I'm back (hopefully with more frequency incoming), with a video about Fallout 76. It's precisely what it says on the tin. Is Fallout 76 any good now? #Fallout76
Bethesda should have spent an entire extra year to add basic things like NPC's. Also it would have been better if there could be more storage space for players. My main gripe is that you have to pay monthly fees to store extra junk. It's not even worth grinding at that point when you can't. My second gripe is the weapons damages are just awful. I want to get a mod that makes a minigun shoot bullets instead of nerf darts. Even if I can't use the minigun and get shot by it instead if they put in strength requirements to use equipment.
No, their mistake was assuming a single player team can use their single player engine to make a multiplayer game, that's a recipe for disaster from step one regardless of the team producing it. And make no mistake, 76 wasn't entirely built by BGS Austin, the main studio probably had just as much of a hand in it as well especially since Austin was primarily tasked with the networking side of things.
@@macderadder9296 it was horrible and sure it’s not perfect but it’s much better at launch but as he says in the video that it’s a Valid response to decide to never play a game again even how much it improves overtime…
I played 76 at "launch" for a lot longer than I should have, putting up with bugs and griefing and no storage space. I jumped back into it a couple weeks ago to see what's changed and was pleasantly surprised. I kind of miss their battle royale mode despite _its_ flaws, but they have made drastic improvements to the game in the interim (look that one up, Austin).
Its so nice to have content flowing from Shoddycast again. Game Theory is alright but it was really only Austin that drew me there, and keeps me there. Can't wait to see more! Also great Job Tanya!!
Same lol. I freaking love Austin's energy. It's a different type of genuine from matpat, and I'm so happy he runs shoddycast ☺️ Great job on the script miss tanya~
"The game felt dead and empty." Honestly, that was the biggest appeal to me. The idea of being the only man left alive, crawling through the ruins of a destroyed society, accompanied only by ghosts and voices of the dead. That's what made me play for so long.
I slightly agree. While I do think the game needed NPCs, I think Bethesda had a knee jerk reaction to all of the bad press they were getting and went over board. I mean its only 25-27 years after the war people wouldn't be flocking to any area in these numbers "treasure" or not even human greed isn't THAT damn powerful lol.
I have to disagree with you. I like to meet other npcs that you can talk to, trade with, or do quests for or have them become your companions if possible.
I like that they put people in it, but I wish they made them harder to find. Like, I wish you still had to follow the overseer's journey before you met her. (Although that quest was glitched to hell, I STILL have an inventory full of those damn holotapes lol).
When it was released, I wasn't a big fan of 76, but it slowly turned into something I enjoyed playing. Now I am working on 76 as a Level Designer, honestly, it is a pretty fun job.
Wait you work for Bethesda? If so is the zetans language actually possible to translate? I have gotten ahold of the raw file for the distress signal you get in fallout 4 but am a long way from even a partial translation. Also is the rumor that you can hear the alien never lives in english in the fallout 3 version when slowed down true of false?
If you work for Bethesda i have some questions, What is your opinion on if kirkbride's work is cannon? Also don't be afraid to use obscure shit because i know the deepest recesses of the lore. Also what is your take on the dwemer disappearance, did they zero sum, did they get warped thousands of years in the future like kirkbride thinks, are they in some unknown part of oblivion, are they just totally gone? I think they zero summed, yes yagrum bagarn exists but i think it was that he didn't zero sum but did the same thing vivec did, yes the dwemer didn't give a shit about the gods but they were known to travel the oblivion planes, statistically it is highly unlikely that yagrum was the only dwemer in oblivion at the time of their disappearance, also falion mentions speaking with a dwemer, is that a reference to yagrum or is he referring to someone else? Yagrum might still be alive by the time of tes5, then again he is around 800 years old in morrowind but at the same time there is a dunmer mage who is 4,000 in the same town.
Tanya is clearly a talented writer, please continue to put her skills to good use. Fo76 is a fun game, just make sure you get it cheap and expect it to piss you off at random times.
If it takes a game 4 years to become good, you've lost all credit in my opinion. People are all too willing to excuse a game for being good years after launch or excusing more glitches than gameplay at launch. I expect a finished product for my $60 plus tax. Not a buggy, glitchy mess that can brick my system.
@@Aaroncarter95 agreed. if you want full price, bring a full game to launch. if you bring scraps to launch, you'll get scraps in 4+ years. i wish we could Patreon the artists and the dev grunts who are trying their best under abusive management
@@Aaroncarter95hey man I can’t disagree but at the same time, just bc it’s finally good 4 years later doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still fun now
Not as difficult a question as you're posing it. Voting with your wallets is just that, and it is far more directed at the executives than the 'little guy' artists and programmers. We're not paying the Artists' salaries by buying the game, the artists are going to be paid for their work based on their contracts (barring bonuses and such that depend on milestones of the game's success like the bonus the Obsidian employees were denied for not reaching the 85 metacritic score goal by one point). Sure, an artist might be laid off because the company didn't turn over good profits, but that's just a risk of employment. But the *only* thing that motivates the practises of executive level decisions is profit lines. The longer they are encouraged, the worse the situation gets. If employees want protection for their jobs and better guarantees for their work, that's something they need to take up with unions and sort out amongst themselves, that is *not* the responsibility of the consumer.
@@virus1244 well its still an issue. And frankly capitalism (atleast the no idealised verion of it we have) encoureges this kind of horrible behavior from those at the top.
@@josef5341 it's actually a bit better than any other thing we as humans came up with, the anti-capitalist's favorite solution Communism is by far the worst. Pro tip, people in power of governments are just as terrible as people in power of corporations. Better off everyone individually try to fix themselves instead of fixing society with giant ideologies
@@virus1244 I mean, it favours the already rich far more than anyone else, thats a demonstrable fact, and this very issue is an example of the problems caused by that, you're naive if you don't recognise and expose the flaws in things you support.
@@RB_Eldritch it's not just capitalism, it's everything we humans have created, and you can't magic it away by complaining about it, while not understanding human nature. Capitalism isn't the monopoly for greed, corruption, power hungry, and hurting the poor. Communism is everything you hate about capitalism to it's extreme as shown throughout history. Fix yourself not try to fix a social construct you don't really understand, you just hate.
I finally decided to give it a try 11 months ago and I absolutely love it. Have over 600 hours on it now. I'm a big fan of mmo's though, so I may be biased. I never played the game b4 they introduced npcs and what not, but I think it has one of the best/friendliest communities around.
First off congrats to Tonya on her first script! Second off gotta say as someone who preordered this the biggest disappointment was the pip boy, I just wanted a cool replica of an iconic game prop and was unaware they ordered them from Ikea and had to assemble. It's been a pile of parts for years and actually in my backseat rn to give to someone else. third I'm glad to see you feeling well enough to upload more again, missed having your videos pop up in my feed
I purchased the games on sale after heard the bad review story during the launch. Turn out, I loved it. Friendly community, updated season reward and the best part is base building.. I won’t feel competitive pressure in this game. Also it is a pleasant moment to get a particular build work for your character and obtain a god roll weapon randomly.
Good timing. I just started playing 76 again after spending most of the last two years playing ESO. If it wasn't for the fun I had in ESO I don't think I would have given 76 a second look, but I'm happy to see it's current state and it's a fun game. Great video, GG's Tanya!
My favorite thing about fo76 is that because it had no npcs, they did have to provide alot of environmental storytelling. And that environmental storytelling is amazing.
