As a mod, it's an easy 5/5. This is a store page so I will go in between and give it four. To give the developers credit, I will mostly treat this as if it were a """real""" game. Because they have done something incredible. That also means I will be more critical. I'll go over: - Performance & bugs - Gameplay/visuals (nonstory stuff...how it looks/feels to explore locations, kill stuff and do Fallout things - Story (quests and pacing) Let's start with performance and bugs. tl;dr: pretty damn good! The game is 100% playable for me. I got stuck 5 minutes in (first elevator) and couldn't progress. Buffout 4 fixed it. Now I crash maybe 1/10 of the time while fast traveling and 1/20 times entering a zone. I always save or it autosaves before you do this so, for me, this is slightly frustrating but nowhere near game breaking. It also runs well. I haven't played vanilla in over 6 years so I can't compare but performance is good on my 6-year-old laptop. I have had many collision bugs that required >tcl, so no big deal. Then there are the bugs where I had to turn to the internet for tips. First, the beermat and opening END stat fiasco. That greatly affected my early game but when I looked online, I learned these bugs existed and was able to fix each with a single console command. Made me think the game was broken for six hours but went away in flash. I had to get around 3 quests using console commands. Luckily I waited a bit to play the game and each situation, after realizing something was broken, found online the console commands to fix it. Gameplay: Best fallout map ever. Beautiful. Locations are mostly pretty and welldesigned but the amount of locations with zero terminals/notes/quest is VERY disappointing. Enemies/attacks/resources are very balanced though. Map should have been smaller Story: I wont get into it (our of characers) but lots and lots of problems. Many NPCs that dont talk. Factions are meaningless until the very last bit. Not enough side quests
