Seen a few streams now (avoid opening parts to keep most spoilers at bay), and even in firefights with lasers and blasts going off everywhere, I can't recall seeing dips in FPS that were noticeable. Might be easier to see if not on twitch? However, the loading times are real. Like early Bloodborne. Both on PS4 and Xbox One streams.
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Urlithani
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Haven't had a chance to watch any streams yet. Are loading times as numerous as the older games? For instance, a freestanding house has a loading time to go inside, or do you just open the door since it is loaded with the rest of the world?
Some "houses", like workshops, appear to be part of the overworld, and even though you open up doors for them, all their interior is in the outside world.
However, most are like the previous games, where you enter them with a loading screen. Zoning into most houses is fairly quick (quest areas like factories and the likes take longer) however, exiting houses back into the open world appears to be a minimum 5-10+ second venture.
I think most loading screens are just black as well, with a little loading icon in the bottom right. Kind of like early Bloodborne, if I recall correctly on that, in the beginning the long loading screens there were just "Bloodborne" and the text/info loadingscreens were patched in later.
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This shows the loading times. Kinda ouch. I was wrong about the always black loading screens though, so sometimes you will have something to look at while loading
loading Fallout 4 - vidme
I am old and jaded enough now to think that the rabid twitch banning now isn't as much tied to "don't do spoilers!" and keeping the street date, as it is technical damage control to keep pre-orders up.
As Vorph said, those loading times better not be an issue on the PC version with it installed on a SSD.
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hodj
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Shit doesn't bother me either way so long as its less than a minute or two.
Maybe I'm just patient.
Which would be weird.
The issue is that in the past when I've used the VPN, when you log into Steam it just automatically changes everything on Steam so that it appears as if you're in the VPN location, whereas this time, it didn't. There was no visual indicator that Steam was connecting properly through the VPN, even though at this point I suspect it is.
That's what threw me off on the process.
The "things" we're doing to play the game a day early is basically log into an IP server in a foreign country and then unlock the game, put steam into offline mode, and then log out of the foreign IP server. I wouldn't really call it a lot of effort.
Maybe I'm just patient.
Which would be weird.
VPN has never been an issue in the past, and I think my concerns about it this time are overblown after reading the reddit thread posted last page or so.
The issue is that in the past when I've used the VPN, when you log into Steam it just automatically changes everything on Steam so that it appears as if you're in the VPN location, whereas this time, it didn't. There was no visual indicator that Steam was connecting properly through the VPN, even though at this point I suspect it is.
That's what threw me off on the process.
The "things" we're doing to play the game a day early is basically log into an IP server in a foreign country and then unlock the game, put steam into offline mode, and then log out of the foreign IP server. I wouldn't really call it a lot of effort.
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Isnt anything new. I did it for BF4 when it was being released and so many other people did it as well EA just went ahead and activated the game world wide instead of waiting for 12am eastern tuesday or whatever it was originally.
With the advent digital distribution companies just need to go with a universal release. Who gives a fuck if it ends up being 6am your time zone.
The game hasn't even been released and the thread here is already bigger than the Witcher 3's one wtf.
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In that case I think I'll go with this for my starting stats depending on just how "early" you get the PERCEPTION Bobblehead.
STR 3 - Armor mods
PER 4 - Lockpicks
END 1 - Nothing initially but need to get to 5 for Aquaboy asap
CHA 6 - Companion and Settlement perks. Definitely going to need more points for this later on
INT 6 - High tech mods (exp bonus seems to be worthless)
AGI 3 - Sneak just in case. Don't plan to use it much.
LUC 5 - Better crits
You're Special to Luck to make it 6
PERC bobblehead early on to make it 4
Dump stat END?
I'm planning on a ranged pet build.
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The Witcher 3 was a bad ass game, but let's face it Fallout is a bigger franchise.
hodj
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Some people are retarded.
Party Countdown - Countdown to Nov 10, 2015 in Auckland
I posted you a picture of the Bethesda Fallout release schedule
Here it is again
When I logged into the VPN earlier and accessed Steam from web browser and converted the store over to New Zealand store, the time was the same as these.
12:01 am Tuesday November 10th New Zealand time. That is 18 hours earlier than US EST time, which would be 6 am.
If it changes I can't help that, but I've done due diligence in confirming and reconfirming this shit. I think the people saying that are either stupid, or trolling.
hodj
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Here's a screencap from the steam store page while logged into the VPN with location set to NZ
16 hours is 6 am EST
If you're in Central or Pacific time, it will actually be unlocking earlier for you by an hour or more, because it'll be like 5 am/3am whatever.
16 hours is 6 am EST
If you're in Central or Pacific time, it will actually be unlocking earlier for you by an hour or more, because it'll be like 5 am/3am whatever.
hodj
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I do see here
With my New Zealand IP, what time will the game actually unlock? : fo4
The same guy who wrote the VPN article you linked earlier saying NZ unlocks on Australian Eastern time zone. I don't know why that would be, he says the release is bundled with the Australian servers, and so that would then be two hours later.
I mean he could be right, but I haven't heard shit about this until now, and can't fathom why that would be, when Bethesda's own release schedule says 12:01 am Wellington time zone.
With my New Zealand IP, what time will the game actually unlock? : fo4
The same guy who wrote the VPN article you linked earlier saying NZ unlocks on Australian Eastern time zone. I don't know why that would be, he says the release is bundled with the Australian servers, and so that would then be two hours later.
I mean he could be right, but I haven't heard shit about this until now, and can't fathom why that would be, when Bethesda's own release schedule says 12:01 am Wellington time zone.