Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update Is So Bad Fans Are Undoing Bethesda's Work

The long-awaited next-gen upgrade for launched earlier this month on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5. Bethesda promised enhancements such as new Performance and Quality mode settings available across all platforms, as well as stability improvements and fixes, but upon its release, there have been complaints of texture issues, crashes, freezes, plummeting framerates, resolution glitches, and more. The issues seem to be worse on PC in general, but many PC players have found their game in an even more broken state due to the number of mods they'd installed over the years that were no longer supported.

Therefore, modders have taken it upon themselves to offer "" mods that will revert the game to the state it was in before the next-gen upgrade. For those who play on Steam, Bilago’s "" mod tricks the launcher into thinking the game has been updated and will stop it from automatically updating or prompting players to run the update to open their game. Another popular mod by Zerratar, called the "" caters specifically to the issue of players being unable to run non-Creation Club mods.

One of the main issues those with mods had when the next-gen update launched was that it was no longer compatible with the popular Script Extender (F4SE). Script Extender was a third-party mod that — as its name would suggest — expanded the scripting capabilities in that most non-Creation Club mods needed to run without modifying the executable files on disk, ensuring there were no permanent side effects. A similar sort of issue occurred when another of Bethesda's titles,, released its "" patch back in 2021, causing several mods to stop working.

While this largely impacts PC gamers as those accessing on consoles only have access to Creation Club mods, it has caused some contention among the community. Even though it's expected that not every mod will work after a major update to a game, <a href=«https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1781327033718456324?ref_src=» https: