As usual, Bethesda doesn’t disappoint with disappointments.
Update: Fallout 76 players who have signed up for Fallout 1st report that Private Worlds have dead NPCs and looted areas in them and can get invaded by other players Also, some say that the Scrapbox has eaten up all their materials, removing them forever
Just think… they could have bought a couple games with that money, ones that actually work properly and don’t have more Fallout 4 content than Fallout 4. :trollface:
I was forced to check my calendar today to see if it was April Fools day, as that would be the only day news like this should ever be allowed to be announced:
There’s never a dull moment in the world of Fallout 76, the online multiplayer game of post-apocalyptic survival and adventuring. Last week, publisher Bethesda announced that the game’s much-requested addition of computer-controlled characters was delayed until next year. Today, the publisher said that it will be selling premium subscriptions that will provide players with access to private servers at a cost of $13 a month or $100 a year.
In such a short time this game and other things surrounding it have garnered quite a bit history! I mean going all the way back to launch they’ve:
Now you might be wondering “What will the cost of what is essentially two AAA title games net me over the peasants that paid full price? (assuming there’s a store still selling it for anything above $24 at this point).” Well, it gets you:
So not only do they expect you to dump money on the base game, spend money on cosmetics, and essentially pay $100 for a private server that can only fit 8 people on it while being showered with imaginary currency. Oh, and icons and emotes?! That makes it fucking worth it! Alongside the exclusive outfit that tells other users that you’re a tool that spent $100 to rent what is essentially your own dedicated server, which used to be something game developers offered users to make for themselves… For fuck’s sake GTA5 allows you to choose if you want to play in a public/private or friends only mode, and that’s just playing the damned game! What’s next? Super Ultra Premium Servers that offer you 12 slots, two outfits and an autographed love note from Todd Howard? I have to hand it to them, they really know how to make people stretch out their wallets on a game that has essentially been a living clusterfuck.
Right when I think about going to bed my mumble server decides to go offline. Upon opening my BlueHost cpanel I’m greeted with an oversimplified version of the cpanel. I try to launch the server via a cronjob, nada. I try to find the process manager to see if it’s even running. They replaced it with an application manager that only deploys Ruby Applications. Trying to search the help center leads me to old instructions for the old cpanel. If I wasn’t obligated to go to work tomorrow I’d stay up and try to fix this, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow…. I didn’t even get an email about these changes.
This pisses me off. I’m not feeling well, and this is literally RIGHT when I have go to fucking bed.
There’s an air vent that you have your Darkling buddy climb into, and he uses his powers so you can see from his perspective. You use his tiny body to traverse through the vents, but the game won’t let you walk past an invisible wall. This is caused by a similar issue that I found in the PC version of Killer Is Dead, an issue tied with framerate. If your game is getting more than 60 frames per second you’ll be stuck until you enable V Sync. I tried enabling it in game but it only seems to work when running in windowed mode, and setting V Sync through my Radeon Software (Windows) doesn’t seem to help. But switching it to Windowed, getting through that area of the level, and switching back to full screen seems to have worked. I’ll have to try this on Linux to see if Proton will make it run any better, just as an experiment. I might also try tweaking the configs to see if I can get it to enable V Sync in fullscreen mode by changing some convars in one of the ini files, or running a borderless window program. If you’re reading this and have had similar issues check out this link.
Other than that particular snag I’m really enjoying the game! I survived the interrogation scene and have chosen that as my stopping point until I pick up the game again; Hopefully I don’t run into anymore issues.
Sorry for not posting. It’s been a rough week between work and home, and I don’t want to go into detail on it right now. I’ve contemplated making a thread inspired by current events, but I’m not the mood to put it into words right now. I’ve been in my own world pretty much since I got home from work yesterday, even had the longest stream of over five hours so far. As soon as I’m in a better mood I’ll come out of my Cardboard Box and become a semi-regular member of society again.
I’ve spent today playing some different games. Like Bayonetta, a bit of Dark Souls and picked up Darkness II again. I managed to get a couple achievements, basically an FPS type game where you can not only kill people with guns but you can also kill them with your dark hentai powers and improve them with various skill trees. If I keep playing it I might have to do a write up about it.
We did another livestream last night, this time a co-op of a Left 4 Dead 2 campaign. It was fun despite what Left 4 Dead 2 wanted to throw at us.
