I thought I’d write a blog-formatted list of things I think Fallout 4 does wrong. Thus far, I’ve sunk about 32 hours into Fallout 4 and my overall opinion is that it’s ****ing fantastic!
However… there are some things that are horrid.
Base building is FAR from being good.
Base building is okay, it’s a good start and something I’d expect from an underfunded company. However, we all know Bethesda is far from underfunded (I assume). The auto-snapping is helpful at times, but also very annoying and very frustrating. Precision placement is completely non-existent especially if you’re near something that can be snapped on to. This is particularly frustrating for me being an OCD base builder. The number of things you can start off building is adequate, but not good. Assigning settlers to certain things is kind of weird as their actual duties/actions are unspecified. This might be kind of far fetched, but I wish I could remove things like leaves from the floors of the default houses in Sanctuary, for example.
Companions don’t die (I don’t think).
I’ve had many different companions so far and I’ve concluded that companions do not die, when their health drops low enough, they fall to the ground and become useless until you heal them or until a certain interval of time passes. To me, this is very stupid. Knowing that my companion will never die completely changes the way I go about gun fights.
*However, generally I do not have a companion. I prefer to explore by myself.
Helping certain settlements automatically makes you responsible for them.
Let’s say you stumble upon a small farm and a NPC talks to you and suddenly you find yourself doing some mission for them. When you complete the mission, they become a settlement of yours and now you’re responsible for making sure there are enough beds, food, water and defense. I hate this. It makes me purposely avoid doing certain missions because it’s impossible to single-handedly build for 50+ settlements.
I don’t know. Fallout 4 is awesome and I’m having a blast playing it, but these are some of the things I really dislike. Especially the base building. I could go on for a long time about how flawed I think base building is.
I agree with you. I guess base builidng is a feature in it’s early stages. If they made it the same calibre of base building to that of Forge from Halo, then things would be grand.
Yeah, I also don’t like the multiple settlements thing. I haven’t got enough time to handle 7 settlements, everyone go to Sanctuary ffs.
I’ve definitely read somewhere that Bethesda was going to officially support third-party mods for Fallout 4, but I have no idea how credible that statement is. And for Xbox One, I also have no idea. I’m on PC!
But you’re so right… if base building was like Halo than damn the days I would put into to just building bases…
Also given time someone will find a way pass the encryption on the local save caches, and find a way pass the tampering protection that Microsoft also added on the saves.
Check again Zodiac sir, there are now around 4,867 files with 19.78 million downloads to date. And I still think that the Nexus Mod Manager is way better than the shitty Infinity program. Also the PC mod organizing tool called LOOT is better than anything that this new outdated owner can come up with. And on a side note Infinity could never get as good as the Eclipse tool or the Horizion tool due to the fact that its save and resign function is always throwing out corrupted saves, as in the security sectors with in saves aren’t getting fixed correctly.
Already installed texture mods since those pictures were taken, so my game already looks better than at those times, and I have them listed in the order of their age, so first pic being the oldest.
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Sidenote, you HAVE to use embedded links to not have this ■■■■ system automatically turn them into full images.
Any idea if a base could be built into another Megaton? It would be so cool to be the only one in the fallout 4 wasteland with a base that has a still functional H-Nuke in the middle of it.
Actually, you probably could while using a mix of mods and console commands.
I’ve seen some areas in the game which are basically just craters / sinkholes.
There’s a few mods out there that let you build wherever, so mix in a bit of that. Use the Cheat Engine table (on the Nexus) that allows you place items in red zones, use console commands to fine-tune object placement, spawn in the fast travel marker (though not sure how that would work, never tried this whole scenario), and it could theoretically work.
Settlers might become an issue, but would have to actually see how they act since the areas that I can think of are still locations on the map.
It would definitely be far easier once the proper tools are released early 2016, but still should be possible at the moment.
