu.
    And in part 2, I played until the very release of Fallout TBOS (I didn’t play on consoles), and this    Hello, I will try in brief ...
    My story with Fallout began in the distant 1997-8 years, when I first played the first part, my happiness knew no bounds, played it for many hours, climbed every grain of sand, then the women of Fallout 2, all that I very fond of, now twice as much !!! Juhu.
    And in part 2, I played until the very release of Fallout TBOS (I didn’t play on consoles), and this part went wiped out, I had my own delight from every part, no matter what!
    And then ... there was a crisis, a crisis that never changes, and I find out that InterPlay and BlackIsle can no longer work on projects, and even the company that did Tactics - Micro Forté, also does not want to do it, and then I realized that this is probably all ...
    According to the law of the genre in the gaming industry, everything returns to normal in 8 years (Blizzard is so fond of doing it) and I find out that part 3 is coming out, you have no idea how glad I was to hear that! I was one of the first who bought it on the day of sales, yes, even then the games came out on CDs! Then a bunch of add-ons came out and all that, I played again, naturally no one expected or expected that the game would be in turn-based mode as before, because the 21st century is in the yard!
    And as if I did not hesitate at the beginning, but I also liked the game as a whole, because this is the very same Fallout, just version 2.0 from already 5 companies (you know, 7 nannies, and a child without an eye (I just counted ZeniMax ))
    But I forgave them everything, because I was waiting for the game no matter what. Whatever it was, I would love it, and that’s what happened ...
    And not having time to play enough in part 3, it comes out NEW WEGAS, and then just again BABAH !!! the same 3 Fallout, but as with the 2 part, all that we love is only many times bigger and better!
    Thanks to the 6 companies (nanny) Obsidian, so that so finalized and worked the game ...
    Then 4 years pass, and here we have - tadam - Fallout 4 ... and again I am very pleased with the game, no matter what it is, but after playing it, I understand that something is wrong with it, and I decided to read it first in my life , someone else's comments, and I see that the entire Internet is pouring mud from all the hoses on it! ... I thought, oh God, if they don't calm down, or no one will intercede in Fallout 4, they will ruin the game again the same way they did this is about 10 years ago, but then the noise seemed to subside, and I’m so, well, thank God, there are add-ons for Far Harbor, Nuka-World, etc. then VR, everything seems to be satisfied, everything is quietly calm, except that Todd Howard’s heart is in the spirit. Apparently there was a huge scar! ... and because of the trolls, he decided, so who the hell does it matter, no matter what we do, the game will still be spit up, you do it well, they don’t like it, you do it well, they’re wrong again, you squeeze it the last juice - people are burning and pouring acid again! and here, all his sadness and sadness showed itself!
    2018 - Fallout 76 release
    and again the game starts to burn on the fire !!! PEOPLE, and what are you waiting for, you **** up your criticism of the 3-NW-4 part! and waited for the company wants to shoot 76 ?? you are mistaken for the developers to make the game, they need to be respected, appreciated, loved and cherished by them and the main thing is to believe in them, so if Todd Howard and his friends ever read the thread, know no matter what, thank you for the Fallout if he wasn’t, I believe in you, and even if it’s just the respect of a single devoted fan, but I think it’s better than a crowd of distracted fanatics! for this, I want you not to limp, and bring the game to the end, of course, the prizes are no longer collected, but you must make a worthy receiver, the game, !!!
    best regards your player - Machpell    … Expand
  4. gloom15
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Fallout 4 с сетевым режимом, скукотища полнейшая, еще и забагованная насмерть...
  5. LimeDragon
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    I am enjoying this one much more than Fallout 4 (Which is a nice comparative since it is very similar). Probably because this game hit my right switches. I am really happy to share a Fallout game with friends. I did not liked the fact that this was online instead of only coop but... my fear was unfounded, people I encountered so far were friendly and since encountering others is so rare,I am enjoying this one much more than Fallout 4 (Which is a nice comparative since it is very similar). Probably because this game hit my right switches. I am really happy to share a Fallout game with friends. I did not liked the fact that this was online instead of only coop but... my fear was unfounded, people I encountered so far were friendly and since encountering others is so rare, you actually take the time to interact with them, this was a unexpected surprise.

    The game is, in my experience, focused around sniffing around ruined buildings, looting junk, building bases, taking pictures, and killing enemies. While I can understand there is usually more than that (like lore, story and meaningful choices) in a usual Fallout game (and there is, but it is not the strong point of this opus), I often found that the part I ended up doing and enjoying the most in Fallout games are exactly what I mentioned Fallout 76 was about, so, it hit my right switches.

    There was also the focus around taking pictures which I found was silly, but again, I was surprised. You may not get out of a place with much loot or experience but you mostly always do with memories and having pictures of it is really nice to remember what you have been trough. I must be honest that at times, It felt more like being a tourist in a strange country than a survival game since it is not that dangerous when grouped, and I loved it.    … Expand
  6. jeffreyjohnson
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Honestly, what was Bethesda thinking with this live services mess of a game. Its hard to feel bad that is bombing so hard.
  7. RiaskoFF
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I really tried to like the game. But it is just terrible. Optimization, glitches, bugs, lags, game design. Everything is bad.
  8. lostguy2027
    Nov 18, 2018
    8
    At the begining I was no interested in the game, but when the beta started I found the game was a real fallout game, but diferent, lots of glitches, but I admit beteshda worked on and today the game perfomrs really better. The game is not for everybody, because is a live world and open world, the other games, are closed. Is a great game if you like fallout and like explore and fight theAt the begining I was no interested in the game, but when the beta started I found the game was a real fallout game, but diferent, lots of glitches, but I admit beteshda worked on and today the game perfomrs really better. The game is not for everybody, because is a live world and open world, the other games, are closed. Is a great game if you like fallout and like explore and fight the enviroment, besides, beteshda wants to develope this world, this is great for the future of this game... the life of this game.… Expand
  9. zhruut
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    I agree with a lot of the criticisms, I consider Fallout 76 fair to good, and I rate it 6/10 to 7/10 (I rounded up) — but that's coming from a player whose absolute favorite games are Fallout 3, NV & 4. For me to be saying "fair" to "good" or be rating it a 6/10 to 7/10 is the equivalent of a less franchise-loyal gamer rating it 3/10 or 4/10.

    I have played something like 6 to 8 hours so    I agree with a lot of the criticisms, I consider Fallout 76 fair to good, and I rate it 6/10 to 7/10 (I rounded up) — but that's coming from a player whose absolute favorite games are Fallout 3, NV & 4. For me to be saying "fair" to "good" or be rating it a 6/10 to 7/10 is the equivalent of a less franchise-loyal gamer rating it 3/10 or 4/10.

    I have played something like 6 to 8 hours so far and just reached level 10. I was concerned I was truly going to find myself bored, but I've been managing to enjoy myself reasonably well. The moment I discovered the first robot to trade with, I was able to earn enough caps by selling loot to use the fast travel and base camp relocation abilities, which are key to making exploration and questing less of a slog. I have felt the tingle of excitement upon encountering a new area, getting quests — especially if there's a voiced robotic NPC quest giver, which is honestly just as good as a voiced human NPC quest giver in my opinion — and hunting down the various enemies while trying to achieve my goals. While the absence of raiders and mercs is quite noticeable, what's really missing are the neutral to friendly NPC communities. Take a place like Covenant in Fallout 4. You meet them, they test you, they tentatively accept you and you suspect there's something amiss with the town. There is a number of ways to proceed, and the choices you make result in significant differences as to how this side-story plays out. So far, it seems Fallout 76 will not and cannot offer players experiences like that.

    The bottom line for me is that Fallout 76 feels like a stand-alone DLC with a simple premise: Bethesda will set you up with a very large play area as a sandbox to play in, 80%-90% legacy world lore from the other games in the franchise, player survival mechanics and enough basic, repeatable quests to motivate you to continue. As a committed lone player, it does in fact get quite lonely and spare, but if I were paying $20-$25 for this privilege, rather than the $60 I paid, I would say it is definitely worth the experience.    … Expand
  10. davystuart
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    The good news is that it's more of Fallout. Quirky quests, looting, radio stations, open world exploration.

    The bad news is it could have been so much better with a large world of players interacting and building and fighting. How cool if this had been Player's Unknown meets Fallout rather than Fallout with a multiplayer function that doesn't really matter.
  11. Valhallis
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    A rather terrible experience from beginning to end, just about everything is unenjoyable about this game. From level locked weapons and equipment, to terrible AI, to the non-existant storyline, to no npcs, to the HORRIBLY balanced combat system and game difficulty. (You won't die in this game unless you go afk in a warzone, or try to kill an endgame boss naked with your fists and noA rather terrible experience from beginning to end, just about everything is unenjoyable about this game. From level locked weapons and equipment, to terrible AI, to the non-existant storyline, to no npcs, to the HORRIBLY balanced combat system and game difficulty. (You won't die in this game unless you go afk in a warzone, or try to kill an endgame boss naked with your fists and no medical items.)

    But above all else, the game is BEYOND buggy, RAMPANT client AND server crashing, invisible enemies, models that look like they came from Steven Carpenter's "The Thing", and a completely salvageable garbage-fire that is the game's CAMP and settlement systems.

