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First Fallout 4 Steam beta patch in the wild
- Thread starter Krakn3Dfx
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Zombie James
Banned
Looking at the changelog, I expected something far more substantial.
Maintenance
Member
That's it? Seriously?
funkystudent
Member
Hopefully that isnt the full patch when it hits everybody.
The Fallout dev team had a blog post the other day saying they're going to roll out numerous small patches for PC, then compile it into one big patch for consoles.
Don't change too much in one go or you risk breaking more and have a harder time figuring out what part broke it. They're making small changes in the beta patches, then firing everything off to public afterwards.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I agree with this method of patching
Granted I'm not playing on PC (XboxOne), but I've ran into a super small amount of bugs, all of which were basically hilarious and fixed themselves.
Here's what I've seen.
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Hancock's
- Weapons disappearing, but when swapping to another and back it reappears
- Brahmin on rooftops
And I think that's it. New Vegas was Waaaay more buggy at launch and I still loved it. Is PC far more bug ridden?
Dick Justice
Banned
Did they fix the crashes around Monsignor Plaza?
Roni
Gold Member
I played for some 50 hours and faced a couple of terminal bugs. Some provisioners/brahmin on top of rooftops and 1-2 buggy repeating quests.
Fixed the rooftop situation and the quests with console commands.
Overall, pretty good given what I was expecting.
Worst bugs I've encountered on the PC is Dogmeat getting stuck in doors that load either outside/inside areas, Caravan Brahmin with no sign of the Caravan operator and
wandering the Wasteland and forcing me to run to them to continue a quest line. Nothing game breaking so far, still can't believe I have yet to have a CTD in my 28 hours of playtime. FO3/NV crashed all the time for me.
Sturgess
EuricaeriS
Member
His Majesty
Banned
Any news about a fix for the broken movement keys in settlement mode?
Death Penalty
Member
Playing on PC here and it actually seems there's a pretty small amount of bugs so far. Most of mine have involved my weapon rarely disappearing when I swap it or my Pip-Boy needing to be closed and reopened to display properly. I had one instance of the game freezing for a few moments and then teleporting me a little bit away from where I was, but other than that this is a much tighter experience than I had with New Vegas.
Dying for some stability and performances fixes, though. As some others have reported I get weird drops in performance in places that make little sense.
Brahmin are buggy as shit, but I kind of don't want them fixed.
Although next time I went back, the one on the generator was dead
Coma Ecliptic
Member
Boots up, goes to Corvega immediately, nice...Drops previously in the 30fps range now 48 - 62fps with everything on ultra.
Nice, improvement.
Nice, improvement.
Roni
Gold Member
If you're playing on PC and it's irritating you, you can open the console, hover over the brahmin to get its id and then type:
prid <id>
moveto player
That should clear ir.
Lanrutcon
Member
Here's some of the fun ones:
A few of my settlements are showing 0 people, but each have max people. I run no settlement mods. They will, periodically, get 17 people again. Then lose them.
I've got 2 settlements showing a certain number of people, but have less on site. The other people were npcs I recruited that simply never reached the site, but are still counted to the population total.
I've got 5 side quests in my log that can't be finished. This ranges from npcs getting stuck in scenery, not spawning, or me simply doing things the developers didn't account for.
I've had to use the console to skip 2 main quests that bugged out. I googled these quests. I am very much not alone when it comes to them bugging out.
My gun sometimes disappears (but can still fire) until I zoom in and out. Again, this is pretty common if the tech forums are anything to go by.
Sometimes I switch to a weapon, and because the model has to load, I'm stuck without a gun for 3 to 7 seconds in a fight. This seems like terrible, terrible design. Unsure why the model takes so long occasionally, as my performance is pretty slick.
Sometimes certain textures don't load their proper versions and stay with the low res initial load versions. Downtown Boston has this in spades.
Corpses disappearing with the Bloody Mess perk. Like, blow the dude up, watch the pieces go everywhere and then poof like magic, gone. With the loot. Normally you can just loot the chunks, but in this case the chunks literally disappear as they settle from the physics. Bye bye legendary loot.
Roni
Gold Member
Officially stoked, wanna go home to play now...
Schnozberry
Member
Hopefully they get around to fixing the terminal bug for us 144hz users. Limiting my framerate to 60fps to avoid getting stuck has made for a juddery experience.
