Fallout 76 - online Fallout spinoff from Bethesda - now on Steam with Wastelanders NPC expansion

As F76 is free for the weekend and I am at a loose end I figured I would give this a go. Any tips for starting out rusty_shackleford ??
I usually play a sneaky/sniper type.
Thanks.

 

Right, so that's quite a dilemma, as the best locations are camped.

 

Only have a few tips I can think of:
Go into gameplay and turn pacifist mode ON. You may need to do it again after hitting level 5(?) if you did it before that.
Go into visuals and turn Power Armor HUD OFF. It sucks.
The first time you open up your Pipboy, either right click or hit V to switch to the 'alternate' UI. It's a lot better because there is no time spent waiting for animations.
Food and drink buffs of separate types stack.
Being well fed/well hydrated provide good bonuses, keep an eye on your hunger/thirst.
Sleeping in a bed for a while provides a temporary XP bonus, and playing an instrument for a while provides a temporary action point regeneration bonus.
You don't have to pick a perk of the same SPECIAL you increased. It just defaults to the perk screen of that SPECIAL score.

The game will hold your hand pretty well at the lower levels and explain most of the important things as you progress through the quests. There's two separate main quest lines that converge at some point then diverge again.

 

Find an obscure spot with a node to put an extractor on it with a water supply nearby. You can never have too much purified water.

This goes far beyond works on my machine. Visually they can't justify the awful performance and clearly their open world design is too ambitious for their tech. They need to scrap it and start over. Fast forward to No Man's Sky: Gamebryo edition being fucking terrible.

 

I am wasting 5 mins each time I log in switching servers, because some fukn youtube hipster must have told everyone: "OMG this spot is, liek, awsome, everybody must camp there!!!!!"
Go away you twats, this is my {{{{safe spez}}}}. I claimed that before you were even born.

That said, a place with a resource node (*cough* acid *cough*) is actually not as important as one my might think. You only get a meager 10 per hour or so out of it, and you have to empty it once it has 10 or nothing is produced. Not worth it IMO, I get my acid faster from cave crickets.
Access to fresh water is mandatory tho, nice extra income selling the purified water.

 

Right, so I just happen to be situated on *that* acid spot atm. My camp is very bare-bones just in case the location^3 becomes too troublesome. Every 4 server switches or so is triggering it (me).

I can't stand that cave cricket farm so...not sure what to do. I was using Hemlock Holes, but building on that spot over and over is a pain, and it nullifies the ability to switch servers when you're holding down a workshop.

Caps must be pretty scarce if selling water is still a source of profit at high levels.

 

It better not be the "flower" SE of Rose or I'll charge you for all the time you made me serverhop.
There are few other similar acid spots, 2 near the dawg and 1 south of the crooked bee.... but IIRC they have no lake. So you would need to build the other pump.

I would live near Lake Eloise, it's the bestestest spot ever for looks AND utility. But I don't like the neighbors.

Here's a handy map for you in case you want to GTFO of my place in the sun.
https://i.imgur.com/SCKegzb.jpg

 

Double XP event, eh. Feels tempting to start a fresh char and stumble around like a noob again. Getting killed by a mudcrab. Having no ballistic fibre... ah yes, good times.

I almost dropped 120 ballistic fibre on 'dexi the other day. That stuff's heavy in mah stash. But... nostalgia prevented me from doing it. Gonna drop some for the next low level I meet.

Also I did not go through 10k+ .50 cal ammo. It was taken from me by a vendorbug. Others had the same problem. Do we get it back? Lol no. Recompensation for all the lead and steel? Fuck no.

 

So after all the shilling in this thread I thought the free weekend was a good opportunity to see if this was, actually, good. Steam says I've played 2 hours which I know is barely scratching the surface, but I have no desire to log in anymore. It's like the exact same game they've released how many times already? Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3/4 and now 76. It's the same thing every time. Press W, hoover up crap, shoot/ club some brainless mob that follows 1 of 2 scripts and move onto the next POI. How can people still find this engaging after almost 15 years of it? (Yes I know Bethesda didn't start with Oblivion but the games before that did have some elements of originality and spark of inspiration.) Quests may have some branching dialogue, but the terrible combat and moment-to-moment gameplay remain the same. The online element makes this the most 'theme park' like of all their games and this feeling you're moving from one ride to the next has never been stronger. It all just seems so... pointless. I think I'm finally reaching the point where I can say 'I'm too old for this shit.'

