Fallout 4 Glitches – The Strange Side Of The Wasteland

Update: Now that Fallout 4 has officially landed on the market, players continue to discover humorous glitches to help liven up their time in the Wasteland.

Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite
Fallout 4 lets players construct and decorate their own settlements. It looks like a fun diversion, albeit one with a few kinks to work out, as these users found out when they started moving a bed around. Gravity won't stop this man from getting a good nights sleep.

Invisible Guns
I'm tempted to make a 4Kids censorship joke here, but I'm not sure how many people would get the reference.

More Rag-Doll Corpse Weirdness
Spinning, dismembered corpses take body horror to a whole new level.

These Folks Might Not Be Cut Out For Post-Apocalyptic Survival
Problematic pathfinding strikes these hapless survivors, forcing them to jog in place against an inconveniently placed vehicle.

Original Story (November 10 at 7:10 p.m.)

For developers like Bethesda, massive open worlds and glitches often go hand in hand. From series like The Elders Scrolls to Fallout, the publisher’s games consistently deliver hours upon hours of immersive, free-roam questing. They also provide YouTubers with plenty of goofy bugs to pinpoint and broadcast.

Though Bethesda hoped to hone its quality testing process for Fallout 4, some technical problems will always crop up in ambitious games. They can even provide a healthy dose of unintentional humor – as long as they don’t grow out of hand. Players who received Fallout 4 early have already posted an initial batch of programing hiccups. Below we’ve rounded up the ones we find the most amusing. Until the development team patches them out of existence, we can share a few chuckles from these glitches, and hope that they don’t crop up too often when we finally boot up our own Pip-Boys.

Piper Doesn't Like Loading
Piper twirls on the floor like a game of spin-the-bottle after a lengthy load time. I guess chatting with your face glued to the floor became proper etiquette after the bombs dropped. Skip to the 32-second mark for the hilarity.

Nick Valentine, Smooth Criminal
Nick Valentine shows off some sweet diagonal dance steps here. Exposure to radiation must do wonders to your balance genes.

Dog Paddling On Dry Land
Your faithful canine companion performs his levitating dog paddle trick. Too cute.

Frozen Animals
I can’t say the same about these static, midair mutants. Nuclear fallout does weird stuff.

Ghoulish Death Spasms
Rag-doll corpses are a frequent source of janky glitches. They’re prone to catching on terrain and contracting into odd shapes. Here we see a dead ghoul jiggle and twitch on the ground. It takes a few gunshots to get rigor mortis to finally set in.

Teleporting Raiders
You have to give these raiders credit. Appearing out of thin air is a pretty novel strategy.

Seeing The Light
Getting shot apparently can send you cascading through the floor into a white void, distorting your body into a smeary blur. That's kind of disturbing, actually.

Day One Woes
Life is fleeting in the world of Fallout. At any time the universe can warp you several feet in the air and send you plummeting to the ground.

For a deeper (and much more serious) look at Fallout 4, feel free to check out Andrew Reiner’s review, or tune into our livestream.