Giving a player more to do just for the sake of doing more is just grinding. This "more to do" must end in some sort of a reward, but if all it does it take up more of your time, you are essentially wasting your life on pointless grinding.
Apparently you aren't, since difficulty doesn't require "extra rewards" to justify it. The idea is to present more of a challenge, give the player more to do. "Extra rewards" are the opposite of increased difficulty.
Food gives you a reason to care about cooking beyond healing items, diseases similarly have you concerned about crafting or finding antibiotics. It's another variable, and more reasons to craft things. Sleep doesn't seem so pressing by comparison, but it does interact with the adrenaline bonus and also brings on hunger as you're passing time.
Limited saving - the idea's mainly to encourage ironman play rather than creepsaving. Limited saving means more of a penalty for death, which in turn makes for more cautious, tactical play. Unfortunately it's indifferently implemented, since it should really allow you to save and exit, and "only when you sleep" is too far between checkpoints.
Giving a player more to do just for the sake of doing more is just grinding. This "more to do" must end in some sort of a reward, but if all it does it take up more of your time, you are essentially wasting your life on pointless grinding.
I don't use VATS, but virtually everything regarding firearms is badly designed. There is tons of .38 ammo laying around, but no factory-built .38 weapons. I can build an automatic receiver, but I can't carve a stock. A factory-built 5.56x45mm assault weapon weighs a ton, but a jury-built "pipe weapon" is light, and a laser or plasma weapon lighter still.
Still a pretty good game at over 600 hours.
I don't think you understand what "grinding" means. Grinding is explicitly about rewards - you're doing something repetitive over and over in order to gain a reward (levels, loot, faction points, something).Giving a player more to do just for the sake of doing more is just grinding.
I just sell the .38 since I rarely run low on anything. Though I did run completely out of .308 once. I misunderstood the never-ending rifle to mean that it used no ammo, when in fact it simply doesn't use the magazine system. I ran dry with two .308 rifles and had to fight my way out of the southwest corner with nothing but a 10mm pistol - lots of running! Now I watch it like a hawk and periodically switch between carrying .45, .308, and 5.56x45mm rifles, and sometimes a gauss rifle. Last time I played, I even carried a laser and a plasma rifle. They are so light!many guns can be modded to use .38 instead of their native caliber.
Great way to burn up the excess.
OR get a plugin that lets you break down & craft ammo. Then use your favorite gun all the time.
So anyone playing Far Harbor already? How is it?
Also, has anyone experienced longer loading times? I have the game installed on my SSD, and the loading times have drastically increased from when I last played the game. I't probably been a couple months since I last played though. Took a little break.
I also sold my GTX 780 and installed my older 7970 GE...1440p performance is much worse...I had to drop pretty much everything down to medium. This game might be the main reason why I buy another NVIDIA card this go round, since it's the only game I'm playing these days.
Played Far Harbor this afternoon. It's pretty good. I've completed four of the preliminary missions and enjoyed them. There are new monsters, pretty tough too and sometimes quite surprising. Overall the island is well done, haven't yet hit anything I consider poorly conceived or executed.
However, I would really like to shake the hands of the people who wrote the companion AI code. Having Nick spin in place every time I try to speak to him isn't all that impressive, but the path finding AI, how he unerringly blocks me no matter in which direction I wish to go, that took some mad coding skill. But the most amazing feat of his AI is how he can block every line of fire I have and yet still hit me in the back of the head with every single grenade he throws. Amazing!
We whose asses are about to explode salute you.
Enemy AI isn't nearly as bad though. I never see them hit each other with grenades and they often hit me, whereas if I make the mistake of giving grenades to my companion, I can bank on 90% of them damaging me whether the enemy is a blood bug in my face or a mutant a hundred yards away. I also never see them getting stuck in terrain, whereas I have spent hours of my life trying to coax companions through imaginary obstacles. It's so bad that I commonly just run off far enough that the companion teleports to me, then lead him back to his power armor rather than trying to get him out of a building that settlers freely wander in and out of. And I have to lead him to the correct side, else he will happily run into his own armor's front in an otherwise wide open plaza and then declare it unreachable.Honestly fallout/scrolls games are the most bug filled games I've ever played in my life. I'm more surprised at you being surprised about the AI issues than the AI issues actually being there.
Played Far Harbor this afternoon. It's pretty good. I've completed four of the preliminary missions and enjoyed them. There are new monsters, pretty tough too and sometimes quite surprising. Overall the island is well done, haven't yet hit anything I consider poorly conceived or executed.
However, I would really like to shake the hands of the people who wrote the companion AI code. Having Nick spin in place every time I try to speak to him isn't all that impressive, but the path finding AI, how he unerringly blocks me no matter in which direction I wish to go, that took some mad coding skill. But the most amazing feat of his AI is how he can block every line of fire I have and yet still hit me in the back of the head with every single grenade he throws. Amazing!
We whose asses are about to explode salute you.
They go through tons of ammo and manage to get their power armor destroyed most of the time. They do however sometimes say interesting things - although most times, they say the same things over and over again ad nauseum.Companions are totally useless, I only keep Nick around in Far Harbor because of the plot. Last session I had he got stuck on a shelf and kept firing point blank at a ghoul which had no legs and arms...and missed 90% of the time.
I have definitely seen longer load times. Started a few patches ago. I am all ssd and my load times used to be pretty fast but sometimes it seems like it takes 30 seconds to a minute on some loads.
I didn't have time to read the whole thread it would take hours to do that. I have a question.
As you can see I have an ultra-wide monitor that has an aspect ration of 21:9 which the game doesn't support by default. Is there any way to play it in 21:9 aspect ratio?
I've read somewhere that the game was designed for 16:9 aspect ratio so it's going to be difficult to run that thing with a wide aspect ratio I think the HUD elements may be the biggest problem but the game is highly mod-able so maybe someone already solved that problem. I'm quite angry because I bought this monitor recently and every game I want to play doesn't support 21:9. First StarCraft 2 now Fallout 4