NightShift
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Dude... if there's a sprint boost mod you can put in your power armour. There is already a jetpack so what's the chances?
Fallout 4 - Multiple E3 Gameplay Demos, Releasing November 10th, 2015
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Dude... if there's a sprint boost mod you can put in your power armour. There is already a jetpack so what's the chances?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I really do love this.
I partly hope the game encourages the user to make use of power armor in very dire situations. Maybe even have some enemies that are damn near indestructible without it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think they should restrict it's uses, but something just feels right about this approach and what they are implying with it. I mean, it is a big hunk of steel like a human tank. The practicality of slipping that thing on and being in it all the time just doesn't seem right. It seems like it should be less easy to use than the previous games but WAYYYYY more strong and powerful.
Even if power armor is just as versatile in 4 as the previous ones, I love the sense of heft they introduced for it. The weighted feel and that crushing animation it makes when your character hits the ground (see the Microsoft conference gameplay).
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
I'm gonna bet that the Power Armor now actually requires "Power," so you can only use it for a limited amount of time.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
This video of the Codsworth animatronic at BE3 is freaking me out. Likely just a joke for the event, but his long ass speech about "freedom" is rather elaborate. I can't help but wonder if he will betray the player sometime during the events, considering how heavily this is supposed to focus on the rivalry of synths and humans.
MiamiWesker
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Did they have any other gameplay demos outside the two conferences?
You have got to be trolling
So how does the first-person shooting look any different to your run-of-the-mill FPS?
ADS? Check. Recoil? Check.
It's foolish to assume that maybe the first-person combat is adequate? Or should I automatically hate something Bethesda has to offer because you guys say so?
lem0n
Member
For some reason I completely read your comment wrong. Never mind what I said, its still early for me. I apologize!!
No apologies needed. There was probably a bit of hyperbole in my comments anyway.
So, Bethesda can't rectify them? Yeah, you can judge current games on their predecessors but what good would that do. Best thing to do is remain cautious until we get some actual impressions. Not vilify them for design decisions they may or may not have learned from.
Depends on how crits are used. If balanced right it could become an interesting resource rather than just some random occurrence. Hopefully it's something that even if you spec your character and take perks that help increase its recharge rate you're not able to fire off a crit every time, but rather it will maintain it's value and something you don't just fire off willy nilly.
Being in a tight spot, close to death with just one more enemy left and being able to trigger a crit to take him out and save yourself could be really nice.
As I listen to the Ink Spots, I wonder what other songs will feature in Fallout 4. More Sinatra? Crosby? Some Ellington? I'm guessing it's safe to say that Three Dog and Galaxy News Radio will be back. I'd like to see them bring in another DJ as well. Perhaps recruit a popular Boston DJ to do some VO.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I don't know if shitty licensing is the cause rather than stylistic choice, but Bethesda seemed to prefer 30's and 40's tracks. New Vegas dipped even into the 60's, and their stations were pretty awful.
New Vegas actually had a lot of "modern" songs meant to sound old from collections made specifically for movies and games.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Everyone has their tastes. Beyond Dean Martin I was not a fan at all.
Some clarification of the settlement/crafting system:
http://www.gamesradar.com/fallout-4s-crafting-system-explained-bethesda/
Ingredient flagging sounds great.
http://www.gamesradar.com/fallout-4s-crafting-system-explained-bethesda/
Ingredient flagging sounds great.
So apparently Skills (Energy Weapons, Small Arms, Speech, Lockpicking, Science, etc) might not be coming back. I've seen a lot of speculation about it online, and it appears they might have incorporated the skills directly into perks and within the Special system.
That's pretty interesting, I'd say. It'll likely make characters more balanced now, given that it was very easy to beef up key areas of skills and become overpowered.
That's pretty interesting, I'd say. It'll likely make characters more balanced now, given that it was very easy to beef up key areas of skills and become overpowered.
I'm not sure what kind of skill/perk system they'll have now (if you look at pictures skills aren't listed in pipboy at all and a few other clues that it's changed from a skill system), but they better damn well have a way to pass or fail speech checks in some sort of way cause that's some of my favorite thing to do in Fallout (Try to talk my way out of things or try to play peacemaker and use my charisma/speech to come up with a better option).
I'll be very disappointed if there's no way to customize your character in a way that he/she is very good at talking her/his way out of things or is totally horrible at it and is likely to fail
I mean judging from what I've seen of the game and what people have pointed out, that's my biggest fear for Fallout 4. Is that they got rid of that entirely (maybe be more like Witcher where you just gotta figure out the right choice. I don't want that honestly! I want there to be a chance for my character to fail a check if her/his charisma is not good enough or his/her intelligence isn't high enough to know what to say).
Train of Midnight
Banned
Whatever they decide I have faith in them.
NightShift
Member
From what I've gathered, all the skills are very much present, they have just merged with SPECIAL like you said but also perks. As you can see in the demo with the gun customisation, repair is now a perk and a level 3 is required for pretty much everything. I don't know if this might be the cap but I also read somewhere that perk caps are at level 5.
My guess is that instead of levelling up and getting a handful of 15-20 so skill points you only get one perk point to upgrade your self. I'm not sure how I feel about this change but at least it sounds much more balanced.
Slackbladder
Member
All sounds pretty great to me. Looking forward to mods too. I want to tame and ride a Deathclaw!
After playing skyrim i'm really not ....
It sounded like a good idea on paper, but in the end every tree was flat damage/stat increases, half of the trees are completely useless, and there is absolutely no interesting synergy if not for a few that come from ... bugs.
It's boring and doesn't really allow you to build anything in between the three main archetypes which have barely anything going-on.
Warablo
Member
I'm sure they'll do a better job with making the system feel more useful. I do agree that there were a number of skills that were kinda useless for any character type, I am however convinced it's the right way to go for F4. It was easily to overpower your character with the previous skill system, and I think now that SPECIAL system is far more important for character growth, it can lead to much more defined character growth.
Anyway, the radiation system has apparently been reworked too. Radiation poisoning will now sap your HP. As in it'll take chunks out of your health bar. Pretty similar to MGS3's injury system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IiXj49Eieo
Hmm, not sure I like that radiation system. Prefer Fallout 3's approach.
I'm definitely open to it. I can recall a lot of cases in F3 and NV where I had minor rad poisoning, and I didn't really do much about it. This way it'll be a constant and more present danger to you. I mean if you're radiation poisoning is taking up 25% of your health, then that'll make battles much more difficult.
I do hope there's more too it, though. Like your stamina and movement speed are affected as well.
I do hope there's more too it, though. Like your stamina and movement speed are affected as well.
HadesGigas
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http://www.bethblog.com/2015/07/04/happy-4th-of-july-from-bethesda-game-studios/
This mural commemorates the many sacrifices of the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces.
From Lexington and Concord to the shores of Iwo Jima, from the Sea of Tranquility to the Anchorage Front Line, Americans have fought and died through the ages to secure our nations freedom.
May their sacrifices remind us all that freedom is a privilege afforded to the many, yet hard won by a noble few.
Mural at the Museum of Freedom, Concord
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I would pay for extra music DLC post launch.
Btw, when is the digital PS4 version going up for preorder?
Btw, when is the digital PS4 version going up for preorder?
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A More Normal Bird
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Isn't it more like inverse Skyrim? Skyrim had skills with no stats. Bethesda knows that SPECIAL is pretty key to Fallout, so instead they've gone with stats but no skills.