We went back to Fallout 76 not too long ago just to see how it was holding up, and do you know what we found? Yep, it's still a technical mess on PS4. As the game's latest press release states, the title is now 100 days old, and it remains an immensely buggy, and in some cases borderline broken open world title on Sony's system. It wasn't good enough at launch, it wasn't good enough after Bethesda issued a "performance enhancing" patch, and it's certainly not good enough now.
We're only bringing this up because Bethesda has outlined three big updates coming to Fallout 76 in 2019. The first, Wild Appalachia, is due this Spring. It adds a new survival mode, as well as new quests, features, and seasonal events. Two similarly structured updates, Nuclear Winter and Wastelanders, are set to arrive in Summer and Autumn, respectively.
It's nice that Fallout 76 is being supported throughout the year, but we find it hard to care when the PS4 version is still in such a shoddy state. We'd ask Bethesda to fix its base game before it starts piling more content on top of it, but given that we've been waiting on any kind of meaningful fixes for over three months, we're assuming that it simply can't be done.
Look, if you enjoy Fallout 76, then that's great -- we're not going to tell you what you should and shouldn't play. But from our perspective, we can't possibly sit and write an objective news story about the game's upcoming content when we know that the base release is still fit to burst with bugs, broken quests, and awful frame rate issues.
Maybe Bethesda can get things running smoothly before all of this stuff hits, but we're not getting our hopes up.
[source fallout.bethesda.net]
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So a roadmap for more glitches and bugs?
I wonder if the game has had 76 patches yet?
NPC's? Half decent PvP? Interesting quests? Not banning players for playing the game a lot? Worthwhile rewards?
Fallout 4 Silver Shroud armour, cool sidequest with extra spoken dialogue tied to the costume
Fallout 76 Silver Shroud armour, that'll be £7 please and no you're not getting any interesting content to go with it
@AdamNovice can’t believe it’s only had 6 patches...black ops has like one a week and played perfectly fine at launch.
The performance really hasn’t been too bad recently (I thought anyways - long load times, random bugs, kinda expect those things to stay forever at this point) the main issue for me is the antiquated gameplay mechanics/feel of the game. For these types of ‘looter shooter/live service’ games everyone wants to make now, you need to make it feel good. For as boring as it is, Destiny feels really good to play - FO76....not so much.
@Stragen8 6 patches, including one that undid all the others
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/01/30/fallout-76-update-brings-back-some-old-glitches/
@Octane yeah - shows that besthesda doesn’t have much experience in patching their games after release 😂😂
besthesda arrogance continues, fix the game.before adding more pointless bug ridden content. The sooner they go the better, it's the only way they might learn
They should look at how Ubisoft were in a similar position with the original Division and how they put all expansions on hold until they fixed the issues from the ground up.
This game won't and can't be fixed! You're fooling yourself if you think it will...
Go buy a better title like Anthem (LMAO)
Bethesda uses the worst engine of the entire AAA industry.
That Skyrim/Fallout engine makes for some shoddy, clunky, glitch filled games.
They can be enjoyable though.
Someone needs to add the Simpsons ‘it’s already dead’ meme.
Each expansion will bring upon more problems.
I don't think it can be fixed. They should just collect all copies of the game into a space shuttle and then autopilot it into the sun.
@Octane I'm excited actually. Let's see what new mess Bethesda will bring at the table.
Also, here's Fallout 76 The Movie: https://youtu.be/T6HdBplLmuU
Its just not very fun, no npcs, no cool gear, no interesting quest lines, just tons of audio logs giving you your next chore. The main questline bugged out for me so I gave up and traded it away while it was still worth some thing.
Wouldn't it be better to... I dunno... maybe fix what's there first, before telling people about all the new bugs and problems you're going to give them over the next 10 months?
And I'm just sitting here wondering what it's going to take for Bethesda to realize that the game is a failure and to stop wasting its money trying to go through the motions like everything is fine.
I've been playing fallout 76 for about e weeks and experienced only 2 bugs so info t see what all the fuss is about it does take a while 2 log in though
That's 3 weeks can't see what all the fuss is about
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