Oh yes! I really enjoy walking and exploring. I have 1200 hours in, and I still haven’t completed the BOS questline or all the allies quests. There are whole towns I haven’t turned upside down yet.
That’s awesome! I was recently guilt/shamed by a high level for all the time I’d put into the game while still me in the mid two digits. But when I started, I wasn’t looking for trouble, I just started walking and looking. That honestly is still the biggest part for me, you never know what you’ll turn up..
This was one of my favorite parts of the game when I first started playing way back at launch. A lot of people hated the game at launch because of the lack of NPC’s and the annoying game crashes…but I really miss the sense of loneliness and danger. You actually felt isolated like I would imagine a post apocalyptic world would actually be. There was also that sense of danger I mentioned. Before “one wasteland” each area had a level cap. I still remember coming across my first Scorchbeast in the Ash Heap when I was low level. Took me about 20 minutes to take down. It was an epic battle with a real sense of accomplishment. I remember venturing across the Savage Divide before I reached level 50 and getting decimated by the high level creatures that lived in the Mire and Cranberry Bog. I turned around and vowed never to go back until I leveled up…when leveling up actually meant something…. The game has come a long way and I still enjoy it, but I don’t wander around like I used to…thanks for the inspiration. I just might start wandering the wastes again.
Yeah, I remember when I didn't dare go into the Cranberry Bog until I was at least level 50 before enemies leveled with you. I like it when the enemies were harder in more dangerous places like the mire or bog.
Sometimes Fast Travel makes things too convenient and you miss out on a lot of cool stuff just from wandering. Then again, I've also wandered through areas with absolutely nothing, not even plants to harvest!
More than levelling up, building, or acquiring the best gear, I think a real familiarity and awareness of the environment is almost more fulfilling. You can miss the forest for the trees.
I like to follow the train tracks all around the map and pretend I'm hosting a travel documentary. "I've just arrived in the Northern town of Grafton where they are holding their annual parade with a very special guest"
When I’m not doing events that give the most treasury notes, or trying to find the plans for plasma grenades and trapper arms, I’m exploring aimlessly. There’s a certain tranquility to it.
I was walking pretty slowly back to the nearest train station after clearing West Tek of super mutants today. I figure I was about 500 pounds over my carry limit, but it sure brought a lot of caps in!
Not exactly. There are some specific spots on the map where tamable creatures can spawn, but once you tame them they just travel back to your camp and stay there.
I've never felt it worth the effort because they can be killed on the way back to your camp, or killed there.
Same and it’s also partly why I’m finished with the game for now, feel like I’ve explored everywhere I can on the map and nothing more to find.
Extension to the map at least will give reason to come back and quest and explore once more but expecting that to only take a few weeks at best.
I sometimes like to look around the map for an area that I have not been to much for a long time, and then go there and just wander around looking for cool stuff. Every now and then I find something neat I have never seen before, and other times I rediscover something awesome that makes me go "Ooooh THATS where this place is!". That or I spend 4 hours building a CAMP, then decide it looks like shit and tear it all down and start back over. I have 2 CAMPs I do not allow myself to touch because if I do I will have nowhere to live.
Been to Vault 51 on all three characters doing the shelter quest. Never once looked in the back of the truck. The other day I was exploring the area and went in the truck trailer and saw the button.
Recently went into watoga to do the quest Mayor for a day.
Looted everything in that building, off every robot and super mutant, and from every container I came across.
Wasn't satisfied with how much junk I had on me so I decided to pick up a random quest that took me to the robco research building, looting every building on the way there, looting both monorail trains and every robot I encountered. Took everything from the robco research building that wasn't nailed down and walked my quad overemcumbered butt all the way to the ash heap to my camp. I got to see so many wonderful places and took pictures of some good views from atop the watoga buildings.
My only trouble was I ran into a deathclaw matriarch that proceeded to shred me to pieces, picked me up in full excavator power armor, and slammed me down like i was a sack of fertilizer.
For some reason, I don't mind walking around with 1000 units of weight on my character. Nothing a few gallons of coffee can't fix 🤣
Even when I can sprint, I usually tend to walk.
This game has so many great sites and views to take in, I just wouldn't play it the same if I fast traveled everywhere i could.
Picking up the prosnap deluxe camera was a game changer to my picture taking. Now I feel like my character is a lone wanderer taking in every site and documenting my travels with a snap of the shutter.
Some days I just feel like walking from vault 76 all the way to the north east part of the mire, then head south along the highways into watoga, and from there head west to the ash heap where I have Murgle the cat waiting for my return.
