Fallout 76

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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 6754 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 379 out of 6754
  3. Negative: 4,869 out of 6754
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  1. still_guns
    Nov 23, 2018
    3
    I really wanted to love this game. As such, I can only 'like' it. I've wanted a multiplayer Fallout game for some time now, but 76 is not the answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Why is it not allowing me to hitt submit    … Expand
  11. strangefruit
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    I haven't found standard PvP much fun. A proper fight between players basically requires that they both agree to combat: if you shoot someone, they'll take nearly no damage unless and until they return fire. This isn't a bad concept because it means less griefing, but it also means no real ambushing or surprise attacks: it's more of a pistols at dawn arrangement. There's also little in theI haven't found standard PvP much fun. A proper fight between players basically requires that they both agree to combat: if you shoot someone, they'll take nearly no damage unless and until they return fire. This isn't a bad concept because it means less griefing, but it also means no real ambushing or surprise attacks: it's more of a pistols at dawn arrangement. There's also little in the way of stakes, as killing someone only lets you collect their junk, not their weapons, ammo, or other gear. There are no PvP or PvE-only servers—there's no server browser at all—and so this compromise to include PvP but make sure it's not too deadly or damaging results in making fights between players feel toothless, and even pointless.… Expand
  12. 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
  13. Northwain
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    This is basically Fallout 4 but with no story, no NPCs, no side quests, no side activities, no mod support, PvP that made sense in theory but in practice is utterly awful and has real-life players that don't want to play together because they're treating the game as if it were single player.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    All of the good things in Fallout 76 can be better found in Fallout 4, and basically this game is Fallout 4 striped of it's substantial story elements and combined with the restrictions of a multiplayer game.    … Expand
  22. 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
  23. SinitarGaming
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    This review will, hopefully, help you to understand what's actually happening.
    It,s indeed pretty much true that some of "0" reviews may be posted by people who didn't even play the game. But, there is one "but"...
    The true darkness is on the other side. Take a look on several random profiles that gave "10" to this game. Almost like 90% of them have only 1 review (for FO76) and profile    This review will, hopefully, help you to understand what's actually happening.
    It,s indeed pretty much true that some of "0" reviews may be posted by people who didn't even play the game. But, there is one "but"...

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

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

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

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

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

    In summary, probably not the game you are wanting it to be, more bugs than previous Bethesda games, severely under preforms in combat, UI and AI when compared to other AAA titles. but decent enough to pass the time if you have someone to play it with or when you are waiting for something else to come out.    … Expand
  29. Xemnuz
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Good god what a mess of a game. Fall out 4 was a mess but with a few fixes and cheats it became enjoyable, though I was too young to play Fall out 3 at the time. But good god, Fall Out 76 is really bad. I have what 12 hours in I haven't even met a npc other than 2-3 bots yet, I know no names, there is absolutely no story thus far. To force multiplayer on you is to top it off, someone atGood god what a mess of a game. Fall out 4 was a mess but with a few fixes and cheats it became enjoyable, though I was too young to play Fall out 3 at the time. But good god, Fall Out 76 is really bad. I have what 12 hours in I haven't even met a npc other than 2-3 bots yet, I know no names, there is absolutely no story thus far. To force multiplayer on you is to top it off, someone at your door? Then either exit the game or die of starvation and thirst, and people can kill you, no idea how it happened but I lost most of my stuff and that was that. Running across the map to locations that look like diaper, your running breath lasts about 3 seconds because it's cool to catch your breath every 3 seconds like not even overweight people do in real life. They didnt even fix the damn combat system which has been the weakest point since Skyrim, it's worse than fighting on a cellphone app game... So disappointed, there was some magic in Fall Out 4, some fantastic characters, maybe some here but I don't even see them, the world looks like **** the combat is **** the multiplayer aspect is **** They even ruined the settlements/camp, you cant even make outposts around the place and make it your own you have to choose one location and thats it with no other survivors... Do not buy. Totally forgot, in a game where looting is the main thing, to cap the weight of 150 lbs without perks is suicide, people walking around because they dont want to throw things yet cant run or fast travel to salvage, 2 guns and gear and a few scraps is 150 lbs, good luck finding a ton of cool stuff only having to throw it, **** that.… Expand
  30. zgeek
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    I love this game, but the bugs make it unplayable. I've sunk hours into it since launch. I have defended it, but fk it. It's so buggy I can't continue.
  31. Haefen
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    It's sad to post a negative game review on a game in one of my favorite franchises. But I'm going to be as honest as I can be. It's a mess, a huge sad mess. It's not even a good mess like poutine or kitchen sink soup. It's buggy as anything, it's settings are terribly lacking and it's just not fun. I played for a good 8 or so hours total and I spent more time at sub 10FPS than actuallyIt's sad to post a negative game review on a game in one of my favorite franchises. But I'm going to be as honest as I can be. It's a mess, a huge sad mess. It's not even a good mess like poutine or kitchen sink soup. It's buggy as anything, it's settings are terribly lacking and it's just not fun. I played for a good 8 or so hours total and I spent more time at sub 10FPS than actually playing the game. I'm well above the minimum ratings with my rig, and while it's not super powered it shouldn't be having this kind of trouble.

    The few positives I have for it are things like the scenery which are absolutely gorgeous at times, and the music which is always a delight. I really like some of the new firearms in the game, like the new pump action shotgun is just absolutely enjoyable. But why in the good green grass of West Virginia are there pipe pistols? Why are there super mutants? I love the Brotherhood of Steel, but why have we broken lore to shoehorn them in?

    I know there are corrected lore to explain all of these things for this game, but it's just rather silly. I hope the people who like this game have a great time and enjoy what they enjoy, but it just reminds me we could have had an awesome 2-4 player co-op Fallout.    … Expand
  32. geographyman20
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    A devolution in gaming.

    Low to no effort has been put into this shell of a product.
  33. ReaperJohnnyC
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Let me just preface this mini review by saying I've played nearly every Bethesda game since Daggerfall and between the Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls series have claimed half of my top 10 games of all time....that being said...heres what i think if Fallout 76 so far...it DOES NOT support 21:9 aspect ratios...which for me and several others i know is already enough to not play theLet me just preface this mini review by saying I've played nearly every Bethesda game since Daggerfall and between the Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls series have claimed half of my top 10 games of all time....that being said...heres what i think if Fallout 76 so far...it DOES NOT support 21:9 aspect ratios...which for me and several others i know is already enough to not play the game, but not only does it not play in my native resolution but in my case it doesnt even stretch to fit the screen, its just plays in the corner, even if i switch to fullscreen....so just for kicks i let it play at 2560x1440 in a window in the corner...and at Ultra settings, the game looks TERRIBLE, poor textures, and blurring all over everything, especially distant objects and landscape...the graphics look like it got ported from an Xbox360....and to make matters even worse, there are very few adjustments i can make to the settings, and cant change FOV, Antialiasing, motion blur, post proccessing, lighting, shadows, (other than distance) depth of field, etc...it ligit looks looks like a straight console port with no change to anything and it assumes your only using a single 16:9 mediocre monitor....maybe they will fix all this or at least some of it in the coming days/weeks, but until then i will not play this game anymore, it hurts my damn eyes its so bad...i swear Oblivion looks as good...and at least that scales to 3440x1440...sorry Bethesda, I love you guys, but until you modernize your game/s i cant play your latest one and i wont buy any more until i know you can make a proper PC game...really sucks, i was looking forward to playing this for months on end and i even preordered the Tricentennial Edition, and i RARELY preorder games anymore....the game did seem to play fairly smoothly i will so though, and the lack of NPCs didnt really bother me, or maybe i just didnt get far enough into the game to care...it just looks like garbage in 2018 and doesnt support more modern hardware.… Expand
  34. NightGeisha
    Jan 14, 2019
    3
    Like many other gamers, I love Fallout, for me is one of the biggest universes in the history of video games. Excellent games, exceeding expectations and the certainty of many good times, was something Bethesda had accustomed us to, and expected the same here, my hype was very high.
    And the day came, and with it the disappointment, the frustration, the sadness, the feeling of being    Like many other gamers, I love Fallout, for me is one of the biggest universes in the history of video games. Excellent games, exceeding expectations and the certainty of many good times, was something Bethesda had accustomed us to, and expected the same here, my hype was very high.
    And the day came, and with it the disappointment, the frustration, the sadness, the feeling of being deceived. But even there, I still tried to enjoy the game, tried to forget problems and bugs, tried to play, explore and have fun. The weeks passed, the patchs, fixes and updates arrived and little changed, and I kept going but the game continue the same, nothing changed.

    Today, maybe after 100 hours since i started my journey, after trying almost everything there the game has to offer and explore every corner of the map, after have read and seen so much about this game, I think I can review it properly.
    I'm trying to ponder what I write and not do a review in fury, but so little good I have to write.
    I feel we were deceived by Bethesda, the game was not ready, and even if it transforms in the next few months Bethesda is not a small company, that may need to rush a game for financial reasons, that may not have the money or human resources to create a quality product, ready from day one. Is unacceptable and incomprehensible.

    I'm not going to talk much about the bugs, but everyone knows that many of them were already on Fallout 4 and many of them the community corrected with mods. I'm not going to talk much about server instability, crashes and technical problems. I'm not even go talk about the absurd prices on the Atomic Store.
    I only want to talk about the lack of NPCs and the game history, which are very interconnected, and which are what I miss most against the other Bethesda games. Bethesda used the justification to the lack of NPC's was something innovative, but the argument seems more like a justification for an unfinished work that no one wanted to finish. Obviously it's easier to say that is "part of the picture", that is working as intended than completing what is missing.
    And this lack of NPC's affects the story a lot, after a short time the history becomes so predictable in any quest line that I believe even Bethesda realized that and quit to continue to extend the quest lines, as we were used to on the previous Fallout games.

