PlayStation Gamers Reporting Big New Fallout 76 Issue

05.05.2024 - 23:55 / gamerant.com / Dominik Bo

Many Fallout 76 players, the majority of whom appear to be PlayStation users, have been experiencing frequent crashes since the turn of the month. The issue appears to be related to the ongoing Fallout 76 seasonal event, Invaders from Beyond.

The fifth iteration of Invaders from Beyond returned to Fallout 76 on April 30, and will remain available until May 14, at 12pm ET. The reward pool attached to this seasonal activity has a wide assortment of rare crafting plans, making it well-worth completing.

But many Fallout 76 players have been struggling to do so over the past week, primarily because of frequent crashes. The issue appears to be particularly frequent on PlayStation consoles, with both PS4 and PS5 users reporting it en masse. The event's third and final stage, which requires defeating the tanky General Zeta, is understood to be particularly problematic, with many PlayStation gamers reporting crashing on this particular objective numerous times.

Invaders from Beyond also appears to have stability issues on the Xbox One, although the volume of player complaints about them suggests they are nowhere near as frequent as on PlayStation consoles. There hasn't been an uptick in player reports of Fallout 76 crashes on the Xbox Series X/S and PC since the event kicked off. Game Rant was unable to replicate any crashes after running the event over a dozen times on PC since April 30.

The root cause of the issue may not be new; past iterations of Invaders from Beyond, particularly the one from Fallout 76 Season 13, have also been suffering from crashes. And while the volume of player complaints on the matter appears to be much larger this time around, that may simply be a reflection of the fact that Fallout 76 has been blowing up across every platform since mid-April. Its ongoing popularity surge is widely attributed to the release of Amazon's well-received Fallout television series.

Other currently available Fallout 76 events do not appear to be suffering from frequent crashes. That's in spite of the fact that many world activities can get invaded by the very same Zeta aliens featured in Invaders from Beyond during the two-week period ending mid-May. Even so, Game Rant found these invasions to be buggy, with player teams often having to look for aliens that are supposed to attack them because of the extraterrestrials spawning too far away from the event grounds. Some PlayStation users are saying they have completely given up on trying to complete the event and have instead resorted to procuring its rare reward plans from other players' C.A.M.P. vendors.

Fallout 76 is a new horizon for the long-standing series, giving players an MMO world to explore, where they can meet other players and embark on quests