Fallout 4 Catch-All 2.0

mrlogical wrote:

Bad faith on whose part? But yeah, Bethesda is not known for being happy about their plans leaking.

On the part of the guy posting things publicly. If I had buddy who worked for Bethesda, I wouldn't repeat anything he told me, especially not publicly. I'd feel like I was betraying him. Maybe I'm just a fossil though.

I totally agree that I'd be mad if I was working to keep something secret and one of my coworkers (or their spouse/friend/person who overheard them/whatever) blabbed about it to a reporter. I don't fault the reporter at all for running the story though, not that you were doing so, it just wasn't clear to me before.

Sources talk to journalists with the understanding that what they say can be published, subject to any ground rules established between them. It's not just a random buddy of Schreier's that he then decided to quote without permission.

beanman101283 wrote:

Sources talk to journalists with the understanding that what they say can be published, subject to any ground rules established between them. It's not just a random buddy of Schreier's that he then decided to quote without permission.

Okay that's fair, but then I guess it really makes their mysterious approach pretty ingenuous if they're just going to leak their own news at the same time through different channels.

Yup. And we don't know if the sources he refers to are, like, Bethesda employees working on the project, or an employee of a marketing company that's working on their PR strategy, or a janitor who was in their office and saw some plans on the wall, or Todd Howard just thinking it'd be fun to leak a little detail to Kotaku (okay, it's probably not the last one). Keeping secrets in a big industry is tough, although just "it's online" seems like a pretty minimal leak, really, one that Bethesda shouldn't be too upset about getting out as it should reduce the number of people who are disappointed when they learn this at their E3 presentation.

I hate the idea of it being a marketing tactic, but I feel like that's exactly what it is or they would be pretty irate with people leaking info.

The leaks are extremely unlikely to be officially sanctioned. They typically happen because someone with inside knowledge wants their journalist buddy to do well at their job and having inside info = clicks = ad revenue. Or they're either super excited and want to build the hype up, or super unexcited and want to warn people not to get their hopes up.

Dakuna wrote:
muraii wrote:

It’s hinted about in Fallout 3 (DLC) and in Fallout 4. The current scuttlebutt seems to suggest Vault 76 will open up on October 27, 2102 for Reclamation Day. And also that it might be an online game as well.

"current scuttlebutt" ...? Around where? I'm not saying it's less valid than any other rumours, but wording it the way you did makes me think you have a reason for believing whoever said it may have insider info...

Having been compiled in the GWJ Slack in the #gwj channel between a few people gathering information from the teaser and the game's lore (especially timelines) and some from the Kotaku article (specifically the bit about it maybe being online).

Note that if people weren't trying to fit pieces of this puzzle together then Bethesda's stunt would've been a failure, an abject failure. What they chose to show in the stream (e.g., confetti, party hats with "Vault Tec" on them, the bobblehead, the watch, the cupcake etc.) combined with the teaser and then the final bit of the stream where Pete Hines of Bethesda blows a party noisemaker and such, they're all conceived as clues for dutiful fans and other interested parties to unravel and interpret. Everything but the rumor about the game possibly being an online game came from public information.

Gotcha!

The Fallout 76 reveal inspired me to reinstall Fallout 4 and pick back up on my Main save.

Yup, this thing is just as addictive as I remember.

Cripes, Bethesda nailed the gameplay loop in this one.

Guess I'm just a scavenger at heart, lol.

I grabbed base Fallout 4, since it was about $12 on Fanatical. Are there any recommended mods to make the game run/play/look better?

Aaron D. wrote:

The Fallout 76 reveal inspired me to reinstall Fallout 4 and pick back up on my Main save.

Yup, this thing is just as addictive as I remember.

Cripes, Bethesda nailed the gameplay loop in this one.

Guess I'm just a scavenger at heart, lol.

I thought the same thing! My main rig is down right now, but now I’m itching to get back to Fallout.

Maybe it will be a fallout game where Bethesda put back in dialogue, side quests and roleplaying. Like in the first two games.

strangederby wrote:

Maybe it will be a fallout game where Bethesda put back in dialogue, side quests and roleplaying. Like in the first two games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojm_...

bighoppa wrote:
strangederby wrote:

Maybe it will be a fallout game where Bethesda put back in dialogue, side quests and roleplaying. Like in the first two games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojm_...

Does RPG mean what it did a decade ago.

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You may laugh but they really don't make games like they used to. But I have my memories. Games used to have stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Bristol. I needed a new joystick for my Spectrum. So I decided to go to Brigstow which is what they called Bristol in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost sixpence, and in those days, sixpences had pictures of Sonic on 'em. "Gimme five Sonics for a sixpence," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

We aren't actually going to have the "fallout 4 isn't an RPG" conversation here, are we?

