Lightbulb / Lighting issue

[OpenMind23]

Lightbulbs not working properly for me and lighting in general in building mode is glitchy. Sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Im sure it will be fixed but irritating.

I place lightbulb on ceiling and if moved, will never go back on. Sometimes I will return to settlement to find it on again. Its weird. Just another bug found.

Great game thought and keep the fixes coming :-)

[Nite69]

Yep Known issue I have the same bug which is why I don't use them, just use the outdoor industrial style lights everywhere they work fine.

[OpenMind23]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

Yep Known issue I have the same bug which is why I don't use them, just use the outdoor industrial style lights everywhere they work fine.

Oh ok, thanks for info and tip. Cracking out industiral lighting now :-)

[Aston Butterworth]

Yeah. Just press tab and store it in the workshop and then put it back up. Works for me. Just moving them breaks them because Bethesda.

[OpenMind23]

Originally posted by Bronco Grotesque:

Yeah. Just press tab and store it in the workshop and then put it back up. Works for me. Just moving them breaks them because... Bethesda.

Thanks for workaround and response :-)

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Bronco Grotesque:

Yeah. Just press tab and store it in the workshop and then put it back up. Works for me. Just moving them breaks them because Bethesda.

That will fix the bulb itself, but the ambient lighting coming off it still doesn't work all the time.

The industrial wall lights don't have this issue

[OpenMind23]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

Originally posted by Bronco Grotesque:

Yeah. Just press tab and store it in the workshop and then put it back up. Works for me. Just moving them breaks them because Bethesda.

That will fix the bulb itself, but the ambient lighting coming off it still doesn't work.

The industrial wall lights don't have this issue

Just tried this, and I do get the ambience as well. But if you move the light again, the ambience does disappear. If you store it then place it, the ambience is ok if I dont move the bulb at all lol :-)

[White Knight]

I guess I must just be lucky...again. My lights work fine. Haven't had any issues since I grasped the concept of switches and connectors. Some spots at the far end of Home Plate can be finicky but I wouldn't call it "broken" or "glitched" at all.

Lamps, hanging bulbs, fans, wall mounts, industrial halogen things...it's all doing exactly what it is supposed to do. I even stick a vertical connector on the top of old street lights so I can hang some bulbs from them and light up the areas outside. It all works in my game.

I get the impression from many of the comments in here that it is disappointingly popular to cry "it's glitched" when the player simply lacks the understanding of how to make it work.

Suggesting that it is unnecessarily complicated or that the game does a poor job of explaining things to players would be legitimate complaints. This tsunami of faux "glitches" being reported simply makes it less likely that any real problems will get dealt with in a timely fashion.

Or maybe I just got lucky.

[Harmonica]

It's a Bethesda game, you got lucky. Try not to be so patronising. You're a sample size of 1 out of millions of players (and hundreds on this forum alone). When it works for you, that's an exception, you probably didn't do anything special, you just play the game slightly differently and haven't yet run into the trigger cause for this kind of issue. Lights not producing ambient light is not exactly a faux-glitch. It's easily demonstrated in screenshots alone.

Don't worry, this or something else will break and you'll join the rest of us who wonder why something suddenly stopped working.

[ubik]

Originally posted by Bronco Grotesque:

because Bethesda.