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Fallout 4 Has More Players Than Any Other Game on Steam Right Now

The long-awaited release of Bethesda's Fallout 4 came to an end on the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, and shortly after its release on Steam, the open-world RPG amassed more than 290,000 concurrent players.

That brings Fallout 4 within distance of the peak Steam concurrent user record set by Grand Theft Auto V, which in April brought more than 300,000 players on Valve's PC platform. Later it went on to set an even bigger record, according to independent monitor Steam Charts, with 360,000 peak players.

GTA 5's record had, incidentally, broken the previous benchmark set by another Bethesda game, Skyrim, which shipped in 2011 and drew in about 280,000 users.

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ifinitygamer3108d ago

Crazy. Fallout 4 has 12x the number of players as Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Twelve! Bonkers.

Erik73573108d ago

It's funny how civ 5 is still more played than beyond earth.

Perjoss3108d ago

Civ games have a rep for being a bit void of features and content when a new one comes out, they feel a lot more fleshed out once some expansions and patches are released. Civ 5 is just a much better game than Beyond Earth right now. As I'm sure Beyond Earth will be a much better game than Civ 7 or whatever they decide to call it comes out.

ABizzel13108d ago (Edited 3108d ago )

@ifinitygamer

Nope. COD is much bigger on consoles than it is a PC. Bethesda games are HUGE on PC specially for the modding community that keeps these games going for YEARS with new content, graphics mods, and more.

There's already graphics mods, mods to fix the lag for PC controls, and mods to unlock the framerate cap.

And even when they release a technologically mediocre release on PC (as Fallout 4 is across the board), it can always be modded to have MUCH better performance than Bethesda would ever be willing to invest in (Bethesda should be punished for their awful optimizations).

ifinitygamer3108d ago

ABizzel1

Oh, absolutely its more of a console game (CoD).
But it's interesting that the difference is still quite so large, even considering that Black Ops III has been out for the weekend so people who didn't get it day one or day two are also factored into this, but this is a mere 12 hours after Fallout's launch. Insane.

Crashbandicoot773108d ago

All of my friends on PC and PS4 are playing Fallout it's crazy lol

sullynathan3108d ago

Ah, all those PC gamers that will be fixing Bethesda's games for them. God, I love modding.

Pathogenic3108d ago

Fallout is a great game and I don't really have any issues on PC except for some minor bugs and glitch's in certain locations. Other than that everything is running smoothly.

Perjoss3108d ago

I've not had any issues playing with all settings maxed apart from a minor stutter than vanished once I moved the game install over to a solid state drive. I do hope they add some kind of brightness or gamma setting as sometimes the game can look slightly washed out during the clearest weather and brightest time of day.

ABizzel13108d ago

There are framerate issues, but it doesn't really matter if you have the GPU to brute force through them, and a drop from 60's to the 50's isn't a problem at all compared to the consoles dropping from 30fps to 20fps or worse.

The problem with PC are the NPC's getting "lagged out" and forcing you to restart missions over, quest simply not loading, and rare glitching or freezing that force you to hard reset.

The issues of Fallout 4 on PC are there, but significantly less so than the console version, since framerate & stuttering were the biggest issues there (PC has them, but WAYYYYYY less noticeable).

There's also been issues reported of it not going full screen on laptops for some reason.

Bladesfist3108d ago

The SLI Scaling is a bit weak, my second 980 only gives me an extra 10 - 15 frames over the 50 - 70 (1440p maxed out) one card achieves.

masterfox3108d ago (Edited 3108d ago )

is obvious cause most games in STEAM are indies, farming games, crazy goats and crazy breads :D

* RUNS AWAY WITH PRIDE *

SteamPowered3108d ago

Excellent news to hear. More Publishers should start start to take notice of how strong the PC market really is and develop games accordingly.

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Fallout 4 – Next Gen Update 2 Notes

A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.

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Tacoboto1d 1h ago

How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.

bondsmx22h ago

Well, I still crashed like 5 times last night within two hours. So there’s that.

anast3h ago

I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.

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I Think It's About Time We Realize Fallout 4 Wasn't That Bad

Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."

helicoptergirl6d ago

It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder

Furesis6d ago

That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game

Vits6d ago

The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.

It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.

anast6d ago

They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.

anast6d ago

I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.

Good-Smurf6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.

MrDead6d ago

It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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