Yeah, the Disable mod is mandatory now when GFWL isn´t even up anymore. Again, one reason I never get online required games

mirocu, you don't know what a hassle that was, getting Fallout 3 to just start. It was ridiculously difficult and frustrating.

I do in fact as I had the same problem myself. Thankfully though, as I´m used to fixing game related problems on my puter it went fairly smooth. Still, frustration always kicks in until I know what to do

Glad you got around it, Renee

I've definitely improved at figuring stuff out haven't I? I used to freak out and cry in these forums about PC stuff, right?

I've been checking Nexus today for possible homes in Novac bungalows and found a bunch of them except that most of them were overpowered and unrealistic and didn't look like bungalows at all from inside. Then I came upon a relatively fresh Novac Bungalow mod and TBH, I wasn't expecting much before checking the pics but after doing so I immediately liked it a lot, especially the campfire on top of the oven was a nice touch and it was the only bungalow that actually looks like a bungalow in Novac would from inside. Then I checked the author and everything became clear to me...it's a mod from our SubRosa!

My modded version of Fellout for FO3 is here on Dropbox. I took the regular Fellout with Brighter Nights, and made the interiors a little brighter so I can see better, and cleaned up the imagespaces and weather even more, to give the game more color, and make it easier to see things.

There is a no Pipboy mod. It is called Pipboy Readius. It removes the pipboy and gives you a little hand-held tablet in its place. I loved the idea of it, and tried it out. But you hold the tablet at a slight angle, and reading all the text crooked just drove me crazy after a while.

But as far as a pipboy goes, I am sure there would be plenty of them laying around the Wasteland. I don't know why we don't see more characters with them. You could RP any number of reasons for a character starting with one. From it was passed down through the family, or they stole it, or scavenged it, or took it off someones body, or even bought it from a mechant, etc...

There are some alternate start mods as well. I tried one once, but found I liked the vanilla start better. Most of my characters don't follow the main quest, or the official game story. For them I just pretend the tutorial in Vault 101 was just a strange dream. I still like doing it for the same reason I always do the tutorial in Oblivion. It gives me a chance to get to know my new characters before getting them out in the 'real' world.

I made a little mod that adds a variety of different weapons to where you start in the Vault, that way I can arm up in whatever way fits a new character's style. For example Hecate started with a rifle, because she is a riflewoman/sniper. I think Molly Hatchet started with a baseball bat but it might have been a fire axe, because she is a melee fighter. Holland Smith started with the 10mm submachine gun, because she is a full auto weapon user.

Once me characters get out in the world I just ignore the main quest and its prompts, and go about my business. My backstory for Holland Smith was that she was a US Marine who fought in the Great War. She was taken by the aliens of Mothership Zeta before it went nuclear. So I did the tutorial with her in Vault 101. Then after she got out I used the coc command to teleport to the Recon Craft crash site. From there she was automatically sucked up to Mothership Zeta, and I started the dlc with her as normal.

It was the same with Oda Hidetaka, who was a 16th century samurai woman. I did the tutoral in the vault with her too, went to the Mothership, and considered her real game to start once I got there.

It may seem kind of clunky doing it that way, but I really do like that time in the tutorial, and getting a feel for what each character is like.

I also use FOMM as well, plus The Fallout Script Extender (FOSE), which a lot of mods require.

I've been checking Nexus today for possible homes in Novac bungalows and found a bunch of them except that most of them were overpowered and unrealistic and didn't look like bungalows at all from inside. Then I came upon a relatively fresh Novac Bungalow mod and TBH, I wasn't expecting much before checking the pics but after doing so I immediately liked it a lot, especially the campfire on top of the oven was a nice touch and it was the only bungalow that actually looks like a bungalow in Novac would from inside. Then I checked the author and everything became clear to me...it's a mod from our SubRosa!

Just a shout out to all those who have yet to play Fallout 4.

Unlike the brilliant FO3 which has a complete underground subway network, the disappointing FO4 has small stations that are not linked in any meaningful way. You simply explore each one and then loop back out through the same entrance. Very boring.

I was very pleased to see that the problem has now been fixed with 'Subway Runner,' a mod that links 90% of the underground system. The subways are a very dangerous place so just make sure that you pack high-powered weaponry and heaps of rad-away.

Subway Runner?

Thanks mALX!!!

I am still around, always just lurking in the background and popping back into view every once in awhile. Lol.

Have been playing heaps of Far Cry Primal and a little bit of Witcher 3. Almost ready to plunge back into some crazy Beth action.

Hope everyone is health and happy.

Unlike the brilliant FO3 which has a complete underground subway network, the disappointing FO4 has small stations that are not linked in any meaningful way. You simply explore each one and then loop back out through the same entrance. Very boring.