Bethesda's highly anticipated next gen update for Fallout 4 is riddled with issues across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.The next gen version was finally released on April 25, 2024 (around 18 months after it was announced) but the several gigabyte update hasn't been met with much fanfare.The Steam version of Fallout 4 appears most wrought with technical issues, though PlayStation 5 players have struggled to obtain the update at all due to an availability error and confusing messaging from Bethesda.
Xbox players, on the other hand, don't have access to the game's Quality Mode, meaning they can't experience one of the main appeals of the next gen update: 4K resolution on ultra settings.This specific issue was confirmed on X/Twitter by tech expert Digital Foundry's Thomas Morgan. "I can confirm that only the 60 frames per second Performance Mode works right now.
The update has a bug."PC players, meanwhile, have taken to Steam to flag myriad issues with the update. "Many of the bugs that existed and were promised to be fixed are actually still in the game after the patch," said Piglet in one review. "Finally updated the game and didn't fix a single issue," wrote birthdayjesus. "But now the mods I used to fix it don't work."The initial reaction to the patch notes wasn't positive either. "Damn, the bugfix list is short," wrote DreamweaverWR on Reddit, a comment which has 921 upvotes. "I had very low expectations but this is much less than I expected.
They didn't fix almost any of the bugs that annoyed me the most (VATS crash and perception bug in Survival, for example)."FluffyBunBunKittens chimed in too. "It is kind of amazing," they said. "Now I'm just waiting with interest what new bugs we get with this update."One of these new bugs seemingly makes the game unplayable for some on Steam Deck.
A Reddit post from prunebackwards said Fallout 4 can no longer be launched on the handheld PC, a sentiment corroborated by many in the comments and elsewhere.