Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition: Creations Menu Update, Mod Warning, and Key Fixes

Bethesda is marking a decade of Fallout 4 with a substantial two-part drop on November 10, 2025: the Anniversary Edition and a sweeping update that introduces an in-game Creations menu.

Alongside the celebration comes a clear warning for modded players: plan your load orders now, because the studio is changing how the game boots, browses, and buys community content.

What the Anniversary Edition actually bundles

The Anniversary Edition gathers the RPG’s six official expansions – Far Harbor, Automatron, Nuka-World, Contraptions, Vault-Tec, and Wasteland Workshop – and folds in 150+ pieces of Creation Club content. The headline feature is the new Creations menu, a native browser that lets players discover, sort, and download curated content on both PC and consoles without tabbing out to storefronts or relying on clunky overlays.

Mod downtime and a main-menu warning

Between November 6–10, Fallout 4 mods and the Creation Club services are undergoing maintenance. During this window you won’t be able to upload or download new content, though you can still play and reshuffle your load order. Crucially, Bethesda asks players to disable any mod that edits the game’s main menu before installing the November 10 update. The patch touches that screen; leave a custom menu enabled and you risk boot failures, broken UI hooks, or a soft-lock on startup.

Tip: Before patch day, back up your saves, export your mod list, and consider a separate profile in your mod manager (MO2/Vortex) so you can roll back quickly if a must-have plugin lags behind the update.

Patch highlights: fixes players have asked for

• VATS accuracy overhaul: Hit chances are now consistent across platforms and no longer crash to 0% or display phantom numbers. That means fewer head-scratchers when you line up a high-percentage shot.
• No more wall-whispering: Targeting through geometry without the Penetrator perk has been addressed, reducing cheese and restoring the perk’s purpose.
• Ultrawide & super-ultrawide support: Better aspect-ratio handling and FOV framing for 21:9 and beyond, so you’re not fighting stretched HUDs or letterboxing.
• Resolution autodetect: The launcher now selects supported display modes more reliably, a quiet quality-of-life tweak that also aims to reduce launch-time crashes.

New (and quirky) Creations teased

Bethesda previewed several in-progress Creations: a “slice of the Mojave Desert” transplanted into the Commonwealth, an escape-room scenario built for puzzle fiends, and a mind’s-eye companion – a vision of your spouse, voiced by the original actors, that you can interact with. It’s an eclectic mix that gestures toward narrative experiments as much as loot and paint jobs (yes, there are unique weapons, power armor sets, and Pip-Boy skins in the bundle).

Platforms and timing

The Anniversary Edition lands on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam and other storefronts. Bethesda also says Fallout 4 will reach Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026, the first time the game appears on a Nintendo platform.

The community’s mood: cautious hype

Veteran players are split. Many welcome long-asked-for fixes to VATS and ultrawide support; just as many worry about the timing and intent of a big patch landing alongside a monetization-friendly Creations revamp. Modded players – who’ve effectively maintained the game’s feel, performance, and features for years – fear a repeat of upgrade whiplash: broken plugins, waiting on SKSE-adjacent updates, and choosing between multiple ‘versions’ of Fallout 4 for compatibility. Others ask about VR stability, longstanding weapon debris issues on some Nvidia setups, LOD swaps and >60fps quirks, cross-save, upgrade paths for GOTY owners, and whether a physical release is planned. Bethesda’s notes spotlight the fixes listed above; the rest remains to be clarified by official FAQs or post-launch patches.

How to prepare if you mod

• Disable any main-menu-editing mod before updating.
• Archive your current game folder, ini files, and save directory.
• Freeze your current load order and test a clean boot after patching before adding plugins back.
• Watch for rapid ‘micro-updates’ from mod authors that restore compatibility with the new UI hooks.

Anniversary editions can be pure nostalgia or cynical cash-grabs; this one lands somewhere more nuanced. If the VATS corrections hold and the Creations menu proves fast, transparent, and respectful of free mods, Fallout 4 could feel sturdier in 2025 than it did at launch. The real verdict will come from modders and players in the first week after the patch – where stability, not slogans, will decide whether the Commonwealth is worth rebuilding one more time.