I had another post in mind for today but as my only lightly modded version of Fallout 4 is buggy as FUCK I'm going to complain about Bethesda instead.
Disclaimer: I actually love Bethesda but their games ARE buggy as fuck.
I had quite a stressful day yesterday (I'm not going to tell you why, not yet in any case) so in the evening I thought I might enjoy a couple of hours of Fallout 4 before a live-stream I wanted to watch began. I haven't played it for ages because it's been much too hot in my little flat for my PC - we have three extra fans in here and "Mordheim: City of the Dammed" still overheated my PC - so I've been trying to not over stress it lately but last night I thought it would probably be cool enough.
I unplugged my XBOX 360 controller [1] because if you don't it won't let you play with mouse and keyboard without .ini fiddling and I couldn't be arsed with that bullshit. Sorry, I'll calm down now. I just wanted to play so I unplugged my controller and started the game. All was going fairly well. Preston was no longer stuck on the roof of the little Gym that I had made next to my house although Mana Murphy was standing on her chair (looking quite spritely I might add, I wish she's go get stuck somewhere ...).
I handed in a repeatable quest to Preston and checked out what quests I had to do. Finally the Automaton DLC was open - I had the radio signal! I played it once and the proceeded to get ready for the mission. I always play a sniper/archer type character in all of the Bethesda Gamebyro Engine Games (apart from Morrowind but anyone not using magic in the game is insane) so I had my 4 different scoped sniper rifles slung over my shoulder (stuck god knows where .. seriously Bethesda, what is that?) and off I went travelling down to where the marker sent me.
It was pretty much a blood (circuit board) bath. Everyone but Ada had been slaughtered maliciously by The Mechanists Minions - I thought I'd sorted him in Fallout 3! It was here that I noticed the first bug - it was with a mod, I have one that makes corpses glow so you can find them easily. The glow is supposed to disappear once the corpses have been looted once but in this case none of the exploded robots had a glow about them even though they had tons of loot. Oh well, I thought, I'll send Ada back to Sanctuary and take Dogmeat onward to Diamond City to grab some ammo.
This all went well enough (not enough Ammo that I wanted) and so I fast travelled back to Sanctuary intending to pick Ada up and carry on with the DLC. Except she wasn't there. I walked all over Sanctuary and couldn't find her. I built a bell and rang it a ton so all my settler's would come to me. Still no Ada. I built the robot bench to see if I could modify her and just couldn't see her because she was under the textures. Nope, Ada was nowhere to be found.
Time for some Googling I thought. The Steam forums told me what I expected, that I could just use a console command. I went back into the game and hit the ¬ key to open the console but nothing happened. I looked online again for more answers - ah they disabled the console, I have to go re-enable it in the .ini file ... maybe now you understand my annoyance? Let's take a trip down memory lane ...
it won't let you play with mouse and keyboard without .ini fiddling and I couldn't be arsed with that bullshit.
So, we've come to the crux of the matter. Bloody Bethesda, perhaps in solidarity with the Console Peasants (sorry)[2] had disabled the console by default on PC. Even after it's been patched with the Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch (no I can't get achievements, no I don't care) the console, for some reason was disabled. There's no real reason that I can see why they would do that. I don't use the console often, I life'd Lydia once after I accidentally shouted her off a mountain during a fight with a dragon and in Morrowind I play the inheritor class - after getting off the boat I find a rich aunt has died and left me a lovely house (mod) and five grand - I've played Morrowind so much I don't think of this as cheating, it's just part of my character's backstory.
Anyway. So Bethesda, knowing that their games are as buggy as fuck[4], disabled by default a tool that is left in the game so it can be used to fix bugs on the fly. Do you see why I'm annoyed? This is almost as bad as when I found out they had nerfed the magic again in Elder Scrolls V. The one good thing they did with that franchise is allowing Jiub to wipe out the Cliff Racers. They make really strange decisions about their games. Sure, why not have voice protagonists? Why not remove levitate? Why not make it so there's only eight shortcut keys? Why not make the player use the controller if it happens to be plugged in? It's not like PC players have any other ways of controlling their characters in the games? Okay rant over.
I started writing this last night so I lost some of my annoyance but I still believe everything I wrote I'm just really tired and want to get this up so I can start on something more positive which at the moment looks like will go up tomorrow. Thanks for reading. Upvote. Comment. Resteem etc. TTFN. x
[1] After writing this post I reinstalled GTA SA and have been having a grand old time burning round Los Santos on my PCJ - 600 and I prefer to do it with the controller. No idea why.
[2] I feel like I should clear something up. The only reason I have an XBOX 360 controller is because I found one for a fiver in a charity shop. Bow down console peasants, we use your tools because we can, not because we have to.[3]
[3] I went a little over the top there but seriously PC MASTER RACE FTW!
[4] I know I don't normally swear this much but I feel quite strongly about this ...