The way they have laid out this game isn't for dummies that half ass pay attention. Ridiculous amounts of content and storytelling without a word spoken. Simply amazing. I just stared playing a week ago and I'm kicking myself for waiting this long. Listened to the crowd. I knew better. This game is better than Fallout 4 by a very wide margin and as good as 3 or NV with more shit to do.
Great video. I'd suggest not adding the big letter stuff on top of the information dumps you've included - that makes it frustrating, because you can't pause to actually read what it says.
The thing that sucks about fallout 76 is that it has one of if not the best fallout world. It's gorgeous, it has variety, it feels like it belongs. If they had released the game as a single player game at the time of the wastelands DLC I think it's a top 3 fallout game. But they shoehorned multi-player into am engine not made for it and tried to polish a turd.
The multiplayer is not great but aspects of it are quite nice to have in single player. I like checking out and making use of other people's camp. And you can fast travel for free at anyone's camp if you're in a group.
Yeah that's one of the things kind of keeps me at a distance. I bought Fallout 76 but I got it when it was on sale on Steam and the multiplayer aspect is kind of hit or miss with me. That and it has NO mod support. If you saw how many mods I have currently installed on my version of Fallout 4 you would say its a completely different game. I can understand NOT adding mod support, I don't think you would enjoy getting nuked by a launcher that puts 300+ mini nukes in your face all at once, but some mods just make the game more enjoyable. Extended Dialogue Interface as an example. If anything I think Bethesda could have learned a thing or two from Obsidian on how to make a good RPG. Fallout 4's base game is just a glorified version of Borderlands almost. In short the multiplayer aspect and the lack of mod support are what usually make me choose between modded Fallout 4 or Fallout 76 and I'll go with modded Fallout 4 every time. Fallout 76 is installed and I keep it updated but sometimes I have to force myself to even load it up on occasion and that's a shame really. If it had single player option I would be all over that but seeing I run the risk of some skunk ruining my experience just because they enjoy being a douche kind of kills my excitement.😒😒
@@mkygod I feel like most of us fallout fans would have been happy with a co-op game rather than true multiplayer. If I could play in Fallout 76 as a single-player campaign, and then have one or two of my buddies jump in, that would have been miles better and easier to implement on the creation engine (as well as mods). It really had potential.
The game is still a bug fest. That engine can't hold these game needs and as before Fallout games were fixed by mods, but this one is a no go zone, because they took it to FF membership...
It's still broken just a bit less so. If you have a faster than 60hz monitor you have to mess with ini files otherwise the game will lock to low refresh rates but if I unlock the framerate and I go inside caves or buildings it skyrockets to 300 FPS and the game falls apart. Also there are no brightness and gamma settings and these 2 alone are criminal IMO.
What really ruffled my jimmies is when they released that subscription program. When they offered _NCR Ranger_ armor to Fallout 1st owners. It was like a perfect symbol of how much they didn't give a shit. "We can't fix our game, let's make a subscription service. How do we sell it? Use an icon of the greatest game of the franchise that we stunted from it's growth." I'm certain that the couple people left who were there during the Van Buren project and left during this game's development REALLY felt that sting.
Not only an icon from the franchises greatest game, but from a side game they didnt even make. It's so comically tone-deaf, i'd laugh if i wasn't already crying.
It's alright if they want to make money from the game, but when it's objectively less fun for all the p2w features, it's just a hard pass. They'll fix it in starfield if not I won't buy starfield either etc.
it just came out for free on ps4/ps5 with ps-plus. I gotta say the game feels a lot like west coast homeless-man simulator. I aimlessly wander around collecting and scrapping junk, everyone I meet is a hobo scrapper, I keep my junk in stash boxes, gather building supplies to make shelters that get periodically destroyed, and use as many narcotics as I can for the health buffs while trying to not become too addicted. Sometimes I encounter raiders who I just spaz out on with my melee weapon in order to save ammo.
Good job Austin I’m glad you’re still doing shoddy cast stuff. I’ve recently become a fan myself so thank you. Also good script Tanya nice vocabulary. I too knew both those words but what can I say I truly have an expansive lexicon.
So glad to see a new Shoddycast video, good script Tanya, keep poking at Austin to make new video! I miss seeing new weekly videos from this channel in my subscriber list..
Ive actually had a lot of hours of enjoyment out of 76. This was even prior to wastelanders being released that added NPC's. The world is amazing and fun to explore imo.
I pretty much finished 76. I've done all main and side story lines. Some more than once. When I put it down it was like saying goodbye to a good friend, but I'll probably come back to it if they release another major expansion.
Yeah once you’re done with the storyline there’s just not much left to do. But it was an amazing world to explore. Especially on lower levels where pretty much everything could kill you if you went in the wrong direction.
I got the game on Xbox about a year after it came out, played for an hour or two, and never touched it again. With it being one of Playstation free games for January, I was planning on trying it again.
I do certainly play Fallout 76, or at least I used to, several months ago I took a break to play other games and haven't returned yet, though this video does motivate me to go back again!
I don't think Bethesda should be lauded for getting done, after more than a year, what should have been done in the first place. They screwed customers and lied and they did it intentionally- I reward behavior like that by not buying their broken game And maybe I'm missing out- I enjoyed FO3 and 4, but there are a lot of other games I play, so I don't think about what I'm missing all that much. And it's not punishing the devs by not buying it- they've already been paid.
Don't miss out on it if you like fallout games it's definitely worth a look. Pick it up on special. The cost of the game alone doesn't keep their lights on, it's the annual subscriptions of regular players. They won't notice you playing it and I won't tell ;)
@@kidtruck9157 What are you talking about? The game always had NPC's. You do realize that creatures and robots are NPC's right? That doesn't only count for human characters? What you should've said was no HUMAN NPC's.
@@kidtruck9157 No, it wasn't a fair point... it was a technicality. He knew exactly what you meant by "NPCs" and decided to be a douche just for the sake of proving you wrong.
Completely new here ✨ subscribing just to support Tanya’s endeavor on using SAT vocabulary in future scripts 😂 Loved the review, it actually motivated me on updating the game and trying it out
@@SecretlySeven The bungled launch, the state of the game from launch until now and the scummy decisions made since launch (microtransaction gameplay advantages, Fallout First, the ridiculous pricing and manipulative marketing tactics on the Atomic Shop, etc) more than warrant bad press. Even if you like something, hell especially if you like something, you should call out it's flaws in the hopes of making it even better. And yeah, a lot of people have fun with it, mostly due to playing with friends or just liking the fallout franchise enough to overlook its myriad of issues, but the game doesnt become good just because some people have a lower bar for quality.
@@SecretlySeven Your inventory has a limit based on how much money you directly pay to Bethesdtha. You can get banned for playing too long. Or building in places you could in single player. The weapons don't do reasonable amounts of damage. Black powder weapons doing 20x the damage from a 10mm because? balance? They don't feel like a game based on the USA, rather it feels like a game based in skyrim with Dwemmer. I need my damage mods to make bullets you know deadly? rather than mere suggestions.
It's a fun game, been playing since season 3. I'm at end game now, but I still log in every day and play for around 1-3 hours depending on the day before going to do other things. I like how I can play casually and not feel like I'm missing out on things or I can sink in a bunch of time if I'm in the mood.
@@hermos3602 Not everyone has the internet capability or the time to play online games. For several years I was taking care of my ailing grandfather, a man who couldn't walk and could call on me at all hours of the day and night. Playing online games under those circumstances is difficult at best and outright impossible at worst. Plus, you then have to rely on other people to be online in order to play. You got three friends, and can't play unless they're online, and you've only got a few precious hours to play, you're just wasting time waiting when you could be using to actually enjoy yourself.
