E3 2018: Fallout 76 is online-only

XP-200

2018-06-11 08:43

And for one brief moment i thought were were going to get Borderlands style coop mechanics in a new fallout game, but alas. 🙁

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sverek

2018-06-11 09:00

in before fallout battle royal.

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Elder III

2018-06-11 09:23

If you have the option to play on a private server and only invite people that you want to play with it could be all right. Depending on game mechanics, how it scales with fewer people on a server, performance issues, etc... I could see it potentially being fun. It's early, but so far I'm thinking of it as a separate game that is set in the Fallout universe, not as a full on 100% Fallout title.

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KissSh0t

2018-06-11 10:09

I thought he said you can play it by yourself?

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Fox2232

2018-06-11 10:48

Elder Scrolls Online... Online Single Player game with a Lot of Bystanders. Or maybe they fixed that thing with players not being able to help/play quests with others if they already finished them. And are shown only as some Light clouds in quest areas. I would not mind ARK like sandbox from Fallout environment. It would actually be great. But I have bad feeling about Fallout Online being just ESO skin.

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scatman839

2018-06-11 12:10

KissSh0t:

I thought he said you can play it by yourself?

You can. In the same way you can play pubg alone or ff14 alone. Still other randoms around you. Game will be wrecked when you get big roving bands of people cooperating to ruin everyone's game and blow everyone up

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sammarbella

2018-06-11 12:24

Online only, single player deprecated. That crap again...:(

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vonSternberg

2018-06-11 14:06

Another one bites the dust

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SpajdrEX

2018-06-11 14:23

Fox2232:

Elder Scrolls Online... Online Single Player game with a Lot of Bystanders. Or maybe they fixed that thing with players not being able to help/play quests with others if they already finished them. And are shown only as some Light clouds in quest areas.

That was fixed long time ago, game is in much better shape now (surprisingly!).

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Solfaur

2018-06-11 16:14

sverek:

in before fallout battle royal.

Fucking hell man, you can bet that this WILL BE A BATTLE ROYALE of some sort. Battle Royale is to games what RGB is to new computer hardware. You don't have it, you don't exist. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PessimisticDeadAndeancockoftherock-size_restricted.gif

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The Laughing Ma

2018-06-11 18:57

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scatman839

2018-06-11 22:21

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/8qc88i/todd_howard_clarifying_fallout_76/

-Always online, meaning there will always be other player in the world. No option for just playing without other players. -No traditional friendly human NPCs, just players. Will be robots and stuff though. -Mods and private servers coming after launch, eventually. Might be more stuff, but that's what comes off the top of my head. EDIT: Non-76 Related Topics: -Starfield is in full production, semi-playable state. Been their focus for years. -ES6 is still very much pre-production. Not playable. -Todd says most of his work time is dedicated to game in their creative pre-production stage and then working on them to get them out the door near the end of production.

[–]avboden [score hidden] 33 minutes ago* Online only, absolutely zero offline NO human NPC - all players seen will be real people. If you see raiders, they're real players. (edit: but will have robots/terminals) Real-time VATS (has to be for PVP) They're still working on balancing how you can chose to do PVP vs not. Trying not to make it "griefy" No mods at launch (but planned for future) still very much in-flux. Sounds like they have no idea really what's going to happen yet "will it be a game as a service with updates and such?" answer: YES very new for Bethesda, no promises on timeline.

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SacredKnight27

2018-06-11 22:24

Eh, I still got Starfield and ES VI to look forward to. I was hoping there'd be more single player options to 76, but, outside of that when it comes to Fallout looks like I'll just be waiting for Fallout 5 , which I'm sure will eventually be a thing unless between now and five years from now the company goes belly up. I'm not buying, due to the production of the former two titles, that they're going away entirely from single-player, like a lot of people are fretting.

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illrigger

2018-06-12 03:09

"Trying not to make it 'grief-y'", eh? If you have PvP, you will have griefing. It takes a special kind of a**hole to be a griefer, and that particular type of sociopathic sub-human's most defining trait is persistence in finding ways to invoke suffering. This is why the nuking mechanic is so troubling. There WILL be groups of people who after a few months do NOTHING but nuke whatever you have taken the time and effort to build - no matter how insignificant. They could make nukes cost $100 in real money each, and it would still happen. Which I guess is why the world is so much more f**ked up in the other games than this one - griefers spent the first 25 years after reclamation day nuking everything.

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Dragam1337

2018-06-12 03:26

Yeah, i have all the previous fallout games... i won't be getting this... it's like beth doesn't listen at all to their core customers, or they simply don't care, and just wish to ride the mmo / online survival game wave, and profit on it - fack it if they alienate their usual customers.

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sverek

2018-06-12 04:50

To be honest, if it something like borderlands, it's not that bad. As far as they manage to keep strong story line and single player experience intact, and just allow your friend join your game, so you can travel together, it's not bad.

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Netherwind

2018-06-12 15:18

sverek:

To be honest, if it something like borderlands, it's not that bad. As far as they manage to keep strong story line and single player experience intact, and just allow your friend join your game, so you can travel together, it's not bad.

Idk man, this doesn't feel good. If it's forced PvP then you won't be left alone anyway and will always have to fear to get a rocket up your azz instead of enjoying the calm SP aspects of the game.

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sverek

2018-06-12 15:35

Netherwind:

Idk man, this doesn't feel good. If it's forced PvP then you won't be left alone anyway and will always have to fear to get a rocket up your azz instead of enjoying the calm SP aspects of the game.

went AFK for 1 min, "friends" setup fatman under me, so if I move I leave a crater.

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Netherwind

2018-06-13 09:58

sverek:

went AFK for 1 min, "friends" setup fatman under me, so if I move I leave a crater.

I rofled 😀

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Alessio1989

2018-06-13 12:22

I do not wanna think about how much crappy will be that netcode...