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So I decided to back track on my play through - as I finished the Nuka world DLC I had sided with the raiders, but that was starting to bother me. I hadn't gotten too far into my normal game play and so pulled the save right where I was to choose the raiders and invade the commonwealth.
One thing I noticed is that by level 47, you've maxed out all of the damage increasing perks. I've enjoyed rocking with an explosive revolver and even though I've play this game hundreds of times, but earlier today, I bumped into a vault 81 NPC out in the commonwealth - I can't recall seeing them before.
This game is so rich and deep, its always fun, and while Fallout 76 has enjoyed a resurgence, it lacks the same level of deep story telling and RPG. One of my main complaints of 76 is that the past couple of years all new updates, have introduced new events. In fact a new event has started yesterday. From what I can see on reddit from time to time, I'm not alone in wanting more RPG type content, like what they did wastelanders and BOS steel rain updates.
This game is so rich and deep, its always fun, and while Fallout 76 has enjoyed a resurgence, it lacks the same level of deep story telling and RPG. One of my main complaints of 76 is that the past couple of years all new updates, have introduced new events. In fact a new event has started yesterday. From what I can see on reddit from time to time, I'm not alone in wanting more RPG type content, like what they did wastelanders and BOS steel rain updates.
I opted to kill the raiders, as that's a quest in the Nuka world, so I could free the slavesAnd so did you kill them to save the prisoners or just leave Nuka world?
Quick trip down memory lane...
Happy at home
The old neighborhood
Fresh out of the vault...later
Commonwealth veteran
Meeting Piper outside Diamond City
Obtaining Cait's contract at the Combat Zone
note: this is a modded appearance Cait.
Happy at home
The old neighborhood
Fresh out of the vault...later
Commonwealth veteran
Meeting Piper outside Diamond City
Obtaining Cait's contract at the Combat Zone
note: this is a modded appearance Cait.
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I just destroyed the institute. As I sided with the railroad there's a handful of quests to do post, nuking but I don't know if I want to do them - I'm not feeling it right now.
I may want to go back to an older save and side with either BOS or institute. Plus I don't have Far Harbor active, I may fire that up and do that DLC, its been a while. I wasn't in love with that DLC but its been a long time, so maybe its time for a return
I felt very somber watching the mushroom cloud...wondering why the hell did we do that?
You probably remember my harping, but just in case, if you stop certain quests at certain points, you can nuke the Institute and remain friends with all 3 factions... or use a content mod to take over both the Institute and the BOS and live happily ever after, lol. If you want more about this, give a shout.
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Yes, I did a play through of that once back in the day. It was a fun unexpected play through.
I’ve installed the Another Pine Forest, the mod and a 2k texture pack, 2 seperate installs. Around Santuary, I’m not seeing any pine forests, do they appear in other places?
Question about True Storm, I see 2 video tapes, I can select a type of weather, like “overcast” or “clear” but I’d like the weather to cycle, does it do that automatically, or if you select something, it just stays that way until you select something else?
Thanks!
Huntn’s May 2023 Playthough post 1- spoilers follow for anyone who inconceivably has not played this (lol). I have started another playthough I have created a pretty new Sole Survivor, who looks shockingly similiar to the one before (image inbound)
, and am using a pretty long list of mods, I’ll post them. I went over to Concord in search of the Minutemen (gee where could they be? ) and ran across Sylvia (?) the little girl hanging out in the street trying to lure me to help her friend Murphy. I briefly considered the Murphy’s Law scenario, as a brand new character, and decided naw, I’ll fetch the Minutemen survivors back to Sanctuary, spilled the beans to Garvey that I was 200+ years old, and will probably go back to “help” Murphy.I’ve got my modded Barret 50cal sniper rifle, but I’m proud to say I took down all the raiders with a pistol (it’s modded with a power of 35 instead of 18 damage). The DeathClaw that appears on the steets of Concord, got bored waiting for me and retreated to the sewers. I went after it in the powersuit that is available in this scenario.
i have been playing FarCry 5, and there is a distinct superior immersive feeling in the Commonwealth vs in Montana dealing with the Heaven’s Gate Cult. Now I admit, I am a fully assimilated Fallout 4 Fanboy. I will finish FarCry 5 no problem, but there are just no warm and fuzzies there.
