Bethesda just confirmed the rumors that Fallout 3 and New Vegas are being remastered, and while I understand the temptation to get swept up in the hype after more than a decade without a traditional Fallout game, I wouldn't get too excited just yet. Lest we forget the sorry state that Virtuos left the Oblivion remaster in.
It has been over a year since the last Oblivion Remastered update—which was pushed live on July 9, 2025. The patch fixed an extensive list of quest, audio, performance, UI, gameplay, and system bugs, while ironing out some of the known crashes. It was promising given the usual Unreal Engine 5 hiccups that plagued the PC port, but then updates came to a complete halt.
Performance is still notably sluggish to this day, and it’s not like the community has kept quiet about it. The Steam forums actively warn people away from buying the game, social media is littered with posts asking if the performance has improved yet—to which they’re met with a disappointing ‘no’—while many of the reviews on Steam, which have dragged its recent score down to ‘Mixed’, call on Virtuos directly to fix the game.
Granted, we don’t know who...