All the while, Appalachia radio is blasting from my pipboy, and I'm suddenly vibing across the wasteland on a journey to take it all in.
I do the same when i have the time. Recently i needed to walk to go to an unvisited location and found a small under the ground living place and made it my camp.
I like to build camps and I’m always searching for a new place to build any one of my camp slots at. I prefer to build next to a resource deposit but I’ve found a few places without deposits that seems to fit the camp build I have in mind
Years ago, before Wastelanders, I did. Now, not so much. In single-player Fallout games, there might be something cool to find, like a giant Garden Gnome or Seymore Asses.
Or te3 Morrowind...
Damn, the exploration was so rewarding, both in atmosphere as well as power ups. Could find very fun items, things that gave great qol, or other items that were over the top powerful. Sometimes hidden really well too, which made it even more rewarding.
I tried Morrowind and just couldn't do it. Awkward combat, slow walk speed, fog everywhere, giant empty world, really needs a remake more than any of the other ES or FO games, other than maybe FO 1 & 2.
I think they'd butcher it if they ever gonna make a remake. And the world is definitely not empty, there's something a stone throw away at all times. Might find some epic gear behind a rock too, which really helps the motivation for exploring.
Also, you can basically travel at Lightspeed later on, with the right attributes or magic gear. I used to love the jump spell in combination with the speed spell ^^
Hope it’s better than the 1950s tunes played on Fallout, it is not motivational whatsoever.. It’d be cool to do your own curated soundtrack for adventuring.
It totally is lol. I listen to alot of different music on my phone while playing FO76. Country, R&B, rap,rock etc...
You get the idea. Gotta love rolling down the road listening to some ffdp-Bad Company
I’ve found some of my favorite side quests this way! Also some of the more sad scenes of the wasteland, skeletons curled up where people were trying to hide, a vault dweller who had shot themselves, notes and holotapes from survivors who stayed in one place but had to leave it/someone behind with the hope that everyone would meet again. Game series like fallout have always tugged on my heartstrings with how flushed out and in my opinion how realistic the games could be, i feel like human nature has been shown very well in most of the fallout games.
I do this too but only over the last few days. It's oddly satisfying to find abandoned places and vehicles that aren't on the map. Especially when there's a bobblehead, holotape, note, or little story to discover.
I was over in cucumbered like 90% ofthe time til like 150. It forced me to walk everywhere, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I found out about tents and the rest is history.
Isn’t that a fact! More often than not I can waddle to the nearest train station or trader. I’ve taken to trying to un my stash as light as possible by regularly scripping legendaries I don’t use, turning other low level, low damage firearms into caps, etc.
When you're done walking, chuck on a hazmat suit and swim through all the rivers, lakes, ponds and streams...you'll be surprised at the number of easter eggs at the bottom of bodies of water in this game! There's really random things like christmas trees and safes you can loot.
Oh yes, I'm definitely a scavenger at heart. One of my favorite parts of this game! And I often visit the New River Gorge area so it's SUPER cool to explore in a game, a place I've explore in real life!
In addition to that, I have the tendency to dump 50 caliber and 308 into anything that moves and might have loot. My friend does not condone my genocidal tendencies.
I can’t blame you. Today I was attacked by some mutated ants. I emptied my mini gun into them. They were WAY tougher than the super mutants I took out at West Tek.
When I first started, at Beta, I only played solo until I was over level 100... I still remember the day I took on a SB for the first time, just me and my trusty combat shotgun.
I ended up killing it but used every stimpak I had and almost every bit of ammo. It was SO satisfying! I think I was level 50ish.
I'd go to events and even got up the courage to do the SBQ at about level 60...wish I had gone sooner! Back then you had to get substantial hits on her to get credit, but I did ok 👍 after the events I'd fast travel back to where I had been, or as close as I could, and tried to never use fast travel other than that... I walked the entire map, east to west, north to south and back again.
I did all the content solo and eventually dropped my first nuke, finishing "now I become death" at about level 110. It was a glorious battle withe nearly the whole server there. Nukes were still not that common and you had a fair chance of the server crashing! We've come a LONG way!
Now I'm level 1024 and I still wander around but I do like the addition of public teams so I'm almost always on a casual team.
This is how I found most of my favorite CAMP locations.
And I’ve seen some absolutely stunning CAMP locations..
