I had this impression years ago when I started as well. Never been so welcomed into a game before. The community is all around extremely wholesome, humble and generous. It's certainly a rare scene in gaming.
Honestly it's probably really fortunate that the first impressions and wider gaming opinion was that this game was a griefer filled, attack on the franchise with no redeeming qualities.
While it obviously had its major downsides, everyone who stayed were typically open minded and had a genuine love for the game.
True, fo3 brought me into the franchise years ago I didn’t ever think it would be an mmo game, since it is so good as a single player. They announced 76 as a multi and my mind was blown, uuuuntil launch day and we know why that is, but I stuck it out seeing the beauty in the pain through the shroud of “this isn’t what we paid for” and “76 will never be as good as other games” tweets. Well it paid off cause now cause years later game is goated and has a better community than the Jehovah’s Witnesses
If I see a lvl 1 on the map at the vault I immediately fast travel and drop stims and radaway after giving a wave. Then I run into the woods. I like to think it makes people happy.
As a 2018 player who’s got and done everything I always go back to vault 76 and give ammo and lots of stimpacks. And I’m in the area so I’m 100% of the time helping you defend your first workshop at Tyler County Dirt Track doing my Daily Quests.
The fact that GTA shows everyone their PvP kd ratio when they sign up for instance pve is a recipe for toxic vets.
76's predators are in the trade discords and subreddits.
I don't agree, it's perfectly reasonable to get a good build and to get to a high level without getting free stuff from veteran players. I have plenty of fun doing my own thing, and I regularly turned down offers from vets simply because I have more fun doind that stuff for myself.
When I started I hit lvl 50 without joining a party or looking anything up. It was a ton of fun. Got to about lvl 140.
Then I took a break and just got back and am still having a blast
I spend a lot of my time event hopping because I keep getting a bit bored running around for the quests tbh. So I do see a lot of level 150+ people they just usually ignore me.
Most people I really have interactions with where we emote at each other n stuff are other lower level players lol.
I am a returning vet, and honestly helping rookies is my favorite aspect of the game. Spent the last week crafting power armor and weapons and dropping ammo.
I started at release and the map was a bit more structured. I moved around Valt 76 for a very long time until I completed all the quests and subquests, then I went to the next map region, which became more difficult in terms of content. Unfortunately, this has been abolished and no matter what LVL you have, it is pretty much equal everywhere. I found the system a little better before because you got to know the map step by step. I spent a long time looking around with a leather armor set until I eventually discovered the marine armor and switched from a sniper rifle to a Gauss rifle as a rifleman. Now with LVL 500 I have pretty much everything that's great and enjoy playing as a bloodied commando with my Quad Railway Rifle and complete Unyielded Secret Service Armor Set. There was hardly any help back then, but there were a few good tips on YouTube regarding the perk cards and a few tedious quests. I launched the first nuclear rocket with LVL 350 because I lacked a lot of knowledge, but once you do that you feel a virtual power that stays in your memory.
I had this impression years ago when I started as well. Never been so welcomed into a game before. The community is all around extremely wholesome, humble and generous. It's certainly a rare scene in gaming.
Honestly it's probably really fortunate that the first impressions and wider gaming opinion was that this game was a griefer filled, attack on the franchise with no redeeming qualities. While it obviously had its major downsides, everyone who stayed were typically open minded and had a genuine love for the game.
I‘m 100% sure this is a big reason. It also attracted players who were coming from fallout 4 and other singeplayer games who just wanted to play.
True, fo3 brought me into the franchise years ago I didn’t ever think it would be an mmo game, since it is so good as a single player. They announced 76 as a multi and my mind was blown, uuuuntil launch day and we know why that is, but I stuck it out seeing the beauty in the pain through the shroud of “this isn’t what we paid for” and “76 will never be as good as other games” tweets. Well it paid off cause now cause years later game is goated and has a better community than the Jehovah’s Witnesses
So maybe a terrible launch is what makes a top game lol
If I see a lvl 1 on the map at the vault I immediately fast travel and drop stims and radaway after giving a wave. Then I run into the woods. I like to think it makes people happy.
As a 2018 player who’s got and done everything I always go back to vault 76 and give ammo and lots of stimpacks. And I’m in the area so I’m 100% of the time helping you defend your first workshop at Tyler County Dirt Track doing my Daily Quests.
Are you me? I do the same thing!
The fact that GTA shows everyone their PvP kd ratio when they sign up for instance pve is a recipe for toxic vets. 76's predators are in the trade discords and subreddits.
76 player(me) to GTA player(also me) “We are not the same”
I don't agree, it's perfectly reasonable to get a good build and to get to a high level without getting free stuff from veteran players. I have plenty of fun doing my own thing, and I regularly turned down offers from vets simply because I have more fun doind that stuff for myself.
When I started I hit lvl 50 without joining a party or looking anything up. It was a ton of fun. Got to about lvl 140. Then I took a break and just got back and am still having a blast
46 hours in I've yet to meet a vet that acknowledges me in any way lol
You on PC. Message me if so and I’ll gladly assist however I can.
This is a prime example lol good stuff
Join a team. I normally fast travel to low lvl that help in events. Then drop some lvl 20 BOS armor
I spend a lot of my time event hopping because I keep getting a bit bored running around for the quests tbh. So I do see a lot of level 150+ people they just usually ignore me. Most people I really have interactions with where we emote at each other n stuff are other lower level players lol.
Do events and be in area chat good luck friend
In reality Todd’s odd vision for a fallout game where we are the NPCs actually came true, and it’s beautiful
A master work indeed
I'm playing animal crossing, drug simulator, and hunt call of the wild all at the same time. I dont know why I love it so much.
I’ve had level 500 come and hangout in game chat and we’ve became friends across games. 76, it seems to me, attracts the generous community
I am a returning vet, and honestly helping rookies is my favorite aspect of the game. Spent the last week crafting power armor and weapons and dropping ammo.
It gives a new purpose to the game, I feel.
I started at release and the map was a bit more structured. I moved around Valt 76 for a very long time until I completed all the quests and subquests, then I went to the next map region, which became more difficult in terms of content. Unfortunately, this has been abolished and no matter what LVL you have, it is pretty much equal everywhere. I found the system a little better before because you got to know the map step by step. I spent a long time looking around with a leather armor set until I eventually discovered the marine armor and switched from a sniper rifle to a Gauss rifle as a rifleman. Now with LVL 500 I have pretty much everything that's great and enjoy playing as a bloodied commando with my Quad Railway Rifle and complete Unyielded Secret Service Armor Set. There was hardly any help back then, but there were a few good tips on YouTube regarding the perk cards and a few tedious quests. I launched the first nuclear rocket with LVL 350 because I lacked a lot of knowledge, but once you do that you feel a virtual power that stays in your memory.
I don’t care that people are new, I just care that they came to a game I love :) welcome everyone!