Fallout 4: How to Revert the Next-Gen update

Are you a Fallout 4 player who loves to use mods but recently found out they are no longer compatible with the game after a next-gen update? Did you forget to disable updates and now face the dilemma of having to stop your playthrough? This guide is here to help! I will explain how to disable updates to prevent any future changes, how to download the previous update files, and how to copy them to your installation directory.

Warning & WIP

Warning: If you use Creative Club Addons, there’s a good chance those mods have been updated to work with the newest update and won’t work anymore after following this guide. Because these creative club Addons aren’t downloaded from Steam’s servers, there’s no way that I know of to download older versions of them.

Downloading Previous Updates (Depots)

1. Press Windows Key

2. Type ‘steam://open/console’

3. Click OK

4. Run the following commands highlighted in blue in the following screenshot (and in bold below):

The reason we’re doing these specific ‘depots’ is because they are the only ones (aside from non-English depots) that have changed since before the Next-Gen update.

377161 – Fallout 4 content_a
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377162 – Fallout 4 exe
download_depot 377160 377162 5847529232406005096

377163 – Fallout 4 content_b
download_depot 377160 377163 5819088023757897745

377164 – Fallout 4 english
download_depot 377160 377164 2178106366609958945

Fallout 4 – Automatron (435870) Depot
download_depot 377160 435870 1691678129192680960

Fallout 4 – Automatron english
download_depot 377160 435871 5106118861901111234

Fallout 4 – Wasteland Workshop (435880) Depot
download_depot 377160 435880 1255562923187931216

Disabling Updates & Finding Install Directory

5. Find your Fallout 4 installation on Steam in your library

6. Right click and go to properties

7. In the “Updates” tab switch Automatic Updates to “Only update this game when I launch it”

8. In the “Installed Files” tab click on the ‘Browse…’ button outlined in red:

9. Go back two folders from this root Fallout 4 directory

Example:
From
E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fallout 4
To
E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps

10. Find the ‘appmanifest_377160.acf’ file in this directory

11. Right click > Properties on this file, check the Read-only attribute, and click the Apply button

Copying Previous Updates to Game Directory

12. Navigate to the location where the depots were downloaded in step 4.

13. Go into each folder recursively and move all of the contents to the Fallout 4 main directory:

If you’re prompted while copying the files over, select the option ‘Replace the file in the destination’

This step might take a while depending on the speed of your drives. I keep my Fallout 4 installation on a HDD but I am copying from an SSD so the HDD is a bottleneck.

Finished!

14. Finally, Launch the game!

If your game is crashing shortly after opening the game, and you have this message at the top right of your screen it means that the creative club addons might be causing conflicts. This could mean they have been updated but aren’t compatible with the older versions.

To fix this, you should go in your Fallout 4/Data folder and delete all files that start with ‘cc’ (stands for Creative Club)

Once you do that try relaunching the game again and hope there are no crashes!

Let me know if this guide helps 🙂
Good luck and stay safe, Wastelanders!

And that wraps up our share on Fallout 4: How to Revert the Next-Gen update. If you have any additional insights or tips to contribute, don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. For a more in-depth read, you can refer to the original article here by ROXASBrandon, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!

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