rant

Started a new game. On a PS4 and I'm not using any glitches or exploits.

I wanted to build up Sanctuary to look as nice as possible so I planned ahead a little more on this play-through. I didn't scrap everything. I didn't scrap any cars, I only scrapped trees that had fallen down, didn't scrap every lamp, cup, etc. etc..

Most importantly I left the broken street light poles up because I discovered a long time ago that you can wire them and put lights on them.

So I painstakingly set up an electrical grid in Sanctuary to make it look nice. Put a big generator by the bridge, put up large power pylons, put conduits on every broken street light pole from the bridge all around the circle. Planned it out so the pylons were close to houses so I could wire them and set them up for settlers.

Put those hanging light bulbs on each and every broken street light pole. It looked awesome. And the little light at the top of the large pylons added a nice touch as well.

I had fast travelled to and from and walked to and from Sanctuary dozens of times. It always looked really sharp. So I go for a stroll this time, 'Waited' in a chair until it was dark, strolled back just to see the cool lights ... and nadda. Zero, zip, zilch. Every one of the lights I hung were gone. They weren't just off, they were gone. You have any idea how much time it took to finesse those stupid things so they looked right, not to mention the conduits on top.

So with my tail between my legs and my spirit dampened I made some coffee and decided to dive back in. I hold my touchpad thingy on my PS4 controller (which by the way takes entirely too long to bring up workshop mode which I don't understand because it opens and closes instantly from the bench, but I digress) and ka-bam, all the lights magically reappeared and the street was aglow.

I sat here staring at my TV screen like Clark Griswold when his wife hit the switch on the back porch where he had all his Christmas lights plugged in and they magically started working.

Guys, I know it's just a game, but for the love of God, can't we fix some of these things a bit please? Please? For God sake you made $750,000,000 http://fortune.com/2015/11/16/fallout4-is-quiet-best-seller/ (let me spell that out, seven hundred and fifty million dollars) in the first 24 hours after you released the game. I'd be shocked if you weren't over a billion by now. Could you please earmark say, a measly million, maybe a million and a half, in overtime to fix this stuff? We sent a man to the moon in the 60's with far less money than this. Surely you can fix some software bugs that you've had 7 years to work out?

Oh, and maybe set aside say a mere 50 G's to burn some flippin' discs for our brothers on PC's so those without blazing internet download speeds and data caps can play your game.

/rant

The same thing happened to me. I started to put the lights back up, did like maybe the front entrance. Then I thought, nuts to this, and set off into the wilderness.


When I returned everything was back to normal.

1.3 update again. I noticed that my lights work, but all the wires disappeared! I like that kind of bug!

But to lose the lights would svck!

Shane, if I'm reading your post correctly, it seems that it all worked out in the end. For that, I'm truly happy for you. I can only imagine how frustrated/sad/disappointed/perhaps even angry you must have been to discover that everything had gone *POOF*. So happy the problem fixed itself without you having to do anything.

That said, I agree -- it shouldn't have happened in the first place. For you and Phalse and anyone else who may have experienced this issue (and for those of us who may experience it in the future), I hope there is a fix in the works.

By the way, with regard to the PS4 touchpad, I assume it takes so long to bring up Workshop because it's deciding "Does the player want swap between third-person and first-person" or "Does the player want to open Workshop?". When you're focused on the Workshop itself, there's only one calculation to make, so it can do it instantaneously. I'm on PS4,too, so that's what I tell myself to justify the wait .

I encountered a similar glitch where my light bulbs give off no light( despite the fact they're all on ). It really is frustrating.

I find this happens if you move the light after it's been placed, try storing it and replacing it

Just found the same in Sanctuary - have built a bar in a nice shack with several lamps and a windmill generator for it. When I arrived, the lamps were missing. Not only the light, the lamps! All 4 lamps (the white bulbs on the wire) were not here. I was unsure what happened and asked myself if I had really built them, opened the build mode - and the lamps magically appeared and were lit as before.

Patch 1.3. Did not see this before, but have built more now. Still - I can only agree to the OP:

I see, that such problems may happen, especially in a complex game with not enough time to test the details. But I hope Bethesda will correct these problems ASAP.

I don't know if anyone has tried this. I'm sure someone has. But when you hook up a construction light to a generator and get in front of it. Does your char body block the light or does it show up on the dirt? If the latter, is this normal or bug?