    Unfortunately I have to agree with many others who dislike the game, the point where it is. And recommend anyone interested in the game to try another game, and hope that someday Bethesda can deliver us what they really promised us.    … Expand
  35. Nanwea
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    3/10
    Pretty good casual game.
    In this game you can really play and have fun. But technically, the game is very bad. A lot of bugs. Very few new items and mechanic in contrast to the F4. The game is not tuned for multiplayer. I do not know what the developers have been doing for 4 years, but definitely not the work. I’ll add: terrible organization and zero support to the player    3/10
    Pretty good casual game.
    In this game you can really play and have fun.
    But technically, the game is very bad.
    A lot of bugs.
    Very few new items and mechanic in contrast to the F4.
    The game is not tuned for multiplayer.
    I do not know what the developers have been doing for 4 years, but definitely not the work.

    I’ll add: terrible organization and zero support to the player community, indie studio could do better.
    This game not bad.
    But greed, bad attitude towards customers (I'm not talking about fans), incompetent release .. Bethesda cant wash off this shame for a very long time.    … Expand
  36. Disponitor
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    I’d like to call myself a fan of Bethesda studios. To make it clear: my gaming experience in the Fallout series starts from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and in TES – from Oblivion (I got my first PC at the time of release of the last one). I’m not a die-hard fan, but from these days I completed each game from the both of the series thoroughly, with the time passing and modding resourcesI’d like to call myself a fan of Bethesda studios. To make it clear: my gaming experience in the Fallout series starts from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and in TES – from Oblivion (I got my first PC at the time of release of the last one). I’m not a die-hard fan, but from these days I completed each game from the both of the series thoroughly, with the time passing and modding resources growing and a new ways of playthrough appearing. Skyrim turns 7 years this November and I’m installing it on my PC once in a half of a year from the moment of its release, load with ton of mods and go on exploring again. Fallout 4 is on my hard drive from the day of release. There is no need to discuss other games in that review, but I want to mention my high appreciation of the games from the Dishonored, Doom, Prey and Wolfenstein series, released by the departments of your company.

    I’d like to call myself a fan of Bethesda studios. I mean, among the other studios you create a worlds that can engage a gamer for years. It’s an incredible work. I’m studying gamedev now and I know what I’m talking about. By the way I started to learn it also due to my childhood experiences taken in games including the works of yours. And furthermore, these worlds I mentioned allow gamer to build up his own unique experience using mods. This extends a living cycle and replayability of games a lot. But we have a thing there.

    You know it yourself about the bugs, glitches and gameplay problems of beta version, about the easiness of cheating, about lore, about the paper discs, about uninstalling the game, etc. I see no reason to write about it all, the other users and journalists done that for me already. All of these things could be forgiven and they would forgive.

    What is ruining the general impression of the game is total unoriginality and the fact that the game itself is not finished (even in the context of open beta version). It’s obvious that the game is always a profit-oriented product, but this time the profit looks like the only reason to make a game. You can see an indifference to the final quality of a product in many aspects such as animations, questing, fractions, crafting, graphics, PvP interaction (more on this later). You did a great job, but I’m sure you know it – to make a game on a quality level of your previous releases you must have done a 10 times better. Now it looks like Fallout 4 with a great fan-made multiplayer mode. You know exactly why – the game uses a huge percent of content and code directly from Fallout 4, that had its own visual and gameplay style after all. That is not a problem. The problem is that the remaining part of content made without the proper effort. I’d undoubtedly support a small team of modders made such mod for a single player game. This quality would be an unbelievable success. But not for Bethesda level of studios.

    The second problem is uncomplicated, absolutely non-challenging PvP and survival in multiplayer game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

    In this case the statement about support for mods sounded like an avoiding the responsibility for an incomplete final product. Something like “modders will improve, we provide the ground”. For now, after all the waves of hateful reviews, you probably see that it doesn’t work that way.

    Due to a very high target you had to hit I evaluate your work strictly comparing it with previous experience. I tried my best with beta, sessions of which took place in the dead of night in my country. And after participating I have to note with my regret that your decisions taken this time are wrong.

    Thanks for the beta. Now I assure that there is no sense in buying the game for now, until the serious update and improvement releases. Will these improvements be made by the studio or implemented by modders – time will show, but this game have to change greatly.

    I’d like to call myself a fan of Bethesda studios. But now I can’t.    … Expand
  37. CommissarPat
    Dec 2, 2018
    3
    Update: After 100s+ hours of play, the game has not only gotten buggier, but it's become waaay more evident that it's a greedy asset flip. The game is 90% reused assets from skyrim and fallout 4, and they have the gall to sell you skins from fallout 4 for more than the entire game + dlc are worth. Two skins from nuke world are sold for $18 of atoms, for an example. Even EA sells you NEWUpdate: After 100s+ hours of play, the game has not only gotten buggier, but it's become waaay more evident that it's a greedy asset flip. The game is 90% reused assets from skyrim and fallout 4, and they have the gall to sell you skins from fallout 4 for more than the entire game + dlc are worth. Two skins from nuke world are sold for $18 of atoms, for an example. Even EA sells you NEW THINGS.

    Additionally, the story and setting would be a million times better if they just rolled the in-universe clock back a little while the where all the humans were dying instead of dead. We have terminal entries and notes about all these cool apocalyptic events as the scorched expanded, and we don't get to be there. Instead we get to fight buggier, damage spongier alduin as the final boss.

    Final score: 3/10 instead of 6/10.
    ---------------------------------------------
    Orig review:

    Fallout 76 is a good concept and has enjoyable core gameplay. However, as the opening days grew on the servers started acting funny and bugs and glitches became more common. Additionally, the day 1 patch that was promised never arrived (on PC): it's still version 1.0.0.6 like during the last of the beta.

    Locations and quests tend to be hit and miss, but overall they're ok enough.

    The economy and item storage limitations however hurt this game the most: you can neither store items nor sell them easily, as merchants have small, slow replenishment cap pools, and are linked in a handful of factions, and you can't barter either, and even when you buy something the merchant only has a fraction of what you paid with afterwords (about 1/4), so you can't even trade for your caps back.

    These issues shouldn't be hard to fix and yet there's only been vague promises, and they ultimately relegate what could have been a 7-8/10 to a 6/10.    … Expand
  38. blackrabyte
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    Fix the stash box size/the amount of items we can store and this game would be a solid 8. By linking the vendors all to the same cap pool and having the cap pool be very small most of the time you can't sell your excess junk and weapons. Having the build size budget of the camps be extra small, you can't actually build your camp up with your excess junk. I'm having just to drop legendaryFix the stash box size/the amount of items we can store and this game would be a solid 8. By linking the vendors all to the same cap pool and having the cap pool be very small most of the time you can't sell your excess junk and weapons. Having the build size budget of the camps be extra small, you can't actually build your camp up with your excess junk. I'm having just to drop legendary weapons, because I have no where to store them because i need the junk I have to repair my weapons and armor and base and eat and drink.
    Fix the stash/storage issue and watch that score jump.    … Expand
  39. humancentipede
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    First of all, i dont have the game, i didnt played the beta. then why do i even rate this game you ask? the reason is simple, somehow as a true game, you have to do something to stop publishers and developers from producing half backed cakes which they sell for 60 euro. but not only that, there is way too much shady business practices going on at the moment, it ranges from scaming gamesFirst of all, i dont have the game, i didnt played the beta. then why do i even rate this game you ask? the reason is simple, somehow as a true game, you have to do something to stop publishers and developers from producing half backed cakes which they sell for 60 euro. but not only that, there is way too much shady business practices going on at the moment, it ranges from scaming games like bless online, to heavy monetizationed games with full price 60euro with a seasons pass and other microstansactions to squeeze the gamers. and then there are genres which are prefereably build around cash shops like china or orean MMOs.

    this was just a small explanation for those who ask why i even rate the game without even playing or having it. and the reason why i only give it a 3 out of 10 is simply because of its technical state. if you do some research, watch soem streams or youtube videos, you will see that the game is super ugly for a 2018 game. it has the same technical problems like all the other bethestda games. the performance is awefull. i wouldnt even care about this game if it would come from a indie developer, but we are talking about a multi billion dolla company here. releasing a product in such a terrible technical state is unaccaptable. the technical quality is something you would expect from a indie pre pre alpha no name developer annd not from a AAA producer.

    call it review bombing or troll review as much as you want, im a true gamer in my hearth and soul, and i want this **** to stop. and giving low reviews is the only way for me as an individual to try to make a change happen. everyone who defends this game or other clearly negative examples, im sry to say this but your standards must be very low then.    … Expand
  40. Entrepreneur724
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    Two words; Lonely and Boring. While the game itself isn't as bad as some make it out to be, the mechanics of the game are terrible. As you wander the wasteland, there zero humans. Sure, you are in a map with a handful of other players (24 total), but because they dump anyone in to the same game, the levels and quests you are on are different. This means that while there ARE other players,Two words; Lonely and Boring. While the game itself isn't as bad as some make it out to be, the mechanics of the game are terrible. As you wander the wasteland, there zero humans. Sure, you are in a map with a handful of other players (24 total), but because they dump anyone in to the same game, the levels and quests you are on are different. This means that while there ARE other players, everyone is off doing their own thing and you don't really interact with them. This means there are no humans. Instead, you run across nothing but creatures. No occupied buildings, no little towns of people, just... nothing. This makes for a very lonely game. The creatures are nice, and the plot is just okay. Mix that with a boring game for my 3 star review.… Expand
  41. Rrazed
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    still using ancient outdated engine, I was on the Fence ever since beta (yes its early days but its still in beta), and sadly this game is a big disappointment, it bombed, it bombed hard. Bethesda don't seem to care about quality they just want to rush things out and it shows by what they've done and have said, I laugh at the positive reviews as they do nothing to contribute to thestill using ancient outdated engine, I was on the Fence ever since beta (yes its early days but its still in beta), and sadly this game is a big disappointment, it bombed, it bombed hard. Bethesda don't seem to care about quality they just want to rush things out and it shows by what they've done and have said, I laugh at the positive reviews as they do nothing to contribute to the improvement of stuff like this, If you are considering buying this game DON'T, very glad to see the majority of gamers and on youtube giving this terrible game backlash and they are telling it like it is, i havent seen one video praising this game, dont waste your money on this… Expand
  42. soarenb
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    TL;DR washing the dishes gets you more loot.

