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

It is very good for figuring out which mods that items come from, or the IDs of Npcs. Not to mention for manually deleting things like ash piles.

Mod Configuration Menu is now out for F4. Download it now!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 9 2017, 07:42 PM

Anyone here try the E-11 Blaster mod?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 11 2017, 04:45 AM

Not me. It breaks immersion too much for me.

Good point.

A couple of mods Khajiit tried:

Dogmeat Wolf Retexture
https://i.imgur.com/VfsVcaf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8atfgXS.jpg

Tomahawk weapon
https://i.imgur.com/qMr7x61.jpg

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 15 2017, 09:26 AM

Pip-Boy Colors (Akira Edition Pipboy) - has five different color options for the Pip-Boy - black, red, orange, green, and blue. It also has some extra "stickers" you can manually copy and paste into the texture files if you want. I am using the blue option for Killer Frost.

Institute Pip-Boy - is a white Pip-Boy

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 19 2017, 02:25 AM

Khajiit runs UCO and its addons, one of which lets you change the color of your Pip-Boy. Victoria is currently using a black Pip-Boy.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 19 2017, 03:45 AM

Craaap!! Fallout4 updated again so the SE is out of date, again. This is truly annoying.

It's more Creation Club garbage. It looks like every time they add something to it, they update the game with all the new content they force you to download.

You need to keep Steam in Offline Mode. You can still play that way without being forced to update.

Thanks I'll definitely have to do this as it's really obnoxious

Fallout4.exe Auto-Backup - This makes a backup of your Fallout4.exe file. That way if Steam updates your game, you can still go back to your backup file and still play the game with F4SE.

Thanks for that. Khajiit has also turned off automatic updates on Steam and set it to download on launch. Good thing about F4SE is that it won't download the update when launching the game through that so this should solve the problem.

F4SE has been updated to work with Bethesda's latest update. So has Mod Configuration Menu, LooksMenu, and Better Console (all use F4SE).

Thanks for the heads up.

Classic Combat Armor = brings back the good old Fallout 3 style combat armor, with a bunch of faction and color schemes.

So maybe someone here can explain to this one what is happening to our mods now that Bethesda is updating the game every time they crap out new Creation Club updates. Khajiit has his game set to only update when he starts it through Steam, which he never does since he launches it through F4SE. If he didn't do this, the game would update and his version of F4SE would need to be updated too. So, this one is really asking if all of the other mods need to be updated every time the game updates or are they safe?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 9 2017, 05:39 AM

I think every mod that uses F4SE has to be updated as well. The last time it happened I had to update Looksmenu and a few other mods, as well as F4SE.

But it's fine if one doesn't update F4SE, right?

Yes, so long as you keep Steam in offline mode you do not have to update anything.

Apparently updates will no longer break the script extenders.