Fallout 76 Pc Settings
Toni Jarels
The Fallout series paints a grim, post-apocalyptic future for the US after nuclear war ravages the country transforming the different regions into desolate shells of their former selves. As the series has gone on, players have gotten to explore different parts of the country to see how the nuclear devastation has affected the land and its inhabitants, and Fallout games have done a great job diversifying the types of environments presented in each title. From deserts and mountainous highlands to crumbling urban infrastructure, there are a lot of locales across a broken US for Fallout players to explore.
While most games in the series remain grounded in the post-nuclear ruins of the US, some entries include more bizarre locations like Mothership Zeta and Nuka World, though these tend to be DLC areas. Even with the range of locations the Fallout series has visited so far, there are a variety of places throughout the US that have yet to be portrayed. Going beyond these locations to see the effects of the Great War on other parts of the world could also be an interesting step for the series to move in after dedicating most of its time fleshing out the post-apocalyptic United States.
The first two games in the series take players to what's left of the West Coast after the nuclear annihilation of the Great War saw the rise of the New California Republic that encompasses most of California as well as parts of Oregon, Nevada, and Mexico. Players can explore some of the major cities in New California like Junktown, the Hub, and Necropolis in Fallout 1, and see how the various inhabitants like the Super Mutants, Ghouls, and remaining humans have made this wasteland their home. This map of New California is crucial to the series as it is the first look players were given at the greater Fallout world and would be built upon in subsequent entries.
Following up on the events of the first game, Fallout 2 is also set in New California but offers players the chance to visit new locations like Vault City, New Reno, and Klamath on their journey. Fallout 2 essentially extends the map of New California from Fallout 1 north to include locations from parts of Oregon and northern Nevada, and its bottom portion just barely incorporates the top portion of Fallout 1's. The result is a solid foundation and expansive interconnected map that forms the basis of the lore for Fallout's greater post-apocalyptic US map.
While often considered the black sheep of the series, one of the more under-sung aspects that makes Fallout Tactics unique is that it is set across a part of the country that isn't explored much in other entries. The game begins in the ruins of Chicago but takes the player across the Great Plains of the American Midwest towards the Rocky Mountains in search of Vault 0. Along the way, players will visit locations in post-war Missouri, Kansas, and as far West as Colorado in their search for this mythical vault.
The first Bethesda-developed title takes players to the East Coast of the US for the first time in the series. Fallout 3 is set among what remains of the United States' capital city of Washington, DC, known as the Capital Wasteland. In and around the city, players will encounter remnants of the old US government including iconic monuments and other real-world historical sites. While the game is mainly set between the inner city and the underground transit system below the capital, the juxtaposition with the outlying farmland and settlements helps give the Capital Wasteland a greater environmental diversity.
Obsidian-developed fan-favorite Fallout: New Vegas takes the series back to its roots and heads back out west to the Mojave Wasteland in what was once Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and part of California. While the most notable feature of this game's map is the glittering city of New Vegas emerging from the ashes of Las Vegas, other real-world locations from around the area like the Hoover Dam and Nellis Air Force Base also play an important role in the game's story. The map for Fallout: New Vegas builds upon the established geography of the first two titles and bumps up against NCR territory while still feeling fresh and unique to this entry.
Fallout 4 picks up where Fallout 3 left off on the East Coast, this time taking players north to New England and the ruins of Boston and the surrounding Commonwealth. The landscape here features a lot of coastal topography as well as references to more real-world historical sites like the cities of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Old North Church, all famous for their role in Paul Revere's legendary ride during the American Revolution. The Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4 also adds a portion of the former state of Maine to the game's map, further expanding the game's New England scope.
The latest entry in the Fallout series is also set the farthest back chronologically in the timeline as Fallout 76 takes place starting on Reclamation Day when the best and brightest minds emerge from Vault 76 to the countryside that was once West Virginia. The landscape of Appalachia is mostly mountainous but also features dried lake beds and forests, as well as iconic cities like Flatwoods and Point Pleasant, known for their respective cryptids in American folklore. While West Virginia might not seem like as iconic of a location as Las Vegas or Washington, DC, the real-world history and folklore of the area perfectly meld into the lore of the Fallout universe to create one of the series' best settings.
Good day everyone. I recently bought a LeGo for my first gaming pc ever and also bought the Fallout 4 GOTY edition. I am a longtime fan of Bethesda and especially the Fallout series in general. Anyways besides the point, I wanted to ask as Legion Go users what settings do you have set to get it as close to 60 fps as possible? Or better even?
To start just an FYI about the game. It has had these issues since release across all PC types where the framerate gets capped by the game for no reason. Mine was capped at 20 at a screen refresh of 60. Once I changed the refresh to 144hz now I got capped at 48. I left it since 48 is a decent number. It seems random if it works or not my desktop after tweaking reached 60. I wish they would have resolved it during the latest updates.
What's not great is that every time I load up the game I have to set my settings again. All settings reset to default. I have to change the difficulty, re-invert the look, change the audio settings, turn on subtitles, and remap VATS, change look, and sneak. That's annoying.
If, from the main menu, I first open the Settings menu, before pressing Load or Continue, the Settings menu opens with my saved settings. I can then leave the Settings menu without changing anything, load my game, and the settings are saved.
The Clear and Present Danger guide provides two pages on configuring the mods used in Fallout 3. These are the Hotkey page, which includes a list of all the hotkeys used by mods in the guide, and the Control Panel menu settings page. The latter includes a list the menus available to access mod configuration, and some recommendations for a few of the settings. The current format of the Control Panel menu settings page isn't very good, in part because setting up multi-column tables is difficult on the wiki. I'm interested in suggestions on how to setup these two pages to make them more useful, and for the Control Panel Menu settings to provide some alternate sets of suggested settings for different goals (e.g., different game difficulty) especially for settings that can be changed as the game progresses.
Also I had to use the FWE menu to switch my grenade toggle and throw keys around several times before the keys would actually make the UI element change. ie. the default keys would make the switch sound but the UI would still show only one of my grenades. Only reversing the keys from G&H to H&G and then back again to G for switch & H for throw, did that UI change.
I prefer to use the individual settings since the presets aren't always setup for the level 30 cap with Fallout 3 GOTY. The recommended settings are mentioned in the "In Game Settings" portion of the guide; the list of recommendations is available here. These are set to make the game challenging but not excessively difficult. There are some other suggestions in the forum thread for those who prefer less challenge.
Yet in all those years of updates, somehow Bethesda still hasn't improved one of the biggest roadblocks to getting into Fallout 76 on PC: its locked framerate. By default, Fallout 76 stubbornly refuses to climb past 60 fps. That's because Fallout 76 has forced Vsync that can't be turned off in its video settings. The limitation makes an already stiff shooter feel sluggish and imprecise, and until I learned how to get around it, I got pretty close to giving up on an otherwise fun shared-world RPG.
Bethesda made the call on Vsync originally because, in several modern Creation Engine RPGs, messing with the framerate also screws with speed and physics. Thankfully, Bethesda fixed this issue early on in Fallout 76, so there's no downside to blowing past the 60 fps limit now (at least, not one I'm aware of).
Unlocking Fallout 76's framerate is easy, but you'll have to make a quick change to a config file outside the game. You should absolutely try this no matter how powerful your PC is. Make sure Fallout 76 is closed, then follow these steps:
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