PCGamer: Fallout 76 has fast travel, and players under level 5 can't die in PvP

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[Tuskin]

How about the ability to just toggle off PvP damage?

[CyclonatorZ]

Private servers are coming later, so the latter will be an option for sure, but they do need a pvp toggle for official servers if they don't want this to literally be Rust: Fallout edition. Unfortunately, that seems to be the exact intention of Fallout 76 - I mean, they're giving people the ability to use tactical nukes against each other.

[Tuskin]

They say it will be really hard to do, mostly because you need 5 keys to do it. They also claim there will be enough advanced warning for you to escape.

[CyclonatorZ]

That's all good - but what's the point of the settlement building feature, then? Even if you escape, the structures you've poured days into are guaranteed to be toast.

[Ager]

Let's see how long it takes before hackers spawn hundreds of nukes and ruin everyone's day.
Bonus points if you just have to use a console command.

[chemo]

Unless some black magic is used, all I can imagine this game being is a clusterfuck. Considering that this is BGS we're taking about, I don't have my hopes up.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

hope you don't piss off or get the eye of some shitheads

[JerryK]

They said that you can "pack up" your settlement and take it to other servers so presumably you can just move it

[haanuman]

I don't get this

>players under level 5 can't die in PvP

What exactly does this mean?

[Zeb Brown]

You lure them into high level monsters

[RandomGamer342]

What's stopping a low-level player from griefing the shit out of other players? If they can't die, they can't exactly be stopped, can they?

[Skipcast]

I'm guessing they can't inflict damage either

[Fulgrim]

If you have ever played on a wow pvp server, remember what it's like trying to hand in quests in the very first contested territory zones.

That's how I imagine this going down. Players will figure out the rough areas where characters are likely to hit level 5, and then hang around there to mow them down.

Somehow I doubt a level 5 could realistically take on a level 20, especially considering how fallout 4's perks were mostly flat 10% damage increases per rank.

[Fulgrim]

I'm assuming the worst, and want to see some serious in depth gameplay before I even consider buying fallout 76.
I really like fallout, but open world random deathmatch sims aren't my thing, so i'm not going to put any cash down until ive got a pretty clear idea of what the game is and how it actually plays.

Luckily ive got friends that eat up every open-world-survival-crafting-early-access-game on steam, so one of them is bound to pick up fallout 76 and I can probably pop over to see them and have a go at playing it to see if it's any good.