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The Fallout 4 next-gen update announced in 2022 will finally be out later this month

Almost in time for the Fallout TV series on Amazon.

Hot on the heels of the very good Fallout television series on Amazon, Fallout 4 is getting a bunch of new features, fixes, and content courtesy of a big "next gen" update that's set to go live on April 25.

You may recall that this update was actually announced back in 2022 as part of Bethesda's 25th anniversary celebration for Fallout, with a rollout slated for 2023. As 2023 faded into memory with no sign of the update, it was eventually pushed into 2024: We speculated at the time that Bethesda was holding it back for a release alongside the Fallout series, possibly to give Fallout 4 a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners-style sales boost, and now here we are, not quite spot on but close enough to count in my book.

The update is aimed primarily at bringing Fallout 4 to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles with improved graphics and 60 fps gameplay, but it's also coming to previous-gen consoles, and yes, PC too.

The PC update will add support for widescreen and ultra-widescreen displays, update some quests, make fixes to the Creation Kit, and add a number of "stability, mods, and bug fixes," including to the Japanese and Chinese language versions of the game, which will have access to mods restored. Fallout 4 will also finally be Steam Deck verified, and it will be released on the Epic Games Store.

Also part of the update are Enclave-themed Creation Club items including new weapon and armor skins, the Tesla Cannon, Hellfire and X-02 power armor, and the heavy incinerator, and a new quest called Echoes of the Past that will challenge players to stop the Enclave from establishing a foothold in the Commonwealth. The Enclave, you'll recall, is a fascist paramilitary organization that served as the primary antagonist in Fallout 2 and also played a major role in Fallout 3, in which it suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Brotherhood of Steel.

There's also a new Makeshift Weapon Pack featuring a baseball launcher, a nail gun, and a piggy bank, and Halloween decorations for your settlement.
The Fallout 4 next-gen update will go live on April 25 on Steam, GOG, the Microsoft Store, and the Epic Games Store.

Bethesda and "Next-Gen" that's a scary thought. They butchered Skyrim with their retarded edition (still waiting for the GoG legendary classic skyrim edition btw), and no doubt Fallout 4 will be an even bigger mess. Not to mention that they will probably kill off all the classic versions in the process.

If only they'd actually integrate the unofficial patch and other engine and community fixes into the game, but knowing Bethesda they'll just break mod lists yet again with no real benefits

Yes, and it's for the better to back up the existing offline installer files. I doubt they will add a second "hi-res" pack, but who knows.

So they're going to release a patch that will inevitably break all mods... one day before the massive Fallout London mod is set to launch,

oh okay, nice!, maybe then, i can finally play the game through to the end.

They say you should at least finish one Bethesda game in your life ....

Anyone remembers Asylum, that so-called B-movie company that made cheap knock-offs/rip-offs of famous movies, usually by changing a word here or there so that it wasn't called infringement? Think they also spawned several other companies in their wake... These movies where pretty much the definition of *brain-dead* (fun cult movie by the way, NOT made by The Asylum) story and terrible acting.

Bethesda has become their own parody, especially after Starfailed and continued middle-finger to the modding community. While fun, FO4 has a weak story and is a weak rpg. I actually was more excited to play Fallout London than finishing the main story in FO4, just like I enjoy Enderal more than the main campaign in Skyrim.

Though, I do plan on finishing both games, sometime.

However, as always, we'll see how it goes...

Bethesda makes dungeon crawlers, not RPG-s. And speaking of dungeon crawlers, Souls games have more RPG elements than Bethesda games:(