Fallout 4 PC players that have been patiently waiting to be able to get their hands on the new Fallout 4 Survival Mode Beta will be pleased to know that Bethesda has today announced it’s now available to download via Steam for hard-core gamers to try out.
As well as making available the Fallout 4 Survival Mode as a beta software, Bethesda has also unveiled some new changes to the Survival Mode explaining more about why they have been added and how they work. Although the company has been careful not to spoil certain specifications which they would prefer gamers to discover for themselves.
Bethesda explains more about the new tweaks to the Fallout 4 Survival Mode :
Saving with Sleep: Manual, quicksaving and almost all autosaves are disabled. To save your game, you’ll need to find a bed and sleep for at least an hour. This means your fallback options are reduced, forcing you to be more concerned about what you are walking into and whether you’re prepared to handle it. Some fights you may deem above your level and decide to avoid. Other fights you may decide to go all in. Scouting and gathering information to make this decision can be fun in its own right. Also, when beds are your only means of saving, they become the Holy Grail. With that level of importance tied to them, you will scour the Earth to find the closest bed to your next chosen encounter – and in doing so you will likely discover things that you might have otherwise missed.
No More Fast Travel: Fast Travel is disabled. If you wish to be somewhere, you’ll have to get there the old-fashioned way. In other words, exploration is now mandatory, exposing more of the Commonwealth’s secret gems. This will also take you out of your comfort zone, but encourage you to take advantage of the well-placed workshops throughout the Wasteland. And, while Charisma may seem less important to your immediate survival, there are certain Charisma-based perks that make managing your bases less painful.
Increased Lethality: You now deal, but also take, more damage. You can increase the damage you deal even further with “Adrenaline” – more on that in a moment. This makes combat more dangerous, which in turn slows you down and gets you to think about what you’re walking into. Combine this with it being much harder to save your game and suddenly each encounter becomes much more tense and dire.
Combat itself is also more strategic, because both you and enemies are more powerful; this means fights are about trying to use positioning and timing to get in your shots without taking enemy hits. This has an even bigger effect on melee players, who will now need to use their block/parry to keep themselves from taking damage during fights. While this change raises the skill necessary to play, those who opt into Survival know what they’re getting into.
For more information on the new Fallout 4 Survival Mode jump over to the Bethesda website for details via the link below.
Source: Bethesda
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