SaturnVII Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 My name is SaturnVII and I've been around for quite some time. With that aside, I'll place this in the discussion subforum as opposed to the requests, to see if there is a kind of want for this sort of overhaul. To avoid a text wall, I'll attempt to keep it short. In Skyrim, we had a number of mods that converted the map into a cold, dark, freezing hell. Frostfall, the Climates of Tamriel winter overhaul, and with that we also received some unique survival elements. I intend to see if there is a want on the forums and in the community for this sort of modification to see if some talented individual would find it worth their time to pursue the project. End result, something similar to a game like The Long Dark perhaps. In short: Survival Aspects (Hypothermia, wetness factors, camping, fire building, clothing warmth)Authentic Winter (Snowed over Commonwealth, weather changes, snow depth, frozen rivers and lakes)Winter Clothing (Thicker clothes, more ushankas, long coats, snow shoes, scarves, gloves, etc) Other hardcore aspects such as eating, drinking, sleeping should perhaps be covered by a separate addon for modularity. Ostensibly, feel free to discuss, debate, suggest, all the works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombro Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 There is already a winter CW for fo4. For the forstfall mod, I really don't see the need. The things one can easily find shelter in fo4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaturnVII Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 OK, yes, there is a winter overhaul, but it's dirty. Your footprints cause dirt to fly up, the snow is skin deep, there's really no effect to it, no buildings are covered. Surely a man like yourself recognizes there's a difference between "everything is now white" and "This is Winter" and if you don't, I guess you're simply not an artist then. Saying there's no need for it because it's easy to find shelter is not only a sweeping and dismissive comment, but it's misguided. Maybe in Boston it's easy to find shelter, what about outside in the wilderness? Glowing Sea? West end of the map, northeast end, etc. It can have a Fallout flavor to it, it doesn't need to be a direct port. Events could happen in Frostfall where you were trapped on top of a mountain because it wasn't possible to make it down without freezing in a blizzard. Surely, this isn't a moot point, it's an upending to how the game is played, ala any hardcore mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombro Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 OK, yes, there is a winter overhaul, but it's dirty. Your footprints cause dirt to fly up, the snow is skin deep, there's really no effect to it, no buildings are covered. Surely a man like yourself recognizes there's a difference between "everything is now white" and "This is Winter" and if you don't, I guess you're simply not an artist then.Jack bot, I'm not. I forgot that. Saying there's no need for it because it's easy to find shelter is not only a sweeping and dismissive comment, but it's misguided. Maybe in Boston it's easy to find shelter, what about outside in the wilderness? Glowing Sea? Okay you got me, but why would you camp in the GS even if you had a tent of some kind? That doesn't seem right. West end of the map, northeast end, etc. It can have a Fallout flavor to it, it doesn't need to be a direct port. Events could happen in Frostfall where you were trapped on top of a mountain because it wasn't possible to make it down without freezing in a blizzard. Surely, this isn't a moot point, it's an upending to how the game is played, ala any hardcore mod. So you want the same hardcore experience? that understandable, and I can see why people would want a port. But why not something more fitting, like radfall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaturnVII Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) Well you may not camp in the glowing sea, that's still not a good idea, but the point was that there isn't ALWAYS a house to camp out in, or maybe there is but it's a shack or a ruined shell. Still cold, right? Build a fire. Go to sleep. Have it go out in the middle of the night and wake up freezing cold or something because you didn't get up every now and again and feed it wood. And that's exactly what I was thinking, it doesn't have to be a straight port or anything, it'll probably have to be created from the ground up anyway. Glowing Sea storms spitting out radioactive snow or something, that sounds fitting. It could be neat, it's all I'm saying. Besides, what says survival like "The environment is slowly killing you", right? And I wasn't suggesting naming it Frostfall. The name doesn't really matter to me. Edited December 19, 2015 by SaturnVII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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