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Fallout: London devs will “downgrade” Fallout 4 to save their massive mod

The game's "next-gen update" threatened to upend years of work on the "DLC-sized" mod.

arstechnica.com

Kinda dumb that Bethesda isn't supporting their community tent pole projects more, instead breaking everything every step of way. Fortunately good guy GOG steps in to help.

 

[mansoor1980]

the update was shite for PC any way , no loss

 

[xrnzaaas]

It should be an option for everyone, not only those interested in Fallout London.

 

[Laptop1991]

Good, loads of PC gamers have downgraded from the useless update on PC anyway, i didn't even update to it, we could of been playing FL all this time, better late than never i suppose.

 

[Guilty_AI]

The "next-gen" upgrade looks completely worthless anyway

 

[StereoVsn]

It should be an option for everyone, not only those interested in Fallout London.

Pretty sure on GoG you can select the version.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Nice. They massively fucked up the update anyway. You couldn't even change graphics options on Steam deck or remove the FPS cap. Bethesda are morons.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Only Bethesda is capable of retroactively fucking up Fallout 4, more than the state they already left it in.
Some speculate it was to screw with Fallout London mod, and less to do with giving us this Next-Gen Fallout 4 Experience.
I had planned to play through and redownloaded it... nope. After a week of reading impressions and finally getting a day off, I uninstalled it and started other games.

A game I liked to play around in here and there, now I don't even want to redownload it because of how messed up the update is.

 

[Roni]

It was the only option from day 0. Brave of them to even give it a try, but Microsoft and Bethesda dropping the update days before the release date for this was a huge middle finger, specially given the state of the update. In fact, I'd say we've been down this road so many times by now that we need actual legislation that states once the game has been out for X amount of time, the publisher should be forced to create a new SKU (like the GOTY versions of the old days) instead of simply releasing a half baked patch and disrupting the entire community around a game that was dormant and being actively worked on by the community.

 

[StereoVsn]

Only Bethesda is capable of retroactively fucking up Fallout 4, more than the state they already left it in.
Some speculate it was to screw with Fallout London mod, and less to do with giving us this Next-Gen Fallout 4 Experience.
I had planned to play through and redownloaded it... nope. After a week of reading impressions and finally getting a day off, I uninstalled it and started other games.

A game I liked to play around in here and there, now I don't even want to redownload it because of how messed up the update is.

Get it on GoG, should be pretty cheap on their current sale.

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition

Please note: With GOG GALAXY you can skip updates you dislike by either disabling the a

www.gog.com

 

[StereoVsn]

It was the only option from day 0. Brave of them to even give it a try, but Microsoft and Bethesda dropping the update days before the release date for this was a huge middle finger, specially given the state of the update. In fact, I'd say we've been down this road so many times by now that we need actual legislation that states once the game has been out for X amount of time, the publisher should be forced to create a new SKU (like the GOTY versions of the old days) instead of simply releasing a half baked patch and disrupting the entire community around a game that was dormant and being actively worked on by the community.

There is no need for diff SKUs. Many other companies use beta branches for previous version patches.

It’s just Bethesda couldn’t be bothered to do a bare minimum to support their customers.