kevkiev Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Just opened Steam and noticed FO4 has the 'ol "update required". (I pondered using "dreaded" as a prefix.) Anyone know what's up? I wouldn't have thought the new HD pack would cause that. Is there a new patch? Edit: ah, just had to go to page 2 of google searches. Looks like a new patch. http://www.product-reviews.net/fallout-4-update-notes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargazer09 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Yes, and if you're using F4SE there's a new version out too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmygitto Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Why in the world do they make you do these?!? I don't want an update, I just want to play the stupid game I paid for?? I really can't believe it's the case, every time I think "I must be missing something." Do you really HAVE to do it? Is there no way around it? And it's not saying "update" it's saying "YOU ARE ABOUT TO INSTALL FALLOUT 4." Not only am I worried about the stupid amount of disk space, I'm worried it's going to screw up my heavily modded ini's and settings. Not to mention how so many people are describing having serious issues with the update. Do either of you know if I can do an end-around (without F4SE, I don't have it)? Is there any chance my computer just went dumb, or is this "install" the same thing as the forced update? So annoying! Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkiev Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Yeah, I imagine it's just the install wording but it's for the patch. (And not the whole HD pack.) Steam's "do not update" option hasn't worked for ages so, without F4SE, I don't know of a sure fire way to avoid. Usually you can just make a copy of your .exe file and replace it after updating but awhile back (can't remember if it was FO4 or Skyrim) that didn't work. So I'm not aware of any 100% workaround. Oh wait... I think there's something about playing in offline mode. I don't know the details, but you could research that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmygitto Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) Man, this crap is annoying. I got all excited by your good idea, and wondered why I didn't think of that... but it says "game is not ready to be played in offline mode."So did you all not have to do an "install" with this update, am I the only one?? Doubly-annoying, I sent a message to Bethesda's support just asking if they could explain why it's saying I need to install a game I just played yesterday or tell me how to circumvent the update (have I mentioned I don't want it!!), and they just emailed a stupid default checklist. "1- update your drivers, 2- delete your ini files." I tried to tell them that specifically not affecting my ini files is the whole stupid point. (I mean, it's definitely not the whole point, but it is a part of the whole point about not doing an update I don't want that is more than likely going to gum up a game that is working just fine...) Edited February 11, 2017 by jimmygitto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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