Fallout 4 is back, transitioning to Xbox Series X and S consoles along with PlayStation 5. New quality and performance modes are added, so how do they stack up – and is the promise of ultra settings delivered? Meanwhile, what’s the score with the PC version? Tom Morgan takes a look.
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00:00 – Intro
01:38 – PC Ultrawide Issues and PhysX Crashes
03:12 – Xbox Series X and S Mode Selection Bug
04:31 – PS5 vs Series X and S Graphics Comparison
06:04 – PC Ultra Settings Compared to Console
07:44 – Xbox Series X/S Analysis
10:35 – PS5 Analysis Tested
14:10 – Conclusion
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I made a video on this update and people in the comments were actually defending this update. Ridiculous how dumb customers are and it’s the reason devs/publishers keep getting away with the this stupidity
Funny how even when a company is owned by Microsoft programmer bias still exists uhh 🙄
honestly the 60 fps is all i need. and I'm glad you can have the quality mode and 60 fps.
Best thing you can do is just stop buying Bethesda games.
I can't even play the game it crashes every few minutes and whenever I use the map and that's unmodded on Xbox.
Tbh, I'm just happy the game works on series S now, I couldn't get through Boston without crashing with the seemingly unoptimized for next gen XOne version
The mods are completely broken, cant open mod meny after the update, game corrupts my saves constantly, loading screens are even slower than before. Im on ps4 pro
For those of us still using 1080p displays, does the game play at 60 FPS at all times like the 1440p output?
wish you mentioned the steamdeck verified thing. They just disabled the launcher, so you can't change most settings.
There is still no support for the 21:9 format on PC, it is a prosthesis in which the UI does not scale and is stretched, its elements overlap and are unreadable, Bethesda did what I did after the premiere – they edited the ini file. These are all Bethesda prosthetic specialists. And these FPS drops from 165 to 20 are great Next-Gen and in my case the entire Brotherhood of Steel quest line is bugged and I can't complete any quest related to them. So Next-Gen on PC doesn't exist, it's crap from Bthesda that brings nothing but trash to the creativity club and at the same time ruins the game even more than it was before the patch.
And Bethesda still doubling down that the toggle does work on Xbox. So sad.
Makes my ps5 loud lol
The biggest oof was Auto HDR that Xbox did got deleted, honestly helped a lot in some areas and made the game look better
whats next gen about it
PC 60 FPS limit? Hmm, that's strange.. I hit 144 FPS in some locations, (144hz monitor) – No mods used, no Nvidia settings changed. Outta the box. Should i be worried? ^^
I started to watch your video, but with in the first two minutes you were giving out false information. I had to soft lock my video card to 60 FPS because I was getting an average of 83 FPS and for me anything above 60 is just creating heat in my case needlessly. How about doing a little actual research before you make a video.
Why do people want to go back to this shtty game? I don’t get it..
Its actually really nice on ps5 with 1440p moniter 120hz its crazy smooth
They, Bethesda, conveniently left out that they've enabled DRS and it doesn't look like there's a way to turn it off.
For people like me on ps5 who havent played this game since launch, the update is more than enough. Feels like i'm playing it for the first time.
Question: Why aren’t gaming media companies keeping Bethesda accountable? Seems to be that no one is keen on asking any questions & getting on their bad side 🤷
Bethesda is mediocre at best. Xbox made a huge mistake buying them….. Atleast fire the developers that just suck at their job, especially the gane engine people.
Nothing new, Bethesda studio still pathetic since 2015. Don't pre-order anything from them in future.
This is par for the course for Bethesda. They've been expecting modders to fix their games for many, many years. There's a reason why the best Fallout game isn't even made by Bethesda at all.
Amazing! Microsoft buy Bethesda and Bethesda release a incredible better next-gen upgrade in ps5 than xbox…. Hahahah. Now, when Starfield release in PS5, i am sure run better than PC jhahah
I expected nothing and still was disappointed 🤣
Why did they bother releasing this on pc its like they want to sabotage their old studio so they can cash out from the buy out because they are still obligated under contract to produce projects until they get that big pay day from the buy outt. Surprised M$ hasn't caught on to this and threatened them with legal actions. Buying studio's is always useless better off buying the IP instead.
At this point, Bethesda should just pay modders to do the job, this is just pure incompetence.
Man, what an outcry there would have been if it was PS5 that had issues and not Xbox 😂 "Microsoft did it on purpose!!"
God I hate the 4K priority developer trend…
I would rather have better frame rates WITH higher settings at a lower resolution vs aiming for that 4K target any day of the week!!
At least Insomniac gets it
It truly is the definition of insanity.
Hard to comprehend how these companies just release this sh1t
bethesda plus microsoft have so much money but they disappoint so much with their developers, widescreen mode not even well made, thats just sad by the corps and the coders.
Only for Xbox lmao yall can cry about it, us ps5 users chillin
Sooo to sum it up… This was pure capitalization on the back of the TVseries lol
They didn’t really do much graphically and they ruined all the old mods. GG Bethesda you rock at shitting the bed
Leave it to Bethesda to make even their older games worse with an half-assed "upgrade" which barely works as promised. That studio is just beyond ridicule.
Flex still crashing on RTX cards is the biggest offence here. Bethesda just doesn't care.
I had to pay $20 for this on PS5, I’ve owned the game since launch in 2015.
I don’t really care because if I didn’t have 20 bucks to blow then I shouldn’t be buying video games anyways but still, didn’t hear that big mentioned at all.
I hate Bethesda games. They are just not state of the art.
Bethesda screws up again, first with Starfield, then with FO4's update making things worse and who does MS fire? The other devs they acquired.
It doesn't surprise me that they make a big deal out of upgrading the game and they not only don't fix a single game breaking bug that is notorious or otherwise? But add in more.
It's the same with Skyrim, play the 360 version or the PS5/XB/Switch version- they all still have the same well known game breaking bugs. That excuses the fact they're charging $60 for an 11 year old game. They made it look better, who cares about the wide range of problems.
Typical bethesda.
I look forward to who Microsoft closes next time because of their mistakes.