    So.. I am level 30, I spend more time of the game going BACKWARDS to loot junk for stimpacks, ammo, guns etc than I do actually progressing in the game. All the junk you really need (aluminum I'm talking to you) to craft ammo (which is both prohibitively expensive, and is prohibitively expensive in a world that gives you little to no caps to    TL;DR washing the dishes gets you more loot.

    So.. I am level 30, I spend more time of the game going BACKWARDS to loot junk for stimpacks, ammo, guns etc than I do actually progressing in the game. All the junk you really need (aluminum I'm talking to you) to craft ammo (which is both prohibitively expensive, and is prohibitively expensive in a world that gives you little to no caps to purcahse it with) is a CHORE. This game is not only EMPTY, but A CHORE. I am *TRYING* to like this game but Bethesda designed it to be such a CHORE to like I don't really like it at all. My brother asked me if he should get it, and I told him not to bother. My buddy (who knows I have a fallout tattoo on my arm and have been playing fallout since 1998) asked me if he should get it an I said no.

    I wouldn't get a refund I'm get a double refund if I could. This game is garbage. It's empty. It's a **** farmfest, and Bethesda could increase the "barebone life support drop rates" of many junk items to make it so you dont have to GRIND to GRIND, but I doubt they will.

    I'm throwing down 20 bucks betting TES6 is gonna blow too.

    This game is terrible. It could've been incredible but it's terrible.

    Also, it runs like crap on my 1070 hex core gaming setup, I have to exit and rejoin the game every hour or so to stop the horrible memory leaks (which also sometimes require a system restart) and for the love of God the game doesn't even CLOSE properly and I have to task manager kill the process to get it to exit...

    What a disaster.    … Expand
  43. Makkenz
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wait to buy this game.
    It's deserve 3/10.
    We are in 2018 . Got 1080Ti / i7 8700k .
    This game is caped 34 fps. 63 uncaped with saccacdes.
    And everything cool u can do for change is to modify .ini file.

    Wait for a patch.    … Expand
  44. Nielivarez
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Fallout 76 is a game that attempts to be something different from its predecessors. Unfortunately, that leads to 'loss of identity' and 'more technical difficulties'.

    The Outstanding: * The world is massive and active effort is put in to diversify each environment. [10/10] The Good: * You can hang with friends and goof around wearing a pink dress! [8/10] * The visuals and the    Fallout 76 is a game that attempts to be something different from its predecessors. Unfortunately, that leads to 'loss of identity' and 'more technical difficulties'.

    The Outstanding:
    * The world is massive and active effort is put in to diversify each environment. [10/10]

    The Good:
    * You can hang with friends and goof around wearing a pink dress! [8/10]
    * The visuals and the scenery are at times really pleasant. [7/10]
    * 'Enemy variety' is more than any other previous entry. [6/10]

    The Bad:
    * Introduction of microtransactions through 'Atom Shop'. [4/10]
    * The game has those typical Bethesda bugs, and these are compounded by Bethesda venturing into the online world for the first time. [3/10]
    * Some basic obvious features are missing at launch; i.e. push-to-talk button, FOV settings, key-binding issues. [2/10]
    * Shooting mechanics are not the best. As in, if you are an FPS player, you'll find this to be very very average. [4/10]
    * Most quests (40 hours in) are "Start➡Locate➡Shoot➡Loot" and based on who you are, that can get boring early on. [2/10]
    * No actual incentive for PvPing other than 'wanting to'. [2/10]
    * A specific PvP style that requires following an 'honor system'! And can be exploited in different ways. For example:
    Player A attacks B. B takes very little damage. B puts on the best gear and weapon and almost one-shots player A. [2/10]
    * Lack of general polish. Presumably due to improper or limited testing. Example: Long holotapes (5-6 minute audio tapes) that you need to listen to without getting disturbed. They surely hadn't tested this in a multiplayer environment.) [3/10]

    The Ugly (things that would infuriate fans)
    * The game uses Creation Engine, which seems inherently flawed for an 'online' coop game. Example: FPS is tied to your in-game speed. [1/10]
    * Some issues and bugs that existed in the past 2 installments and were reported ad nauseam and even made news, are still present in this game. [1/10]
    * No human NPCs. This changes the DNA of this Fallout game drastically, if not eliminate it completely. [0/10]
    * Lack of 'mods' which is one of the main attractions of any Fallout game. Obviously 'mods' can't be introduced to public servers. But "there won't be any mod-supported custom servers until November 2019 at the soonest" based on Pete Hines, vice president of Bethesda. [0/10]

    Rating Average: 3.5

    Summary
    Bethesda has tried something new here. Regardless of their intention, they have created a product that focuses on something that is not their strong suit.
    To bring up a comparison; imagine a game like Destiny but without the superb shooting and without any NPCs, but with a bigger map. That is Fallout 76 for you.    … Expand
  45. Phino
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    Es ist wirklich schade, dass dieses Spiel so lieblos gestaltet ist.
    Es wurde schon huntert mal geschrieben - es hätte einfach eine Mod für Fallout4 sein sollen, auf keinen Fall ein Vollpreis-Titel. Bethesda hat eigentlich ein paar schöne Ideen gehabt!
    Multiplayer - gut für die, die das haben wollen... Aber bitte optional, nicht verpflichtend! In dieser "finsteren, nuklear verwüsteten    Es ist wirklich schade, dass dieses Spiel so lieblos gestaltet ist.
    Es wurde schon huntert mal geschrieben - es hätte einfach eine Mod für Fallout4 sein sollen, auf keinen Fall ein Vollpreis-Titel. Bethesda hat eigentlich ein paar schöne Ideen gehabt!

    Multiplayer - gut für die, die das haben wollen... Aber bitte optional, nicht verpflichtend! In dieser "finsteren, nuklear verwüsteten Welt" wirklen diese bunten Männchen mit beschissenen Hüten wirklich albern und töten die Spielatmosphäre komplett ab... Zumal sich nicht einmal die Mühe gemacht wird, die Server nach Sprachen zu sortieren. Mein erster Start behinhaltete Englisch, Spanisch und Deutsch - schon im Vault. Wahrschienlich waren sich die Leute gar nciht bewusst, dass man sie hören konnte - die Voice-Option ist ja standardmäßig auf Dauersendung, eine Rückmeldung gibt es nicht.
    Durch die Eigenschaft des Multiplayer kommen ja schon an sich einige "Zugeständnisse" mit... Es gibt keinen Pause-Modus, der Respawn ist ständig kurz gehalten - es spawnen permanent Mobs um einen herum... Dabei wird nicht darauf geachtet, ob gerade Spieler im Gebiet sind oder nicht. Ich hatte es inzwischen häufiger, dass ich mich durch ein Gebiet nach vorne kämpfe und plötzlich von hinten angegriffen werde...Durch die gleichen Mobs von eben oder sogar völlig andere, viel höherstufige. Durch die Online-Server fliegt man auch bei einer Internettrennung aus dem Spiel - und verliert dabei Items und Fortschritt von bis zu 5 Minuten - man respawnt nicht einmal am gleichen Ort sondern am Eingang des aktuellen Gebietes.
    Mir fällt spontan keine Neuerung zu Fallout 4 auf, dafür wurde aber enorm viel zugunsten des Multiplayers beschnitten. Ich denke, niemand spielt Fallout, weil es so unfassbar toill aussieht... Die Grafik ist alt und überholt - aber ok, wenn der Rest stimmt... Einige spielen wegen der Story - es gibt sie, sie ist aber viel dünner als bei Fallouot 4 - hauptsächlich wird das daran liegen, dass auf NPCs fast komplett verzichtet wird. Diese Idee ist nicht einmal schlecht und nachvollziehbar - aber dann muss die Welt eben viel erzählen. Die Audiologs, die man quasi als Hörbuch nebenbei bekommt sind eine grandiose Idee! Leider dauern sie immer nur 1-2 Minuten und kommen nicht unbedingt häufig vor. Also Story: So lala... Man könnte auch des Bauens wegen Spielen - hier leider ein ähnliches Prinzip wie früher - nur wieder stark beschnitten... Sammeln - leider nein, die Kiste umfasst nur 400kg... Die Welt ist so leer unde statisch, dass enorm schnell Langeweile aufkommt... Die Größe nützt da überhaupt nichts... 75% der Häuser sind nicht begehbar man kann kaum Türen öffnen, Dinge zerstören geht (so gut wie?) nirgendwo... DIe Automaten, Fenster, Schilder und Geräte machen nicht mal ein Geräusch wenn man dagegen schießt...

    Alles in allem ist Fallout 76 vielleicht Fallout 4 Lite - auf keinen Fall das Geld für einen Vollpreistitel wert! Nach etwa 1-2 Stunden kommt das erste mal enorme Langeweile auf, wenn man sie unterdrückt, schafft man vielleicht noch etwas länger.

