Fallout 4 Upgrades Are Coming To Next-Gen Consoles

"Bethesda Game Studios is releasing a free Fallout 4 update for download on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.

This free update includes native applications for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Performance mode and Quality mode settings, as well as stability improvements and fixes. Experience up to 60 FPS and increased resolutions!"

[darthv72]

Very nice. Im sure many may start a new game to experience it all over again in better performance. I just did the same with FO3.

[Obscure_Observer]

New game for me too.

That black power armor from Enclave and the new Tesla Cannon looks badass!

[GamerRN]

I've had 60fps on Series X already since it launched. Is this different?

[Tacoboto]

Maybe try reading the article, or even the description below the headline.

That 60fps is the system-driven FPS Boost, this is a full current-gen optimized release making its way to PS5 too alongside other updates impacting all versions.

[--Onilink--]

In terms of performance, not really. FPS boost was already getting the game to 60.

But they are adding some other fixes and adding some stuff for free from the Creation Club

[darthv72]

Yes. It is native Series X upgrade instead of using the XBO back compat game with FPS boost.

[GamerRN]

Ok, so it'll be 60fps just like before, with the same 4k upgrade it already had.... Got it

[Tacoboto]

Maybe not. That's a wait-to-find-out. FPS Boost on Series X runs in the One S mode as opposed to the 4K One X mode. It could be that the new Performance Mode is actually tweaked to the new consoles instead of the base-last-gen mode, and Quality should obviously be improved over that One X mode.

[GamerRN]

Fallout 4 stays 4k in fps boost mode...

[Tacoboto]

No it doesn't. It runs in the One S mode.

[GamerRN]

Ok, maybe, who knows

[GamerRN]

I love how people are such Richards when you ask a question... Why can't gamers just be helpful? Why do people feel it necessary to be so mean instead of just answering a simple question?

[Tacoboto]

You attempted denying a fact, after you asked a question that's literally answered in the description of the article.

Who's the Richard, the one giving you the right answers or the person not bothering to read?

[ocelot07]

It's such a good game. Still play it on pc every so often years after release. Can't wait to try it on ps5.

[VenomUK]

Will the PS5 version have DualSense updates?

I know Sony mandates that PS5 games must have but I don’t actually know if a PS4 game updated to PS5 also counts.

[ocelot07]

Not to sure. I hope it does that would be great.

I also loved fallout vr on pc. I hope they bring fallout 4 vr to psvr2 but I doubt it.

[jimb0j0nes]

Back on the wagon I go...

[mudakoshaka]

You mean off the wagon?

[Terry_B]

*current gen consoles

[ZeekQuattro]

You'd think after damn near a 4 years people would stop calling current gen next gen. I know 2020 was an unprecedented year but damn. 🤣

[Profchaos]

Agree IGN still run a next gen console watch for machines we've had since 2020 it's becoming a joke

[isarai]

I dunno, with how slow of a start this gen has been compared to others, i kinda get it 🤷‍♂️

[Johnh5223]

The show was good too.felt like playing fallout

[KyRo]

Hopefully they've fixed the awful look/aim feeling ok the analogue sticks that all Bethesda games are plagued with. Probably not as it's Bethesda but I can hope

[Brazz]

Imho, Fallout is Bethesda best IP. I never managed to dig in TES:Skyrim, but Fallout is just amazing.

[VincentVanBro]

This patch also brings ultrawide support to PC! 😊

[MrDead]

MY MODS!!!

This is when I regret having over 250 mods for fallout 4... and no not all of them are 18+, I have a HQ sky texture mod too.

[Juancho51]

*stands up*. welp, guess ill be dumping another few hundred hours into this masterpiece game again.

[Fonsecap]

I don't know if I want to update, many many mods will get broken and they're authors will not update them for sure, there are so many mods that gamers use today that don't receive an update in years...

[MrDead]

Best thing to do is turn off auto update if you're on Steam and wait for the mods to catch up. It takes me the best part of a day to update everything and check the load order hasn't been messed up. My big problem is that I have pre- combines turnd off in the settlements and scrap everything mod, two things that can be a nightmare to work together, so if I decide to update things may be a total mess in my settlements.

[P_Bomb]

Native upgrades? Great news! I didn’t get very far, but it’s still on my to-do list. This motivates me.

[Firebird360]

Needs cross save with pc/console/steam.

[Psychonaut85]

Sweet! Had my fingers crossed about this. Free to all platforms, good news. I played about a third of the way through it at release, and I was so burnt on brown wasteland games at the time I crapped out. Be waiting for this to try again. And it won’t bother me so much since half the developers now have unicorn vomit on the screen as their color pallet.

[chronoforce]

I had to mod the game to make it playable. Now that I am over 120h into the game the load times are unbearable, even with the game installed on an NVMe drive and running on a 5900x. Quite the skill that is. Maybe this update will change that I can an un-mod it and finish the game properly.

[DafunkyRebel]

April 25th I think

[P_Bomb]

Indeed, April 25 is what I’m seeing.

[Falloutxii]

It's a good game just not a very good Fallout game. New Vegas still holds the crown.

[victorMaje]

Happy for those who liked FO4.
Personally I’d like to see New Vegas remastered. Now that’d be a day 1 for me.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Fetchquest 4 is finally getting updated. I figured they moved on at this point.

[Kyizen]

Was thinking about playing Falliut 4 never played it. Loved 3 at launch but never finished New Vegas

[Demetrius]

This is going to be my 1st fallout game, I been craving another post apocalyptic title, I recently finished metro exodus, last of us 2, on my 2nd playthrough of dying light 2 and horizon fw

[purple101]

that's a whole lot of apocalypse

[Profchaos]

I hope they have save transfers and hopefully trophies transfer I have a platinum for fallout 4 I'm not enduring that again but I'll replay the story

[dmonee]

Will they use the SSD drive for faster loading or is this just a quality of life upgrade

[Aussiesummer]

So nothing amazing, I was thinking if starting a new game on pc since building my first but was waiting to see if that version was getting anything but no so I'll just play with some mods I guess, I hope someone is able to do an rtx remix on pc, how sick would that be!

[isarai]

Dope, i never got too far into this game, seems like a good reason to jump back into it

[CobraKai]

Ive been holding off on replaying cuz i heard there was a next gen patch incoming. I can’t wait for this

[ObsessedGeorge]

Ok, so does the free update apply to us that have the game downloaded free from PS Plus Essential?

[gold_drake]

9 years later

to be fair, we've been in this gen since end of 2020. but still lol

[marioJP87]

Was hoping I was gonna see something about “unlocked frame rate” 😭

[gerbintosh]

25 April, in case anyone was wondering

[jznrpg]

Hated the base building. Felt like a chore

[Gabrielmpf]

Calling Next-Gen consoles four years into this generation...
I wonder what they will call the "next" generation when it arrives in a couple of years.