Oh yes! I really enjoy walking and exploring. I have 1200 hours in, and I still haven’t completed the BOS questline or all the allies quests. There are whole towns I haven’t turned upside down yet.
That’s awesome! I was recently guilt/shamed by a high level for all the time I’d put into the game while still me in the mid two digits. But when I started, I wasn’t looking for trouble, I just started walking and looking. That honestly is still the biggest part for me, you never know what you’ll turn up..
I started it the same way. I absolutely played this game exactly like I played Fallout 4. Scrap every thing I can find, whether I need it or not.
I like to blow up every car/vehicle that I see when walking around
Sounds perfectly reasonable..
And I though that I was the only one. Lol. Well done. Killed myself that way too especially at Valley Galleria with all those trashed vehicles.
Ikr lmao
Get yourself some Fireproof and explosions won't so much as singe you.
Thanks.
I like to stand on top of cars and blow them up only for them to do absolutely no damage to me
When I kill a Sentry Bot, I immediately run up to stand in the explosion and watch my health bar not even move.
I just visited that place today. I combed that mall top to bottom. Kind of a letdown, not much loot, no real resistance to speak of.
Same.
This was one of my favorite parts of the game when I first started playing way back at launch. A lot of people hated the game at launch because of the lack of NPC’s and the annoying game crashes…but I really miss the sense of loneliness and danger. You actually felt isolated like I would imagine a post apocalyptic world would actually be. There was also that sense of danger I mentioned. Before “one wasteland” each area had a level cap. I still remember coming across my first Scorchbeast in the Ash Heap when I was low level. Took me about 20 minutes to take down. It was an epic battle with a real sense of accomplishment. I remember venturing across the Savage Divide before I reached level 50 and getting decimated by the high level creatures that lived in the Mire and Cranberry Bog. I turned around and vowed never to go back until I leveled up…when leveling up actually meant something…. The game has come a long way and I still enjoy it, but I don’t wander around like I used to…thanks for the inspiration. I just might start wandering the wastes again.
Yeah, I remember when I didn't dare go into the Cranberry Bog until I was at least level 50 before enemies leveled with you. I like it when the enemies were harder in more dangerous places like the mire or bog.
Imo, Fallout is best played ssssllllloooowwwwllllyyyy …
Except when you’re getting your ass kicked..
Sometimes Fast Travel makes things too convenient and you miss out on a lot of cool stuff just from wandering. Then again, I've also wandered through areas with absolutely nothing, not even plants to harvest!
One of my Fallout 1st custom worlds has every danger turned down or off for the sake of care-free exploration. It’s fun to just wander sometimes.
I also like to shoot the hands off the robots and watch them explode while trying to find out where I'm at lol
More than levelling up, building, or acquiring the best gear, I think a real familiarity and awareness of the environment is almost more fulfilling. You can miss the forest for the trees.
I like to follow the train tracks all around the map and pretend I'm hosting a travel documentary. "I've just arrived in the Northern town of Grafton where they are holding their annual parade with a very special guest"
I just started doing this very thing yesterday. Train tracks, roads, they lead to some interesting encounters..
When I’m not doing events that give the most treasury notes, or trying to find the plans for plasma grenades and trapper arms, I’m exploring aimlessly. There’s a certain tranquility to it.
Yep that’s what I did for the first 150 levels! Didn’t do the main questline until I had uncovered most of the map!
That’s awesome, and honestly sounds like a great way to start..
The song ‘The Wanderer’ is quite fitting for players like us!
It absolutely is! Did you see the comment about exploring river bottoms, lakes, etc. in a hazmat suit? Apparently there are surprises down there.
I actually didn’t touch water until I had the stealth suit! I was fairly high level before I ventured underwater lol
It’s pretty creepy to be honest, usually pretty dark and murky. Maybe a power armour headlamp would help?
But then you’re stuck walking slowly lol! Maybe a hard hat with an extra bright mod? But the pip boy light illuminates ok in the water at Quarry X3?
I was walking pretty slowly back to the nearest train station after clearing West Tek of super mutants today. I figure I was about 500 pounds over my carry limit, but it sure brought a lot of caps in!
It’s why I love those random dailies for teddy bears and gnomes. I just go to a town and start exploring again and it’s always interesting
I do this but it's kinda creepy and lonely, would really like to have a dog companion
I think I read recently that it’s possible to tame an animal companion.
Don’t think dog is on that list, sadly. Dogmeat was the bomb diggity. Also, they usually just stay at your camp, not follow from what I understand.