@@hermos3602 The thing is if Age of Empires 3 was a FPS shooter game, everyone would flip out and be angry because it's a RTS. Same thing with F76. It changed entire genres when it released so of course people would be upset. And also when internet dies for a few seconds I don't want to lose all progress or be stuck unable to play.
@@genericscout5408 I feel that analogy would only work if this game had been called Fallout 5. As it is, Fallout 76 is firmly in spinoff territory. A spinoff doesn't need to be 100% beholden to every single aspect of its parent series.
My issue w/ FO76 at this point is that new content isn't moving the story forward. Wastelanders added living people back to the world, then there was the BoS update but even that really only added instanced content with little change to the open worldspace.
I loved this video and I have loved 76 since it launched I have not played it constantly but but every few months I will try and hop in and see what is new and has been added.
I play Fallout 76 when I can and I still love the game! You built your C.A.M.P. right where I built mine too! LOL I'll make the argument, Fallout 76 is a good game, just not a good Fallout game, but that's kinda just something heard across the board, I'm a loot gremlin in htere and my stuff is ALWAYS packed!
@nooooooooo in the sense that your choices matter, and you cant go back and change them unless you make another character, then yeah! Gunplay is about the same Building is 1000x better Companions are your squadmates
@nooooooooo i'd say yes Still a variety of side quests, weapon chases, expansions and crazy public events to complete Going for the ultimate build, making the best camp, etc. Thats all postgame stuff
@nooooooooo there are events, sort of battlepass, enough side quests to make sure you will NEVER complete the game, you can do expeditions time to time like for example The Pitt (its not on the map). You can pvp and raid players. You can try new weapons with your choice of modifications. You can build mansion or some big base. And so on and on.
I heard the bad reviews of the game, didn't play till December 2018 since a friend was keep on pushing for me to get it, I'm still playing it and have a player clan I command proudly with other fallout fans all playing for ourselves and thriving in the wasteland as a team of mismatched vault dwellers. It's fun especially with others and if you haven't or can't play with others, meet other strange players, most of us are friendly.
I'm on the fence about it because it uses typical MMO style payment plans. Limited inventory space, and weird weapon damages are kind of off putting when I can just load up Fallout 4 with 20 mods.
@@genericscout5408 It technically has limited inventory space true, but unless you hoard missiles, cannonballs, and mininukes, it's going to be a very long time before you even get close to that limit.
No thanks, I will not be giving any money to Bethesda for their horrible handling of the Fallout brand. That, and the game is still shit as far as I concerned, the game was still a stuttering mess on the free weekend I played it.
@@Tattle-by-Tale 600 pounds. That's 3 character carryweights. Which is practically nothing. With weapons being breakable it's always nice to keep disposible sets to replace cheap weapons. Unless you're telling me the Handmade rifle weighs 0.02 Pounds. which I doubt.
I actually pre-ordered 76 because Bethesda games had always done me right. Being forced to use their launcher was strike one. The game itself was strike 2. Strike 3 came when I heard that it didn't suck any more and that you could now play it through steam, which is where I play all my games...... I checked my steam library and it wasn't there. So I opened a ticket. They initially attempted to get it working for me but it was failing because my Steam Account was already tied to my Bethesda login. They finally got that fixed but then told me, sorry, No game for you. Apparently, because I wanted to get my steam version after the small window of time that they gave people to convert, I didn't qualify and I was told I had to buy it again if I wanted to play it on steam. I don't know when the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout SINGLE PLAYER games will launch but I can promise you I will never pre-order from them again. And I will certainly never respect them again.
I weirdly liked the feel of the no npcs. Players were few, and far between, it felt like an abandoned world. I'm not excusing all the problems, but that feel was kinda cool.
Thanks for making this video. I bought the tricentennial pack because I thought they were going to be able to roll right off the great work in FO4 into FO76 and then the biscuit wheels fell right off the gravy train. I played about 4 hours and put the game down and I haven't been back in since launch day. Watching, waiting, as patch and controversy continued to come out. It's good to know that now...now it may be time to go back.
Recently got it free via Prime(via MS of all things) but still haven't found the urge to return to it after hating the beta. This video helps me decide whether to even try it while there's a little loot to be claimed from Prime right now, and I appreciate it. Thanks
i loved the video, but we NEED more Devil’s Advocate. that is an AMAZING video style that you usually only see from real lawyers. and Kudos to Tanya. i’m a word nerd, and i love hear miasma for the first time in a long time
You can’t really play Devil’s Advocate with Fallout 76 because Bethesda actually fixed the game and is considered fun by almost all player who have played it recently. The only thing you can argue about is the Atom Shop, which isn’t P2W at all; and Fallout 1st, which yeah it does give you a massive advantage, but advantage to what? The Riot Armor isn’t as good as Secret Service armor, and the Private Worlds aren’t that OP because once you get a decently high enough level you don’t have a problem with finding junk and Aid supplies in normal worlds.
@@mikewilliams9069 in reference to ShoddyCast, Devil’s Advocate is when Austin defends a character(s) from their role as the antagonist(s) in the lore. he did it for the Demons in Doom, and for Caesar in New Vegas.
I'm happy to see 76 get some love also I would like to shed some light on the story. So the npcless world is like a half truth, there were npc but in the form of super mutants, robots, and ai just no human npcs including ghouls. However, there was a reason for at least an in game reason, you see the Appalachian mountains were plagued with we a plague this lead to mostly everyone who survived the bombs get turned into a scorch the game's way of having enemies that wield weapons and guns. So basically when you and your fellow Vault Dwellers leave your Vault everyone is dead and you explore what remains. After a year they did bring back npcs, their reason is due to settling and treasure. I would like to say more but I recommend checking it out. Along I will say that doesn't excuse literally everything wrong. Oh, also the game is beginner friendly as the game now uses a mechanic were everything kinda levels to you so you can explore the map all you like!
I remember hearing about how bad Fo76 was I never gave any thought of playing Then my friend group decided to get it during The Night of the Mothman to Mess Around and Hangout It ended up being much better than we anticipated and the Four of us ended up enjoying the game and having alot of fun
Just like cyberpunk 2077, most people focused on how unstable its launch was, and now these games have had years of updates, and both games are relatively “more stable” many people are turning around and saying they’re “good now”. The thing about that kind of simplistic assessment on these games progression is that this ignores the dozens of other issues these games suffer from, and ultimately it’s very harmful to the wider gaming discourse and gaming community if we just willingly ignore all those other issues. Although to be fair on fallout 76, a lot of the criticism was a lot less fair and 1000x more vitriolic. Fallout 76 is an MMO developed by a smaller subsidiary of Bethesda and only the second MMO made under the Bethesda-Zenimax corporate name so there’s no way the game could’ve launched well. There’s no doubt there are reasons for why a game is made ‘poorly’ or ‘good’ and it’s perfectly fine pointing it out, but it’s important to look at the wider picture and judge them to their actual shortcomings, just what Reddit says.
Still I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a lot better game then Fallout 76. F76 still is a crap game, animations looks like joke and there is no atmosfere of Fallout most important think. Cyberpunk however is RPG game F76 is not thats why I dont llike it.
76 is my first ever fallout game, i've only started recently and I absolutely love it! I'm disappointed that there is no quest sharing but otherwise I'm fine with the game.
