if you ignore the first quests and go off to have your own adventure with no idea how to play the game

you're going to have a bad time

It's not realistic

it's immersive

imagine if the wasteland was easy to traverse with no real threats outside of the populated areas?

It'd be a joke

having real threats around every corner gives legitimacy to the world

what is so non-immersive about having an area of low danger areas around the start and then outside of this area bring the difficulty spikes?

imagine playing vidya gaems

wut a cuck

it makes it feel like they newb protected the starter area to hit a wider audience

instead of having the balls to just say no you're not meant to go here yet, unless you know what you're doing

then take your bb-gun tier damage rifle and stumble into those lvl 30 death claw areas out the gate

rewarding experienced players with later game gear for skill of overcoming hard enemies and keeping the world consistent

@MeMSix you went the wrong way

\because you didn't listen

fortnite ripped off fallout 4s building mechanics

you clearly have no idea what your doing so stick to the main quest until you learn how to play

tell him muten

go get him tiger

it's not the game

it's you

>mem stopped typing

nvm

lmao

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it's like those people who blame darksouls when they don't know how to play

imo, from a design standpoint it is more intuitive when you can generally determine difficulty by distance from that start rather than sudden spikes. So the player can make educated guesses about what areas they want to avoid and go to.

ooooor

you tell the player directly

through NPCs

where to go

and where not to go

and leave it up to the player

to decide where to go

if they aren't ready for the challenge

they should be smart enough not to go the wrong way

but that is boring because you feel like you are on rails until you get high enough level because of kill boxes blocking the other directions

radius based scaling gives a sense of picking your own direction

well that's the point of the first quest line, it's for players who don't know how to play

the high level areas are for players who know how to play