Hello first time poster here. I like many console players got hooked on fallout in 2008. I won't pretend to be something I'm not. However I have never owned a gaming capable pc, nor do I, as a college freshman, have the money to create a rig. I am perfectly content with my ps4 and am very excited for the next entry in our beloved series. I am aware that being a console player comes with the typical tradeoffs, however I wish and hope that console players will have more options and customization in how their game looks and feels. The majority of this request would be how the game appears on our screen. Things like
-being able to position hud elements where we want them
-being able to turn the hud off completely but still have a reticle
-being able to flip the over the shoulder perspective in third person
-disable notification popups
-disable the massive camera shake when near explosions
-in game color and contrast adjustment
Perhaps more I cannot think of at the moment

Greetings fellow PS4 user! These all seem like reasonable options for console users to have in the settings. Perhaps the devs will see it the same way. Welcome to the forums!

One you may want to add is two speed levelling, if the levelling is anything like the last two games the levelling was optimised for a player doing the main story and a few side quests, but for players who like to explore and do lots of side quests the levelling was too fast and the character would become too overpowered only a part way through the game.

What about the "Swift Learner" perk? I never used it but isn't it supposed to increase your xp gains to make level ups faster?

Thanks man, I was really hoping the devs actually look at this forum and see notable mentions and suggestions

Infamous had a shoulder switch button too. I like this idea.

Yah, there is a perk that increase XP earned, but if you think about it increasing XP by 10% is an almost criminal waste of a perk.

An example: In Fallout 3 the level 2 perks are:

Black Widow/Lady Killer - Special speech options and +10% damage to opposite six

Daddy's Girl/Boy - +5 Science, + 5 Medicine

Gun Nut - +5 small guns, +5 repair

Little Leaguer - +5 Melee, +5 explosives

Thief - +5 sneak, +5 lockpick

Intense Training - permanent increase of a SPECIAL stat by +1

and Swift Learner - +10% XP

You only get so many perks. in Fallout 3 you get one perk per level, In New Vegas you get one perk every TWO levels. That gives you a total of 30 standard perks for Fallout 3 and 25 standard perks for New Vegas

Out of that list the best two Perks is the Black Widow/Lady Killer Perks and the Intense Training perk. If you are a high intelligence player, these two perks are the only ones you should ever take from the level 2 perk list.

The Swift Learner perk only grants you a slightly faster leveling rate but nothing else. Essentially, you can make high level quicker but you have lost one perk that could have been used for an increase in power.

Depending on the build for your character the others may or may not be useful. The more Intelligence you have, the less useful they will be. (The amount of skill points you gain per level is 10 + Intelligence in Fallout 3). A low intelligence player will never be able to max all skills, but with careful selection of the +skill perks they an max one, be decent in one or two more and still get pretty good in sneak, lockpick and medicine or speech.

In my opinion Swift Leaner falls in with Perks like Here and Now, basically I think of it as throwing away a perfectly good perk.

I’m talking about slowing down levelling for people like to explore and do lots of side quests and who do not want their character to become too OP early in the game. As a PC user I was able to mod the game to slow down levelling but that option was not available to console users.