SirTwist

I would love it if someone were to make something like One Hud for Fallout 4. I would love to be able to move things around of my HUD in game, rather than through flash, or other stuff. Part of the thing I like with One HUD is that you can use MCM, at least in Fallout 3/New Vegas, to set it up, and keep things where you want. This would make things good, at least for me, and I feel for others.

I don't have a set install order for mods. However, I do use Mod Organizer 2, which does help. However, I install some mods, then if I need to, then compatibility mods/patches. In the past I didn't use compatibility patches, as I didn't need them. Since things have updated, etc, I do use them where needed. I typically place texture mods where ever, sometimes using them as a break, if you will, between categories of mods. This is not install, just moving stuff around. However, since I do have a rather fluid way of installing, and even loading my mods, I don't have any set advice for things. However, I do try to install similar mods. Such as looks mods, armor and clothing mods, weapons mods, settlement mods, inventory and hud mods. My load order, though, I don't use loot a whole lot, because it places things I need at the bottom where ever it feels like. So I have to move things around myself. One mod that I use, that some people don't, is Repaired Roofs. This mod has to be at the very bottom of the list, and Loot moves it elsewhere. I have to move it after Loot is done.

I honestly think the BGS could have done better with Boston than they did, as well as the Commonwealth, in general. However, I can say that at a good height they did an amazing job at the landscape. I need to check the night sky, but I do think that FNV does have an amazing night sky. I do like a number of games. One amazing game, believe it or not, and one I think is a bit better than the Fallout series at landscapes is actually Assassin's Creed games. Assassin's Creed 3, I believe, did an awesome job between changing seasons, and hampering, a little, the PC as you go about the heavy snow. I believe where BGS dropped the ball with Fallout 4 was in the actual writing of the story, and even some of the factions, and other things. Aside from the whole mess with the main story line, which is a mess of epic proportions, I feel that they just threw about half the stuff they had made canon through Fallout New Vegas, and created mew stuff for Fallout 4. The first big change was power armor. Changing if from a mechanized suit you can put on to one where you have to put in a fusion core, and get into it, that is one huge step. The other problem I have is the whole dialogue system. (I have said that a lot, and I apologize, but it does severely irk me to no end.) There are other things, but I will agree that the Fallout series, since 3, has had great landscapes. And even sky scapes.

And after updating the driver, did you run the launcher again?

The 2.0.7 that Tannin left is decent. You can update with Le Presidente's without any problems. You can, basically, overwrite one with the other. If you want to, you can do a clean install. I would move my mod folder first, though. But it should upgrade easily enough.

I would say the best story, from Fallout 3 to Fallout 4, was in New Vegas, even though Obsidian didn't get a chance to finish the game properly. It's like one of their previous games that I still like, which is KOTOR II: The Sith Lords. The story line wasn't completely fleshed out. Every planet had missing parts, and plots, etc., and even needing work on other things. However, they were also rushed in that project, and had their elbow jostled too many times while trying to get things straight. Wonderful writing, and character backgrounds. Needed more work on the story, and even the planets, but still a great game. New Vegas is like that, great game, to a point, great story writing, great characters. The only thing lacking was the feeling of completeness, or areas where there could have been more worked into it. Lonesome Road could have been much better, and better choices, if they had written a better story for it to begin with. But I feel it was back to BGS for that one, and they screwed the pooch on it. Anyway, I think that Fallout 4 fails in so many way. I have stated why in a few thread, but allow me some highlights. Fallout 4's perk chart is laughable, at best. The console dialogue is a mess, and sarcasm is non-existent. The settlement building should have been done in a DLC, if at all. And wasting 3 DLC's just on settlement building? There could have been better stories out there. Or even more. But they wanted more settlement stuff. And it's like they tried to "modernize" the game, but failed with it so badly. The game engine is the same one they had been using since Fallout 3, and perhaps even Oblivion. (Not sure about Morrowind, but still it is not that great of an engine.) They could have used a better engine, Unreal maybe, and the old levelling system, that worked well. And even added to the game. The dialogue was written, it seems by an 8 year old who didn't understand what they were writing. And the voiced PC? They could have done it much better. If nothing else, steal the dialogue from the Saint's Row games. That would be funny. And stick with the old stuff, it works, maybe not extremely well, or for a game pad, but it works. Also, the perk system didn't need a major overhaul. It needed adjusted for Fallout 4. And they could even had added in more RPG elements to it, and not just been a FPS first. Maybe BGS wants to dumb down games to show that their engine still works, despite being outdated.

