I started playing Fallout 4 for the first time a year or two ago, and about 3 weeks later, they announced the next gen update was coming so I stopped. Still waiting, LOL. Was playing Starfield for a while in the meantime and mostly enjoyed it, but bits were definitely wonky so I decided to wait for the updates/DLC to go back and finish. That's the open world game cycle now. You have to wait a year or so (or more) after the initial release date to get the "good, playable version." Ubi Soft kinda figured it out though by just making the same game over and over with different dressing.
I'm actually going to do a no-mod/free Creation Club stuff-only run first while I wait for the modders to get everything working. And I'm actually kinda excited for it? It's a weird feeling
I run a bunch of different mods on console, from Cheat Terminal (can essentially run New Game+ AND fix quests!), to a bunch of New Vegas weapons/items, graphical enhancements, gameplay fixes. There's good stuff.
Actually, the one thing I know I'll miss the most is "keep radiant quests in the Commonwealth". Can't go to Far Harbor or Nuka World at level 7, so don't send me there, Rhys/Halen!
I quite enjoy vanilla playthroughs of BGS games. I have hundreds and hundreds of hours with Elder Scrolls Fallout and Starfield all vanilla. When the next gen update comes to Fallout 4, Imma do a new survival playthrough.
Depends when F4SE gets updated. That's what will break the mods the most. Shouldn't really be too long. They made the starfield script extender really damn fast iirc.
I'm waiting to play it the first time until then. I've only ever played FO3. Planning to do New Vegas and 76 (is it single player friendly, does it cost anything on top of a GP sub?) followed by 4.
If you have gp you’re good to go and 76 is incredibly solo friendly. I have a little over a hundred hours into it and I’ve never needed another player. It’s pretty cool to run across them every once in a while or see a public event going on, but nowhere near necessary.
Yeah with mods 4 will look much better. That’s probably my biggest issue with 76 at the moment, is that textures and animations are really stiff. Especially seeing other players, sometimes it looks like they’re running at like 15 fps. If you can get past that, it’s a great experience though!
76 is singleplayer friendly. You will find yourself doing events with other people, but that's fine, it'll make them go by faster. If by GP you mean GamePass Core or GamePass Ultimate then you'll be fine.
I’ve honestly never heard of that. The only real issue I’ve had with FO4 is the game entirely breaking on pc to the point it won’t start, but that was definitely my own doing.
Hell, I was so put off by the game I never got through it all but it was never THAT bad... now I definitely want to play it. It just felt nothing like the experience I had playing Fallout 3, New Vegas and Oblivion (and I guess Skyrim a little bit)... nothing else in the Fallout world has ever topped that experience. Unfortunately missed out on the early ES and Fallout games.
what's crazy is that's just steam... the game is also on gamepass as xbox owns bethesda now and i imagine a lot of people just play it through that. So PC current players probably quite a bit higher than helldivers if you count those but helldivers is only steam if i recall corectly (and PS5, but fallout is also on xbox/ps5 so lets stay to just PC for this comparison).
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u/supermightymatt Apr 21 '24
Will go up even more after Thursday when they release the update.
A lot of people are waiting for that before they do another play through