No gameranx jingle to start the video really threw me off.

As a longtime player, it’s wild seeing all my friends start to play. It was just me in Appalachia for 5 years while my friends stayed in Vault 76

I decided to start playing yesterday, and I've been pleasantly surprised to this point. To the man who gave me a hot dog when I left the vault, may our paths cross again.

Long time player here. I went to log in today and I'm happy and sad that the servers are over loaded. Welcome all new players I can't wait to log in.

The community is so dope when I started some random gave me two legendary weapons and like 60 Stims

you know a show is good when Gameranx and Falcon still making a before you buy for a fallout 76😂💀

I’ve been helping every new player with thousands of ammo, caps, purified water, food and plans. I love it man.

I added this game to my cart on April 19th (on Steam) for $8, and while checking out the clock struck 12:00 p.m. and when I went to enter my payment info the sale ended and the price jumped back up to $60 lol I missed the sale by about 2 minutes

If you have to quit and reload the game before you leave the vault you'll respawn back in the starting room, behind an impassable, locked door... just like when the game first launched. Door. Door never changes ;)

This is free on Amazon Prime right now.

The advertisement for the store stuff is always in the main menu, not whilst you’re playing the game and then the notifications for events, well that’s actually helpful because the events are the best part of the game, they always give good xp, are typically pretty fun and you end up walking out them with at least 2 legendary items most of the time

We need a fallout game with 2-4 player coop. With the simple change of all players need to be present for story dialog

Bro. You didn’t even cover the base building aspect which is like 90% of the awesomeness of FO76 visiting the other players bases on a live map and doing trades in their shops and seeing the insanely creative stuff people make is just amazing.

Me and my wife have played non-stop since launch. This game just hits a really nice chill spot. After a long week, we decompress and just interact with other players, build camps, do scoreboard challenges, and we are really satisfied just doing that on weekend nights. Never gets old for us

Just FYI, but when the Responders ask for molded plastic, that is the correct way to refer to it. That's the name of raw, scrapped plastic - which is what the side quest really wants even though it accepts normal plastic.

It kind of reminds me of cyberpunk a little bit when cyberpunk has that little animated series people got back on the game after the updates and improvements

Been playing 76 on and off since launch. I've clocked in just over 750 hours according to Steam, and the only money I've spent on the game has been the initial purchase. Seen all the good, bad and ugly with this title and while it's definitely not NMS/2077 levels of comeback, it's in a much better place now that it's ever been. The community itself is one of the best I've experienced in an online game too, which is one of always of major importance in online titles like this.

Just started Fallout 4 this morning. Haven’t played since New Vegas. I was like 12-13

I would like to add that the ''Swamp thing'' only heals when he has a 'balloon' nearby. (Another creature that floats and looks like a green balloon with tentacles i forgot the name of)

Not many live service games fail at the start and still manages to keep an active playerbase like 76 has. Though I do wonder what 76 would of been like if it went a similar route as ESO. At least on steam, 76 has more players than eso.. which i found interesting.

A before you buy for fallout 76 in 2024 is wild. Keep up the good work!

Can't lie this notification confused me lol... Awesome to see Bethesda never gave up on Fallout 76 but it keeps me wondering why we have to wait years sometimes for games to be what they should have been at launch

I only played a couple hours of this game on PS4 on launch, but the early game segment of the openworld and the entire classical radio playlist has been burned into my mind. So yeah I agree with what you say about the strength of the openworld. Will give the game another shot soon

I liked the game but the server nature is what kills it for me. If you don't have enough time to fully clear a location in a single go you end up loading back into a swarm of enemies descending on you and everything back to start. And some locations take a while to clear it

I'm traveling to The Whitespring/The Greenbrier in West Virginia this summer because of this game. It has a special place in my heart❤️

If you have Prime Gaming you can claim this for free right now! I've always thought the map design and mood is amazing in 76, the best of the series, but the quests and storytelling feels like an afterthought, probably because they were added after launch. It's clear the idea was to give us an awesome, mostly empty world to populate, but nobody wanted that.

I just ordered this as I love the show but have not played any of the games, and I think I'm going to return it. It didn't say up front I needed a Playstation Plus subscription to play it, and I just don't play games online enough to justify the expense. Thanks for the review.

Fantastic job with this one! You did a great job highlighting the good things they've done without sugarcoating too much of how the greedy monetization taints the experience as well. This is why you've become one of my favourite places to go to for game info, so many other places completely gloss over, diminish, or don't even mention the in-game monetization methods. I really value that you do, a lot.

