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[wonko the sane?]

First half hour of the first PC beta test period!

 

I can't log in at all. But it is improving over the first few minutes where in the launcher itself was crashing. I've managed to get it to tell me it needs to download, followed by telling me I'm good to go. At least it's not telling me my login credentials are no longer valid.

 

The launcher now seems to be waffling between "you need to download!" and "you're done!".

 

Now it's trying to download the game... again.

 

Frankly, this is still a par beta experience for me.

[wonko the sane?]

Alright folks!

 

Word from bethesda is: the timer in the launcher is WRONG! The beta is for 2 hours tonight, starting in 1 hour and 14 minutes from the time I posted this! Try again then, and best of luck to you.

[Shadewing]

Gonna wait for the normal release, just got no money atm to pre-orderand my connection is rather shitty to try to DL it and play it.

[wonko the sane?]

Okay, so bethesda KNOWS there's an issue with the PC preload and the launcher. "Just let the download finish" is their suggestion.

 

Very few people will be playing tonight. If I have to sit through the download AGAIN: I might just be in time for the november 1st play period.

[HomelessOne]

https://kotaku.com/f...ZZUPMb26nxz7lEw

 

hehehe

[Ironbite]

Holy shit.

[The Doctor Who]

Pffhahahahaha! Wow, that's gotta be a new level of Bethesda-ing.

[wonko the sane?]

Yeah, a pretty epic fail... still got 20 hours on the new download...

[Ironbite]

There is a way to give yourself super speed in this game.

Ironbite-Bethesda..... the hell?

[Fishbug]

So far my main issue is that V.A.T.S. really wants to target other players, even ones I'm teamed with at the time, when there's a feral ghoul charging through the brush at me and Scorched coming out of the woodwork.

[wonko the sane?]

The launcher has a note that because of the "delete your game" bug, they've increased the hours on the nov 1st test session. I might even be redownloaded in time to join: provided I don't have pull ANOTHER 50 gig down.

[HomelessOne]

https://twitter.com/...506067071074309

 

"fallout 76's physics system is tied to it's framerate including your walk speed so you can literally outrun most enemies by looking at the ground"

[Ironbite]

Also you can edit the ini files in this game.

 

Ironbite-and completely break the physics engine because this is just Fallout 4's system.

[wonko the sane?]

...

 

hugging wat?

[The Doctor Who]

... Why?

I mean it's Bethesda, but like, even for them that's an astounding oversight.

Edited by The Doctor Who, 31 October 2018 - 09:36 PM.

[Ironbite]

I don't understand this.  Like Fallout 4 dropped like 3 years ago.  And then this thing came out of nowhere.  And it's an incredible mess of an engine but at the heart, it's Fallout 4's engine.  So anyone who wants to hug with it, already knows how to.  Because Bethesda didn't do any QA.

 

Ironbite-one wonders how you fix that in a week.

[wonko the sane?]

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does this mean the nexus mods for fallout 4 will work on 76?

Edited by wonko the sane?, 01 November 2018 - 07:12 AM.

[wonko the sane?]

Also you can edit the ini files in this game.

 

Ironbite-and completely break the physics engine because this is just Fallout 4's system.

Which was just skyrims engine with the "destroy it with lazers!" toggle activated. Which was just oblivion's engine after removing all the potatoes. Which was just morrowind's engine after the sanded down all the jaggies. Which was just dagerfall's engine after someone's jewish mother said "Eat, eat! You're looking thin!".

[Cradok]

Tying anything into framerate is just amateur hour, and always has been.

[wonko the sane?]

Amateur hour or not, the two hours I played were MAD fun. Slowly working out the controls (I use the xbox controller. HA!) and they managed to sandwich some solid functionality in there. Met some dudes, ran around and killed a bunch. The respawn rate on enemies currently seems high to me, but none of what we've run into so far has been overly threatening unless in large numbers. We setup our first camp, and I logged. Other things to do. My only complaint so far was that about an hour into the play session (relative to me, not the beta session.) the server had a hiccup, kicked everyone back to main, and then the VOIP option didn't work.

 

I currently don't know how to go about finding folks whom are NOT directly in front of you, but my beth account name is Wonko486, so if any are in, look me up. Or leave your name here and folks can add to their mutual friends lists. I'm already well on my way towards becoming the wastelands greatest chef!