Another Pine Forest should be working pretty much everywhere for you, but the FO4VR and regular FO4 game executables have diverged *considerably* as FO4VR is essentially abandonware with only the fan community supporting it (despite still being sold as a 'complete' product somehow.) It's very possible that what is working for me in FO4VR simply isn't going to work the same in flat FO4.
Most likely, however, is that you've got something else lower in load overwriting it, or for some reason it hasn't actually activated, so double-check both of those things. (You probably already knew that, since you are using a lot of mods.)
True Storms weather will cycle. You can control a lot of aspects of that, but there is no setting to make it stick to a specific weather only. Just wait it out a bit and the weather cycles should start. IIRC you can even control how fast the weather cycle. The TrueStorms rad storms are freaking amazing if you have the GPU to push all the eye-candy (god rays, etc.)
The issue is that I've got some mods in the Bethesday mod area (part of the game), and some are being loaded through Nexus, which Bethesda as a rule does not see. In the Bethesda sponsored mods, I can easily control load order, but I'd have to research it to see how to control that for the Nexus Mod manager...
I just took a quick peak, and see a note about installing the textures first, then the mod, and I think I installed them in reverse. So I reinstalled them in the right order and will check if this makes a difference!
Update: I removed the healthier commonwealth mod incase that was interfering, still not seeing pine or aspen trees.
Do you know how to change mod order in Nexus? I'll have to look that up.
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Unfortunately we are using two completely different mod systems. I've never used a single Bethesda mod from that entire modding ecosystem, I use all Nexus mods through Vortex or manual installs when needed. Changing load order through Vortex is pretty easy. (Most basic method is to change the category (Group) of a graphics-only mod like the various Pine Forest mods to a "late loader" - that's almost always safe with mods such as those.) You can also create custom links between mods (i.e. Another Pine Forest must always load after Mod X, that kind of thing. Part of Vortex is an automatic Mod sorting feature called LOOT. It's technically a separate project, but I think Vortex now does that automagically for you. It does a good job of auto-sorting so that everything just works. Here is a brief article on the Steam forums about load order management: https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/3424437779943859298/
Thing is, you'll really need to research how to mix those two mod-install methods. I have no idea at all how that will work, or if it will work at all. Bethesda titles are incredibly fragile, so mixing different mod-managers may spell trouble. Others would know better that me.
Thing is, you'll really need to research how to mix those two mod-install methods. I have no idea at all how that will work, or if it will work at all. Bethesda titles are incredibly fragile, so mixing different mod-managers may spell trouble. Others would know better that me.
I’m not pretending to be an expert, but my impression is that Bethesda’s Mod manager which does have a load order just plops them in, in order. I assume Nexus Mod Manager does this too, but no clue on how they would intermix or if they see each other, so I don’t know if the NMM would load all of it’s mods before or after Bethesda’s or intermingle them.
i just know that I have the 2 Another Pine Forest mods installed, one is a trees only texture pack, and no pine forests appear. I could try the late loader trick to see if that changes anything if I can do that with Nexus Mod Manager, instead of Vortex. Or try Vortex and see if that makes any difference, or start a new game, and just load in the Nexus mods first see if it works, then take a chance on loading in a Bethesda mod. In this case I would not be loading any Bethesda environmental mods to hopefully avoid issues.
@panjandrum, I took one of my F4 early saves prior to entering the vault and removed all the Bethesda sponsored mods to see if that would help but no pine forests appeared. It could be a load order issue which I have not figured out for Nexus Mod Manager. I‘d probably have to clean out the mod (data) folder of mod files, and create a new game. However I have been using the Healthier Commonwealth mod (Bethesda sponsored) which gives all the existing trees leaves and is good enough. 😑
Going back, man Fallout 4 did not age well. What it did well with combat, failed in RPG mechanics. Making the player character fully voiced was a mistake, as that greatly limited dialogue options as well as mods since modders now had to add voice acting that didn't sound like your character.
Thank god Starfield is going back to the old Bethesda talking system we know and love.
Thank god Starfield is going back to the old Bethesda talking system we know and love.
I think it ages extremely well. Its still a wildly popular game, and one that you can play and replay so many times. I understand the downsides of using voices instead of text dialog, especially the impact to the modding community but modding is still alive and well in the fallout 4 world. I think this game aged very well.