I started the game up this morning and was in a server full of new people , lvl 50 and below, it was great, gave away a bunch of stuff, did a daily ops with them and invited them to my camp

As someone who literally played 3 hours at launch and dropped it. I think it I've played like 100 hours in the past few weeks.

I’ve been playing it recently with friends, and honestly, my experience has been pretty shit. I started the game but restarted a short bit after making my character (To rectify the god-awful innate frame rate cap) and upon reloading was placed outside the vault. I spent about an hour walking around trying to figure out wtf to do, before my friends asked if I’d gotten a choice to choose level 20 or not. The game basically barred me from the most important choice as a new player, as well as barring me from being able to make a CAMP, understand the food/drink system and multiple other inherent gameplay aspects. I am actually enjoying this game, but I am baffled by how shit it is sometimes. Most quests are just “go there, talk, come back, listen to me yap for 5 minutes”. A good bit of the time, glitches are absolutely EVERYWHERE. I’ve got about 50 clips at this point of some bogus, hilarious glitches, as well as a plethora of visual glitches and not-so-hilarious gameplay glitches, like being completely stuck in place for a few minutes, or being unable to move after stopping moving for a second. But whatever. I guess since I’m playing it anyways, it’s doing its job as a game. It’s entertaining seeing the mess that is the code. Editing here because I was reminded of the base building. It sucks. It is just bad, clunky, unresponsive, and extremely janky. I spend about 30 minutes making a base and by the end of it felt like I had a degree in architecture. It’s abhorrent how bad the system is, especially since it’s a big selling point (or was, as far as I can remember)

lol just bought my first house in WV in Harper’s ferry, still living in northern VA rn near DC while waiting on closing, but that’s 2 fallout games with locations im familiar with

After watching the Fallout tv show, It really makes me want to go back to fallout 76

I play since launch and have all the trophies, including dlc after 400 hours. The community is extremely friendly and many high level players wait for newcomers at Vault 76 and get you some gear to get your base started. Quests are linear and dont really have consequences other than faction alliances. Have fun, it's really nice.

I randomly downloaded this game on a whim a while ago and thoroughly enjoyed my play through. There’s a lot of exploring to do, the game is beautiful- I love the sunsets personally, I enjoyed the main quests and the community playing it is generally very nice and helps new players! And I’d say the community is what really had me on the game for months on end! When I was a new player I had people drop me tons of ammo, stim paks, outfits and just show me around the map, show me how stuff works and I had a lot of stuff. Main reason I stopped playing is because it’s a grind to max everything out after the story and I stopped playing for while so I fell behind. Still love the base building, you’ll come across some amazing builds in almost every lobby! It really is a fun game and I’d recommend anyone to at least give it a shot :)

You know what would be dope af that would get me to play this? A new mode thats an extraction game. You get dropped into a map thats just a section of the overall map, loot, then escape before one of the other 10 or so players kills you and takes your stuff. Not as hardcore as Tarkov, but closer to Vigor. I would play tf out of that

Wow I just restarted this game 2 hours ago! Talk about perfect timing

It was a mess at launch, but they are indeed still working on it. In the current public test server they are testing area expansion and weapon balance. A few years ago i would not recommend it, but now days i do.

David has the request right away telling you to go reassign I mean we’ve had like three or four lines exactly like that. I’ll read the sign that excavator one of the first quest to do first class but one of the main quest you do early on the sign that takes you on a quest to get your excavator armor, not like we haven’t done this exact start up before sign you go reassign to get shelter. There’s like 230 or four items that you go to sign but start the quest line is easy and as soon as they put it in the game, it’s in your quest at your data tab, not at all unless you play fallout 70 case you are simply clueless

The only thing I really wish could be changed is the coop mission feeling. When I’m in a team with my friend it removes so much immersion having to redo missions to get progress for both people. Still so fun to live in fallout with my friends!

No gameranx intro?

Did Fallout 76 finally get "16x the detail?"

Just watched the series on Amazon - loved it. Ive played 3, 4, NV, and recently spent a lot of time in 4 in VR. Im wondering if this is wirth getting now? Hanging for some desert wasteland exploration with my spurs jingling and jangling.

