Immersive Fast Travel for Survival Mode

[jtjandra]

So I understand making the game much more difficult can be fun (and it is), but I disagree with Bethesda's decision to completely remove fast travel altogether. Mainly because a large portion of gameplay relies on you returning to past settlements to work and improve them. Which becomes hardly worth it since you have to walk back and forth to gather supplies (with limited carrying capacity).

 

So I kept thinking about it, and I believe an immersive method of fast travel can still work.

 

To keep things simple, here's a list of the mod's core 'rules'.

1. Allow fast travel ONLY from settlement to settlement.
2. Can only fast travel between claimed settlements.
3. Settlement must have a working supply line between to allow fast travel.
4. Depending on the distance (or other factors), player will suffer stat penalties in Hunger, Thirst, etc. just as if they slept.

Those three features are pretty much the main feature of this mod, but you can expand it to be even more realistic/immersive, however it would turn the mod more towards a Settlement mod (which is fine).

• Settlement must have a minimum number of population.
• Food, Water, Bed (the basics) must be met for the population. Failure to do so would mean losing population (or something).
• There must be enough Security. Doesn't make sense to fast travel to a settlement overrun with enemies.

So you can see how this idea can easily be expanded to something greater. But let's focus back on just the core elements. This could be accomplished by creating a custom settlement item to be built in each Settlement. This item would check if all the requirements for fast travel have been fulfilled. If it has, will display a menu that lists all other settlements that have the same item built and also has all the requirements fulfilled. Then, just select and off you go.

 

Heck, if you really want to go immersive, have a random factor that determines if player gets ambushed somewhere along the way. Not sure how to accomplish this one.

 

I tried to find mods similar to what I wanted, and so far the closest one I found is this:

 

JOURNEY - Survival Settlement Fast travel by Maduin81

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12685/?

 

I am tempted on making the mod myself, but I've never modded before, so definitely need some help if anyone is willing to offer.

 

If anyone has any input to make the idea even better, please by all means contribute.

 

 

[JarinArenos]

I think what you're looking for is the Immersive Fast Travel mod.

[jtjandra]

I think what you're looking for is the Immersive Fast Travel mod.

Oh that's very close to what I imagined, thanks for pointing this out. And I really like the optional file to have a worker a requirement to use.

 

Still hoping someone is willing to cover the rest of what I imagined the mod to be. I'm still learning how to use the Creation Kit.