Fallout 4 News

Fallout 4 Next Gen – Update Notes

[h2]New Creation Club Content Free for Everyone [/h2]

Enclave Remnants
Some say the past is a scar, cut across the skin of the Commonwealth. Others believe it's a scab clotted over an unhealed wound. Those who fought the Enclave, and those who serve them subscribe to the latter. And when the scab is broken the flag of this old-world cabal will once more stand at full mast. Unless of course, you stop them first. Features the classic Enclave Colonel uniform and over a dozen workshop items! If you have other Enclave creations installed, some of these troops may use this equipment against you!

(Quest "Echoes of the Past" starts on the road north of Saugus Ironworks.)

Armor and Weapon bundle

X-02 Power Armor
Hellfire Power Armor
Heavy Incinerator
Tesla Cannon
Enclave Weapon Skins
Enclave Armor Skins

Makeshift Weapon Pack
Whether it be grenades or piggy banks, there's no shortage of objects you can transform into murderous projectiles with this collection of unique weapons. Included are two grenade launchers, a Nail Gun, Baseball Launcher, Saw Blade launcher, and piggy bank based weaponry.

(Quest "When Pigs Fly" starts at a merchant workshop northwest of Greenetech Genetics.)

Halloween Workshop
On the eve of the end, the New England Technocrat Society has thrown a spooky Halloween gala for anyone with the nerve to attend. Drop in on this fa-boo-lous pumpkin-lit soiree replete with witches, cauldrons, and ghouls, and unlock 38 new spine-tingling Halloween props to decorate your settlement! Includes new wearables, such as the iconic De-Capitalist helmet!

(Quest "All Hallow's Eve" starts by tuning into the Mysterious Signal on your Pip-Boy.)

[h3]Changes and New Features [/h3]

Native PS5 and Xbox Series applications. Includes performance and quality mode options.
Performance mode: 60 FPS target, 4k resolution, standard settings, relying on dynamic resolution scaling.
Quality mode: 30 FPS*, 4k resolution, ultra settings, should not require dynamic resolution scaling.
*When connected to a 120Hz display, Quality mode will target 40 FPS.
*When connected to a 1440p display, the title will run at 1440p resolution at 60 FPS w/ ultra settings regardless of rendering mode
Release on Epic Store.
Widescreen and Ultra-widescreen support.
Steam Deck Verified
9 Free Creation Club Items. Enclave Remnants (New!), Enclave Weapon Skins, Enclave Armor Skins, Tesla Cannon, Hellfire Power Armor, X-02 Power Armor, Heavy Incinerator, Halloween Workshop (New!), Makeshift Weapon Pack (New!).
Added “Installed Content” menu.

[h3]Bug Fixes [/h3]

Resolved issues preventing Japanese and Chinese users from connecting to Bethesda.net (this restores access to Mods).
Resolved issue preventing save data from properly loading during the prologue.
Resolved issue that could prevent the Vault 111 Door from opening on new games.
Resolved issue that could prevent the quest “Go Home” from advancing.
Resolved issue that could result in Codsworth being broken on the ground after fast traveling.
Resolved issue with mipmaps in DLC.
Resolved issue that could result in a softlock when in dialogue with Prestson Garvey.
Resolved issue preventing autosaves while fast traveling in Power Armor.
Fixed issue where text would occasionally disappear in the Creation Club menu.
Resolved issues with text formatting in the credits in Japanese and Chinese.
Resolved issue causing the camera to fail when leaving furniture after an extended time.
Fixed issue that could misplace quest markers while the VR Workshop Creation was installed alongside Automatron.
Resolved issue with player movement in some underwater areas at Thicket Excavations.
Resolved issue that could cause corruption within the Settlement system resulting in wrong resource counts and/or destroyed settlements.
Resolved issue where the “Level Up” notification would display even if there was not a level up available.
Fixed some flickering in Vault 111.
Stability improvements.

PC Only Please note: The Fallout 4 next gen update is not currently available on GOG but will be available soon. We will let you know as soon as we can.