We all have our perspectives, and I won’t argue RPG mechanics because you may have a point for that example, but this game, the story is wonderful, the environment, the music, the factions, the characters, and there are choices and character development/skills, all of it clicked for me and still clicks.
So I’ll say it aged just fine for my gaming needs although I’m happy to discuss it’s faults, which a primary one, set The Institute aside, is expecting the player to build junkyards for settlements (corrected with mods) while having all sort of modern technology out in the Commonwealth and the choice of be with the Institute or blow up the Institute destroying a cache of the most advanced tech in existence, also fixed with content mods.
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Its funny, but I fired up FO4 this morning (as I've been doing a play through) and it dawned on me that I've yet to visit a number of major locations and even quests. That's why I love this game. There's so much to do, that you never get to do all of it in a single play through.
As for the story, I think aside from Fallout New Vegas, its one of the more indepth stories that has so much lore everywhere, is incredible. I love the concept and plot. Having a secret group of people underground continuing their scientific endeavors, not dealing with the harshness of the wasteland looking to create a mankind 2.0
Compare that with the story line o Fallout 76 and its night and day. I feel the original storyline of fallout 76 is threadbare and lacks emotional connection. Once they re-added human NPCs and the wasteland DLC did the game improve markedly but story-wise its just not as deep as fallout 4.
I was visiting my Son and Grandkids in Wichita this last week and my 13 year old Granddaughter has been trying to push Roblox on me. I’ve looked at it and have resisted, to many grind, pointless games. Yes, I know, @Spaceboi Scaphandre there are some supposedly decent games there, but none that my grandkids play.
I casually mentioned Fallout 4, and my Grandaughter became very interested in it. I looked at it on Steam, Fallout 4 GOTY Edition $20, and at GOG.com $10 on sale, ano brainer. I helped her in the beginning with teminal, hacking, and am now waiting for a report on her impression, going strong, or faded fast. My presumption is that there are no RPGs on Roblox at that level. 🤔
but none that my grandkids play.I casually mentioned Fallout 4, and my Grandaughter became very interested in it. I looked at it on Steam, Fallout 4 GOTY Edition $20, and at GOG.com $10 on sale, ano brainer. I helped her in the beginning with teminal, hacking, and am now waiting for a report on her impression, going strong, or faded fast.
My presumption is that there are no RPGs on Roblox at that level. 🤔
Fallout Series due to drop April 2024...
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Fallout Series (Prime Video 2024-)
As a huge Fallout 4 fan and player, (1400 hrs in-game) I am simultaneously thrilled and terrified. Due for release April 2024. 🤔 Note the game takes place in the Commonwealth (Boston) and this series takes place in Los Angeles. I sincerely wished they had chosen to tell the Fallout 4 Sole...
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Fallout 4 Update scheduled for 25April24, adds some content and wide screen support, rejoice right? Apparantly not looking at the Steam Community forums, the rumor is that this update kills mods, there is much hate there. And the only way to stop this update on Steam is a game setting of “only updating the game when it is launched”, and turning off your internet connection before launching the game. I thought there used to be a Steam setting to turn off game updates, but I don’t see one now.
I felt strongly enough about this, I have purchased the DRM Free Fallout 4 GOTY version for $10 at GOG.com while it is on sale though 18April. GOG does have a setting to prevent game updates. 🤔
I felt strongly enough about this, I have purchased the DRM Free Fallout 4 GOTY version for $10 at GOG.com while it is on sale though 18April. GOG does have a setting to prevent game updates. 🤔
How can anyone know this though ? And apart from it being unlikely in general fallout London is due out two days before it. . I’d think if the mods of that were worried they’d have already delayed the launch.
I can't say I know, but my guess is that people who do mods, know what these kind of changes can do to existing mods, if those mods are not updated. Since, I have a Steam version what will be updated, and a DRM free version, I can test the Steam version without fear and be ready to fall back on the GOG version. @Queen6 has been working with mods quite a bit lately, wondering if he has an input? Post #272.
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Because Bethesda said so
This update has long been in the works, I believe they mentioned this some time last year with the an eye to releasing it late 2023 or early 2024 but it got delayed. As for the impact of the New London, Bethesda isn't going to change their release schedule for a mod.