Can't get "Custom World" options to show up

[AnHonestSoul]

So, me and my wife just bought the game and a Fallout 1st sub. Had lots of trouble to even get through the login process (accounts didn't want to register, error and error over and over, then it didn't want to login). We were close to give up on the game before even getting to play, but now that we finally made it to the menu screen we wanted to create a custom world. But no option shows up? Google says the option should be right there, when we hit the "Play" button. But it straight puts us into some random server and asks us to create our character. We want to play the game on our own server with our own custom settings.

What do we have to do to make this work? Already getting a headache from all the work and google searching for everything... A little help would be much appreciated.

[AnHonestSoul]

Also why did the game tell us we only have "Quick Accounts" or something translated in english. Could this be the reason? Sounds like we don't even have full access to everything, even though we can see Atoms already showing up in the corner and we were able to get the free Fallout 1st stuff from the atom shop.

Jesus this is so confusing.

[BizarreMan]

All character creation is done from the main Adventure world. Once you have a created a character and left the vault, you can then enter a private or custom world.

Please note, that anything you do on a custom world do not carry back to public if you wanted to go back. For example, a new character that leaves the vault is at most level two. That character can then be imported into a custom world and played for days, weeks, months. Gaining all sorts of levels etc. However, when you take that character back to Adventure, it will be at level two, and not have anything that you have done.

As you have gone ahead and purchased a FO1st subscription, I would recommend a Private Adventure world vs a Custom world. Private Adventure world uses the same ruleset as Adventure, but characters can go back and forth between Adventure and Private taking all levels, equipment etc.

I am saying this because you will run into events and bosses that cannot be handled solo or even in a two person team without much advance knowledge and preparation. So you can always hop onto Adventure, experience the events without the frustration of failing them multiple times before you finally get specced right.

[edit] All accounts in the game are tied to a Bethesda.net account. If you did not already have an account with them, it made one using an email address you provided. That is a "quick account". The only drawback to a quick account and a regular account is the display name is set to something and not your Steam account name or some other name of your chosing.

What you can do is go to bethesda.net, log in with the email addresses you used when you logged into the game the first time. Go through the account creation process, and then you can change the display name to what you really want it to be.

Big note: Each account can have up to 5 different characters. Each of them is a unique person, but they will show in game with your display name.

[AnHonestSoul]

So if I understand you right, our Adventure World characters are pretty much the main characters, which are nessessary to even be able to then create a Custom World after we played with them to the point of leaving the vault? These characters will get copied over to the Custom World we created and will also be saved for a playthrough, but unable to play with others outside our own Custom World?

If this is true, then it would at least explain the missing Custom World option for us. Also we have not much interest in doing stuff with other players. For this we got other MMORPG's. Just interested in having some hardcore difficulty fun in the world. We have the game for our Xbox consoles too, but wanted to start fresh on our gaming PC's. I remember the game being way too easy when we last played it 4 years ago or so. The Custom Worlds and the new brotherhood content were the main selling point to buy it a second time.

No idea, if its possible to even create some kind of a zombie apocalypse (we heard about something like a spawn rate setting there too, which sounded pretty cool to us) but as long as we can have more of a challenge now then its good enough.

[BizarreMan]

That is exactly correct, the Custom world characters are a fork of the Adventure characters.

Difficulty on the custom world can be dialed way up. You can adjust damage out/in. You can turn off all legendary items. Turn off fast travel etc.

[AnHonestSoul]

Ok you were right. We had to create our characters and leave the vault first. After that we returned to the menu, hit the "Play" button again and the Custom Worlds option appeared. Kinda overtuned our game a bit though. Had some green rad zombies lvl 35 coming out of nowhere within the first minute oneshotting us with a bunch of more rad zombies spawning while we were running for our lives from the first one. Now thats what I call a challenge!

Thanks for your effort writing all that infos down. It helped a lot :)

[BizarreMan]

That does seem a little hardcorpse. But if that's how you want to play. Enjoy.

[AnHonestSoul]

Nah not really haha. A wave of creatures every couple seconds was a bit too much. Couldn't even accept the first mission outside the vault. We settle with just tuning up the difficulty. If the devs adjust the timer of waves and creature count at some point, maybe even the type of creature, then we will put it back on. Remembers me of mods for other FO titles.

Higher difficulty and these weather and visual effects are good on their own. Adds a lot to the atmosphere. Thanks again!