Very aggravating. Tells me AFTER it applied to patch to back up my save games.

No warning there was going to BE a patch.

And then I start the game and it tells me the save relied on content that is no longer available and asks if it should use that save or not?

HOW THE HELL WOULD i KNOW?

I have no idea what content they DELETED from my game.

They keep all that a secret and then ask us what to do about the information they didn't give us.

They don't tell us what they took away or how it will affect our game so how can we possibly know if we want to use the current save or not?

What should we do if we say no? Start all over again?

Strange it didn't happened to me

Nor me.

Mods maybe?

Um ... do you have mods? I assume you'll just have to re-install the mods.

Never heard of a patch removing content to the point where it warns you when you load a save, so I'm just gonna assume mods.

Update comes from the Steam Client.
It means a stable patch for Fallout 4 has appeared.

The launcher is switching my mods off every time it is loaded now.
Not a good move imho.

Apparently the patch makes the game launcher disable mods when starting the game. That's why you are getting that message.

What I want to know is, did they forget to turn mod capability back on after they were done testing the patch or was this released with the live patch intentionally? And when its going to be fixed?

Check here:

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1544136-fallout-4-updates/

Not much info given though.

The beta patch nukes any mods you might have (stops them working). I think there's a mod to fix that...

U don't need a mod to fix that, all u have to do is locating ur plugins.txt file in appdata and set it to read-only, so it can't be overwritten by the game.

Only bypass which works is to have NMM running with Fallout 4 Selected and retick each mod in it AFTER you have started the launcher.

Can someone please confirm if they did or did not remove the exploit that allows PS4 owners to have unlimited resources to build in settlements?

We have no way to roll back updates (as far as I know) and I would like to know if I'm going to lose this capability before I allow this update to be installed.

IOW, I don't want the new patch if I can't use the exploit anymore.

Thanks everyone.

Shane

Same happened to me seems the patch is no longer beta and bethesda in its infinite wisdom has disabled mods and even if you write protect plugin.txt it will need redoing after each run. Nice going Bethesda.

No problem here.

You have to do more than that as you'll find soon, and the mod (a launcher really) does all that for you, but if you prefer doing it all manually each time you run the game...

meh my mods are still working fine with the updates didnt even have to turn them back on.

Only .esp mods files will be turned off, others will keep working.

This is the patch for PC, right? It's not coming to console just yet I heard, is that the case?

No. It does more than that. It seems that Beth has it setup to delete the plugin.txt with every Steam update to the game. More specifically, it deletes the plugin.txt file in the hidden AppData folder. But thankfully, the update didn't touch the DLCList.txt, or any of the modded content in the game's Data folder. So the save games are good to go, as long as the game is aware of the mod load order in the plugin.txt.

I backed up both plugin.txt/DLCList.txt files in addition to my save games and Data folder mod content as well. So I only needed to copy back the modded version of the plugin.txt file.

So it seems people are going to have to back up their plugin.txt file until CK/GECK is released next year.

No, this is going to the consoles as well.

See my link in an above post.

Strange I did not see a post about it here.

Steam told me there was a new update for FO4. Made the mistake to download it. Afterwarsd my mods didn't work any longer. Posted about it in a post for a mod. 999-jay-999 9 replied with a post by UltimateZero (Nexus users)

UltimateZero:

!!!!! WARNING !!!!!

The Fallout 4 v1.2 patch that was released today, December 7th 2015, force disables all mods! There are TWO workarounds for this!

The First:
QUOTE
1) Open Nexus Mod Manager (you will need this!
2) launch your game, wait in the launcher before starting the game.
3) Renable the mods using Nexus Mod Manager (you will notice launching disables them)
4) Hit play.
(Thanks to Gameaholic, who posted this fix in the thread here.)

The Second:
F4SE beta 1.2.37 can bypass the Fallout 4 launcher entirely, which is what's disabling the mods.
If you use Nexus Mod Manager:

QUOTE
"Copy all files into ur FO4 (steam-steam app-common-Fallout 4) now open NMM and go to Settings-Fallout 4 under Custom Launcher thers a field called Command, type in f4se_loader and save. Now enable all ESP′ S as the update disables them, go to Top left Corner on the NMM and change the Launch Fallout 4 to Launch Custom Launcher, should work."

(Thanks to DimosZargarda, who posted this fix in the BUSTY thread.)

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Update: As I don't used the Beta of the patch I used method 1 AND it works like a charm!!

Note to self: Don't directly install official patches till you've read they are mod safe

Bethesda: NOT nice!!

Update: Another solution was mentioned by Buckbean (Nexus):

Additionally, you could use Bilago's tool, which also allows you to bypass the FO4 launcher and use his tool instead: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/102/?

I'm pretty sure patches always require a reinstall of mods

Why would i do it each time? I set the file read only once and that was it. lol.

This isn't a case of having to re-install mods, the launcher is disabling them.

Also, What. The. [censored]. Bethesda do you not understand how important mods are to your games, this is beyond stupid.