After years of hearing about this game's apparent underdog story and how much had been "fixed," I tried my first ever playthrough of it last weekend and it's really not that good. Some of the worst texture loads of any AAA game I've ever played, characters T-posing in animations, and characters talking without their months moving are all things I noticed within the first 120 minutes. Honest question for anyone who likes this game, what is the appeal?
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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x Doubt. I haven't seen that since the 1.3 patch. I played 2.01 full game + DLC and never saw any of that. Reinstall/check files?
That said, I thought the DLC was good and worth it.
Why exactly would I be lying about that?
Didn't say you were lying. But your game files might be super out of date.
Ive seen the issues you mentioned... but it's been several years.
I've put hundreds of hours in since with nearly 0 issues. You should uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes it.
Oh great, and I just bought it on sale to put in my queue for 2024. Thanks for the warning PP_BOY_.
What system are you playing on? I completed it (twice) on the steam deck, so the additional problems of the Linux/proton layer and it played awesomely. I have maybe 1 or 2 glitches throughout the entire game. I suspect you've got an additional issue set or incompatibility.
Steam, purchased and installed Friday night. Running a RTX 3090, Ryzen 9, 32gb of RAM, and playing the game off a Samsung SSD. If there's any fan hacks to make this game good, please share, but it's been one of the worst AAA gaming experiences for me of the past several years.
That's definitely odd. Nothing in there jumps out to me as problematic. Have you had any issues with any other games? The consensus is generally that most/all the major bugs have been squashed. It might be a sign that something underlying is causing difficulties. My guess would be your graphics drivers, or GFX card memory corruption issues. Do the problems get better or worse as you play? If they get worse, it might be a thermal related problem.
I have noticed the game can be a bit brittle on issues. The few I had required a full restart of the game to fix. Reloading saves etc didn't seem to help.
I can definitely see how you would dislike it, if it's being buggy. It's one of those games where it would easily break the immersion that makes it work.