We try to read everything.
I can't stress this enough... We're not going out of our way to make a clone of any game. We're adding the features and content that we want (and "we" means the development team, the executives are giving us a lot of latitude and freedom. Way more than we had even on the original Fallout.) If _some_ of those features are already in use by other games, so be it. We're not adding stuff to be like them, and we're not adding stuff just so we can be different. Being different just for the sake of being different is as silly as cloning another game and giving you a reskinned version of whatever the flavor of the month is.
We're doing stuff that we want to make the game that we want. It worked for the original Fallout, so I hope it works here, too.
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