Fallout 4's VATS isn't a time-stopping panic button any more

If an angry cazador's bearing down on you and you just really don't want to deal with its crap right now, you push the VATS button. The time-freezing targeting system from Fallout 3 and New Vegas was meant to be a new take on called shots from the original turn-based Fallout games, but it also turned out to be a nigh-supernatural way to get the upper hand in otherwise hectic fights.

Fallout 4 will still have VATS, but it won't be quite so much of a "get out of jail free" card. Game director Todd Howard told The Telegraph about its new implementation which - as you may have noticed in the gameplay trailers - now puts the rest of the world in slow motion instead of freeze frame.