I’m more interested in texture mods at the moment, but I’m up to hear about anything - gameplay mods, weapon mods, etc. In case it matters for any suggestions you make, I’m running a Ryzen 7 - 1700x with 16gb RAM and a GTX 960 4gb RAM
I upgraded/rebuilt my machine recently and did a format/reinstall, so I’m reinstalling Fallout 4 from scratch. I hadn’t played in over 6 months, and I’m out of the loop WRT mods to a LARGE degree. Surprisingly so. Lot of changes - some of my favorite mods are no longer supported, Nexus Mod Manager has been declared end-of-life and they want me to run a program called VORTEX now, etc, etc.
So I installed Vortex, and I’m looking at the TEXTURE mods now. A clanmate insisted I needed to run the official High-Definition texture patch from Bethesda, so that’s about 58 GB dl’ed. Now it’s onward and upward. Do you have any experience with the official hi-def textures? Do you feel they’re worth it? If so, what texture mods do you run with it, and if not, what do you run in its place?
I’ve been fond of the Vivid texture patches in the past, and I was thinking of running their new Vivid All-in-One patch after the hi-def patch, so that it will add its own textures and override the official hi-def ones. I really liked the old Vivid patches.
And a few other mods I consider near necessary: Shaikujin’s Better Warning for Settlements being attacked - Wait, what did that say? No more quick flashes at the top of the screen that you might miss in battle. Instead, a requester pops up and you have time to read it! Lowered Weapons - lower that thing outside of combat! Power Armor Animation Changes - get in and out of Power Armor much faster. Saves wasted time. Faster Terminal Displays (20x) - yes, it’s cute how you emulated slow terminals. The reason why we don’t have them anymore is they are ANNOYING!
TL: DR - Do you have any experience with texture mods? If so, what are your favorites? What do you think of the 58gb ( :eek: ) official Hi-res Texture Pack? What texture mods would you use with it, or in it’s place? Finally, consider/comment on/enjoy my list of texture and other game mods.
My vid card is getting long in the tooth, so I can’t play these mods until prices drop another ~25%. Then I’ll buy another high-end card and ride that until we have full holographic displays.
What are you running now? I only have the 960 4gb. I’m eyeing the 1070ti with jealous eyes, and hoping I can get a deal in teh coming months. Prices seem to be dropping, and new cards are coming out.
GTX660Ti 3gb. Still going strong, but starting to show its age with all the retextures. Certainly won’t handle the next gen of Bethesda games, which are pretty much the only thing I play that taxes the card.
You have any cards in mind currently? I’m drooling over the 1070TI or 1080, but I just can’t get used to the idea of paying $400+ for a video card! Don’t think I’ve ever paid more than $200 for one. I’m hoping for a confluence of price and sale/coupon combination that will let me get one for $350-$400 sometime this year. I’ve had luck with that sort of thing before, but it takes a lot of watching sales forums and frankly, a lot of luck.
I’m kind of surprised at the lack of response here. I know modding isn’t sexy, but this game has so MANY mods to make a great game even more fantastic. Gonna play some tonight.
I’m a heavy FO4 modder. My current modlist is just short of maximum limit for .ESP plugins files. (I would have switched over to ESL versions of some of them, but you really can’t guarantee safely doing that with an existing save, and my character is at level 189 and counting.)
No texture mods. I only play at a windowed resolution below HD1080, so it would be a waste as well as straining my Geforce 970.
Lots of weapon and ammunition mods. For instance, my walking-around weapon is a hopped-up FN P90.
Mostly, I have settlement mods, because I play Fallout 4 like it’s Sims, with the bonus of being able to kill shit. Settlement equipment mods, new settlement mods (like all the Red Rockets in the Commonwealth and in Far Harbor are now settlement candidates), scrapping and placement mods, settler improvements.
No cards currently in mind. First, I’ll wait until prices drop some more, then I’ll start researching what’s available and what’s on-deck before making a decision. If I start researching too early, I might make a rash decision. But I’ll spend $400-$500, knowing that it will be running for quite a few years before the next upgrade.
Damn, color me impressed. I’ve got over 1,200 hours in-game (spend a lot of time playing while recovering from surgery), and a great deal of that was creating settlements. I enjoy the settlement aspect, but I haven’t really added much in the way of mods to that end - yet. I’ve had a few mods to add walls and such to make new buildings in the past. . .also, “scrap everything” and “place everywhere”, but not much else. I don’t yet have any mods to add walls, roofs, etc so far, in my new game/install. Need to rectify that, as soon as I find one that doesn’t add 700 posters and flags and such that I don’t want, and that’s also currently supported.
I’ve had three playthroughs. I miss some of those buildings and settlements I made. Gonna try to set this playthrough up for the long-term, like you did (level 189!!)
I’m just starting this playthrough, but I’ll be rocking some lasers/plasma soon. If I’m gonna play in a post-nuclear apocalypse and lasers are an option, then by God, I’mma have me a laser! Though, a hopped-up p90 sounds pretty sweet as a secondary weapon.
I’m looking for the prices to drop as well. Things are in flux right now, with new cards slated to be introduced in the next few months, and what seems to be a drop-off of demand by the crypto-miners. I’m waiting to see if someone wants to dump old stock at a good price.
It’s (lorewise) an Institute rework of a P90 into an extremely rapid-fire Institute Laser submachinegun. :eek: With damage boost perks, bad guys just fall apart (unless they turn into a pile of ash instead).
That’s the one. The conversion to laser happens after you learn the Institute “paint” weapon mod, either in the Institute itself or looting one off a corpse (kinda rare if I recall correctly).
That enables you to build a laser receiver at a weapon workbench instead of a normal receiver. It uses fusion cells after that instead of .45 bullets.
Little disappointed that I haven’t scared up some serious mod talk. This game has mods for YEARS, and you can go nuts with weather mods, ENB’s, settler mods, etc. You can really alter the game, and if you get into it heavily, it’s like WORK setting the damn thing up, but it has so many possibilities.
I’m running about 200 mods at the moment. Most are fixes or gameplay adjustments, several of which I made myself. I like my game to be pretty hardcore and immersive.
For textures, the main overhaul I use is FlaconOil’s HD ReTexture Project, but an older version that the one currently available…the recent updates add textures that aren’t as much to my taste. The textures are generally very faithful to the originals, but higher res and more detailed…not simply upscaled with added noise. As with any texture pack, there a few that aren’t to my taste, and I simply remove those manually from my data folder, or overwrite from other packs. The mod comes with an NMM installer, giving several options while installing. I have several other texture mods, and I mix and match individual textures to suit my own preference.
I’m still using my original character from launch day (so my data folder is a bit of a mess now!), and several mods I use are now unavailable on the Nexus.
I don’t currently use the 58gb official Hi-Res Texture pack - I tried it out, but despite running 2 x 980Ti’s in SLI on a top of the range gaming rig, the frame rate drop-off wasn’t worth a barely noticeable increase in quality when running at 1080p.
If you haven’t checked out the Creation Club recently (yeah, I know how divisive it is), some of the recent creations are pretty good…especially Slocum’s Joe Coffee & Donuts workshop pack (which adds new workshop items and new consumables with interesting buffs), and a few new ‘adventures’ which add new quests & locations (very short, but still better than the early creations which just added a new weapon to a random enemy in an existing location) like Tunnel Snakes Rule, Captain Cosmos, and a short but interesting paper-trail quest to get the Anti-Materiel Rifle.
