How big is this game now? How big will it be?

[Gornodd]

Hi. I have baught the game this week and enjoying it alot. Its among the best games I have ever played right next to Fallout 1+2+Tactics or JA2.

What I am interested in, is how big the game is in its current state. Is it comparable to fallout 2 in terms of content or
less or maybe alot less?

What is the goal in terms of size and content? I know its a bit dependant on how good the game does in the Early Access but
what would it be in an ideal scenario?

[SagaDC]

From my own experience, I would say that the current Alpha build has something along the lines of 10-12 hours of content. Of course, that varies heavily depending on character build and play-style.

Having run three of my characters through most of the existing content, the average level by the time the Alpha is completed seems to be about 10. Since the current plans are to set the Maximum Level to 30, it might be safe to assume that the completed product will be in the 30-hour range.

Of course, that's just a guess based on what I've seen so far. A more official answer from Styg will trump anything that I speculate.

[Millennium]

I would like to hope the area richness will be comparable to Fallout 1/2 after the full release, but as always, the motto should be quality over quantity. I'd rather have 10 different areas than 10 basically-same train stations and another 10 generic outdoor area that only give you the impression of large space with basically a very-large-but-empty room.

[Gornodd]

True. But with the almost perfect foundation this game already has. The character developement, crafting, weapons and overall variety it would be shameful to not construct a vast world around it.
If something is THAT good I wanna spend my time with it. In F2 I did almost every possible sidequest possible and spent a borderline sick amount of time with that game. 1k++ hours
 
and I really hope history repeats itself... 

[Elhazzared]

People often compare Underrail to Fallout 2 (I know I did when I first saw it!), but it's closer to Fallout Tactics. I don't expect it to be as huge and dialogue-filled as Fallout 2 is. There's a limit to what one man can do

I do not share this opinion and the reason I don't is because fallout tactics is a turn based squad strategy game where dialog is barely existant at all, here you actually already have a good deal of dialog. This is more comparable to fallout because it is indeed an RPG rather than a turn based squad strategy game and again, I do feel the dialog is in the level of fallout amount.

This comes from a diehard fallout lover which thinks bethesda should be nuked to the stone age for all the sacrilege it has done to fallout and if I had the possibillity I'd see all of the responsible for what happened to fallout burning at the stake!

Ok maybe that went a little bit too far but yeah, I'm that pissed off at them.

[Elhazzared]

From what we've seen so far I'll have to agree there. It has a little less freedom, there is less emphasis on being just whatever the hell you want, from a junky to a porn start or a drunk or whatever comes to your mind... But still I feel that is alright. Still, this is alpha, there is a lot of space for more and more to the point. This game after launch has one possibillity that fallout 2 didn't had. Expansion packs!

On a side note did you know fallout 2 didn't even had half of the planned content? the team was hard pressed to finish the product so they had to cut a lot of stuff. That's kinda why stuff like, the guys searching for the holy hand grenade are nothing but just a funny scene. they never got to fully implement the quest lol.

[Gornodd]

I wouldnt compare it to Tactics at all. FO-T is more like JA2 in FO universe. After the really dissapointing Shadowrun Returns I was very pleased with a game like this. Sure SRR had some good writing. But as funny as it sounds, I didnt really care too much for it. After all the story wasnt good enough to excuse for not having proper character developement and a deep Itemisation and choices.

Also, FO2`s story was actually really bad. The game has never been praised for the story or the dialogue. Its that every character was believeable in that world and every little story was fitting in the whole.

Thats a quality Underrail really nails already. But it also delivers on every other part. What it needs is a rich amount of distraction from the main story line. A huge variety of side missons with small interesting aspects. You can sometimes go nuts with small ideas or even nods at other great games. But for me there needs to be a playground that I can spend my time in.