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Patch 5 for Fallout 76 just went live, Bethesda detailed the changes they made on their website. In fact, the developers note that they've added "Dev Notes" under some of the larger changes like they did with Patch 4, in an effort to "provide [players] with more context behind things like balance and design changes." Among other things, carry weight is hard capped at "1,500 pounds over the character's current maximum carry weight," meaning that characters can't just keep stuffing items into their pockets when over-encumbered. Bethesda notes that "These limits exist primarily to keep servers from performing poorly, which can happen when we have too many items in the game world," which I find particularly interesting, as bloated inventories and an excessive number of active effects used to cause issues in some of Bethesda's single player RPGs. But the devs know that players love horde items, so they're working on a "variety of solutions, including increasing the stash size." The patch also mentions that Fallout 76 will "now better autodetect AMD 7900/8900 series and AMD Radeon R9 200 Series graphics cards," and that it will default to using the dedicated graphics cards in laptops instead of the IGP.
We will also tackle additional questions as they come in and we’ll update this article as needed. Additionally, we've been working on a known issues post that we plan to keep updated as we fix existing bugs, acknowledge and address any new issues that arise, and roll out changes to the game based on you feedback... Download sizes for today's patch will be approximately 3.5 GB for consoles, and around 500 MB for PC.
I, for one, hope they bring those "dev notes" to Skyrim, Fallout 4 and the future SP RPGs. Bethesda is notorious for making random undocumented changes in unannounced patches, which wreaks havoc on the modding ecosystem.
We will also tackle additional questions as they come in and we’ll update this article as needed. Additionally, we've been working on a known issues post that we plan to keep updated as we fix existing bugs, acknowledge and address any new issues that arise, and roll out changes to the game based on you feedback... Download sizes for today's patch will be approximately 3.5 GB for consoles, and around 500 MB for PC.
I, for one, hope they bring those "dev notes" to Skyrim, Fallout 4 and the future SP RPGs. Bethesda is notorious for making random undocumented changes in unannounced patches, which wreaks havoc on the modding ecosystem.