If you look at any NPC in the main Commonwealth, there is some similarity between the PC and the NPC's. Some. There is only so much you can with with the base face. That being said, BGS has not verified, at all, that Shaun is Father, or vice versa. If you are basing only on looks, then 85% of the Commonwealth's humans also look like you or your spouse. Even Maxson could be Shaun, based off of looks alone. Still, Father is not Shaun, and the time line does NOT fit.

Either look through the Nexus for an update by Le Predsidente, or go to their discord channel, and get it from there. That second part might be the best bet.

My main problem with Father being Shaun is that there is zero proof that Father is Shaun. You don't have a watch going into the cryo-chamber, nor any external stimuli to indicate time passage. All you do know is that someone, Kellogg and the Institute kills the significant other while kidnapping the baby. And why go for the baby. Why not just port the chambers of all, and get the genetic materials direct from the bodies, and then port them back, one by one? The issue with Father being Shaun is the timing. Father can NOT be Shaun. Want to know why? Kellogg would have said something, and Valentine, and Kellogg, would have met before, a few times. My thought is that Father is not Shaun, but a manipulator, and a liar, and wants you to believe he is one thing he is not. Second point of proof, if he was Shaun, he would have remembered being with Kellogg during the Broken Man incident, and said something. However, this is not the case. Again, proving that Father is not Shaun. And if Father was Shaun, why not have a courser there when you woke up, to port you directly to the Institute to meet him, instead of having to fight your way through everything. Again, Father is NOT Shaun. So, Father is more a title, to me, than a person. The "synth" Shaun that is 10 years old is the real Shaun, and will grow up and old just like anyone else. One thing I do ask of people is not to believe what a few people is toting as truth, when there is no proof, at all, of it.

I have a thread about my speculations about Father and Shaun. But let me say this, I think that Bethesda did drop the ball, and it wasn't just Fallout 4, but also Skyrim. They haven't done decent writing for a game since, IMO, Fallout 3 and Oblivion. I do like the mods that silence Preston about the radiant go here, talk to these people, and go kill a group of others, and report back to this place then him. At least that works, for me, in the short term. Long term, it might take me a while to take on the Castle, but oh well. Since I wiped my hard drive, I don't have my old play through, so I started a new one. This time, though, instead of going back to Tenpines Bluff to finish the quest, which I will do so eventually, I went to Goodneighbor to start the Silver Shroud stuff. At least the costume, etc. I don't plan on doing the rest until a little while later. I need to level a little before I really do the rest of the mission. And I want to do some other stuff while I am thinking about it. I think that is why there are so many mods for this game alone. And the dialogue choices are a real joke. Don't have sarcasm, at all, if you aren't going to do it right. The "sarcastic" comments are a joke, to me. I think that they need to just not be in the game. And what's with the console version of dialogue choices? Did we, as PC gamers get dumb all of a sudden? Do we need only 4 choices? I know Mass Effect had their limitations as to choices, but frakk me if BGS did drop the ball on that one as well. And the perk, skills, and special crap they made? what a bloody joke. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I would believe 10 years between the time you woke up and saw your significant other and the baby being kidnapped, as opposed to 60 years. And 10 years would be the right amount of time to see Dr. Li go from the Capital Wasteland to Boston Commonwealth. And this, again, brings me to one of my previous points in that Father is a manipulator, at the least, as well as a liar. And Perraine, you are right about the radiation, etc. The first wave through is basically displacement of air. Getting back on point, though, is that Father is not Shaun, nor could he ever be. Of course he may look a little like you and your significant other. But who wouldn't after that length of time. And there is plastic surgery, and other things, that can have an affect on your appearance. Or in the case of Father, his appearance. I wish that Oxhorn would revise his video as to who Shaun is, and Father, as well as Vinlyc Puma. If you ask me, they were the ones I watched, and the things they said just didn't click correctly in my head after playing this game for a while, and listening to things. I think I will start a new thread about another person in the game I don't care for, and some theories on another group that you can join. I am not closing this discussion, nor even abandoning it, at all. I'm going to post something I think that would be rather interesting. I am, though, going to watch some videos, and think on things. Probably even play some more Mass Effect, and Fallout 3, NV, and 4, in the mean time.

