Fallout 4’s Survival Mode On Its Way

<p>Bethesda had <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fallout-4s-survival-mode-already-detailed&sol;">already confirmed last month the details<&sol;a> regarding <em>Fallout <&sol;em><em>4 <&sol;em>and its new survival mode&period; Now we&&num;8217&semi;re finally getting information straight from the horse&&num;8217&semi;s mouth regarding the perilous journey players will partake in when exploring the wasteland&period; Along with an overview of the mode&&num;8217&semi;s design philosophies&comma; there is a breakdown of what exactly will be in the mode&period; On top of this&comma; Steam users can access the Survival mode beta right now and provide feedback&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What I found most interesting was the comparisons to <em>Dark Souls <&sol;em>which Bethesda used as shorthand for how they handled design philosophy for the mode&period; &&num;8220&semi;<em>&&num;8230&semi;we wanted to force you to make interesting choices&period; We did that by bringing more contrasting motivations to Fallout 4 using the type of circular systems you might find in a game like Dark Souls<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; states Bethesda&comma; and ultimately leads to their four design choices&colon; strategy&comma; exploration&comma; resource management&comma; and role playing&period; These four pillars lead to the game&&num;8217&semi;s more grueling features&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve already detailed them before in our prior post&comma; but if you want to hear it straight from Bethesda&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bethesda&period;net&sol;&num;en&sol;events&sol;game&sol;fallout-4s-all-new-survival-mode&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;29&sol;96">click here for the list<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;103034" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-103034" style&equals;"width&colon; 2560px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-103034" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03202025&sol;Fallout4&lowbar;BoS&lowbar;Airport&lowbar;Fullsize&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fallout 4" width&equals;"2560" height&equals;"1280" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-103034" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Fallout 4&comma; Bethesda&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s some fleshing out of why decisions were made&comma; such as medicine for radiation leaving players more vulnerable to illness&period; RadAway becomes a thing used by necessity and not just because you can use it&period; In fact&comma; most things which are generally helpful may not be as helpful as they were before&period; Even sleeping in beds can have variation in effectiveness &&num;8211&semi; since sleeping on a real bed is hard to come by&comma; Survival mode will reward players for spending money on renting out a room with a bed&comma; or using their home base&period; Or even using workshops more often to craft real beds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most of the new features sound weirdly appealing&comma; in a masochistic sort of way&period; I would not be surprised to see features such as fast travel being stripped from Survival mode help showcase the game&&num;8217&semi;s world in a way that wasn&&num;8217&semi;t really processed before&period; Exploration becomes key and finding somewhere good to sleep becomes rewarding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s no word on when the console versions of Survival mode will come out&comma; but Bethesda is aiming to use the player feedback from the Steam beta to help shape the other versions&period; So if you have <em>Fallout 4 <&sol;em>on Steam&comma; it may be worth jumping into the beta and helping out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;prepare-for-the-future-fallout-4-review&sol;">You can find our review<&sol;a> of <em>Fallout 4 <&sol;em>here&comma; and <em>Fallout 4<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s first piece of downloadable content&comma; <em>Automatron<&sol;em>&comma; is now available to download&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bethesda&period;net&sol;&num;en&sol;events&sol;game&sol;fallout-4s-all-new-survival-mode&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;29&sol;96">Bethesda<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;