Been playing since launch and seeing where it’s at now vs then is an insanely huge difference. There’s a new map expansion update coming soon too! Definitely the time to hop in

You know it s starting to get real when gameranx does a before you buy on an 6 years old game

So cool to see yall doing this. I always wanted yall to come back to older games. After being fixed. I also ignored this game at all cast just started last night it seems alright to me. Still no fall out 4 and with the new ps5 update coming next week. I'm so excited. And the show was great.

I got it on sale and while I played it for a few weeks (was there when expeditions to the pit dropped) I dropped it after I'd explored and done all the events once. I'm not the type to grind at all but I like exploring and when the next update drops I might give it a reinstall.

I would have liked to hear about the multi-player aspects of this game since this is the main selling point vs. others in the Fallout universe.

Started playing Fallout4 on pc last week and am really enjoying it! It’s running so well I decided to pick up 76. It was discounted to 7 or 8 dollars so I figured what the hell!

I love building a base. It's a little wonky but exploring other people's camps is fun.

You missed out on the other quests that you can do together with other players and there is a lot more hidden quests and you can spawn world bosses dropping nukes etc including daily ops

From what I can tell from my experience, the crucial update was around December 2022, and from 2023 onward it's been a decent game due to the enemy leveling overhaul/rebalance and cumulative content updates. I picked it up in early 2023. Also, expect the occasional CTD. Still wish it had a true offline mode.

Planning on playing FO4 with the ps5 update on the 25th. Hopefully it's a significant update

The way you and Jake switch it up makes it feel fresh. I respect it.

I picked 76 up at launch, and quickly grew tired of the extremely limited inventory. I tried again over the past week, and although they have increased storage capacity, It's still a huge pain trying to keep your stash under the maximum weight limit. Pretty much done with it again because of this.

It's so nice seeing all the interest in 76 again cause of the excellent show. It's still not gonna be for everyone who likes Fallout of course, but it's still better than before, and still fun for those who would enjoy it. I've been playing mostly consistently since launch in 2018, tasting a bit of the new content here and there since then. Occasionally it can be boring, but I still love the game haha. Thanks for reviewing this again Gameranx/Falcon, and I hope ya'll git it a chance again too! ~ 💯👍🏽💕🎮

I started lastnite. Such a diff game from when I gave up on it at launch

I think the biggest problem is they probably wanted the success of elder scrolls online but for fallout but it just never worked for many reasons

I was going to pre order it back in the day but then I ended up playing a free weekend and it had some graphical issues a couple of years ago. I then saw that it was on PS Plus Extra, so I downloaded it and found out that they fixed some issues and increased the frame rate which made the game playable. I might end up purchasing it either on disc or on sale depending on which is cheapest. I've not played 76 in a couple of months and pretty much gave up once I'd unlocked expeditions and found out that they're extremely difficult solo and I have no friends.

I played at launch following around the overseer's voice notes for longer then I'd like to admit. Then I came back when they brought the NPCs back and within a hour I went to the overseer's house that's basically in the beginning town and uninstalled it mid conversation

I always wondered why they never released a single player version for Appalachia even if it was after the release. They had all this time to have made everything around the world for a complete storyline and a SP experience. Appalachia is such a good map with wasted potential

To be honest I always enjoyed my time with it and had a blast but honestly it just wasnt a single player game, if you get a bunch of friends together on your own server its basically a good backdrop to crack open a few beers and just hang out with your buddies for a few hours, expecially if they live all round the country and you dont get to see them very often, We had a lot of fun, but honestly, without the beer and the buddies, I cant say I would have really enjoyed it that much.

I bought it a month ago and at level 52 rn (50 hours in) and I having a blast. I barely did the quest, just exploring and farming some weapons mostly. If i decided to stop playing anytime i already got my money worth ($9 i paid for)

2:19 - This is the thing that I think most casual gamers don't get. The idea of genre over brand. Just because you love Fallout 3, NV, and 4 does not mean you will/or should love 76. Because 76 is, first and foremost, an MMO. If you don't like MMOs, you won't like 76 3:43 - This is the nature of multiplayer games in general, especially MMO/live service games. Due to the law of thermodynamics (lol) there's only so many resources to go around. So, you're able to pour so much more into a single player game. If they made a Last of Us MMO, people would crap their pants. First from excitement then out of anger. Because they'd want something that matched the beauty of the single player TLOU2, but that wouldn't be possible. This means so much of the depth and immersion you find in single player FO games is missing in 76 9:10 - "...once you do compare it to Fallout 3, New Vegas, ... If you find yourself doing that, you're already on the wrong track. It's like saying "Once you compare Elder Scrolls Online to Skyrim..." or "Once you compare Fallout Tactics to Fallout: New Vegas"... That said, there's no defense for bad writing. It's unfortunately that it seems many of the quests and world building seems half-assed, but for everything else -- if you understand the limitations and nature of an MMO, Fallout 76 is solid B- which isn't bad at all.

