Fallout New Vegas Please Stand By
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Early this morning, Bethesda's Twitter account posted a very obviously Fallout-related tease to an upcoming announcement. The way I see it, there are three possibilities for where this tease could be going:
A Remaster
My initial reaction, and the safe bet, is that the colorization of the traditionally black-and-white “Please Stand By” screen is a reference to taking something old and making it look modern, as was done with the colorization of old movies. That points to a remaster, which would either be an updated version of Fallout 3 for modern consoles (including the Switch) or an HD version of Fallout 1 and 2. Much as I love it, I doubt we’ll see a Fallout: New Vegas remaster before Fallout 3, since Fallout 3 is Bethesda’s baby and the Obsidian-developed New Vegas is more of a redheaded stepchild. But if it is a Fallout 3 remaster and it sells well, a New Vegas remaster would be an inevitably.
A New Full Game
A less likely but much more appealing scenario would be a new spin-off game akin to Fallout: New Vegas, developed by a second team while the main Bethesda Game Studios team toils away on their new project, codenamed Starfield, and eventually The Elder Scrolls 6. Supporting this theory is the fact that Bethesda Game Studios (which is the developer working under the Bethesda Softworks publishing banner that also includes developers like id, Arkane, and Tango Gameworks) formed a satellite studio in Montreal at the end of 2015; while that studio was supposedly going to work on mobile projects, the fact that we haven’t seen anything out of it so far suggests it may be working on something bigger. And considering that Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian in just 18 months (leading to its notoriously buggy release), it’s not hard to imagine that this Montreal team could’ve put together an offshoot of Fallout 4, set in an entirely new location, in three full years.
If I were calling the shots at Bethesda, this is absolutely the way I’d go. If we need to wait for the Maryland-based team at Bethesda Game Studios to come back around to Fallout after they finish work on Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, the wildly popular Fallout franchise will have been inactive for a decade by the time we see another full-fledged game. And what a waste that would be.
A Disappointment
The least exciting possibility is a Fallout Shelter 2 or other similar mobile or “light” spinoff kind of game. Not that that would be the worst thing in the world – I sunk many hours into Fallout Shelter before I realized it was a long and grinding road to nowhere – but it would be very unfortunate for Bethesda to excite its Fallout fanbase with a tease like this only to deliver something other than the full-fledged Fallout experience we expect. That kind of bait-and-switch probably wouldn’t go over very well, but it remains a possibility.
What do you think Bethesda will announce? Let us know in the comments.
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Fallout 76 Please Stand By
Basically it fades in to the 'please stand by' screen, but doesn't do anything from there and eventually stops responding. I'm using this modlist, currently at the step where it first tells you to launch the game to see if everything is ok. As far as I can tell I haven't missed anything and I've gone over the steps a few times again now. I've sorted with LOOT and done all the esp edits. The only thing I did differently was that I tried to use the 4gb patcher but it returns the 'invalid exe' error. But according to the guide since I have the GOG edition I don't need to patch it. So I just skipped it. I'm launching through Mod Organizer using the NVSE loader. I've also noticed that if I tab out immediately after launching, while I can't see the game, I begin the hear the menu music but after that it crashes. This makes me wonder if it has to do with my ultrawide resolution (I've set appropriately in the .ini) or just my display settings in general.
Edit: load order https://pastebin.com/0NH4kK2f
edit2: so I just disabled every single mod and the crash still happens when I launch through mod organizer, but not when I just launch the vanilla game. It can't be a problem with any of my mods.