Far Harbor crashing PS4

[basketcaseNZ]

Hi. Sorry I'm not sure if this is the right place, I couldn't find a tech support forum.

I'm playing on the PS4 and started experiencing crashes as soon as I left the town of Far Harbor. I've searched and the only thing I can find is to reinstall FH but I have the edition with the DLCs bundled so I don't think I can do that, or to disable all mods, which I tried.

I was wondering if there'd been any solutions discovered since then, though I suppose there's not much chance. I'd just about given up on it but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Maybe someone here came up with a workaround or if there's a mod or something.

Thanks everyone.

[Liquid Inc]

im not even sure playstation allow mods, do they? (haven't had a PS since the 3, so im clueless these days)

If your disabling mods, remember not to try the same save (go back to before you added them, or start a new game). it won't end well otherwise, as the game will still have those mods within the save. It'll just break things.

Only thing you can do to test is disable the mods, start a new game, and run there (which you can do at level 1)
Then, reenable and try it again. If it crashes you know it's a mod causing it. If it doesn't, your mods are good, and the current save is broken.

[The Inept European]

First try disabling your most recently added mods and reload your current save.
Then try disable all mods and reload your current save.
If that does not work you may have to disable all mods and start a new game. As noted you can run straight to Far Harbor. That sucks I know.

The other thing you can do actually, maybe do this first, is do a hard save and then delete all your quicksaves and auto saves. You can get save file corruption on the PS4 just like you can on the PC, from repeatedly overwriting the same auto saves and quick saves, and the symptoms can be very weird.

Worst case you may have to reinstall the game. Be careful to save your save games to Cloud save, BUT, beware also that your saves may be 'contaminated' with corrupt data.

Another approach is to go back through saves, most recent first, and if they error out, delete that one, and go to the previous one. And so on. This is after disabling all mods.

With the PS4 you do not have a lot of options when things go wrong. Luckily they do not go wrong very often (except for mods), otherwise Sony get Todd in their back room and starting adjusting his number of digits.

[basketcaseNZ]

Hi. Thanks very much for the responses. I took your advice and started a new game with no mods, not even survival mode. And I just have to say, its been ages since I played vanilla Fallout 4 but I can't believe how fast you level up. I literally ran straight from vault 111 to Far Harbor, not killing anything or doing any quests at all, just running right there and I was level three when I got there. Level three for literally doing nothing. Anyhoo...

So I ran around on Far Harbor for a while, making sure to go to one spot that it always crashed and had no problem at all. Smooth as silk. So I enabled the mods... and crash. So I started going through each mod until I eliminated all but one. Turns out the unofficial patch was the culprit.

So I'm pleased. It means I can play it. In a couple of months when I do another playthrough I'll have something new to look forward to. I'll just start without the unofficial patch, play Far Harbor sooner rather than later, and enable to patch when I've finished.

I wouldn't have thought to do this unless you'd suggested it, and had written off ever getting to play it. So thanks.

I'm wondering if I should let the patch guys know about this.

[The Inept European]

Great detective work and I'm so glad you got your game back. If you got a crash with only UFO4P loaded you should definitely let them (Arthmoor & team) know on their bug tracking site.