    I gave the game a 1 instead of a 0 for only one reason, and thats because the world itself is very visually impressive, once you modify the game's .ini file to remove the world's worst depth of field ever put in a videogame and increase the field of view above the "Porthole" default setting.    … Expand
  12. BinkySpinx
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    There's a checkbox if the review contains spoilers. The game itself is spoiled. Honestly Bethesda, whoever green-lit this game should be fired. Talk about a franchise destroying release. I can't even tell you how many times I've played and replayed 3, NV, and 4 on multiple PC's and consoles. Hell, I blew $800 on VR gear just to play Fallout4 on the Vive. I just bought a 2080 TI too and wasThere's a checkbox if the review contains spoilers. The game itself is spoiled. Honestly Bethesda, whoever green-lit this game should be fired. Talk about a franchise destroying release. I can't even tell you how many times I've played and replayed 3, NV, and 4 on multiple PC's and consoles. Hell, I blew $800 on VR gear just to play Fallout4 on the Vive. I just bought a 2080 TI too and was very excited to play the hell out of this and spent another $80 on the Tricentennial edition. This game though? This is such a departure from the fine RPG experience of its predecessors that it feels like a cheap chinese knockoff and I wouldn't even pay $8 for it if it were marked down for clearance. Mark my words, Bethesda, you pull this same crap with the Oblivion franchise and I'm through buying your games, and I'm sure thousands of other PC gamers will agree.… Expand
  13. Equadro
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    0_0 sucks 0_0 sucks
  14. GreeneggsnSam
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    After Fallout 4 and Skyrim I was so excited to finally play Fallout 76.
    1- Paid $70 for the pre-order PC game to be posted to me, only to find it was an empty game case with a download code - RIDICULOUS
    2- Finally booted up only for the server to disconnect every time within 5 minutes of starting 3- Waited another day to play and finally got out of Vault 76, only for the game to    After Fallout 4 and Skyrim I was so excited to finally play Fallout 76.
    1- Paid $70 for the pre-order PC game to be posted to me, only to find it was an empty game case with a download code - RIDICULOUS
    2- Finally booted up only for the server to disconnect every time within 5 minutes of starting
    3- Waited another day to play and finally got out of Vault 76, only for the game to disconnect within 30 seconds of playing... this happened 3 times before i cut my losses and went back to playing RDR2 on PS4. Don't know if I'll even both trying to play it again.    … Expand
  15. TiaxTheMighty
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    Everything that made fallout a great series is absent from this game. These games have always been buggy, but we looked past them because of the lore, the interactions, the story, the narrative, and the desperate sense of survival.

    This game is empty. It is absent of any narrative aside from recordings and terminal entries. I heard people say it's made to be played with friends... But I    Everything that made fallout a great series is absent from this game. These games have always been buggy, but we looked past them because of the lore, the interactions, the story, the narrative, and the desperate sense of survival.

    This game is empty. It is absent of any narrative aside from recordings and terminal entries. I heard people say it's made to be played with friends... But I can have fun just sitting around and talking to my friends. Why do we all need to drop $70 on fallout 76 if it's not what's driving our fun?

    Skip this one. Trust me.    … Expand
  16. Destroyer67
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    I'm absolutely loving every minute of Fallout 76. Playing with friends, building settlements, building and repairing weapons, exploring etc.
    I have yet to experience any game breaking bugs, or any bugs for that matter.
    Amazing game if you're going in solo or with friends (true experience with friends imo) and love the Fallout series.
  17. Koshea69
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Fallout 4 was a step back from Fallout 3 in terms of telling a story, there were some cool new mechanics but ultimately this franchise was started in the wrong direction. Fallout 76 has taken massive steps back in every way from any of the previous fallout games. There is no storytelling, there is nothing here except a sandbox to play in with other people. Don't waist your time, go to aFallout 4 was a step back from Fallout 3 in terms of telling a story, there were some cool new mechanics but ultimately this franchise was started in the wrong direction. Fallout 76 has taken massive steps back in every way from any of the previous fallout games. There is no storytelling, there is nothing here except a sandbox to play in with other people. Don't waist your time, go to a chat room somewhere.… Expand
  18. yarntags
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    I don't follow much gaming news. I just saw that Fallout 76 was out and, since I'm a longtime Fallout fan, I went ahead and bought it.

    My mistake. So here I am on Metacritic creating an account to write a review about it. Fallout 76 is not like Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, 4, or even Tactics. There are no meaningful choices to make. Many of the quests appear to be randomly-generated    I don't follow much gaming news. I just saw that Fallout 76 was out and, since I'm a longtime Fallout fan, I went ahead and bought it.

    My mistake. So here I am on Metacritic creating an account to write a review about it.

    Fallout 76 is not like Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, 4, or even Tactics. There are no meaningful choices to make. Many of the quests appear to be randomly-generated repeats or mild variations with different scorched red things to fight. There are no characters. There are stories, but they're in the form of depressing audiotapes and looting corpses.

    The perks system is interesting. I really like the mechanics of opening packs and filling slots with different cards to create unique builds. Every new character would be a completely unique experience based on those random draws. Unfortunately, the system is constrained by multiplayer balance and why can't I lockpick, what was I training for in the vault my whole life, this should be an essential and basic skill known by every wunderkind in the vault... though some of the cards have funny pictures in the Fallout style.

    The graphics are also nice. Appalachia is presented well and the soundtrack was just starting to grow on me. I'd just stumbled across an interesting little shack in the woods when

    "Hey man, you want to join up to do some quests, easy gold!"

    Three voices start blaring out on the computer speakers, completely erasing the immersion of the Appalachian setting. I hadn't joined any party voice or set any public interaction settings. It was jarring especially when they started shooting at me after I didn't reply (wasn't wearing headphones).

    So I'm giving this version of Fallout a bad score. True, I shouldn't have spent money on it without checking what it really was first, or I would have waited for it to go on sale in a few months. Despite that leaving a bad taste in my mouth, the game is a disappointment and I hope future Fallout games don't follow the same route, and return to the engaging characters, moral dilemmas, and unique stories from the previous games. Instead random strangers shout at you and chase away any hope of immersive storytelling.    … Expand
  19. Iron-x
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Graphics: World is Good || Character models are beyond terrible. || Animations are terrible.
    Storyline: Doesn't exist.
    Pvp: Pointless
    Pros: Memes
    Cons: Almost everything.
    If priced at around 20 dollars, I'd give it around a three score but at full price it's a zero.
  20. testone91
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    One simple example why this game deserves 1.0 rate.
    To shallow and empty. Discovered a Vault , the only quest i had there was to help it with fire problem that occurred somehow, that's it , nothing else.
    Meanwhile in New Vegas each Vault had story , depth , soul , made me explore and do many moral decisions...
  21. DumaSerap
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Todd Howard should be fired and never allowed to makes games again. Fallout 76 is an abomination. It is a cash grab by Bethesda trying to milk fallout franchise as much as possible for the minimum amount of work. I am heartbroken that one of my favourite franchises ever has been reduced to this steaming pile of **** Fallout 4 was already a bad game but this is just on another level.
    There    Todd Howard should be fired and never allowed to makes games again. Fallout 76 is an abomination. It is a cash grab by Bethesda trying to milk fallout franchise as much as possible for the minimum amount of work. I am heartbroken that one of my favourite franchises ever has been reduced to this steaming pile of **** Fallout 4 was already a bad game but this is just on another level.
    There are 20€ early access survival games made by tiny indie studios that are better in every single possible way. How did they allow this game to be released is beyond me, but hey people will give us 60€ and maybe we will fix it in couple of months... or years... or never... lets just release mod support so that modders can do it for us. Let's then charge people for mods.
    There are bugs in this game that exist since freaking Oblivion, yet "that biggest team ever, everyone is crazy focused on this game, best we make" dev team doesn't fix it.

    Everything that defined Fallout game before has been removed or simplified to extreme in this game.
    Perks, SPECIAL, VATS system, NPC's

    What we are left with is a hollow husk of a once wonderful, mature universe. Hey but you can do emotes now... hurray. **** Bethesda, **** Todd Howard for ruining this franchise. We want Fallout 2 in modern engine not this buggy, ugly piece of **** you give us.
    Old disgusting, buggy, broken engine that is 7y old.
    This game simply looks horrible by today standards. No more free passes on bugs and excuses by Bethesda, it's unacceptable to sell this game for 60€!

