Fallout 4 Patch v1.5 Released on PC

After a short stint in beta, Bethesda has released patch v1.5 for Fallout 4 on Steam for all users. The patch adds the overhauled Survival difficulty to the game and includes a number of bug fixes for both the main game and its currently released DLC packs. Here’s the full changelog:

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. See the in-game Help menu for more details.
• Characters set to Survival difficulty appear under their own Character Selection filter
• Third person camera movement improvements when player is close up against walls and other objects

Fixes

• 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 “The 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
• While in Workshop mode, if the Jump button is remapped, the Y or Triangle button can still be used to jump
• Fixed issue with “Defend the Castle” where speaking to Ronnie Shaw would not properly complete the quest
• During “The Nuclear Option,” fast traveling away from the Institute immediately after inserting the relay targeting sequence holotape will no longer block progression
• Fixed issue where Workshop placed light bulbs would occasionally not light properly
• Fixed occasional flashing issue with entering and exiting Power Armor
• Fixed issue where terminals would not work properly after downloading and initializing an Add-On from the Add-Ons menu