The big difference that ultimately made me stay playing for thousands of hours and what he failed to mention is the camp building! It can keep me busy for hours and hours on end, Also a lot of people lose that spark when they finish the story but with 76 they run events all day long every 20 minutes and it’s a team event where many players can join. They run seasonal events where the event is a theme with its own rewards and plans to build in your camp. Right now we have mutated events where you get a package with rare items, guns etc, every hour on the hour it’s starts. This is fallout but a completely different fallout and if you come in thinking it’ll be a story driven game you’ll be let down but if you look at it like a multiplayer game you will enjoy it.

Important to mention for the store But atoms (the premium currency) is grindable from challenges and season pass (which is also free) I have about 50k worth of store items solely from playing the game It did take years, but it’s really important to mention I think, cause a lot of people will look at it in a different way And weapons that were part of previous seasons that are unique and powerful, are grindable in game aswell, some vendors sell them for Gold Bullion (another currency for rare items, these you get from completing events)

Got it on psplus a while ago, but idk if it beats the solo fallout from what ive seen.

I along with im sure tons of people will play when they make single player, you know the thing the games are known for, free

I had stopped playing this after like lvl 7 way back when it released then at some point ps5 runs it at 60 fps so I dove back in two weeks ago and man there’s a ton of great content love it now

This game is far from perfect, but this video is not doing it justice as a multiplayer Fallout game. Most of the aspects criticized in this video aren’t that big of a deal in my opinion. I came back to this game after 4 years, and these are the key features that I am enjoying: • It has a lot of in-game public events that keep you entertained at all levels, giving you the chance to obtain some of the best legendaries in the game. • Housing is one of the key features of this game, with many ways to add your personal touch to your camp. You can set up your own store and sell stuff to other players. • It’s a very active game with many random players to play with. • The community is very friendly, especially with newcomers. • There are plenty of quests and areas to explore, for real. • A crafting system that allows you to craft the standard Fallout items, as well as props you can place in your camp. • A great and cool perk system that allows you to build whatever character you want. • Endgame is fun, and there are harder variations of events that increase the challenge and improve rewards. • The cash shop is purely for cosmetics and items for your camp (some of these items facilitate grinding, but nothing too extreme). • Daily dungeon-like missions that change every time. Cons: • Performance is not that great. You can edit the .ini file to remove Vsync, which will unlock the FPS, but since it’s a bug, I am listing it as a con. • The world isn’t as sandbox-like as a single-player Fallout experience, for obvious reasons, as this is a multiplayer game. • Some features like Private Worlds are locked behind the Fallout 1st subscription. The game is good, and I recommend playing it after playing any of single-player games.

@6:50 there is a floating spore thats healing him, it isn't randomly healing

So im level 800 and played since launch on pc. The community is amazing and if you turn on your mic youll find friends in about 5 minutes of playing. And most high level players like me if they encounter you will just build you a tull house and suit of armor and weapons just for something to do.

Thanks for this. Trying to work out where to jump back in. New Vegas, 4 or 76. All I have played a little of but never invested the time in a full run.

I started 3 days ago and really enjoy it. Just exploring by myself and figuring things out still. Was hyped back in the day but glad a held off till now. Is it the best fallout hell no but it does do a lot very well and is entertaining. Solid 7 maybe 8 if you like the fallout franchise

Ive recently started 76 back up in the last week, and i have to say im having the best time with freinds, the community is amazing everyone ive come across helps i was level 47 on monday im now 121, and i absolutely love it they have made the game a realy good game with friends. I dont know about me playing it by myself i do a few quests get bored and do something else, but theres new events and stuff. Its fun in general

Been playing for 3 years , restarted a new game play on my ps5 its been Kool seeing new players

Only reason Ive been hesitant on playing it on psn is because of how expensive psn has become

Beware! This is an online only title. If you live far from their servers, you'll have an atrocious amount of lag. People from South America, Africa or Asia should definitely avoid it.

