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Jesus Christ. ​Not yet but probably the next announcement

Ran into my first truly heinous FO4 glitch. I was using the "snap to cover" mechanic while fighting a bunch of raiders at one end of a hallway. I killed them and advanced down the hallway to fight the next group. The next time I aimed down sights, the game snapped me back into the position I was when I last took cover. I didn't exactly teleport, it was more like my character just bolted back down the hallway at incredible speed So far I haven't been able to replicate it. While I'm here I figure I'll post some initial impressions after several hours of gameplay: Things I Like - The Commonwealth looks fucking great and the characters aren't creepy dead eyed muppets this time around. The face sculpting system is awesome. - The shooting / gunplay is vastly improved. Manually executing crits in VATS is unbelievably satisfying even though I miss being able to shoot grenades out of the air as easily. - Weapon/Armor modding is pretty great and I like the changes to Power Armor as a balancing factor. Harvesting random junk isn't too fun but the tag feature makes it a lot less painful. - The quick looting system is a welcome change. - Enemies are a lot more difficult this time around - Nick Things I Dislike - Some enemies might be a lot more difficult for the wrong reasons. Sometimes the AI does interesting things but for the most part I think there are a lot of artificial difficulty spikes. Enemies seem way more grenade happy this time around. Super Mutants fucking suicide bomb you as you're trying to stay in cover. Deathclaws can knock you over and maul you over and over in your power armor because you're slow as fuck. It's great that the enemies are actually pretty frightening now, but I think Bethesda made a lot of them cheaper instead of smarter. - The limited dialogue options suck and my character frequently seems to suffer from Mass Effect syndrome, where the actual dialogue doesn't really represent the options that are given. It makes it really difficult to do any kind of roleplaying or character building when I'd prefer to play it cool and my VA is shouting obscenities at people with no indication that was what he was going to do. - Somewhat related: I miss karma. At least Mass Effect had Renegade/Paragon system built into their dialogue tree. When my character talks the same way whether he's a saint or a spinal fluid eating cannibal nazi it kind of makes everything pretty one dimensional. - Where does my weapon go? I don't think the other Fallout games had your holstered weapons just vanish. I know it's a minor detail but it just looks really stupid.

thanks chris

The game is definitely flawed, but I'd still say it's a solid 8/10 game. It's more of a 2 steps forward, one step back sort of deal. The gameplay is MILES better in every regard. The dialogue wheel makes you so disconnected from your character though. And I have no clue WHY they used the wheel at all. There was nothing wrong with the drop down dialogue box that says the full lines, and it's not like it's incompatible with voiced dialogue. It was just a terrible design decision. So, basically, I'm enjoying everything about the game except the actual character interactions.

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