    RIP Fallout. Bethesda modders are not here to save you this time.    … Expand
  22. jband94
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    At least you tried Bethesda..... Next time try harder though.... This game looks just as awful as fallout 4 ever did, it is extremely empty and boring as heck. I haven't been so disappointed in a game in a very long while.
  23. CheeseViper
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    2018 and they still don't have ultrawide support. Don't care that it's coming in an update. I'll never buy another Bethesda game period.
  24. lacylee
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    The Fallout franchise is without a doubt my favorite gaming franchise, no contest. It's what got me really into gaming, and Bethesda has been my favorite gaming developer throughout the years. When they announced the next Fallout installment was going to be an MMO my heart just dropped. Instantaneous disappointment. I SO look forward to Fallout releases and I just wasn't excited at all.The Fallout franchise is without a doubt my favorite gaming franchise, no contest. It's what got me really into gaming, and Bethesda has been my favorite gaming developer throughout the years. When they announced the next Fallout installment was going to be an MMO my heart just dropped. Instantaneous disappointment. I SO look forward to Fallout releases and I just wasn't excited at all. But I decided to remain optimistic because I'm loyal to the franchise. I played the BETA and my initial concerns were debunked. I expected to have a WoW experience with other players running around constantly and having to wait my turn to do quests, griefing etc. What I received was the opposite. This game is overwhelmingly lonely, repetitive and does nothing to entice me to continue playing. There's just no immersion at all. No one to talk to, no real goal in mind. You can walk and walk and walk and see absolutely nothing but ghouls, scorched and Chinese robots. I think Bethesda made a fatal error by removing the NPC factor. NPC factions, quest lines and companions were some of the funnest and immersive qualities of Fallout. It kept you hanging in and wanting to know what happened next, and gave you something to work toward. And now, there's just literally nothing. This honestly seems like a half-assed attempt. It feels more Fallout knock-off than true Fallout. It's just not what I expect from Bethesda. I almost think they decided to throw out this release and fix it along the way instead of having a ready to play game. I will probably continue to play every now and then just to see if it gets better, and as I said, I'm loyal to the franchise. It breaks my heart that this is what was given to me as the next installment of my favorite game. I just hope they turn some of it around.… Expand
  25. larry73
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    I love the feeling of this game that make you feel like a true badass, you feel truly immersed in the world, and also i love interacting with random people and try to make out what their goal in life is.
    as somebody who played 500 hours of rust. a game that in awfully buggy. in comparison this game is like a blessing from the sky.
    for me who love multiplayer games and also loves the    I love the feeling of this game that make you feel like a true badass, you feel truly immersed in the world, and also i love interacting with random people and try to make out what their goal in life is.
    as somebody who played 500 hours of rust. a game that in awfully buggy. in comparison this game is like a blessing from the sky.
    for me who love multiplayer games and also loves the immersive environments and appealing stories of a fallout game this game was like made for me personally.
    the game has bugs but it does not affect the gameplay.
    the servers have good performance, and the game itself is not to awfully optimised.
    the game is perfect if you like to explore and discover new places in a peaceful and yet exciting way.
    would recommend.    … Expand
  26. Fritts
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    This is not a game that a Fallout fan should buy. Forget an interesting dislodge based story driving you to play. Instead Fallout 76 offers you quest markers. That's it. The game is a shoddily preforming mess that is barley worth a play as a free FO4 mod, definitely not worth your money. STAY AWAY.
  27. 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.
  28. czarnyjezus
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    Perfect game, I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. Got lucky early on with a chameleon leather leg so I went full stealth agility/luck. Just solo'd a scorch beast last night, VATS + concentrated fire let me shoot out its wings then find a perch to snipe its face off while it was fighting off a horde of ghouls that came roaming by.

    Everyone I've met has wanted to either trade, team up    Perfect game, I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. Got lucky early on with a chameleon leather leg so I went full stealth agility/luck. Just solo'd a scorch beast last night, VATS + concentrated fire let me shoot out its wings then find a perch to snipe its face off while it was fighting off a horde of ghouls that came roaming by.

    Everyone I've met has wanted to either trade, team up or pvp, I really thought the pvp would be a joke because of the nearly 0 damage thing but people seem to engage often with me. It has the best map I've seen from bethesda and the environmental storytelling stuff is great solo (not great in a team where you don't have as much time to just listen to tapes or sift through terminals).

    I love the survival mechanic and weight limit, I really enjoyed it when they added it to fallout 4 and I understand why people would be frustrated with it. The housing stuff is pretty cool too, I found a lead deposit in the ground near a raider train station up on a mountain top so I set up a bullet factory and have been making a killing selling bullets to new players.

    Now the game IS a buggy mess, most stuff is visual glitches which don't bother me too much, the real and biggest issue (I'm playing on ps4) automatic weapons cause stutter about 25% of the time? It seems to be the farther from the vault you are the worse it gets and this is honestly unacceptable. A few quests are bugged, I've crashed once in 30 hours, the game occasionally hitches when it loads a new area, sometimes grenades just fall through the floor if you aim straight down, and certain enemies like the grafton monster will just stop moving for some reason.

    The hate bandwagon is totally overblown, the game is decent, would be great if not buggy.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. joe150
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    This game removes even more of the elements that make a good Fallout game. There is little else than fetch quests with no choices that effect the game.
  31. theexhippy
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    The biggest problem and the saving grace of this game is that it's a Fallout game. Because of this people have ridiculously high expectations but some are willing to forgive it its flaws.

    Taken on its own, the game is not bad. It could be better, there are bugs but they're pretty minor. The lack of NPC humans, both friendly and not, is a glaring omission and makes the game feel a little    The biggest problem and the saving grace of this game is that it's a Fallout game. Because of this people have ridiculously high expectations but some are willing to forgive it its flaws.

    Taken on its own, the game is not bad. It could be better, there are bugs but they're pretty minor. The lack of NPC humans, both friendly and not, is a glaring omission and makes the game feel a little lifeless. Some of the mechanisms you liked from the Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas are missing due to the MMO aspect.

    However...

    It captures the Fallout feel, the gameplay is close to identical and rewards careful play rather than run and gun. Yes, combat is clunky but then again it always has been. It doesn't make it bad, just different. You have to be more careful and cautious which some may find dull in comparison to pure FPS like COD but then maybe this game isn't for them.

    All in all, F76 is best viewed as a cutdown version of Fallout 4 that can be played with a group of your friends. If you're playing it solo then you will be disappointed. As a group it doesn't exactly shine but it's a solid co-op experience and I'm enjoying it. I think this is one to be worked on and to improve rather than be dumped.    … Expand
  32. BIOS86
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    It's time to put our foot down and demand better for our $60.just a very very bad game, without meaning, history, does not capture at all, do not do such games, do not do bad
  33. war1ox
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Wrote an in depth review but metacritic froze. So long story short, the game is very empty. PVP mechanics SUCK!!! Game itself sucks. Bethesda sucks for releasing something like this, ridden with bugs, it's a fraud magnet for thieves. They can view your personal information just by playing the game.
  34. Nineel
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Where do I begin?

    "It's an ugly planet, a bug planet!" This game is a mess. On a technical level it is lazy and phoned it. Had Bethesda not created their own assets I'd call it a flip. This is a game engine so old at this point that no amount of dressing up in revealing tops and short skirts will attract it attention like it got back in high school 10 years ago. It simply does not    Where do I begin?

    "It's an ugly planet, a bug planet!"

    This game is a mess. On a technical level it is lazy and phoned it. Had Bethesda not created their own assets I'd call it a flip.

    This is a game engine so old at this point that no amount of dressing up in revealing tops and short skirts will attract it attention like it got back in high school 10 years ago. It simply does not hold up in a modern world.

    It is buggy, old and abuse-able. Scripted events don't trigger in much the same fashion they didn't back in Oblivion, then Fallout 3, then Skyrim, then Fallout 4. The bugs. Oh god so many bugs. I think the main reason they removed friendly NPCs is because you could probably still put a basket over their head and rob them blind. A bit like Bethesda is trying to do with its customers. Although we all know they haven't included them because this engine/game wouldn't be able to handle them.

    It looks UGLY. My god is it ugly. Fallout 4 was too but they really doubled down on it here. Ramping up shaders a pretty game does not make.

    The gameplay is boring and uninspired with a story to match. The "main quest" is as pointless and mundane as the rest of the quests and if the ending to it shocks you we need to chat because you've not watched many films and I've got some classics we should watch.

    Bethesda have lost ALL my respect and from this point on, earning potential. Refund this game (You can do that regardless of their EULA/TOS if you live in a civilized country as your rights as a buyer are encased in Law.).

    Further more if you're giving this game a positive review and you've been paid to do it, nice one, can I have a job as a shill too? If you're defending this game or its overlord of your own free will out of some weird "brand loyalty" you need to get a grip on reality. This game is trash and your brand loyalty is gaining you nothing but terrible games because you are the enabling factor in why awful content like this continues to sell and thus continues to get made. Stand up for yourself and you will get better games.

    Bethesda only cares about your money, you defending them is pointless and stupid.    … Expand
  35. GonzoBlue
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    i think this game is pretty good for bring the game into the multiplayer realm they did an amazing job bring in the feathers that most people thought would be lost in a mp version. I also think people need to give the game a chance and play it for more then 20 min then crap on it.
  36. frozenvagrant
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This is a No Man's Sky level of disaster for Bethesda.

    I've been a fan of Fallout since Fallout 1, and I wanted to like this game. The setting lends itself well to a survivor game, and the concept of being able to build structures with permanence in a shared fallout world is a wonderful dream. But a dream it will remain. If a game isn't going to have a story, it needs to have a    This is a No Man's Sky level of disaster for Bethesda.

