Thoughts on Automatron DLC?

[ImaGuest]

What do you think of the DLC? Do you think it's worth the money you spent on it? What do you wish was in the DLC, but didn't make it? Just curious as to what the community thinks of the DLC. I personally love it, and is something I needed to get back into the game.

[Steve the hunter of tri.]

Same.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Honestly, I'm not that big into crafting, so I don't get a lot out of it, I mostly wanted it for new weapons and junk. Even so, I can build a few robots which is just fine.

[MtnDewLew]

kinda short...was it worth $10 maybe. fun though

[mimizukari]

Love it! Love having the random encounters with the robots added to overworld which causes for some awesome wandering encounters, and the questline is awesome and makes use of silver shroud.

@Prince Rahl
GMG had fo4 + sp for 75.6 before it even came out... so basically half price of the old price sp so there's really not much to complain about, I can see how it can be a bit awkward for new people trying to get into fo4 though with the price hike, but I think it's justified because bethesda makes some amazing dlc.

[Jackal]

this question gets like asked every single day
ill just repeat what i said yesterday, no its probably not worth 10 dollars. i heard its only 2 hrs long, and i couldnt be bothered to get past the intro quest, because i had better games to play

i would say its definitely worth the original price of 5 dolars, solely because almost all mods in the future will eventually require all DLC to function, like all bethesda games before it

and for 10 bucks you can get like 3 humble bundle packs, that are 8+ games each, and hundreds of hours of enjoyment, if your really that cheap. or you could get 2 AAA quality games
either way, dont get this dlc unless you really really like fallout 4
or you can just buy skyrim for 5 bucks because its the better game

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Jackal:

this question gets like asked every single day
ill just repeat what i said yesterday, no its probably not worth 10 dollars. i heard its only 2 hrs long, and i couldnt be bothered to get past the intro quest, because i had better games to play

i would say its definitely worth the original price of 5 dolars, solely because almost all mods in the future will eventually require all DLC to function, like all bethesda games before it

and for 10 bucks you can get like 3 humble bundle packs, that are 8+ games each, and hundreds of hours of enjoyment, if your really that cheap. or you could get 2 AAA quality games
either way, dont get this dlc unless you really really like fallout 4
or you can just buy skyrim for 5 bucks because its the better game

someone's salty AF, it's definitely worth the $10, and the main quest is about 4 hours, but it's what it adds to the game the random encounters and craftable robot companions that makes it worth after that, which adds tooons of hours of things.

I'd love an expanded encounters DLC which added tons of new random encounters into the game personally since those are what makes it last post game, or new dynamic quests, etc.

[stabbykitteh]

I am enjoying it as well. The quest actually had a little more to it than I expected, and the bot building is fun. More justification for my hoarding obsession :P

As for the price? I got the Pass early from GMG, so I basically paid for Far Harbor and everything else is frosting, ymmv.

[RnM]

(cross post from another discussion)

Maybe some spoilers - but not really

First of all, I'm a Bethesda bigot; I love their games. So when I say I'm a bit disappointed in "The Mechanist Redux" you may take it as a given that I'm not just trolling. The main attraction of Beth's games are their incredible complexity. I'm not claiming that the Automaton is simple but as mentioned above, it is very short compared to most FO3, Oblivion and Skyrim DLCs and rather formulaic in it's meager plot line. Run here - kill these robots; run there - kill those robots; go to an underground maze and kill more robots - go to the final maze and kill lots of robots.

And then my favorite kvetch.... when ever a game designer runs out of interesting ideas, particularly tactical problems, s/he falls victim to "the cockroach syndrome"... overwhelming numbers of enemies who seem to teleport in behind you, on top of you etc. Fine, if you love arcade shooters, but not the finest thinking in a serious RPG. Basically, the designer seems to have said, "I give up, let's just swarm the muthah".

oh, you can build robots too but other than a plot requirement or two....yawn.

[zora]

I can't save the name of my robot. It just keeps going to "Automatron".
Yes. This DLC is so good my biggest excuse is that I can't name my robot properly.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by RnM:

(cross post from another discussion)

Maybe some spoilers - but not really

First of all, I'm a Bethesda bigot; I love their games. So when I say I'm a bit disappointed in "The Mechanist Redux" you may take it as a given that I'm not just trolling. The main attraction of Beth's games are their incredible complexity. I'm not claiming that the Automaton is simple but as mentioned above, it is very short compared to most FO3, Oblivion and Skyrim DLCs and rather formulaic in it's meager plot line. Run here - kill these robots; run there - kill those robots; go to an underground maze and kill more robots - go to the final maze and kill lots of robots.

And then my favorite kvetch.... when ever a game designer runs out of interesting ideas, particularly tactical problems, s/he falls victim to "the cockroach syndrome"... overwhelming numbers of enemies who seem to teleport in behind you, on top of you etc. Fine, if you love arcade shooters, but not the finest thinking in a serious RPG. Basically, the designer seems to have said, "I give up, let's just swarm the muthah".

oh, you can build robots too but other than a plot requirement or two....yawn.

the skyrim dlcs you talk about were $20, not $10, you'll get quality in far harbor which, launching at a price of $25 will likely be massive.

[Sdri]

ok dlc, but i wanted to build a mini liberty prime

[Valektra]

This is why they are holding the GECK hostage? So they can release DLC's that are not as good as what modders can do?

[stabbykitteh]

Originally posted by Valektra:

This is why they are holding the GECK hostage? So they can release DLC's that are not as good as what modders can do?

No, it isn't.

[azxcvbnm321]

This DLC adds more tools and assets so that modders will be able to do much more than before. The GECK will be released in April and no, even if the GECK were released, modders couldn't have made Automatron. But now that Automatron is released, I see the potential for a whole bunch of new different creatures that could be made by the modding community and be given functionality.

[Yhwach]

short