Fallout 76 has launched in bad shape. The game's annoyingly unstable at the best of times on PlayStation 4, and at its worst it's an absolute mess. Stuttering, frame rate issues, and tons of bugs, Fallout 76 has it all.
Fortunately, Bethesda says that it's working on improving the technical performance of the release. Over on its official site, the developer has laid out a relatively vague road map regarding upcoming patches -- the first of which will apparently be detailed early next week.
"The next update will focus primarily on game performance and stability on all platforms but will also come with a list of fixes to quests, UI, C.A.M.P.s, and more. Patch notes will be available early next week. This update will be large compared to what we expect for patches going forward. Regular updates will always vary in size, but future updates should be much smaller in comparison." In other words, expect a big-ass update full of nothing but fixes.
Let's hope that the patch works, because right now, Fallout 76's performance is a total embarrassment.
In other news, we should have a full review for you very soon.
[source fallout.bethesda.net]
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Considering the amount of fixes it needs I'll expect another 51GB patch, lol.
why even launch it then? take another 3 months to cook it some more and let RD2O have its launch. this idea from publishers that releasing a broken or unpolished games and that simply 'telling the community to expect so' isn't going to affect sales or brand rep is just baffling, and then they wanna go up against RD2O, this aint it chief
Reads like a 10
Kotaku were bloody defending Bethesda's continuous use of their engine, which is laughable. Even Push Square's own article was mentioned.
they also need to balance the heck out of the game, it's broken.
@AdamNovice yes, i dont kotaku they approved of the coverage on here lol.
Yet thesixthaxis have published their review.....3/10!! 😬
It's the marketing and social media teams over at Bethesda I have sympathy for right now.
They must feel like this at the moment:
i really don't understand whats happening , i have pre ordered the game fallout 76 from the US store and every time i log in from the game menu , it says "Connection failed" waiting for server .... - Can someone explain what the hell is going on?
@Huss server problems most likely.
after all the entire game is bad so the servers most likely as well.
Unless you have this problem with other online games?
Glad ive been too busy w rdr to even start 76.
Maybe its better for bethesda to delay it rather than release it right now? Or scrap it and make a new engine instead.
@RogerRoger Or something like this
@Huss
@jdv95 No I don't have problems with any other online game -
Probably the server like you said but this unacceptable - i ve been trying to log in since Nov 14. Is there a patch coming soon or am i never going to play this game. WASTE OF MONEY
sold my copy already only lost seven pound think they need rockstar to make the next fallout
@Huss there is a patch coming soon fixing all kinds of problems so hopefully the servers will be fixed aswell.
if not,then i would just sell the game and get atleast some of your money back.
@jdv95
Sadly looks like from their other post they bought it digitally. Mind if been obvious for weeks what a poor state the game is in, so people should of waited. I really hope the game bombs and only then might bethesda stop being so arrogant.
I rented this from RedBox to see if it was THAT bad.
Oh yeah... It's bad! Not only is the frame rate awful, but the game world is REALLY sparce. I spend more time walking than doing anything else; it's not engaging at all! I'll forget what I'm doing because I can just turn my brain off and walk to a marker and not encounter anything! There is also absolutely no reason, lore wise, why NPCs are not in the game! There are dead ones EVERYWHERE! How? How did they all die? EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. It makes no sense, and the game is worse off for it.
However, there are some really cool enemies. Like the Wendigo or Grabahan (?) Monster. I almost never see them though. Just Scortched, Super mutants, and Feral Ghouls.
Shooting feels terrible too, although that's probably due to the frame rate and the lack of aim assist. The depth of field and grainy high contrast also gives me damned headache...
Waste of 7 dollars. But now I can talk @#*$ about it, hey? Hahahahaha
Just a thought but why not try and finish making your game before releasing it 🤔
@carlos82 👍 Seems like normal to finish a game after it releases. Yeah liveserviceee to keep the little kids happy. 🤢🤮
@Flaming_Kaiser modern gaming be damned
@carlos82 I see you have great taste Resident Evil 2. 😃
@Flaming_Kaiser loved this game so much back then and it making me jump when a licker jumps through a window and the B game changing everything with Mr X. One of my favourite games ever so I'm quite looking forward to January and playing some Castlevania in the meantime
@carlos82 The jumpscares where fantastic.
Man i feel old i miss these things where you get blown away by these things when you are younger and less stuff to worry about. 😉
Did you ever play Resident Evil 4 that game was great as well most Resident Evil where though. And i dont understand they do not make a new Breakout singleplayer game with drop in (online)coöp.
@Flaming_Kaiser I know how you feel.
Resident Evil 4 is a great game and I replayed it recently on the Wii and I'm always tempted to get it again on PS4, definitely one of my favourite franchises particularly up to number 4. Never played Outbreak as it didn't have online in Europe but yeah in today's age the potential would be huge for something like that
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