I thought I would make a separate mod topic for Fallout 4, since having mods for FO3, NV, and 4 would be a little crowded for one thread.

I started FO4 a few days ago, and quickly came across some must have mods to simply play the game at all.

The Fallout 4 Script Extender - F4SE = Just like the other Beth games, this is a necessary utility.

Mod Organizer 2.0 = The successor to FOMM, for your mod installing and load order sorting needs. Not as good as FOMM, but it is better than nothing.

LooksMenu = This gives you a list of body parts to choose from when creating a character, rather than playing hunt-the-pixel by mousing over every speck of your characters face to see what you can change and what you cannot.

Valkyr Female Face and Body Textures = A much more natural-looking texture. Not as plastic and shiny looking as the vanilla textures are.

Ponytail Hairstyles = From our old friend Azar. Because you never want the vanilla hair in a Bethesda game.

CC's Improved Hair Colors = Because every hair color in the vanilla game is brown.

True Eyes = Improved eye textures.

Face Ripper = For copying faces between characters.

Full Dialog Interface = So you actually know what we are saying.

Dot Instead Of Crosshair = Gives you a small, unobtrusive dot instead of those big ugly crosshairs. As an added bonus you can actually see exactly what you are aiming at.

Moon Size Adjuster = Allows you to make the moon larger. A little bit goes a long way. I went with 1.5x, the smallest increase.

Moon - Beautiful Hi Res Texture = Looks much better than the vanilla moon.

Visible Galaxy 4k = Comes with the stars too. Much better than the vanilla night sky.

No Smoking = Because its gross. Not to mention there would not be any cigarettes or cigars lefter after 200 years.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 30 2016, 12:08 AM

The textures used are specified within the mesh file itself. You have to use something like Nifskope to open them and see the names. That is why I said it is easier not to change the names or file paths of the textures.

Oh ok, gotcha.

One more question. SubRosa, do you alter textures (simple color changes and what not) in Fallout4 and if so what program do you use to do that?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Aug 7 2017, 03:49 AM

Cainboo recently started using these two and loves them:

Crafting Workbench Blueprints - Don't want to have six charisma and local leader 2 to build a stove? Buy the blueprints from a vendor instead!

Easy Supply Lines - Changes the perk requirement for supply lines to Cap Collector 1.

This post has been edited by Cain: Aug 7 2017, 01:11 PM

So basically you've eliminated the need to take local leader, lol

Pretty much. What started this is Roxie - she has 7 intelligence, but only 3 charisma. It makes zero sense to me that while building her workshop in Sanctuary, she couldn't build a cooking stove. That should fall under intelligence, instead of charisma.

Khajiit agrees. Beth made a few choices that seem bizarre to this one. Like for instance, why does the combat rifle shoot .45 rounds? It's obviously modeled after a BAR which shoots .30-06 rounds. Yes you can get a receiver that shoots .308 but the standard round should have been a 5.56. You know, a rifle round, lol.

Yep, that one makes you wonder, too. They even had the 5.56 caliber in-game already, so why not do that and make some kind of .45 handgun instead?

Definitely. And what's up with the Tommy gun being so weak? Compare it to the 10mm full auto and it's inferior to the 10mm in almost every way. Khajiit made a mod specifically for weapon tweaks.

Yeah, the Tommy Gun is a really big head scratcher. It has the same base damage as an auto pipe rifle. Why bother with it, when .38 ammo is much more abundant?

Exactly. In this one's weapon tweak mod, Khajiit gave it slightly less base damage than a 10mm in its standard semi automatic configuration.

I use Paint.Net for the game textures. They are in .dds format, so you need something that can edit them. Thankfully Paint.Net can, and it is free.

Free is definitely good!

So, Khajiit got Paint.net and started playing around with some texture files. Honestly, this one feels like a child playing with finger paints, lol

Accessing Maglocks Delay - Bug Fix - this looks like a very useful mod. It removes the delay you get when turning off locks with a terminal. Apparently this bug is created when you use the terminals in the Federal Ration Stockpile.

Hmmm, Khajiit never noticed this bug before.

Interesting. That would be why I get sometimes, but not others. Going to test that bug out tonight.

Horse Armor???!!!

Haven't they learned?

Bahahaha!