Fallout 4's Season Pass price is due to increase from the current £24.99 to £39.99 on March 1, 2016. The reason for this hike is expanded plans for DLC, which will apparently deliver $60 worth of new content during 2016.
That $60 is equivalent to £41.94 in British pounds, so it's not a huge saving at the new price. However, if you grab the Season Pass before March, you get that £41.94 for the old price of £24.99, though that's obviously a bit of a gamble because you don't know what you're getting.
To help with that situation a bit, Bethesda has released plans for the first three chunks of DLC content.
The first of these is called Automatron, will release in March, and is priced at £7.99 on its own. Here's the blurb: "The mysterious Mechanist has unleashed a horde of evil robots into the Commonwealth, including the devious Robobrain.
"Hunt them down and harvest their parts to build and mod your own custom robot companions. Choose from hundreds of mods; mixing limbs, armor, abilities, and weapons like the all-new lightning chain gun. Even customise their paint schemes and choose their voices!"
The second, called Wasteland Workshop, releases in April for £3.99 and will let you design and build cages to capture wasteland creatures, letting you pit them in battle against each other. The Wasteland Workshop also includes a suite of new design options for your settlements like Nixie tube lighting, letter kits, taxidermy and more.
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Wasteland Workshop looks like it's inspired by some of the epic battles people have been putting together using the game's debug mode, like this recreation of Lord of The Rings' Battle of Helm's Deep.
The last one, due for release in May, seems like the most substantial, taking you to a new location off the coast of Maine, apparently the biggest area Bethesda has ever made for an expansion. Far Harbor will be £19.99 if bought on its own, and will begin when "a new case from Valentine's Detective Agency leads you on a search for a young woman and a secret colony of synths".
"Travel off the coast of Maine to the mysterious island of Far Harbor, where higher levels of radiation have created a more feral world," says the official blurb. "Navigate through the growing conflict between the synths, the Children of Atom, and the local townspeople.
"Will you work towards bringing peace to Far Harbor, and at what cost? Far Harbor features the largest landmass for an add-on that we've ever created, filled with new faction quests, settlements, lethal creatures and dungeons. Become more powerful with new, higher-level armor and weapons. The choices are all yours."
If you want a chance to play these add-ons early, you can sign up for beta testing at Bethesda.net. If chosen to participate, you'll get access to the full content - complete with Trophies and Achievements - and you won't have to pay for it. Seems like a pretty good deal, especially when you consider the finished content will probably have the odd bug anyway.
Beyond DLC, Bethesda plans to keep giving the vanilla game extra support, like with its plans to overhaul Fallout 4's Survival Mode.
