Thinking about buying this with a friend

[Menlow]

Can you play the game with just you and your friend in the world? No other players, no pvp and a shared base?

[Halcyform]

Only ways you can play with no one else around is to play on public server on off hours, and hope no one else shows up, or subscribe to fallout 1st (paid service) that gives you access to a private server that your friends can also join.

Your friend wouldn't need Fallout 1st but you would need to be there; otherwise, the server would drop.

Edit: I believe private server is limited to a total of 8 players.

[Sirius]

Please also be aware that the quest system (as, in: the story) is set up for single player - so while you CAN help your friend with a quest, you afterwards need to do it again while your friend helps YOU, because only the quest "doer" gets the story progress.

In short, you CANNOT progress the story together unless you do them over with the other person being the quest taker so both players have the same progress.

Also, (and this might be wrong), it could be there are a couple of quests where single player is enforced, but it's possible I'm thinking of another idiotic coop unfriendly online game system. It's been a WHILE since I slogged through the story quests, so someone else would need to clarify on this.

The first part though is correct.

[Prof. Awesome]

You have to pay to play coop with your Friends alone? Thats messed up, i was thinking about buying for me and my buddy and came here to ask the same question as the OP. Thanks for warning me tho.

[Grendalcat]

On a public server the contact with others is minimal, if that is what you want.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Prof. Awesome:

You have to pay to play coop with your Friends alone? Thats messed up, i was thinking about buying for me and my buddy and came here to ask the same question as the OP. Thanks for warning me tho.

No, you pay for a host of other, more important things.

It just so happens that the ability to create (restricted to 8 players) private servers is one of them.

As others have said, you can play coop as far as the game allows without paying extra, interaction with others is minimal and usually amounts to an emote and then at worst, and then they are gone again.

[Menlow]

okay thanks a bunch guys, that sounds absolutely horrible for someone looking to play with a friend so f that :D

[BigV419]

Do not, save yourself endless aggravation while you still can, don't make my mistake and waste your money. This game is busted AF and will never work 80% of the time and crash on you constantly and endlessly no matter what you do.

[Dezktop]

soo proud of you's

[Phantom]

yes - pay extra money for the monthly sub (only 1 of you needs to the other can join them)

PvP is PARTIALLY optional in the game... if you do every event, some are pvp but they can be done passively they just force you to see other players as hostile

Base building is ish

one of you can build a base and if you are in a private team (no team benefits) they can build on and do stuff at your base, but it will be either or players base

[uRBAN_Spaceman]

Honestly as long as you are willing to pay for Fallout 1st this game is a solid game to play with friends. We had a group of 7 of us that started new chars together after Wastelanders first came out and we all got like 800ish hours of playtime before we were finally burnt out again. Everybody had their camps spread out around the world for easy fast traveling. The world felt fun and alive that way. Having our own private world helped out a ton as getting 7 people together in the same public server can be near impossible sometimes. The only major con to playing on a private world is you miss out on some of the harder public events because you dont have enough people showing up. Regardless the games great with friends even with all the kinks and bugs.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Menlow:

okay thanks a bunch guys, that sounds absolutely horrible for someone looking to play with a friend so f that :D

You don't need any of the stuff mentioned by the others.

You can just go to the official game servers, and good chance you won't even see other players. Any you do see will probably turn and immediately leave the area. The rest will be so far away, they might as well be on another continent. There are few areas like the workshops that are open PVP, but you just stay out of those if you want. And you turn on pacifist mode. It doesn't keep you from being hurt, but you can't hurt others even by accident. Which means they have no avenue to engage in pvp with you.

But seriously, you won't run into many players, and 99% of them don't want to run into you either. They'll either serverhop or just fast travel away from you.

If for some reason a players starts following you and annoying you, all you have to do is log out and log back in and you will server hop.

And the rest of the stuff is just whininess from nolifers who play this game 24/7 and nitpick every single little thing they can. It's a broken record, and just ignore em.