Summary
Fallout 4’snext-gen updatehas finally droppedafter months of waiting, and you can definitely tell it’s made byBethesda. Despite somewhat managing to shake its infamous reputation of launching broken games withStarfield, Bethesda is back and buggier than ever with the release of Fallout 4’s next-gen update, as players have been reportinga variety of issues all day, particularly on PC.
For starters, pretty much all the game’s existing mods have been completely broken, leading tosome reports of players not actually being able to load their games againuntil they delete and reinstall all Creation Club content they had downloaded. There are even reports of non-modded saves getting busted as well, with this new version of Fallout 4 seemingly not able to recognize official DLC expansions.
Another big issue is the next-gen update’s widescreen support. Bethesda has technically delivered on its promise, as you can now play Fallout 4 on widescreen monitors and the game supports them, but you have to deal with stretched out UI, as seenin the tweet above from Twitter user Tyle_McV. What makes this even worse is that you need a user made patch to fix this issue, which is what widescreen players were using in the first place.
Fallout 4’s Next-Gen Update Does Very Little For PC Users
It would be alright if Fallout 4’s next-gen patch actually improved much for PC players, but the positive changes seem to be so miniscule that it probably wasn’t worth breaking every single mod to push out. Weapon Debris graphics still crashes the game for RTX users, a problem that’s been rife for years, and while console players get a nice FPS boost, the update has added no significant graphical improvements to PC, making the entire thing even more pointless.
Essentially, all that PC players have got with this update is broken saves, a dodgy widescreen support feature, some new Creation Club content, anda handful of minor bug fixes. It does make you wonder what Bethesda has been doing for two and a half years.
While this is just speculation - as none of us know the inner workings of Bethesda and Microsoft - the update feels very rushed, and could have been pushed out so Microsoft hadsomethingto release alongside the Fallout TV show. The entire Fallout series has seena massive bump in players thanks to its performance, and it’s very possible Microsoft and Bethesda wanted to get the next-gen patch out to capitalize on that newfound popularity. Unfortunately, everything is now broken, so was it really worth it in the end?
