Hey guys!
I thought I'd share my experiences so far with some of you without going too heavy into spoiling the game or hurting some peoples first time experience.
So I was pretty upset I didn't get to play the other day cause of work, but due to all the issues that happened with that beta so did a lot of others apparently. Today I woke up pretty late at like 1:30, immediately got on my computer and sat super excited ready to play! I initially got on and some dickhead streamer was being really rude and annoying to everyone in the vault. After that I met a guy that I then played the full 9 hour long beta with, we teamed up, added each other on Bethesda.net and Discord. We also hopped on SG TeamSpeak and played through the entire thing. Meeting someone right out of the Vault, to play with them for 9 hours and become friends is an absolutely beautiful thing.
Generally we explored mainly the area surrounding the vault (around and below), didn't get into anything too exciting but jeez did I have a fucking blast! We got to around level 10, almost level 11. The mutated animals in this game are fucking amazing, some can be very scary, and I absolutely love how much more difficult this game can feel. It encourages grouping but playing a few perk cards it can also make playing lone-wolf viable as well. I didn't play around with C.A.M.P or the camera all that much, but I did put a C.A.M.P down with my new found friend because we had to recycle some gear, repair some things and store some items. If you're the kind of person who picks up everything you'll find yourself slugging around, getting stagger-fucked by mutations and god forbid someone starts PvPing you you're going to be up shits creek unless you drop your shit and dip out of there.
To segue into that topic though.
I am someone who was really nervous how PvP was going to turn out, but the overall balance of the game only makes you want to PvP a little bit. I think they should probably fix peoples time to Stimpak during PvP, make it so the timer for a death isn't a group timer but rather for that one person, and it would probably make it more enjoyable if someone couldn't run to Stash their gear while you're trying to kill them either. I'm not a big PvP nut really, but these are just my opinion on the subject. I like the middle-ground they've hit, I just want them to flesh it out and reduce the amount of exploits and bugs. Towards the end of our play through we decided to try to gank a duo and it's decently rewarding for the amount of caps it gives, if you get their scrap, the exp, and the overall fun. I'm interested to see how turf wars turn out and how the nuke codes play into the game as we found 2 during our session.
Both myself and my new found friend did not find much bugs, there was some stuttering towards the start with the robots in Vault 76 but other than that the only issues we really had at all was with the PvP bug setting the invincibility to people in their group who were already attacking us. The game was relatively bug free in my play through but obviously my play does not reflect others as many bugs have been posted here, which is great for Bethesda! All in all I had a lot of fun, the questing was pretty seamless, I wasn't feeling too drawn away without dialogue and the world feels pretty full considering it is such a giant map! I'm really happy with how the game has turned out and am excited to how Bethesda continues to develop it in the future. If you haven't bought this game I would seriously suggest it, especially if you played the other Fallout games! This was an absolutely blast and would be even more fun to play it with you guys at SG.
Hope any of you who played had fun today if not..
See you in Appalachia!