Promising, anyone else getting performance improvements in areas where performance tanks?
uncelestial
Member
So no SLI support? Fucking goddamnit.
Edit: Certainly running less erratically, but I seem to be capped at 45fps for some reason?
Edit: Certainly running less erratically, but I seem to be capped at 45fps for some reason?
ShadowSoldier89
Member
that sounds really good. At the top of corvega I was getting 30 flat, was super awful
MiguelItUp
Member
That happened to me like 3 times in a row! I just heard a repeating "smashing" sound and constant mooing and was wondering what it was. Looked in a room of one of the houses and it was in there bouncing all over the place.
Do you have any mods installed?
Ricerocket
Member
I drop into 50s around the whole rooftop/buncha stairs area of that place and not indoors. Hopefully that means 60 solid and translates to further out areas if that works out good for ya.
MadClacker
Member
Honestly, as long as there's no save game bug that deletes your progress like NEW VEGAS, I'm happy. In all honestly, FALLOUT 4's launch has been one of the smoothest games Bethesda has put out, technically.
funkystudent
Member
Outside of the random major performance drops on consoles I haven't hit that many bugs outside of physics being silly.
I think the game could use a whole bunch of usability improvements though.
Let me sort my gear by category and weight and have it clearly ladled as such
Have the world map show me where every companion is.
The entire crafting / modding system needs a slap with the usability brush.
Settler assignment needs some kind of pop up that says who is doing what.
I totally dont expect Bethesda to improve any of that though. The inventory is busted in the exact same ways Skyrim was.
Also maybe patch it so NPC's and companions dont spawn on roof tops I cant reach.
Also stop the Brahmin from spawning inside my house and unable to leave because it cant fit though the door.
I think the game could use a whole bunch of usability improvements though.
Let me sort my gear by category and weight and have it clearly ladled as such
Have the world map show me where every companion is.
The entire crafting / modding system needs a slap with the usability brush.
Settler assignment needs some kind of pop up that says who is doing what.
I totally dont expect Bethesda to improve any of that though. The inventory is busted in the exact same ways Skyrim was.
Also maybe patch it so NPC's and companions dont spawn on roof tops I cant reach.
Also stop the Brahmin from spawning inside my house and unable to leave because it cant fit though the door.
Coma Ecliptic
Member
I went to Diamond City near the Church and the ocean, steady 62FPS with some drops to the 50'ish range. This is definitely not a placebo, for me it's running very nicely. I tested it with my SLI bits set and without SLI, both the same.
EDIT
I made sure I deleted all custom INI's and no mods running, wanted to test the vanilla experience.
Zombie James
Banned
Up to double the performance sounds more than nice to me. Hopefully this means we'll finally get the "solid 30fps" that was promised on the PS4.
Roni
Gold Member
My performance in Corvega was OK, it was the area around Goodneighbor that fucked my FPS badly. Fluctuating anywhere from 30-60. Hopefully some more people report back on that area specifically.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
Hopefully they patch the Feeding the Troops repeatable quest - I've only ever done County Crossing, didn't realise I had done the same one until deja vu kicked in after the 3rd time .
A mate of mine is also stuck on Feeding the Troops due to him killing the farmer that he was assigned to previously... which makes it unfinishable for him.
At least I can keep on going back I guess lol
Edit: Beth if you're reading this, can you make it visible what duty each settler has when you highlight them, it's a bit annoying having to play roulette with them and see if your other resources go down when assigning them to a new duty.
.A mate of mine is also stuck on Feeding the Troops due to him killing the farmer that he was assigned to previously... which makes it unfinishable for him.
At least I can keep on going back I guess
lolEdit: Beth if you're reading this, can you make it visible what duty each settler has when you highlight them, it's a bit annoying having to play roulette with them and see if your other resources go down when assigning them to a new duty.
Lanrutcon
Member
Yeah, that's the one.
You on PC? there's a bunch of console commands you can use to get through.
I have that issue too
Yeah, I'm on PC. I see that I can use the console to get my way through it but it seems that it bugs the next quest in the line anyway. Really hoping that they just fix it.
boredandlazy
Member
I want them to fix the bug that prevents me from choosing Tina as a companion. Also if you try looking at the pip boy whilst stealth closed its also invisible so youcantactually do anything in it.