Dropping the price of FO76 to $8 probably had something to do with that.
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Its had steep discounts since launch.
A price drop alone wouldn't boost player counts without some additional interest at the same time.
You can also get it free from prime gaming right now.
Meaning they will give you a free copy to keep, not just during a promo event.
Didn't they recently have a free weekend too?
Yes! I tried it again this weekend because of this. After all this time, you still cannot rebind the keys of the building mode, which is ridiculous and makes this game difficult to enjoy for me.
Its honestly not a good game and I've played all of them since fallout was released. Insisting on a world that requires other players to seem complete is an idiotic idea for a userbase that loves spending thousands of hours by themselves collecting trinkets.
I get the idea and a fair MMORPG would be dank but hard to pull off.
I have no interest in playing FO76, but for games where I really want to play but can’t rebind I use autohotkey. It’s trivial to write a rebind script to run before opening the game.
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I play via proton so autohotkey is not an option. I tried autokey which is a linux alternative but weirdly, while the key swaps worked on the desktop, it didn't have an effect within the game for some reason. I'm sure there is some way it can be done but I couldn't be bothered spending the time fixing it for this game which I don't have much hope i'll even like.
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Breaking their weak ass player count record for 76 is such a low bar. For reference Fallout4 is at 471,955 palworlds peak player count was 2,101,535 and stardew is 236,614. Puts 39,434 into perspective
Has it got any better? I played it once at launch on Xbox, and needless to say I havent ever gone back to it. Can I play in a private world with just friends or do I have to be subjected to the ill treatment of other players?
People in the reviews say it’s gotten much better since release but it’s still an average game at best. Private servers are only available if you pay a subscription.
Private servers are only available if you pay a subscription.
You don't suppose there are... other ...means of private servers yet, are there? Or is the game just that bad that even nefarious folk have no interest in it?
I checked it couple months ago and it felt like a regular fallout game with npcs and story missions. Wasn't a great coop though, since game didnt handle progress for each player.
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In just not interested in anything Bethesda any more. I played a ton of FO3 and Oblivion back in the day. A good bit of Skyrim. New Vegas was pretty decent. But the engine just feels so incredibly stale and outdated. The dead eyed characters barking their lines at you. Everything just feels clunky and unimmersive. It feels more like a chore than a fun game.
I ended up getting Starfield on release day for about $30 off through some deal, and I still felt ripped off. Honestly cannot be bothered to care about the next Elder Scrolls or whatever at this point.
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I still like Skyrim, it's a great "Run around, steal stuff and stab people" simulator. But the Bethesda Fallouts have never really clicked with me. Three was okay-ish, NV was in the "good-ish once you get used to the jank" range and 4 felt like a grab bag of half finished ideas. Since 76 seems to to be mainly drawing from the FO4 well, I never bothered playing it.
NV was non-Bethesda developers creating a game with Bethesda’s software. Hence the very different writing and structure.
If you want something that captures the experience of older Fallout games, the new Wasteland games have a lot of overlap while still being their own thing. Wasteland 3’s main structure resembles New Vegas in that you’re always trying to figure out what faction or combination of factions to support.
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I'm still waiting for Fallouts 5-75.
I instead started a new Fallout 4 game. Currently helping Valentine get out of a bind.
I don’t hate Fallout 76 but I can’t get into it. I think because of the lack of story, the fact that I can never find any good gear, and the quests I’ve found have been pretty boring. I need some semblance of structure or my ADHD brain is saying bye bye.
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The show has been surprisingly good. Especially impressive since it would have been super easy, barely an inconvenience, to screw up.
For anyone not wanting to play 76, and to try Fallout 3/New Vegas for the first time, or for a different run, I HIGHLY encourage you to get the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. Once set up (I got ALL the optional mods that they have a link to or something) you will have a better experience than vanilla Fallout 3, and more cohesion between the gameplay of FO3 and NV.
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Can't have been much of a record then, I never bought it, most of my mates didn't buy it.
The all-time peak sits, as of writing, at ~41k and was set less than 24 hours ago.
The peak when the game first launched was ~33k, a record it broke last Sunday, some three days ago.
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Prepare for a rush of new game-based TV now that this is working
I'm fine with that. As long as they do at least a decent job of adapting it.
Best I can do is another Halo style series where the director straight up says that he didn't look at any of the source material.
They won't though (usually).
And that's how it goes.
- Good TV show that respects the source
- More people consume more of the source and related products
- Different IP looks at this and had a brilliant idea
- Bad TV show that doesn't respect the source
- Everyone shits on toxic fans and how making adaptations is not worth it
- Different IP decides to challenge this
- Go back to step 1
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Twisted Metal was good.
That one was a nice surprise
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Just started playing New Vegas, never played it before. I've played FO3 and FO4 though. I love Fallout lore.
I hope you enjoy it! It's such a good game
Almost just gave in to give 76 a go, then remembered I had just bought GOTY edition FO3 because my love for Fallout started when my friend lent me FO3 on... either Xbox OG or PS3, so I am long overdue to do a full FO3 GOTY playthrough.
Use Tale of Two Wastelands! Much better experience.
Game has been lit, it's fun seeing all the new players
Anyone know if it’s possible to add the game key to Steam from the Amazon Prime promo?