Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition Sparks Backlash as Disgruntled Fans Use Steam Reviews to Express Their Disappointment

Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition was meant to enactment arsenic a solemnisation of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic role-playing crippled connected its tenth birthday. But it turns retired that things haven’t precisely gone to program arsenic the update was met with a backlash connected Steam.

The $59.99 Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition includes the six authoritative Fallout 4 expansions and implicit 150 Creation Club items (paid mods). But there’s besides a Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition upgrade Bethesda is selling to existing owners of the basal game, priced $39.99.

While Bethesda points retired that this upgrade offers a discount connected each the items sold separately, fans person deed retired astatine the pricing for the Anniversary Edition, particularly successful the discourse of Fallout 4 itself being a decennary aged and what the Anniversary Edition really gets you. It’s worthy noting that the Fallout 4 basal crippled is presently $19.99 connected Steam (it launched astatine $59.99), and the Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition, which includes the basal crippled and each the six authoritative expansions, costs $39.99.

The Fallout 4 - Creations Bundle, which includes the 150 paid mods released arsenic portion of the Anniversary Edition, costs $19.99 connected its own. And it’s the Steam store leafage for this bundle that has calved the brunt of the backlash, with a ‘mostly negative’ idiosyncratic reappraisal rating.

Complaints determination study crashing issues, glitches, and adjacent a occupation with getting the caller mods to work. Meanwhile, it sounds similar the Anniversary Edition is breaking anterior mods, though Bethesda warned this would hap erstwhile it came to mods that impact the caller Creation Club menu.

“Be a gamer successful 2025,” reads the astir adjuvant review, according to Steam. “You acquisition the content. You don't get the contented successful game. Bethesda's update causes adjacent much crashes. Trying to discontinue the crippled causes it to crash. GG.”

“It is bugging retired similar brainsick and not giving retired each of the creations that are mentioned successful the bundle,” different reappraisal reports. “Game perfectly refuses to fto you effort to instal thing involving the Creation Club and freezes upon launching and quitting the crippled to the constituent wherever you can’t adjacent usage task manager oregon Steam to unit close. For the emotion of deity Bethesda, this is worse than Skyrim's day launch. Fix your game.”

The absorption connected the Fallout subreddit features a akin sentiment, and yes, the memes person begun.

The backlash has besides spilled implicit into Steam reviews for the Fallout 4 basal game, wherever antagonistic reviews person flooded successful pursuing the Anniversary Edition’s release, causing caller reviews to plummet to ‘mixed.’

“They conscionable killed the crippled with this Anniversary update,” reads 1 antagonistic reappraisal connected the Fallout 4 basal game. “Not going to benignant my 400+ mods arsenic it would instrumentality days. Goodbye Fallout, I would similar to accidental I volition miss you but I won't.”

It’s a disappointing commencement for Fallout’s large propulsion up of the hotly anticipated December motorboat of Fallout Season 2 connected Prime Video. A caller Fallout: New Vegas bundle is besides owed out, with a Fallout TV show-themed update to Fallout 76 besides coming successful December. Hopefully Bethesda tin benignant these issues retired sooner alternatively than later.

Fallout 4 - Creations Menu Update November 10 spot notes:

• Creations Menu: A caller in-game Creations paper has been added, making it easier than ever to discover, download and bask contented from nonrecreational developers and passionate enthusiasts alike.

Gameplay & Performance

• VATS Accuracy: VATS deed chances are present accordant crossed platforms and nary longer driblet to 0% oregon amusement incorrect values. Targeting enemies done walls without the Penetrator perk is nary longer possible.
• NPC Visual Creations: Fixed stuttering and hitching caused by Creations that edit NPC visuals. Performance is improved erstwhile utilizing specified Creations.

Stability & Crashes

• BNET Connectivity: Better handling erstwhile determination is a  Bethesda.net outage
• Crafting Station Crash: Interacting with crafting stations oregon the store connected ultrawide monitors nary longer causes crashes.

Ultrawide & Super Ultrawide Support

• UI & HUD Scaling: UI elements, HUD backgrounds, and point previews present standard correctly for 21:9 and 32:9 facet ratios. Menus, quest updates, tutorials, workshops, and inspected objects are nary longer stretched oregon squished.
• Pip-Boy Map: Players tin present spot markers, accelerated travel, and cookware the representation to the close broadside successful the Pip-Boy erstwhile utilizing ultrawide resolutions.
• Save Preview Images: Save preview images are present letterboxed to debar looking squished connected ultrawide monitors.

Miscellaneous

• Resolution Detection: Autodetect present sets supported show resolutions, preventing crashes connected launch.

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