KaeusGrim

Agreed. You have to tear a lot out to make multiplayer work in the Creation Engine. I'm still not saying it can't be done; it's just that most of the mods I've seen don't go far enough to make it work. There's a lot in networking; My game prototypes all start out in single-player and then there's a lot of coding i have to do to make everything sync up properly. So when you want to take a completed single-player game like the fallout serious and make it multiplayer.. You gotta pull the game apart and code it all back together so that it works with servers and syncing player, entity, etc., etc. positioning. To get mods to sync up everyone has to have the exact same version of the mod and then there needs to be some server modifications. but i'm a small time, self-taught developer and modder so it could be less complicated than I think.

I haven't actually touched code now for 5 years so I cannot say for sure, but I've spent a lot of time looking at the coding for Bethesda's creation engine and at other people's attempts at multiplayer mods. The creation engine has no networking for multiplayer built into it at all.. Now that doesn't mean it cannot be done. The co-op mod for Skyrim is limited; It doesn't give you player position very well and there aren't any NPCs for anyone but the host. The same thing would happen for Fallout 4. Mostly you'd have to use it for PvP. Remove all of the NPCs through moding. Hopefully the base building shows up for everyone. Mod in vending structures to replace NPC stores. You would also have to mod out the VATs system because it would slow down time for everyone when one person uses it; or it could even break the game and force everyone to crash. Effectively you'd make Roleplaying and Death match servers with players only. Mod it so that players can be Ghouls and any other humanoid race. But that's as far as I see it feasibly going. Syncing up player location will be hard enough. *I hope this doesn't count as thread necromancy. There isn't a useless, or baseless, reply that could be considered spam. And most of these threads are older so it feels like it would be borderline on any topic.