    I've been a fan of Fallout since Fallout 1, and I wanted to like this game. The setting lends itself well to a survivor game, and the concept of being able to build structures with permanence in a shared fallout world is a wonderful dream. But a dream it will remain.

    If a game isn't going to have a story, it needs to have a compelling world and environment. If it isn't going to have a compelling world and environment, it needs to have a great story. There is no story in Fallout 76, and the limitation on building structures (and the only permanent structures are those near your CAMP deployment [UPDATE: even those structures will randomly disappear without warning, it turns out]), makes building a futile waste of time. You're better off investing time into Fallout 4 settlements. Adding to this frustration is litany of poor design choices and bugs - no push to talk, no engine update (setting is in West Virginia but you can't climb up ledges when jumping at them - even DOOM lets you do this), its a social game that limits your party to four, the graphics are mediocre for the era, server crashes aren't uncommon. I really want to say something positive about the game because I love the Fallout franchise, but this honestly feels like discovering while you still care about your significant other, they've given up on the relationship.

    This game lacks story, it lacks environment, and it comes with an unruly bucket of bugs from an outdated engine that needed to be put out to pasture after Skyrim. After the first day of playing it the only motivation I had for keeping at it was to see if it ever got compelling in its own right besides having Fallout in the title. It doesn't. This is the kind of work I'd expect, and be excited for, if it came from community modders, for free. This is not a AAA title release. Save your money for then it's 10 dollars.

    This is a Vault-Tec style social experiment at total deprivation of satisfaction.    … Expand
  37. MactoPerFuror
    Nov 18, 2018
    8
    The game runs smoothly, barring the rare odd moments when the servers falter. However it can reconnect to a new one fairly quickly without hassles. The music is unexpectedly fantastic. The gameplay is very versatile to how you want to approach it, barring some moments where doing things alone is not really the sane thing to do. The approach to PVP while having some glaring flaws, mostlyThe game runs smoothly, barring the rare odd moments when the servers falter. However it can reconnect to a new one fairly quickly without hassles. The music is unexpectedly fantastic. The gameplay is very versatile to how you want to approach it, barring some moments where doing things alone is not really the sane thing to do. The approach to PVP while having some glaring flaws, mostly does what it is designed to do and does it well. The story is very subdued with the player deciding on how to approach it, even skipping vast portions of it if so inclined. An interesting take to be sure, but makes the story feel lackluster. The most unenjoyable thing is the lack of human npc's whatsoever. When they tease you about finding someone living, makes you want it even more badly. The entire worlds vibe is thrown off by the lack of them.… Expand
  38. Hilt
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This isnt even a fallout game. Taking out everything that made it good and giving us washed out bs how is this good or fun for that matter for anyone. Worst idea they ever came up with.
  39. MoscowAndrew
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Worst Fallout game EVER. Bethesda must return to TES and bring back Fallout to Obsidian.
  40. Arrowknee
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    It's a good game for every explorer and Fallout fan out there. It's a different Fallout, but delivers what Bethesda promised it would. A massive, beautiful world to explore with friends or strangers.
  41. Gelv
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    nice full price mode
    nothing to do in the game
    its not rpg, not fps, not an interesting hybrid
    bugs are not a big problem, bethesda will fix them pretty fast, i believe
    Still its a bad game.
    Wont buy your games again, Todd
  42. tsaarts
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    Played about 20 hours now. One bad thing today is the performance and some minor bugs, but Bethesda promised to update and fix the issues. For me it is not the big of the deal. Graphics is a little bit better than it was in Fallout 4.

    If you like PvP, better play some other games today, but Bethesda promised to execute some kind of faction system and this might be interesting. Some    Played about 20 hours now. One bad thing today is the performance and some minor bugs, but Bethesda promised to update and fix the issues. For me it is not the big of the deal. Graphics is a little bit better than it was in Fallout 4.

    If you like PvP, better play some other games today, but Bethesda promised to execute some kind of faction system and this might be interesting.

    Some people say there is now story - there is story, lots of it. If you start playing this game without sniffing around and just skip everything you game will tell you - you would not understand anything there. There are many lore parts which explain almost everything happening there, why are there these kind of creatures, what faction tried to make life better in there etc. IT does feel a little bit different than FL4 because without NPC-s you do not have different choices for answering. Quest are linear but not bad. If you played FL4 with looking under every peace and rock, did every single side quest, then you will like this game. If you just go from point to point without paying attention much of the story - it is not for you.

    Game is released a little bit early. I think after few months game bugs will be fixed. Bethesda will add more content there and today it is impossible to know will they introduce NPC-s or not. But as a story goes, there are factions and it is possible to add NPC-s without mismatching the lore.    … Expand
  43. 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.
  44. Newal
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    questo gioco e' un patacchio di merda, non e' un fallout. Da priorità alla componente multiplayer che non ha senso di esistere in un gioco della serie di fallout.
  45. Kalenth
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I've been a Fallout junkie since #1. This... this isn't Fallout. I won't be spending money or time on this cash grab.
  46. Drakkhan
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Engine from Morrorwind, Buggy as hell, boring Quest, no real Story, Empty World, ugly Game, PvP not working.. What a lazy game... shame on u
  47. strobein
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Bethesda should give all the rights to their games to Obsidian Entertainment. #blacklistbethesda
  48. aenigmaxmachina
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Fallout 76 is easily the worst Fallout or Elder Scrolls game ever made. Probably also one of the worst games released this year by a AAA company. The game is nothing but go here, get/kill thing, come back grinding cycle. There is zero content. The PvP is crap. The Co-Op is crap. The building is crap because it gets destroyed every time you log out. The enemies are so easy to kill that itFallout 76 is easily the worst Fallout or Elder Scrolls game ever made. Probably also one of the worst games released this year by a AAA company. The game is nothing but go here, get/kill thing, come back grinding cycle. There is zero content. The PvP is crap. The Co-Op is crap. The building is crap because it gets destroyed every time you log out. The enemies are so easy to kill that it makes the idea of the teaming up to do something pointless. The whole game from top to bottom is just a giant waste of your time and money.… Expand
  49. Bergungsdackel
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This game is next level **** Fallout with **** trash PVP system. Deinstalled.
  50. XWXV
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Your are bastards. Stop making this crap, Bethesda, just stop.
    This is the worst game I've ever seen. Nothing will save this game, because the idea itself was crappy. Grant franchise rights to the creators of Fallout. Then, perhaps, you will not be hated so much as now. Or, at least let the creators of Fallout do the next part. The Fallout New Vegas was a really great game.
  51. Vechna
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    No PC options that have become standard, no story, no NPCs, world is boring, more bugs then a 2 dollar whore, launcher deletes game, launcher won't let you uninstall game, microtransactions, frame rate locked at 63, No STEAM.
  52. xblckdynamitex
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Absolutely terrible and hardly even playable, the problems are unending. I hope Bethesda learns from their mistakes
  53. Uxio121
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Un juego realmente malo, malo con ganas. Texturas a ULTRA de baja calidad, bugs de Fallout 4 en Fallout 76 (Un copy-paste)
  54. dexter23
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Piece of boring, weak garbage,rubbish, trash, litter, refuse, dross...................... No more
  55. hentaisavant
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    The Dark Ages of video games are here. EA has already been destroying video games for a while, unfortunately Bethesda seems to be following suit.

    I give the game a 1 because its technically functional. There is nothing I can say here that a quick youtube video wont validate me; so I leave everything up to your imagination. What an absolute way to give the middle finger to the fan base.    The Dark Ages of video games are here. EA has already been destroying video games for a while, unfortunately Bethesda seems to be following suit.

    I give the game a 1 because its technically functional. There is nothing I can say here that a quick youtube video wont validate me; so I leave everything up to your imagination. What an absolute way to give the middle finger to the fan base.

    If it weren't for Activision/Blizzard with the most jaw dropping, "hold my beer" moment in PC gaming with the whole Diablo to phone insult Bethesda would be center stage in the sh*t pit right now.    … Expand
  56. RehabJip
    Nov 18, 2018
    5
    Not exactly a full fledged Fallout RPG nor a fully developed Survival MMO. This game has serious identity issues. Now I do not think it is complete garbage and have actually had some fun playing it but it is not what anyone was expecting and does not live up to the hype that Todd Howard and Pete Hines were generating since the4 game announcement at E3.

    A Lot of the bugs from BETA have    Not exactly a full fledged Fallout RPG nor a fully developed Survival MMO. This game has serious identity issues. Now I do not think it is complete garbage and have actually had some fun playing it but it is not what anyone was expecting and does not live up to the hype that Todd Howard and Pete Hines were generating since the4 game announcement at E3.

    A Lot of the bugs from BETA have been "fixed" (if locking the FPS to 63 is fixing a seemingly large issues with game physics). That being said there are still plenty of bugs and glitches I have come across in my gameplay.

    If you are a Fallout True Believer than you might get a few hour of enjoyment out of this game just because it adds some more lore and cool stuff to look at into the Fallout universe but anyone looking for a generally good gameplay experience and does not really identify with the Fallout brand will be sorely disappointed.    … Expand
  57. Aidan8800
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This game takes all of my least favorite elements from Fallout 4 and turns it into a $60 game. Brain rotting scavenging gameplay loop? Check. Cookie cutter quest design? Check. Poor writing? Check. Breaks the lore? Check.
  58. Jack3345
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    This game doesn't feel like an instalment of the Fallout franchise. It feels like a Fallout-themed version of Minecraft.