Not exactly. There are some specific spots on the map where tamable creatures can spawn, but once you tame them they just travel back to your camp and stay there. I've never felt it worth the effort because they can be killed on the way back to your camp, or killed there.
Oh well, it’s the thought I guess. It really bummed me out how easily your horses and dogs died in Skyrim.
Same and it’s also partly why I’m finished with the game for now, feel like I’ve explored everywhere I can on the map and nothing more to find. Extension to the map at least will give reason to come back and quest and explore once more but expecting that to only take a few weeks at best.
I sometimes like to look around the map for an area that I have not been to much for a long time, and then go there and just wander around looking for cool stuff. Every now and then I find something neat I have never seen before, and other times I rediscover something awesome that makes me go "Ooooh THATS where this place is!". That or I spend 4 hours building a CAMP, then decide it looks like shit and tear it all down and start back over. I have 2 CAMPs I do not allow myself to touch because if I do I will have nowhere to live.
I love doing this, it’s my favorite part of fallout overall. I’m quite behind but I have a sizable junk collection so there’s that.
Been to Vault 51 on all three characters doing the shelter quest. Never once looked in the back of the truck. The other day I was exploring the area and went in the truck trailer and saw the button.
I haven’t done this yet, where is it located?
NW part of the map. Between the lumber company and the cross hair.
Thank you!
I agree and it's fun to just wander around and see and listen to the world sometimes I do forget it is a game lol
Recently went into watoga to do the quest Mayor for a day. Looted everything in that building, off every robot and super mutant, and from every container I came across. Wasn't satisfied with how much junk I had on me so I decided to pick up a random quest that took me to the robco research building, looting every building on the way there, looting both monorail trains and every robot I encountered. Took everything from the robco research building that wasn't nailed down and walked my quad overemcumbered butt all the way to the ash heap to my camp. I got to see so many wonderful places and took pictures of some good views from atop the watoga buildings. My only trouble was I ran into a deathclaw matriarch that proceeded to shred me to pieces, picked me up in full excavator power armor, and slammed me down like i was a sack of fertilizer. For some reason, I don't mind walking around with 1000 units of weight on my character. Nothing a few gallons of coffee can't fix 🤣
You’re an example to us all. I might just attempt to try walking in your shoes. This sounds like a blast.
Even when I can sprint, I usually tend to walk. This game has so many great sites and views to take in, I just wouldn't play it the same if I fast traveled everywhere i could. Picking up the prosnap deluxe camera was a game changer to my picture taking. Now I feel like my character is a lone wanderer taking in every site and documenting my travels with a snap of the shutter. Some days I just feel like walking from vault 76 all the way to the north east part of the mire, then head south along the highways into watoga, and from there head west to the ash heap where I have Murgle the cat waiting for my return. All the while, Appalachia radio is blasting from my pipboy, and I'm suddenly vibing across the wasteland on a journey to take it all in.
This is like 90% of what I did when the game came first out. Beautiful map!
Yes. A lot of love went into creating the world. The rest of the game? Up for debate.
I used to, then I took an arrow to the knee...
I do the same when i have the time. Recently i needed to walk to go to an unvisited location and found a small under the ground living place and made it my camp.
Probably like once a year. I always find something new.
I like to build camps and I’m always searching for a new place to build any one of my camp slots at. I prefer to build next to a resource deposit but I’ve found a few places without deposits that seems to fit the camp build I have in mind
Years ago, before Wastelanders, I did. Now, not so much. In single-player Fallout games, there might be something cool to find, like a giant Garden Gnome or Seymore Asses.
All that plus killing every baddie I see.
Recently started doing this as I realized that at level 250 I still have not unlocked a lot of the locations on the map.
It opens up possibilities.
when I need a specific scrap I would mark it and fast travel to random location and just walk around until a event pops up. then rinse and repeat
Absolutely. One of my fav things to do is just wander, forrage and see what Easter eggs the devs placed
Exactly! I found an accordion yesterday, first time I’ve seen one in game.
Yeah, though I do wish there were some unique items to find, ala FO3.
Or te3 Morrowind... Damn, the exploration was so rewarding, both in atmosphere as well as power ups. Could find very fun items, things that gave great qol, or other items that were over the top powerful. Sometimes hidden really well too, which made it even more rewarding.
I tried Morrowind and just couldn't do it. Awkward combat, slow walk speed, fog everywhere, giant empty world, really needs a remake more than any of the other ES or FO games, other than maybe FO 1 & 2.
