What new features should be introduced in Fallout 4?

[Arina Love]

Not boring combat
Not boring characters
Not boring armour\weapon design
Not boring environments and buildings.
NO embryo.
An actually engaging story.
Completely reworked animations to allow comfortable 3rd person play.
Scrap all that living npc crap it never added anything to immersion only to frustration.
Much smaller world packed with interesting things.

it's safe to say that i don't like Fallout 3.

 

[Seagoon]

New Vegas kinda hit everything I wanted out of fallout, gameplay wise.

The only thing I really want out of Fallout 4 is heavy usage of the new animation engine.

I want more, and better, animations. Blending would be nice, so things seem much more real and living.

That on top of a few things you said, but to add to your last point about smithing, I'd like them to make the armor complicated like morrowind, so I can mix and match pieces of everything so it seems like a patchwork job, like many many things in fallout.

I completely agree with this. Compare Grand theft auto IV's animation to New Vegas.. The engine is certainly holding fallout back a lot.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Mostly for Bethesda to not make it. Or to at least Bethesda make it and then sell the rights to another Fallout game to Obsidian so I actually have something to look forward to. Also on that note it would be fantastic if Bethesda just stuck to their lore on the East coast and let Obsidian keep doing their thing without Bethesda ruining it and making it so dreadfully generic(Quick give everyone power armor!)

 

[Fijiman]

Mutated Horses = Great Idea
Mutated Horse Armour = Not that great

That was hilarious.

Let's see:
-I definitely agree with having a larger amount of customization. I want to be able to go find a nail board, dip the thing in radscorpion poison and call it The Neanderthal Special. Or better yet, once I get to the point where I'm practically swimming in caps I want to make armor out of the things and strut around town.

-Having varying weather would be nice.

-Having a some sort of faster transportation would be kind of cool, even if it's something simple like a bike.

-I want to be able to choose between using VATS or a bullet-time type thing. This is mostly because VATS can be absolutely useless at times. Think about it, how many times have you used VATS in combat with let's say a shotgun, 95% hit chance or better and less than five feet away and yet you still missed?[sub]I know I've seen a bullet-time mod that replaces VATS before so it shouldn't been too hard to implement.[/sub]

-being able to set up your own house would be really cool. I can't tell you how many times I though that it would be cool to haul some of the road barricades that the Enclave set up after a while in Fallout 3 somewhere and make a little fort for myself with them.

-I indefinitely agree with the people wanting a lockpicking/hacking system where you don't have to be have certain skill level before you can even attempt the damn thing. If I find a safe with a hard lock on it when I'm out at some random area in the wastes and the best I can do is open an easy lock, unless I can make sure to remember where that safe is it will probably remain locked for a very long time and that has annoyed me to no end in the last two Fallout games.

-For a setting, I'd like to see the next Fallout game set somewhere closer to the Commonwealth that was mentioned in Fallout 3. If they are able to make things like androids, I want to see what else they've been able to create. Hell, a major plot twist could be that you are an android.

That's about all that I can think of at the moment.

 

[Russian Wool]

I'd like to see something similar to building your own faction/tribe

A way this could be implemented is when you find a city full of raiders or normal wastlelanders you could convince them to join you,once you have at least 10 people on your side you could turn the abandoned building in which they were found in to your main faction building,you could also slowly expand your influence to more cities or random travellers.Also every now and then you could be challenged by a rival faction/tribe which could lead you to a raid where you can take other their area of influence,and if their armour and weapons are stronger you could make them your own by adding your factions emblem to them.

Another thing I would like is the ability to have various ways of earning caps/influencing people,for example,holding them at gunpoint,bribing them,destroying one of their factions building or leaders etc.

Hope everyone agrees with my ideas

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

They should go and look at Dark Souls for how to do free roam melee combat.

I would love to just sit Todd Howard down in front of it and say LOOK AT THIS, LOOK AT IT. They almost had it in Skyrim but they just fell short and ended up in hacky slashy land again.

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Town building is fun especially in games with item scavanging. I think stocking a shop and selling stuff would be great fun in the Fallout universe too, Recettear style.

I played a mod in Skyrim where you could collect items and build your own house by the side of a river.

Great times.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Or better yet, once I get to the point where I'm practically swimming in caps I want to make armor out of the things and strut around town.

