Today, a new Fallout 4 patch was released for PC, bringing support for May’s Far Harbor expansion and adding Survival Mode, according to an announcement by Bethesda. A beta version is available today on Steam; the final version will come to PC, Xbox One and PS4 in the “coming weeks,” the company says.
The main parts of the new Fallout 4 patch are bug fixes and general stability and performance improvements. It apparently fixes a problem related to the distance check with the Robotics Expert perk, and a problem where lightbulbs in the Workshop would not light as they were supposed to.
Here are the full Fallout 4 Patch 1.5 Update Notes, courtesy of 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
In other Fallout 4 news, Bethesda also said that game’s mod toolsuite, the Creation Kit, remains in closed beta. They plan to add support for it to the 1.5 Steam beta “soon,” while some mods will come later on console, beginning with Xbox One.
Fallout 4’s Automatron expansion dropped in March, while Wasteland Workshop just came out this month – check out our review. Then, in May comes Far Harbor, and Bethesda has hinted that even more DLC will come this year.