    Schade um das Spiel, das Geld, die Zeit und die Vorfreude!    … Expand
  46. Super_Duty
    Nov 22, 2018
    3
    Love the in-game world, but this is barely a game, and definitely not what Fallout should be. Still playing with 25 hours of in-game play, but what is the point. What are workshops for? Why do I build when the game world resets. Why the hell is there a limit of stored resources when that is pretty much all we have to do is collect things? Total Crap!
  47. Lolka0009
    Dec 12, 2018
    3
    Довольно таки скучно играть в эту игру.Нет определенной цели.Идёшь в локацию и что ты там хочешь найти? Только болты да и еще какую-нибудь высокоуровневую вещь.И всё!Поиграл я и один и с другом, ничего интересного.Квесты вообще не ощущаются.Патронов нету, пороха нету и чем вооружится? Ближним боем? Да, я бы мог вооружится так, но супермолоты не везде можно найти да они ещё и ломаютсяДовольно таки скучно играть в эту игру.Нет определенной цели.Идёшь в локацию и что ты там хочешь найти? Только болты да и еще какую-нибудь высокоуровневую вещь.И всё!Поиграл я и один и с другом, ничего интересного.Квесты вообще не ощущаются.Патронов нету, пороха нету и чем вооружится? Ближним боем? Да, я бы мог вооружится так, но супермолоты не везде можно найти да они ещё и ломаются быстро.А когда все узнали о баге на дюп я вообще не успел его заюзать и мне было обидно что некоторые игроки надюпали себе стимуляторов, патронов, ресурсов, оружия, брони и главное - КРЫШЕК(да-да их тоже можно было надюпать) и у них эти вещи не отберут, а мне ничего не дадут.Это как ивент."Найдите баг, заюзайте его пока никто не узнал, а когда он разлетится по интернету мы его исправим, так что скорей,на поиски!" Учитывая то что игру ценой в 2000 рублей я могу позволить себе 1 раз в 1 год я разочарован.Да ещё когда я в августе хотел купить Fallout 76 с "300 летием" то я вообще столкнулся что они не включили налог в цену.То есть я хотел купить игру за 2500 и мне придётся заплатить 3200? Серьезно? Тогда я заказал в DNS просто Fallout 76 за 2000.14 ноября, день выхода этой игры.Более десятка комментариев под продуктом Fallout 76 на сайте DNS.СМСки о том что задерживается товар не приходят дата получения - 14 ноября, так где-же игра?СМСку о том что игра задерживается пришла только 16 ноября.Ну и я поехал возвращать деньги.Учитывая что меня отговаривали аргументом "Даже начальник предзаказал эту игру(Да, работники DNS так говорили)" я вернул деньги и в тот же день купил Fallout 76.Ну и вот мне наскучило играть.… Expand
  48. Vauk
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    I wanted to like this game. I defended it during the B.E.T.A. to my friends. I tried, but with the level based cap on your base (lvl 22 and hadn't seen it go up since lvl 18), the cap on your storage, the poor PvP, and the ridiculously low amounts of healing supplies/adhesive to repair... I can't. I want to explore, see new things, but the curve on NPC health is terrible. A lvl 6 will dieI wanted to like this game. I defended it during the B.E.T.A. to my friends. I tried, but with the level based cap on your base (lvl 22 and hadn't seen it go up since lvl 18), the cap on your storage, the poor PvP, and the ridiculously low amounts of healing supplies/adhesive to repair... I can't. I want to explore, see new things, but the curve on NPC health is terrible. A lvl 6 will die to my bolt action in one hit, a level 12 will take 4-6, a lvl 20 will take 16 rounds. That's four reloads. I'd say it was my weapon's level, but I haven't found one higher than level 10. But I keep finding items that are lvl 40-50 that I can't use. I don't like that people are giving this game a 0, it's not a 0, but at the same time it's not good. I wish Bethesda would put out good games again like Oblivion and Fallout 3, but this company just lost 15+ year customer that has bought every game they've released since Morrowind.… Expand
  49. Ghaleon
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    Disclaimer: I played the beta for 20-ish hours, but it seems identical to Day 1 F76. I gave this thing a chance but can't in good conscious pay full price for this.

    I also made an account here to rate this game. I've been playing videogames since Atari, and though I rarely play AAA titles, my wife has loved watching me play F3, NV & F4, and her sister & bf also love them. So even    Disclaimer: I played the beta for 20-ish hours, but it seems identical to Day 1 F76. I gave this thing a chance but can't in good conscious pay full price for this.

    I also made an account here to rate this game.

    I've been playing videogames since Atari, and though I rarely play AAA titles, my wife has loved watching me play F3, NV & F4, and her sister & bf also love them. So even though we were all worried about "online only" we were excited to at least run around together.

    This game is everything we feared it would be, except, amazingly, it's 10 times worse.

    Every aspect of the game reeks of "rush job". or "we did no work". Everything.

    --The UI does not work for "always on" gaming because when you're taking hits, you have no easy way to eat/drink/heal without going into the UI.

    But dying has almost no penalty, so once you figure this out you can just respawn forever until you've killed all the monsters.

    -As you've probably heard, there's using the same engine since Morrowind. How in the world can my PC, with a new GF2080, not get 60 FPS on this? On our GF 1080 machine, I had to put everything on LOW just to get it to start and not crash. HOW is this even possible??

    --Try VATS once, then try to tell me any thought or consideration went into this game.. A: How can you allow this auto-aim crap for PvP? B: It's ridiculous to have the gun facing AWAY from an enemy, push VATS and SHOOT, and you hit your target.

    --The way to initiate PvP is completely broken, because the attacked player has a huge advantage. P1 does almost no damage to P2 until P2 shoot backs. So P1 gets full damage. The only way PvP works is if you trick someone into shooting you first. But there's no incentive to use PvP at all in-game.

    --Having the quests revolve around holotapes is insane, because you never have time to sit around and listen when you get them. Either you're going to find another soon, or a note to read, or you're hearing other people on the mic, or you're simply playing the game and can't focus on them. I tried giving the story a chance but the game just does not let you immerse yourself. It doesn't seem interesting anyway, though.

    --Listen to the radio. A few new songs. THEN THE EXACT SAME SONGS YOU'VE HEARD FOR HOURS IN F4 ARE BACK. Lazy lazy LAZY. How hard is it to license new music for the setting of WV, if you didn't want to produce your own??

    --Even the act of friending/joining someone else's game is confusing, because it's not intuitive or explained.

    --People can't mod this & fix it. Thanks!

    F76 is basically all the parts of F4 that were mindless grinds (like never-ending quest series, building crap) but worse.

    I've been extremely disappointed by modern gaming "trends" ruining fantastic game series (e.g. MGSV, which is 80 hours of picking daises and about 2 hours of story) but this is the first time I'm kind of insulted by a game studio.
    Here's the MAIN thing, and why this game is so disappointing.

    There's a huge difference between a game that isn't very good, but is worth playing, and a game that is just completely banal, no fun, not creative, and not worth anyone's time.

    Sonic 06 is an infamously bad game -- tons of glitches, comically bad controls, etc. -- but it has heart and some redeeming qualities (music, cutscenes, and it's semi-fun once you understand the meta of how to get around the truly terrible controls).

    Lots of games are awful by objective standards, but once you get over their hurdles, can be enjoyable.

    F76 is completely soulless, as many have described it. Outside of the expansive map (there isn't much to actually do in it that's fun) and recreating WV, it seems NO work, thought of planning went into this.

    Bethesda knew they can sell it for $60, it'll make a profit, and all the people who review games for a living and are basically 3rd-party PR for games companies, will talk about it, be gentle with it, and not rip it to shreads. Because they couldn't care less about videogaming or us, the consumer.

    Don't feed the crap machine, please. For the love of God, if you care about videogames at all, DO NOT BUY THIS FOR $60.

    I'll get this for my wife and I for $20 or less for the sheer experience of having 1 game my wife will play with me, and she loves WV. We'll explore the map and then probably stop playing it, because it just isn't fun. There's no incentive to play it unless you just like collecting tape and screwdrivers.

    A 3/10 is more than fair. Bethesda has piled crap on us, the loyal FO fans, so I'm glad people are piling the crap on them. As someone who runs a special-events business I just don't understand how a company can just spit on their customer and then act like they should be grateful.

    GIVE people refunds who want one. STOP using this awful launcher (deleted my entire game on beta day! Nice!). MAKE IT UP to people who've trusted you, Bethesda.
    Oh, and play FO: New California! (New Vegas mod)    … Expand
  50. 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.
  51. 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
  52. lycanreborn
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    This game is full of automation, with the sole exception of one living non hostile NPC. The whole everyone is dead gimmick gets old by the sixth and final stage of the Main quest, with a horribly underwhelming boss you can shoot through a window. Fallout 76 is a horrible Fallout game that reuses assets and undermines core features present within the game it was cloned from. The demeaningThis game is full of automation, with the sole exception of one living non hostile NPC. The whole everyone is dead gimmick gets old by the sixth and final stage of the Main quest, with a horribly underwhelming boss you can shoot through a window. Fallout 76 is a horrible Fallout game that reuses assets and undermines core features present within the game it was cloned from. The demeaning of V.A.T.S. down to a buggy mess that shifts in real time down to a time increment less than a second from 95% to 0%. The perk cards do not work as the RNG machine feels just like the game, No choice all automation. The perk cards will most likely be monetized due to their randomness which is a alarm all should heed. This game works , but is empty. This game has bugs, but doesn't force close every 5 mins. Do I have Fun, yes some. Would I buy again..... No. Do not waste your time on this game. Bethesda has gone the way of EA and Blizzard.… Expand
  53. TheBoyInBlue
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    Two words... surprisingly underwhelming. I pre-ordered 76 expecting a once in a lifetime game like I have played in the past i.e. Legend of Zelda BotW, FO4, etc. But this game is truly bland, I played it for about 10 hours and still had no idea where the story was going, it's bugs and neglected back-door game mechanics are still there from Beta to launch. I had high hopes for this game,Two words... surprisingly underwhelming. I pre-ordered 76 expecting a once in a lifetime game like I have played in the past i.e. Legend of Zelda BotW, FO4, etc. But this game is truly bland, I played it for about 10 hours and still had no idea where the story was going, it's bugs and neglected back-door game mechanics are still there from Beta to launch. I had high hopes for this game, but now I'm just glad Bethesda did one thing right for it... refund requests.… Expand
  54. BeachSunSand
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    This game at the moment is a solid 3/10. In my estimate, it has a potential to be 4/10 once they fix all bugs and performance issues. Should they find a way to add some at least modestly entertaining content it could reach 5/10. That is the absolute cap for this game. The mechanics and principles this game is based on are boring, repetitive and not very entertaining. It lacks engagingThis game at the moment is a solid 3/10. In my estimate, it has a potential to be 4/10 once they fix all bugs and performance issues. Should they find a way to add some at least modestly entertaining content it could reach 5/10. That is the absolute cap for this game. The mechanics and principles this game is based on are boring, repetitive and not very entertaining. It lacks engaging story. The world feels dead and boring. Although the game looks like previous fallout games, it certainly does not feel like fallout.… Expand
  55. Uraneum
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    20+ hours in and I still feel like I have to force myself to play it. I'm trying to have fun, but there are so many things wrong with this game that I'm probably going to give up and move on. Absolutely not worth $60.
  56. keeflookeem
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    Painfully boring. The quests via audiologs, notes and robots are tedious. There are no morally interesting choices that I have noticed so far. Player levels are confusing and also nearly meaningless. The other players do nothing but break the immersion. Coop is pointless as each character has to do each quest item individually. At level 5, with the help of another level 5 player, wePainfully boring. The quests via audiologs, notes and robots are tedious. There are no morally interesting choices that I have noticed so far. Player levels are confusing and also nearly meaningless. The other players do nothing but break the immersion. Coop is pointless as each character has to do each quest item individually. At level 5, with the help of another level 5 player, we managed to defeat a level 35 monster. They forced the hunger and thirst mechanics on everybody which I'm pretty sure no one asked for.

