Gaming studio Bethesda has confirmed the first few details of "Fallout 4" downloadable content (DLC). The company said that avid gamers will be able to access the latest from the popular online gaming system with a season pass beginning early 2016.
"Since we're still hard at work on the game, we don't know what the actual DLC will be yet, but it will start coming early next year. Based on what we did for Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim, we know that it will be worth at least $40, and if we do more, you'll get it all with the Season Pass," Bethesda' announced in a blog post this week.
The gaming company also said that they will be offering regular updates for "Fallout 4," which will not just include fixes, but also additional features like visual enhancements and kill cams, according to IGN. The move follows what the company did for Skyrim, its other popular gaming system, after its launch, Gamers should recall that Bethesda added kill cams, mounted combat and legendary mode to Skyrim as the game progressed.
Additionally, players on "Fallout 4" will be pleased to learn that they will also be able to mod the game via the Creation Kit, as part of its updated features. But this will first take place among Xbox One and PC users. PS4 players will have access to the mods at a later time.
In an earlier interview with Gamespot, Bethesda executive Pete Hines explained why PC users and XBox One console owners—both platforms owned by Microsoft—will be getting the new much-awaited feature first. "Why Microsoft? They are a company that is in both of those spaces; they're heavily in the PC space; they're heavily in the console space," Hines stated. "They had some pretty good ideas about how to make something like this work."
Meanwhile, "Fallout 4" has been submitted for ratings and classification for possible censorship issues, but so far, Hines said in a Twitter post that the game has been well-accepted "as is" in countries like Australia and Germany. It has yet to receive censorship elsewhere.
@slinkylink123 so far it hasn't been. Australia and Germany have accepted it "as is"
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) September 9, 2015
In North America, the ratings are classified by the Entertainment Software Rating Board and previous "Fallout" releases have received the ratings "M" for mature audience, according to another Gamespot report.
"Fallout 4's" actual release, without the DLC season pass, is set for November 10 across all gaming platforms.
