The distance at which shadows are being loaded in by the game seems to have been drastically reduced with this patch. To the extent that if you're walking around on a bright day, buildings which appear fully lit are suddenly bathed in shadow about 20 meters in front of you. This looks terrible. I've never noticed it at all before this patch, and it's extremely noticeable, so I have to assume that this is caused by the update.

Now maybe someone can prove me wrong and post videos of walking around in sunny Boston in the game from weeks ago that shows the same shadow-pop in. That would be helpful. But honestly, I don't think I could go weeks not noticing this.

On top of shadows there's now to my eyes much more obvious model detail pop-in. Bits and pieces suddenly pop in on buildings. Pre-patch I noticed some of this in the distance but nothing too close up and it wasn't very noticeable. Now it's very jarring.

If these issues are indeed a result of the patch perhaps Bethesda could explain why it was necessary to compromise the look of the game so heavily. There were no big performance issues with just walking around in the environments (aside from obvious problem locations like inside Trinity Tower), and it looks really poor, to the point where I'm discouraged from playing at all.

A lot of reports of performance issues were posted here with micro stutters and dips to FPS. Not everyone was noticing them. Shadow Distance Quality and God Rays quality plays a major factor in that. Bethesda might have just reduced the distance for shadow distance to see if it helps with the performance.

I have not played that much on the Xbox one after the Patch and it was basically a new character which was started about a week ago just out of Vault 111.

I agree. Game definitely looks worse after this new patch. Actually, i started new game after this patch and the whole 10 hours i′ve put to it now, i have had this nagging "something looks off" feeling. I never understood the moaning about bad frame rates. My game worked quite well, apart some well known trouble spots like Corvega factory etc. So yeah, pretty disappointed now. Deleted the game from HD and re installed and run now vanilla without patches. Let′s see how that goes...