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GTA style? I'm okay with fast travel as long as I'm stuck in gamebryo lol
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Fallout 4 Speculation Thread - Graphic talk elsewhere please.
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This guy is full of shit. I'm in a position to know.
That's what I figured, especially with that part about energy weapons being a focus. Weird.
Not trying to bait you one way or the other, but I'm partial to the cryosleep theory. It's interesting at least.
Fallout-with-swords
Banned
This reads like gibberish
Blue Ninja
Member
I'm no fan of fast travel myself, but as game worlds grow in size so does the need for a fast travel system. Take The Witcher 3, for instance. I tend to go everywhere on horseback, but sometimes an objective is all the way over on the other side in Skellige, which would take me at least half an hour to reach by horse and then by boat. Sometimes you just don't have the time for that.
Yeah, give me a hardcore mode with a tent I can pitch to spend the night out in the wasteland. Gotta sleep hard.
Wolfe
Member
I feel about the same way, I really enjoy traversing on foot but sometimes the distance is too far or whatever reason I might have and so I use it sometimes frequently. I would welcome something like a motorcycle we could or had to rebuilt that we could use to get around a bit quicker on. I don't need the thing to zoom across the land, a reasonable pace goes a long way in a wasteland.
And the game plays in real time, so immersive!
-duskdoll-
Member
OK so i was completely wrong when i said that that F4 could take place before F3 because of the trees. As other people have pointed out, it probably means that it's set in a world after activating the purifier from F3, and that civilization has moved on and people started rebuilding the world.
Octavianus
Banned
You mean like they had already been doing in other parts of the world before F3?
I hope they hired people who have finished high school to write the story this time around.
Blue Ninja
Member
Meh, always felt the timescale used in Fallout/TES was fine. It's easily edited in ini settings, regardless.
I do hope they finally fixed the shadows reacting to time of day changes being less apparent. In Skyrim you could set your watch to those things.
On the subject of fast travel , i think Gopher has the best compromise
If you don't know ,Gopher wants to keep His playthroughs to be as immersive as can be and despises using Fast travel but just continuously running around the map can be tedious even for him .
Using the Mobile van mod fixes that nicely .
It is a mobile Player home that allows you to travel to select places around the map .
SO in essence ,he is using fast travell , but he does it in an immersive way .
If you don't know ,Gopher wants to keep His playthroughs to be as immersive as can be and despises using Fast travel but just continuously running around the map can be tedious even for him .
Using the Mobile van mod fixes that nicely .
It is a mobile Player home that allows you to travel to select places around the map .
SO in essence ,he is using fast travell , but he does it in an immersive way .
Fushichou187
Member
haha more like, not being able to hoard a full armory's worth of ammunition down your pants-- baby nukes and all-- around the wasteland helped break me of my hoarder tendency in games like this. Plus you actually have to eat, drink, and sleep else your health deteriorates to the point of death; my first time playing NV in hardcore I learned that companions could die too. Whoops. Sorry, Raul.
Blue Ninja
Member
Raul is the greatest. I was so happy when they finally fixed that bug that prevented us from completing his quest.
God, I should replay 3/New Vegas.
SliceSabre
Banned
I'm just hoping for more dungeons/vaults to explore because I absolutely loved that aspect of FO3 there were just an abundance of places to visit. Then I played NV and holy crap they made the Mojave wasteland a fucking BORE outside of the towns and for someone like me who prefers the exploration over the writing that was sinful to me.
Gozer the Gozerian
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You realize there were plenty of trees in F3, right? The ones in the F4 trailer look pretty much the same.
Unless you are talking about the live trees with the autumnal foliage, but those are only in the pre-war flashback scenes in the trailer.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
You realize there were plenty of trees in F3, right? The ones in the F4 trailer look pretty much the same.
Unless you are talking about the live trees with the autumnal foliage, but those are only in the pre-war flashback scenes in the trailer.
Have you ever seen.. a tree?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i theorize that Bethesda is going to remove most of the changes that Obsidian made.
Gozer the Gozerian
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There were dead trees in Fallout 3, and there are dead trees in Fallout 4. The only live trees in the Fallout 4 trailer were from the flashback before the bombs dropped. That's all I'm saying.
LurkerofThreads
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I want more of the curiosity type things. Seeing a place and the skeletons and objects and trying to piece together what exactly might have happened. It was fun and interesting to wonder if they shot each other, or offed themselves with pills or something. Or why they were obsessed with Lincoln and had a shrine to him. Stuff like that.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
No, no, no! Not those shriveled black things. Im talking real trees. Brown bark, green leaves, photosynthesis.. all that good stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J503Ko21QfM
That or they'll shove them all into a hardcore mode and remove the actual hardcore mode.
That's a line from 3 dog... He would repeat that constantly.
Gozer the Gozerian
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water_wendi
Water is not wet!
lol sorry about that. Should have linked to it in the original reply. "Wtf? Of course i know what trees look like!"
d00d3n
Member
That would truly be a shame, but not out of the question. I liked perks every level in a sense, in how every level up screen hade a "fun choice", but it was apparent that perks had generally been made weaker to balance it all out. The abundance of SPECIAL-boosting perks and the bobbleheads also forced them to gimp SPECIAL as well.
It seems like it should be possible to give meaningful perks every level, make SPECIAL choices matter and still have a balanced difficulty curve. Maybe slow down experience gain overall and notably increase the difficulty of end game content (including a portion of optional content)?
There's where you lost them.
RipperGrim
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I'm betting the character is gona have a voice for dialogue
d00d3n
Member
Sadly, you have a point.
Blue Ninja
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From Twitter:
Welfare
Member
Stahp. It's from a mod.
Blue Ninja
Member
Laaaaaaame. Wouldn't have put it past Beth for it to be real.
I think you need to stop experimenting with Jet.
I hope that we get a perk every 1-2 levels. I don't get why people like the NV system, a perk every what 3-4 levels? Annoyed me, didn't seem like nearly enough and didn't make me as excited to level.
hemtae
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New Vegas was every 2 levels.
Welfare
Member
Fallout 3 was every 1 level.
Fallout New Vegas was every 2 levels.
Fallout 2 was every 3 levels (or 4 if you had the Skilled trait).
I don't remember Fallout 1's system.
Personally I like both NV and 2's system. F3 became really easy with how many perks you could get. I think Fallout 4 should go with 2's system, but every 2 levels like NV and the return of 2's version of Skilled.
I preferred NV's system over 2. I liked that it wasn't every level, it made it feel more special and made you feel more like you gotta really think about which one to get. But in 2 it feels a little too stingy honestly (and makes it a lot harder to decide on one cause you know it will be a while before you get a next). It also made levelling up not exciting except for every third level.
Zoso
It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
Posted this in the other thread, but this Q&A Todd Howard did in 2009 shows that he wanted vehicles in Fallout 3, but they were cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrfdNJDVpR4&feature=youtu.be&t=40m5s
Maybe we'll see them in Fallout 4?
Maybe we'll see them in Fallout 4?
Lord of Castamere
Member
The trailer confirms that the Nukes dropped at 9:37 am EST. That's something.
Fushichou187
Member
I also wonder if they had done any actual protyping of vehicles in FO3 or if it was simply the idea of including vehicles was cut. If it was the latter, and wasn't because of any technical limitation, then I'd be surprised if we get them in FO4. Though you never know, this one being set in the Commonwealth where it seems at least some things have survived the war reasonbly intact, there could be a functional car or two.
I really like the idea that XNarte suggested as it seems to fit better with this world of limited resources that we have in the Fallout universe: