Final month’s disastrous Fallout 4 replace was supposed to repair and enhance the outdated RPG, however as an alternative broke plenty of stuff and angered followers. Now Bethesda is patching the patch with a just-announced upcoming replace to Fallout 4.
On April 25, Bethesda launched a big replace for Fallout 4, its almost decade-old open-world RPG. The replace had been teased almost two years earlier however didn’t arrive till final month, shortly after the launch of the hit Amazon TV present primarily based on the post-apocalyptic franchise. The so known as “next-gen” patch was meant to repair some stuff, enhance efficiency on all platforms, make the sport “Verified” on Steam Deck, and customarily talking enhance Fallout 4. As a substitute, it broke mods, led to the last-minute delay of a fan-developed enlargement, added new glitches, and was seen by many followers as an unneeded replace. Now, Bethesda goes to (hopefully) repair all that with one other new Fallout 4 replace.
On Could 10, Bethesda introduced via a short post on Twitter that Fallout 4 would get a brand new replace on Could 13. In accordance with the corporate, this subsequent patch will embrace “new choices for graphics and efficiency settings,” and also will characteristic extra “fixes” and “enhancements.”
“Thanks to your continued suggestions and assist,” is how Bethesda ended the submit.
No patch notes or different particulars had been included within the tweet, nor on Bethesda’s web site, however it seems that the corporate is properly conscious that its huge, fancy Fallout 4 replace was a flop that angered followers and made the sport worse in some key methods.
For instance, Steam Deck gamers misplaced entry to most graphical settings after the patch. On consoles, gamers reported new, weird texture bugs involving sure weapons. And on PC, gamers did report improved efficiency in some areas, however all their mods had been damaged and wanted to be up to date. Bethesda’s Fallout 4 replace additionally led to the delay of Fallout: London, a large and extremely anticipated fan-developed enlargement for the sport that was set to reach two days earlier than Bethesda’s huge “next-gen” patch. Realizing that this might be an issue—because the mod would break after the replace went reside on April 25—Fallout London’s devs held again the mod.
Followers understandably didn’t like every of this, and whereas I’m completely satisfied to see Bethesda shifting so rapidly to repair the replace and hopefully enhance Fallout 4 (for actual this time), it actually does appear to be the corporate ought to have talked to modders and labored with them on updating the outdated RPG. Perhaps subsequent time!
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