Fallout 4

[chemn]

Ha, if I knew that before I'd probably be able to play it at midnight

 

[8den]

Fallout 4 Has Lots Of Bugs, Reviewers Say

 

[J Ed]

I wish my laptop would run it

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Got my (physical) copy, just starting up now.

 

[Orang Utan]

Got my (physical) copy, just starting up now.

How come you got it early?
(Mind you I don't expect to hear from you now for another two months)

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm passing the time before tomorrow, 1) wrangling with Crysis 3's camera and graphics controls; 2) trying not to throw everything out the window because I went for the 4790K instead of the hexacore.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Ridiculous though, I can play Crysis 3 maxed out in 4K, but I'll bob around 40fps on ultra at 1440p in FO4? Those shadows and god rays better be worth it

 

[fishfinger]

I've been playing it for an hour or so. The auto config set all the options to ultra, and I've been getting a steady 60fps @ 1920 x 1200 with an i7 3770K and GTX970.

 

[Tony_LeaS]

Final countdown time. Too early to start a Fallout 5 thread?

 

[Tony_LeaS]

Shall see you all in 4 days!

 

[Vintage Paw]

I've been playing it for an hour or so. The auto config set all the options to ultra, and I've been getting a steady 60fps @ 1920 x 1200 with an i7 3770K and GTX970.

That is ridiculously good news. I wonder what's going on with all the weird benchmarking then?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Ah, sounds like it's a proper Bethesda game.

Someone I follow on twitter:

Raiders appearing right in front of me. Getting stuck on geometry. Voices cutting off. Subtitles cutting off. CTDs. I'm 2 hours in.

 

[Epona]

Well it didn't take me long to be limping around overencumbered
Anyone know yet whether any containers are safe to store stuff in?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Enjoying it so far?

 

[Tony_LeaS]

Got tomorrow off so enjoying a decent nights sleep, but enjoyed so far. One major bug, my dog just fucks off into thin air and then reappears every now and again.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Mine's being delivered tomorrow morning apparently.

First nice screenshots already appearing in my contacts' flickr streams.

Like this, for example:



He's the master of FO screenshots, imo, and created the most popular FO3 ENB back in the day (and sort of ported it to FO:NV). And he's a jolly nice chap!

His performance gives me some hope. He has a GTX970 and is getting 60fps on ultra (with sunrays at medium) at 1080p. He's playing downsampled for the most part though, 3840x1482, and says he's getting above 30fps so far. Before he turns his ReShade config on, of course. Woo!

 

[fishfinger]

That is ridiculously good news. I wonder what's going on with all the weird benchmarking then?

I must apologise. Everything is on ultra/max except for god rays, which are "only" on high .

 

[Epona]

Enjoying it so far?

Fucking loving it!

Finding myself looking at the help topics a lot at the moment, as some things aren't exactly obvious and they aren't pointed out to you - how to get out of power armour had me scratching my head (hold E, as it turns out). Lockpicking and Hacking are exactly the same as in previous Bethesda Fallouts though, so there is some familiar ground there, you won't have to learn a new way of doing those which suits me!

I thought I might have problems with frame rate as my CPU desperately needs an upgrade - in some other games it causes a bit of a performance bottleneck - and it is 'minimum requirement' rather than a recommended for FO4, but it's all perfectly playable on ultra settings and I haven't yet noticed any issues.

 

[Epona]

I'm in love with the settlement building thing.

 

[ohmyliver]

Can those with actual physical discs tell us how much additional files etc it downloads?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Can those with actual physical discs tell us how much additional files etc it downloads?

Not sure on size but it didn't take very long. It's not a 20gb monster or anything.

Played for a couple of hours last night. First impression is that it's very much like 3. Which is fine with me. Not had any bugs so far.

 

[ruffneck23]

ok played about 40 mins this morning at 6am before work

im not sure what the fuss about the graphics is, but it looks lovely on my rig ( admittedly its pretty phat ) , just got out of the vault but then had to stop or i wouldnt have come into work

 

[Epona]

Hmm well I seem to have forgotten to sleep

Agree with Monkeygrinder's, it feels like Fallout 3 but with some good extra shit added, which is tbh just what I wanted. Had a couple of Bethesda style glitches but nothing making me tear my hair out or making the game unplayable - Dogmeat getting stuck in furniture occasionally but I think he despawns and respawns behind you if that happens (at least that is the way it seems to happen).

Not sure I'm going to get much of a chance to play later, can you believe it, my husband's computer has broken AGAIN? So I will be trying to diagnose it, AGAIN. Hopefully it is just something worked loose, the bloody thing isn't switching on, it's just dead. I swear he is cursed when it comes to electronic goods.

 

[Epona]

Dogmeat is superb btw. It's well worth paying attention to his barks/whines/growls to alert you to stuff.

 

[8den]

I did not know You were a lady Epona.

 

[Epona]

I did not know You were a lady Epona.

Well Epona is the name of a female deity, so that is a big clue. I wouldn't describe myself as a lady though!
However, if it was me commenting that I have a husband that led you to that conclusion, that doesn't mean a lot, I could be male and have a husband.

 

[8den]

Actually I clicked the name around the time you said your husband. Been many years since I studied classics.

 

[ruffneck23]

i thought you were male and had a husband

not that i care lol

 

[moon]

Epona is very much a female.. I remember going to a dancing thing at the Windmill in Brixton with her about 10 years ago.

 

[Epona]

I am looking forward to the mods that add a trillion and one new furniture/decor items.