CaPn bOnEs

so we were right lol...

so they've been granting early access to a "stress test" on xbox to a number of people who met the criteria... i am trying to avoid anything they share for now because i don't want the spoils at this point in the cycle... after the greenbrier presser, i've seen all the footage i need to see until my turn at the helm... so just a friendly warning that potential story and location spoilers are bound to start popping up here if you're seeking news :)...

you can use it on PC too ...

those icons above the map... never seen those before...

it's gotta be /combat... or /equipment... or 2 sections, equipment and weapons... lol who knows

i'm jumping all in, broken or not... i love the concept so much that i can overlook the issues that will obviously be present while they iron things out...

i was thinking of making one of these, but as a general crew discord with an iRD section... that way we can still post about GTA, and even arrange fallout groupings... should we do that instead, dup? if so, what would we call it if it we were keeping it that general... i've been using discord for a few months, a podcast i listen to has a group chat on there, it's a cool app... or can we just add an "other games" section and include GTA and Fallout then? with sub categories for organizing and photos and stuff? are you able to change the name of the discord server later if we decided to change the format? also, make me a mod when i join if most of the crew doesn't have USB microphones, it's possible that we could actually set up group chats thru it so we can bypass the 8 person PSN limit, because i do believe the discord chatter is much cleaner than-game ones...

i've been considering the thought of playing a certain character with certain people... have my overall explorer guy, but with a few groups of my friends, us having a different one that we only play the game with them when we're just playing as a same group... i think that would help the immersion a bit, that's the DnD aspect i was talking about...

dude, the more time that passes, the more my interest picks up! those videos didn't show me anything to sway my mind... bethesda told everyone before the event that it was an earlier build, and the frame rate was only optimized around vault 76, as they didn't expect many to wander much further in the 3 hours... a few definitely took off as far as they could, other's pushed out to the boundaries and a bit beyond, but most stayed near the vault, questing and getting a sense of the game... the crashes were expected, too... and i am betting it will crash when i try the BETA too... our hope tho is they get most of that sorted out by launch... i can handle occasional crashes, a few of my games do that to me already lol... of course rockstar will have their game on point, but this is also bethesda's first venture into the online unknown with their creation engine... i am just sitting here, rounding up friends, fellow forum dwellers, thinking about character builds, and hopefully DnD'n the shit out of some roleplaying in a few weeks!

the week of, i'm muting anything RDR related because fuck twitter and also the snap community that wlll be spoiling locations and experiences i want to see myself for the first 2-3 days... this game will be around for years, i think i can handle a few days without seeing other peoples reactions... plus a lot of those people are the type that want to be the first to show everyone for dem likes and subs anyways ... this topic is about as far as my spoilers have gone, seeing the map built and fleshed out, lol...

BUT I DON'T WANNA!! in all fairness, i am just contemplating, not expecting it, just thinking out loud is all... it would be quite the nifty surprise... and like i said, probably only epic games has more access to resources than rockstar these day... they could realistically do it if they wanted... and they know people would buy it too... so realistically, how long until we start seeing the actual map? i would imagine it's going out to reviewers here soon for dem juicy articles and such...

site doesn't work for me, at work... try these? /arsenal /weaponry /combat /equipment

fine then ?...

if the map is already rebuilt, and the voice acting already recorded, all that's left is to just update the mechanics to the modern game, right? i'd say 75% of it is already there... i know it's just a pure longshot, but it's totally possible since i don't really think a lot of the new game will take place out that way, not with an entire new map to explore... who's gonna wanna spend time out there when you could be fishing in streams and exploring a big city... could explain why the game is a whopping 105GB right off the bat... maybe lol... then again, we never got that GTAIV remaster either

nah i don't think it would take as much effort as people would think, especially for a team like rockstar with the manpower and resources... maybe not offer it up as free, but certainly do something with it... i mean, why completely remaster the old games map if you're not going to take advantage of remaking the original game?

i really think they added the game (RDR1 remastered) as a bonus, and they're just not not telling us yet... trying to trick the community that wants to jump in for nostalgia leading up to release for some last minute monies... we shall see tho...

i saw a lot of positive marks actually... it is basically what i thought it would be, fallout 4.5 online... people say it's definitely fun with a group, but pretty lonely by yourself since there aren't other NPCs to interact with... and my gawd does the palette look beautiful, it looks so vibrant... the nuke footage was cool as well... here's a place that has a roundup of all the previews that hit the net... https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/9mf19k/fallout_76_greenbrier_event_footage_thread/?sort=new

PNG is the preferred web file, it preserves transparency... oh wow, that's amazing that november 11th is our inaugural GTAV crew night... too bad the SC didn't preserve our older images, i bet there were some gems in there...

so bethesda rented out the famous greenbrier hotel in west virginia and did a whole private event there showing off the game to a bunch of people... it was kind of a cool presser to be honest, it looked like a fun event... also, there's gonna be like 400 hours of footage being released this week or next week... https://gearnuke.com/fallout-76-gets-exclusive-hands-on-gameplay-event-new-footage-coming-soon/

i was surprised no one did before me, i gave twitter a 2 hour head start lol...

https://twitter.com/CaPn_bOnEs/status/1047594359477166080

R2D2 (broman) brought up an interesting point last night during crew night... what if at the end of RDR2 (because it's pretty much looking like a guarantee that the old map will be in the game) it finishes with the opening sequence of the first RDR, and suddenly you're now playing a remastered version of the original?! perhaps something plays out like in the original when you play as john's son, maybe in this game, you take over as john after arthur's death... the more i see of the old map in this mapping topic, the more it's gonna make me ponder that thought...

even GTA-Series said they didn't want to make a video about the new information because of how spoilery it is lol... https://twitter.com/GTASeries/status/1047217765323603969

he was dropping names and missions, that's when i started to realize i was gonna get more info than i wanted... then i got hit with a dutch gang character spoiler, which really sucked... fucking hell, i'm muting RDR2 until a week after release lol...

HEAVY SPOILERS IN THAT ARTICLE... i started skimming over it after a few paragraphs, fucker lied and said no spoilers at the beginning lol... i guess i'll skip out on this round of information... screenshots look nice tho, i don't mind those...