Summary
Fallout 76has received a new update that addresses some major stability issues on PlayStation consoles. And while the game is reportedly no longer crashing as much as it did in recent weeks,Fallout 76players across all platforms are already calling for more updates.
Bethesda’s live-service RPG has been experiencing stability issues on Sony’s consoles for a while now. The volume ofcomplaints aboutFallout 76PlayStation crashesspiked in late April 2024, when many PS4 players found themselves unable to complete a single instance of the then-running Invaders from Beyond event, notable for its enormous enemy quantities. The situation reportedly wasn’t much better on the PS5, with numerous user testimonies suggesting that Invaders from Beyond was also crashing somewhat frequently on the Xbox One.
Fallout 76 PlayStation Version Is Now More Stable
On June 21, Bethesda took the game’s PlayStation servers offline to apply a “small update,” which introduced a number of stability and performance fixes. Earlyplayer impressionssuggest that this patch significantly improved howFallout 76runs on both the PS4 and PS5. Among other things, opening vendor menus reportedly no longer incurs the risk of having the game crash to the infamous PlayStation blue screen of death that merely states “an error has occurred in the following application.” This particular issue was introduced in theFallout 76Season 17 updateon June 12.
Some Fallout 76 Fans Are Asking for More Updates From Bethesda
Weird vendor screen flickering has also been fixed as part of the patch, as was an issue with workbench menu crashes that was more or less identical to the vendor problem. In spite of these improvements, some players are reporting thatFallout 76is still crashing on PlayStation consoles, just less frequently. According to those testimonies, the update reverted the game’s stability to the pre-Skyline Valley levels, with crashes still happening fairly regularly. Given that state of affairs, someFallout 76playersare already calling for Bethesda to do more to remedy the situation, ideally by fixing the game’s (in)stability issues once and for all.
At the same time, players across all platforms have recently taken aim at certain aspects of the newly releasedFallout 76Season 17, including its Dangerous Pastimes event, which has been described as uneventful and lackluster in terms of rewards. Since the first of those complaints surfaced, the activity has completely disappeared from the game, even though Bethesda’s previously communicated plan was to add it to the regular event rotation after the first week. It’s possible that the developer is currently working on tweaking Dangerous Pastimes rewards and mechanics and has intentionally pulled it from the rotation while that effort is underway.
Xbox and PC users can expect their own version of the June 21 PlayStation update during the week of June 24, Bethesda said. And while it remains to be seen how much fan feedback the studio plans to incorporate into its patches moving forward, what’s certain is that the game itself will continue enjoying long-term support. That’s according to Bethesda Executive Producer Todd Howard, who recently suggested thatFallout 76is planned to keep getting updates for at least two more years, and possibly many more beyond that.
Fallout 76
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
