@iboshow We certainly miss having him in the league, but I'm sure Box Peek took priority. Next year hopefully!

@iboshow No sir, it doesn't end until the regular season finishes. We've got two weeks left and then our post-season starts.

Oh, now I know why my team did so bad... they wanted to end at 66.6 points and summon Satan. I'm not opposed to it, as long as we get some wins.

@axel It's strange to see a publication complain about tutorial quests and then act as though that's all you do in the entire game. You absolutely do have a quest to boil water in the very first hours because without boiled water, you're screwed in the game - unless you go around only picking up booze and Nuka-Cola, which is viable.

This game has some of my favorite quests in the entire series... yep, in all of Fallout. Motherlode and Into The Mystery not only are lengthy endeavors, but they have huge backstories that flesh out the world, some neat secrets, and really great rewards. Into The Mystery actually opens up an entire faction, with a slew of additional quests that have you becoming

an underground superhero/vigilante.

The thing about these quests I'm mentioning? They're sidequests and usually triggered by exploring certain areas and finding something to kick it off - Motherlode started when I began investigating a newspaper company, Into The Mystery started when I found a dead body with a holotape on it in a bathroom inside of the DMV. The game doesn't direct you towards these quests and I've noticed publications complaining about the quest design seem to be only playing the main quest line. In FO3, the main quest line was the worst part. In Skyrim, the main quest line was the worst part... Betheseda isn't great with their main quests, never have been.

Jim Sterling's video (love him, usually) is also out of date - his biggest complaint was framerate hitching and crashes, which has been immensely rectified by yesterday's patch - the game runs so much smoother now. Even pre-patch, I experienced two crashes in over 24 hours of play. For a multiplayer game, that ain't bad at all.

The majority of people who are complaining about this game haven't played it. The second most common group is making a beeline through the main quest and then saying the game doesn't offer you much in the ways of things to do. It's the popular thing to do currently, rag on this game incessantly without touching it, but as a long-time fan of the series, I'd really recommend this to any Fallout fan. It has everything the series was known for, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Episode 5 is now up!

Youtube Video

Gotta say, I was not expecting a certain voice to appear in this episode, but it makes total sense. May the waiting for the remaining five episodes not feel like eternity.

I would almost have as many points as I currently do if I would have just played all of my players on byes this week. Who knew Eli Manning would have been the better waiver wire pickup? What a week.

@sazime Are you playing on PS4?

The game hasn't even been out a week and they've already introduced the first patch, this is the kind of support I was hoping for! Patch notes below.

https://fallout.bethesda.net/article/6AZhnwmqwE8SkOeoeuiamw/fallout-76-patch-notes-november-19-2018

Major points : Hitching should be reduced, so frame rate dips should be less common (my main complaint about the game), you can now complete the Bureau of Tourism quest that was bugged, and blueprints will no longer randomly split up into multiple segments if you log out - a problem that hit my group of friends consistently. My second biggest complaint (stash size being waaaaaaaay too small due to weight) will be addressed soon. The patch itself is large (almost 48 GBs) but when all is said and done, Fallout 76 will still be taking about 53 GBs of hard drive space.

I've been playing Pokemon for at least 15 years and I have never, ever seen a shiny in the wild. Ben plays Let's Go Eevee and finds a shiny Kakuna in less than two hours. I'm not sure if that's because the shiny rates are increased in Let's Go or he just happens to be lucky though.

While I don't own a Switch (high on the list of desires right now), I still don't think I'd be too eager to purchase this one. It leans very heavily into how cute it is, which is fine, but it doesn't really do much for me personally. I'd pet my Eevee/Pikachu once and probably not return to it after that.

25 hours in, level 23, and I can now dress as a firefighter. Some real important things happening.

I've owned a PS4 since Infamous: Second Son came out and I had no idea you could view patch notes via Update History. Huber with the life lessons!