    Not only is Fallout 76 unrecognisable in its current state, but the good elements of Fallout are abandoned, and the worst parts enhanced; yes, the world is sprawling and verdant, but it feels... empty. You can set off to the most remote parts of the map, exploring    This game doesn't feel like an instalment of the Fallout franchise. It feels like a Fallout-themed version of Minecraft.

    Not only is Fallout 76 unrecognisable in its current state, but the good elements of Fallout are abandoned, and the worst parts enhanced; yes, the world is sprawling and verdant, but it feels... empty.

    You can set off to the most remote parts of the map, exploring the lavish beauty of the Appalachian landscape, and you'll encounter nothing but endless waves of braindead, belligerent Scorched; hostile on sight, they offer no dialogue, simply muttering unintelligibly and proceeding to put up the most meagre of fights. It's hard to feel challenged when your opponent dies in one or two shots.

    The events you can participate in with other players are more of the same — go to the location, receive some spiel from a robot or radio signal about an area under attack, and then fight off waves of enemies, and receive some caps and mediocre loot. Is that the best this game has to offer?

    Plus the respawn is INSANE. You can kill an enemy, wait 30 seconds, and watch as your foe reanimates in front of your very eyes. Immersion-breaking maybe, but what's worse is that it often makes looting large areas considerably difficult — and not the fun, challenging sort of "difficult", but the tedious kind. It shouldn't feel like a chore.

    In summary, if you played Fallout 4 and thought "man, what this game needs is more Raiders to attack me on sight, even less of a storyline, no human NPCs or communities, and guns that break", then boy do I have the game for you!    … Expand
  59. Clevery
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    The only thing that can be distinguished from the advantages of this game is a quite good open world by sight. In all other respects - no comments.

    I'm very sorry for that, but it's truly unplayable.
  60. F00berChu
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    There are too many problems with this "game" to list in just one post, so read through points others have made for most issues with this "product".

    I'll just add that the one thing this game had going for it was the multiplayer aspect, and it just didn't work out. The single most common defense for this game was that "it's fun with friends!" but anything is fun with right friends! If    There are too many problems with this "game" to list in just one post, so read through points others have made for most issues with this "product".

    I'll just add that the one thing this game had going for it was the multiplayer aspect, and it just didn't work out.

    The single most common defense for this game was that "it's fun with friends!" but anything is fun with right friends! If something is only fun with friends that's not point for the games benefit, but your friends, you may as well be playing spin-the-bottle, heck, that would be so much better than this "game".

    There are hardly anyone to be found playing the multiplayer, so if you do not have bunch of friend ready to drop everything and jump into the game with you 100% of the time you will not be having good time.    … Expand
  61. Battlestump
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This game is flaming garbage, and mabye that's being too generous. It is so clearly unfinished, and hands down the buggiest game I've ever played. It's lacking any sort of identity at all and it still using the broken engine form morrowind. How can a triple A title be so bugged that they had to cap the frame rates to avoid people breaking the engine and speed hacking? Todd Howard should beThis game is flaming garbage, and mabye that's being too generous. It is so clearly unfinished, and hands down the buggiest game I've ever played. It's lacking any sort of identity at all and it still using the broken engine form morrowind. How can a triple A title be so bugged that they had to cap the frame rates to avoid people breaking the engine and speed hacking? Todd Howard should be ashamed if himself, don't give these clowns your money… Expand
  62. BigAngryWolf
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    All of you who just gave 0 or 1 points are just little kids who cries even when F4 was release bcs they made a game which 80% of people like but these 20% just have to go and write a angry revue. You cant make MMO game like SP. So stop crying like little kitty no one rly cares of your depression bcs you don't like game they made.
  63. lolqop
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Bad game, absolutely bad game. Bethesda made another unFallout game for no one.
  64. argelvaako
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    No human NPC's, Devs said there wouldnt be a need for any because of human players but there's only 20 limit for human players on a server and they are all questing or trying to murder you somehow, i murdered AFK people every chance i got but wasted all my weapons and got nothing from it, idk why PVP is even added if there's no reward other than some little junk. Questing was boring, andNo human NPC's, Devs said there wouldnt be a need for any because of human players but there's only 20 limit for human players on a server and they are all questing or trying to murder you somehow, i murdered AFK people every chance i got but wasted all my weapons and got nothing from it, idk why PVP is even added if there's no reward other than some little junk. Questing was boring, and the enemies were just scorched ghouls, I honestly think if they added humans it might of been a better game experience that way you could shoot raiders or help settlements. A big thing i hated was if you hit someone to initiate a PVP battle they would walk back pull out a shot gun and simply head shot you all the while you shoot them doing little damage that they just stimpak their health. and you wasted all teh bullets and time. Things I expected, Larger servers like RUST, PVP like rust. Human NPC's everywhere giving quest everything. I don't even know what the point of launching a nuclear missile would be if you don't even kill anything with it, since theres few players and no npc's. Good job you killed the rad roaches in that town. I'm giving it a 0 because that's exactly what it is, I refunded it and it's garbage, Fallout failed miserably not an MMO not fun.… Expand
  65. Throwmatic
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Created an account just to rate this pile of trash

    This is one of the worst games i've ever played so far: the map is enormous but it's just empty and lifeless; i get it that bethesda wanted to make it so that you could build almost wherever you wanted but come on there are MILES between locations and there is nothing between them The lack of NPCs was intriguing at first, came out    Created an account just to rate this pile of trash

    This is one of the worst games i've ever played so far: the map is enormous but it's just empty and lifeless; i get it that bethesda wanted to make it so that you could build almost wherever you wanted but come on there are MILES between locations and there is nothing between them

    The lack of NPCs was intriguing at first, came out disappointing when i actually played the game
    it just makes the world feel more dead than what it already is with hostile mobs not talking at all (mumbling and single word phrases don't count + super mutants' phrases have been recycled from fallout 4 with different voicing)

    It's a buggy mess of a game:
    the token quest in grafton STILL HASN'T BEEN FIXED AFTER 4 WEEKS
    textures not loading, vertibots doing that loud banging noise that can be heard throughout the entirety of the map, mobs disappearing and reappearing with a T pose you name it

    I want my time and money back    … Expand
  66. XivaKnight
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    This game has everything wrong with an MMO, Everything wrong with a Crafting Survival, and everything wrong with a Bethesda game, and absolutely no redeeming qualities.

    Every aspect of this game fails at some form. You cannot make your own faction. You can barely make your own team. Building is a waste of time, SETTLEMENTS are a waste of time, because anything outside your camp is going    This game has everything wrong with an MMO, Everything wrong with a Crafting Survival, and everything wrong with a Bethesda game, and absolutely no redeeming qualities.

    Every aspect of this game fails at some form. You cannot make your own faction. You can barely make your own team. Building is a waste of time, SETTLEMENTS are a waste of time, because anything outside your camp is going to be gone the moment you log out, because there isn't a way to stay on a the same server. Low level enemies are dead before you even take enough damage for a stimpack, and high level enemies are just stat checks, where Ammo count and stimpack count are a stat.

    The scorchbeast, the most powerful enemy in the game, is not a challenge. It is literally impossible to dodge any attack a scorchbeast makes, and it's health pool is huge, so it's just a war of attrition to see who can pour enough damage on first    … Expand
  67. bojanglez
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    The game really shines when played with friends. Can't wait for private servers and mods but in the meantime it's just a ton of fun to explore the fallout world with a buddy or two. But when friends aren't online it's a good time take in all the story details included in the environment and build up your base a little so you can show it off when the log on.

    If you're a long time    The game really shines when played with friends. Can't wait for private servers and mods but in the meantime it's just a ton of fun to explore the fallout world with a buddy or two. But when friends aren't online it's a good time take in all the story details included in the environment and build up your base a little so you can show it off when the log on.

    If you're a long time Fallout fan, prepare to miss the colorful (and killable) NPCs. Points are deducted for not coming up a better solution than simply having them all be long-dead. However, some of those points are returned for the intrigue of sharing the world with other living players which can add real tension. It turns out tracking a bounty (a player who has invited pvp upon themselves by killing someone who did not fight back) across the scorched landscape with a sniper rifle can be quite exhilarating.    … Expand
  68. violetbuds
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Fullprice game Fallot 4 without plot in empty and small world. Nice, Todd!.. 1/10.
  69. spektra
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Unfinished, Rushed attempt to cash in on the Fallout franchise. Bethesda should have taken more time before releasing.
  70. DaTruf
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Pathetic cash grab poorly hidden in a lazy re-skin on Fallout 4, almost no improvement yet all the same bugs and then some!
    So if you like games that is more of a joke with its bugs and useless gameplay then you will love this game!
  71. TheCheezyPie
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    I can't understand those old farts who yell: Fallout 4 was better, Fallout: New Vegas was better etc. I have another offer: Let's live in caves, if it's too cold, you can lay on cold floor, you can write on walls, you can hunt elephants... It used to be better 300000 years ago. Now about Fallout 76: it's cool :)
  72. Avetus
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Basically Dayz but less fun with more bugs.

