OFFICIAL Fallout 4 (Discussion)

[Frag_Maniac]

I must say that Far Harbor is an awesome DLC...

It has it's pluses and minuses

Pros
Great terrain, with lots of woods, mountains, water, and fog.
Nice new creatures to battle

Cons
Creatures and enemies feel too easy to kill
Less encounters with hostiles than in main game
The majority of quests feel like mere fetch scenarios
The poor representation of God rays and wind is more noticeable

By the last one, I mean walking through dense woods makes it even more evident that tree branches are just vibrating, vs realistically blowing in the wind, and even the God rays seem overly blurred and vibrating.

I have to say, it's definitely not as haunting as I'd anticipated. It borders on boring for me. I suppose it doesn't help that I was almost level 70 when I started playing it, but that just brings back another point I made earlier about Fallout 4. As you level, you become too overpowered, which can ruin your DLC experience, unless you restart the game before playing it, and don't wait until finishing the game when embarking on it.

 

[Mussels]

as many hours as i've thrown into far harbor, my big complaint is 'empty' locations - i've done the quests now i'm scooting around the island, and most locations you find are tiny. two broken down houses with one legendary ghoul or trapper somehow makes a location now.

Oh hey a crashed plane - no loot, just a local that could have been interesting but short of killing that local, you cant do anything there.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

^Agree completely, which is why I've begun fast traveling now. I got tired of uninspired locations when exploring.

It's exacerbated by my having been dabbling back into playing Dying Light's DLC, and Far Cry 4, games that have constant encounters with perils.

I've grown accustomed to most RPG games crawling along slower, just due to the dialog alone, but I honestly didn't expect this DLC to be so barren as well. The combination of the two is tedious.

 

[Mussels]

oh and i found too much recycled stuff, by the third church that was identical to the last ones with almost zero differences, it got a tad repetitive.


i want more DLC for sure, but i want the locations to actually warrant exploring - look at the size and depth of a fallout 3 vault, vs an empty church in far harbour :/

 

[Black Panther]

look at the size and depth of a fallout 3 vault, vs an empty church in far harbour :/

True but then you can't compare Far Harbor with Fallout 3 because Far Harbor is only a DLC.
If anything Far Harbor should be compared with Fallout 3's DLC like Anchorage or Broken Steel...

 

[Mussels]

i dont refer to the size of the content - i mean the 'fake' locations.

strip out the empty ones and far harbor is 1/4 the size it looks.

 

[Black Panther]

In FH I only did a couple of side-quests and finished the main quest there. I'm planning to continue exploring FH now and if it's got mainly empty locations I'm going to be disappointed. However as far as the mini-MQ of FH was concerned, it was more fun than any of Fallout 3's DLCs.

So far I'm 400 hours into FO4 on the same character I started with and haven't finished the game's MQ yet, juggling things to remain friends with all factions for as long as possible! It's interesting because that way a lot of side-quests and options remain open... hehe...

 

[Frag_Maniac]

It's not just empty locations Panther, even the tricky terrain you navigate in between them has very few encounters with creatures, and they're pretty easy to kill. Even the fog itself, which they make sound to be horribly deadly, at best clicks your Geiger counter a few times as you pass through wisps of it. And mind you, I've explored the island as much if not more in the dead of night, and it's still not suspenseful.

What Mussels is referring to as copied content I call cookie cutter level design. It's sadly a common way for devs to cheaply develop addons, or even entire games sometimes. Honestly, I don't know why this DLC is so far getting a Very Positive rating on Steam. That's with less than 1200 reviews though, so we'll see how it goes.

 

[Mussels]

i enjoyed it, i had fun with it - but it reminds me of lots of inflated balloons... they're hollow.

what looks like 20+ hours of content is more like 5 hours, if you go slow. I feel like a high level char could spam through it in ~2 hours, do the main quest and miss almost nothing.

 

[Black Panther]

Todd Howard's fence... yeah right...

 

[RoboX]

Is there a way to set the toggle aim?

 

[Black Panther]

Is there a way to set the toggle aim?

What do you mean (english is not my main language).

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THREE MORE DLC's on the horizon this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[RoboX]

What do you mean (english is not my main language).
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to aim you must hold down a button ; I would like to know if there is a way to aim clicking only once on the key , do not hold

 

[P4-630]

Wanted to play Fallout 4 with my new GTX1070, all I'm getting is 2 black screens and nothing.
ctrl+alt+del , alt+tab , not working, nothing. Only option I had was resetting the PC.
Tried 2 times, same.

When I start up I see this:

When I click on "PLAY", I'm getting 2 black screens and then nothing!

 

[erocker]

Todd Howard's fence... yeah right...

Lol!

"Place anywhere" mod is a must for me.

 

[Mussels]

Wanted to play Fallout 4 with my new GTX1070, all I'm getting is 2 black screens and nothing.
ctrl+alt+del , alt+tab , not working, nothing. Only option I had was resetting the PC.
Tried 2 times, same.

When I start up I see this:
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When I click on "PLAY", I'm getting 2 black screens and then nothing!

run one monitor, reset res and refresh?

 

[P4-630]

run one monitor, reset res and refresh?

My second monitor is a TV, I game on just one monitor.

 

[Mussels]

My second monitor is a TV, I game on just one monitor.

i've ran into games before that didn't like multi monitor, so even having it plugged in could cause weirdness unless they were set to duplicate. Not much of a stretch to imagine drivers making it go weird.

 

[P4-630]

i've ran into games before that didn't like multi monitor, so even having it plugged in could cause weirdness unless they were set to duplicate. Not much of a stretch to imagine drivers making it go weird.

Ok I will try it later again.
Thanks.

 

[P4-630]

i've ran into games before that didn't like multi monitor, so even having it plugged in could cause weirdness unless they were set to duplicate. Not much of a stretch to imagine drivers making it go weird.

Ok, so I tested with my tv (hdmi) disconnected.
Still a black screen, then nothing again.
Have to reset my system every time.

 

[Mussels]

well the 10x0 cards have that big kerfuffle about black screens with high refresh rates atm, make sure to change yours in case its a detection bug? try 59 or whatever.

 

[P4-630]

well the 10x0 cards have that big kerfuffle about black screens with high refresh rates atm, make sure to change yours in case its a detection bug? try 59 or whatever.

I can find this problem on google now with these new Nvidia cards and Fallout4, some waited 2 minutes and they were able to go into the menu,
so I might have to wait longer, the game does not recognise the card. Maybe it will run as it should with a new driver or FO4 update.

 

[TheMailMan78]

BIGFOOTS GOT PRODUCT!

 

[P4-630]

Well I reinstalled Fallout 4 and still getting a black screen, waited a few minutes, nothing!!
Unable to play the game on my new Skylake system with my GTX1070.

Latest driver BTW.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

Please, no major spoilers, but does Far Harbor just end uneventfully after clearing the lumber mill? I don't see any other quests popping up. This whole DLC just feels lackluster as hell.