Well that's true, but that actually looks pretty. I know it sounds stupid but I just cant imagine in my head seeing some environment like Fallout 3's with rain.

I would expect it to look "dirty" of course... A lot like New York City's rain today!

Bethesda games have a tremendous amount of clutter objects; would players be okay with sacrificing interior detail in exchange for the need of loading screens?
(For without that, the interior ~made technically exterior, would have to have all that stuff tracked and calculated... A mine or grenade would scatter that stuff and cause even more of a performance hit).

So how much time is left on the counter? I thought I saw somewhere that we have six days left meaning like December 2nd, which would mean if the site is legit it's probably going to be a teaser site and then a few days later at the VGAs a full on announcement. Or it's a giant middle finger.

EDIT: I just checked the site, Nuclear Winter is coming in five days meaning I see this as the possible timeline.

December 1st: Nuclear Winter comes and we get the bethesda logo or something

December 7th: Full on announcement at the VGAs

December 10th: The site officially launches three days after the announcement with a possible trailer.

EDIT 2: Assuming the site is legit of course.

What are technology for, right? In FO3 and NV, are there really that many objects outside of building? All I could see was an occasional whiskey bottle or two. But if you're worry about exterior objects cluttering outside of entrances, just simply have some kind of trash collector that pick those things up every once in a while... And just in case of misplaced items, then maybe the game can give/sell those back to the player via a scrap merchants or "lost and found".

Having less loadings would definitely make the game more immersive and realistic. If you vandalize someone's house by shooting at it, then the owner might open the windows and return fire. If you lay siege to an enemy building, then the enemy might start to build barricades around the doors and windows. Or the enemies might retreat into buildings and try to protect themselves.

More organized and dangerous enemy behavior instead of simple NPCs for you to waste your ammo on.

We have horses in TES games, how bout a bike or motorcycle?

I'm pretty sure it could handle a car either way, it handled dragons mostly well in Skyrim. Rather than engine limitations, pathing would probably be the larger issue. I get stuck enough as it is on my own two feet, something the size of a car in a beth game would either defy physics a-la horse or it would be getting stuck over every bump or ridge.

One thing that I mentioned sometime ago and I am just remembering now is adding a ghoul that worked at Vault-Tec. If you've seen Lost it would kind of be like the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative.

Previous Trait ideas.

Hi, first time here.

Anyways, survivor2299 site had a 500 internal service error just a moment ago. After refreshing, it was a blank black page. Now the site seems to be back as of now.

It's not the outside that's the problem. It's the interior. Take for instance the supermarket in FO3 alone, the amount of bottles and cans lying around was enough to drive any hoarder completely mental. Most of the exterior in FO3 and FO-NV was actually pretty clean compared to how the interior looked in a lot of places. Books, bottles, cans, hotplates, glasses, pencils etc etc. And let's not forget the stationary stuff like lockers, bookcases, terminals and desks and lord knows what else. Say what you want but the inside of the buildings did contain a lot of stuff, especially compared to outside.

It may not seem like much but it does put a strain on the computer if you try to make everything/a lot of it without loading screens. Despite the upgraded hardware of the next-gen consoles you still have to consider the processing power and the ram. All those little things and the variables attached have to be loaded, which puts a strain on those two little hardware thingies. So when you make a game you have to consider the limits. You can put an x amount of stuff in before the hardware can't handle it.

Yes I do agree that it would make the game more immersive and slightly more realistic but I rather lose that and have more and shinier stuff than have to trade it in. I dunno, I guess since I'm a bit of a looter I would pick 'more crap to pick up that looks prettier than before' over 'completely open world for immersiveness'.

Whatever it is, the server is either encountering some issues or they are doing something to it.

What someone on reddit did catch was that the internal server error had the Bethesda logo next to the tab title thingy. Is that something that could get faked??? I have no idea, I svck at coding websites. Can anyone here tell me?

You can easily fake it in photoshop. Also depending on browser it can happen normaly if the user was prior on a bethesda site and then tried to get on the survivor site with the error in the same tab. In case of an error the logo can be stuck in some browsers.

So I think there is no significance to it.

