Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda (wccftech.com)
from ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to gaming@beehaw.org on 20 Dec 18:44
https://slrpnk.net/post/16365061

Playing as a Ghoul (with customizable design and even skin texture) is an endgame experience, as the related quest only starts at level 50. Ghouls will have ‘dozens of alternate ways’ to specialize their character, according to the developers.

To begin with, they are not only immune to radiation; it actually heals them. If your character is hurt, standing on top of some radioactive material will start healing them. Moreover, once fully healed, the excess radiation will build up into a new resource called Glow. Depending on how the player character is specialized, Glow can provide various effects. Ghouls can also utilize 32 exclusive perk cards on top of those already available for human characters, providing great variety when it comes to character progression.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 20 Dec 18:45 next collapse

In before the “People still play?” Yeah. 12,000 people on average. The game was released 6 years ago. There’s been a hell of a lot of free updates since then.

We get it. You hate FO76/Bethesda/Todd Howard. Go touch grass.

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 20 Dec 19:28 next collapse

Also, game is pretty good nowadays

kurcatovium@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 19:36 collapse

Which cannot be said about Todd Howard.

NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 19:38 next collapse

He doesn’t have time for self improvement.

He just works.

kurcatovium@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 19:39 collapse

Sixteen times the detail hard work!

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 20 Dec 20:19 collapse

Not much good could be said about him

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Dec 19:52 next collapse

Do they still focus on the whole CAMP thing? The game forcing me to make a base was a turn off

… I also avoided base making in Fallout 4

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 20 Dec 21:48 collapse

Unfortunately that’s the best part of FO76. Building your base/shelter, getting stuff for your base/shelter, etc. The story is okay. But at some point, everything revolves around you improving your base.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Dec 00:38 collapse

Ah nuts. Thanks for letting me know 👍

Telorand@reddthat.com on 20 Dec 19:58 next collapse

I don’t hate it, I just got bored. I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me (also, the weight limits are ass for free players). I played the Metro series before Fallout, and I think it kinda set the bar too high.

I’m not surprised people still play, though. It’s pretty fun, and people are generally nice. There’s lots to do, and the quests are decent.

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 21 Dec 03:52 next collapse

The weight limit is bad. I played recently and it seems like they did some adjustments, so not as bad as it used to be

JokeDeity@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 12:21 next collapse

First time I’ve ever seen someone rate Metro above the Fallout franchise, not that there’s anything wrong with the opinion.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 21 Dec 14:08 collapse

Yeah, and it’s not that I think Fallout is bad, it’s just…I think it feels too cartoonish? Like, people are supposed to be struggling, but despite the post-apocalyptic setting, each faction has their own little kingdom and seems to be doing alright. Medicine and stim packs abound, and nobody is really living on the knife’s edge.

And while that’s at least partly by design (supposed to be satirical sometimes), it doesn’t feel completely satirical, like Saints Row, or completely serious, like the Metro series. It’s caught somewhere in the middle, and I think that’s what doesn’t appeal to me; I want it to be silly or not silly, and it rides that line in a way I don’t like.

JokeDeity@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 17:42 collapse

One man’s trash. That’s what I love about Fallout. 🤣

Malgas@beehaw.org on 23 Dec 15:23 collapse

I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the non-Bethesda Fallout games? Because the Fallout-nees of FO3 (haven’t played 76 or 4) is a paper-thin veneer composed of random elements from previous games jumbled together in ways that make no sense.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 23 Dec 16:10 collapse

I have the first two games, but I’ve never played them. I’ve done 3 and 76 (the latter of which I hear borrows heavily from 4).

Are the first two better narrative-wise?

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org on 21 Dec 13:36 collapse

Go touch grass.

There’s no need for this, seriously. I get that it’s a gaming community but we’re trying to be better than the usual toxic mess, right?

GammaGames@beehaw.org on 20 Dec 18:56 next collapse

Glad to see this is still going, I played it a ton at launch and had a lot of (buggy) fun. This is a neat update, I’m imagining groups of constantly ghouls roaming around nuked areas gathering all the resources.

Linktank@lemmy.today on 20 Dec 20:07 next collapse

Can you guys go back to making single player games?

tal@lemmy.today on 21 Dec 04:54 collapse

They did.

Fallout 76, a multiplayer game, predates Starfield, a single-player game.

Linktank@lemmy.today on 21 Dec 06:08 collapse

I meant good ones.

tal@lemmy.today on 21 Dec 15:33 next collapse

I like both of them myself, albeit Starfield more.

DdCno1@beehaw.org on 22 Dec 15:20 collapse

Starfield is good. It’s not the next Skyrim, it’s not the greatest RPG ever made, but it does more than enough things right to be worthwhile. It’s fine to not like a good game, by the way - but this doesn’t make it terrible.

JokeDeity@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 12:19 collapse

This might be interesting… if Obsidian had done something like this. However seeing as how this is 76, a game that to this day runs like dog shit and is still the Bethesda game with the most bugs; I don’t think I’ll be enjoying this experience.