September! Can't wait. For all of Bethesda's faults, I appreciate that they're one of very few studios that are making these types of games so I'll take what I can get
Watched Gameranx video about the game. Don't think this game is for me. Gun play does look fantastic though. I'll give it a go since it's free on Gamepass but I don't see myself pouring a bunch of time into it.
I don't have much hope of my laptop running this acceptably even though the benchmarks say I pass everything. I'm going to sub to the PC Game Pass for a month to test it out on the cheap and then pivot to another game if my computer chokes on it.
the setting is what I'm really curious about rn. Fallout is a series I got into mostly because of how unique the retrofuturism angle felt, whereas everything I've seen of this just seems like..."space game". I couldn't get into Mass Effect for that reason (granted I didn't play it til way after it came out)
Outer Worlds literally was Fallout in space and it was p great, so I'm curious how this'll compare. Obv the scope (read: budget) seems way bigger here
I saw that the space stuff has you shifting power from one system to another like they do in Stark Trek, it adds a good level of complexity and tactics to dogfights.
I've been playing the absolute hell out of this since it came out. First thing I got on my new PC and boy is it a beautiful game with those settings hiked up.
It... definitely is not perfect. There's a lot of unpolished stuff. The amount of glitches are insane and I'm running into them very often from people morphing into the floor, NPC models freaking out when I'm talking to them, followers getting stuck, doors and other objects floating the sky. At one point a mission giver was floating up in the sky but thankfully it was on Mars where gravity is pretty low and we just had a friendly conversation while floating up in the air. Planets so far are... repetitive, sadly enough. Although I am getting to a point in the game where I'm finding a lot of unique ones. Early on when I was exploring, most of them are barren and have the same exact outposts set up where you clear raiders. There's an endless amount of planets so I guess this isn't a surprise but still, I'd expect that stuff later in the game not early on. There was a point where I explored two different moons that had the same exact terrain, same exact abandoned science outpost with even the same lore/notes left around the facility. The only difference is one had spacers and one had Va'ruun zealots.
Companions have been alright so far but Sarah Morgan seems to just eclipse everyone in terms of character development. Again, I'm relatively early in so hopefully this changes. I have like 6 or 7 people on my crew right now and everyone else feels very generic. I guess it helps that she is a great character and I do very much enjoy exploring with her, but I love swapping out companions a lot in games like this.
Despite the issues, this is still very fun. I'm a sucker for Bethesda and even though it's literally the Fallout engine thrown in Space, it's an engine I love and I'm having a great time.
Well that's good, that's another thing I noticed is that everyone seems very goody-goody so far. I guess the isolation perks are for people who want to lawbreak... but sometimes minor crimes are major parts of the story. Hopefully there's more shades-of-grey characters. It's what I've always loved about Fallout, you have a good mix of do gooders, evil doers and neutrals in your list of companions. But right now I'm prioritizing leveling up social so I can level up the crew skill to enable as many crew members as possible. Right now I can only have three, which is lame as I just finally was able to buy an enormous ship today.
I started running around with Gideon, who is a man I recruited from Mars I think. His backstory is that he hates what the Trade Authority did to him and his family is stuck living in the Well. He made no mention of anything when I was selling my mounds of foam cups to the trade authority INSIDE The Well. This game is very disappointingly shallow but I can't stop playing it.
I agree that the UC storyline so far has been a highlight. I haven't progressed much of the main story though, just endlessly circling around side quests as I tend to put them all on the backburner. Maybe that's why everything seems so flat so far (:
