Fallout 76 Update Version 1.02 Is Out Now, Requires Another 48 GB Download

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Cobra9511985d ago

And if you think about it, why bother buying games on disc anymore. 48 GB? Isn't that at least close to the size of the whole thing, a downstream gulp all disc buyers must swallow anyway?

philm871985d ago

Buy it on disc so you can sell it again.

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manabyte771985d ago

To retain ownership. Until ownership laws catch up in the digital age, I’ll be sticking with physical when at all possible.

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JokerBoy4221985d ago

Youre telling me you'd rather be stuck with this shit game than be able to sell it?

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KyRo1985d ago

Physical is ALOT cheaper, you own it, you can sell it on, share it with friends... Soon there will be a day when it becomes digital only. You will have to pay whatever price prices Sony, ninetndo and xbox put on their stores, no competitors in pricing, games can be taken away from you in a click of a button, your account gets hacked and all your games are digital? Tough. Want to lend your game to friends or family? Nope.

Believe me digital is not better when it comes to gaming. Getting of the sofa to change a disk really isn't all that much effort to what we would get in a all digital future.

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ziggurcat1985d ago

@manabyte:

"To retain ownership. Until ownership laws catch up in the digital age, I’ll be sticking with physical when at all possible."

you have the same ownership rights on a digital license as you do a physical license. being able to trade/sell the disc does not mean you own the game more than you do if it's digital.

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GamingIVfun1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

The patch is 15 gig on PC, not too bad.

Just wanted to say something about the game. Almost all online community based games have problems at launch that need patching, just the way it is. Maybe they should have made this an early access game. They are rolling out patches pretty quickly though.

Also the game isn't terrible, it's pretty good, even playing solo. At first the lack of NPC's is off putting but their is plenty of story if your willing to read and listen to holotapes. The only thing is the map is so large that you don't see other players much when playing solo, small issue to me. I think 76 looks much better than Fallout 4 except they need to improve the water effects. The lighting in the game looks pretty amazing.

I'm enjoying the game.

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rainslacker1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

I buy them in disc because most games do have a game on the disc, and most of the ones I play don't have huge patches I need to download before I can play them.

Even most mp games don't have updates this big.

This is just Bethesda being stupid and not really doing things the best possible way, thinking that because it's fallout people will just gobble it up. But I have a feeling that this game will be used as an example of why mp games aren't a guaranteed success

On top of that, given what a lot of people seem to think about this game, you could probably still resell it for 30-50. Heck, game stop will probably still give you 30 bucks trade in credit for it.

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Tzuno1985d ago

The gaming industry is retarded, the gamer should have the option to select between 4k textures and other languages to cut down install size just like in PC repacks.

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ILostMyMind1985d ago

Now, imagine it in 4K...

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DarkVoyager1985d ago

So nearing 150gb game now?

50gb game
50gb day 1 patch
48gb additional patch

This is insane.

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Born2Game831985d ago

No it doesn't work that way. It replaces a lot of files in the game. So it shouldn't be much bigger than the base game. Not that it shouldn't have been released in such a broken state to begin with.

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BenRoxio1985d ago

Even after all that it won't be any good, game should have been delayed

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badz1491985d ago

@Born2game83

Doesn't change the fact that those who bought it digital would have to download 150GB of data for the game already and even physical copy buyers are already needed to download 100GB of data just to play the game and ALL in the week of release. It's not even optional because this is a MP only game and you can't play unless you've already install the latest patch but in this case a stupidly huge 50GB patch which should not be allowed by Sony or MS IMO! This is madness and paints an ugly future for digital only distribution that many here are blindly embracing eventhough it's dumb and clear that publishers are already abusing it like Bethesda here and Activision!

Seriously, if this is the future of gaming that you guys are so looking forward to, I don't want to be a part of it. I have a 500Mbps connection myself but doesn't mean I would tolerate publishers and devs trying to abuse users with shitty practice like this.

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Rangerman12081985d ago

And sadly, people are still continuing this tend of buying any game day one without thinking of the consequences.

This is why I always read the reviews first. They may not be reliable all the time (ex. IGN, PSBrahs, GP, etc.) but they do give some good insights.

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cooperdnizzle1984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

Ehhh most reviews are still crap and company’s are being paid off.

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DrumBeat1984d ago

I can't think of a bigger disaster in recent gaming history. Bethesda just doesn't care about the quality. The quick buck, sure. The quality? Who needs quality, right? Throw in a grindy system (that's not even amusing) some microtransactions, a bunch of reused assets, and terrible new ones on an old buggy engine.

Cost efficient, anti-consumer mess.

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FinalFantasyFanatic1984d ago

I see this as a continuation of the negative symptoms in the industry and the ensuring backlash was rightfully recieved (this kind of thing should happen more often).

SheenuTheLegend1984d ago

this is what scares me about games nowadays. had a profession in gaming, but these things just hurts as a gamer.

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smolinsk1985d ago

Wow... Haha what a mess of a release :-D. What's going on here, crazy times.

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Eonjay1985d ago

I think we can see that the whole prospect of Crossplay was never in the cards ever. How can Todd make this about Sony holding him back?

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WANNAGETHIGH1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

Lol, just throw the whole game away already. This sucks. Because my brother is a huge he fallout fan.. ** Goes back to playing Cod**

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aaronaton1985d ago

48GB's worth of turd polish.

william_cade1985d ago

That's what I was thinking.

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salmonade1985d ago

I heard they had to replace the bugs with an all new set of bugs so they could battle and destroy the original bugs that have spawned more hybrid bugs that no one has the ability to contain. That's what originally happened to all the NPC's... they were eaten by the hybrid super bugs. Bugthesda was so embarrassed they just told everyone that the game had no NPC's to begin with, but it was just another Todd Howard cover up. The truth is much much more horrific.... the NPC's were eaten alive and annihilated.

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URtheWalrus1985d ago

I am definitely in the minority as I am liking this game, but your comment was pure comedy gold!

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stormhawk1985d ago

It's getting trashed but my friends said exploring the world is a lot of fun

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rainslacker1985d ago

So they are using nanobugs to combat the existing bugs?

fishaz7801984d ago

What’s funny is the patch hasn’t done much. I looked back in after the updates and now mutants, Molemen and molerats are all spawning in the same area, fighting to the death and then respawning. They are also over level 50 and I’m not even that far up the map 😢

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kayoss1985d ago

Unfortunately this is what the gaming development have come too. Release a half @$$ game and release a bunch of patches to fix it.

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gazgriff2k121985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

no not alll games. nintendo exclusives, sony exclusives and rockstar games prove you wrong.
bethesda games have always been a hot mess always avoid untill they've been released for at least two years

kayoss1985d ago

SOny and Nintendo exclusive games are a small percent of the total games that are released. Even Sony exclusive games such as No Man Sky (It was an exclusive) had issues.

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BenRoxio1985d ago

Bethesda use crappy engines and are very lazy, sucks that the are considered as a major company in the industry.

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kneon1985d ago

I tend to wait for GOTY edition, if it's not fixed by then then it never will be. I did get FO4 at launch only because I got such a good deal. And I got lucky as that was the least buggy Bethesda game that I can remember.

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badz1491985d ago

@kneon

LOL. GoTY Edition? This POS of a game will not win any GoTY awards for that to happen. Anybody willing to give this game any award of being "best of..." Anything is clearly retarded or being money hatted by Bugthesda!

cooperdnizzle1984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

Kayoss. What is you’re point? They are a small percentage so we should just ignore it? Plus everybody knows Sony makes the best games.

I like Bethesda as a publisher but not a developer. Two different parts of one entity thank god

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rainslacker1985d ago

Only the big high profile aaa games that have their release dates set in stone. Many games do have patches, but outside of a few notorious publishers, most games are actually playable without a patch.

hercules_1985d ago

who knows this game might eventually become a decent one after updates, Bethesda seems to be taking notice that improvements are needed asap.

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King_Noctis1985d ago

I think this problem only persists with certain devs.

thelaughingwiseman1985d ago

I still remember the eyes from Mass Effect Andromeda lol

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fluxmulder1985d ago

Bethesda forced to fix things themselves, no modders to bail them out this time. Hilarious.

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Artemidorus1985d ago

48GB of the game missing, likely taken out.

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Shikoku1985d ago

No thats 48 gbs of bug fixes

akurtz1985d ago

That’s gonna keep me from playing this game till after thanksgiving

Shikoku1985d ago

Good lord, I have a friend that has literally a 4mbps connection id take him 2 days to download that on top of the ridiculous, first patch.

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lanceken1985d ago

damn, that speed is low for considering the size of games nowadays. A huge problem if one is completely digital.

Shikoku1985d ago

He lives in Northern Scotland he in the british army lives on a base.

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mezati991985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

as a gamer in the third world

straight up FUCK OFF bethesda

Tankbusta401985d ago

You don't even have to be from the 3rd world. I didn't buy this game(thankfully) because of my slow internet as I figured there would be tons of patches.

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FunAndGun1985d ago

I live in rural Tennessee after moving from a high speed major city. Slow speeds were never a concern, but holy cow, gaming is hard when you must consider your connection for everything. It truly sucks.

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Tankbusta401985d ago

@FunandGun

Same situation. I moved from the Chicago suburbs to rural northern Georgia!! The internet I have now was similar to internet I had 15 years ago!

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rainslacker1985d ago

I'm moved to a small town a couple.years ago, and our first isp I got maybe 1.5 megabytes per second, and it was far from consistent. So if I had these kinds of things a lot of be upset. I think it took me a while to at gt:s after I first got it, but I had months of patches and added content to download.

Luckily I have a 100mbit connection now and it's pretty snappy. But most of the games I play don't have huge required patches, so I can usually play them while it's downloading them, and for Many of them I probably wouldn't notice the difference if I never applied the patch.

cabbitwithscissors1985d ago

This game is a freakin' cash grab for this coming Black Friday. Probably rushed it out too with incomplete patches just for that and their bottom line before their quarter closing. The game is trash. Those game sites and reviewers saying this game is good is probably laying flat on the floor underneath Bethesda, mouths open trying to catch the drips coming from Bethesda dick, all the while espousing what magic this game is and how it's the best since sliced bread. Fuck you Bethesda, fuck you reviewers. This game is the worst.

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hercules_1985d ago

Do you play Fallout games in general?

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PlayableGamez-1985d ago

Watch the patch make the game worse.

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AK911985d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Bhuahahaha1985d ago

48gb to make it even worse

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JokerBoy4221985d ago

Hahahahahahahaha!!! This game will take up a whole terabyte by the time Bethesda is done with it and itll still be garbage! Im excited to see their stock plummet! Then maybe ill buy some shares before Elder Scrolls 76 drops lol.

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lanceken1985d ago

Stocks plummeting and rising again, nothing new sadly.

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warriorcase1985d ago

The console update is broken and redownloading the game for some it seems. The PC update it 15GB and no real changes.

kelmards1985d ago

It has changes, just not immediately noticeable, like nuke code fix and game client stability.

FPS_D3TH1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

LOL ffs it’s not 48gb of fixes. You have to reinstall the game to apply the fixes.

Also screw N4Gs laggy assed comment boxes. Absolute trash...

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kneon1985d ago

That just shows how dated their engine is. A complete reinstall should only be needed if there are major changes to the core of the game, even then it shouldn't always be needed.

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PhoenixUp1985d ago

Bethesda wants to take up all your storage just to fix their broken game

2pacalypsenow1985d ago

This game is a mess.

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Sirk7x1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

What a joke this game turned out to be. Bethesda used to be great, especially back in the day with their PC games when they were pushing new ideas. When Morrowind released on Xbox, it was still a marvel that PC games could run on a home console at all. It's just hard to watch them go frow blowing minds to blowing turds. Obsidian made New Vegas, which was awesome, but Bethesda developed 3, 4 and 76. They have not done well by the Fallout franchise by any means. Using the same engine for about 20 years, and continuing to do so with Elder Scrolls VI. After Fallout 4, I promised myself never to give them another penny. Anyone that bought Fallout 76 should be asking for their money back at this point. The game is practically broken.

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badz1491985d ago

"Like a turd... In the wind"

- Venom, 2018

Gremling1985d ago

They said there will be future patches too omg

alb3rt1985d ago

This was one of my highly anticipated titles, what a letdown.

Elda1985d ago

Another 48 gigs is ridiculous.

Realms1985d ago

Fallout 4 was the last Bethesda game I will ever buy at launch their games are a buggy mess. Unless they upgrade their physics engine I might not even bother even buying any of their games ever.

Sidewinder-1985d ago

Who needs quality control anyway?

Asuka1985d ago

I quite literally cannot download this game because it takes half of my monthly quota worth of data... Fuck datacaps.

badz1491985d ago

Eh... "Fuck Bethesda" is the phrase you're looking for

thelaughingwiseman1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

This is why I wait for "Greatest Hits" or "GOTY" edition of games. All the content (or most depending on how they use Seasons) is already attached to the game. I'm a patient person. I can wait a year for great games (looking at you Spiderman ps4, God of War. and Assassins Creed: Odyssey).
Not saying those were terrible games at launch. I just get tired of having to keep waiting for updating or patching the games and releasing the extra content. Those are terrible examples of patched games being made better. I should have chosen better examples. Maybe Battlefield 1, Skyrim on PS3, Fallout 4, Prey.

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privatepothed1985d ago

Hey at least there putting a ton of effort into getting the game running proper . We all knew going into this game that there would be a ton of bugs and it was going to take awhile to fix 100 percent and if you didn’t then shame on you . There are a ton of developers who release games that are broken as hell and they don’t rush to fix them . Bethesda isn’t like that and I can get behind a company like them when they show that they care about the game

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privatepothed1985d ago

People don’t realize that a game if this scale can’t be bug tested without being put into the world with real life players . Just think about how many hours we the players have bug tested in the last 2 weeks it’s more than the devs and in house game tester could do in years so keep your pants on it’s not the end of the world

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PCgamer981985d ago

Both of those patches combined are already as big as red dead redemption 2. This game is really a one big mess.

BuildTheWall1985d ago

Stores would have a hard time getting rid of Fallout 76 if it was free!!!

TheOtherMoon1984d ago

Hey buddy, we heard you like downloading large games onto your hard drive. So, we added a large game to your large game to take up more of your hard drive. #becauseweloveyou #becausewecare #notforprofit

rob-GP1984d ago

They said this is a big patch and other ones will be small - by the sounds if it. this is redownloading it all but it's been changed to an easily patchable version instead. We saw that with KCD - that game required massive patches because of the file structure. If they have just readjusted it then that's a good thing going forward.

Ethereal1984d ago

More and more I am learning to just wait to buy these types of games. First Fallout on modern consoles I haven't bought day one. Some of these publishers need to take note of some of the other fantastic releases this year...

Orionsangel1984d ago

For what? So you can run around aimlessly for no real purpose? Don't forget to buy virtual items with real money.

Stanjara1984d ago

Please, don't support these practice. You know how.

DrumBeat1984d ago

Someone actually used the article "GOTY Edition" referring to a possible later, more complete, less lice-infected edition. There's no way these guys could slap that on a box, but they could say "GOTYA Edition" and be much more consistent with reality.

Pyrofire951984d ago

So freakin glad I didn't buy this.

merlininkazani1984d ago

This is soo cool. To bring top your post just report the others...

HawkLeo1984d ago

I do not think this is a good sign to the PC platform players. O.M.G what shall I do... That's too big...

1-pwnsause-11984d ago

Bethesda should start getting their heads out their ass and create an engine from the ground up. This is obsurd. This won’t roll with people next gen... I’m anticipating starfield and the next elder scrolls, but what’s the point...

doggo841984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

O look, another online only game, another flop. Buy the physical copy, but you still need to download a 99 GB update, otherwise you can't play

"But but but online only gaming is the future" - idiots who think online only gaming is the future (there is a specific fanbase trying to encourage this) .

Indigon1984d ago

These patch sizes are idiotic.

Imortus_san1984d ago

Hahahaha, redownload the game again by the second time, nice work Bethesda.