    It looks and feels like a fallout game, which is kinda cool. Hopefully, they'll go back to the drawing board with this and bring back NPCs, add some quest lines with any kind of interesting narrative. I 100% regret not waiting for more reviews and the subsequent major DLC/patch that will (hopefully) make the game feel like more than a simple proof of concept waiting to be fleshed-out.    … Expand
  57. sharkman131
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    There is a lot of work to do (AKA Bethesda won't do it) for this game to be worth playing. The only thing that is keeping me in the game is a hope that I will be somewhat interested if I just invest enough time into it, but the more time I spend playing the more I find myself becoming somewhat sick and tired of the same monotonous quests you would expect in any other MMO. I was inspired toThere is a lot of work to do (AKA Bethesda won't do it) for this game to be worth playing. The only thing that is keeping me in the game is a hope that I will be somewhat interested if I just invest enough time into it, but the more time I spend playing the more I find myself becoming somewhat sick and tired of the same monotonous quests you would expect in any other MMO. I was inspired to log in and write this because of a quest that consisted of defending 4 areas at the same time, each 20-30 yards apart and on three different floors. I understand this was developed for multiple people to play, but at least put in a group finder so I'm not forced to do everything with a squad of 4 people.

    Yes, the world is beautiful and the exploring is fun, but at that rate you might as well just go outside when it's sunny.    … Expand
  58. Blinder
    Nov 25, 2018
    3
    Its Fallout 4 Dlc with forced multiplayer and no Npcs
    core of the game is good but its destroyed by minor but in long term , game breaking decisions ( like limited stash, fast hunger and thirst generation,NO TEXT CHAT,.......)
    developers did not listen to community on forums also there is some game breaking bugs i dont want to mention everyone but missing items, not growing plants and    Its Fallout 4 Dlc with forced multiplayer and no Npcs
    core of the game is good but its destroyed by minor but in long term , game breaking decisions ( like limited stash, fast hunger and thirst generation,NO TEXT CHAT,.......)
    developers did not listen to community on forums
    also there is some game breaking bugs i dont want to mention everyone but missing items, not growing plants and sometimes kick from servers hurt
    + at least they added some lore from F1 like FEV center and it sometimes give you feel of fallout world
    so because this game is what it is i giving it nice 3    … Expand
  59. Flannagill
    Nov 25, 2018
    3
    In short: Empty, buggy and unfinished.
    The things that always brought the Fallout series it's unique taste has been stripped; no more interesting NPC's, no more funny and weird encounters and no more role playing. Now that the things we all loved this series for are gone, the bugs and glitches that were always in the engine, but could be overlooked, are now painfully apparent; getting    In short: Empty, buggy and unfinished.
    The things that always brought the Fallout series it's unique taste has been stripped; no more interesting NPC's, no more funny and weird encounters and no more role playing. Now that the things we all loved this series for are gone, the bugs and glitches that were always in the engine, but could be overlooked, are now painfully apparent; getting stuck in one of the single player Fallout's just forced you to open the command menu or to load your last save, with the implementation of multiplayer, this has now become very hard or impossible. Hackers, data exploits and crashing run rampant.
    The Fallout franchise is not fit for multiplayer, nor is Bethesda itself. The fact that this was an easy re-skin of FO4 just to grab some extra cash makes it even more painful.    … Expand
  60. OfficerBox
    Nov 25, 2018
    3
    I got this game on sale for $40 and still feel ripped off. I went in with ridiculously low expectations, and was still pretty disappointing. The world feels so empty without NPC's, PVP is horrible (really just add PVP and PVE servers...), and the game is really, really buggy. Stop giving Bethesda a free pass, spend your money elsewhere.

    Also, sorry to anyone who purchased the game at full price
  61. Demange
    Nov 27, 2018
    3
    Bethesda only want money, the game is very expensive for the quality it has, and not to mention the errors and bugs.
  62. wildwildbee
    Nov 30, 2018
    3
    I love exploring this game with friends but to say that this is a buggy and poor mess is an understatement. I really wanted to love FO76 but I can't find it in me to keep it installed any longer. If this is an omen for FO5, Fallout has truly fallen from grace.
  63. NaiAsonod
    Nov 30, 2018
    3
    A good idea executed badly across the boards, with a lot of evidence that Bethesda did not prioritize the customer with any of their decision-making during the development or marketing of this game.

    It is a mediocre effort unworthy of the Bethesda legacy, and offers little of the Fallout brand's personality and style beyond the purely aesthetic, and it doesn't even manage that well.    A good idea executed badly across the boards, with a lot of evidence that Bethesda did not prioritize the customer with any of their decision-making during the development or marketing of this game.

    It is a mediocre effort unworthy of the Bethesda legacy, and offers little of the Fallout brand's personality and style beyond the purely aesthetic, and it doesn't even manage that well.

    At its best, Fallout 76 is an opportunity for you and a friend or three to romp around a gameworld made to look like part of the Fallout world, and if all you really wanted out of the game was that, you might be perfectly happy with it.

    Don't bother looking for rich story (there is very little), compelling characters (there are very nearly none) or a tapestry of lore to explore (everything you'll learn about post-apoc Appalachia will come from computer terminals and audio logs, with very little exception).

    This design decision to have no NPC's and no driving storylines makes playing Fallout 76 feel like a study in futility. You can pick a direction and go in it, but it won't matter. There's nobody of interest to find, no storylines to stumble across and a tremendous amount of repetitious quests that all bleed into eachother after a few hours and become a mindless exercise in numbing tedium.

    By the time you wind up having some random nobody from the internet follow you around for half an hour making stupid noises in the Microphone and asking you about your genitals, you might just be grateful for the break in monotony.    … Expand
  64. Legion_19
    Dec 4, 2018
    3
    A "3" is the MAXIMUM Bethesda "deserves" for this steaming hot pile of Brahmin poo. Fallout 76 is an empty, meaningless world that gives the player no purpose. Unlike other Fallout games, you are not S.P.E.C.i.A.L and do NOT make an impact worth anything higher than a "3." The PvP is a horrendous duel-style system that negates the possibility of having full-fledged faction battles orA "3" is the MAXIMUM Bethesda "deserves" for this steaming hot pile of Brahmin poo. Fallout 76 is an empty, meaningless world that gives the player no purpose. Unlike other Fallout games, you are not S.P.E.C.i.A.L and do NOT make an impact worth anything higher than a "3." The PvP is a horrendous duel-style system that negates the possibility of having full-fledged faction battles or ambushing your prey. I don't know why Bethesda didn't just add a passive or aggressive option that could be toggled on or off. Pass the slew of bugs and unfulfilled promises, lies this mockery of a micro-transaction system that exemplifies the sudden interest for several developers to be just like the free-to-play success that is Fortnite. This game is so bad that I play it only when my friends are online because that's the only way a person can get an iota of fun out of this game. My friend and I got ambushed by at least 20 super mutants in Grafton by the school and luckily the intense action didn't crash the server for us. Vote with you wallet. I would only consider buying it if it went on sale after it's fixed for 20 or 25 dollars… Expand
  65. SentientTinman
    Dec 17, 2018
    3
    I'll preface my review by saying Fallout has been my favourite franchise since fallout 3, wasteland survival is one of my favourite genres. Fallout 76 was something I looked forward to since they announced it. Then the beta dropped and I thought "Oh this is rough, guess they'll fix it like they said they plan to." But I've been playing it since launch and all the main elements are broken,I'll preface my review by saying Fallout has been my favourite franchise since fallout 3, wasteland survival is one of my favourite genres. Fallout 76 was something I looked forward to since they announced it. Then the beta dropped and I thought "Oh this is rough, guess they'll fix it like they said they plan to." But I've been playing it since launch and all the main elements are broken, and the absence of live NPCs (which used to bring flavour to the world) just makes the game so lonely that those broken elements get fixated on. The PvP is broken and so unbalanced, favouring the attacked player in every fight. Which even if they win the attacker gets nothing but scrap and then gets a bounty which makes them open to being attacked by anyone but unable to damage anyone until they get a hit on you. The end boss is pretty close to unkillable in the allotted period when you're a higher level due to having a couple hundred million health. The servers are constantly crashing, my frame rate is usually terrible, frequently I need to switch servers just to get a temporary bump in frame rate.
    Honestly, I really want to like this game and I know it can be good, but it isn't right now. It's a buggy mess that is nowhere near what was promised. If you haven't bought it yet don't. They have a lot to fix, they can do it. But until they do, don't waste your money.    … Expand
  66. RoyaleJack
    Dec 20, 2018
    3
    I repent it, preordering Fallout 76. Because not a month after release, you can buy it for 20 Euros. The game is a bit fun, but the bugs, the leveling system and the enemy-spawning-system annoys me. But also i give a bit hope in this game, because i trust the developing studio do make a better 76 in the future. My recommendation: Do not buy it NOW!
  67. Linkin593
    Feb 2, 2019
    3
    I wanted to like this game. And I did at the start. It was fun on the lower level. However, once I got into the mid game, OMG the Glitches and Bugs are terrible. Went on a protection mission and the SteelHeart Bot couldn't even walk up the steps... When I shot the scorched it took seconds to register damage. I Love the Fall Out universe and have played since I was 17 years old, FalloutI wanted to like this game. And I did at the start. It was fun on the lower level. However, once I got into the mid game, OMG the Glitches and Bugs are terrible. Went on a protection mission and the SteelHeart Bot couldn't even walk up the steps... When I shot the scorched it took seconds to register damage. I Love the Fall Out universe and have played since I was 17 years old, Fallout 1... I really liked Fallout 4. Even though it felt like a fallout Sim. You dropped the ball Bethesda. if I wanted to play World of Warcraft I would, You can do better than this. Fallout is a single player Story based game. Please don't ruin Skyrim or starfield. And for Heaven's Sake get a new Engine. It's 21 years old... Unreal...… Expand
  68. SunlightCrusade
    Nov 11, 2019
    3
    If you want a honest review, please read mine!
    Fallout 76 is a multi-player softcore survival game, quite good experience overall. I don't think the bugs in this game could permanently bind the game to be just bad. I am not a fanboy, and I am not THE "fanboys" who were just simply lazy and got upset because this game is now a live service.
    I mostly prefer this game, because I experienced    If you want a honest review, please read mine!
    Fallout 76 is a multi-player softcore survival game, quite good experience overall. I don't think the bugs in this game could permanently bind the game to be just bad. I am not a fanboy, and I am not THE "fanboys" who were just simply lazy and got upset because this game is now a live service.
    I mostly prefer this game, because I experienced it, and this kind of experience is good to best, not to mention the updates we will get in the future! Don't get me wrong, the bugs can be a bit annoying but not game breaking. I mostly shrug one and move along when I encounter one. About the gameplay: You loot resources if you want(just like in Fallout 4), some quests need some resources to progress. But when you loot resources by just grabbing them up, the game doesn't feel grindy, it's just like Fallout 4 in mechanics. You won't ecounter NPCs, the game feels empty BUT the WHOLE game is a Pre-sequel to the other Fallout games, and THIS is THE ambience of the game. You can find out why this game is empty, because the story is all about investigating the "why and where".

