Bethesda's “next generation” update for Fallout 4 continues to cause problems. Released in April, two years after its announcement, this 14 GB patch was impressive in that it actually made very few changes, except for breaking everyone's precious mods. The timing was also terrible, coinciding with the scheduled arrival of the huge “Fallout: London” mod. The team had to delay the launch of the mod while they figured out how to fix what the update broke.

The good news is that the end is in sight, with the team and GOG, which is helping distribute the mod, just double-checking that everything is working as it should. There is one problem, however: the problems caused by Bethesda's update turned out to be insurmountable, and even after patching, things like ultrawide support and VATS are still broken. Therefore, the team has abandoned the current version of Fallout 4 and will need to downgrade the post-apocalyptic RPG to an earlier version in order to play the mod when it is released.

This will not be a major issue for most players; GOG offers a rollback feature for versions sold in their store, and Steam is also working on a dedicated tool or manual downgrade option. This covers most of the bases. The version sold on the Epic Games Store is different, however, and when contacted by VG247, GOG confirmed that EGS does not support rollback of updates and therefore cannot offer a downgrade option for this version, at least not at launch

This issue is not a problem for EGS.

While this issue really underscores how limited EGS is with respect to the need for players to have the ability to roll back games and the useful features they have become accustomed to thanks to the likes of Steam and GOG, Bethesda's cooperation with the hardworking modder community If Bethesda had worked with a community of hard-working modders, all of this could have been avoided.

It is these fans that keep Bethesda games exciting years after their release: “Fallout: London” in particular was so highly anticipated and garnered so much press that Bethesda must have known that it was about to launch and that an update would ruin its plans. Bethesda must have known.

GOG and Fallout: Epic users will not be left out in the cold forever.