I know its often hard to go back to previous games due to the dip in graphics and older mechanics, but give the earlier ones a try if you can, 4 wasn't the strongest, but is plays similairly to 76, New Vegas is widely considered the best, and is old enough to be pretty cheap most of the time. If New Vegas had a demons souls style remake i'd play it nonstop.
me and a friend played a few months after launch and had a blast for a while, but the grind killed it, especially for me. playing a heavy weapon and power armor centered build meant I'd need to spend hours grinding each play session just to offset the materials I consumed being online. it became a chore to capture all the ammo producing locations on the map the first thing each day before being able to even start questing. then after maybe 3-4 days, i'd have enough excess supplies for a boss raid or two at most. the build was fun AF to play and great for PVP, but that was a mere fraction of my time spent in the game.
Contributing my own bit of experiences and thing that I've loved since the game's early days; I will say in my own experience, this game has the best playerbase I've ever seen of any (relatively) unmoderated multiplayer experience. Little, if any, players that I've met have ever displayed any form of toxic behaviors. Moreover, how lots of long time players will sometimes go out of their way to patiently help new players and many people will offload resources for people (likely resulting from the weight limit ofc, but still often a kind and generous gift) Two examples come to mind, with on one new character I had, I helped people clear out an area we both happened to stumble upon, and they thanked me and rewarded me by dropping a ton of ammo and grabbing my attention to show it was a gift. And the other example being a stealth character build I had, where, I can't remember the circumstances, but another rando I stumbled upon just kept helping out and giving me stuff, what's considered the best rifle for stealth builds in the game along with over 11,000 rounds of the unique ultracite ammo it used, for free, no expectations, and I still use that same rifle on that character to this day Suffice it to say, lot of pleasant experiences and just the astonishment of how kind, generous, and overwhelmingly great some people in the community can be. There's also great groups of people working towards their own community driven goal of experiences to add to the game that I've never met, but sound fascinating. But overall, the amount of great people I've met on there and hung out with has been such a change of pace when they arise that playing Fo76 is something I come to miss at times, especially during moments of frustration when dealing with toxic people online in other places. The community can be so welcoming with open arms and generousity that in my honest opinion, the game is definitely well worth the money I spent on it on that aspect alone
I did play it at launch, and it was awful. Then I was asked by my BFF to try it again 2 years ago. I gave it the 'ol college try for...... a week. A long.... boring ..... week. The world was empty. I honestly was so bored, but I didn't want to catch hell from my friend for not giving it a try. So I spent a week leveling my character to max, but then I still had little to keep me. The world was a dead place that I didn't care about, because I didn't even have a good building system to fall back onto. I even bought the ONE subscription so I had more storage space, but man I still blew through that in no time flat. 1200 weight is NOTHING. I can totally believe that Beth would make The Pitt for 76, since IMO The Pitt was one of the lousiest dlc's in Fallout, but it matches, as it is just as dead as 76. I'd rather replay tactics(should be canon FU very much!!!!) than the Daycare dumpster fire that is 76......
@@vuumvgar1457 Nope. Not much of a PvPer. Plus, I'd rather explore a new world, than try to murder folks who didn't do anything to me, and are just trying to check out new stuff too.
Both parties have to agree on PvP, but I suppose there are ways to harass other people. I just like it that the last best hopes of humanity start wasting eachother. It presents a much darker atmosphere. Try it. Maybe you'll like it.
Just got back in since launch. It’s been fun learning the game! I was so confused when I saw that you had to pay for anything :/ I think shelter got to them
I think the biggest error in Bethesda's part was marketing the game as an A-team production when it was actually a B-team production.
Bethesda should have spent an entire extra year to add basic things like NPC's. Also it would have been better if there could be more storage space for players. My main gripe is that you have to pay monthly fees to store extra junk. It's not even worth grinding at that point when you can't. My second gripe is the weapons damages are just awful. I want to get a mod that makes a minigun shoot bullets instead of nerf darts. Even if I can't use the minigun and get shot by it instead if they put in strength requirements to use equipment.
@@genericscout5408 it's called making a build like an rpg bruh
They should have never given that Austin Studio the Bethesda name in the first place.
No, their mistake was assuming a single player team can use their single player engine to make a multiplayer game, that's a recipe for disaster from step one regardless of the team producing it. And make no mistake, 76 wasn't entirely built by BGS Austin, the main studio probably had just as much of a hand in it as well especially since Austin was primarily tasked with the networking side of things.
You're being generous!
Good on Tanya for forcing Austin to use more SAT vocabulary
Why?
This game is horrible
@@macderadder9296 You are horrible.
@@macderadder9296 it was horrible and sure it’s not perfect but it’s much better at launch but as he says in the video that it’s a Valid response to decide to never play a game again even how much it improves overtime…
And he still pronounced it wrong 😢
I played 76 at "launch" for a lot longer than I should have, putting up with bugs and griefing and no storage space. I jumped back into it a couple weeks ago to see what's changed and was pleasantly surprised. I kind of miss their battle royale mode despite _its_ flaws, but they have made drastic improvements to the game in the interim (look that one up, Austin).
BRING BACK NUCLEAR WINTER!!!
Its so nice to have content flowing from Shoddycast again. Game Theory is alright but it was really only Austin that drew me there, and keeps me there.
Can't wait to see more!
Also great Job Tanya!!
Thanks for being a fan!
Same lol. I freaking love Austin's energy. It's a different type of genuine from matpat, and I'm so happy he runs shoddycast ☺️ Great job on the script miss tanya~
"The game felt dead and empty."
Honestly, that was the biggest appeal to me. The idea of being the only man left alive, crawling through the ruins of a destroyed society, accompanied only by ghosts and voices of the dead. That's what made me play for so long.
Same. I miss how it used to be
I slightly agree. While I do think the game needed NPCs, I think Bethesda had a knee jerk reaction to all of the bad press they were getting and went over board. I mean its only 25-27 years after the war people wouldn't be flocking to any area in these numbers "treasure" or not even human greed isn't THAT damn powerful lol.
based take
I have to disagree with you. I like to meet other npcs that you can talk to, trade with, or do quests for or have them become your companions if possible.
I like that they put people in it, but I wish they made them harder to find. Like, I wish you still had to follow the overseer's journey before you met her. (Although that quest was glitched to hell, I STILL have an inventory full of those damn holotapes lol).
When it was released, I wasn't a big fan of 76, but it slowly turned into something I enjoyed playing. Now I am working on 76 as a Level Designer, honestly, it is a pretty fun job.
Wait you work for Bethesda? If so is the zetans language actually possible to translate? I have gotten ahold of the raw file for the distress signal you get in fallout 4 but am a long way from even a partial translation. Also is the rumor that you can hear the alien never lives in english in the fallout 3 version when slowed down true of false?
If you work for Bethesda i have some questions, What is your opinion on if kirkbride's work is cannon? Also don't be afraid to use obscure shit because i know the deepest recesses of the lore. Also what is your take on the dwemer disappearance, did they zero sum, did they get warped thousands of years in the future like kirkbride thinks, are they in some unknown part of oblivion, are they just totally gone? I think they zero summed, yes yagrum bagarn exists but i think it was that he didn't zero sum but did the same thing vivec did, yes the dwemer didn't give a shit about the gods but they were known to travel the oblivion planes, statistically it is highly unlikely that yagrum was the only dwemer in oblivion at the time of their disappearance, also falion mentions speaking with a dwemer, is that a reference to yagrum or is he referring to someone else? Yagrum might still be alive by the time of tes5, then again he is around 800 years old in morrowind but at the same time there is a dunmer mage who is 4,000 in the same town.
