Current Events > Online Fallout!

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Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired.
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todd "buy skyrim again" howard
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A good idea, but I doubt Bethesda can make it into anything actually good tbh
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Me & others are going to play it and theres nothing you can do about it. Checkmate atheists.
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When I saw it I thought of how Ark is Rust with dinosaurs

But then it turned out that building settlements won't even be as intuitive or anything of that sort

So it's basically fallout 4 with small amounts of tt other players who probably won't be able to hinder you besides by claiming settlements and stealing all your kills and loot since PvP sounds like it won't even be fully enabled. Worse yet, the track record of Bethesda makes me think they'll be even worse at fixing things than wildcard does for Ark and ark is just a total hellhole.
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LIsJustice posted...

Waah I hate change

its okay. now the game has added replay value. I am extremely hyped for this.
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Yeah I don't know what they're thinking with FO76... looks like the same type of game as NMS or that Microsoft Pirate game that came out recently, that I can't even remember the name of now. You play it for a few hours and then you've seen everything.
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I'm gonna give it a try after reading that newest info dump (there's a topic floating around the board somewhere). Haven't played an online game in years and I don't have much desire yo reverse that trend, but on the other hand I do enjoy me some Falloutverse, and I at least enjoyed 4 quite a bit more than 3. It sounds like they're addressing or at least mitigating the major issues I was gonna have with the game (settlement blueprints, heavy incentives for other players to target what everyone seems to call 'griefers,' things like that).
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lol if you think those measures are gonna prevent griefers.
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Lol, I just nuked that losers base with a nuke I bought using nuka cards!
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In all seriousness, my guess is the executives at upper Bethesda asked Bethesda Softworks to use some of the staff who was working on TES:O to move to Fallout since they weren't doing anything aside from upgrades and things. And assuming if TESO was profitable, they wanted more and had employees with the knowledge for online open world games.

You will probably find your answer to figure out exactly which team is working on the project if you compare credits between TES5, FO4, TESO and Fallout Shelter. I doubt Todd Howard is the full project lead for 76 as I am guessing he had to be leading during pre-preduction of TES 6, which I assume the engine is done, along with art direction, and is probably doing voice acting now making sure to MURDER any voice actor that leaks info... that is if they are not telling the actors they are doing an Elder Scrolls game like they did with FO4.

Anyways, useful trivia for today: If you get contracted or hired at Bethesda, ANY side projects you make at home on your days off are considered BETHESDA'S property. This tends to be common for companies, which can be good and bad.

Source: Ananda Gupta in an IAMA about why he didn't make anything after Twilight Struggle, as he worked on TES Online for 5 years. After he left TES Online, he was lead for XCOM Enemy Within.

Bethesda Softworks is just the publisher, they don't do any development with ESO.
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^ my mistake, I assume there are 2 if not 3 studios making TES and FO stuff, like how there are multiple Rockstars, but they are all just named Bethesda Softworks.

No problem it's kind of weird. Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax, made ZeniMax Online Studios which is responsible for ESO and that's it.
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Bethesda game studios which made TES and FO4 is also making Fallout 76? Are they bringing people from Online Studios to work for Softworks?

I would have thought the staff for the mainstream elder scrolls and fallout wouldn't have the experience for online and would rather source it to Online studios.