Fallout 4's next-gen update has been an unmitigated disaster on PC: In exchange for practically no improvements, many of the game's non-Creation Club (read: paid) mods are rendered unusable until the community as a whole or individual mod authors come along With repair. If you already have the game on GOG, you're in luck: downgrading to the latest patch is easy.
On Steam, this is technically possible too… but it's kind of a nightmare.
Nexus user destruction (With help from SC framed) It has a guide to recovering the patch on Steam installed in the Fallout 4 Script Extender comments, and I really don't know how to describe the process other than “ugly”. Requires:
- Learn the Steam controller
- Download 22 GB repositories from SteamDB
- Delete a selection of new files added by the update
- Run Steam offline to play Fallout 4 and remember to delay the update when you're online.
I'm sorry, but this is no way to live. On GOG, through the service's Galaxy Launcher, It's very easy:
- Go to the game settings menu at the top, near the play button
- Click: Installation Management – Configuration – Installation
- Uncheck “Automatically update to latest version” and select the desired rollback patch from the list below.
Now, we come to the issue of Pride: Fallout 4 On sale on GOG for $10 Until May 1st, and transferring saves from the Steam version of the game should be simple – the two even share the same Documents / My Games / Fallout4 / Saves folder. In my opinion, throwing a Tenner on the GOG version is the simplest and surest way to get back into the (modded) game if you're a Steam owner of Fallout 4.
it feels Incredibly bad Despite this, Bethesda has actually been rewarded with the sale of its own game break. There's also the matter of the future—it's only been a day since the patch was released, after all. Bethesda has so far remained mum on the update's reception, but an official fix or rollback may not be out of the question. There's also the issue of what the modding scene will do going forward: there's precedent with The Witcher 3 where modders keep two versions of their projects for pre- and post-public patch releases of the game, but that's not something I think of. D rely on.
Events in the coming days or weeks could make a second Fallout 4 purchase a waste of money, but there's no ideal option for reverting to a modified save right now. I'm in luck: I felt the appeal of Bethesda's 2015 entry, but what I was really craving was a Fallout 1 reboot, and I'm excited to see how things play out with a next-gen patch in the long term.
If you have uranium fever, the $10 GOG version is sitting there like a suckling pig with an apple in its mouth. However, if you stand on principle and go the route of Steam repositories and some sort of rickety offline scaffolding around your game, know that you have my utmost respect.
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