@@tateranus4365 lol, he's a level designer, you might want to ask a lead writer about that
@@vehemetipolygoniae2197 you have a point.
I would like to speak to the pvp makers as it is scuffed af sometimes lol
How'd Austin get out of MatPat's basement?
Mat dosent keep Austin there
He keeps his own writing team in the basement.
Tanya is clearly a talented writer, please continue to put her skills to good use. Fo76 is a fun game, just make sure you get it cheap and expect it to piss you off at random times.
If it takes a game 4 years to become good, you've lost all credit in my opinion. People are all too willing to excuse a game for being good years after launch or excusing more glitches than gameplay at launch. I expect a finished product for my $60 plus tax. Not a buggy, glitchy mess that can brick my system.
@@Aaroncarter95 agreed. if you want full price, bring a full game to launch. if you bring scraps to launch, you'll get scraps in 4+ years. i wish we could Patreon the artists and the dev grunts who are trying their best under abusive management
@@Aaroncarter95hey man I can’t disagree but at the same time, just bc it’s finally good 4 years later doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still fun now
Not as difficult a question as you're posing it. Voting with your wallets is just that, and it is far more directed at the executives than the 'little guy' artists and programmers. We're not paying the Artists' salaries by buying the game, the artists are going to be paid for their work based on their contracts (barring bonuses and such that depend on milestones of the game's success like the bonus the Obsidian employees were denied for not reaching the 85 metacritic score goal by one point).
Sure, an artist might be laid off because the company didn't turn over good profits, but that's just a risk of employment. But the *only* thing that motivates the practises of executive level decisions is profit lines. The longer they are encouraged, the worse the situation gets. If employees want protection for their jobs and better guarantees for their work, that's something they need to take up with unions and sort out amongst themselves, that is *not* the responsibility of the consumer.
The person that wrote the script wanted to inject some boring anti-Capitalist rhetoric
@@virus1244 well its still an issue. And frankly capitalism (atleast the no idealised verion of it we have) encoureges this kind of horrible behavior from those at the top.
@@josef5341 it's actually a bit better than any other thing we as humans came up with, the anti-capitalist's favorite solution Communism is by far the worst. Pro tip, people in power of governments are just as terrible as people in power of corporations. Better off everyone individually try to fix themselves instead of fixing society with giant ideologies
@@virus1244 I mean, it favours the already rich far more than anyone else, thats a demonstrable fact, and this very issue is an example of the problems caused by that, you're naive if you don't recognise and expose the flaws in things you support.
@@RB_Eldritch it's not just capitalism, it's everything we humans have created, and you can't magic it away by complaining about it, while not understanding human nature. Capitalism isn't the monopoly for greed, corruption, power hungry, and hurting the poor. Communism is everything you hate about capitalism to it's extreme as shown throughout history. Fix yourself not try to fix a social construct you don't really understand, you just hate.
Glad you're back Austin, any plans for more Shoddycast videos? Also, Yay Tanya! Great script, keep making Austin expand his vocabulary!
I finally decided to give it a try 11 months ago and I absolutely love it. Have over 600 hours on it now. I'm a big fan of mmo's though, so I may be biased. I never played the game b4 they introduced npcs and what not, but I think it has one of the best/friendliest communities around.
First off congrats to Tonya on her first script!
Second off gotta say as someone who preordered this the biggest disappointment was the pip boy, I just wanted a cool replica of an iconic game prop and was unaware they ordered them from Ikea and had to assemble. It's been a pile of parts for years and actually in my backseat rn to give to someone else.
third I'm glad to see you feeling well enough to upload more again, missed having your videos pop up in my feed
I purchased the games on sale after heard the bad review story during the launch. Turn out, I loved it. Friendly community, updated season reward and the best part is base building.. I won’t feel competitive pressure in this game. Also it is a pleasant moment to get a particular build work for your character and obtain a god roll weapon randomly.
Good timing. I just started playing 76 again after spending most of the last two years playing ESO. If it wasn't for the fun I had in ESO I don't think I would have given 76 a second look, but I'm happy to see it's current state and it's a fun game. Great video, GG's Tanya!
I played at launch, it was a desolate wasteland, it was gloriously grim with every quest ending in death and despair and I loved it for that.
I'm glad to see content showing up on the channel again! Hopefully life is treating everyone involved well.
The fan made live action trailer for 76 is incredible. If only we could get a Nuka break for 76.
Heck yeah, I will just put the link for it here czcams.com/video/U_vhnMEt-ns/video.html
Yeah sadly the studio that made Nuka break was bought out and now doesn't exist 😔
@@1IteleportedBread I hope they hit over a million views soon, very well done practical effects mixed with cg.
@@2guys1cliplol that's a crime against nature.
Always great to see another Shpddycast video
Not a frequent occurrence, unfortunately.
Psycho might've been the last time they were truly active.... still great to see the channel kicking though, even now
Same.
Maybe we will see more now that game theory has sold out
Given to us our biannual shodycast vid
It is a blessed Christmas to get a shoddy cast video
My favorite thing about fo76 is that because it had no npcs, they did have to provide alot of environmental storytelling. And that environmental storytelling is amazing.
The way they have laid out this game isn't for dummies that half ass pay attention. Ridiculous amounts of content and storytelling without a word spoken. Simply amazing. I just stared playing a week ago and I'm kicking myself for waiting this long. Listened to the crowd. I knew better. This game is better than Fallout 4 by a very wide margin and as good as 3 or NV with more shit to do.
Great video. I'd suggest not adding the big letter stuff on top of the information dumps you've included - that makes it frustrating, because you can't pause to actually read what it says.
Then read faster
Cry about it
And who are you?
The . And , on PC do frame by frame
Old post but hope you have since got a life after such a supid comment ...neiro. seriously guess you was high or ? Or like. 😂😂😂😂😂wtf
The thing that sucks about fallout 76 is that it has one of if not the best fallout world. It's gorgeous, it has variety, it feels like it belongs. If they had released the game as a single player game at the time of the wastelands DLC I think it's a top 3 fallout game. But they shoehorned multi-player into am engine not made for it and tried to polish a turd.
The multiplayer is not great but aspects of it are quite nice to have in single player. I like checking out and making use of other people's camp. And you can fast travel for free at anyone's camp if you're in a group.
Yeah that's one of the things kind of keeps me at a distance. I bought Fallout 76 but I got it when it was on sale on Steam and the multiplayer aspect is kind of hit or miss with me. That and it has NO mod support. If you saw how many mods I have currently installed on my version of Fallout 4 you would say its a completely different game. I can understand NOT adding mod support, I don't think you would enjoy getting nuked by a launcher that puts 300+ mini nukes in your face all at once, but some mods just make the game more enjoyable. Extended Dialogue Interface as an example. If anything I think Bethesda could have learned a thing or two from Obsidian on how to make a good RPG. Fallout 4's base game is just a glorified version of Borderlands almost.
In short the multiplayer aspect and the lack of mod support are what usually make me choose between modded Fallout 4 or Fallout 76 and I'll go with modded Fallout 4 every time. Fallout 76 is installed and I keep it updated but sometimes I have to force myself to even load it up on occasion and that's a shame really. If it had single player option I would be all over that but seeing I run the risk of some skunk ruining my experience just because they enjoy being a douche kind of kills my excitement.😒😒
@@mkygod I feel like most of us fallout fans would have been happy with a co-op game rather than true multiplayer. If I could play in Fallout 76 as a single-player campaign, and then have one or two of my buddies jump in, that would have been miles better and easier to implement on the creation engine (as well as mods). It really had potential.
