Bethesda has announced that its next update for Fallout 4 will arrive on Monday, May 13, 2024, bringing graphical options, improvements, and bug fixes. But fans don’t seem that enthusiastic about it and are actually already dreading the bugs it’ll introduce.
Fallout 4‘s big next-gen update caused more damage to mods fans had been creating for years than anything else. The improvements it made were minimal, and, as expected, it introduced a few new bugs. One of these bugs was a new graphics mode that just didn’t work at all. It’s made fans even more skeptical of what Bethesda will introduce next, so there’s very little excitement for Monday’s update and a lot of trepidation.
Some fans are rolling back Fallout 4‘s updates and waiting for Bethesda to leave the game alone again
Bethesda has promised, or threatened, depending on your point of view, to update Fallout 4 on all platforms on Monday, May 13, 2024. The Twitter post announcing the update thanks players for their continued feedback and support, making it seem very much like a follow-up and collection of fixes for the game’s next-gen update.
While the lasting memory I have of the Fallout 4 next-gen update is how it indefinitely delayed the Fallout London mod, some fans experienced genuine crashes and game-breaking bugs. This is almost certainly why fans on Reddit are discussing how they’re either rolling back updates or just waiting for Bethesda to finish updating the game so they can play a stable version with their mod again.
User needconfirmation made a great dig about the Xbox Series X/S’s Quality Mode, which doesn’t work at all, according to Digital Foundry. “By “new options” do they mean they are going to make the existing option actually do anything, because currently, regardless of which mode you use, the settings are the same.”
It’s user blitz_na who accurately described what’s happening, though. “People didn’t understand there’d be a series of updates to this anniversary update instead of just the one. it’s going to be a repeated battle trying to bring everything to compatibility.”
Most, if not all, Bethesda games have some level of bugs and glitches that the fan base simply lives with. I’ve heard of these described as Bethesda’s bugs, mainly because it’s sometimes difficult to tell if they are intentional parts of a game’s design or a bug.
Right now, we’re in the midst of a slew of updates Bethesda is rolling out to bring Fallout 4 on all platforms in line with its vision of the game on current-generation hardware. The only issue is that no one really knows what the intended final outcome is. That’s why some fans aren’t touching the game while others are rolling back the updates, and more are still trying to play because they love the game and see how far they get before they find a bug to report.
