Delaney or Courtenay Taylor) takes shelter in Vault 111, emerging exactly 210 years later on October 23, 2287, and assuming the name of the "Sole Survivor". The first add-on, Automatron, which allows the player to build their custom robot companion by using robot parts while adding additional quests, was released to the European and North American markets on March 22, 2016. Moments later, a news bulletin warns of an incoming nuclear attack as nukes have already hit New York City and Philadelphia, triggering the civil defense sirens and general panic.

vague] The engine features a variety of visual effects not present in previous Bethesda games such as motion blur, temporal anti-aliasing, height fog, dynamic dismemberment, screen space reflections, filmic tone mapping, an updated material system—for wet textures—among numerous others. You are the Sole Survivor of Vault 111, and you should endeavor to endure 210 years after the atomic bombs annihilated territories of the USA. It makes use of a number of local landmarks, including Bunker Hill, Fort Independence, and Old North Bridge near Concord, as the bridge out of Sanctuary Hills. When asked about the failed effort to add a paid mod system to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Howard stated there were no plans for a similar effort with Fallout 4.The player can select and break down many in-game objects and structures, and use the resultant raw materials to freely build their own structures.

Raising a companion's affinity to 1,000 points will result in them "idolizing" the player and granting a specific perk. S., real-time combat is slowed down (instead of stopped entirely as in previous entries), and action is played out from varying camera angles in a computer graphics version of " bullet time". This is able to house a smartphone device, which can run the second screen functionality of the game.

The protagonist features dynamic dialogue, which is context sensitive and allows players to back out of a conversation.

A performance update for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S is scheduled to release in 2024, allowing higher frame rates and 4K resolution support. Bethesda announced that the game would run at 1080p resolution and 30 frames per second on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.Thus, a team began production on the game that year, including Istvan Pely, lead artist of Fallout 3, after finishing that game's downloadable content (DLC). The updated Creation Engine allows for a more advanced character creation system, which uses sculpting—forgoing the series of sliders present in previous games. After initiating a purge in the Commonwealth, wiping out the Brotherhood of Steel and the Railroad, the Survivor assumes control of the Institute after Shaun's death. Just after Fallout 3 's release, the team devised numerous design objectives to meet for Skyrim—which were updated for Fallout 4 's hardware requirements.

Brown praised the "thought-provoking" narrative, "intuitive" creation tools, the large amount of content, the overall combat, and the overall freedom the player is given.

It is the fourth main game in the Fallout series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. There’s even a full on armor customization allowing players to use materials to upgrade and improve their survivability.