Single player games are lame
@@sunayocarissime5309 there are mods for FO76
Always good to see an Austin video! You (and Tanya) do great work!
It's good to see more videos Austin!
Greed. Greed never changes.
You also forgot about the mold that would grow inside the Power Armor Helmet.
A Shoddycast video is the Xmas gift I didn't know I wanted.
Long time no see! Glad to see you on ShoddyCast! Hope to see more of you and maybe Tanya, too!
So worried you'd lost out on this good channel.
Love You, Austin.
Merry Christmas!
This should NEVER become common practice. NEVER is delivering a broken game at the start a good idea.
too late, they all do it now.
The game is still a bug fest. That engine can't hold these game needs and as before Fallout games were fixed by mods, but this one is a no go zone, because they took it to FF membership...
It's still broken just a bit less so. If you have a faster than 60hz monitor you have to mess with ini files otherwise the game will lock to low refresh rates but if I unlock the framerate and I go inside caves or buildings it skyrockets to 300 FPS and the game falls apart. Also there are no brightness and gamma settings and these 2 alone are criminal IMO.
What really ruffled my jimmies is when they released that subscription program. When they offered _NCR Ranger_ armor to Fallout 1st owners.
It was like a perfect symbol of how much they didn't give a shit. "We can't fix our game, let's make a subscription service. How do we sell it? Use an icon of the greatest game of the franchise that we stunted from it's growth."
I'm certain that the couple people left who were there during the Van Buren project and left during this game's development REALLY felt that sting.
Not only an icon from the franchises greatest game, but from a side game they didnt even make. It's so comically tone-deaf, i'd laugh if i wasn't already crying.
It's alright if they want to make money from the game, but when it's objectively less fun for all the p2w features, it's just a hard pass. They'll fix it in starfield if not I won't buy starfield either etc.
Thank you for this, Tanya and Austin. I'm very excited to hear there's more videos coming as well . Just, just yay.
Been so long, I always enjoy these videos 👌
Great video and glad to see you’re back :)
it just came out for free on ps4/ps5 with ps-plus.
I gotta say the game feels a lot like west coast homeless-man simulator. I aimlessly wander around collecting and scrapping junk, everyone I meet is a hobo scrapper, I keep my junk in stash boxes, gather building supplies to make shelters that get periodically destroyed, and use as many narcotics as I can for the health buffs while trying to not become too addicted. Sometimes I encounter raiders who I just spaz out on with my melee weapon in order to save ammo.
Good job Austin I’m glad you’re still doing shoddy cast stuff. I’ve recently become a fan myself so thank you. Also good script Tanya nice vocabulary. I too knew both those words but what can I say I truly have an expansive lexicon.
good to have you back. commenting since the algorythm and stuff.
12:23 i think its funny if i imagine this bit is part of the script too
I can’t wait until next year for the next video
Ture
About the same release schedule as code bullet, another CZcamsr who has forgotten that they have a CZcams channel before
Okay well, to be fair, next year isn't that far away...
So glad to see a new Shoddycast video, good script Tanya, keep poking at Austin to make new video! I miss seeing new weekly videos from this channel in my subscriber list..
woah! Miss you guys glad to see you somewhat still active.
Ive actually had a lot of hours of enjoyment out of 76. This was even prior to wastelanders being released that added NPC's. The world is amazing and fun to explore imo.
Got it like 5 days ago, gotta say I'm enjoying it a lot
Got it for Christmas, and haven’t had the time to play it yet, hope you’re right
@@AmazingWooper haha same
It’s free on PS Plus, and I was looking for an online multiplayer game to play with a friend, hope it’s worth the download
Bro every game is worth for "free"@@arbaran01
Glad your making videos again!
I pretty much finished 76. I've done all main and side story lines. Some more than once. When I put it down it was like saying goodbye to a good friend, but I'll probably come back to it if they release another major expansion.
Yeah once you’re done with the storyline there’s just not much left to do. But it was an amazing world to explore. Especially on lower levels where pretty much everything could kill you if you went in the wrong direction.
I got the game on Xbox about a year after it came out, played for an hour or two, and never touched it again.
With it being one of Playstation free games for January, I was planning on trying it again.
Hey man we are here for you, I always appreciated your content, bro! Play on sir!
hey, ShoddyCast is back. glad to see it. good to see you.
I do certainly play Fallout 76, or at least I used to, several months ago I took a break to play other games and haven't returned yet, though this video does motivate me to go back again!
I don't think Bethesda should be lauded for getting done, after more than a year, what should have been done in the first place. They screwed customers and lied and they did it intentionally- I reward behavior like that by not buying their broken game And maybe I'm missing out- I enjoyed FO3 and 4, but there are a lot of other games I play, so I don't think about what I'm missing all that much. And it's not punishing the devs by not buying it- they've already been paid.
Don't miss out on it if you like fallout games it's definitely worth a look. Pick it up on special. The cost of the game alone doesn't keep their lights on, it's the annual subscriptions of regular players. They won't notice you playing it and I won't tell ;)
It's in gamepass btw. Maybe you don't have to buy it separately
Ok but
.......did you buy cp2077?
@@artemis5265 what does that have anything to do with the topic?
Thank you for continuing this channel, you are fantastically entertaining.
This channel is so good I really hope they start uploading more again.
Not having npcs was the killer for me. The different followers and characters are always my favorite parts of bethesda games.
It's had npc's for 2 years now lmao.
@@Tattle-by-Tale Yeah but it didnt when i was hype for it. So when i was excited to try it out, it lacked one of the key features i was looking for.
@@kidtruck9157 What are you talking about? The game always had NPC's. You do realize that creatures and robots are NPC's right? That doesn't only count for human characters? What you should've said was no HUMAN NPC's.
@@hermos3602 fair point
@@kidtruck9157 No, it wasn't a fair point... it was a technicality. He knew exactly what you meant by "NPCs" and decided to be a douche just for the sake of proving you wrong.
A Shoddycast video to end 2022??? YES PLEASE!!!
It feels like the good ol days. Thank you, Tanya!
Good to hear from you Austin
Completely new here ✨ subscribing just to support Tanya’s endeavor on using SAT vocabulary in future scripts 😂 Loved the review, it actually motivated me on updating the game and trying it out
Great video Austin and Tanya did great on the script
I played it for a few hours at launch and I said "I'll come back to it when it has mod support." Thought that would be 6 months or so, still waiting.
Me sitting over here with a bunch of mods installed with the Fallout 76 mod manager...
Mods are never going to happen in 76. The Atomic Shop is built on selling things that mods would give away for free.
Doesn't need mods. At all. Just needs haters to stop giving it unwarranted bad press. Game is actually a blast.
@@SecretlySeven The bungled launch, the state of the game from launch until now and the scummy decisions made since launch (microtransaction gameplay advantages, Fallout First, the ridiculous pricing and manipulative marketing tactics on the Atomic Shop, etc) more than warrant bad press. Even if you like something, hell especially if you like something, you should call out it's flaws in the hopes of making it even better.
And yeah, a lot of people have fun with it, mostly due to playing with friends or just liking the fallout franchise enough to overlook its myriad of issues, but the game doesnt become good just because some people have a lower bar for quality.
