Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update Is So Bad Fans Are Undoing Bethesda's Work

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.

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.

The release of 's Deluxe Edition has shown there's still an appetite for a dying trend in gaming: Physical media. After years in Early Access on PC, Larian Studios' RPG saw a full release last year and also came to consoles digitally. The title received incredibly high critical acclaim, winning many Game of the Year awards from the likes of The Game Awards, DICE, The Game Developers Choice Awards, The Golden Joystick Awards, and most recently, BAFTA, and even making its way onto Screen Rant's "" list.

As with many RPGs, 's story is enhanced by the characters players can interact with, and the relationships that can be built, with players' choices even leading to in-game romances. In the case of, there were four main romanceable options, with a male V able to seduce Panam Palmer, a Nomad from the Aldecado family, and Johnny Silverhand's former bandmate, Kerry Eurodyne, and a female V able to date the hacker Judy Alvarez, and former NCPD detective River Ward.

One of 's most iconic suits has received a strange but awesome update thanks to a new mod. The Mantis armor can be acquired relatively early in the game after finding a note on a dead Spacer about a «Once in a lifetime opportunity» on Denebola 1-B. Upon landing on this moon, players enter "" and it soon becomes clear that this lair is 's version of the Batcave, with the renowned pirate-hunter clearly being some kind of Space Batman.

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.

May 2024 will see the release of a huge variety of titles, catering to all kinds of players with major AAA releases such as , and, as well as high-profile indie titles such as. Several other titles such as and are also making their way out of Early Access, and and are also seeing full releases after the former's controversial closure back in June 2023 after many believed it to be a full release, and the latter was delayed so its developers could make improvements based on February's open demo.

Bethesda has said that issues preventing some PlayStation Plus subscribers from accessing Fallout 4’s next-gen update have now been resolved.

players can exploit a seemingly never-ending part of a story mission to farm fusion cells, along with other items. Fusion cells are a type of ammunition used by laser-based weapons and can be found in specific locations, or on specific enemy types such as Institute synths.

Every month brings new games to the Xbox Game Pass service, with the regularly changing roster in Microsoft's subscription offering plenty of titles for different types of players to enjoy. These can be titles from long-running franchises, indie gems, or titles from Microsoft's first-party studios which are added at no extra cost upon their launch, making Game Pass one of the better deals in gaming.

The next game's protagonist seems like an obvious choice following the success of the Amazon Prime live-action adaptation. The Amazon series followed three main protagonists: Lucy, a naive vault dweller discovering the wasteland for the first time, Maximus, a squire of the Brotherhood of Steel, and Cooper Howard, a former Hollywood actor who mutated into a ghoul after the bombs fell and became a bounty hunter.

The Xbox community should prepare for May 30, as the company is removing a major feature from its devices. Xbox players have experienced several major changes across their platform over the past year, from Microsoft overhauling its rewards scheme to become Rewards with Xbox, to the company's transformation of Xbox Live Gold into Xbox Game Pass Core as part of a tiered Game Pass system.