Wow, 445,000+ peak concurrent users on Steam for fallout 4! If previous estimations are anything to go by, that means close 4 million purchases by month’s end.
Wow, shit, that’s significantly more than skyrim. I guess that’s steam growth over the years.
Also puts it into weird perspective that it’s number 3. I still can’t believe how popular MOBAs are.
Kind of weird to me how much people are in to a rush to play, given how dramatically Bethesda games are improved in the first couple of months and how crappy the vanilla and unpatched experience tends to be.
What is it, 150 million active Steam user now?
I can’t either. Anyone have an hypothesis about their popularity? Can they be played on mobile?
Waiting here. Hopefully, by the time interesting mods come out, like better textures, it’ll have gone on a 25-33% sale for Xmas.
It looks like day one peak concurrent users is double what it was for Skyrim back in 2011. It took Skyrim over 3 years to near 10 million sales on PC, I’m guessing Fallout 4 will do it in 2, and will probably go past 10 mill.
It’s irritating me mightily that after two days of telling me the game would arrive today, Amazon informed me early this morning that, psyche!, it wasn’t coming until tomorrow. That one day doesn’t matter at all, particularly given that I’ll be playing this game off and on for years. Except that during that one day, I’m holding an admittedly irrational grudge. Decades of seeing other people being whiny, entitled shitheads on the internet has taught me to suppress my pettiness online. I grew up in an era when everything took 6-8 weeks for delivery, and I know damned well that the sheer logistics of electronic commerce is one of the wonders of the modern world. I have no cause to bellyache.
Okay, maybe a little: Left Fort Worth at 3:14 a.m.? In Dallas by 10? Why the hell isn’t it even on a truck yet? Why isn’t Amazon’s tracker in sync with USPS’ tracker? Bring me the head of Jeff Bezos!
Well… that’s clearly out of proportion. But I didn’t resort to racism or homophobia! I’m still better than the rest of the Internet.
This is my current mobo:
ISTM that I can upgrade my current CPU to at meet the minimum, throw 8GB of new RAM in there and spend $100 or $150 on a GPU and noticeably perform either console, for the price of a console.
Yes? My wife wants to know.
YKWIM.
Anyone have any idea how cpu-limited the game might be? My aging cpu is well under “recommended” specs ( i-7 860 Lynnfield ), my gpu is well over ( factory-overclocked GTX 970 ). I can run Witcher 3 at mostly ultra settings ( that Nvidia hair thing aside ) with nary a hitch. Could I assume the same for F4 or is my cpu going to finally start dragging me down?
The minimum recommended AMD processor is AM3 socket just like your motherboard supports, yes. You will need DDR3 RAM if you want to do that, 16GB max. Whether you can outperform console, I cannot say.
I hope so, because I’m downloading Fallout 3 right now. I’ve had no problems with running New Vegas on Windows 7, other than the occasional crash. In any case I didn’t have to make any sort of modifications to get it to run.
Hey, it’s raining. That’s a first for the franchise, isn’t it?
The Pip-Boy looks great, with lots of attention to detail and it actually works as advertised, though I’ve had trouble getting my Nexus 5 to stay. It almost fits without a ring, but not quite. That said, I can’t imagine actually using the thing during game play, because even though it’s plastic it is heavy and unwieldy. No idea how I can hold a controller with that thing on my wrist.
Was finally able to sit down with my PS4 for a few hours tonight. Early thoughts:
I really enjoyed the opening sequence. Yes, we all know the Fallout universe’s backstory by now, but I still liked playing through a bit of it.
I downloaded the Pip-Boy app on my iPad and propped it up nearby. It is hella useful, and completely negates the need to pull up the minimap in game. It updates everything in real time. Really slick.
The console control scheme thus far seems great. I like that they streamlined getting stuff out of containers.
I probably won’t spend much time building up Sanctuary, because it’s a bit too freeform for me. I did wander around for a good while and scrap most of the junk I could find. Then I built a generator and left it idling in the middle of an empty lot.
The perk/upgrade system is new enough that I haven’t spent anything yet despite leveling a few times. I’m not sure where I want to put anything.
I completely forgot to check for recognized names and used my go-to character name. Worked anyway. Really slick, though it’s not in any actual plot dialogue. Just in little acknowledgements from Cogsworth and, presumably, other characters.
So I was curious for those of you who have played a bit. I have a thought in the back of my mind that some of the interface/skills changes are a step towards seeing(again)if the Fallout universe can be MMOed. I know there have been rumors and half-assed attempts for years, but I just have to be curious if the changes seem totally organic.
To update:
Still didn’t work. Got to launch screen, then nothing. Don’t have the patience to jump through all those hoops again, so fuck it.
It seems like a fairly organic change. I don’t doubt that Bethesda is considering a Fallout MMO since Elder Scrolls is doing tolerably well (as well as an MMO can do in a post-WoW market), but I don’t see anything in this game that seems like an obvious weather balloon.
I don’t object to modders getting paid for what they do, or even to Bethesda and Valve taking a cut, but the implementation was a deal breaker last time.
Assuming you didn’t go for just a donationware model, the best approach would be to let modders make their mods and updates timed exclusives. Choosing to either pay for the mod or get it a month later would be a nice compromise between rewarding modders and not tearing the modding community apart.
The biggest problem with the pay for mods system is that the main things modders do is fix the damn game. Yeah, eventually you see a lot of extra content but the grand majority of stuff you see are fixes that should have been part of the base game and under no circumstance should cost you extra money. I paid 60 dollars for this and almost 30 more for the season pass, i would be angry as hell if i had to pay more when someone comes up with a decent UI mod.
I absolutely object to selling mods in the strongest possible terms. I don’t want game developers incentivized to actually make their game worse so that someone else will fix it and then they will sell you that fix in addition to the broken ass game they gave you. Bethesda should never see a cent from someone fixing their game. The monetization would get even more ridiculous.
I only have 4gb of memory in my computer, but it can hold up to 8gb, the required amount for this game.
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Has anyone attempted to play the game on low settings with only 4gb of memory?
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Anyone know how to get 2 4gb memory cheaply? I have a Toshiba Satellite L775. I’d like to pick up memory for a total of around $30. I need it even if my 2012 laptop can’t run the game.
Thanks, folks! I hope I can play this! It’s been my number one wanted game for a long time!
So what’s the best way to get a bunch of copper? I’m trying to put in a bunch of powered lights on my settlement because I hate how dark it is all the time, but all the power-related stuff requires copper, and I only seem to find meager amounts of it.
Generally kinda overwhelmed with the sheer amount of crap I’m stockpiling, since I tend to pick up damn near everything. It’s hard to sort through it all and decide what’s really worth hanging on to when there’s 8 million items that break down into a 20,000 different types of components, and I don’t know offhand what all the different possible applications of those components are and how much I’m going to want/need them later, thus the collecting and keeping of every damn thing.