@@SecretlySeven Your inventory has a limit based on how much money you directly pay to Bethesdtha. You can get banned for playing too long. Or building in places you could in single player. The weapons don't do reasonable amounts of damage. Black powder weapons doing 20x the damage from a 10mm because? balance? They don't feel like a game based on the USA, rather it feels like a game based in skyrim with Dwemmer. I need my damage mods to make bullets you know deadly? rather than mere suggestions.
nice to hear your voice again, hope you're doing well
It's a fun game, been playing since season 3. I'm at end game now, but I still log in every day and play for around 1-3 hours depending on the day before going to do other things. I like how I can play casually and not feel like I'm missing out on things or I can sink in a bunch of time if I'm in the mood.
Untill you max your scrip, max your caps, and max your stash and carrywieght... Then it's logoff time.
When I can buy the game with no subscriptions and no microchansactions play it as a single player game with full mild support then I'll try it
I'm guessing you don't like playing online games.
@@hermos3602 Not everyone has the internet capability or the time to play online games. For several years I was taking care of my ailing grandfather, a man who couldn't walk and could call on me at all hours of the day and night. Playing online games under those circumstances is difficult at best and outright impossible at worst. Plus, you then have to rely on other people to be online in order to play. You got three friends, and can't play unless they're online, and you've only got a few precious hours to play, you're just wasting time waiting when you could be using to actually enjoy yourself.
@@hermos3602 The thing is if Age of Empires 3 was a FPS shooter game, everyone would flip out and be angry because it's a RTS. Same thing with F76. It changed entire genres when it released so of course people would be upset. And also when internet dies for a few seconds I don't want to lose all progress or be stuck unable to play.
@@genericscout5408 I feel that analogy would only work if this game had been called Fallout 5. As it is, Fallout 76 is firmly in spinoff territory. A spinoff doesn't need to be 100% beholden to every single aspect of its parent series.
That's just Fallout 4
My issue w/ FO76 at this point is that new content isn't moving the story forward. Wastelanders added living people back to the world, then there was the BoS update but even that really only added instanced content with little change to the open worldspace.
I loved this video and I have loved 76 since it launched I have not played it constantly but but every few months I will try and hop in and see what is new and has been added.
I play Fallout 76 when I can and I still love the game!
You built your C.A.M.P. right where I built mine too! LOL
I'll make the argument, Fallout 76 is a good game, just not a good Fallout game, but that's kinda just something heard across the board, I'm a loot gremlin in htere and my stuff is ALWAYS packed!
@nooooooooo in the sense that your choices matter, and you cant go back and change them unless you make another character, then yeah!
Gunplay is about the same
Building is 1000x better
Companions are your squadmates
@nooooooooo i'd say yes
Still a variety of side quests, weapon chases, expansions and crazy public events to complete
Going for the ultimate build, making the best camp, etc. Thats all postgame stuff
Easily the worst fallout of the franchise still a fun game
I got it for free and instantly got wiped out by a guy playing a raider with traps
@nooooooooo there are events, sort of battlepass, enough side quests to make sure you will NEVER complete the game, you can do expeditions time to time like for example The Pitt (its not on the map). You can pvp and raid players. You can try new weapons with your choice of modifications. You can build mansion or some big base. And so on and on.
I heard the bad reviews of the game, didn't play till December 2018 since a friend was keep on pushing for me to get it, I'm still playing it and have a player clan I command proudly with other fallout fans all playing for ourselves and thriving in the wasteland as a team of mismatched vault dwellers. It's fun especially with others and if you haven't or can't play with others, meet other strange players, most of us are friendly.
I'm on the fence about it because it uses typical MMO style payment plans. Limited inventory space, and weird weapon damages are kind of off putting when I can just load up Fallout 4 with 20 mods.
@@genericscout5408 It technically has limited inventory space true, but unless you hoard missiles, cannonballs, and mininukes, it's going to be a very long time before you even get close to that limit.
No thanks, I will not be giving any money to Bethesda for their horrible handling of the Fallout brand. That, and the game is still shit as far as I concerned, the game was still a stuttering mess on the free weekend I played it.
@@Tattle-by-Tale 600 pounds. That's 3 character carryweights. Which is practically nothing. With weapons being breakable it's always nice to keep disposible sets to replace cheap weapons. Unless you're telling me the Handmade rifle weighs 0.02 Pounds. which I doubt.
@@SiphonRayzar it's the best fallout ever
I actually pre-ordered 76 because Bethesda games had always done me right. Being forced to use their launcher was strike one. The game itself was strike 2. Strike 3 came when I heard that it didn't suck any more and that you could now play it through steam, which is where I play all my games...... I checked my steam library and it wasn't there. So I opened a ticket. They initially attempted to get it working for me but it was failing because my Steam Account was already tied to my Bethesda login. They finally got that fixed but then told me, sorry, No game for you. Apparently, because I wanted to get my steam version after the small window of time that they gave people to convert, I didn't qualify and I was told I had to buy it again if I wanted to play it on steam. I don't know when the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout SINGLE PLAYER games will launch but I can promise you I will never pre-order from them again. And I will certainly never respect them again.
Merry Christmas Austin and Tanya
I wish there was some way to help the developers more but I guess we can just continue with our wonderful community in 76
I weirdly liked the feel of the no npcs. Players were few, and far between, it felt like an abandoned world. I'm not excusing all the problems, but that feel was kinda cool.
It’s a fantastic game, been playing two years now and absolutely love it.
This ends on an important and often missed out point about what to support and I appreciate that
Cant wait to see more from you Austin
Thanks for making this video. I bought the tricentennial pack because I thought they were going to be able to roll right off the great work in FO4 into FO76 and then the biscuit wheels fell right off the gravy train. I played about 4 hours and put the game down and I haven't been back in since launch day. Watching, waiting, as patch and controversy continued to come out. It's good to know that now...now it may be time to go back.
I did and felt the exact same, but I recently started playing it again with a friend, and its been really fun. The npcs make it feel so much better.
@@SwordlessNinja Playing with a friend can make even the worst game fun. Still a trash game.
@@SiphonRayzar honestly feels like every other fallout game now. So if 76 is trash, they all trash I guess.
Go back dude, it's a whole other game now. It still has Bethesda bugs, but they're bearable. You won't recognize the place, seriously lol.
Shoddycast rises from the dead!
F***ing finally! A new shoddycast video! It's truly a Christmas miracle!
Recently got it free via Prime(via MS of all things) but still haven't found the urge to return to it after hating the beta. This video helps me decide whether to even try it while there's a little loot to be claimed from Prime right now, and I appreciate it. Thanks
Oof, 76 has smashed the brakes and yanked the steering wheel so often I can't really complain about it anymore. It's very odd.
i loved the video, but we NEED more Devil’s Advocate. that is an AMAZING video style that you usually only see from real lawyers.
and Kudos to Tanya. i’m a word nerd, and i love hear miasma for the first time in a long time
You can’t really play Devil’s Advocate with Fallout 76 because Bethesda actually fixed the game and is considered fun by almost all player who have played it recently. The only thing you can argue about is the Atom Shop, which isn’t P2W at all; and Fallout 1st, which yeah it does give you a massive advantage, but advantage to what? The Riot Armor isn’t as good as Secret Service armor, and the Private Worlds aren’t that OP because once you get a decently high enough level you don’t have a problem with finding junk and Aid supplies in normal worlds.
@@mikewilliams9069 i don’t want a DA for Fallout 76! hell no🤮! i just like the theme & style of the DA videos.
@@JRenardLeatherCo now im confused is da a mod something?
