Fallout 4 - Officially Announced!

The great part is the fast travel is optional. I love using it for areas that I've tread on many times already. Witcher 3 is a good example of a game I try to stay away from using it as the side quests you can stumble on are so much better than other games. It's really a new bar.

 

Just finished watching Bethsoft's E3 live stream. If you missed it then you're going to want to catch the re-runs on YouTube.

Release date: November 10, 2015.

 

They did a good job on that conference, some good stuff. I really don't care much about the building aspects (heathfire was the only Skyrim expansion I bought and abandoned extremely early) but I so want the rest of it. Excite!

 

Lol yeah. I remember I built a house, but then...NO, I did not take an arrow to the knee. Well, OK, my char probably did take a few, but anyway, after I built a house I realised that you also have to make every other thing in it - table, vase, chair, bed, etc., so I just abandoned it...

 

House building on its own would be kind of meh. But it's more than that. It's like "Helgen Reborn" with the volume cranked. You're not just building a home; you're building a network of communities. Given the setup, it makes sense that the lone survivor might be interested in rebuilding.

 

If that's the case than it can turn out pretty awesome. HR was a pretty sweet mod! Also, does anyone know if that vault building game will come out as a Windows modern application?
Talking about the rest of Bugthesda's presentation, Dishonoured 2 was announced! Now that's something!

 

Todd Howard commented about setting up caravan routes between sites and merchants taking up residence. So yeah, this isn't just open world sandbox, it's open world sandbox with an icing of world building on top. If you want to go there. Or not. It's entirely optional.

Fallout Shelter is iOS only for now with an Android version teased as in the works. Nothing about other platforms so far.

 

As long as it won't be broken (I'm looking at you, Assassin's Creed III). It still kinda bothers me. Not that it will suck, just that it might be too much of a chore or bore to micro manage everything. In that case I'm most surely will just abandon it and move on after a while.

I was hoping it would go beyond the usual suspects... Oh well, maybe I should just reinstall XCOM EW .

 

Yeah that was my angle. I'm not sure, however realistic that the vault dweller would want to do so (or even myself if I was really in that position), that I would care about it in the game. Thankfully they will let you ignore such things if you want.

 

Had a chance to attend the event last night, was a lot of fun and the games looked amazing on that huge screen!

 

My friend would like to play this on my old M860TU with 260M and P8800 iirc. It should probably work right? Although perhaps on lower settings. It seems 260M runs Skyrim OK.

Any risk of Fallout 4 being DX11 only?

 

Probably a bit too soon to tell if it will run or not. Skyrim isn't exactly the most demanding game out there. I ran it perfectly fine on 240m.
Have specs even been announced?

 

Don´t think so, I can´t find any. That´s why I´m going via Skyrim since Fallout 4 is using an upgraded engine from that. Thanks for the info on 240M.

 

An upgraded engine intended to run at a solid 1080p@30 on PS4 and Xbox One. Using this as a guide, I figure as a minimum: 64-bit OS, quad core CPU, 4GB system RAM, GTX 670-ish with 2GB video RAM, and DirectX 11. Recommended specs will bump the CPU up to a Haswell Core i5, system RAM to 8GB, video RAM to 4GB on a higher-end Maxwell or comparable.

This is my speculation so don't take it as anything even vaguely official.

 

These seem to be a bit high.

 

With texture mods, even Skyrim can be a video memory hog. And there are mods which are demanding on the CPU, for example running scripts on all the loaded actors, etc. If you plan to run lots of these, you probably want something significantly better than the recommended specs.

 

I don't think so. Here's why.

64-bit OS: The worst problems with FO3, FONV and Skyrim are due to memory management in the 32-bit address space. Patching the FO3/NV executables to be 64-bit address aware is necessary for anything more than the lightest modding. Also, no Xbox 360 or PS3 versions, and no Windows XP support so no need for 32-bit support. Plenty of good reasons to go full 64-bit and no reasons not to do it.

4GB system RAM: 4GB system RAM is the minimum necessary to reap the full benefits of 64-bit addressing. If a 64-bit OS is a requirement then a 4GB system RAM requirement follows right behind it.

Quad core CPU: Not really that high. A first generation Core i5 is probably sufficient. Given that the game is supposed to be able to do all sorts of stuff in real time including using a smart phone as a second display it's going to need the processor threads/streams to do it.

GTX 670 w/ 2GB vRAM: Skyrim needs at least 2GB vRAM to use the high resolution texture packs and not suck mud through a straw. Skyrim can run a fairly steady 30 frames per second on medium/high settings on a GTX 650 but that's with Skryim's crappy lighting and shadows. The FO4 footage we've seen so far has obviously better lighting and shadows. It also seems to be more visually demanding. These will come with higher GPU requirements so I figure that a GTX 650 won't be enough.

DX11: No Windows XP, no Xbox 360, so no need to be chained down to DX9. Xbox One at launch so big reason for DX11.

 

Would think that the min/rec system specs would hover right around the same for most cross platform games. GTX460/670 for nvidia respectively.

 

I bought a laptop with this game in mind.
I got the aorus x5 so hopefully ive got it going 3k ulta gsync