Something to look at, to see if you might want it, is Repaired Roofs. I like that mod, because it fixes up the roofs in Sanctuary Hills, and the one other settlement that has the same type of house as Sanctuary. NMC's better roads is something else to look at. For Bodyslide/CBBE, you should look at some presets, I don't have one particular one I care for, but some are pretty good. One other weapon mod I use is DOOM merged. It has all of the DOOM weapons, but in one package. Settlement Keywords Expanded is a good one, as well as Unofficial Fallout 4 patch. And Nano suit. As to load order, if you use Repaired Roofs, make sure it is the last on your mods list. The very last. Also, put your scrap at the bottom of the list as well. Also, scrap everything should be quite low on the list as well. Your ESM's, and everything else should be okay, but having Repaired Roofs, and Scrap Everything at the bottom of the list is key.

The reason I use those is to cover what some doesn't cover. I will see what happens when I drop the other two. I'll just deactivate them. The reason I use all those is because they were needed to scrap everything, especially some place Outpost Zimoja, where you needed the mods to scrap everything there.

Bethesda, oh how I love thee, let me count the ways.... Oh wait, I'd rather take an arrow to the knee than do that. Okay, meme out of the way, I seriously think that Bethesda needs new writers, or bring back Bioware, and their writers, to plan their next games. Of course with TEO, then next TES game might take some time to come out. They could churn out another dismal game like Fallout 4. Or even a game similar to Prey. Want to talk about major annoyances from NPC's, Prey is almost just as bad as Fallout 4 and Preston Garvey. It can be toss up as to which is worse. At least with Prey the NPC's have some personality to them, and decent writing. Fallout 4, bad writing from the start, and the dialogue choices are non-existent, at best. If I were made a general of a militia group, I would not be going to some podunk little shanty in the back of no where, to go kill some raiders, mutants, or zombies. I would go there, talk to the people, the radio in to say we need to have this place taken care of. so these people can join our group, and help make it bigger, and able to handle even more jobs. You need help from us? Well, you will get help, and we aim to do our best. Of course, somethings we would have to be present for, at the very least to help plan the assault on the place, or even to take care of the end boss, but it should not be me and my companion handling the mess you all got yourselves into.

I don't mind bad writing if it's comedy, but Fallout 4 was poorly written from the start. The PC version was dumbed down so much I feel like the just took the console version and did nothing to improve it, and slap it on the PC. Don't get me started on the piss poor settlement crap. That is a waste, as well as 3 separate DLC's that deal with it. If they had left off the settlement stuff, they may have had far more time in writing the story, and even getting a decent karma system in place, and less dumbed down interface for dialogues. Bethesda saw the popularity of the Mass Effect games, and their system, and tried to port into Fallout 4. And it failed. The plot hoes? Good god, I've seen better writing out of 2 year olds asking questions. The voice acting was good, but still, I would have preferred if the PC spoke, it would be something similar to Mass Effect series, or even better than that. I think Bethesda should have left the PC silent, as they had with everything up to Fallout 4, and put some real time into writing, fixing plot holes, etc. Sarcasm should not be flippant, or dismissive, or whatever they were doing. It should be truly sarcasm. Maybe a little exasperation in there. Not something you just do blandly. This game reminds me of SWTOR,and the Counselor's story line. Bad. At least KOTOR and TSL had good writing, and even Mass Effect, with the exception of the end of ME3. If I were to see that they were working on Fallout 5, or whatever, here's a list of things I want. A Mass Effect type voice over for the character, or even Saint's Row style. And if you have sarcasm, make it blatantly obvious it is sarcasm. And throw in some curse words. And don't limit the player to only 4 choices, That really shows you are trying to get the game to 5 year olds. Don't include settlement building, at all. Have places that you may own, and store stuff in there, but don't force people to build settlements. And bring back the karma system, and even the old perk system of Fallout 3/NV. Perks and skills. And a bigger map, and better DLC's. The last, pre-4, DLC that I considered bad for the Fallout series was Lonesome Road. I thought it was badly written. You should have had more choice in the matter, but I didn't write it, but I did play it once. I didn't like it, so I am consciously skipping it. And will do so for the foreseeable future. However, I think we have gotten astray of the original intention of my main post, and that is I still doubt that Father is Shaun, and only a genetics test would prove it. I just think that Father is some old man who wants you to believe he is your son, so that you might take pity on him, and absolve him of murder and kidnapping, so he may go to his death with a cleaner conscience. If it were really Shaun, then why wasn't there an effort to do something much sooner, to the PC, and why did everyone else in their cyropods have to die? Why couldn't they have just been sealed up, and not allowed to be opened, or already open, and they had been released previously, and even settled into society? That's some food for thought. I am getting tired, and I need some sleep.

