It now has a "Mostly Positive" rating? What changed?

[Retroburn]

I seem to remember this game having abysmal Steam ratings.

Good to know they changed something. What did they do?

[Blues Man]

[SaelorMoon]

They fixed most of the technical issues, got rid of forced PvP and introduced a lot of new content. Not that hard to understand.

[BizarreMan]

The people who gave it bad ratings because it was multiplayer and not FO5 have had their ratings overtaken by people who actually play the game and like it

[Fennec]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

The people who gave it bad ratings because it was multiplayer and not FO5 have had their ratings overtaken by people who actually play the game and like it

Frankly, the biggest thing keeping me from playing it is that I refuse to pay a subscription to bypass their arbitrary storage limits, which apparently makes the game hell to play if you don't.

Otherwise, I've heard it's gotten really good.

[Wade]

Originally posted by Retroburn:

I seem to remember this game having abysmal Steam ratings.

Good to know they changed something. What did they do?

Fallout 76 is in the worse shape now then 2-3 years before because Bethesda made it super easy looter shooter with constant buffs for players and nerfs for everything else. New positive reviews are mostly from Tik-tokers and GenZ players. If you like Tik-Tok, you will like F76. But don't be fooled by the numbers, because only 5-6 thousand players play this game on average.

[Diarmuhnd]

Originally posted by Retroburn:

I seem to remember this game having abysmal Steam ratings.

Good to know they changed something. What did they do?

They got rid of survival, nerfed world pvp, added NPC's and added factions. They could never stop or even fix cheating so completely removed Nuclear Winter arena pvp which many players hated being forced to play for events or seasonal rewards. Finally nerfed legacy weapons after 5years and they sold more fix's for things they limited, Private Player Worlds just like more stash space. A large amount of shop items was offered via the FOMO experience and they made some "DLC'.
On top of that, huge sale discounts have allowed many players joining recently to be playing for dirt cheap compared to the earlier group of players.

I think thats about it , cheers.

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[Dezktop]

bethesda knew what they were doing with red fall they love their fans never forget it

[uni790]

Originally posted by Fennec:

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

The people who gave it bad ratings because it was multiplayer and not FO5 have had their ratings overtaken by people who actually play the game and like it

Frankly, the biggest thing keeping me from playing it is that I refuse to pay a subscription to bypass their arbitrary storage limits, which apparently makes the game hell to play if you don't.

Otherwise, I've heard it's gotten really good.

In all honesty, I've never had 1st other then the points in time they hand it out for free for a week or three, I've never found inventory management too much of an issue, all you have to do, is not pick up what you don't need. People that run into issues, are hoarders that absolutely must pick up every last piece of junk, bit of ammo, weapon drop, because they might just need it someday. It's fairly easy to figure out which bits of junk you actually need for repairs, just don't pick up more then you need, ammo if you use it is again fairly easy, just leave the kinds you're not using on the ground, weapons, ask yourself is it any better then what I have now, if the answer is a no, can you still collect scrip today? If that answer is a no, then ignore it, if yes, pick it up and turn it into scrip.

The biggest inventory hog I've seen, are Stimpacks, as I never keep track of just how many I have which usually results in a stack of 300+ after a couple of days playing, which just get dropped somewhere when I notice the stack.


To the OP, put simply, Bugthesda bothered to complete basic work on the game a few years after release.

[Mr Chow]

Originally posted by Fennec:

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

The people who gave it bad ratings because it was multiplayer and not FO5 have had their ratings overtaken by people who actually play the game and like it

Frankly, the biggest thing keeping me from playing it is that I refuse to pay a subscription to bypass their arbitrary storage limits, which apparently makes the game hell to play if you don't.

Otherwise, I've heard it's gotten really good.

100% correct me too.

[nordmeyerx]

It's because I personally gave it a good recommendation which tipped the scales to "mostly positive".

[Zenventius]

Everybody saw Star*cough, and figured 76 wasn't all so bad after all.

[nordmeyerx]

Originally posted by Zenventius:

Everybody saw Star*cough, and figured 76 wasn't all so bad after all.

I just started Star*cough and I can't get into it. I'm thinking it's just me?

[SerialGamer]

Adding human NPCs was what suddenly improved the game's rating, back in April 2020 (during the pandemic when the game industry boomed because many people stayed home). The Wastelander storyline is about finding a vaccine, and that might've helped too.

Having all robot NPCs was one of those things that sounds good on paper but just doesn't work when we finally see it.

[NeoVid]

Because they successfully improved the game from the pathetic state at release to a pretty good game. It's better at being a Fallout game than 4 was, that's for certain.

[uni790]

Originally posted by NeoVid:

Because they successfully improved the game from the pathetic state at release to a pretty good game. It's better at being a Fallout game than 4 was, that's for certain.

Not really, 76 is still fairly dry in comparison, not to mention no mods to fix the piles of bugs, quests not working, 4 wasn't great for sure, but it made for a better game then 76, even in it's current state(I just recently beat 4's main plot for the first time last week ish(yea, I'm slow, lol)).