So it turns out my ultrathin laptop can run Fallout 4 reasonably well

[EssExTee]

It's gonna be hard to stay focused while working.

~36fps @ 1080p mixed med/low settings. Impressive for a 14 incher.

[Napoli]

@essextee Have you played Wasteland 3 yet? I would give that a shot next if you want to stay within the post apocalypse realm. I enjoyed it a lot more than Falliut 4 too.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@essextee I was so disappointed by Fallout 4 after what 3 and New Vegas offered. Some good stuff, but also a lot of crap.

[speedy964]

@essextee I tried to replay Fallout 4 on my new pc earlier this year, it turns out it won't run on a GPU newer than an Nvidia GTX 1000 series.

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@essextee you mean Junk Collector 4? smugface

[Napoli]

@classicdatsundebate “I can’t use this item, I may need it for the end of the game…”

[EssExTee]

@speedy964 Gotta turn off the "weapon debris" setting in the video options. I encountered this issue but it now runs fine on my 3060ti desktop.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@classicdatsundebate

[EssExTee]

@carsoffortlangley This is actually my first Fallout game. I like it so far. It's like Skyrim had a child with Bioshock.

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@classicdatsundebate I’ve spent waaaaay too much time customizing settlements. Which means I’ve also spent waaaaay too much time collecting junk.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@essextee I implore you to play new vegas instead of Fallout 4

[EssExTee]

@carsoffortlangley I'm a Commonwealth native, it's illegal for me to not play 4.

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@hfv said in So it turns out my ultrathin laptop can run Fallout 4 reasonably well:

@classicdatsundebate I’ve spent waaaaay too much time customizing settlements. Which means I’ve also spent waaaaay too much time collecting junk.

Hours and hours and hours building walls around Sanctuary Springs

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@essextee
It’s good…but the item management is taxing.
If you like it so far, New Vegas should be your next stop…an absolute classic.

[facw]

@hfv Same. Honestly it probably hurts replayability, I wouldn't want to start over and lose my cool settlements. Some of them are cool anyway.

[EssExTee]

@classicdatsundebate The weapon naming system is ridiculous. It's impossible to keep track of what weapon is what when they all have ten word long names. I've more than once accidentally sold or dropped a gun I intended to hold onto.

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@facw yeah same. It’s also one reason I wished 4 had multiplayer. I know 76 is a thing, but it’s a thing I don’t want to play.

[speedy964]

@essextee Correction, it won't run well. When the game needed to render lots of shadows and scenery, it ran like shit and tanked the framerate down to like 20fps. I did turn off weapon debris. I tried running it on an RTX 3090.

[facw]

@hfv Yeah, I played some 76 last year and my takeaways were:

• It got messed up if installed not on the C drive
• The first other player I saw was named <something I don't remember>_nutz
• The main storyline was super boring, every quest was "find out what happened to this person... Yep, they are dead just like everyone else"
• As long as you keep everyone muted and don't reveal their names, the multiplayer interactions were less bad than I expected, and some were actually fun.
• It's super grindy once you get past level 15 or something. Enemies I could kill with one or two headshots at level five took two or three reloads instead at higher level
• Related to the above, once things get super grindy, you are always low on ammo (which exacerbates the problem, since you have to use crappier weapons)
• Enemy level scaling is stupid, you can't use the enemy's level to determine how tough they are three different level 25 enemies can be vastly different in terms of how dangerous they are.
• Gunsmith/Armorer skills seemed like a waste. Because of the way they gate the items, I was always finding better stuff than I could craft, even with heavy investment.
• Building my own base sort of sucked compared to the F04 settlements. Not only are items locked away as DLC, but they just felt dead, and as a relatively low level player, there wasn't much reason for other players to visit (the only one I remember gave me a thumbs down for my vending section).

[EssExTee]

@speedy964 odd. My desktop gets 48fps 1440p max settings, but that frame rate is so stable that I think it's an artificial limit.

[farscythe]

@essextee i still havent finished 4
preston keeps nagging me to do shit...i hate him
oo do this do that...oh you have so many minutes to save these villagers (optional)
yeah fuck you...its the apocalypse
and what the fuck do i want to build a settlement for?
(custom power armor is fun tho)

[farscythe]

@farscythe basically...soon as they added you have so many minutes to do whatever....and you need to build whatever
it stopped being a game to me...and turned into a job
you need to pay me for those

[Eric]

@carsoffortlangley said in So it turns out my ultrathin laptop can run Fallout 4 reasonably well:

@essextee I was so disappointed by Fallout 4 after what 3 and New Vegas offered. Some good stuff, but also a lot of crap.

New Vegas was peak FPS Fallout.

Hard to call on Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, though, as they were both excellent, and the only reason the FPS versions were created was that nostalgia for excellent games of their eras.

Fallout 3 is okay, but I hate crawling through a massive maze filled with spawn points to get to just about everything.

[TheJWT]

I got it a few weeks ago when it was on sale and I like it a lot... I put a lot of hours into 76 until they nerfed all of the weapons and it stopped being fun. Now I can mod my weapons to be as broken as I want. I have an explosive sawnoff shotgun that's so powerful it kills me if I fire it point blank