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  • I am literally replaying Fallout 4 right now without any mods and the game works great.

    I also played Skyrim with mods that were installed in correct order and everything by the book and mods that were supposed to fix bugs actually instroduced game-breaking bugs which I haven’t encountered playing vanilla game.

    Yeah, it’s great there are mods and you can adjust some parts of the game to your liking but attributing the success of those games to mods is misplaced. People keep playing them simply because they are great games and mods support it’s an added bonus. You’ve got other older great games that people still play even though they don’t support mods (The Witcher 3 as a similar example from the top of my head from around the same period as FO4).





  • Your accusations are driven by anger but they don’t make much sense.

    It’s mostly about the timing that is infuriating people. Fallout regained popularity with the TV show and they dropped a mod breaking release days later.

    At the end of last year when Bethesda announced the next-gen update would be delayed, it was already easy to suspect they will be releasing it along with the tv show. As soon as the show premiered, they announced they’ll release the update in 2 weeks. Annoyance by the initial delay aside, this was a perfect moment to release the update.

    dropped a mod breaking release

    Mods are not developed by Bethesda, they are not integral to the game or necessary to play it and you cannot expect Bethesda to align the release date with every “modder” or test for each mod compatibility. Modders are welcome to create mods but it’s not their game - you seem to be implying that Bethesda is required to consult with modders on game development. It’s up to modders to keep their mods up to date with the game, not the other way around.

    Additionally, Fallout 4 has seen a significant increase in sales during that period, which not only confirms it was the right moment to release the update, but also that it brought many new players, who are unlikely to play the game for the first time with mods.

    Now they keep updating it with shit nobody asked for and breaking mods.

    Just because you haven’t been waiting for the update, it doesn’t mean nobody has. Many players waited for this update, myself included. The next-gen update, as the name suggests, is mostly intended for consoles and the game has never looked or run better on my PS5.

    The only reasonable issue you can have with this update is if you’re on PC and playing the game via Steam - they automatically updated the game and don’t allow to rollback. But that should be a protest directed at Steam, if you play the game via GOG, you can easily rollback the update. Or disable the game-breaking mods.

    The article itself is rather unimpressive and not very investigative. Victoria Kennedy did “quick scan over on Steam’s Fallout 4 forums” and decided to make an article about it because she knew mocking Bethesda will bring precious clicks.


  • We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage.

    They are saying like they just invented something amazing, yet they are just pushing a fucking ad.

    The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC.

    How would you know what we actively do on our PCs, huh? Huh???

    Good news is that you can turn off most ads, including app promotions in Windows 11’s start menu.

    For now, but you have to be extremely naive to believe they don’t plan to change this as soons as they reach a certain number of users. They already did things like that in the past.