Maybe it grows on you like mould, but I'm so glad for the free weekend so I can safely ignore this thread.

 

Made it to 15, graphics are such downgrade from F4 ENBseries custom SSAO, IDK what they thought. It apparently has "enlighten" for GI, horribly enough it doesn't fit and you can't turn it off. Not one situation I thought desaturated textures and "greedy" AO would run circles around this. They do some reprojection tricks but cannot get perfomance back and next to ample geometry it sinks just like Boston. This engine never needed enlighten but world space shadow prerender tech.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout76/mods/605

 

Reputation dailies must be yuge fun with this. Go to the spez station, be told to go to Watoga and come back. That's... 1-2 hours of walking. REAL TIME.

 

Too late for me, but was intrigued and found you can turn off Enlighten thru cfg edit (I already had to do that to get 144hz display to run >36hz)
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/bu5xxh/pc_lighting_bugglitch_workaround_set/

Less glow, better shadows(easily 10* better thru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzS0Zspn2Ig&feature=emb_title )
Probably results in better gameplay generally because devs play their own games less reluctantly.

 

Good thing for the free weekend or I would have wasted 15 euros on this piece of shit. It's not worth 5.
The world is empty. Most locations is some small ruin (not even an interior cell, just a copy pasted building) with 3 enemies in it and for the past 5 or so hours I've been fighting the same beef jerky looking not-ghouls with green shit sticking out of them. Much like in Fo4 I'm stuck using the absolutely repugnant looking pipe weapons. Also, the base building garbage is back and the first mission an NPC gives me is to build something. Fuck that.

 

Any chance you can pastebin your config for us? Contained in a /spoiler warning?

 

The shadow part was just wishful thinking if they were to embrace actual cutting edge inhouse development than the off the shelf and retrograde + discontinued (? ) Enlighten. That stuff I linked is sneekpeek into nextgen way of doing AO but for PC this is actual.

144hz is fixed the same way as F4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/9stq0k/how_to_uncap_frame_rate_144hz/

 

This isn't true, this will completely break physics in FO4 and shit will start flying all over the place. Physics isn't tied to FPS in FO76.

 

Only happens when you are past 100fps, basically no Issue because that happens when you look into terminals (you get past that by writing 60max fps into enb overlay), plus once a week in narrow interior without enemy.
My framerate alternated between 48-72, better than 30-60.

 

Freely admit that I have technical/general interest in development of exploration genre, and in the works of Istvan Pely , the rest of this stuff is "baggage ".

 

It was directed at the recent postings in this thread in general, nothing personal.

 

so did bethesda manage to turn this into a decent game?! seeing a lot more people play it these days

 

Well, it's still free week. If you are bandwidth rich download it and try it yourself.
After that you could still join all the edgelord alt accounts in this thread and call it shit.

Best deal.

 

Played the game now. Wrote a review. I'm level 20 something.

It's not as much of a joke as I thought it would be. The dialog trees are more like dialog shrubs, but it's not bad. I will probably continue playing until the trial is over.

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If you see someone named Prosperian or globglogabular (not sure on spelling), that's a men.

Did anyone else get a hardened sniper rifle during their West Virgina Mills mission? I got a pretty good one that dropped.

 

The free week apparently also brought back all the cock of duty rejects looking for easy lowlevel prey.
Saw 2 lvl300+ hiding in front of v76, waiting for fresh lvl5, who did not pacifist, to fast travel there...
When I claimed a workshop with my lvl10 mule for the daily atoms, a lvl600 jumped in to kill me. Well joke's on him, she had no scraps or caps.
Plus the amount of group invites by hidden chars to cheat you into pvp is hillarious.

And half of the low levels names look like someone hit all buttons at once in desperation.

"It just works."