Personally, I think 3 and NV could be considered the "better" games. But they feel clunkier than 4. So I play 4 the most. It doesn't feel so clunky to play, especially the shooting. That is probably one reason why its more popular.
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Fallout 4 Next Gen update for XSX, PS5, PC launches April 25 (Increased Resolution/60FPS, fixes, free content creator content, PC widescreen, more)
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Personally, I think 3 and NV could be considered the "better" games. But they feel clunkier than 4. So I play 4 the most. It doesn't feel so clunky to play, especially the shooting. That is probably one reason why its more popular.
You've at least loaded the unofficial patches, right?
Even if you're trying to play as "vanilla" as possible, at least load those.
Yeah, there are 2 scenarios if you want to play NV:
- Spend 6 hours following something like this: Only way to play NV in 2024
- Dont spend time on and ...dont get to play it as it will be ultra janky, ultra buggy and probably crash a lot
In comparison, Fallout 4 is not perfect...but plays pretty well in stock form.
In addition: It looks exactly like the show (visually), if I were a newcomer I would also select it out of all of the other available Fallout options.
Well I've been going back and forth on whether to buy all the F4 DLC for my PC version, and even having second thoughts on whether I want to replay the game at all. But I just finally went ahead and bought the GOTY edition on Fanatical. So that is settled I suppose. Hope to actually play it all. I'm surprised that GOTY edition only added 6.4GB of additional downloads.
The entire game with DLC (except for high-res texture DLC, which is something dumb like 70GB by itself) is only 34GB.
This will be my first time playing it. I'm out of town with crappy internet so I likely won't be able to try it until next week.
If you play New Vegas for a while and then jump to 76 the graphics look amazing!
They aren't stunning, but at times they are decent and you get used to them. The world density and overall atmosphere is great.
😂 I bet the visuals would look better.
I'll give it a try. Booted it up last week after finishing the Amazon show and it asked for a Bethesda sign-in, which put me off. May just make a log in and try again.
Before I did Viva, I had only done like 5 mods in a single game. I did Viva in ~2 hours. It's not bad.
it doesn't really take six hours to follow VNV. The extended modlist might take you a while if you've never done any modding before, but even that isn't likely to cost you six hours unless you fudge it up somewhere along the way. If you're just installing Base VNV for the community patches, that ish takes 2 hours or less for a newbie. I could have it done in an hour tops, probably less.
besides, you can always just use the unofficial Wabbajack all-in-one VNV installer instead... or just install the game and play without VNV, like most of the people who've ever played the game. It's not completely unplayable that way (though one should absolutely consider the unofficial patches, because the vanilla game is admittedly likely to run into bugs or crashes on most hardware configurations).
That said, I wouldn't blame anyone for just playing Fallout 4 (or 76) instead, if the idea of modding turns them off. I just don't think it's that difficult a process for anyone with more than cursory experience with using a Windows PC.
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Fallout 76 has already been given an update. It is 60fps with enhanced settings now, or at least on Xbox Series it is. It used to be 30fps, or 60 FPS with Xbox One settings on X with FPS boost.
I have Fallout 4 on PS4, but was wondering if I should buy the DLC. Will the DLC be updated for the PS5 version or would it be like playing the PS4 version of the game? Unsure how this works if the PS4 version is getting a PS5 version, but it has DLC for the PS4.
Ive just started playing (on steam deck) and all I can say is it seems insanely friendly. There is boxes everywhere people put stuff in for new players and the majority of high level people on the servers come and help with events and throw guns etc at you as presents. Don't be afraid to Join a causal team for the exp bonus
It did? I thought it was just running the One S profile when you switch it to FPS boost.
Yeah you'll be fine. Quests aren't particularly difficult and community is generally friendly, plus the high level players have zero benefit to killing you because it just paints a target on their back when they got nothing from you. Also you can't just kill people out of the blue. When you hit someone, it does a very tiny amount of damage and it only turns to full damage PvP if you attack back, and even then there's an option you can set were shooting back won't start the PvP and your shots do no damage to players.
Plus you can often show up at events and can still get a lot out of them even if you can't put out a whole lot of damage.
they gave it a stealth 60 FPS patch same time as ps5 some time last year
I'm playing stock New Vegas on Steam Deck completely vanilla and so far it's been great. Admittedly, I haven't played too much of it. Is this a bad way to play it? Would I be better off playing on Xbox Series?
Yeah, that's as good a way as any. The unofficial patches are mostly bug fixes, crash fixes, etc. Basically stabilizes the game and keeps it from blowing up in the way that old Bethesda games like to blow up.
I've been playing mostly Fallout 4 lately, just roaming about and seeing what trouble I can get into at random locations that I stumble upon. Reminds me of playing Skyrim for the first time, and being on my way to some place or another, one of the big cities. Spent like three or four hours playing and never made it there, I kept getting sidetracked. That's my favorite part of Bethesda games (and, as I've noted in other threads, it's what's sorely lacking in Starfield).
Not being able to turn survival mode on/off more than once kind of blows. The game just wasn't designed around no fast travel because of the randomly generated quests that send you across the map for the tiniest of objectives.
But survival mode is so damn good because you get so absurdly strong and evens the odds and makes so many items actually matter. I'm basically doing everything I want to do and save all of far harbour and nuka world because they are 95% self contained so I can jump straight into the other and enjoy it while I can with the update
But survival mode is so damn good because you get so absurdly strong and evens the odds and makes so many items actually matter. I'm basically doing everything I want to do and save all of far harbour and nuka world because they are 95% self contained so I can jump straight into the other and enjoy it while I can with the update
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If you're in good standing with the Brotherhood and/or Institute, you can still flag down a Vertibird with a signal grenade and get a quick ride to any map marker, or teleport to the Institute and then back out to the ruins above, which is handily around the middle of the map (close to Hangman's Alley!).
Neither are as effective as regular fast travel, of course, but the options are there.
I just bought Fallout 4 GOTY and going to wait to mod / play it until after the update. I wanna see what works and what breaks, and if modders can come up with updates. I'll most likely wait a week or 2 after the patch.
Generally most stuff that doesn't require FO4 Script Extender should be fine, but if that worries you you can always just save your update until the mods you want to use are working again.
Exactly the same happened to me on PS5, can't even get to the title screen.
The problem is automaton. If you launch the game without it's ok. Hope it will be fixed with the patch.
Thanks, can't believe Bethesda never bothered to fix this issue. Like how many people will buy the game with all the dlc and have the game not work because of it
It used to work fine. Apparently somehow it broke within the past year, god knows how.
Is there any point to download the ps4 version of it before the patch release? Or will it be stand alone app?
The PR said it'll have a dedicated app for modern consoles, so the latter I imagine, like Outer Worlds.
I do have Fallout 4 for PS4 on disc. So I'll just put that in my PS5 and update on 26th to get the new version, right?
I downloaded it again off of Steam and mine does the same thing, it crashes once we start running out of the house and start going towards the wooded area at the beginning of the game.
I can't say definitively, but it feels like it for sure. Smoothest Fallout I've played for sure.
Starfield has an FOV slider on Xbox so I'm hopeful too. But I'm not expecting it.
I've had FO4 reinstalled on my Series X for a couple days now and it's very difficult to resist jumping in prior to the 25th.
Honestly there isnt gonna be a huge diff between the update and if you just enable those mods that toggle 60 fps and stuff while retaining 4K resolution. Unless you REALLY care about achievements