Die Bethesda Game Studios haben den Betatest des generalüberholten Survival-Modus für Fallout 4 (ab 6,25€ bei kaufen) bei Steam gestartet. Der neue Überlebensmodus soll größere Herausforderungen mit sich bringen; Müdigkeit, Speichern nur beim Schlafen, gefährlichere Krankheiten, keine Schnellreise, tödlichere Kämpfe und mehr (Details). Zusätzlich zum "Survival Modus" werden mit dem Patch 1.5 weitere Stabilitäts- und Performance-Verbesserungen sowie Bugfixes vorgenommen.

New Features
New Survival difficulty

• Survival adds additional challenges including no fast travel, saving only when you sleep, increased lethality, diseases, fatigue, danger and more.
• Characters set to Survival difficulty appear under their own Character Selection filter
• Survival difficulty characters are not backward compatible with the 1.4 version of Fallout 4. If you opt out of the Beta, do not use Survival character saved games.
  

• General stability and performance improvements
• Fixed rare crash related to reloading a save that relies on Automatron
• Fixed issue with the robot workbench camera not moving properly immediately after canceling out of the menu
• Fixed issue with perks being repeatedly added when reloading a saved game while in robot workbench
• Fixed issue with Ada not properly traveling to an assigned settlement
• Robots can now be assigned as settlement vendors
• Fixed issue with "Appropriation" where blueprints would not appear properly if the container had already been looted prior to getting the quest
• In "Nuclear Option," entering the Institute using the targeting helmet on Power Armor no longer inadvertently causes the player to go into combat, and become stuck in the Institute
• Fixed distance check with Robotics Expert perk