Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update Is A Mess On PC

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Fallout 4's next-gen update has finally dropped after months of waiting, and you can definitely tell it's made by Bethesda. Despite somewhat managing to shake its infamous reputation of launching broken games with Starfield, Bethesda is back and buggier than ever with the release of Fallout 4's next-gen update, as players have been reporting a variety of issues all day, particularly on PC.

For starters, pretty much all the game's existing mods have been completely broken, leading to some reports of players not actually being able to load their games again until they delete and reinstall all Creation Club content they had downloaded. There are even reports of non-modded saves getting busted as well, with this new version of Fallout 4 seemingly not able to recognize official DLC expansions.

Another big issue is the next-gen update's widescreen support. Bethesda has technically delivered on its promise, as you can now play Fallout 4 on widescreen monitors and the game supports them, but you have to deal with stretched out UI, as seen in the tweet above from Twitter user Tyle_McV. What makes this even worse is that you need a user made patch to fix this issue, which is what widescreen players were using in the first place.

It would be alright if Fallout 4's next-gen patch actually improved much for PC players, but the positive changes seem to be so miniscule that it probably wasn't worth breaking every single mod to push out. Weapon Debris graphics still crashes the game for RTX users, a problem that's been rife for years, and while console players get a nice FPS boost, the update has added no significant graphical improvements to PC, making the entire thing even more pointless.

Essentially, all that PC players have got with this update is broken saves, a dodgy widescreen support feature, some new Creation Club content, and a handful of minor bug fixes. It does make you wonder what Bethesda has been doing for two and a half years.

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