All Things Fallout, A Non Game Specific Discussion Thread Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Khajiit had something to say related to the Fallout series but didn't see a thread that it would fit in. So he made one!

This one was thinking that he would love to see a spinoff game from the main Fallout series that takes place in post apocalyptic China. Khajiit thinks it would be interesting to see things from their point of view and to see what is going on over there after the Great War ended.

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

I returned to Fallout 3 and 4 in the past few days, upping the ante in difficulty. I had already set Fallout 3 to be harder before I stopped playing, and returning to it now, it might be the most compelling gameplay I've had in the game. I ran out of stimpaks twice and had to tread lightly in enemy areas, with numerous close calls with Talon Company, Deathclaws, and Yao Guais, among others. I made a large loop around most of the northern part of the map, starting from the very edge of D.C. (near Friendship Heights, I think), going through Vault 108 (haha, Gary!) and cutting through several satellite arrays, among other places. I ended at Megaton, not wanting to just simply fast travel. I'm not going to completely eschew fast travel, but I want to greatly limit it as part of the experience.

In the case of Fallout 4, yes, I started Survival Mode. Even though its Survival Mode, there are a few annoying, unfair aspects that really bug me. You can't use the console at all--which I get to an extent, but now I can't make nice screenshots. There is supposed to be a way to go into the game files to enable it and still play Survival, but partly out of laziness and partly out of worry of messing something up I haven't tried doing it. The other major annoyance is that stimpaks heal soooooooooo sloooooowwwwllllllyyyyy. I have had to cower behind cover several times after getting hit because you have to be really quick about defending yourself, since the stimpaks heal at the speed of molasses right now. AND when you are low enough on health, you get a big pop-up that really breaks the flow of things and usually stops you from reacting sufficiently. I hope it doesn't keep doing that. Lastly, the hunger and thirst seems to have too much randomness for when you need to eat or drink. One time, not even 10 seconds after I quenched my thirst, I suddenly became parched. There's different levels of hunger and thirst, but it often just goes straight to the most dire level of each.

HOWEVER, all that being said, I'm actually quite enjoying Survival Mode in Fallout 4. It definitely feels like you are just scraping by and there have been some memorable, compelling gameplay moments already. I made a new character named Sandra for it. I'll detail more about my adventures later.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I returned to Fallout 3 and 4 in the past few days, upping the ante in difficulty. I had already set Fallout 3 to be harder before I stopped playing, and returning to it now, it might be the most compelling gameplay I've had in the game. I ran out of stimpaks twice and had to tread lightly in enemy areas, with numerous close calls with Talon Company, Deathclaws, and Yao Guais, among others. I made a large loop around most of the northern part of the map, starting from the very edge of D.C. (near Friendship Heights, I think), going through Vault 108 (haha, Gary!) and cutting through several satellite arrays, among other places. I ended at Megaton, not wanting to just simply fast travel. I'm not going to completely eschew fast travel, but I want to greatly limit it as part of the experience.

In the case of Fallout 4, yes, I started Survival Mode. Even though its Survival Mode, there are a few annoying, unfair aspects that really bug me. You can't use the console at all--which I get to an extent, but now I can't make nice screenshots. There is supposed to be a way to go into the game files to enable it and still play Survival, but partly out of laziness and partly out of worry of messing something up I haven't tried doing it. The other major annoyance is that stimpaks heal soooooooooo sloooooowwwwllllllyyyyy. I have had to cower behind cover several times after getting hit because you have to be really quick about defending yourself, since the stimpaks heal at the speed of molasses right now. AND when you are low enough on health, you get a big pop-up that really breaks the flow of things and usually stops you from reacting sufficiently. I hope it doesn't keep doing that. Lastly, the hunger and thirst seems to have too much randomness for when you need to eat or drink. One time, not even 10 seconds after I quenched my thirst, I suddenly became parched. There's different levels of hunger and thirst, but it often just goes straight to the most dire level of each.

HOWEVER, all that being said, I'm actually quite enjoying Survival Mode in Fallout 4. It definitely feels like you are just scraping by and there have been some memorable, compelling gameplay moments already. I made a new character named Sandra for it. I'll detail more about my adventures later.

I love survival difficulty in F4... with the Survival Options mod active. Gets rid of anything annoying that you don’t like about Survival difficulty. In a normal game, I usually turn off save only when using a bed because I think that is stupid. A Bethesda game should never limit your saves. There’s just too much that can go wrong with their janky programming. I also tone down the need to sleep as frequently just a bit because I felt it was waaay too frequent. Other than that, I pretty much leave it as is. Unless I’m playing a vampire.

All that said, I don’t play F4 on any other difficulty.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 26 2020, 02:33 AM