Release date is Tuesday but it should already be leaked. These games almost always get leaked a few days early.
I haven’t been able to get many details yet. I know perks are now going to be every other level. The Vault wiki doesn’t have many perks listed, I am hoping there are a ton more just nobody has gotten a copy of the game yet so there’s no info on there.
I will be playing this on my Xbox. I hope what somebody wrote about a large patch is not true, my HDD is puny enough as is and MS’ huge premiums aren’t worth paying for imo. I know there’s a way to hack an HD but then I dunno how I’d get my old files onto the new one, so I haven’t bothered with that. I also have to bridge my wireless connection and hook up a laptop just to get online with the xbox, and that’s not much fun.
The fun of these games is the character creation, dialogue and exploration. To me a game that needs very heavy modding until it’s fun for you is not a game you probably should be playing. If you hate regular FO3 I don’t think mods are going to make you love it. If you already like it or are just on the fence then it could enhance your gameplay. I never cared much for sifting through all the mods and figuring out which ones are good or not, but other people love doing that type of thing. If you’re one of those types, the PC version has a ton of advantages.
I actually hope they don’t make the game too hard. I hate using stimpacks so my playthroughs on Very Hard all have a 0 next to stimpack usage. If they significantly up the difficulty I will be forced to use a stim, and that’s just depressing. There’s just something about being able to get through just sleeping and drinking water that makes the game better for me. I heard they were changing how stims heal, so I’d imagine the difficulty actually isn’t going to be ratcheted up to the point that you need them to survive in combat. In FO3 getting attacked by Super Mutant Overlords, or Reavers in tight spots could be bad since they do so much damage. On Very Hard even at max level and max DR an Overlord could kill you in one shot if their tri-beam laser crits on all hits, and usually 2-3 otherwise. Albinos were somewhat dangerous too but you could always backpedal and shoot to kill them with minimal damage. The average person that claims FO3 was easy usually falls into 3 groups: 1) they never put it on a higher difficulty (Very Hard of course), 2) they used chinese stealth suit (of course a game is easy when enemies can’t see you or attack you), or 3) they would mash stimpacks (no shit a fight is easy if you can just heal up to full whenever you wanted–I’d have ~200 stims by the end of the game). I mean if you don’t fall into the above 3 categories and still think the game is just too easy to be fun, I can respect that, but if you do, well that’s just funny to me.
I dunno why people expect a high difficulty level though. Like I wrote above the point of these games isn’t a pure challenge. I don’t see how the point of any game is just pure challenge actually, it’s a video game, it’s one of the most worthless things to get good at in life. The game mechanics are really pretty simple in this, and it’s against the computer as well. Save the deep, challenging gameplay for fighting games against humans–only scrubs hate on a fighting game because the computer isn’t challenging, I always felt the same about games in general. Not to step on anybody’s toes, as long as they don’t want to step on mine of course, we can all enjoy what we want.
Wild Wasteland looks like it’ll be a fun trait to pick. It adds special encounters (whatever that means) and more references to FO1 and 2.
