I will laugh if someone makes a single player mod

[Skutal]

Similar to how there is a multiplayer mod for skyrim, only the other way around for 76. lol

[gromulos]

it will never happen because the game won't run unless you're connected to the server, UNLESS, they add in solo mode themselves

[vipasoft]

Bethesda have said that they are allowing (eventually) personal servers, which is basically single player if you don't allow other players.

[gromulos]

WHEN, that happens, i will buy the game, not before

[metaphorset]

Why would anyone be willing to do that? The only reason I could imagine is that someone falls for good guy Todd's claims that they "improved" the engine so it can handle a world "four! times! larger!" than Fallout 4.

Everything else? Basically mod creators will have to deal with the same bugs that plagued Fallout 4 and then some.

 

Again; why would anyone be willing to do that? Honestly, hitting my self over the head with a nailed board kinda sounds more appealing to me than that.

@gromulos - wise decision. Although I'd exchange the "when" to an "if". We're dealing with "New Generation Bethesda" here, which means that they're done with giving shoits about the fans.

[zanity]

1) unofficial mods (any mod by any person not directly employed or in the pay of Beth) exist only for the period before Beth brings down the BAN HAMMER- which is going to happen very soon now. Why? Cos of 'growing outrage' about 'cheating' (the pot stirred by the big click-bait gaming 'journalism' sites) which is 'fixed' in the first instance by Beth inspecting your INSTALL directly and banning any user with unauthorised modifications or additions to the original files.

 

2) 'private servers' (which are 95% likely to NEVER happen down to the essential design and intent of FO76- and the commercial failure of FO76 which makes their dev expense even more unattractive to Beth) are KNOWN to be servers rented out by Beth, and not servers run by individuals on their own machines. This comes from many explicit statements from Bethesda.

 

3) There was a possibily that FO76 was mostly client side, meaning that an offline 'hack' may have been possible. Now it seems that too much is done server side to make such a hack trivial. The hope for offline single player now lies with a VERY unofficial reverse-engineered server code block that you'd run on the same machine as the client. However, this 'mod' would make pyrates happy and Beth very unhappy, even as it finally allowed unrestricted modding of FO76 for those who bought FO76.

 

Beth will wage legal war on any unofficial server, but Beth's 'ace' is their constant updating of the client that would keep making such unofficial servers out-of-date.

 

4) The official future of FO76 is very bleak. The engine is too primitive, and the AI and combat systems too weak and poorly designed for new game modes to be usefully possible (like Battle Royale or even any decent deathmatch). Likewise simulation and survival cannot be done well. FO76 is designed for PAID microtransactions like weapon skins and new clothing and furniture, and pretty much nothing else. Beth is set to open up 'vault' 'dungeons' in the game with the same rubbishy broken combat and poor loot.

 

Without a doubt, even the greatest fallout-fan skeptic of FO76 would like to travel the world of FO76 once just to witness new world content- to treat FO76 as a single-player 10 dollar DLC addition to Fallout 4. But this is the last thing Beth wants. Beth has told the big bosses at Zenimax that FO76 is a full blown Skyrim/Fallout 4 scale AAA release, and will need to keep up this pretence for the next 12 months at least. In six months time FO76 may have near zero sales and hardly anyone online, but Beth will still claim in the press that it is the greatest success ever. In this biz failed games are promoted as if they are MORE successful than the real hits until the very day the publisher admits the game has failed and makes it F2P or cancels the servers (we've seen this pattern repeated over and over with massive AAA failures like destiny 2 and lawbreakers over the last few years).

 

With the Diablo fiasco, Activision merely doubled down and told fans "eff you, we're going mobile on ALL our major IPs, and we're going to bribe the mainstream gaming press to call PC gamers even nastier names in the future". Beth is doing more mobile and 'gaming as a service' than even Activision. Next year's Doom is a 'gaming as a service' release. Only Rage 2 is a proper game, and even then just because the dev had originally made it as the sequel to Mad Max, before WB cancelled the project, and Beth picked up the 80% finished title and paid to have it 'rage' flavoured instead.

 

PS the paid boosters of FO76 on Youtube (any blogger 'positive' about the game) are all now raving about how much 'money' you make when playing it. Yeah, microtransactions are spun as 'proof' you make more money than you paid to own the game. Each of these bloggers, following scripts provided by Beth, tell you have many hours you need to play on avergae to "earn back" the 60 dollars the game cost.

 

"Hey, I can now afford SIXTY DOLLARS of merchandise in the microtransaction store from 'atoms' I was awarded just for playing the game. See, all you toxic FO76 'haters', Father Beth has actually given us this game FOR FREE once you play it for a few hours".

 

Our community was once the nicest, most innocent, harmess, friendly. Toxic Todd has transformed it into an Orwellian warzone- and once modders/hackers make the first unofficial servers there will be so much blood in the water.

[Deleted57218227User]

I'm not going to waste money or time on this...just playing a lot of SSE. Until the new space fantasy game comes out from Bethesda.

[steeldragonz]

last night i checked my map as i was about to log out, and i was the only person on my entire server... does that count?

[Fly4blunt1]

Similar to how there is a multiplayer mod for skyrim, only the other way around for 76. lol

The fact that you can actually run your own server where up to 4 players can probably play with you is pretty sad caus you need to subscribe to an subscription lol ps Bethesda isnt that good anymore

[rocmanx]

Its been done for other games. basically someone would need to reverse engineer the server side , patch client to connect to that server. but i dont think bethesda would be too happy about that nor would anyone put in the time to do it.