After essentially breaking Fallout 4 with its Anniversary update – to say nothing of the Creations Bundle that caused numerous problems – Bethesda has announced a new patch. Meant to address “DLC installation issues, occasional crashing, and general user experience,” it’s laying the groundwork for expanding mod storage on consoles.
Though initially planned for November, it’s now releasing at a later time (most likely with December’s patch). For now, the current patch will help with fixing crashes while improving performance in the Creations menu on all consoles. Softlocking when entering/exiting the menu and the infinite loading that could occur when loading a save file with Creations will also be addressed.
But that’s not all. As a mea culpa of sorts, Bethesda is also providing the “first of several” free Creations. Out later this week, it adds a new quest where players venture down a manhole, solve puzzles and obtain the new unique Varmint Rifle.
While this sounds all well and good, fans aren’t happy about another update potentially breaking their mods, especially after the headache caused by the Anniversary Edition. “The modding community is the backbone of your games that keeps them relevant after all these years, and instead of paying respects to those who dedicate hours out of passion to their projects, you mock them,” commented one user on the post.
Another echoed a popular sentiment: “Just set up a separate public branch so we can choose whenever if we want to use the previous update or not, so we don’t have to worry about an update breaking mod compatibility. All it takes is a few minutes on your end via the Steamworks developer portal to set up a public branch containing the older version.”
Bethesda hasn’t indicated whether it will be doing this or not in the future, but stay tuned for further updates. In the meantime, Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition is available for PlayStation, Xbox and PC with a Switch 2 version out in 2026.
