The launch of the critically acclaimed Fallout television series on Amazon has helped many games in the series, including Fallout 4, achieve player numbers that were not even achieved when the games launched. However, the next-gen update released yesterday doesn’t seem to be that impressive.
There are plenty of new problems, and players say Fallout 4’s “Bethesda charm” is starting to lose its luster. Much of player disappointment relates to the extremely low number of bug fixes included in the next-gen update, and this disappointment is made worse by the appearance of some new bugs. And we don’t mean the new cockroaches.
Bethesda disappoints once again across the board with the Fallout 4 next-gen update
A handful of players are experiencing issues with missing textures, causing players to have to shoot invisible weapons that fire exclamation points with missing textures. These issues particularly affect makeshift weapons that were added as part of the next-gen update.
This is just one example of several issues that occurred with the rollout of the next-gen update. The update promised ultrawide support, but Fallout 4’s new “ultrawide support” just looks like a stretched mess. Some players’ modified saves were completely destroyed by the Creation Club’s built-in changes. And players playing on console are still limited to a small amount of storage space that they can allocate to official Fallout 4 mods. If these mods still work at all, because of course the new update destroyed everything there too.
Playstation Plus members will be excluded from the next-gen update
“It’s funny that they act like they care about the modding community and then release an almost useless patch for PC that breaks everything,” one player wrote in the Fallout subreddit. Many players say that the next-gen update doesn’t even officially fix bugs that the community itself fixed years ago via mods, such as the mod that fixes bugs with sound and lockpicking at 80 FPS or higher.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, some players didn’t even experience these issues themselves. Players who own the game through PS Plus were unable to access the next-gen update for free, and some were prompted to purchase the game if they don’t already own it outright. Bethesda has already had to release a statement saying that it is working to roll out the next-gen update to “PlayStation Plus Extra members.”
With a larger update, Fallout 4 might have been able to get much closer to its peak player count at launch.
2024-04-27 16:50:16
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