I spent today tidying up my desk area, giving myself a good breakfast for today and probably the rest of the week (do ahead breakfasts are my favorite lifehack), and I did a little shopping on Amazon. I’m putting together a new ensemble for my Red Raidenhood Costume. I have other shopping plans for after work as well, and possibly maybe even during my lunch break.
Other than that I’ve relaxed for most of the evening, just finished playing a bit of Dreamfall The Longest Journey… I had to start over for whatever reason, this time I made sure there was a save in place. I also played a tiny bit of Duke Nukem and Commander Keen… emphasis on the tiny. I guess I just wasn’t in the mood for whatever reason. :melon:
I’ll be starting up again on the animated SFM intro for one of the Skyrim videos sometime after work if nothing else crops up. I probably won’t be showing much in the way of WIP photos until sometime late next month.
I’m ending the evening by drinking a nice homemade infusion of white tea and the watermelon tea I got for my birthday; that has been my all day elixir. It will most likely help fuel my imagination for future nightmares to come. :melon:
I played around a bit in Spyro today, and figured why not look into some mods? Sure enough the nexus already has 4 pages worth to choose from, though most of them are texture swaps. I figured I’d go for a gay pride look, maybe even check out the dark reskins for a Halloween vibe, I found out it even has support in the Nexus’s latest mod manger; Vortex. It’s pretty easy to use, though the interface still takes a bit of getting used to compared to Nexus Mod Manager or Mod Organizer. If anyone else wants to have a look at modding their game there are quite a few selections to choose from.
Sorry for vanishing off the face of the earth, here is a stream I did last night:
It was a pretty successful stream. I had three people each between YouTube and Twitch, meaning six people total were entertained by my own twisted absent minded adventures. Other than that work has been tiring me already, and I’ve also been distracted with an SFM intro that I’ve been working on, it has almost 800 watermelons in it. I’m already a good chunk of the way through the scene, maybe about another day or two before I can move onto another. But for now it’s the weekend, time to focus my energies on other things.
I upgraded my tablet by buying another $1 store demo of our Amazon Fire HD8 not that long ago, and I finally decided to set it up today and give off my HD7 to my parents. I’ve been using my Fire Tablet for watching the restream chat (allowing me to watch Twitch, YouTube and Discord chats at the same time in one place) and I think the slightly larger display and resolution will be easier on my eyes… if I’m lucky I might break it in tomorrow. 😛
I have an Elgato Streamdeck that I use for my livestreams, and for what I use it for it can be quite useful. Unfortunately I mostly use linux now, and devices like this don’t really have much support, that is until now.
- Linux Compatible: Enables usage of all Stream Deck devices on Linux without needing to code.
- Multi-device: Enables connecting and configuring multiple Stream Deck devices on one computer.
- Brightness Control: Supports controlling the brightness from both the configuration UI and buttons on the device itself.
- Configurable Button Display: Icons + Text, Icon Only, and Text Only configurable per button on the Stream Deck.
- Multi-Action Support: Run commands, write text and press hotkey combinations at the press of a single button on your Stream Deck.
- Button Pages: streamdeck_ui supports multiple pages of buttons and dynamically setting up buttons to switch between those pages.
- Auto Reconnect: Automatically and gracefully reconnects, in the case the device is unplugged and replugged in.
- Import/Export: Supports saving and restoring Stream Deck configuration.
Even the features are friggen stellar. Between this and vaapi making it possible to record directly from my GPU in OBS I’ll have to look into doing some linux livestreams. I’ve been waiting for something like this to materialize for quite awhile now, and it’ll be nice to have programmable macro device under Linux again.
I made today a check out some new-ish games day today, and figured with all the awesome news I’ve heard about DUSK lately that I’d finally give it a go, after all I do like AMID EVIL and old school style FPS.
In this game you can dual wield not only pistols, but dual shotguns as well. I’ve already found a reference to Evil Dead in it, and the game doesn’t seem to disappoint with the amount of secrets I somehow keep missing… giving me all the more incentive to go back and try it all again. There is an option to go online and play with other people, unfortunately when I looked no one was on.
I mainly stuck with singleplayer, and even finished off the first boss. I might consider playing it next weekend, or possibly bring it with me to work for a lunch break game. I can say much like AMID EVIL that if you like old school FPS games like Quake or Unreal this is one to consider for your collection.