For this one you will need MCM, but I like it: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26592

If you uninstalled Fallout 4 completely, you need to run the launcher to the main menu before you try running f4se. The ini's aren't set. You need to set them, first. I would recommend getting the manual install of f4se. Next time, do not uninstall everything. But do update f4se, and the mods that need it, like MCM, and a few others.

I am not sure which scrap mod it is, but I have some trash left at Red Rocket, right between the one door and the garage door. I also have tile rubble in what used to be the PC's house in Sanctuary, as well as the floor grate. These reappear every time I leave the area, and come back. I am testing my load order, but here's the scrap mods I use. Tidy Settlers, Scrap Everything, Scrap Annoying things, Scrappable Commonwealth, and Scrap That. I am not sure which it is. If someone can point me in the right direction, much obliged.

I was lucky to have installed my game, and mod organizer 2, on a separate drive. I am going to replace one of my optical drives with a new hard drive, so I can clone my current windows to it. After that is complete, I am going to wipe my current drive, replace one of the others I am using for games, etc. and use that until I can get another, same size, to replace the one I am currently using. Then moving all of my games, etc. to that one. Well, copy over all my stuff. Then do some pokery and jiggery, and make all my shortcuts work again. I don't just play Fallout 4, but also Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, and a number of other games. I believe when I am done, I will have one main drive I store the os on, plus some other stuff that I have on the drive. The games, etc. will be moved to a whole other drive that is for games, modding, etc. This way, I won't have to work as hard as before. I do have a drive I should, eventually pull out. It's one I have had for a long time. I believe since I bought the case, as part of a bare bones kit I bought way back when Tiger Direct was going good with barebones kits. I believe I was running, originally, windows XP on a 500 gb drive, which I still have on that drive, and the 1 tb I got with the kit was a seagate 1 tb drive. I threw Windows 7 on it. Then upgrade to 10. It was starting to not play nice, so I bought a Western Digital drive. I will say I probably won't ever buy anymore Seagates. They tend to go bad. That's the first drive I am replacing. The WD I will, eventually, replace with a larger one. Right now, just trying to get things back to being able to run, and decently. I am getting there. As to Fallout 4, and modding it, I do have all my mods, etc. I just have to reestablish the links in Mod Organizer 2, which is not all that hard. Just need to replace the drive letter is all. Easy peasy. On a side note, I still have the 500 gb drive, it's IDE, or PATA, and I want to, eventually drop it, and get a better mb, and have things better. I would rather run AMD based cpu's over Intel. I am, though, a dichotomy. I prefer AMD cpu's over Intel, and Nvidia over ATI. Unless the ATI is in a laptop.

I had bought a new hard drive, and I was in the process of installing it. I had, instead, deleted my main hard drive's partition. Luckily my games, well most of them, weren't on my main hard drive. They were on other drives. Now, I have the dubious honor of linking steam back to the games. The lesson here is this, don't try to install a new hard drive while tired, slightly drunk, and slightly upset at things. Bad things happen. On a side note, all my saves are gone. So I can change up some mods, and check out some other stuff. I can live with that. I will have to do the same for Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, and SSE. But at least I didn't lose anything truly important like the mods. I think once I get things back to "normal" for me, I will be back commenting all over here.

I don't have to do all that. I use Mod Organizer 2, and it activates the mods I want when I want. So I don't have to go inside the game to activate mods.

Way to necro an old thread. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Try Settlement Keywords Expanded. That may help, some.

Did you get the deluxe edition with the season pass, or did you get the goty edition? You may have some issues with the in game menu and DLC's, depending on things. But if you have them in Steam, then you should have them in game.

It can be a few things, but I am willing to bet it is more likely your setting are off. What kind of video card do you have?