    I've played Fallout games since the original and I have to say "disappointing" comes to mind on this one. I didn't expect much, since multiplayer and Fallout dont belong in the same sentence, but this is even worse than I was prepared for. Some key issues that I feel stand out: 1. The game is a bug riddled mess. The engine is outdated    Basically Dayz but less fun with more bugs.

    I've played Fallout games since the original and I have to say "disappointing" comes to mind on this one. I didn't expect much, since multiplayer and Fallout dont belong in the same sentence, but this is even worse than I was prepared for. Some key issues that I feel stand out:

    1. The game is a bug riddled mess. The engine is outdated and is an unholy frankenstein-ian monster cobbled together that was never meant to do what Bethesda is trying to make it do. Frankly, its not good at anything. Its neither pretty, nor plays smoothly, nor is the combat engaging or fun. Enemies warp around and get stuck on objects and terrain constantly and you'll miss shots constantly even when aiming center of mass because the game has just decided you shouldn't be able to win. Its unacceptable for a "AAA" quality game studio to still be using this garbage. Stop.

    2. Your stash, the ONLY place you can store items, is limited to 400 lbs of equip. That may sound like a lot, but you'll fill it within a couple hours of gameplay. The sheer amount of junk needed to accomplish any amount of crafting will fill it up and leave you no space left for ammo, armor, weapons, meds, food, or anything else. Its unacceptable. The ENTIRE point of Bethesda-style sandbox RPG's is "grab everything" and they've broken that. I'm stunned.

    3. Base building, which is supposed to be one of the big draws of the game, is busted. Because of the small build area, and a ridiculously low cap on the size of your base, you'll never accomplish anything interesting. Just like the stash, its too limited in scope to matter. You'll wind up building 4 walls and a roof and put your stash inside and never visit it again. Also, bugged to **** as usual.

    4. The overhauled leveling/perk system is boring and anemic. I feel no more powerful at 25 than I did at 1. Perks are all mostly meaningless and give some insignificant bonus to a very specific situation that wont help you at all.

    5. Enemies are either so overwhelmingly powerful you cannot possibly face them (I suppose intended to be attacked as part of a group, lol more on that later) or so weak you could knock them over with a feather.

    6. The multiplayer. The map is so huge you'll never meet anyone doing the same thing you are or at your level. You aren't going to find people interested in grouping because FALLOUT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY and nobody wants to do it. Its a multiplayer single player game.

    7. PVP doesn't matter. Theres no reason to do it. You can "duel" by shooting another person and if they shoot back you fight. Man, what a design.

    8. Story doesn't exist. I wrote better stories in my 5th grade english class. There are no npc's, no dialogue, just a big open empty world for you to explore to find more bugs.

    If you love love love Fallout and just have to experience it, go into it prepared to be let down. I've played for 4 days now and I'd rather be playing Red Dead 2, an actual open world game that doesn't blow.    … Expand
  73. sandcube
    Nov 18, 2018
    5
    I've always wanted an online Fallout game but not like this. I've never seen a game so bugged and glitchy like Fallout 76, whether it would be single player game or multiplayer. There's simply no excuse for launching a game like this from a huge developer and call it an AAA game.

    After playing around 50 hours and reaching lvl 72 I found out there's no end-game content other than    I've always wanted an online Fallout game but not like this. I've never seen a game so bugged and glitchy like Fallout 76, whether it would be single player game or multiplayer. There's simply no excuse for launching a game like this from a huge developer and call it an AAA game.

    After playing around 50 hours and reaching lvl 72 I found out there's no end-game content other than launching nukes. Which you can't really do as a single player because launch codes have 1 week expiration date (WAT!?).

    Then there's PvP. Oh god, where do I start with PvP... Let's just say every single bit of it is broken and needs revamp,. Whether it's slap system which encourages griefing, wanted system that cuts you off from the rest of the players until one of them kills you, workshop where your own turrets start attacking you if you're wanted and where players can infinitely contest due to slap system, and finally Hunter/Hunted mode which has no cross-server matchmaking so good luck finding 4 players willing to PvP in a 20 player server. Only found 1 match in 5 days now.

    I'm giving it a 5 and that's only because I love Fallout franchise and don't want it to die like Mass Effect: Andromeda did. I'd give half that in another case.    … Expand
  74. D45T4N
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This game is just an ultimate sh*t: sh*tty graphics, sh*tty optimization, sh*tty fetch quests, sh*tty online code, sh*tty cheater protection, sh*tty shooting, sh*tty scavenger-like gameplay, the sh*ttiest animations in the world. If you wanna support Bethesda, just buy a Skyrim once again instead of that sh*t.
  75. m0rgi0n
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    As a big fan of Fallout series I have decided to buy this game as soon as Bethesda announced the title, so I didn´t read any critic or opinion about it.After spending a few hours in it (I´m level 15 right now) I have entered in metacritic to see this low score. 3.0? Really?

    I can´t understand it, I´m reading the low score reviews and some of them looks like they didn´t play the same    As a big fan of Fallout series I have decided to buy this game as soon as Bethesda announced the title, so I didn´t read any critic or opinion about it.After spending a few hours in it (I´m level 15 right now) I have entered in metacritic to see this low score. 3.0? Really?

    I can´t understand it, I´m reading the low score reviews and some of them looks like they didn´t play the same game as me.

    - The multiplayer in game is not the core, is just an extra. I´m playing Fallout 76 as it was Fallout 3 or 4 and enjoying been lost in the map, or explring a ruined mansion.
    - Bugs? Surely it will have, but I didnt find them at the moment, maybe a dragon flying backside?
    - I really love the building system.
    - The public events are funny, this is a good idea taken from games like "The Division", as I said it´s an extra to the game.
    - The music and sounds are, as usual in Bethesda games, wonderful.
    - The microtransactions are only for useless aesthetic crap. So, if you want it is your decision.
    - The only thing I don´t feel comfortable with is the UI, maybe too orientated to console users.

    I don´t try to stop the internet hating machine, I just want to avoid you missing this game if you like previous fallout games.    … Expand
  76. decoyninja
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    The brigading here is crazy. I've enjoyed the beta and have been playing nightly since the launch in CO-OP. The story is interesting, following the trail of someone from your vault and learning about the final days of various groups pre and post the nuclear fallout. When people say there aren't any NPCs, they either don't know what they are talking about or they mean their aren't liveThe brigading here is crazy. I've enjoyed the beta and have been playing nightly since the launch in CO-OP. The story is interesting, following the trail of someone from your vault and learning about the final days of various groups pre and post the nuclear fallout. When people say there aren't any NPCs, they either don't know what they are talking about or they mean their aren't live human quest-givers. You will encounter many NPCs and help them along or take the traditional steps of appeasing them.

    Current bugs involve the rare quest tracking issue, encountered it once and fixed via relog. Main annoyance is that the game is fussy about moving bases from one location to another when it comes to transferring a structure to unlevel ground. This is still the most expansive base-building has been in this franchise.

    I love that the game is an ongoing, online effort for reasons of keeping it live and updated with fixes and improvements. Combined with future modding and 76 has the potential to be the most supported and updated and patched game Bethesda has ever released. I look forward to updates..    … Expand
  77. Randomadmiral
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    This is not a good game! Poorly optimized and buggy with clunky controls and poor graphics it makes it abundantly clear that this is just a clone of fallout 4 with most of it´s systems stripped out. The worldbuilding that let us ignore most bugs in other bethesda games is removed in favor of multiplayer and the world is as empty as it is boring. Neither a good game technically or storywiseThis is not a good game! Poorly optimized and buggy with clunky controls and poor graphics it makes it abundantly clear that this is just a clone of fallout 4 with most of it´s systems stripped out. The worldbuilding that let us ignore most bugs in other bethesda games is removed in favor of multiplayer and the world is as empty as it is boring. Neither a good game technically or storywise this is just shoveled onto the growing pile of multiplayer survival games that failed to innovate in the genre or to engage players. The fact that all of the systems for extensive monetization are present and polished while the game itself is so lacking indicates that the developers wanted a quick cash grab in the "games as a service" and lootbox era.… Expand
  78. Calif
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    En soit, je ne trouve pas que Fallout 76 soit " un mauvais jeu ". Certe il a énormément de défauts mais il ne faut pas oublié qu'il est multijoueurs et que d'autres mises a jours arriverons par la suite. Certaines personnes ce plaignent de l'absence de PNJ(s) mais je trouve pas que cela soit un problème bien au contraire ! A mon avis 25ans après la chute de bombes atomiques il n'y auraiEn soit, je ne trouve pas que Fallout 76 soit " un mauvais jeu ". Certe il a énormément de défauts mais il ne faut pas oublié qu'il est multijoueurs et que d'autres mises a jours arriverons par la suite. Certaines personnes ce plaignent de l'absence de PNJ(s) mais je trouve pas que cela soit un problème bien au contraire ! A mon avis 25ans après la chute de bombes atomiques il n'y aurai pas grand monde. Celon moi cela rajoute une atmosphère froide au jeu que j'apprécie beaucoup. L'impression de ce sentir seul au monde après qu'une monde ai décimé tout le monde. Le coté vide dont tout le monde ce plaint et pour moi proche de ce que cela serai en réalité. De plus les PNJ(s) sont quand même présent par l'intermédiaire de Robots avec leurs propres dialogues. Alors pourquoi ne mettre que 6 au final si je n'en pas pas vraiment de mal ? Tout simplement car je suis mitigé. Je suis rassuré sur certains points mais un peu inquiet sur d'autres. En effet j'avais très peur a cause du multijoueur que le jeu ce transforme en vulgaires GTA ONLINE avec des joueurs " Cancers " voulant a tout prix vous tuer pour looter votre stuff. Heureusement rien de tout ca. Le Pvp jugé médiocre pour certains et parfait pour un joueur comme moi. Dommage que le jeu soit en soit assez répétitif. Aller chercher un mission, entrer dans un batiment remplis de " Calcinées " ou de " Goules " prendre un objet et ressortir chercher une autre mission. Encore heureux que les quelques évenements apparaissant aux 4 coins de la map sont là pour donner un peu de peps. Sans oublier les HitsBoxs un peu foireuses et l'argents très compliqué a avoir en jeu !… Expand
  79. 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
  80. 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
  81. Hazarb
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    All we wanted was an open-world RPG where choices mattered. All we wanted was a game like Fallout 3 or New Vegas.