@@mikewilliams9069 in reference to ShoddyCast, Devil’s Advocate is when Austin defends a character(s) from their role as the antagonist(s) in the lore. he did it for the Demons in Doom, and for Caesar in New Vegas.
@@JRenardLeatherCo thanks for the clarification. It’s been so long since I played new vegas that i forgot
This took time. Welcome Back Austin
I'm happy to see 76 get some love also I would like to shed some light on the story. So the npcless world is like a half truth, there were npc but in the form of super mutants, robots, and ai just no human npcs including ghouls. However, there was a reason for at least an in game reason, you see the Appalachian mountains were plagued with we a plague this lead to mostly everyone who survived the bombs get turned into a scorch the game's way of having enemies that wield weapons and guns. So basically when you and your fellow Vault Dwellers leave your Vault everyone is dead and you explore what remains. After a year they did bring back npcs, their reason is due to settling and treasure. I would like to say more but I recommend checking it out. Along I will say that doesn't excuse literally everything wrong. Oh, also the game is beginner friendly as the game now uses a mechanic were everything kinda levels to you so you can explore the map all you like!
Welcome back Austin hope you will be uploading more but if not Welcome back anyways
I remember hearing about how bad Fo76 was I never gave any thought of playing
Then my friend group decided to get it during The Night of the Mothman to Mess Around and Hangout
It ended up being much better than we anticipated and the Four of us ended up enjoying the game and having alot of fun
It's a happy coincidence he released this video the same week I FINALLY got into fallout
Nice to see you again
I bought it for 20€ a month after realease or so. Started it again recently and it's not as infuriating for sure
Well done Tanya! Been playing 76 for about a year and a half, still buggy but mostly fun.
Just like cyberpunk 2077, most people focused on how unstable its launch was, and now these games have had years of updates, and both games are relatively “more stable” many people are turning around and saying they’re “good now”. The thing about that kind of simplistic assessment on these games progression is that this ignores the dozens of other issues these games suffer from, and ultimately it’s very harmful to the wider gaming discourse and gaming community if we just willingly ignore all those other issues.
Although to be fair on fallout 76, a lot of the criticism was a lot less fair and 1000x more vitriolic. Fallout 76 is an MMO developed by a smaller subsidiary of Bethesda and only the second MMO made under the Bethesda-Zenimax corporate name so there’s no way the game could’ve launched well.
There’s no doubt there are reasons for why a game is made ‘poorly’ or ‘good’ and it’s perfectly fine pointing it out, but it’s important to look at the wider picture and judge them to their actual shortcomings, just what Reddit says.
Still I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a lot better game then Fallout 76. F76 still is a crap game, animations looks like joke and there is no atmosfere of Fallout most important think. Cyberpunk however is RPG game F76 is not thats why I dont llike it.
@@Wiktorino1984 cp2077 is still crap lol the city is still dead and there's no new activities
I quite enjoy the game. Got it last Christmas and there's still plenty of little bits of content for me to explore
Ayyy another ShoddyCast vid this year, sweet
76 is my first ever fallout game, i've only started recently and I absolutely love it! I'm disappointed that there is no quest sharing but otherwise I'm fine with the game.
I know its often hard to go back to previous games due to the dip in graphics and older mechanics, but give the earlier ones a try if you can, 4 wasn't the strongest, but is plays similairly to 76, New Vegas is widely considered the best, and is old enough to be pretty cheap most of the time. If New Vegas had a demons souls style remake i'd play it nonstop.
thanks for coming back Austin hope you are feeling better we really missed you
What I really wanted was a fallout coop where I can explore with a couple of friends not this mess but to each their own game on.
It is co-op though. I don't see the issue? You can share quests, trade weapons and gear and help eachother, that's as cooppy as it gets.
This was awesome great video. Gonna return to 76 someday
me and a friend played a few months after launch and had a blast for a while, but the grind killed it, especially for me. playing a heavy weapon and power armor centered build meant I'd need to spend hours grinding each play session just to offset the materials I consumed being online. it became a chore to capture all the ammo producing locations on the map the first thing each day before being able to even start questing. then after maybe 3-4 days, i'd have enough excess supplies for a boss raid or two at most. the build was fun AF to play and great for PVP, but that was a mere fraction of my time spent in the game.
Been playing since beta, basically the only game I spend any amount of time on these days. Love the new format. Glad to see you back.
Holy shit austin is backkkkkk
Contributing my own bit of experiences and thing that I've loved since the game's early days; I will say in my own experience, this game has the best playerbase I've ever seen of any (relatively) unmoderated multiplayer experience. Little, if any, players that I've met have ever displayed any form of toxic behaviors. Moreover, how lots of long time players will sometimes go out of their way to patiently help new players and many people will offload resources for people (likely resulting from the weight limit ofc, but still often a kind and generous gift)
Two examples come to mind, with on one new character I had, I helped people clear out an area we both happened to stumble upon, and they thanked me and rewarded me by dropping a ton of ammo and grabbing my attention to show it was a gift. And the other example being a stealth character build I had, where, I can't remember the circumstances, but another rando I stumbled upon just kept helping out and giving me stuff, what's considered the best rifle for stealth builds in the game along with over 11,000 rounds of the unique ultracite ammo it used, for free, no expectations, and I still use that same rifle on that character to this day
Suffice it to say, lot of pleasant experiences and just the astonishment of how kind, generous, and overwhelmingly great some people in the community can be. There's also great groups of people working towards their own community driven goal of experiences to add to the game that I've never met, but sound fascinating. But overall, the amount of great people I've met on there and hung out with has been such a change of pace when they arise that playing Fo76 is something I come to miss at times, especially during moments of frustration when dealing with toxic people online in other places. The community can be so welcoming with open arms and generousity that in my honest opinion, the game is definitely well worth the money I spent on it on that aspect alone
Shottycast was one of the first channels I subed to way back and I'm glad it's returning insome form
I did play it at launch, and it was awful. Then I was asked by my BFF to try it again 2 years ago. I gave it the 'ol college try for...... a week. A long.... boring ..... week. The world was empty. I honestly was so bored, but I didn't want to catch hell from my friend for not giving it a try. So I spent a week leveling my character to max, but then I still had little to keep me. The world was a dead place that I didn't care about, because I didn't even have a good building system to fall back onto. I even bought the ONE subscription so I had more storage space, but man I still blew through that in no time flat. 1200 weight is NOTHING. I can totally believe that Beth would make The Pitt for 76, since IMO The Pitt was one of the lousiest dlc's in Fallout, but it matches, as it is just as dead as 76. I'd rather replay tactics(should be canon FU very much!!!!) than the Daycare dumpster fire that is 76......
It still sucks
Did you try PvP? In the beginning that is.
@@vuumvgar1457 Nope. Not much of a PvPer. Plus, I'd rather explore a new world, than try to murder folks who didn't do anything to me, and are just trying to check out new stuff too.
Both parties have to agree on PvP, but I suppose there are ways to harass other people.
I just like it that the last best hopes of humanity start wasting eachother. It presents a much darker atmosphere.
Try it. Maybe you'll like it.
So the schedule is 2 videos a year? Eh, I'll take it.
But 2 Shoddy videos?, and made by Austin no less?, still posts more consistently than 2 or 3 other channels I sub to aswell.
@@RB_Eldritch Cries in Fitz
Just got back in since launch. It’s been fun learning the game! I was so confused when I saw that you had to pay for anything :/ I think shelter got to them
Merry Christmas!