Or literally be able to buy a pool where you empty all you caps into it and be able to swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck

OT: They should just make it like the original game hurr durr. Nostalgia, nostalgia, Bethesda sucks, turn based hurr /sarcasm

On a serious note

- Better and tighter combat mechanics (Make shooting and melee combat more satisfying pretty much (Being able to duel wield guns and melee weapons would be nice too))
- Heaps more customisation (Be able to play as a ghoul, weapon customisation, armour customisation etc.)
- Vehicles (I like walking but sometimes that's just not enough, maybe limit fuel use so it's more of a rare but satisfying event)
- Better AI (I'd like to fight some enemies that at least use flanking tactics)
- More in depth NPC's (I not asking for Pulp Fiction quality writing, just at least make me care if they die)
- Maybe the setting could be Chicago (I don't know that much about 'merica but it seems like a logical setting)
- Something that vaguely resembles colour
- For both Bethesda and Obsidian to come to an arrangement that lets them both work on it.

 

[kommando367]

A sprint button

More giant enemies

More power weapons (like the Fatman) to kill the giant enemies with.

Cazaclaws

Assassination missions

Fix more glitches before releasing the damn game.

 

[kingthrall]

the one thing I disliked about fallout vegas and fallout was the lack of encouragement to use bush food in comparison to meds.

Id like also to see a bigger emphasis balanced on all the factions such as the khans, brotherhood of steel and that raider gang with motorhead or whatever his face was. It would of been great to see more quests from these factions (maybe not the B.o.S) but a lot more influence in the world.

Id also love the idea of having motor vehicle or at least the ability to repair or construct a transport using the workbench. Even having some sort of enclave fusion fuel as an upgrade so your vehicle wouldn't get stranded in the middle of nowhere.

edit: Id also love an idea to be able to build your own base with upgrades similar to what they had in morrowind bloodmoon with the fortress. How you could employ more guards and upgrade the walls.

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

Just surprises really. Everything was pretty good in New Vegas. Just surprise me with stuff.

Maybe ability to play as a ghoul?
Psi powers?
Secret Moon base that you can transport to?
Ability to play as an android?
Has part of the setting in China? Wonder what happen to them?
Less desert, more overgrown vegetation?
Omega man vampires hunting you?

 

[Misterian]

Have followers apply non-combat skills to help you out as well as aid you in combat.

For example, a follower that specializes in lockpicking can be commanded to pick any locks the player character doesn't have the skills for.

 

[Coolshark]

The ability to to control your allies, otherwise your less combat focused companions are useless.

I have nothing more to add.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

I would like to see madmax style vehicles, however if they decided to put vehicles in, turn off fast travel, one or the other, cant have both. Bring back the deathclaw gauntlet and deathclaws. As for weather, a tornado would be awesome. Location, DFW would be neat, Dallas and Fort Worth are at war, or San Diego.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

[HEADING=3]Fallout's Version of Smithing[/HEADING]
Yes, I know, workbenches and stuff, but I want it to go deeper. I think that I should be able to make some of the craziest weapons - otherwise unseen across the wastes - if I had the skill for it. I'm thinking Dead Rising 2 crazy! A weapon that fires mines. A weapon that fires the energy equivalent of a mini-nuke's payload (not the Tesla Cannon, if that's what you were thinking). A dildo claw to fight deathclaws with! I want to make this stuff! This could also go for clothings - A personalized power armor and a deathclaw armor to say a few.

I would expand upon this and add in an in-game economy. I would make like to see a mechanic where you can either make weapon upgrades for yourself or, weapon upgrades that you can sell not only to factions A - Z but to towns too. I'd also like to add the option to turn weapons like the Mini-Nuke or other laser-based weapon/ammo packs into sell-only items like electric lights, water/food purifiers, etc. These could be sold to towns or outright donated which would lead into something else I'd like to see in Fallout 4...

[HEADING=3]Expanding/Leveling Towns[/HEADING]
I loved the ability to nuke Megaton but I think this can be expanded on. In each town you could be able to donate weapons/items to make the town as a whole function better and ultimately expand into a city. Remember the attack on Little Big Town? Introduce that to the towns/cities in Fallout 4 but decrease the odds of attack/increase the odds of survival by donating munitions and money for a wall and other such defenses. Remember how your home could be given themes? Why not expand THAT to towns too!? Donate robot components and watch as Protectrons and Mr. Handies step up to defend the town. Donate leather armor and whatnot and watch as the citizens of Townsville dress up in the latest gimp fashion.

 

[Fijiman]

I just thought of another one. The ability to quickly and easily place stuff where you want it instead of swinging it around and hoping that it doesn't fly off somewhere or knock off other things that you spent an hour placing. Would make it so much easier to decorate your house with all of your trophies if they would include something like that.