

I reloaded the game from a different save file at a point a few minutes earlier in the mission, and made my way back to the elevator only to find myself trapped again. The elevator, of course, remained perfectly sealed. I sensed something wasn't quite right with the scene, but pushed that thought to the corner of my mind and took a couple minutes to dispose of some junk items weighing me down, tossing the detritus onto the elevator floor.Īfter refilling my cup of coffee in the real world, I accepted the elevator door in the virtual world wasn't going to open anytime soon, so I dropped two grenades and Piper and I exploded into fountains of blood. I lowered my weapon and took a couple minutes to have a conversation with my artificially intelligent cohort, a journalist from Diamond City named Piper, but she kept repeating the same fluff about how our friendship is fine, but I could do a lot better. Or maybe the game was just loading the top floor very slowly. Perhaps a gravelly voice would come over the intercom to explain some dastardly scenario I'd have to survive. First the elevator music stopped, and I wondered in the silent, claustrophobic space if this was a spooky twist. Inside the 4-by-4 box, I waited for the door to open, my gun ready. With another floor cleared, I caught my breath, healed my wounds, and called for the next elevator. I popped the heads of super mutants on the first floor like they were bubble wrap, then took an elevator to the middle of the tower, where I blasted the limbs off a few more baddies. The crust of Fallout 4 is enjoyable, but I was ready for something more challenging, so I hiked east toward a side quest, something involving a man imprisoned atop a tower full of super mutants. I eat the crust first in open-world games, grinding my stats and finding overpowered weapons before taking on the main missions. Nine hours into Fallout 4 I found myself stuck inside an elevator.īy this point, I had built a bond with my character along with a respectable inventory of items, most notably an automatic pistol with a bottomless magazine. I was quick to judge Bethesda off their buggy past, but it appears they'd already fixed my problem. In either case, be sure to download both the games' Day One patch, update your system manually, and restart the console before playing Fallout 4.

Now the elevator works properly - though oddly enough, the music mentioned in the earlier draft of this article never plays.

A new system update downloaded, and rebooted the console. Update November 9th, 5:00PM EST: After fussing with the game for an hour and checking to make sure it was updated on patches, I checked my PlayStation 4 for system updates.