It didnt even occur to me that F76 was an alternative. I got tired of 1,2,3,4 and NV, and thought that well guess I come back when nostalgia drags me. After the TV show I had to try 76 and well… I am hooked

I might finally give it a chance here in a few days. Though if they ever make another FO, I hope they make a story where you are just a character with a vague background equivalent to NV. And make room for a good Co-op, and maybe add an invasion style mechanic. Though if they ever try another MMO angle, I think they should hand it to a different studio to pull off. Would be nice to see a new style in that universe.

My budddy and i on this past Christmas break started it and have been coming back to it every few days. It’s been fun. We’ve found fun in it. Yes it has its problems, but it’s what you make of it

For micro transactions part; its currency is atom and you can earn it basically just playing game regularly like doing general game challenges and season progression after doing daily and weekly challenges. I think 76 is more generous than many others about that. I know it s not for everyone to do similar stuff for challenges but I am lvl 540 and I ve never bored of it :)

It's a bit a mission to set up, but there's a mod called Tale of Two Wastelands which is pretty cool. You can play FO3 & NV in one game.

I don't think the live service stuff and microtransactions are a bad thing. It's only in the menu so you can just ignore it plus the fact that you can earn the currency for the shop in game already makes it better than a lot of live service games where you have to buy a battle pass or currency to have any in game currency at all

get Fallout 4 instead, its soooooo much better

Loved aspects of it when i played but just didnt get on with the feeling of restriction of having to have a narrow build to succeed and that most enemies were bullet sponges. Has any of that changed? Would make me get back to it if so.

I love seeing all of the new players in Fallout 76. Great idea to do another before you buy for it now.

I tried Fallout 76 on a free weekend and it wasn’t bad, played it first time properly today its honestly good, the community players are much better than other games

@7:00 the overgrown have an enemy type called the pollinator that will give the enemy health regen. you have to take them out first. just wanted to point out that its not a bug.

Are you gonna do a before you buy for fallout 4 when the next gen update drops?

Haven't played since getting all the achievements in the base game, back in Feb 2019. Now that I've jumped ship from Neverwinter, seriously looking to revisit FO76.

Yeah, again even though dialogue, Jason says that depends on your special stats. Don’t get you anything they don’t mean anything. They don’t change the outcome at all even if you don’t have the special that take advantage of those things you still end up completing the quest the same way you’re still get the same outcome your choices nothing except crater or foundation if you choose greater you get the rifle you should choose greater because you can always buy the spells food with you can’t buy the rifle. That’s the only meaningful significant choice in that entire quest line, all the dialogue boxes just time choose one and then move out with the quest

To bad the best game mode was removed, Nuclear Winter at vault 51.... It was pretty much like the hunger games, last man standing or team would become the overseer of vault 51, the only players vs players mode, was perfect! loved it so freaking much. Hopefully it comes back😂

Bruhh, its really fun! But me and my friends can only play for around 60 min before the game crashes (PS5) the worst thing is that we all might have to find a new server if one of us crashes to. No clue why but for some reason it won’t let us join any game before all of us in the squad leaves that server…

i got it when it came out. would come back every six months or so to check things out for a few weeks. until about 2 years ago, then it started getting way better, they started fixing things, and they seem to have been ramping it up during the past couple of years anyway i think its a pretty good game nowadays. its my go-to multiplayer game. even made some really good friends on there, a few of them even had a get together in Las Vegas, hopefully i can join them next year. 😅 the one thing that bugs me is the crashing. but every fallout crashes so it is what it is. at least you can quickly boot it back up and join back with the team quickly enough, most times. oh and Fallout First feels almost required when you're deep into the game. its not a big deal to me though, i can't name another mmo live service type game that doesn't do a similiar subscription service.

Just picked this back up after dropping it after an hour of gameplay at launch. It’s been a blast playing this with one of my buddies! Completely a new game compared to what I experienced at first.

Bro. Fallout was always an RPG at heart. The beauty of exploring a world full of amazing characters and factions with their own interests, and how you intermingle with all that jazz, while kicking ass. This? Is not it. It's just an MMO. The most disgusting thing a company can do, is take all the heart & tears of the people who dared to imagine such a beautiful world, and try to turn it into a pile of shitty cash. And failing. The show is good though. Thank God Bethesda's hands stayed out of it.

I pre-ordered this game and in all honesty… loved it from day 1! So glad my homies are finally coming to join me in Appalachia 🎉

i really liked this game when it launched despite its flaws. credit to bethesda for not abandoning it. havent played for 2 years but might play it again

Bobby pins in donation boxes is the best way to welcome new players =)