War. War never changes. But the game that you’re likely playing, the one which features that now iconic line, does – especially when it gets patched up. Yesterday, the first official, non-beta post-release patch for Fallout 4 went live on Steam, bringing a much-needed update t the game. At the time, Bethesda promised that the patch would go live on other platforms soon.
It’s now hit the PlayStation 4, bringing with it some welcome memory management and stability updates. Notably, actual in-game performance has improved rather significantly.
If you’ve been playing on the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One, you’ll know that sometimes the frame rate falls right down to the lower twenties, particularly when you’re indoors. This newest patch, for the most part, seems to fix that. According to VG Tech the game now almost keeps chugging along at a constant 30fps. It can still drop down to 20fps, mind you, though their mean frame rate is sitting at a respectable 29.49fps.
Take a look. To my untrained eye – one that’s not seen the Wasteland for a week or two – it looks like performance has been given a decent shot in the arm.
The update clocks in at about 520MB. Here’s the full changelog.
- General memory and stability improvements.
- Performance improvements inside the Coverage Assembly Plant.
- Optimizations to skinned decal rendering.
- Fix issue with players becoming stuck in terminals.
- Fixed issue where equipped weapons become locked after completing Reunions.
- Fixed issue with “When Freedom Calls” where the quest would not complete.
- During “Confidence Man” fixed issues where player’s health will continuously regenerate.
- Fixed crash related to jumping into water and reloading save game.
As a warning, the patch also seems to nix the ammo duplication glitch that allows you to cheat vendors out of their caps, so if that’s a something you’ve been using, you may have to instead do a few radiant quests and put some points in to the scrounger and fortune finder perks.
Last Updated: December 9, 2015
WitWolfy
December 9, 2015 at 08:36
One patch down.. About another five or nine to go before I decide its been fixed enough to warrant a purchase.
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 08:44
Works fine, expect for the AI companion, floating enemies, cows on the roof…. um…. I just roll with it.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 08:46
Yea man. It’s typical Bethesda stuff, so it’s not like it ruins the experience. If anything, it adds to it.
Jan Prins
December 9, 2015 at 08:53
Yup! I mean cows on the roof… Heh-heh!
HairyEwok
December 9, 2015 at 08:57
I wanted to shoot a brotherhood of steel in his vertibird…. the fatman ended up hitting a floating tree, that kinda ruined my experience for me.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:00
Wow. I must be really lucky to not have had any of these issues. And I’m running it on Win10.
Ir0nseraph
December 9, 2015 at 08:58
Good to see the game is almost ready for release, I can get it for xmas.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 08:59
This game was ready since release.
I have only had fun with it.
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:01
I love the how the power armour is readily available. Not that I use it much. But it comes in hand at certain super mutant camps
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:04
Yea. I never use it. Used it in the beginning, then game it to Presley to use. Now I have a dude in power armour wakling around Sanctuary. 😀
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:05
O_o You can do that? I have enough parts to build two more suits.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:07
Yea, I somehow managed it when I told him to be my companion. Then when I got dogmeat to be my companion again Presley just stayed in the suit. Then I gave him a minigun and now he’s the most badass mother in the wasteland. 😀
Sageville
December 9, 2015 at 10:22
A mob of Super mutants came to attack my base while I was out of my suit.
My bloody settlers had the audacity to take my suit and my spare and use them to defend our settlement, which they did.
Weird thing was after they left the suits, one of the settlers had my suit’s leg and arm in his inventory…. so I took him for a quiet walk to discuss the matter…. In an unrelated matter, we now have a spare bed at my Red Rocket settlement….
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 10:36
HAHAHA
HairyEwok
December 9, 2015 at 09:07
Is it by any chance buzz lightyear?
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:07
Hmm. Could be.
HairyEwok
December 9, 2015 at 09:07
You use power armor…. Psh what a pansy XD
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:09
XD
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:10
My thoughts too 😉
Ir0nseraph
December 9, 2015 at 09:01
Ignorance is bliss 😛
I am sure they game is great, but I will wait a little longer before I jump in.
Like 16 more days 🙂
Loftus
December 9, 2015 at 08:59
Fully agree with your statement. If the entertainment value is worth it for you then great you have scored. on the other hand if the experience is “ruined” buy all these bugs / glitches of another person then i would understand their contempt.
Loftus
December 9, 2015 at 08:53
I am with WitWolfy on this one. The Hype and FOMO didn’t get hold off me with Fall out 4. 2015 has taught me to wait a bit for all the patches/ updates/ Dlc etc to come out before buying a game. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor seems like a safe bet for this holiday
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:02
Cool game. It was LG s GOTY 2014. I dread to think what 2015s is.
I bet you all a muffin that its that car game with the football. Or Blops 3.
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:03
Or Witcher
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:03
Na, Geoff does not have the time to invest in immersive games. He hated it, did not even bother with Gwent. It will be a casual game.
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:04
Rainbow Six Siege?
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:05
I think his favourite is Kings Quest. Good choice.
Darryn will be Batman
Zoe will be Witcher
Gavin…
Cabbage will be Barbie
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:05
Cabbage will be Overwatch Beta
Loftus
December 9, 2015 at 09:08
You forgot Alessandro. He will pick Splatoon. Also a very good game
Loftus
December 9, 2015 at 09:05
I am also leaning towards the Witcher
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:07
Well, it should be Witcher, of course.
GooseZA
December 9, 2015 at 09:48
Ori and the Blind Forest!
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 08:53
Its fine bud. I have been playing the gold version and cant get enough of it. They should relook the word PATCH.
If the game is broke with game breaking bugs then it requires a PATCH. Fallout 4 is not broken. Im on level 45 and have been playing for an entire month.
