Recent reviews by [AN] Mad Scientist

I enjoyed this a little bit when i played it ages ago, but the base game is extremely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bland, almost every mod out there requires a dlc and when I attempted to make a modded game it locked up the game entirely. If you want a game with proper replayability i dont suggest this game unless you are willing to spend ass loads of money on it.

I have heard some good things about this game and from what little I could play i found it fun (which wasnt much) HOWEVER it seems poorly optimized and it is as if I am looking at a slide show when I was attempting it, once they let out more optimizations then i will try it then.

Its okay now as it is actually playable unlike 6 years ago, though the user in the following shows why vote kicking (or a way of moderation if its disabled) so issues with people doing this stuff in it would not occur as much
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I found this game fun and enjoyable however it ran extremely poorly, I had issues with simply starting the game and the loading screens taking up (on average 10) to actually load, making the gameplay I actually had being around 94 minutes of actually in a game playing, the rest was either spent in the loading screen, or the game booting me constantly from attempting to join any public lobbies. Any time I had been within a game it was choppy as hell, it was acting as if I was watching a slide show when any sort of combat started up, making it impossible for me to return fire or respond occordingly to threats. If you have a beefy computer and good internet I suggest this game though from my experience I cannot suggest it as I was unable to get any proper games in on pub games, or single player.

I love fallout, as I have played this I did have interest in it however in the later stages unless you break the game in some way for damage you cant kill ♥♥♥♥, you cant take a hit from anything, you are always looking for screws and adhesive instead of being able to actually work on the game itself so you can fix your gear. I have tried various builds, and none work, I cant kill anything, any time I play with a friend they are always doing all the work cause no matter what i try perk wise I cant do anything, I die in a single hit from almost everything despite having appropriate gear (i.e high energy resist in areas where it is used against me, or high balistic where bullets are used) and ensuring my gear is repaired and high level to be on par with it. I cannot find myself to suggest a game that makes it to where if you dont get lucky with rolls on perk cards or legendary items you cant do anything. in addition to all this any time I load into a world my base gets destroyed by a massive swarm of super mutants and multiple behemoths despite me not even having that high of a level. Unless you have spent IRL money to get the best turrets you are better off not even attempting a base to use. Use the whitespring mall for your crafting and what not, or the overseer's camp at the start. or the rusty pick. This is an unforgivable amount of flaws I find in these mechanics I cant manage to do ♥♥♥♥ in the game. I know I wont be touching this game myself until some issues are more user friendly and actually letting people do something instead of getting rediculously lucky on perk cards and legendary gear.

I love this game and its concept but one of the mechanics that is an idiotic design in one of the maps is the scaling issue via the Creeper ++ map, as it bugs out at a certain point making it litterally impossible to nullify the spawners as it destroys the nullifier despite there being OVERWHELMING firepower to get rid of the creep not only that but also a shield to protect it (when I tested it earlier) and it still destroyed the nullifier instantly, NOW to add to this, when I DID have all but one (the spawner to the north west sort of direction of the map) disabled it for some reason destroyed the 3 nullifiers at the spawners which were covered by anti air, snipers and turrets in general, not only this it also did NOT have any lack of power what so ever, either fix this issue with that map or get rid of that mechanic cause which ever person put that in it is a moron to think it would work. See screenshot below for an example as to how far i secured the map.

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I tried the game once more recently and I still do not suggest it, blocking is useless to attempt to level, changes other than that are okay(questionably okay honestly). I find the mimics and new demons in hell interesting to deal with, not a fan of the mimics taking your ♥♥♥♥ almost every single attack, being beefy and doing a ♥♥♥♥ load of damage. shields are useless to attempt to level as you only get 1 level per person you block attacks from (least from what I have seen several times) before you require finding a new person to get the experience for blocking from. In addition when you are blocking if no damage is taking (aka full damage blocked) your armor still can get damaged despite you not taking any physical damaged past your AC, making AC a glorified means of not getting one shot anymore at a certain point. It was understandable patching allies from whacking you to farm their combat exp and you farming block off of them but it also was removed from enemies making it practically impossible to get block to 100. If you plan to use shields... dont bother the devs apparently dont want them to be used due to their poor decisions towards them. Also I am not a fan of crystal armor being nerfed with the fragile trait, they are expensive as is to repair, and late in the game, providing that additional armor to use that is above steel that would be useful to everyone since there is only one proper set of legendary armor that cannot break (which only one would get the whole set if it is not split between members. So until more changes are made (either making mimics not able to steal ♥♥♥♥ OR reduce their AC threshold and shields viable to level) then I cannot suggest for any new players to get this game to try to get into it.

it is not multiplayer as it says via the tags, it keeps yanking my camera in random directions (which killed me to 173 once) then the 939 entities seemed permanently agroed to me despite me having just gotten down the elevator in their sector.

it quickly does indeed get very old with the enemy types very fast, there is no map so you have to figure out where to go in the massive maps, meaning most of the time you are trying to figure out where the hell to go, to add to that the melee and charge loose effectiveness making it entirely pointless to use, I would like to see some changes to help deal with these issues though I doubt that would be the case.

It is too much the same constantly that literally every game I did (mission wise) it felt literally the same as every other, it doesn't give you the best direction on how to set up a class, from what it appears it forces most changes you do to be in PVP which not everyone enjoys doing.