No, it's the other way around, to have the interiors of the houses be on the open landscape (where you can see through a door or window, and walk in without loading screen), means that all that stuff in the house [plungers, tin cans; dishes, bear-traps ~and everything else] becomes an object on the world map. Consider a row of houses... As it is now, each house is (usually) a separate map with a load screen at the entrance... but without that, then they are all on the world map, and poking around in one house still has the objects in the other houses tracked ~same as walking around the outside of them ~~all of them at the same time.

*Ah... Didn't see Sunago's post; mentions the same thing.

Some minor things I would like to see:

More options for settings. The ability to turn map markers completely off (that is if the game doesn't rely on them instead of having an NPC give directions or the game having clues)

The ability to turn off individual aspects of the HUD. Not something as useless as turning down HUD opacity. Turn enemy health off, turn off hints, turn off spoonfeeding pop ups telling me how to do everything in the game (just have a "quest updated" pop up) If I want to read the update I can just go into the pip-pad and read it in the data. Kill cams. Turn off compass (or better yet, have the compass function as a compass and being able to turn off the "there's a building over there" markers) and the ability to kill the "follow me" guy that feels he needs to hold my hand because Bethesda thinks players are astoundingly stupid.

Some complicated things I would like: Real time everything. Did it in Skyrim for conversations. Take it to the next step. Real time pip-pad, real time inventory management, real time switching weapons and real time VATS. I think the stopping time completely and indefinitely in gameplay is outdated and needs to be taken out of games

Seems like an oxymoron to me. How would that even work? I suppose if the system was completely redesigned.

Real time VATS would move too far away from the RPG aspect of the game (which I love) IMHO.

Slow it down, a lot.

Don't we have Turbo for that? And that perk which gives you Turbo effect?

The whole survivor site is a scam. When it reaches zero there's going to be a troll that pops up laughing at everyone.

As for FO4 wishes, please add guns similar in style to FNV and not FO3.. One thing i hated in FO3 were the guns and the fact there weren't iron sights. I think...

Yeah, slow down time instead of completely pausing the game. The tension of a shootout would be present and the enemy can attack you while you're aiming. As it is, VATS is cheat mode and it is extremely buggy and inefficient. Moonwalking with a shotgun in FNV, anyone? Or maybe still shooting even though the enemy went behind a wall. I think I should be in control of it instead of the game. Also, real time lockpicking.

Was it a video from Shoddycast? Because I know that they just barely started a Fallout Lore Series?

I don't get this idea that real-time combat somehow runs contrary to any core RPG concepts - dice-roll and turn-based events only existed because of the nature of board games, and the limitation is no longer relevant. Obviously I don't want a game that purely relies upon 'twitch' skill, but that doesn't mean manual combat actually removes the use of in-game skills, item progression and so on.

Basically, you can have a game in which a 'shooter' type of gamer can still run around and manually score head shots without using VATS, and also have the game completely playable to a VATS sort of gamer who'd rather play at a slowed down pace and not worry about reaction times. I mean the fact is many 'action' games are already overtaking Bethesda games in terms of itemization (Borderlands and even Battlefield arguably have better weapon progression than F3; Dark Souls trumps TES, etc) and even in the area of character skill trees some action games are equal or better (Far Cry 3 had heaps of decent useable skills in an FPS open-world setting, rather than just endless passives that barely alter the actual gameplay).

I definitely think a very slow VATS (more of a bullet time) would work perfectly well. Maybe there can be an option in the menu to toggle between a reticule that 'snaps' between enemies/body parts, and a free aim system like in other shooters. Also, lowering the health of enemies but potentially having more on screen at once would be good, so you don't need to score a dozen headshots on an enemy of the same level. I'd like better reasons than just dice rolls for enemies to be more powerful than me - ie. they have a bigger gun, are physically way bigger, wear armor that only certain attacks/ammo types can destroy, and so on.

woudl nuclear fallout be able to block out the sun in a certain part of the world? if so, for how long?

Well, at least we know what is fake now: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1rddp8/the_survivor_2299_speculation_and_hype_megathread/cdmgu7h

Kinda made me lol a bit...