Fallout Shelter, Bethesda's Vault management sim - now on PC

[Galdred]

What is this abomination doing in GRPG anyway?

 

[Iznaliu]

all microtransactions are PER save file. what does that mean?
if you lose your save file, delete it, it gets corrupted, OR you get game over from the games mechanics, you LOSE ALL purchases forever.

What else do we expect from Beth?

 

[pippin]

This game is better than Fallout 4 because you don't have to pay to play it.

 

[Iznaliu]

This game is better than Fallout 4 because you don't have to pay to play it.

Never support Beth!

 

[Average Manatee]

all microtransactions are PER save file. what does that mean?
if you lose your save file, delete it, it gets corrupted, OR you get game over from the games mechanics, you LOSE ALL purchases forever.

Not to defend microtransactions, but the buyables are 1-use boxes that spit out RNG items when you open them. Why would anyone expect to reuse them?

 

[Modron]

Not to defend microtransactions, but the buyables are 1-use boxes that spit out RNG items when you open them. Why would anyone expect to reuse them?

The better question is why would anyone buy any when you could just edit your save file? This is like knights of pen and paper where you could just edit the money value using any number of cheat engine like programs.

 

[Athos]

Totally unrelated, but this man looks like a real life silenus.

 

[Sduibek]

Recently built a desktop with Windows 10. One of the first apps I saw while cruising the new OS UI was Fallout Shelter. I was like "Oh cool they ported a Fall-- OH GOD IT'S THIS GAME".

True story.
:russiastronk:

Also:

 

[Baterky]

sorry, but why is Fallout Shelter bad? I haven't played it yet, but my friend said she liked it a lot. What are the main problems?

 

[ArchAngel]

sorry, but why is Fallout Shelter bad? I haven't played it yet, but my friend said she liked it a lot. What are the main problems?

You wait too long for stuff to happen and later it becomes boring fast due to repeating content.

 

[Iznaliu]

sorry, but why is Fallout Shelter bad? I haven't played it yet, but my friend said she liked it a lot. What are the main problems?

"Some people like it" means nothing. Just because somebody's your friend doesn't mean they have the same tastes as you.

 

[Average Manatee]

sorry, but why is Fallout Shelter bad? I haven't played it yet, but my friend said she liked it a lot. What are the main problems?

It's literally a phone time-waster game that you "play" for a minute while on a bus or something. That's its problem. On the upside, its a decent one of those and fallout vaults are cool.

 

[Jacob]

Just play any of the late 90's/early 00's tycoon/sim game, they all scratch the same itch and are better

 

[you know what time it is]

sorry, but why is Fallout Shelter bad? I haven't played it yet, but my friend said she liked it a lot. What are the main problems?

It offers nothing new beyond the first hour, just more busywork (like in any other f2p mobile nonsense).

 

[Raghar]

Just play any of the late 90's/early 00's tycoon/sim game, they all scratch the same itch and are better

They require brainpower. And have lower res graphics.

 

[Iznaliu]

and fallout vaults are cool

It misses the whole point of the Vaults. It's like having a game set in the Civil War where the Confederates don't keep slaves.

 

[Average Manatee]

and fallout vaults are cool

It misses the whole point of the Vaults. It's like having a game set in the Civil War where the Confederates don't keep slaves.

The experiments part? That's what you're supposed to be doing yourself.

Surely I wasn't the only one to do vault 69?

 

[Iznaliu]

The experiments part? That's what you're supposed to be doing yourself.

The entire game is supposed to be about making the residents happy. This is like the wiki page about roleplaying in Oblivion.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

the only experiment you can do is inbreeding, and its outcome is 100% unrealistic and unsatisfying.

 

[Iznaliu]

the only experiment you can do is inbreeding, and its outcome is 100% unrealistic and unsatisfying.

Why? Should it create superhumans?

 

[taxalot]

I tried to like this game, because the concept is actually not too bad if you omit the Free To Play ; not too bad as in "play five minutes at work" once in a a while during a break at work and see what happened. Unfortunately the game offers only two difficulty settings. The easiest one provides no challenge and is worthless. The hardest one is more interesting but is downright unfair. When you have been playing well, and a random fire starts, and your Vault of 17 dudes goes down to a Vault of 3 survivors because because, it's not just a crappy thing that happens, it's bad gameplay.

As far as mobile "idle gaming" goes, Clash of Clans is much much better.

 

[Iznaliu]

Unfortunately the game offers only two difficulty settings. The easiest one provides no challenge and is worthless. The hardest one is more interesting but is downright unfair

You should complain to Bethesda about this.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Fallout Shelter is turning into online game thanks to Chinese (how ironic)
http://mmoculture.com/2017/11/fallo...eveals-online-version-of-popular-mobile-game/

 

[circ]

cool poster but we all know the game is best when flushed down the toilet

 

[Feyd Rautha]

can you see anywhere in the game what year it is?