A Fallout 4 player had their collection of unique picture frames ruined after the game’s recent next-gen update was released. Fallout 4’s recent update was controversial, as it brought improvements to the open-world game, but it also introduced new bugs, broke mods, and created a few issues on some platforms.
The eagerly awaited next-gen update for Fallout 4 was released on April 25. It introduced a few useful updates, such as support for higher resolutions, Performance and Quality modes for consoles, Widescreen and Ultra-Widescreen support for PC, and a few new weapons and armor.
Now, a gamer called squeasy-orange shared how the recent Fallout 4 update ruined a collection of unique picture frames they had carefully gathered over time. The collection included 16 different frames featuring images of people, pets, and landscapes. After the update, however, all of these unique frames were converted to blank ones. According to squeasy-orange, the whole collection was fairly hard to acquire. If these items were put into the inventory, they would become blank, so the gamer had to manually carry them to their settlement, which was quite a time-consuming task.
Apart from this issue, the next-gen update introduced a few bugs to Fallout 4. A few days ago, players discovered that some of the recently introduced guns were shooting giant exclamation points in Fallout 4 due to their textures not loading properly, for example.
The Fallout 4 community seems to be somewhat divided about the latest update, with many people irritated that it has brought so many issues. Apart from these bugs, players have been finding problems on several platforms, such as Xbox gamers not being able to activate Performance mode in Fallout 4, or the patch preventing gamers from changing visual settings on Steam Deck. Several popular mods were also broken, and the eagerly awaited Fallout: London mod had to be delayed.
However, the update did fix several of the old bugs, and it improved the game’s performance. Earlier this week, fans noticed that Fallout 4’s load times sharply decreased after the update. When comparing the PS4 version load times on the PS5 against the native PS5 version, gamers discovered they went from an average of 40 seconds to only 15, which is a huge improvement. At the moment, the new problems introduced in the update are still not patched, though, and it remains to be seen whether Bethesda will fix them or not.
Fallout 4 is an RPG in the Fallout series, being the fourth major installment. This time around, players are in The Commonwealth, formerly Massachusetts, in the year 2287.
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As promised and/or threatened, depending on your perspective, open world game Fallout 4 has gotten some new graphics tweaks and bug fixes to smooth out the bumps caused by its previous “next gen update”. The update broke a bunch of mods, delayed a few interesting overhaul projects like Fallout London, and generally made everyone shake their fists at the sky and shout “Howaaaard!” Remember folks: auteur theory unduly credits a single creative for a group effort - the dice that Todd rolls every time he decides whether or not to break the game are also clearly to blame here.
As promised last week, Bethesda Game Studios has just released the second update for Fallout 4 Next-Gen, the latest version of the RPG originally launched in 2015.
Bethesda has unveiled its first Fallout 4 patch since the big next-gen update released last month, including some new graphics and performance option settings and a few other fixes.
What is it Wendy Cope wrote? “Bloody Fallout 4 patches are like bloody buses. You wait half a decade for one, and as soon as that one breaks everything, Bethesda releases another just days later.” Yeah, pretty sure that’s it. Anyway, Fallout 4 will get another patch for the near decade-old game next week, presumably to help fix a lot of the problems its long-awaited “next-gen update” introduced two weeks ago.
A Fallout 4 player recently shared a funny video in which they try to fight the Swan armed solely with a Baseball Bat, only to be smashed in a single blow. Fallout 4 has many enemies, but few are as memorable as the Swan, a huge Supermutant that can squash incautious players easily.
Fallout 4's big next-gen update dropped a couple of weeks ago, and in true Bethesda fashion it was a bit of a disaster. While some couldn't access the update if they owned Fallout 4 via PlayStation Plus, it was PC players who ended up drawing the short straw, as all the update really did was break most existing mods for the title and implement a horribly stretched out widescreen feature, adding very little in the way of actual improvements.
Now that the belated “next-gen” Fallout 4 update has finally arrived (nearly four years into said generation), Bethesda has at last offered up and enhanced way to play on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. However, the bar was already set fairly high by the excellent Xbox Backward Compatibility programme, of which Fallout 4 was an early beneficiary: thanks to the Xbox One X 4K patch and then the FPS boost, we already had the choice of whether to run in high frame rate or resolution modes (not both) on Xbox Series X and Series S. At least, that’s the idea. Currently it’s a bit broken on Xbox, but we can expect it to run as well as the PlayStation 5 version soon, and the improvements there are welcome.
Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show has supercharged excitement in the Fallout IP, leading to a significant surge in player counts across a variety of Fallout titles on Steam, but also for Fallout London, a fan-created mod for Fallout 4 that may as well be an entirely new entry in the series due to the breadth and scope of the project.
The long-awaited next-gen upgrade for launched earlier this month on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5. Bethesda promised enhancements such as new Performance and Quality mode settings available across all platforms, as well as stability improvements and fixes, but upon its release, there have been complaints of texture issues, crashes, freezes, plummeting framerates, resolution glitches, and more. The issues seem to be worse on PC in general, but many PC players have found their game in an even more broken state due to the number of mods they'd installed over the years that were no longer supported.