Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Fallout London - coming soonish? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:00:01 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:00:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be3d760ed597cd84085940f65129e5d0"; logging-data="1778011"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+0KG2qbZbleJU0nGlNDAdW" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1sx4OKBa+GHgKBqeoGVhgPA9I3U= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2721 On 29/07/2024 15:35, Justisaur wrote: > On 7/28/2024 1:04 AM, JAB wrote: >> On 27/07/2024 16:44, Justisaur wrote: >>> On 7/27/2024 1:46 AM, JAB wrote: >>>> Well it's been released apparently but I'm now waiting for some >>>> reviews as I didn't realise that you needed all the DLC to use it. >>>> That's a bit annoying but I've got into playing The Witcher 3 so no >>>> hurry. >>>> >>> >>> Ah, didn't realize that either.  I never purchased the FO4 DLCs. >>> Probably cheaper to buy a GOTY now. >>> >>> Early reviews are that it's very buggy and crashes a lot.  I'll wait >>> and see if they manage to fix that. >>> >> >> Yeh, I'm seen some early reviews and I like the look of the gameplay >> but the bugs/stability, not so good. I'm going to wait a bit until the >> released some patches and then probably go for the GOG version as >> that's cheaper than Steam and currently a lot less hassle to install. > > I saw a little bit of a live stream play, and it seems you're supposed > to install certain recommended mods so it doesn't have the stability > issues.  Which of course the streamer didn't do.  All I saw was that it > crashed a couple times on transitions even without the mods.  It looks > really cool though. > > As it's free I'll probably try it as soon as I get through ER and EDF 6. > Yeh. I saw something similar but at the moment I'm loathed to give up playing Witcher 3 to play another 'big' game, still tempted though. As an aside I do give the devs a bit of slack in the release it to the world and you can be play-testers for a bit.