- Rikj000 ( @Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ) English89•7 months ago
My “nExT gEn” update experience:
- Get baited to re-play Fallout 4 through the new TV show + Next Gen update
- Be disappointed since the graphics aged like milk + Official HD texture DLC sucks
- Be disappointed since the update broke nearly all mod support
- Roll back to the release before the Next Gen update + Uninstall the Official HD texture DLC
- Install 205 mods, and happily play with nearly everything in 4K
FYI, most mods I installed are from:
- The Midnight Ride:
https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/ - ESO-UI High End:
https://eso-ui.com/fallout4-high-end/
- 5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English26•7 months ago
- Be disappointed since the graphics aged like milk
That’s kinda spoiled, lol
- kebabslob ( @kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•7 months ago
Brother the company is owned by Microsoft now. You can complain about their product in any way you want. Its sold under Microsoft, you can complain. Again, Microsoft
- 5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•7 months ago
I’m not your brother.
so much about blahaj.zone…
- Zombifrog ( @Zombifrog@lemm.ee ) 9•7 months ago
I’m not your buddy, guy
- 5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•7 months ago
Y u do dis?
- Sturgist ( @Sturgist@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 months ago
Because lol
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English1•6 months ago
It’s an old South Park meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3K2rkkU7g
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English5•7 months ago
No offense but this is totally 🤡 meme. You just walked deeper and deeper into bullshit and convinced yourself to keep stepping the whole way
- ethanolparty ( @ethanolparty@lemmy.ml ) 52•7 months ago
Skyrim Fans:
- Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 49•7 months ago
The updates will continue until morale improves.
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English41•7 months ago
They actually made the load time worse with their update. Not by a little, by a fucking tonne. Going from any interior to outside now takes like a full minute and 30 seconds, its ridiculous.
- passepartout ( @passepartout@feddit.de ) 19•7 months ago
It took that time before the update for me as well. 1-2 minutes for every loading screen. There was a mod for that (before the next-gen update) that you could not load via nexus, bc the setup was a little more conplex, but it worked really well (see https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283 )
The method of this mod was to speed up the fps only while in the loading screen to 300-350 bc the loading times were somehow tied to the fps. Well done Bethesda.
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English4•7 months ago
It seemed a lot faster for me prior to this latest update, but they were never superb. Here’s hoping either the mods can be fixed or bethesda can get their shit together.
- mihnt ( @mihnt@lemmy.ca ) 12•7 months ago
Alt-tab until you hear the music stop and it will load quicker.
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English17•7 months ago
That is the hackiest workaround I’ve ever heard lol but I will give it a shot, thanks.
- mihnt ( @mihnt@lemmy.ca ) 7•7 months ago
Downside is you have to keep the seriously lacking, buggy-ass radio on.
- Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English4•7 months ago
That’s the classic Bethesda experience.
- biribiri11 ( @biribiri11@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 months ago
Hah, those are the load times I used to get on my Xbox One with its dinky HDD. At the very least, The Midnight Ride has been updated to post next-gen, and I now get really small loading times (<5 sec) on my SSD. The game feels less rough around the edges, too. Only took 3 hours to set up :,)
- 100 ( @100@fedia.io ) 31•7 months ago
let me guess, they still did not learn to add a beta branch for the old version after all the shit with skyrim mods and anniversary edition
- FlihpFlorp ( @FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ) English8•7 months ago
I actually downgraded from Skyrim SE to oldrim in November. I started playing modded after a hiatus after the first big update whatever that was
Everything a little harder to deal with but at least I don’t have to worry about it updating
Rip in peace my mod list: from whenever I started to December
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 25•7 months ago
Leave Bethsoft alone guys. They’re all out of fun game ideas and need something to do.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 2•6 months ago
They’re all out of fun game ideas and need something to do.
They could try fixing something for a change
- unalivejoy ( @joyjoy@lemm.ee ) English15•7 months ago
I play vanilla. As long as the updates stop my constant crashes on Linux, update away.
- TheObviousSolution ( @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ) 13•7 months ago
Shouldn’t they just beg Bethesda to incorporate the script extenders directly into the new releases or the script extender devs to update?
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 11•7 months ago
Still haven’t updated to the new update. You just have to swap an app manifest file, takes 5 seconds.
I’m not sure why people with modded setups updated, I guess they had yet to learn that lesson.
- stardust ( @stardust@lemmy.ca ) English1•7 months ago
So current fallout 4 install is fine and safe?
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 2•7 months ago
The one before the ‘next gen’ update.
- stardust ( @stardust@lemmy.ca ) English2•7 months ago
Looks like I’ll have to downgrade then.
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 9•7 months ago
I mean, I get it, I do, I love modding… But can’t they just not upgrade or even downpatch?
- biribiri11 ( @biribiri11@lemmy.ml ) 22•7 months ago
It’s not that they can’t, it’s that people are getting blindsided by updates to a game which supposedly hasn’t received updates for over half a decade, and downgrading on Steam is a surprisingly huge PITA. The Midnight Ride recommends patching, fwiw.
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English4•7 months ago
Why are they accepting automatic updates???
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 9•7 months ago
Because the game is old and hasn’t been worked on in years. They’re no reason to even think about turning off updates for it unless you happen to know the random years later update is coming.
But I learned the hard way awhile ago with Xcom 2. They “update” that all the time, but don’t do anything to the game, is just the shitty launcher they keep updating every month.
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English2•7 months ago
Manual updates are the way. Pin your versions.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 4•7 months ago
Steam doesn’t have a version pinning. Automatic updates are forced.
- biribiri11 ( @biribiri11@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 months ago
In my particular case, I just didn’t know it was enabled (my modding guide mentioned a way to stop it, but I guess I did it incorrectly). The game hadn’t received updates in half a decade, and I don’t really use Steam for anything else. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one in that boat.
- away2thestars ( @away2thestars@programming.dev ) 2•7 months ago
How can you even downgrade on steam?
- AWildMimicAppears ( @a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•7 months ago
you download the corresponding depots using the console / steamcmd. Here’s the process using the console.
- biribiri11 ( @biribiri11@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 months ago
Most tutorials I can find involve enabling the steam cli, then using steamdb to look up the “depots” of previous versions and downloading the old update in chunks, then unpacking and copying the old game files to your install location. Not exactly convenient.
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 1•7 months ago
I thought TMR was getting discontinued over this?
- biribiri11 ( @biribiri11@lemmy.ml ) 6•7 months ago
No, fortunately enough. A FO5 written by Obsidian could be released as a bug-free superset of FO4, but includes the whole USA and the moddinglinked people would still be trying to mod FO4.
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English16•7 months ago
They can. The issue is it’d eventually split the community. Mods that no longer have support will be lost, and the ones that do will either decide it isn’t worth updating each time or have to put up two versions. It also creates needless new work for people, especially the F4SE devs.
- KuraiWolfGaming ( @KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social ) 4•7 months ago
Just look at the current state of Skyrim modding.
Aside from some still holding to LE. There are the 1.5.97 SE users and the 1.6+ AE users. And there have been at least one or two more updates in the 1.6 line that also caused more issues and require their own dedicated builds of various mods.
Its fucked
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 4•7 months ago
Damn shame. I hope they don’t touch my baby NV.
- arefx ( @arefx@lemmy.ml ) 7•6 months ago
Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard. All companies I no longer spend my money on.