With great urgency, Bethesda Softworks is working on the crucial stability patch for Fallout 4 due for release in the last week of November. This patch directly addresses the widespread reports of technical instability that the game has been facing ever since the 10th-anniversary festivities rolled in with the release of the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition. The studio is trying to mop the floors with as many bugs, crashes, and performance downgrades as possible to make even the veterans comfortable while back in the Commonwealth-or, at least, try to help newcomers cut their teeth exploring it. The considerable clamor for attention was a major determinant in ensuring that this patch went expedited.
The core problems stemmed from issues during the anniversary rollout, somehow firing up a massive backlash from the game-dedicated community. Frustration galore: Mods made by dedicated gamers were rendered incompatible and broken-a pattern established during the next-gen update last year. In addition, users who purchased the Anniversary Edition were subsequently beset by the game failing to recognize their ownership of content, rendering portions of the new package inaccessible, and creating a turbulent atmosphere for the post-apocalyptic role-playing title.
The official patch note will give the details on major stabilization works across the core game and integrated Creations system. These will mainly include preventing crashes, offering fixes to faults such as starting a new game on PS4 with Creations installed, and quitting after exterior load crashes. Improvements have also been made with Save/Load functions to put an end to the dreaded infinite loading screens when downloading missing content, and also fix load order warnings. The loading state will be notably improved, Creations menu UI fix-in that it actually respects the load order set by the player instead of defaulting to an alphabetical order.
Although an exact date has not currently been provided, Bethesda suggested that the patch would be primed for release in the week of November 24. It reiterated that this particular release, occurring within the first stages of a larger repair initiative, has been coupled with the announcement of an updated roadmap for the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition. More detailed announcements concerning the next patch should arrive in early December. Meanwhile, the community remains hopeful that these successive patches will bring the game back in a reliable and stable state.
