ExtremeTech: Fallout 4 suffered from feeling like two different games smashed together. In FO76, the problem is much worse.
It may be years away, but whenever it arrives, Fallout 5 needs to improve on its predecessor in several areas.
They really need to get rid of weapon mods and bring back more unique weapons that are hard to get / find
They won't improve it other than a slight graphical upgrade. They have always been better at live action than making games.
Only way it could improve is taking it away from Bethesda and regroup Classic Fallout (1&2) devs with decent budget and time to make it.
The legendary perk system in Fallout 76 requires a bit of a rework and some fans think they have the perfect way to change up these perks.
Weirdly undercooked, despite resolution and frame-rate improvements on console.
So PS5 is the only version that has any real improvements and that's in the quality settings, those modes are busted on the Xbox.
For PC they added ultra widescreen and then broke everything that the mods fixed.
They did give us some basic new missions and some boring weapons though, so thanks I guess.
I never once tried quality mode, I only use performance mode on SX. So I cant even tell if there was supposed to be a difference or not.
40 fps ultra is pretty nice though...just wish lods were ultra too...this was a huge chance for ms to show why they are better keepers of bethesda games than bethesda, and they didnt...if support for fallout 4 ends without the unofficial patch becoming baseline built in, then MS will prove it is all pr no substance.
Should have got a finger out and remade Fallout 3 and New Vegas as a duo.
With the new show, it would have sold MASSIVELY.
Bethesda should have been more on the ball with contracting other studios to make spinoff Fallout games. Hell, if they just got the New Vegas team back for another one it would have been an absolute triumph.
I have a theory that Bethesda has a major insecurity about other studios outdoing them though (especially after Starfield) so would explain why.
Playing through it on PS5 Performance and it looks and moves great imo. I’m in the Institute, just finished the Cabot House sides. No hiccups or bugs as of yet.
