Special Edition of Fallout 4

[Tufack007]

Does anyone know what condition the improved version is in now? I know that it was postponed, it seems like it should be released along with the series. Maybe I missed something from the latest news?

[MOON LEGS]

I thought the tradition was every 10 years? This game was released in 2015, shouldn't that give us another year till special edition? Maybe that doesn't matter anymore.

[Fear2288]

They’re likely not going to do with Fallout 4 which they did with Skyrim. Meaning - there will not be some kind of new version of the game that’s separate from the original, like how Skyrim Legendary Edition (2011) is a separate game than Skyrim Special Edition (2016).

There is an upcoming “Next Gen Update” though. It was first announced a couple years ago but was delayed into this year. What it contains is still a mystery. The name would suggest it’ll perhaps include high resolution/better textures, maybe improved lighting, some adjustments for modern hardware (like monitor sizes), and/or support for modern graphics card features.

However, if it’s just a patch, they can’t change too much. It’ll all be surface-level stuff, as anything more than that would require upgrades/improvements to the engine - and that would probably need a full “new” release.

They haven’t indicated when this update will roll out, but it feels likely that it’ll coincide with the release of the Amazon Prime show and the new Fallout anthology release (a box set of all the FO games from FO1 up to FO76). Both of these things occur in early/mid April IIRC so we may see this update around that time or shortly afterwards.

[globefish23]

Here's a chronology of all the information we have so far. (heavily paraphrased)

Originally posted by Official announcement:

Update in 2023

Originally posted by a single Bethesda developer:

We have to bother about Starfield release.

Originally posted by Official announcement:

Sorry delay. Update in 2024

[TheLoveMummy]

More people play 4 than 76 and starfield at any given time. How do we save face as a company? Lets make a new bugfest update after the modders all quit 4 and it will stay broke for 10 more years. Brilliant! There is an atomic shop scheme at work here just wait and see.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by TheLoveMummy:

More people play 4 than 76 and starfield at any given time. How do we save face as a company? Lets make a new bugfest update after the modders all quit 4 and it will stay broke for 10 more years. Brilliant! There is an atomic shop scheme at work here just wait and see.

Oh they did not all quit 4 lol. While starfield certainly registers on the nexus it'll never, ever, come to be as popular with the modders who made their way through 4.