West Virginia Wayfaring and Vagabonding, Country Rooooooads, Take Me Hoooooooome Options

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

To the plaaaaaace I beloooong.




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Finally made this thread where I can put up some screenshots of my adventures in Appalachia. Hopefully others here will get the game eventually and put up their own too.

I can't put mine up at this very moment, but I certainly will soon. Whatever gameplay criticisms there may be, I absolutely love the scenery in this game. Who knew a post-apocalyptic wasteland could be so pretty?

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

Welcome, Mariah, to what looks like the wild and beautiful post appocalytic world of West Virginia. The scenery looks fabulous.

The scenery is quite fabulous...in some areas. Can't have the entire post-apocalypse that way. It's quite a varied environment. Applachia is broken up into 6 regions, but 3 of them I either haven't seen or barely touched. The starting zone, The Forest, is the beautiful one you see. Most of it at least. But it's really cool to have such variety, from the beautiful to the horribly contaminated and ugly. One zone is called the Ash Heap, which...well, you can probably imagine what that is like to some extent.

It's neat to see 76. It looks a lot like Fallout 4, including the autumn leaves. It seems like every Bethesda game is set in October or November.

While you can definitely see a lot of Fallout 4 art-style in it, there are also quite a lot of newer assets. Some of the detractors made it sound like just a simple asset flip, which it isn't. I'm not saying that that's what you meant, of course. I just remembered that being a criticism. But yes, some of it definitely does look a lot like Fallout 4.

I like her bowler. Cute.

Also, what the hell kind of armor is that in “Mariah, Appalachia Edition”?

Wood.

I guess that sounds sort of anti-climactic, lol. But there are some pieces of wooden armor that you find at low levels.

West Virginia does look good. The lack of other people makes the game definitely sort of spooky.

Gosh, the starting jump suit is sillier than ever. Are robots still hilarious to listen to? Have you grouped up with others yet?

I do have a few screenshots where I encountered other players. And they've all either just minded their own business or have been pretty cool. A couple days ago I did an "Event" where I had to prevent a prison break (it was mostly just feral ghouls, but I did encounter a few Super Mutants as well), and there will 2 other high-level players that appeared to be a team. I did a "wave" emote and one of them did it back. I really like how few people are in each game world, though. It really gives that isolated feel but you can run with another person or more if you really want to.

Vault suits sure have a way of accenting people's...posteriors. Vault-Tec has really patented that Fanastic-Bum Technology ™. And yes, the robots are as goofy as ever. The Protectrons still have the same voice and one named "Mr. Fluffy" was funny to listen to--he was making fun of the dead guy at the camp I found. My favorite so far, though, was the Robobrain I mentioned in the Fallout 76 thread named Biv E. Ridge. I'll see if I can find a video on YouTube of him or something, but he's great. He's a robot that was built to help college students make the alcoholic drink Nuka-Shine which had a...special ingredient that you find out as part of the quest. (That shot where the screen is blue happened after I drank the Nuka-Shine for the quest). He was also a drunk robot, but he didn't sound anything like the Robobrains you are used to hearing.

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2nd batch of screenshots coming up! So far, the only real way to hide the UI is to go into Settings and turn down the HUD opacity--which is really dumb since there are some great shots that you can't really do that for since the game doesn't actually pause. Also trying to figure out how to get the photos taken in "photo mode" out as normal screenshots.

There's Other People Here!

Mr. Fluffy

Ooooh...I Really Shouldn't Be Here

Dreaming of Nuka-Cola

Back to School

Mariah Means Business

The Motherlode

No Draining This...Er...Well, Not Exactly a Swamp

A Legend Made Real (My first Cryptid encounter in the game!)

Not Every Mutated Creature is Mean

The New Mistress of Mysteries (There is a questline that you start who you are basically a superhero. Have only done the first quest or two so far, though.)

Fireproof

Into the Fire