    About the atomic shop and microtransactions:
    Feels like a money grab first, but after jumping in, you can earn atoms by completing quests, levelling up, completing daily and weekly challenges. I managed to get 1800 atoms overall by just playing 30 hours/ getting to level 33. A power armor paint(for T-45, T-60, X-01 armours unlocked account wide) costs 1400-1800 atoms, and I nailed one by just playing the game. If you find in-game microtransactions expensive, try thinking strategically. Buy the game discounted for like 30 euros(instead of the original 60), then spend the other 30 for juicy cosmetics IF YOU WANT, I must underscore the "optional" for you of course. :)

    Have fun playing the game if you bought the game after seeing this review, and watch out for deathclaws in early levels! ;)

    2019.11.11. edit.
    I have found out they have this subscription, for this half assed game that I've been giving my hope for months. This is utterly disqusting. Bethesda should be ashamed, this is the least they could do. Their reputation went down in the toilet, and my hope for any future Fallout releases too. Oh, and to mention: Good future DLCs cancelled because of this **** or at least delayed. Money talks, Bethesda, for you at least, but you won't crawl your reputation out of this mess anytime soon.

    - Sunlight Crusader.    … Expand
  69. garotok001
    Aug 4, 2019
    3
    I loved Fallout 3, Fallout NV and Fallout 4.

    Fallout 76 is nothing but a shell of its former self.: repetitive quest, really short main mission, bigger map size that feel small and empty, useless VATS and lots and lots of bugs. If you can imagine something going wrong, it will probably go wrong. Even after almost a year out, the game is terribly bad and bland. Don't waste your    I loved Fallout 3, Fallout NV and Fallout 4.

    Fallout 76 is nothing but a shell of its former self.: repetitive quest, really short main mission, bigger map size that feel small and empty, useless VATS and lots and lots of bugs. If you can imagine something going wrong, it will probably go wrong.

    Even after almost a year out, the game is terribly bad and bland. Don't waste your money on such a poor and ill conceived game.    … Expand
  70. DehFreeman
    Oct 6, 2019
    3
    Mediocre and Boring. Its not absolutely terrible, but the issue is that it just gets boring quickly. I reached level 33 and gave up. The quests become longer and longer. Also there is an issue of too high level mobs in low level areas, like a level 10 ghoul attacked me when i was level 3, and a level 45 glowing snallygaster guarded the quest things i needed to retrieve (I was level 16Mediocre and Boring. Its not absolutely terrible, but the issue is that it just gets boring quickly. I reached level 33 and gave up. The quests become longer and longer. Also there is an issue of too high level mobs in low level areas, like a level 10 ghoul attacked me when i was level 3, and a level 45 glowing snallygaster guarded the quest things i needed to retrieve (I was level 16 btw). My favourite part has to be the building. You got a decent ammount of choice for free stuff (trust me, a lot of cool stuff is locked behind a paywall). It wouldnt be that much of an issue, but they started adding utility objects. The Personal Terminal and the Punch bowl are free, but the better ones, collectatron which collects free junk at a relatevely decent pace (Slower than a workshop harvester), and a fridge in which you can put food items to make them decay slower, are locked behind the atom paywall.
    Building is well done, but with so much content locked in the atomic shop, and the miniscule budget that does not really allow you to make anything relatively big along with a very small building area, it is not that great.
    The world is very well designed, with a lot of intresting locations, but the problem is that it feels empty. They are atleast working on a new mode, where npc will be a thing. For now you got a bunch of clones of diffirent robots. You got Merchants, and Mr.Handies. While there are a few more that dont really matter.

    The Story is just a bunch of notes and holotapes, which i dont bother to read or listen to.

    Unlike in fallout 4, you dont have all the plans for weapons, buildings, you gotta unlcock them, but certain weapons still need perks to be crafted. The problem is that the plan item itself does not warn you of that. This is a problem for vendors, because weapon plans are pretty expensive cap-wise, so you could buy a plan that you learn, only to realise you cant craft it because you need a perk.
    While i could mention the bugs, i think you heard enough of em alredy.    … Expand
  71. Deadbrother
    Dec 2, 2019
    3
    The concept is interesting, if it worked it could have been one of my favorite game ever, as I looove Fallout, ut the game barely works, and it filled with stupid concepts, lie the limited PVP, the limited players, etc. And now that they dared to add a subscription service, I don't just say it's a bad game I heaviuly recommend you to stray away from this game.
  72. krohmalny
    Jul 24, 2020
    3
    Game can give some fun for like 20 hours. Until lvl 20 it was pretty okay, after that everywhere I've moved I've encountered opponents on lvl +48 which absolutely blocked me with any progress in main quest and side stories. Great music and exploration as always but everything else like engine, design etc would be great when released in 2013.
  73. Retrogamer961
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    Bethesda , Bethesda never changes , where to start with this game which is more of a meme now than a genuine game. I love the fallout franchise and have played it since the very first. I came back to this game in 2020 to see how it has developed. In short it’s still an extremely broken mess that’s filled with bugs , exploits , cheaters and just broken mechanics with the added in of actualBethesda , Bethesda never changes , where to start with this game which is more of a meme now than a genuine game. I love the fallout franchise and have played it since the very first. I came back to this game in 2020 to see how it has developed. In short it’s still an extremely broken mess that’s filled with bugs , exploits , cheaters and just broken mechanics with the added in of actual fallout stuff. However the fallout stuff is extras dumbed down and much weaker than in other games from both lack of effort from the developers and the fact it is an online game. However at least the world is not as empty now and the story is much more interesting than the holograph collecting bore fest as before. However factions , story choices are much more limited than in previous games but it’s nice to see npcs now. The battle royal mode is also okay but those are overdone and uninteresting now. The gameplay loops are still a massive grind requiring hours of play to get a decent build. Plus the addition of clear pay to win elements has not helped. Overall fallout 76 is still a poor game that’s not much better than it was 12 months ago. The graphics are also very bad and is not 16x the detail.… Expand
  74. ThatsTheFrench
    Feb 7, 2021
    3
    Fallout 76 was a very difficult game to review. Not because I had mixed feelings, but because the game had so many issues. I played the game at launch, and gave up on it after around seven to eight hours of playtime. It was too frustrating. The bugs, the glitches, the crashes, the boredom.
    I recently came back to the game in 2020, and I'm still very unimpressed.
    Fallout 76 is a    Fallout 76 was a very difficult game to review. Not because I had mixed feelings, but because the game had so many issues. I played the game at launch, and gave up on it after around seven to eight hours of playtime. It was too frustrating. The bugs, the glitches, the crashes, the boredom.
    I recently came back to the game in 2020, and I'm still very unimpressed.

    Fallout 76 is a massively multiplayer online game that encourages player cooperation, and paying money in the Atomic Shop (in game purchasing tool to help you speed up your progress or just generally be better at the game.) The game feels very grindy, and by that I mean it will take you a long time to get good gear and loot in the game. A very long time. Unfortunately, the gameplay isn't really fun or polished enough to make all that time grinding worth your while. This feels like it's purposeful, due to how often the game encourages you to spend more cash at the Atomic Shop to acquire resources and gear. Let me remind you that this game's launch date retail price was $59.99. The 'pay to win' feature of Fallout 76 is very annoying, ham fisted, and feels almost like begging. I'm often embarrassed by how much energy the publisher of the game put into begging people for more money.

    The story of Fallout 76 is boring, erratic, and not very engaging. The add-ons to the game improved this issue, but didn't make the story good. I wont even explain the story to point out how bad it is piece by piece. That's how boring it is. I'm too bored by it to criticize it fully. Trust me when I say you're not missing out on a lot of interesting and gripping franchise lore.

    The gameplay of Fallout 76 is buggy to this day, and pretty boring as far as 'looter shooters' go. There's not a ton of variety in how you dispatch enemies, and the more fun you want to have in the game, the more boring hours you'll have to invest in grinding for fun gear and loot, or the more money you'll have to spend on fun gear and loot. What's the grind like? Ammo is hard to come by, and when you find it, it's not much. You can buy ammo though! Fusion cores, which fuel the game's iconic power armor, burn out quickly and are hard to find. You can buy more though! Legendary enemies spawn very infrequently, and when they do, there's no guarantee that they'll drop really good loot. The loot thing might be a bug though, I'm not 100% sure. Then again, what's a bug and what's a feature is hard to discern in Fallout 76. Overall, gameplay feels rather dumbed down, and not as fun as Fallout 4. the polish is lacking, the fun is lacking, the engagement is lacking, my interest is lacking.