Of course not. It isn't and we all agree.

Is that humour?

I’m back playing on th PC. Is there a mod to skip songs?
There’s a song (Mexico...Mexico...that’s where I want t go” I think on the Atomic Radio station and I’d love to figure out the title of it so I can download. I just need to hear it again.
Thank you,
Chad

chooka1 wrote:

I’m back playing on th PC. Is there a mod to skip songs?
There’s a song (Mexico...Mexico...that’s where I want t go” I think on the Atomic Radio station and I’d love to figure out the title of it so I can download. I just need to hear it again.
Thank you,
Chad

Never mind, that's the radio plays, apparently.

Edit: Ok, so if it's really the "Atomic Radio" station, that seems to be a mod.
The in game radio playing songs seems to be Diamond City Radio (here's the song list), though there are multiple in game stations.

Here's the Atomic Radio Mod... and the problem seems to be that all their music is hand crafted (probably to avoid legal action)

A Pre-War radio station that features lore-specific commercials, plays, and music from before the bombs fell. You'll hear advertisements for products like Sugar Bombs, Cram, and the Radiation King, as well as movie trailers for Grognak the Barbarian and PSAs about the danger of atomic radiation, drugs and hanky panky out of wedlock.

Instead of using real world content, the station has been hand-crafted with the Fallout universe in mind, featuring a cast of 65 actors.

Now, you can add your own custom tracks to the mod... but if you had done that, I suspect you'd know what the song you're looking for is.
I downloaded and looked for their pre-made song list, or mp3s, or something... but I don't have the fallout mod kit, so I can't actually look inside their mod
I'll keep at it, though, I like a good quest.

Ok, having gone through their mod's songs, apparently the custom stuff they made only applies to their radio plays, not the music. That's all real world stuff... the voice of Duke Ellington is pretty distinctive.

However, having spent some time with their songs and soundhound, the only song that even mentioned Mexico was "The Master's Call" by Marty Robbins, and it wasn't mentioned in the way you brought up.
So... not sure what to say. Sorry!

Edit: if you're interested in listening to the songs yourself (it's late, I may have missed something), here you go.

Finally started this. Going for Charisma and Intelligence, and have played maybe a couple hours so far. I liked how short but effective the opening is. The first set of characters seem a little vanilla, so I’m leaving Sanctuary quickly to find the weirder stuff out in the world. I’m going to try to resist my RPG completionist tendencies and stick to the good stuff.

I’ve found two workshops so far. Are resources globally shared among locations where you can craft stuff? Are there any downsides to minimizing the home building stuff? I’m afraid it’ll suck me in to the detriment of my actual enjoyment of the game.

beanman101283 wrote:

Finally started this. Going for Charisma and Intelligence, and have played maybe a couple hours so far. I liked how short but effective the opening is. The first set of characters seem a little vanilla, so I’m leaving Sanctuary quickly to find the weirder stuff out in the world. I’m going to try to resist my RPG completionist tendencies and stick to the good stuff.

It's all good stuff!

I’ve found two workshops so far. Are resources globally shared among locations where you can craft stuff? Are there any downsides to minimizing the home building stuff? I’m afraid it’ll suck me in to the detriment of my actual enjoyment of the game.

If you set up supply lines--which you do by assigning a settler as a go-between from one settlement to another--then some small class of resources is shared between the connected settlements. I never really dug into exactly what was shared, but here's a Wikia page about it.

Taharka wrote:

Ok, having gone through their mod's songs, apparently the custom stuff they made only applies to their radio plays, not the music. That's all real world stuff... the voice of Duke Ellington is pretty distinctive.

However, having spent some time with their songs and soundhound, the only song that even mentioned Mexico was "The Master's Call" by Marty Robbins, and it wasn't mentioned in the way you brought up.
So... not sure what to say. Sorry!

Edit: if you're interested in listening to the songs yourself (it's late, I may have missed something), here you go.

Thank you so much for activating this quest. Really cool of you. I’ll take a look at the link and listen. I imagine a “quest complete” will pop up for you when I find tat song. I’ll let you know.
Thanks again!
Chad

Best FO song is "Bingo, bango, bongo I don wanna leave the Congo, oh nononono"

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Best FO song is "Bingo, bango, bongo I don wanna leave the Congo, oh nononono"

:)

Now that one I do know! It's Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters "Civilization"

Taharka wrote:
Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Best FO song is "Bingo, bango, bongo I don wanna leave the Congo, oh nononono"

:)

Now that one I do know! It's Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters "Civilization"

I dunno, “I’ve got spurs that jingle jangle jingle” is an awfully good one.

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