Angry Joe really tore into Fallout 76: Fallout 76 Review.

3/10 seems a bit much considering how much he hated it, to me I feel the game deserves a 2.5 or even a 2/10 or how I would rate it 1.5/5 but that's just me.

64 bit yes, but only one multicore processor.



I heard there was a class action suit being filed because Bethesda isn't issuing refunds.

Most online games don't issue refunds. People should know this by now.

Angry Joe showed a clip of someone tearing up a GameStop because they refused to refund him. People REALLY need to be careful when buying games nowadays, especially digital. I'd love to get a refund on my Dark Souls Remastered for the Switch but can't cause it's digital. You REALLY have to be selective on what to buy these days.

I've linked this before, but think it was before your time. Belivex' Modlist? houses a wealth of links to various kinds of graphics enhancement mods, but also stability and performance improvement mods. You might find something to help you there.

I assume you applied the 4gb patch to Oblivion.exe?

Khajiit still can’t understand what BGS were thinking. In what world does 76 sound like a good idea? The fact that the game was even let out of the gate makes this one seriously question BGS’s leadership and whether or not to buy any more of their games.

I haven't looked at that modlist yet. No, I'm not running that patch. That could be the cause of my issues. Cannot be certain.

I *am* using ENBoost.

Really glad I didn't pre-order it. The world itself looks awesome, but the interiors of the houses look "drawn," in = like cartoons.

And that cartoonish-looking Vault-Tec door (which also looked hand drawn) opening so fast and without sound? Fallout 3 really made you totally aware that something momentous was about to happen when that door slowly ground open (with all the realistic screeches and rumblings of a door thick and heavy enough to withstand an atomic bomb) being pneumatically rolled across metal tracks = you even heard the seal break where it had been sealed shut for so long!

Third = I can't imagine what they were thinking having no NPC's so the only interactions you had were with other players/holotapes/or robotics! (or beasts).

And the same exact Player characters as Fallout 4! They were almost the whole reason I didn't want to play in Fallout 4! (same as Skyrim; I couldn't bring myself to play in the game as ugly as all the characters were!). Until SubRosa taught me how to make a better looking character, I couldn't make myself play Skyrim either. And Fallout 4 is on the Steam sale for 14 dollars right now; I think I'd rather get that than Fallout 76 at this point.

Yeah; I agree = I think Bethesda dropped the ball on this game. Thanks for posting the Angry Joe response to it, that was a real heads up on putting my credit card back in my purse.








This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 27 2018, 09:26 PM

Hmm. Seems like ole Beth is getting on a bit. Too many mistakes too often.



Yeah, I think I'll stick with Oblivion and Fallout 3

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 27 2018, 09:25 PM

I started a new game of Fallout 3 a couple weeks ago; have been playing it steadily since!

Well, I mean, to be fair, if ugly characters threatened my chances to play a game, there is absolutely no way I would've played Oblivion with its horrendous potato faces and Morrowind with its weird segmented bodies (and it isn't simply a matter of how old they are, because I've seen plenty of games around both of their times that had considerably better-looking characters). Especially Oblivion. I won't hold up Skyrim and Fallout 4 as the shining beacons of character modeling, but a good amount of their characters I can stand looking at (with some sometimes stark exceptions).

Anyway, I'll keep my eye on Fallout 76 every so often, but I'm shying away from buying it for now. Wasn't really planning on doing so anytime soon, but I'm not even considering it in the near future.

It interferes with my immersion in the game = which is why I only played Morrowind after I could mod the living hell out of the appearance and animations of the characters and fix the combat to livable. (Same with Skyrim; I HAD to make the character younger and prettier to be immersed in her roleplay; and make the NPC's look better and move more realistically to be able to feel immersed in the game at all).

I also modded Oblivion's potato faces; but the vanilla faces actually didn't bother me as badly as Morrowind's or Skyrims. I also was fine with Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas's vanilla faces.

What bothered me in Fallout 4 was that every single male Player character and every single female Player character looked exactly the same; you could not change them enough to make them feel individual or unique at all. Even darkening the skin = they just looked like the same man or woman (but with dark skin). The Oriental settings = same thing, it still looked like the same character you started out with.

I am pretty sure that is why everyone was railing for a better CharGen on TES VI = because Skyrim's was the same way. What they NEEDED to do that they didn't = was to use a different skull/skeleton for each of the four races (with unique bone structure for that race) so they could have individual looks = which is what they did in Oblivion that made their characters tolerable. You could make a very unique character in Oblivion.

When you say "unique character in oblivion" I am reminded of Autism-Cat.

https://youtu.be/YEnTy9n49dk

As a side note, I got my game working. Yay!!!

We can fix that!

So what did you need to do to fix it?

Going to have to disagree that TES4 had better looking faces than Skyrim and Fallout4. Khajiit is honestly shocked someone would suggest such a thing. To each their own, this one supposes.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 28 2018, 06:22 PM

KCD Henry equipment & stats screen captures, 11-15-2018 vs 11-28-2018

First up is a capture of Henry as of Nov 15, first seen in an earlier thread posting.

Compare that to this capture from Nov 28. Equipment wise, the only carry-overs are a padded Coif and his mail leggings. As can be seen, his overall level and stats have increased. I prefer the coloring of his Nov 15 over-jacket, but the orange one of Nov 28 offers better protection, is more durable, and has I nice collar. Notice he's not not wearing his visored helm in either capture. He carries it with him, but prefers the better visibility of an open-face helm for travel and in some combat situations. Too, some pieces of 28 Nov armor look shinier than their No 15 counterparts due to Henry paying for professional cleaning service prior to my grabbing the image.

