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The last DLC for Fallout 4 I reviewed was Automatron, and I gave that a 9/10 for the over 8 hour campaign storyline it gave me. So let’s take a look at Fallout 4’s 6th and Final DLC, NukaWorld!
Construction started on Nuka-World in July 2049, and Nuka-World opened on May 1st, 2050. On opening day, over 40,000 tickets were sold, and plans were made to expand immediately, as it featured only 2 lands at the time: Nuka-Town USA and Kiddie Kingdom. Dry Rock Gulch opened in 2058, followed by Safari Adventure in 2067. The last park area, Galactic Zone, opened in 2072.
In typical Fallout 4 DLC style, the DLc opens up after level 30 with a mission to listen to a radio signal… Unlike Far Harbour though, which needed Nic Valentine and a certain point in the core storyline completed, this is more like Automatron, you can go straight there, although the devs admit at 30, you’re in for one hell of a challenge (although if you don’t all the other DLC already, you’re more than likely more than ready to get started. Especially if, like me, you’re using any mods aswell.
I will admit, I started streaming this one and I enjoyed it SO MUCH, I forgot to NOT play anymore and played stuff I SHOULD have done on stream… oops… But you can see my first NukaWorld stream below:
So, what IS Nukaworld?
As the description says, it’s Disney World, but for Nuka Cola, cos why the hell not?
The map is HUGE too, it’s made up of more than 8 zones, all run by various raider factions and depending how you play the storyline, you can end up running the raiders too. I kinda of wish I had too, as I’ve seen some amusing videos of old companions reactions on how you play it, especially Preston Garvey, who is not AT ALL happy with your choice leading to some relaly amusing videos.
The zone is nicely spaced out aswell, the theme park being in a big dust bowl type area, nice and flat, you can see to the horizon and get some beautiful vistas for screenshots from most angles.
I initially thought the park would have a few typical zones, what I was really surprised to find was there is a TON of areas around the outside fo the park aswell, including trash areas, a junkyard full of bots (which give some cool new parts for your Automatrons aswell), a Zoo full of some of teh CRAZIEST monstrosities so far in this game, inclusing the gruesome Albino Gatorclaw that tried ripping my face off a few time and the terrifying Feral Ghoul Gorillas and even, one of my fave parts of the park, a Haunted House.
The Grandchester Mystery Mansion was a special fave, I honestly spent well over an hour following the route through (stuck in a room until the voice over finishes, typical haunted house style) and working out how to survive the various traps on the way through as I go and I honestly got a fun jump scare from it near the end too, which was a great little touch.
I have so far played MORE than 8 hours in the park and I have only done, AT MOST, 2 zones so far and barely scratched the raider storyline. I have loved every minute of my exploring and just talking to all the wierd and whacky people and droids I’ve met in this DLC and it’s honestly given me a crisis of conscience on how I want to go… Do I stay quite stand up with the rail Road and Minute Men, helping rebuild the Commonwealth and society, or do I run the raiders and take over the whole place as the Overboss… decisions… decisions…
Warner Bros have announced that they are planning to release the remastered versions of the first two Batman Arkham games during the next month of the year.
The Batman: Return to Arkham set will include both Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel, Batman: Arkham City in remastered versions which will include all of the Game of the Year content and downloadable content ever released for both games. The games have apparently been done with improved graphics, shaders, updated models, environments, lighting and more through the use of Unreal Engine 4 and will retail at a suggested price of £39.99 with a PEGI-16 rating.
The game will release on both Xbox One and Playstation 4 and the date has been set for an October 21st 2016 release.
Previous Bethesda games have seen releases of special editions that included all the DLC packs in a game alongside the base game, including Skyrim – so in a way it’s not a surprise that the game that was billed at first as “Skyrim but with friends” is also getting one.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition is a release for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4 that will see the base game as well as all four of its current DLC packs put together into one package to attract new players into the world, with players venturing across all corners of Tamriel in a search for quests, loot and adventures with friends. Costing £49.99 for the console versions and £39.99 for the PC version, Gold Edition will have all of the content from Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood from the start, as well as including a Palomino horse mount and 500 of the game’s in-game currency, Crowns, for all new accounts.
As well, existing players of the base game will be able to acquire the four DLC packs through the in-game Crown Store. The Guilds and Glory DLC pack is new and will be available for a discounted price of 5,500 Crowns – when the Crowns price of buying them all separately is 9,500 that’s quite a discount.
Bethesda kind of made some history when they allowed for user-made mods to be used on their Xbox One version of Fallout 4 months ago. Sure, the implementation had some teething issues (mainly centred around the lack of checks that allowed for some unscrupulous people to upload other people’s PC mods as their own content), but all in all most people were pleased that the console was finally getting to use something that had been a PC mainstay for a while.
Bethesda had planned to allow for their Skyrim remaster to follow suit, saying that they intended to allow for mods on both their Xbox One version as well as the Playstation 4 version. Only now it seems like that won’t be happening; at least for the Playstation 4 version owing to the fact that Sony aren’t going to allow Bethesda to enable the modding in a way that Bethesda really needs to make it a thing.
In a post on their site entitled “PS4 Mod Update” Bethesda wrote the following:
“After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.
Like you, we are disappointed by Sony’s decision given the considerable time and effort we have put into this project, and the amount of time our fans have waited for mod support to arrive. We consider this an important initiative and we hope to find other ways user mods can be available for our PlayStation audience. However, until Sony will allow us to offer proper mod support for PS4, that content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PlayStation 4 will not be available.
We will provide an update if and when this situation changes.”
Obviously this is going to be a huge disappointment to Bethesda fans on the Sony console. So far it seems like this is going to be the only version without mod support, something that has arguably kept the Skyrim scene alive long past the time when the 2011 released game should have faded a little.
What are your thoughts on this? Tell us in the comments.
Finally Star Trek Online is coming to console! For someone who doesn’t have a gaming PC, this is great news. I have wanted to play this game for years. With how much I love Neverwinter, I am looking forward to Star Trek Online by Cryptic, due Fall of 2016.
The console version will have new features, new missions, controller support and improved graphics. Your story will begin from the faction you choose from, Federation, Romulans or Klingon. But this will include 32 species for customisation, to create your captain. The video below is the official developer walkthrough.
The console version will release with new content. As quoted by Arc’s website, there is exclusive content for console.
‘Players on the Xbox One console version of STO will receive a free Tier 1 Blockade Runner Escort Steamrunner-class Starship. On the PlayStation 4 console version, players will receive a free Tier 1 Andorian Light Escort. Note that these items will be available for free for two weeks after launch!’
This game has currently been running for six years on the PC, and I for one am looking forward to finally being able to play it, on my own or with my friends.
