Fallout 4's Next Patch Released on PC, Here's What It Changes and Adds

A new Fallout 4 patch landed today on PC, introducing support for May's Far Harbor expansion and adding Survival Mode, Bethesda has announced. A beta version of the update is available today on Steam and the final version will come to PC, as well as Xbox One and PlayStation 4, in the "coming weeks."

For lots more on Survival Mode and how it makes the game even more difficult, check out GameSpot's video above. As for Far Harbor, it is set in a fictional, post-apocalyptic version of Maine's popular tourist destination, Bar Harbor. It represents the largest landmass Bethesda has ever made for expansion content.

The add-on is due to arrive sometime in May, priced at $25.

Today's patch also fixes a number of bugs and offers general stability and performance improvements. Among others, the patch fixes a problem related to the distance check with the Robotics Expert perk, while it also clears out a problem where lightbulbs in the Workshop would not light as they should.

The full patch notes for Fallout 4's 1.5 update, as well as instructions for how to opt in to the Steam beta, can be seen below. Bethesda warned that players using third-party mod managers should back up their saves and disable/uninstall them before applying the update.

Bethesda also said today that Fallout 4's mod toolsuite, the Creation Kit, remains in closed beta. The developer hopes to add support for it to the 1.5 Steam beta "soon," while some of those mods will be later made available on console, beginning with Xbox One.

Fallout 4's Automatron expansion arrived in March, while Wasteland Workshop debuted earlier this month. Looking beyond May's Far Harbor, Bethesda has teased that even more DLC may be on the way this year.

Fallout 4 1.5 Update Patch Notes

Written by Bethesda

New Features

• New Survival difficulty
  • Survival adds additional challenges including no fast travel, saving only when you sleep, increased lethality, diseases, fatigue, danger and more. See the in-game Help menu for more details
  • Characters set to Survival difficulty appear under their own Character Selection filter

Please Note: Survival difficulty characters are not backward compatible with the 1.4 version of Fallout 4. If you opt out of the Beta, do not use Survival character saved games.

• Third-person camera movement improvements when player is close up against walls and other objects

Fixes

• General stability and performance improvements
• Fixed rare crash related to reloading a save that relies on Automatron
• Fixed issue with the robot workbench camera not moving properly immediately after canceling out of the menu
• Fixed issue with perks being repeatedly added when reloading a saved game while in robot workbench
• Fixed issue with Ada not properly traveling to an assigned settlement
• Robots can now be assigned as settlement vendors
• Fixed issue with "Appropriation" where blueprints would not appear properly if the container had already been looted prior to getting the quest
• In "The Nuclear Option," entering the Institute using the targeting helmet on Power Armor no longer inadvertently causes the player to go into combat, and become stuck in the Institute
• Fixed distance check with Robotics Expert perk
• While in Workshop mode, if the Jump button is remapped, the Y or Triangle button can still be used to jump
• Ability to delete downloadable content via the Add-Ons menu (PS4)
• Fixed issue with "Defend the Castle" where speaking to Ronnie Shaw would not properly complete the quest
• During "The Nuclear Option," fast traveling away from the Institute immediately after inserting the relay targeting sequence holotape will no longer block progression
• Fixed issue where Workshop placed light bulbs would occasionally not light properly

How to access the 1.5 Beta

• Log into Steam
• Right Click on Fallout 4 in your Library
• Select Settings
• Select Betas
• A drop down menu will appear. Select Beta
• Select OK
• Wait a few minutes and Fallout 4 should update
• When done, Fallout 4 should appear as Fallout 4 [Beta] in your Library