Henry mounted as of Nov 15 2018, re-cropped to include horse stats.

Henry mounted as of Nov 28 2018, a new image. Much is changed here. Henry has a new horse, one that carries appreciably more loot than his first mount. All horse gear has been upgraded, to include head armor. We could have gotten a more speedy mount for Henry, but that one gallops faster than Henry can control.

Worthless Addendum:
Henry during a third-person dialog scene, an 11-28-2018 image.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 28 2018, 08:24 PM

I didn't say Oblivion's were good looking, but they were more tolerable because they could be made to look unique. In Skyrim and Fallout 4; no matter what race you chose or how much tweaking you did they still looked exactly like the original character you started with (until the modders fixed the CharGen and skeletons).

In Oblivion I did use a body mod; but it was because I wanted to be able to put different underwear on my characters; bathing suits, etc. For my human race characters I did my own formula in CharGen for the faces that looked pretty good. I added a mod for better facial expressions and another for idle animations.

For my Khajiit I used one Khajiit mod that made my Khajiit look more like a cross between Khajiit and Imperial to match her background story; and it included a voice mod that changed the combat sounds to more feminine sounding. (for some reason the Dev's used male voices for female Khajiit combat sounds).

Also, for my own roleplay I did add two voice mods to my Khajiit (that used voice clips from Annah of the Shadows' voice from Planescape Torment).

I did tweak a few NPC's that I dealt with frequently to make them less potato-ee. (Eyja, Archmage Traven, Janus Hassildor, and Vicente. The only one I couldn't tweak into any semblance of decent was Vicente; I HAD to use a mod on him because they did some randomizing with his features that I couldn't undo = he was butt ugly!

But other than that, all of the mods in my Oblivion game were all fixing the game world; and I made most of them myself = better cities and towns, better Player houses, etc.

In Skyrim = I can't remember how many mods I used on my character's appearance alone; but I think it was between 7-12. I used every single one on the list SubRosa gave me; plus two or more to fix the animations in both my character and the game. Other than some texture changes and houses/foods/plates/beer (I made myself for my own personal game) = those were the absolute only mods I used in Skyrim.

In Morrowind it was the same; but not quite as bad because it took fewer mods to accomplish = I used one mod for combat; another two for animations; (that worked on all NPC's plus my character) another for bodies that also covered both my character and all NPC's; (Roberts) and on my character I had one of Emma's heads and one wig. Other than three Player house mods; those were the absolute only mods I used in that game.

In Fallout 4 I got into the CharGen and couldn't make the female look any different from the original no matter what I did. I played a very short time before shutting it down. I am waiting for someone (like SubRosa) who is adept at combining the beauty mods/textures/eyes/etc. to help me come out with a pretty character before I'll play it; just like I did with Skyrim and Morrowind. I just let it go by at the Steam sale for 14 dollars; that says it all.






This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 28 2018, 08:36 PM

I'm not sure I can remember what the vanilla face capabilities were in any of the games, as I had mods in each of them (even Daggerfall) to improve the characters' looks.

But Oblivion did have the largest range of change in its sliders, which unfortunately were linked together, so you couldn't change one aspect without affecting something else, so you'd fiddle for ages before getting what you wanted, or not. The extreme settings were very unreal.

Skyrim let you select from a pre-built set of morphs, rather than have sliders for size/position/etc. The one continuous slider was weight, which affected the entire body at once. So everyone added on Racemenu or similar to get that flexibility.

Getting more choice of body shape meant adding replacement body mods in every game from Morrowind on. (Daggerfall and earlier didn't have 3D bodies.) The built-in ones just didn't have the capability to be morphed in that way.

Heads got morphs in Oblivion, and there really was only one alternate head, even though there were many choices of body. Skyrim's mods even let you sculpt the face, one vertex at a time. Morrowind's heads were selectable, but not adjustable, so there were a lot of replacement heads available. Two distinct types there; one had the ears as part of the head mesh, the other had them as part of the hair.

I find ESO's limited, but that's compared with Skyrim enhanced by mods. It's about on par with vanilla Skyrim, but starting with a better basic model to tweak from.

I've not played the Fallout games.

Add the 4gb RAM patch.

Wish there was an error on crash that'd tell me the game ran out of memory or something.

As for Skyrim, I play SE and run a few character mods. UNP body, apachii SkyHair and the one super popular face enhancer, name escapes me atm. I don't run a skeleton or animations, physics or Fore's. I don't know if CoverKhajiits got ported, but I used it in Oldrim. I just can't play Oldrim anymore, SSE is so much more stable for me, even moderately modded. I had regular crash issues with Oldrim when I heavily modded it.

I also use Consistent Older People, but that's not a PC mod, but NPC looks. I also only recently started using RaceMenu, and mostly for the camera during character creation.

I should make a collage of my characters. I play almost exclusively Nords and Khajiit in most games, though my ESO main, Narisa Ulvani, was Dunmer. Most of my gals in Skyrim look the same(I start on preset 2) but that's ok with me, I'm not a super heavy roleplayer. Most of my characters are sellswords or hunters. One was a Vigilant.

My current Oblivion character has no story. No background. Just trying to get the hang of the game again and trying to be a do gooder type. Tempted to make a khajiit archer assassin though.... one of my longest DiD runs was a khajiit archer in Skyrim and I'm curious if it's play out okay in Oblivion or it'd end up gimped.

This post has been edited by Sakiri: Nov 28 2018, 09:42 PM

Poor Henry's dream of a better horse! Maybe eventually he will find one that is not quite as good as that dream horse (but better than his current plug horse,

Wow, congrats on both the mace and sword Mastery! Awesome! So I would love to hear how the tests with the maul pan out!