Translation: ‘Okay, we’ll patch it one more time but if you want anymore fixes you’ll have to pay for them, since we’ll only include future patches with DLCs.’
I had a funny thought last night. If Bethesda is bad now, what will it be when Todd Howard is replaced with a woke Millennial?
The game not having 3rd person camera or mod support is a missed opportunity for Obsidian; and opportunity they won't have again. "YES there will be a tool kit and YES you can see your character in-game." That would have been a blood-pissing kidney punch to Bethesda. Ain't gonna happen now.
Doomed to fail. I'm officially NOT excited about this game anymore. I was kinda see-sawing back and forth but the first two profiles clenched it for me. "personal account' 'my tweets are my own' 'she/her'...yeah go suck a dick.
I always gave Howard the benefit of doubt until his sales spiel for FO76. He was pushing the limit with 'dynamic snow' in Skyrim but that is 'technically' possible; simple mesh swap like it's done for ash and goo piles in FO3. BUT that would have to be done for every static object in the cell. Hello game crash. That feature not being in Skyrim was a gimme for Bethesda.
BUT when Todd Howard stood on stage at E3 and said FO76 had new lighting and landscape technology (using the Creation Engine) I knew immediately he was lying. And he said that shit with confidence, knowing that NO ONE will ever challenge him on it. He's a flim-flam bullshit artist and a liar.
I HATE that 'thump-thump' sound when they scroll through the dialogue. That got annoying REALLY fast. And melee weapons do more damage than guns. That's dumb.
If it's on Unreal I doubt it will support modding at all. They're strict with their 3rd party licensing so Obsidian providing a level editor or an actual tool kit would be unlikely'expensive for them. And making models for Unreal is a serious pain and not worth it. I stopped doing Unreal compatible meshes and runtimes for DAZ after one project. Can't paint for depth using DDS files, texturing has to be done ON THE MESH and the runtimes are flat sheets of color. Every crease, wrinkle and shadow you see is fuck'n real. NO.THANKS.
Now I'm depressed.
I can play a 1st person shooter but I don't get invested in them like I do real rpgs with 3rd person and real stories. Every once in a while I'll fire up the Xbox and play GOW4. Honestly I play that more than I do any Bethesda game at the moment. I'll probably rent it first and if the game play grabs me and I can invest time in branching quests/missions then I might buy it. I want a game I can fucking MOD that isn't made by goddamned Bethesda.
This video has the interview clip (@ 9:04) where Todd-muh-Gawd Howard says the game engine technology 'isn't there yet' for ElderScrolls 6...the Creation Engine they're using for ElderScrolls 6...the engine that hasn't been built yet...but they're using it now....YEAH.
'Leaker' broke the needle on my bullshit meter when he said they're abandoning The Creation Club for Starfield and ES6. 'It doesn't make enough money and only hurts us in the long run.' Yeah, whudever dude.