New to Fallout 4 modding, need to know how to tweak raider level list spawns

[Dahveed]

Hi guys.

 

I am not a modding newb, nor am I a pro. I have a few Oblivion mods and several Skyrim mods, so I've worked my way around the CK a bit.

 

I'm wondering if someone can point me to a no-nonsense tutorial on how to tweak F4 leveled lists.

 

Basically I'm looking to substantially decrease all raider spawns in Survival Mode, i.e. turn the Wasteland into an actual wasteland instead of a shooting gallery.

 

(It's a pet peeve of mine, I cannot believe this crap made it out of testing. I literally cannot walk for 60 seconds in the open world without being shot at. Is this what passes as reasonable in 2015-2016? Am I the only person with any sense of perspective whatsoever? Are all games supposed to be like from now on until the end of time? Has everyone lost their mind? How does anyone in any gaming company - or any gamer, for that matter - think this is even remotely fun or interesting? Or realistic? Or challenging or exciting? Or anything other than sheer, unmitigated tedium? Sorry this turned into a rant. Back to the question...)

 

I don't want to do anything too fancy. What I was thinking was simply replacing (or filling up) a raider level list with a few dozen critter spawns or something, so that there would be (let's say) a 50% chance that, instead of spawning yet ANOTHER raider who wants to shoot you for no reason whatsoever, it would instead spawn a mutated rabbit which would just hop around not giving a shyte about you.

 

I do have a cursory understanding of how leveled lists work, but I have only ever tinkered with them once or twice with limited success.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[Urtho]

I'm wondering if someone can point me to a no-nonsense tutorial on how to tweak F4 leveled lists.

 

Basically I'm looking to substantially decrease all raider spawns in Survival Mode, i.e. turn the Wasteland into an actual wasteland instead of a shooting gallery.

The leveled lists you want to edit are found under the Leveled Character subsection in the object window. You'd need to add your proverbial non-hostile rabbit to the various Raider themed lists for this to be effective. Note that this is game-wide as many hand placed NPC spawn points use these lists and if you alter them they'll use your changes - which might bring up odd situations if there are story or scene requirements for those locations as they're expecting the lists to spawn Raiders.

 

Bethesda has a bit of a write up on this on the CK wiki: Leveled Lists and Encounter Actors - it's for Skyrim but it should work the same in this game.

[Dahveed]

Thanks very much for the info Urtho!