    Instead, you gave us the dumbed down, linear and boring garbage that was Fallout 4. Then, instead of giving the fans what they want for the next game, you doubled down and decided to give us an even more dumbed down, linear and boring game that is Fallout 76. The    All we wanted was an open-world RPG where choices mattered. All we wanted was a game like Fallout 3 or New Vegas.

    Instead, you gave us the dumbed down, linear and boring garbage that was Fallout 4.

    Then, instead of giving the fans what they want for the next game, you doubled down and decided to give us an even more dumbed down, linear and boring game that is Fallout 76.

    The resources wasted on this game are truly tragic, hope it was worth it for the micro-transaction money.    … Expand
  82. DGPony
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    Three dead giveaways of why this game screams 'shameless cash grab':

    1. Relies heavily on borrowed assets from other games. Mostly Fallout 4, (although scorchbeasts remind me a lot of Skyrim's dragons >_< ). 2. No npc's means first and foremost a huge cut in production costs: no voice overs from contracted famous people, no motion capturing for their animations, no elaborate set    Three dead giveaways of why this game screams 'shameless cash grab':

    1. Relies heavily on borrowed assets from other games. Mostly Fallout 4, (although scorchbeasts remind me a lot of Skyrim's dragons >_< ).

    2. No npc's means first and foremost a huge cut in production costs: no voice overs from contracted famous people, no motion capturing for their animations, no elaborate set dressing like homes and towns for them to live in, less money needed for writing compelling narrative, etc.

    3. Preorder to 'beta' (read: stress test for a very short while). AAA developers seriously need to stop doing that. The whole 'make preordering appealing for various reasons' strategy is about one thing only: making more money at a time when a product hasn't been held up to public scrutiny yet. For indy developers and start-ups, pre-ordering (based on sufficient information) is a great idea to fund new projects, but for AAA devs it's really bad practice and commonly used to sell subpar products solely based on their reputation and with very little information to go on.

    I think this is a new low for Bethesda. I loved and played their games to bits since Morrowind, and I modded and cared for them, but I've seen inspired writing and immersive storytelling go down the drain since Oblivion (Obsidian's FO:NV being the only exception), like their ideas on how to run and control their games have take a turn for the worse with Creation Clubs and paid mods.

    It saddens me as it seems they don't even understand the core aspects of what used to make their games so special anymore. The Fallout IP is turning into a parody of itself, rather than the refreshing parody of reality that it used to represent.    … Expand
  83. adryanmihai
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    FO76 is a rush to release cashgrab in order to capitalize on the popular survival format.

    Bethesda, a multi-billion dollar company, is treating FO76 development like some sort of indie-game and plans to release it to market incomplete and full of bugs. The community that they have relied on to repair all of there games in the past, won't be able to release mods for at least another    FO76 is a rush to release cashgrab in order to capitalize on the popular survival format.

    Bethesda, a multi-billion dollar company, is treating FO76 development like some sort of indie-game and plans to release it to market incomplete and full of bugs. The community that they have relied on to repair all of there games in the past, won't be able to release mods for at least another year.

    The gameplay itself plays nothing like Fallout, they are just trying to use a familiar IP to appeal to their Fanbase -a fanbase that wants an offline single-player open world game. Worse yet, they are using an engine that was never built for online-play and it has has some easily exploitable netcode.

    Do yourself a favor and avoid this messy garbage cash grab.    … Expand
  84. MacK2020
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I bought this game in good nature and like many others, was sorely let down.
    It's an aged engine cash-grab, nothing more.
    The reason why they didn't release this game on Steam: Refunds.
  85. SpookyFX
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    The game is not good (too many bugs and the interface and game design for quality of life is very bad) but it is the players in the game right now that really kill the fun. I will try the game again in a year maybe it will be better.
  86. Daversst
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    co-op really? lonely exploration of the world? not this time. The worst part that was created.and this price?
  87. monkeywrath
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    hahahahahahahahah iII take this joke. now whens the reaI agme comming out?
  88. Vasot
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    WORSE FALLOUT I HAVE EVER PLAYED !! Stupid multiplayer game with ugly dated graphics with empty environments and with a boring backbone story that is told by tapes. You can tell easy that this is a cash grab.
  89. Tom_Rokzo
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Бетесда, может вы уже начнете делать РОЛЕВЫЕ игры, которых от вас и ждут? Зачем вы угробили серию фаллаут, за что, блин?! Это что, такая зависть что ли была. Было бы у вас хоть какое-то уважение к игрокам, дали бы сделать игру серии обсидиану, ан нет, вы и с ними посрались. Моды за деньги, отвратительные поделки, угробленная РПГ в ваших Г. Позор!Бетесда, может вы уже начнете делать РОЛЕВЫЕ игры, которых от вас и ждут? Зачем вы угробили серию фаллаут, за что, блин?! Это что, такая зависть что ли была. Было бы у вас хоть какое-то уважение к игрокам, дали бы сделать игру серии обсидиану, ан нет, вы и с ними посрались. Моды за деньги, отвратительные поделки, угробленная РПГ в ваших Г. Позор!
  90. Ellisy
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I was sold on the awesome setting of the Fallout universe. Then Fo76 just crapped all over it. This is THE biggest waste of money I can ever recall spending money on and I purchased Battlecruiser 3000AD.

    *No story
    *Terrible enemy AI
    *Terrible gun play
    *Single player engine modified for MP with all the Bethesda bugs

    Avoid this like the plague.
  91. ThePeeeeet
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This is the worst fallout I have ever played, bethesda should be ashamed to publish such a ****
    Even 35 euros were too expensive for such a garbage.
    I am disappointed and after 8 levels I do not feel like playing anymore. The implementation is a disaster, the graphics and the engine are howling! Not to mention that the Virginia just feels dead. The game is not fun for me, even in a    This is the worst fallout I have ever played, bethesda should be ashamed to publish such a ****
    Even 35 euros were too expensive for such a garbage.
    I am disappointed and after 8 levels I do not feel like playing anymore.
    The implementation is a disaster, the graphics and the engine are howling!
    Not to mention that the Virginia just feels dead.
    The game is not fun for me, even in a group it is boring!

    And I do not even start from the tree menu.    … Expand
  92. Jrud05
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This is one of the most boring games I have ever played. No NPCs, no supply lines, just a stripped down version of Fallout 4. Lucky for Bethesda, they didn’t release on Steam or I’d have gotten a refund.
  93. AnthriX
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Garbage in a box happens when the developers focus on money instead of what the players want. This is a mighty fine example of a steamy one.
  94. Sickleadzdk
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    First of all i wanna start by saying that i have a master as 3D Game Artist, and i have my own 3D Studio.

    For years i have been a big fan of Bethesda and most say that i am rather Shocked of their latest Release, and here is my list of the absolute Chaos i went through playing my 30 hours Fallout 76 - i started struggling with the resolution of the game i have a 37" Monitor, and when    First of all i wanna start by saying that i have a master as 3D Game Artist, and i have my own 3D Studio.

    For years i have been a big fan of Bethesda and most say that i am rather Shocked of their latest Release, and here is my list of the absolute Chaos i went through playing my 30 hours Fallout 76

    - i started struggling with the resolution of the game i have a 37" Monitor, and when i started the game it kept going to Borderless Window Mode with 1920x1080, when i was aiming for a Locked Fullscren mode with 2560x1600, it took me proberly and hour before it suddenly worked... What a start...

    While roaming through the first 45 min of the world, i met another player and we decided to run together to gain some experience killing things. We then encountered a pack of Mongrel dogs, and we started fighting these, and suddenly after i shot one of them, it went crazy (the ragdoll of the Mongrel i suppose it was) went to the air stretching across the whole map like something i have never seen before, just flying around, and after a while it happend to the rest of the pack, and it ended up killing us both because we could not hit them as they where stretching across the under the terrain, we were like, what in the bloody hell was that.. and this i just the top of the iceberg.

    so let me short it down alittle.

