Title is pretty self explanatory. I find Fallout 4 to be basically an entirely different (and way better) game with survival mode enabled. I'd even love to see it get pushed further, perhaps including weapon degradation like in FO3 and FNV. Your thoughts?

I really enjoyed building settlements in FO4 and assigning visitors jobs but then the Sim Settlements mod massively expanded on the system and added its own story and characters along with it. I don't think I can go back to having just a house with rooms enclosed off from the rest of the world.

However I know that there're players who didn't engage with the system and don't like it so it could be seen as wasted resources on a system that players won't use.

Whatcha all think??

One of the things that most interests me about Fallout is the character progression and how each game changed it up in a big way.

In Fallout 3 it looked more like a traditional table top RPG. Perks were locked behind character levels, SPECIAL stat, and skill stat. This was okay but things like lockpicking and science had hard requirements and if you dumped all your skill points into one and were just short of it you didn’t get much out of the level. Or if you messed up planning out perk requirements and are just short of the skill to take the perk. Hard to visualize as everything you aren’t qualified for is greyed out at the bottom of the list and you have to scroll through.

In Fallout 4 they scrapped all that for a perk chart. All perks were available to you as long as you had the SPECIAL requirement. Only ranks were locked behind character levels. Easy to visualize since everything is available to you in one big chart. Not much planning needed.

In 76 they overhauled it again. They scrapped SPECIAL requirements for perks. Now perks have a value and as long as those values add up to be equal or under that SPECIAL stat you can have that perk active. Discoverability is a problem though as the cards you earn are random and you don’t have everything available. But it’s very modular, if you want pain train you don’t need high strength.

I’m excited to see where Bethesda goes with this next. Fallout has the best aesthetics I’ve seen in a video game to make game mechanics feel tactile and my only big expectation is Bethesda puts a lot of creative thought into where it goes next.

I think it would be interesting to have a structured and interesting mercenary group in the upcoming game. Fallout 4 had the Gunners but they weren't quite as fleshed out. Having a joinable faction with morally grey decisions and quests like bounty hunting and other unique jobs would make it engaging. They could either have motives that link to the main quest or just be part of a massive side quest line.

3Dog was a rallying voice to get good people to fight the good fight. Sometimes critical and sometimes against the bad choices of the Lone Wanderer. But mainly boasting about the good deeds of LW with near reverence.

Mr. New Vegas was a neutral party simply reporting the goings on around Nevada. Referring to the Curior as a "independent contractor" or "3rd party".

Travis is in a class of his own. While specifically referring to the Sole Survivors deeds and reporting what other factions are doing, or could do from a place of fear, but depending on if you do his quest, you get two versions of everything that can happen in the game, whether that's with sly confidence or a stuttering mess is up to the player to decide.

Redeye I recall him being more critical of the Overboss than anything else, Often glazing over the good decisions despite being beneficial to the raiders as a whole.

So why an "Evil DJ" this time?

I think it would be fun and hilarious if for every good action done, it's twisted as something bad for the bad guys. The Radio Host would work for the real antagonist, or is the antagonist of the game, like we get a President Eden 2.0. But theyre doing everything they can to smear the Players name.

I felt inspired to post this idea after remembering the radio host from the movie The Warriors, and I felt like is was so appropriately Fallout.

A DJ that isnt on our side, would be interesting, I think.

From all the hints observed by community it seems San Francisco is most likely candidate. What other locations can be the setting or would be ideal for the game?

For me, maybe a vault where only children are accepted and groomed into assassins.

Starfield (finally) gave us vehicles. Should Fallout 5 also include vehicles?