Fallout 4’s 14.4GB “subsequent gen” replace dropped on the finish of April, dovetailing neatly with the highly regarded Fallout TV present on Amazon. It promised all kinds of bells and whistles to deliver the (practically decade previous, my god) sport updated to the requirements we anticipate from videogames in 2024.
After which, forgive me, it bombed. Onerous. Little or no visibly modified, mods went haywire, and the modifications that had been noticeable had been largely the elements of the sport the patch broke. However worry not, as a result of Bethesda has now put out Subsequent Gen Replace 2, that includes “fixes and enhancements to deal with a number of the suggestions you offered us with on the earlier replace.”
However, effectively, that is about all the excellent news I’ve for you. For essentially the most half, the group has responded to the patch with an emphatic shrug: Many of the issues that had been launched by the primary next-gen patch are nonetheless hanging round, with solely comparatively minor tweaks and modifications for these of us enjoying on PC (tellingly, a hefty chunk of the patch notes specify they solely apply to consoles).
“They solely actually fastened HDR (roughly), a number of visible points associated to the efficiency choices and the Creation Membership stuff they added final replace,” writes Reddit consumer diegodamohill, “That is it, that is this replace in a nutshell. VATS continues to be damaged, ultrawide continues to be damaged, no fixes to a whole lot of day 1 points, and so on.”
Ever since Bethesda launched the next-gen patch, ultrawide gamers have needed to reckon with an absurdly stretched UI that I can solely describe as ‘Massive Chungus-esque’. Regardless of promising ultrawide assist, the next-gen patch did not ship a UI that would comfortably accommodate these of us with ultrawide screens. It seems to be fairly terrible, and is an everyday supply of complaints concerning the patch.
It, together with a number of different bugs, hasn’t been fastened. Nor do there appear to be many new fixes for the sport’s new bugs, glitches, or (maybe worst of all) the weapon particles crashes which have plagued the sport ever since RTX GPUs grew to become a factor.
So no surprise that many disgruntled gamers nonetheless suggest utilizing the Fallout 4 Downgrader instrument as an alternative of accepting this patch: Rolling the sport again to its purposeful, pre-“subsequent gen” state. I suppose we will take some consolation in that: Even when every little thing goes awry, you’ll be able to nonetheless depend on modders to repair Bethesda video games.
