Bethesda are idiots with the Creation Club...

[Calzien]

Okay so this isn't a rant about the Creation Club, its practices, or stuff Bethesda posts but rather an oversight that will probably affect a number of people who download a certain number of the Creations they've added for Fallout 4. So some time back Bethesda had a mess-up where upon updating the game you would automatically get about 600MB worth of BA2 files tied to Creations they released that you really didn't need unless you bought them. This was fixed eventually with future updates but only half-assed as you will STILL get the original BA2 files should you download the game now or have to verify the game's cache via Steam. Normally it's easy enough to just delete them all and you're fine however it's strongly recommended you hold off on doing this. I found out the hard way...

 

For those who still follow the Creation Club you may have found out a couple Creations are being offered for free (Pip-Boy and Power Armor non-Desert Camos and the Horse Power Armor.) and for some authors there are special bundle packs being offered at the time of writing this. I decided to grab a couple of these only to have the misfortune of having my game crash repeatedly whenever the game would start up. After wasting an hour trying to figure out if I was suddenly having mod conflicts I discovered the BA2 files for these Creations weren't downloaded. Why? Because they were a part of the original BA2 files Bethesda was and still is, including with the game. Yup, buying or getting ANY of the original Creations that had their BA2 files downloaded before Bethesda stopped it will not download their respective BA2 files unless you do a full game cache verify to redownload them.

 

So unless you are planning to NEVER get any Creations don't delete those BA2 files, either move them off somewhere else or leave them where they are. This applies to the following Creations:

 

Horse Power Armor

Chinese Stealth Suit

Hellfire Power Armor

Handmade Shotgun

Modular Military Backpack

Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Power Armor Paint Job (Black)

Gauss Rifle Prototype

 

I hope this helps anyone who is planning to get these Creations and may have deleted the BA2 files Bethesda forced us to download. Special thanks to Bethesda for wasting my afternoon... :down:

[Bernt]

Thank you for your notice :thumbsup: Recently I had to wipe my sys disk and reinstall everything. I'm on 1.40 now and your entry made me check my data folder. It turned out there was quite a lot of CC junk. I just wish Bethsoft would put a CC in the name. I opened the bsa files using a bsa extractor and thus I was able to identify and get rid of the files.

[Moksha8088]

Thank you for your notice :thumbsup: Recently I had to wipe my sys disk and reinstall everything. I'm on 1.40 now and your entry made me check my data folder. It turned out there was quite a lot of CC junk. I just wish Bethsoft would put a CC in the name. I opened the bsa files using a bsa extractor and thus I was able to identify and get rid of the files.

Bernt, do you recall the names of those offending BSA files?

[Bernt]

I found them in my waste bin - all 681 Mb of them.

I cannot remember exactly how they show up in the data folder. But here are both prefixes and the names as they come up.

 

Prefix: ccBGSFO4004, 4006, 4016, 4018, 4019, 4020, 4038 and 4044

Pipboy(black) – main and textures ba2

Pipboy(Camo01) – main and textures ba2

Pipboy(Camo2)- main and textures ba2

Pipboy(Chrome) – main and textures ba2

Prey – main and textures ba2

GaussRiflePrototype – main and textures ba2

ChineseStealthArmor – main and textures ba2

PowerArmorSkin(Black) – main and textures ba2

HorseArmor – main and textures ba2

HellFirePowerArmor – main and textures ba2

 

Prefix: ccFRSFO4001

HandmadeShotgun – main and textures ba2

 

Prefix: ccFSVFO4001 and 4002

ModularMilitaryBackpack – main and textures ba2

MidCenturyModern – main and textures ba2

 

I hope you can get something from this.

[cossayos]

It's save to say, you can delete everything with the cc prefix. That's quite a lot of junk I'm sure to get restored with the next update.

 

But thanks to point us to the cc prefix anyway. Good to know for some future cleaning operations.