In a response to the number of questions Bethesda Games Studios has received about the end game structure of Fallout 4, they've taken to Twitter to provide a short and very meaty response. First up, unlike Fallout 3, the game won't end when the story concludes. Hooray! And secondly, there won't be a level cap. Double hooray! That means you could potentially roam the wastelands for as long as you want. How does forever sound?

To our fans who’ve asked: Fallout 4 doesn’t end when the main story is over and there is no level cap. You can keep playing and leveling.

— BethesdaGameStudios (@BethesdaStudios) August 6, 2015

The biggest change from Fallout 3 and New Vegas lies with the removal of a level-cap, which will be interesting to see how it gets implemented. Because naturally this could lead to balancing issues for any post-release content or planned expansions.

Nice to see they've learned from their past games and the "essential" mods people have put out.

Uncapping levels was the first thing I did in every game like this.

Being able to play on after "the end" is cool, be stupid not to have it again, standard for open world games though.
The uncapped leveling I don't really care for either way.

"War,... war never changes"

Oh God, I am going to be lost in this game for months when it arrives.

Even scored a Pip Boy Edition for one of my boys (the 19yr old)...he has no clue he's got one coming.


:)

Nov 10th...bring it on...

Uncapped levels, does that mean stuff is going to scale up with you as you level or will you just end up out-levelling everything and killing the fun? That pretty much happened to me in Skyrim, I never even finished the main quest, but after a few hundred hours of play my guy was so levelled up and so geared that when I did quests that were meant to have big epic moments and big epic fights they were completely trivial and it kinda sucked the epic feeling out of it.

What skill level did you play on?

Bullet sponge enemies aren't fun anyway but enemies are pretty tough on legendary.