Fallout 3's iconic VATS system almost didn't make it into the RPG in time, and Bethesda was worried no one would even want to use it: "Is this even fun?"

After Morrowind and Oblivion, the difficulties Bethesda had in pivoting to sci-fi for Fallout 3 are well-documented. But one ...
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"Is Anyone Going to Use This?" Fallout's Most Iconic Gameplay Mechanic Almost Didn't Make It

A Bethesda dev reveals that one of the biggest changes Fallout 3 brought to the franchise almost didn't make it into the final build of the game.

Fallout 3's VATS system helped compensate for Bethesda's lack of shooting chops: "We were never going to create gun combat that was on par with Call of Duty or Ba…

Bethesda hadn't dealt with guns in a long time when it came time to develop Fallout 3; thankfully, VATS helped close the ...

VATS almost didn't survive the transition to Bethesda, says Fallout 3 dev: 'We only just got that working by the time we shipped'

While it'd be hard to think of a Fallout game without VATS underlying it, linking gunplay to the classic RPG elements of its ...
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Fallout 76 has a real-time VATS system

One question about Fallout 76 wasn't clearly answered in the Bethesda reveal at E3 this week: if this entry in the series is always-online, what's to become of the VATS system that slows the action to ...
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Fallout's VATS System Has Ruined Starfield's Combat For Me

Starfield offers a familiar Bethesda experience, but the combat feels lacking without the VATS system from Fallout games. While other RPGs like Mass Effect and The Outer Worlds have similar mechanics ...
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Fallout 76 – How VATS Works

Fallout’s Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System is back for Fallout 76. However, things are a little different. Check out this guide to find out how VATS work in Fallout 76. So, real-time combat was ...
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Fallout 76: How to Use VATS

Fallout 76 is almost upon us and one of the most asked questions is, “How will VATS work?” Well, here’s what you need to know about how to use VATS in Fallout 76. One of the defining features of the ...
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Boy, Does Fallout 76's Real-Time VATS System Look Terrible

Yesterday, an embargo lifted for a Fallout 76 preview event that many game journalists attended, myself not among them. The result was that we got hours and hours of preview footage from select areas ...
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Fallout 4 Players Discover Little-Known VATS Feature After 9 Years

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...
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The Outer Worlds' version of Fallout's VATS can detect favourite foods

We know that upcoming sci-fci RPG The Outer Worlds from Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian will include a Fallout VATS-adjacent system called TTD (Tactical Time Dilation). Used as an aid for aiming ...
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Fallout Players Will Enjoy ‘The Outer Worlds’ VATS-like Combat System

“I don’t want anyone to either think our combat’s boring, but I also don’t want them to think there was too much rote combat in the game,” Co-Director Tim Cain said in a recent interview with the ...