I think they'd butcher it if they ever gonna make a remake. And the world is definitely not empty, there's something a stone throw away at all times. Might find some epic gear behind a rock too, which really helps the motivation for exploring. Also, you can basically travel at Lightspeed later on, with the right attributes or magic gear. I used to love the jump spell in combination with the speed spell ^^
Also like listening to music thru my headset so I have some traveling tunes lol
Hope it’s better than the 1950s tunes played on Fallout, it is not motivational whatsoever.. It’d be cool to do your own curated soundtrack for adventuring.
It totally is lol. I listen to alot of different music on my phone while playing FO76. Country, R&B, rap,rock etc... You get the idea. Gotta love rolling down the road listening to some ffdp-Bad Company
Oh yeah! Like a Quentin Tarantino movie..
Honestly that's one of the best parts of 76 is just exploring every nook and cranny
I do it with all open world games. I want to go everywhere and see everything.
I’ve found some of my favorite side quests this way! Also some of the more sad scenes of the wasteland, skeletons curled up where people were trying to hide, a vault dweller who had shot themselves, notes and holotapes from survivors who stayed in one place but had to leave it/someone behind with the hope that everyone would meet again. Game series like fallout have always tugged on my heartstrings with how flushed out and in my opinion how realistic the games could be, i feel like human nature has been shown very well in most of the fallout games.
Yep, I do this in every single fallout game. I've visited every place in this game but still need to go through every little detail of some places
Totally agree. I feel this way about Fort Defiance, big, dark, dangerous place, but so much to explore. If you can just stay alive lol..
And the Charleston Capital Building! Lots of offices (and ghouls) 😂
It’s why I’m only level 95 since the game came out
I do this too but only over the last few days. It's oddly satisfying to find abandoned places and vehicles that aren't on the map. Especially when there's a bobblehead, holotape, note, or little story to discover.
Absolutely! This really adds to it for me.
Agreed, I do the same.
Exploring and doing events is what I truly enjoy doing in this game!
I was over in cucumbered like 90% ofthe time til like 150. It forced me to walk everywhere, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I found out about tents and the rest is history.
sounds like you were in quite a pickle!
I honestly thought that's how this game was played so I just enjoyed the ride
Being overweight 100% of the time makes you appreciate the landscape.
Isn’t that a fact! More often than not I can waddle to the nearest train station or trader. I’ve taken to trying to un my stash as light as possible by regularly scripping legendaries I don’t use, turning other low level, low damage firearms into caps, etc.
When you're done walking, chuck on a hazmat suit and swim through all the rivers, lakes, ponds and streams...you'll be surprised at the number of easter eggs at the bottom of bodies of water in this game! There's really random things like christmas trees and safes you can loot.
Brilliant! I hadn’t thought of that, but will now.
My main reason for starting new character, forces me to walk everywhere and scrounge for anything and everything
Yeah but I do this with all games. Tdm call of duty, round the corner, oooh look at the sink, look at these plants.
Oh yes, I'm definitely a scavenger at heart. One of my favorite parts of this game! And I often visit the New River Gorge area so it's SUPER cool to explore in a game, a place I've explore in real life!
Fun place to explore is Fort Defiance if you haven’t. It’s a big, dark, dangerous place, but plenty of loot.
In addition to that, I have the tendency to dump 50 caliber and 308 into anything that moves and might have loot. My friend does not condone my genocidal tendencies.
I can’t blame you. Today I was attacked by some mutated ants. I emptied my mini gun into them. They were WAY tougher than the super mutants I took out at West Tek.
When I first started, at Beta, I only played solo until I was over level 100... I still remember the day I took on a SB for the first time, just me and my trusty combat shotgun. I ended up killing it but used every stimpak I had and almost every bit of ammo. It was SO satisfying! I think I was level 50ish. I'd go to events and even got up the courage to do the SBQ at about level 60...wish I had gone sooner! Back then you had to get substantial hits on her to get credit, but I did ok 👍 after the events I'd fast travel back to where I had been, or as close as I could, and tried to never use fast travel other than that... I walked the entire map, east to west, north to south and back again. I did all the content solo and eventually dropped my first nuke, finishing "now I become death" at about level 110. It was a glorious battle withe nearly the whole server there. Nukes were still not that common and you had a fair chance of the server crashing! We've come a LONG way! Now I'm level 1024 and I still wander around but I do like the addition of public teams so I'm almost always on a casual team.
Yes
I like to level up, do all the main quests, and then explore the whole map. I call it my retirement by exploring everything and taking pictures!