The so called patch should be called “The latest Optimisation code is ready for download”
Optimisation code 1.02
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 08:58
Agreed. Level 32 at the moment. Haven’t experienced anything game breaking yet.
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:00
Fallout 4 is one of those games that does not need hi fidelity graphics thanks to its style. I have not been pulled out of the immersion once besides the floating cow.
Loving it, the gamers wanted gameplay over graphics they got it. And it works.
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:02
I would be a higher level if I did more quests. But I can’t help just walking around, exploring.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:03
Level 48 now.
But I quest A LOT.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:02
Fallout games have always been about freedom. Not graphics or awesome fighting mechanics. Just freedom.
Fallout 4 has that more freedom than a bald eagle painted in the colours of the US flag on the front of a slammed F150
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:09
divide and conquer
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:01
I only had a stuck dialogue, but a re-load of the area fixed it. Nothing to get upset about.
schitsophrenic-toothbrush
December 9, 2015 at 09:05
Ive been good so far on ps4 too, however I had one wierd mission glitch, the “first steps quest” right in the beginning of the game where preston tells you to assist ten pines bluff quest well i didnt get that quest instead they gave me a settlement on the other side of the map, I eventually went there like at level 6 and I find out they I need to remove raiders from this mine (dunwich borers). I rock up there and they are majority lvl 30’s. I eventually wandered around the wasteland till lvl 12 put on power armour and defeated them took me over an hour. I was like fallout 4 is super brutal then i do a couple of searches and find out that wasnt supposed to be my starting settlement quest 😛
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:06
LOL that’s funny
GooseZA
December 9, 2015 at 09:48
Same. Level 26 now. Had one cow on a roof. That’s it.
Sageville
December 9, 2015 at 10:25
Same here, although I do find myself singing most of the Diamond City Radio hits now at work as well, people think I’m weird here already so no harm done…
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 10:36
LOL
HairyEwok
December 9, 2015 at 08:54
So still no fix on one of the main issues…. Frame drops zooming in on something in the great outdoors.
Original Heretic
December 9, 2015 at 08:59
I think this news is…
HairyEwok
December 9, 2015 at 09:09
Rad?
VampyreSquirrel
December 9, 2015 at 08:59
I’ve had a funny thing in the PC version since the last update… some doors are just solid blocks of wood/metal, and you get the opening sound, but then have to walk through the solid texture to get into the room/building.
Then I also got stuck on a f’ing car! I mean who gets stuck while walking over a car?
Loftus
December 9, 2015 at 09:03
I have a question for those whom has played played both The Witcher 3 and Fall out 4. Which one had the worst frame rates drops, bugs & glitches. And having played both would you have waited for either to be patched up right before buying ?
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:04
No, not for either of the two. Both works fine prepatch.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:10
Both worked fine from the get go for me. I heard some small things like text being too small on consoles on Witcher, but they fixed that.
Otherwise they were both pretty much great on release.
I don’t check framerates, so I honestly can’t tell you slight differences. No big noticeable differences though.
I’m glad I got both on pre-order. Very much worth it.
Ir0nseraph
December 9, 2015 at 09:11
I picked up the witcher on release, did run into a stage were the game didn’t save progress , waited 2 days for it to be patched, but the game was well worth the it.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:13
My biggest gripe with Witcher 3 is GOG Galaxy.
Then it doesn’t want to patch, then it does. Then you can’t import files, then it won’t sync.
Releasing a game on a beta client was a mistake.
But it runs perfectly on Steam though.
Jan Prins
December 9, 2015 at 09:13
So… Origin not the most hated client about now?
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:15
GOG Galaxy is great. Don’t get me wrong. But it’s still in BETA, so it’s nowhere near where it should be.
I will rather use it than Origin, still. There are better games on Galaxy 🙂
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:16
And Uplay is the most hated. 😉
Hammersteyn
December 9, 2015 at 09:18
At least they listen
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:19
They’re trying. I’ll give them that.
Jan Prins
December 9, 2015 at 09:17
Funny. Origin does all you moan about without hassles, but GOG is still the better client?
LoL. The hate for EA is strong.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:18
Okay, I do hate EA. But honestly, if Origin had the games GOG Galaxy had (and all the extra content), then sure, I would pick it in a heartbeat. It’s super stable.
Jan Prins
December 9, 2015 at 09:20
Heh-heh. I might end up hating Origin after Friday. So watch this space if they bugger up the Get Together expansion pack download.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:23
Hehe.
Witcher 3 on Steam is really nice. It just feels more effortless.
One thing that GOG Galaxy has is the ability to download a patch while you’re playing the game that needs said patch. Then when you exit it just applies it. Even Steam can learn from that.
Jan Prins
December 9, 2015 at 09:24
The PS4 does the exact same thing. Hell, a lot of Apps can learn from that. Nothing worse than logging in to play your game after a week or 2 absence only to be hit with a 5GB patch.
Captain JJ 4x
December 9, 2015 at 09:25
Yea man. It really makes a huge difference.
Didn’t know the PS4 did that too. Points awarded! 😀
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 9, 2015 at 09:12
My only real annoyance with playing W3 immediately was being unable to rebind my keys. But they patched that pretty quickly.
oVg
December 9, 2015 at 09:14
The Witcher 3 went overkill with the annual optimisation code. A bit too much. The original game had great draw distance and textures but poor frame rate on the PS4. Then after V1.10 its NOW the opposite.
VampyreSquirrel
December 9, 2015 at 09:28
Busy playing both at the moment, haven’t patched The Witcher 3 at all (yet) and I haven’t had any frame rate drops, glitches or bugs thus far. Fallout 4 is completely updated to the new patch, but have noticed a couple of glitches since the latest patch (not game breaking) and have no frame rate drops at all.