Bethesda Promises Fix For Fallout 4 Far Harbor DLC Performance Issues

Fallout 4's third piece of paid DLC, Far Harbor, has been having some performance issues on PlayStation 4. However, developer Bethesda says it is on top of the frame rate bugs and will smash them wherever they appear.

Far Harbor is but one piece of DLC in what Bethesda has promised to be year rife with post-release content. It follows the April release of the Wasteland Workshop, and the March launch of bot-building box Automatron.

It's a much more expansive release than Automatron, which introduced new a quest along with new mechanics. Far Harbor is set further north, on an Island off of Maine's coast.

While Far Harbor has been well received in general, players on the PS4 edition of the game have found it difficult to look past the expansion's drop in frame rate. In some areas, the frames per second can drop below the standard 30 fps, past the cinematic 25 fps and plunge into the nigh-unplayable range of 20 fps and lower.

On Twitter, Bethesda warns that "New dangers lurk in the fog." Bethesda was referring to new creatures such as the Fog Crawler and the amphibious Angler, but it appears that the fog may also be harboring frame rate issues.

Destructoid's Nic Rowen thinks that Far Harbor's radioactive fog is the most likely culprit for performance issues PS4 has been having with the expansion.

"It's a cool idea and looks moody as hell in screenshots, but it has absolutely tanked the performance on PS4 and makes the experience an incredible slog to play through," Rowen says. "I learned this first hand myself last night while trying to put some hours into the expansion."

Bethesda didn't reveal what the sources of the performance problems were, but it stated in a forum post that it had addressed them and is looking out for other areas that could use more improvements.

"We made optimizations based on the Far Harbor beta feedback, but understand some people are experiencing issues," said Bethesda. "We are actively working on more improvements."