Resolved issue preventing saves being made under Windows Usernames with Cyrillic, Chinese, or Japanese characters.

Creation Kit

Removed non-functional “Hot Load” button. Removed non-functional “Material Editor” button.
Editor IDs longer than 99 characters will no longer crash the editor.
Resolved crash that could occur while viewing a quest’s Objectives tab.
Resolved hang that could occur while adding a reference to a layer.

Fallout 4 best weapons and weapons list

What are the best Fallout 4 weapons? If you're looking for the top weapons, you'll need to scour the Commonwealth, looting buildings, taking on dangerous legendary enemies, and even uncover a secret or two along the way. You see, Fallout 4 offers up a huge range of weapons for players to try out, and depending on your playstyle, some are simply better than the rest. Fortunately, we're here to tell you which ones to go after, and some more general tips on making the most of the weapons you already have.

Finding the best weapons in Fallout 4 will make your time surviving the wasteland a lot easier, and a lot more fun. Many of the wide range of Fallout 4 quests available in the game task you with facing down tough enemies, from the radiation-dealing ghoul to the hard-hitting Deathclaw. In fact, as you traverse this RPG game you'll need to make note of what types of weapon work against what types of enemies. Though some weapons are powerful enough to level pretty much anything in your path, of course. Here are our picks for the best weapons in Fallout 4, as well as a full list of the weapons you can find while exploring the Commonwealth.

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Fallout 4 Brotherhood of Steel location and how to join

Where do you find the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 4? You'll need to venture a little ways south from Sanctuary, battling raiders and synths in order to win over a new ally. There are plenty of benefits for finding the Brotherhood of Steel early, including a super-powerful laser weapon, and the start of a quest line that leads to you getting a very good set of power armor indeed.

There are a tonne of Fallout 4 quests to complete as you journey through the irradiated wastelands of The Commonwealth. To find the Brotherhood of Steel, you'll need to head to a specific location, and intercept a distress signal. It's emergent elements like this that make this open world game a real gem of the genre. Here's everything you need to know about how to find the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 4, as well as some info on joining them.

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Waiting for Fallout 4's next-gen update to drop? Here's a cool fan demake of Fallout 3's intro on the Gameboy to check out

As recent player numbers for the series have shown, Amazon's Fallout TV show has a whole bunch of us playing and thinking about Fallout right now. In the case of one fan, Fallout 3's been the title they've decided to take a trip down memory lane to - having decided to start working a cool demake of it for the Gameboy.

While Fallout 4's the entry in the series getting a next-gen update today, returing to the Capital Wasteland's also well worth doing. After all, your dad's Liam Neeson, and who's going to go on a wild goose chase after him if you don't?

The Fallout fan behind this demake, who goes by Aggressive-Film3872, has posted a fun little video showing off their current progress on it running via an emulator to the Fallout subreddit - basically giving us a glimpse at what their version of the game's intro sequence looks like. It's that, plus the start of the series of flashbacks in Vault 101 that we've all seen hundreds of times, including the Lone Wanderer's birth, all rendered in classic retro style.

Hello there. You might be aware that, following the arrival of Amazon's Fallout TV show lots of people have been, well, playing Fallout games. It's a trend that's been pushing modding sites into new territory when it comes to serving folks ways to spice up their favorite Fallout, and now Bethesda's casually revealed some of the actual player numbers involved.

It's important to note that - while hype for the second season of Amazon's Fallout is already building - Fallout 4's next-gen update hasn't even dropped quite yet. So, there's probably a chance the numbers I'm about to chuck at your face have a chance to climb at least a little bit further soon.

In a couple of tweets form the offical Fallout account, Bethesda revealed that "almost five million" players were recorded in total across all of the titles in the Fallout series during a single day recently. To put that in context, that's almost a million more people than the entire estimated population of Croatia as of 2022 - which was just over 3.8 million - playing the likes of Fallout 4, New Vegas, and probably like five people playing Fallout: Tactics.