    Graphically, the game looks fine, when it's running well. The game doesn't always perform very well graphically, so it can be hard to judge whether or not some textures look horrible, or whether they just never loaded into the game correctly. It's not mind blowing by any stretch, and is outclassed by many games made for inferior hardware.

    The music of Fallout 76 is... meh. Repetitive, recycled, and not very noteworthy. It didn't have to be great or anything, but it's definitely not contributing anything meaningful to the game. Best part was the Country Roads cover.

    Overall, Fallout 76 is an annoying game in more ways than one. It's a slog to get through without indulging in microtransactions, and nobody in their right mind would suggest you actually indulge in the microtransactions, so the game is just boring and annoying. Some of the add-ons do bring in content that's worth your time, but the game overall is very bad, and the add-ons don't fix anything enough for it to deserve your investment.    … Expand
  75. JadeThereview
    May 29, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 76 doesn't work like a survivor, doesn't work like a multiplayer shooter, or even just a shooter. At least some kind words can only be said about the exploration of the world, but Bethesda also managed to ruin it, leaving half of the locations without a sane background and simply throwing hostile mobs there. But beautiful, yes!… Expand
  76. User1322
    Apr 4, 2022
    3
    Its bugy, i dont think it would even count as a fallout game, and bethesda didn't learn from their ancestors, Interplay did a similar think with Fallout Brotherhood of steel, made it a money making machine no one likes, but people still play it.
  77. PetyaBiszeps
    Aug 25, 2022
    3
    in 2022 Fallout 76 has some bright moments, especially "steel dawn" DLC and of course they finally added NPC's (LOL). But it's still not even mediocre game, but pretend to be close i guess. As a fallout fan i'm sad, that this franchise getting worse with every game since Fallout New Vegas. If Fallout 4 has it's own charm, Fallout 76 is just bad.
  78. yogibbear
    Dec 5, 2018
    2
    Bank took my house off me after Bethesda leaked my CC details. At least my new street dwelling of a cardboard box is better than this game, smh.
  79. GoingPostal13
    Nov 23, 2018
    2
    This is Fred.

    Fred played the Fallout 76 beta
    Fred saw the appalling framerates
    Fred experienced the bland mission structure
    Fred noticed the myriad of bugs
    Fred cried at having to join a queue at the mission givers
    Fred wept as his dreams were shattered by Bethesda.
    Fred uninstall the beta and cancelled his pre-order

    Be like Fred.
  80. Barny
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    I bought the game, played it to the point of asking for a refund and these are the problems for me:
    The game relies on micro-transactions. It has zero story telling. There are zero interactions and the environment is empty except for monsters, robots and a wealth of corpses. There is no NPC and the other players of the 24 players map are not interacting beyond the hot mike (if you have a    I bought the game, played it to the point of asking for a refund and these are the problems for me:
    The game relies on micro-transactions. It has zero story telling. There are zero interactions and the environment is empty except for monsters, robots and a wealth of corpses. There is no NPC and the other players of the 24 players map are not interacting beyond the hot mike (if you have a microphone, it is - by default - always on) or the PvP.

    The game engine and graphics are seriously outdated: it was used probably a decade ago or two. The game lags seriously despite being my network being on a fibre broadband service with less than 30 ms of ping on typical MMOs: as a result of this lag, it usually takes 1-2 seconds for an enemy to be hit by the bullet I just shot. This is very unsatisfactory. The RPG element is non existent as you do not need to develop your character - it is a survival game without consequences. The social element is both ridiculous and not required: who needs to take pictures whilst taking poses, apply filters, and pretty much uploading that to instagram? In short, this game is a terrible disappointment, I made a mistake pre-ordering it and received the just reward of a polished mud-ball: lesson learned. Don't do the same mistake, keep your money for something useful.    … Expand
  81. Kaizer
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    It's a scam. It's not a game, it's Bethesda selling you an empty box with Fallout title on it.
  82. kamgeforce
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    I can live with this game being empty trash with no goal, story or content worth doing for that matter. I stopped caring too much about Fallout when they changed formula with F3. As long as you promise me Todd, promise me on your beautiful blue eyes that you will deliver with ES 6 and I in turn promise you, everyone will forgive you and the **** you pay for this disgrace of a game.
  83. FormerHuman
    Jan 2, 2019
    2
    An absolutely dreadful mess of a game from a studio that has given up the pretence of narrative altogether. So much has been said already about what is wrong with this game so I won't rehash it all. I'm not sure I can even say I'm disappointed, because this was where things appeared to be going eventually with Bethesda's take on the franchise. Bethesda's writing was never its strong point,An absolutely dreadful mess of a game from a studio that has given up the pretence of narrative altogether. So much has been said already about what is wrong with this game so I won't rehash it all. I'm not sure I can even say I'm disappointed, because this was where things appeared to be going eventually with Bethesda's take on the franchise. Bethesda's writing was never its strong point, with their takes on the Fallout universe, in particular, falling short in comparison to the likes of Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas. With Fallout 76, they've virtually abandoned it altogether, reducing literally all storytelling to reading scraps of paper and listening to audiotapes. It's simply staggering that Bethesda made these design choices, and leaves me with little enthusiasm for any other titles they are due to produce in the coming years. I might come back to 76 in a year but probably only if they finally put proper NPC's in it because a Fallout game without real characters (and no, I don't value random encounters with a handful of anonymous players as an adequate replacement - I shouldn't have to make my own fun from scratch in a Fallout game) is simply an empty, literal wasteland of content.… Expand
  84. MRGamer
    Nov 28, 2018
    2
    Bethesda took my money and left me with swamp itch, radiation poisoning, lag, disconnects, and a remarkably uninspired multiplayer take on Fallout. It looks like a 10 year old game, and feels incomplete in single player and multiplayer aspects. Maybe Bethesda plans to patch this thing up and make it something worth playing, but I am not waiting around to see.
  85. julgzfz
    Feb 10, 2019
    2
    Borderline unplayable game with lackluster gameplay. Somewhat fun for shorts spells when it works, and it rarely does. Time spent here is time wasted.
  86. iknowcaleb
    Nov 9, 2019
    2
    I love the ambiance of fallout 76, the music, the grit, the desolate feeling. I waited a year to play and I have played to level 25. I will not be playing again until they fix the performance. No matter what I do I cannot get this game to not run like a turd. I have a 4790k at 4GHZ with 32GB of system ram and a 1080 Strix with 8 GB of video ram and even on low settings and low screenI love the ambiance of fallout 76, the music, the grit, the desolate feeling. I waited a year to play and I have played to level 25. I will not be playing again until they fix the performance. No matter what I do I cannot get this game to not run like a turd. I have a 4790k at 4GHZ with 32GB of system ram and a 1080 Strix with 8 GB of video ram and even on low settings and low screen resolution, the game studders and freezes and dips below 40fps so often it makes me sick. Imagine if this game was built in the unreal engine, you wouldnt have t pose and frozen encounters with scortched and ghouls withing minutes of loading your first game. I spent hours of reddit and other forums trying to make this game run better, following others advise to make it not run so much of a turd, but no more. If you are on the fence about this game and care about how a game runs, do not buy. No game deserves a 0, but this deserves nothing more than a 5.… Expand
  87. sundeki
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    To everyone reading this, ask yourself this question now: Is there any element from my Fallout 76 experience that stood out in any positive way?
    My answer: no. There wasn't a single positive element of this game that made me go "wow", made me excited, or immersed me completely in the moment. Not one. Onto the review:
    Note: None of the mechanical or performace elements are based on the    To everyone reading this, ask yourself this question now: Is there any element from my Fallout 76 experience that stood out in any positive way?
    My answer: no. There wasn't a single positive element of this game that made me go "wow", made me excited, or immersed me completely in the moment. Not one. Onto the review:

    Note: None of the mechanical or performace elements are based on the B.E.T.A.
    Note 2: it's just my personal experience of the game, this won't include things like the "security" debacle that seems to be full swing (I haven't had any security issues yet)
    Note 3: This game may have "Fallout" in it's title, but I won't be comparing it to other Fallout games (except the lore), it's just too different.
    So let's break down each element into a summed up review:

    Story: There isn't one. There really isn't.

    Lore: Butchered. So much in this contradicts previously established lore. You can handle things being retconned if there is a legitimate and justified story/narrative reason for doing so. Bethesda has changed things just so that they can shove enemies, symbols and other things that tickle your nostalgia into the game for zero justifiable reasons. In my personal opinion this is the WORST part of the entire game, because it not only ruins my fun in this game, but potentially ruins my ability to enjoy the previous games because of the changes.

    NPC's: There aren't any. There really aren't. You get a couple of robots that aren't utterly lifeless. That's it.

    Quests: Every single quest in this game feels like a randomly generated fetch quest. It's that bad.

    World/Worldbuilding: Reasonable, I'd give them a point for this if it wasn't completely ruined by the overwhelming feeling of emptiness you experience as you run around. Perhaps if there were more players, like 3-4x as many players per server, things would be better. But that's speculation, and there isn't.

    Combat: Mechanically fine, one of the few things that doesn't immediately frustrate you. Not great or revolutionary though, just fine. You will however likely get totally bored with killing the same few enemies hundreds of times over. Made worse by the respawn rate of enemies meaning in the space of half an hour you can clear the same area of the same enemies as many as 5 times. It's clear they tried to fix this by adding the unique bosses/spawns, but it simply doesn't do enough as they are too few and far between.

    Ambiance/Environment: good at times. Perhaps the only element of this entire game that you could say was good, and that's only some of the time. Graphical bugs break what little good environment building exists.

    Graphics: antiquated in 2015 when Fallout 4 came out, now they're ancient.
    -One of my friends has ultra widescreen and there's no support for it at all, meaning the resolution is forced to full still. What does that mean? The whole game is stretched on his monitor making it virtually unplayable.

    Performance: terrible. I have an above-average PC and my FPS is terrible, but considering Bethesda limits your FPS to 62.5 Maximum, I'm not missing out on much. I haven't crashed yet, so that's new in a BGS game. Others probably aren't so lucky.