    - AI is stupid and buggy as hell, you can trap them easy in the environment and kill them.

    - Scorched Model and Animation is absolutely Hideous it looks and feels like something from a 2000 Game... COME ON!!!!!, and same goes to alot of the other creatures!

    - Environment Design is SOULLESS, it just feels like they had to finish this game in a hurry and had absolutely no love for the environment, i've seen better designers on youtube creating speed terrain designs in Unreal and Unity Engines.

    - Textures, ohh the textures.. in many areas i encountered Flickering Textures which was so amazingly annoying to look at and so low res, and also encountered the whole Skymap flickering to Black.

    - Environment props are the same as fallout 4 plus some new ones which looks horrible too.

    - Crazy Framerate drops obviously because of the lack of optimization...!!

    - Too much Terrain, huge lack of city / industrial environments.. West Virginia? No Virginia, fallout i think had a great variation the big City and the wasteland, this is just Bullsh*t..

    Bethesda just didn't do it this time, i am sorry and very sorry for all the people who had their hype up for this, what an absolutely disappointment, i do NOT recommend people paying for this.

    i only give them 2 in rating for the online part, which actually seem to work rather great, but nothing else worked this time, good luck bethesda cleaning up this mess.    … Expand
  95. spiderjournal
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    If you loved Fallout 4, particularly Survival Mode, this is basically that on a new map. It has plenty of content to keep a hardcore fan busy but very little of the social science (ethics and consequences) or strong characters that made previous Fallout games so memorable.

    The good: -Big world to explore. Can be atmospheric and beautiful. Fun locations. Good options for varied    If you loved Fallout 4, particularly Survival Mode, this is basically that on a new map. It has plenty of content to keep a hardcore fan busy but very little of the social science (ethics and consequences) or strong characters that made previous Fallout games so memorable.

    The good:
    -Big world to explore. Can be atmospheric and beautiful. Fun locations. Good options for varied difficulty levels (after leaving the facile starting areas)
    -Translates some of Fallout 4 Survival Mode features into a more reasonable difficulty. Interesting environmental pressures at the best of times.
    -Decent graphics with some shining visual moments. Excellent sound and music. Good acting on voice logs and humanoid monsters.
    -Coop can be super fun.

    The Bad:
    -Fabulously tedious interface that gets worse the longer you play. Inventory menus were slow and unintuitive in every previous title, but two were turn based and the realtime games at least paused when you went to inventory! The system is archaic and nearly unworkable when monsters spawn around you in real time. Building and crafting menus are one step forward, two steps back from Fallout 4. The menus in general are an unholy marriage of PC complexity and Console button saving. All of the unfun housekeeping and inventory repacking takes waaaaaaay longer than it should because of these issues.
    -Graphics are uneven. Some glitches. Some ugly areas.
    -Shallow quests. Few NPCs. No player dialogue.
    -Combat is clunky and repetitive. Enemies are glitchy and dumb.
    -PVP is uncommon, pointless, unbalanced, and a huge immersion break. PvP usually starts by accident and neither side has a clear win condition. When a member of my party accidentally murdered another player, I was able to kick him from the party, execute him for the bounty, and then he rejoined the party a few seconds later. What is the point? I'd prefer separate PVP and PVE servers as opposed to the hybrid system presented here.

    TL;DR: this is and feels like a really big Fallout 4 mod. If that appeals to you, you'll have many hours of fun. If you're on the fence, wait a year and see what direction this game takes with updates and DLC. With a few shake-ups, it could be memorable. Right now, it's a rough-around-the-edges niche product pretending to be a general audience action game.    … Expand
  96. Etraeus
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This is an absolutely unacceptable excuse for a 2018 open world RPG game. When I compare it to Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014!!) I am just disgusted. Not even talking about Witcher 3, this is a complete disaster. Technical issues, the graphics just make want to puke and the worst of that... the clumsiness. It just feels incredibly clumsy movement and UI wise. The implementation of theThis is an absolutely unacceptable excuse for a 2018 open world RPG game. When I compare it to Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014!!) I am just disgusted. Not even talking about Witcher 3, this is a complete disaster. Technical issues, the graphics just make want to puke and the worst of that... the clumsiness. It just feels incredibly clumsy movement and UI wise. The implementation of the social aspect is just ridiculous, it lacks logic and intuition, Also, microtransaction. At that point it should be clear what type of game is this.

    I urge everyone not to buy this. We deserve better than this.    … Expand
  97. 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
  98. mrDecoy
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Very many bugs, the whole feeling of the game spoils !!!
    Why was it necessary to introduce pvp if it is only by agreement of the parties?
  99. LegendarySlayer
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    Fallout 76 ein großer Hype aber es wirkt eher als wäre es eine Mod zu Fallout 4...
    Da ich Fallout 4 gespielt habe, mit allen DLC´s und es echt gut fand und Stunden damit verbrachte habe tut mir Fallout 76 echt weh.
    Es ist kein generell schlechtes Spiel, aber es setzt nichts so wirklich zu 100% um. Die Performance ist katastrophal...selbst Fallout 4 lief flüssiger...warum hat es einen    Fallout 76 ein großer Hype aber es wirkt eher als wäre es eine Mod zu Fallout 4...
    Da ich Fallout 4 gespielt habe, mit allen DLC´s und es echt gut fand und Stunden damit verbrachte habe tut mir Fallout 76 echt weh.

    Es ist kein generell schlechtes Spiel, aber es setzt nichts so wirklich zu 100% um. Die Performance ist katastrophal...selbst Fallout 4 lief flüssiger...warum hat es einen 60 FPS Lock? Ich habe Framedrops immer wieder mal geht es runter auf ca. 35 Fps und das mit einem Ryzen 2700x und einer GTX 1080 in FHD, das sollte selbst auf ultra settings nicht passieren.

    Survival...naja das man Essen und Trinken muss und seine Waffen reparieren zu müssen...das kann man nicht wirklich Survival nennen.

    Online Multiplayer...entweder man spielt mit Freunden im Team oder man sieht außer den Pünktchen auf der Karte stundenlang keinen Spieler. Wenn man doch mal einen sieht will er entweder PvP oder eben ein Team eröffnen für seine Quests leichter zu gestalten...wow super. Unterhalten kann man sich mit fast niemandem, die meisten wollen es nicht und wenn dann können die "Mitspieler" kein Englisch...
    Zudem es mir so vorkommt als würden die NPC plötzlich stärker nur weil ein hoher Spieler in der Nähe ist...hatte es mehrmals das Supermutanten im gleichen Gebäude erst Lvl 5 (anfangs mein Level) und dann plötzlich Level 14 waren (es war eine andere Gruppe im selben Questgebiet) und ich dann nichts mehr tun konnte außer weg laufen.

    Camp bauen...ist eigentlich großteils alles wie bei Fallout 4...nur das die Materialien teils seltener sind.

    Wenn man es mit Freunden spielen kann macht es schon Spaß, selbst alleine kann man eigentlich alles erledigen, aber es ist recht eintönig alleine...

    Fazit: Ein neues Fallout mit einem Koop für bis 4 Spieler hätte meines Erachtens völlig ausgereicht, denn gerade das was an Online Survival Spielen interessant ist fehlt hier oder ist eingegrenzt.

    60€ ist es nicht wert, da gibt es rein mechanisch kostenfreie Titel die es besser machen.    … Expand
  100. Doomsauce
    Nov 18, 2018
    5
    Fallout 76 is not the 1 out of 10(fan boys throwing a tantrum) nor the 10/10(Paid Shills) people that are giving it but it is an extremely, painfully mediocre game, a solid 5-6/10.

    Pros - It's fallout, there's endless content and exploration. It's fun to just mess around with if you're just looking for a casual game to kill some time. The gunplay is fun and so is scavenging. Cons    Fallout 76 is not the 1 out of 10(fan boys throwing a tantrum) nor the 10/10(Paid Shills) people that are giving it but it is an extremely, painfully mediocre game, a solid 5-6/10.

    Pros - It's fallout, there's endless content and exploration. It's fun to just mess around with if you're just looking for a casual game to kill some time. The gunplay is fun and so is scavenging.

    Cons - It lacks all the character of a real fallout game while replacing it with nothing.
    -No non-robot NPCs, ZERO, NONE
    -Quests are all given by holotapes or notes.
    -Little to no interaction with others unless you have friends, might as well be solo player +1.
    -Typical fallout bugs
    -Player Levels are almost meaningless except for equipping gear, I killed a lvl 40 mob at lvl 10.
    -No real vendors or traders to unload loot, those that exist have very limited trade both buying and selling.
    -No Followers
    -No Main cities or hubs
    -No customization/mods

    Honestly this game had potential, but it feels like some major corners were cut and it was released on a deadline rather than when it was complete. It just feels like a game in beta through and through. There is just not a single thing above average in this entire game while there is more than enough to complain about.

    I would gladly pay $15 for this game, but $60 is too much which is why I'm asking for a refund.    … Expand
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Metascore
52

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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