    UI/Controls: ported from console, downright unusable at times. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. I've been complaining about this for YEARS. There is no excuse for this anymore. Bethesda should be making proper PC HUDs and UIs.
    -PIPboy HUD is immersive and totally fine in a singleplayer game. Not at all in a game where you can't pause when it opens. It is too slow to navigate and might lead to you getting killed constantly if the game was even remotely difficult.

    Difficulty: Once you get to level 6 or 7, you basically become invincible. Not joking. Just ignore where you're supposed to go, and go kill enemies 3-4x your level. I did. Maybe you can't do this with a controller, but with a mouse and keyboard there is no challenge for me.

    PvP/multiplayer: I can't even start talking about this without getting upset and going on a rant. I'll just say this: the worst PvP system I have ever seen in my life.

    PvE/multiplayer: The only other redeeming quality of this game. You can pop a few beers and have fun with friends laughing at bugs, terrible writing and other players doing/saying dumb things.

    The saving grace of Bethesda games up to this point is the skilled and dedicated Modding community coming in and fixing the deficits of the product. Not only does this game not have real modding capability, but it's not a base game that inspires people to spend hundreds of hours fixing things.

    Plus sides:
    +The occasional fun moment with some friends, that wears off in the first couple of hours though.
    +The occasional environment or ambient or setting

    Negatives:
    - Just about everything else.

    Final Score: 2/10, and that's generous. As much as it saddens me to say this about anything Fallout: just save your money.    … Expand
  88. Benden
    Nov 23, 2018
    2
    In now almost 3 decades (sigh) of computer gaming, I think this is the most disapointing game ever released by a major company.
    Just read all those negatives review, this time they are relevant...
    I've underscored the game a bit considering the hype and the AAA title.
    If it was produced by some lambda company and if this game was not a sequel it would deserve a 4, maybe 5.
  89. Veska
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    1. Story. Just like in porn...You havent NPC, amazing characters etc. You have nothing.
    2. PvP. Broken. If you want kill somebody, you need maybe 50-60 shoots in head to kill him/her. And if you started fight and she/he wants to kill you back. He just waits, takes most powerful weapons, looks at you and shoots you in your face. And you will die. That is all. If you want kill somebody,    1. Story. Just like in porn...You havent NPC, amazing characters etc. You have nothing.
    2. PvP. Broken. If you want kill somebody, you need maybe 50-60 shoots in head to kill him/her. And if you started fight and she/he wants to kill you back. He just waits, takes most powerful weapons, looks at you and shoots you in your face. And you will die. That is all. If you want kill somebody, just build high bulding, invite someone and next step is delete floor under him/her. Easy way to killing.
    3. Wolderful world. But empty with horrible respawn enemies...Really. You just clear one room and whoooo, 10 enemies just around you to say: "Hello there."
    4. Crafting. First time, that is good thing.
    5. It isnt on Steam. You must use their launcher and it is broken. Always:)

    So if you want play Fallout, just play 1,2, New Vegas or in some ways 4 or 3. Still better then this ****    … Expand
  90. skyaklost
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    This is the result of laziness. A Fallout 4 mod quickly spun into its own game, filled with....nothing, Base building for zero purpose, PVP that doesn't work and a world thats so lacking in content its embarrassing.
  91. jddutra
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Bugs, Lack on industry standard graphic elements, VATS system doesn't fit in a online multiplayer game, and overall just poor execution. It is an aging engine with a slight re-skin.
  92. Blaines
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    This is so bad... its 5/10 without fallout in title and 1/10 as a fallout game. Just change name of this sh*t to 76!
  93. Harall
    Dec 10, 2018
    2
    I have played few hours in Fallout 76. It was buggy, boring and felt empty. It was changed from quite good RPG to **** shooter. And it does not have ANY good shooting mechanics. After that I installed Fallout 3 and NV, used Tales of Two Wastelands mod to see if this is similar to the previous iterations because I remembered them differently. And god, you can see how Fallout 76 sucks evenI have played few hours in Fallout 76. It was buggy, boring and felt empty. It was changed from quite good RPG to **** shooter. And it does not have ANY good shooting mechanics. After that I installed Fallout 3 and NV, used Tales of Two Wastelands mod to see if this is similar to the previous iterations because I remembered them differently. And god, you can see how Fallout 76 sucks even in comparison with previous ones. All this drama only adds to it. This is **** don't buy it.… Expand
  94. Madgad
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    Thank God you can give back the game and Bethesda will give you back your money. I don't know what to say. This game is a crap in every part of it. Sweet words before and hard reality after. Its typical in modern words.

    R.I.P. Falloout
    2/10
  95. lionking3344
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    Lack of NPCs, the game is full of bugs, the game world is empty and boring,slaughtered the game, come to you, bestheda , game infamous
  96. 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
  97. Myon-Neutrino
    Nov 29, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is completely broken, playing it is a total waste of time. There are so many technical problems other reviewers already mentioned, which I can confirm. Lag, Clipping Bugs, losing Items and other major glitches everywhere, random FPS drops and so on... Those buyable Atoms don´t have any decent value. The game STILL uses that old crappy engine which is so overwhelmingly obsoleteFallout 76 is completely broken, playing it is a total waste of time. There are so many technical problems other reviewers already mentioned, which I can confirm. Lag, Clipping Bugs, losing Items and other major glitches everywhere, random FPS drops and so on... Those buyable Atoms don´t have any decent value. The game STILL uses that old crappy engine which is so overwhelmingly obsolete by now, it´s a shame. The game is literally empty - no human NPCs. PVP Mechanics aren´t thought out well, Bethesda is creatively dead. You can access nuke codes via Reddit instead of looking for them ingame - seriously? Oh my god, such a disappointment to the whole Franchise. But to be honest, I already saw it before, Bethesdas Way downhill already started with Fallout 4 in my opinion, because PC optimization was crap right from the beginning and not much has changed until now. Do not buy this garbage product.… Expand
  98. gX-kiD
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Don't let developers get away with lazy! After playing games for 30 years you sometimes think you've seen it all. But every once in a while a game comes along that can still surprise you in how lazy and **** it can be - This is Fallout76.

    Basically it's an asset flip of Fallout 4, minus real quests, plus multiplayer. And the multiplayer serves absolutely no purpose in this game, it's    Don't let developers get away with lazy! After playing games for 30 years you sometimes think you've seen it all. But every once in a while a game comes along that can still surprise you in how lazy and **** it can be - This is Fallout76.

    Basically it's an asset flip of Fallout 4, minus real quests, plus multiplayer. And the multiplayer serves absolutely no purpose in this game, it's just in there because Bethesda wanted to dip their toe in the water of "live service games", or in other words: Cash in on the most profitable industry trend. The game is so ridiculously easy most of the times, there is zero reason to ever play with other players. And PVP doesn't even exist in this game. I mean in theory it does, but in reality it's just not a thing. The spank system is the most broken and stupid concept I've ever seen in a "PVP" game.

    Besides all of this, the technical state of the game is an insult to every gamer. Even on systems with a 1080ti the game runs like absolute dog. The field of view can not be adjusted, it doesn't even support widescreen monitors (yet), the frame rate is locked to 60fps due to the horribly aging Creation engine in use and how its physics are tied to the frame rate, patches in this game can be larger than the actual game itself without offering any new content, the beta deleted itself at one point, and countless other ridiculous issues that occurred during my beta plays.

    This is a 20$ early access game on Steam. Unfortunately it is sold at 60$, by a company notorious for not fixing any bugs in their games.

    And ironically enough Bethesda, the only people who could save you now, are the ones you locked out of this game: your modding community.

    Stay away from this hot garbage, no studio should get away with this level of laziness or incompetence.    … Expand
  99. jacobsmith14433
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Some context for my low but fair score. I am playing this game on an RTX 2080Ti and a 8700K, both overclocked, for context. I am playing at 4K maxed out settings, and the game runs flawlessly. A locked 60Fps at all times, at roughly 50-60% GPU utilisation.

    I point this out only to highlight that the performance of the game will not be the scapegoat of why this "game" (let's be real,    Some context for my low but fair score. I am playing this game on an RTX 2080Ti and a 8700K, both overclocked, for context. I am playing at 4K maxed out settings, and the game runs flawlessly. A locked 60Fps at all times, at roughly 50-60% GPU utilisation.

    I point this out only to highlight that the performance of the game will not be the scapegoat of why this "game" (let's be real, there is no game here) is so terrible. It is utterly boring and aimless. I won't cover all of the reasons why it is so bad, just watch Jim Sterlings impressions.

    Instead, allow me to give you some context. Firstly, I have played and beaten Fallout 4 and all DLC, with a modest 85 hour playtime (no where near what some might sink in), but it is fair to say I enjoyed it in spite of its many flaws. I also love survival games as a genre, with Subnautica being one of my all time favourites. And feel free to check my profile, this is the lowest score I have ever given a game, as I genuinely feel it deserves this rating. I am a fair and positive reviewer, and it is sad to say that I really think this "AAA" game has been fairly and generously rated by me.

    I don't usually post reviews so close to a games release, and I certainly don't usually give negative reviews. But, this review is warranted, this is not a gut-reaction to "Change", that a lot of games get unfairly criticised for. I was really excited for the survival aspects and base building aspects of this game. But they have truly misunderstood what makes those games fun and rewarding.    … Expand
  100. windswept143
    Nov 28, 2018
    2
    This game is trash, I have a gtx 1080ti, 32gb of ram, and an amd threadripper and the game has crashed on me 5 times. It looks terrible and it barely has a story. The world feels empty and barren as the only NPCs are robots. This was clearly a cash grab. It's little more than a fallout 4 multiplayer mod being sold for AAA price. Bethesda needs a new engine for starfield and the elderThis game is trash, I have a gtx 1080ti, 32gb of ram, and an amd threadripper and the game has crashed on me 5 times. It looks terrible and it barely has a story. The world feels empty and barren as the only NPCs are robots. This was clearly a cash grab. It's little more than a fallout 4 multiplayer mod being sold for AAA price. Bethesda needs a new engine for starfield and the elder scrolls 6 or at the very least they need to seriously overhaul their engine.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

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