3eris Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 :thanks: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: So, I have decided *finally* to mod fo3. No dummy, I decided I should, not only for the fun of my own game ( like slower leveling and classic/more perks ), peruse whats been done so far and actually beat the game. Naturally I have to reinstall the game on a different HD after I beat it and before I use the geck. Ahem, so with that being said I just finished the MQ. Everyones right, pretty anti-climactic. My good-karma hero talked Autumn out of the fight and then proceeded to infect the wasteland seems to be the highlight, making the end scenes kind of contradictory. I'm glad I waited 3 months. My point : Going through the thousands of files here I got an idea of what I would like to do and am excited now to try out what others have done. Over the last few days I have amassed a fair amount of mods to try and in the process of loading them up ......!gasp! a lot of these dont even have read mes attached! What the hell am I supposed to do with that!? Impossible to find out what they are? No. Pain in the ass and almost not worth it? Absolutely. Can you imagine a folder full of zip files with names like "vtdlom-3v2" with no read me? WTF is this file? Will it corrupt my game? What will it do? Would I even notice? Is it worth the risk then or time investment (no snarks on my time investment here typing this post :P I know) ? My request : Please, please, PLEASE remember a read-me. Kudos to you who have. Its as simple as copying and pasting what you write for this site. It'll increase the chance that people like me who have DL'd a slew of files will actually play them, use and credit them and rate them other than right click and deleting. P.S. maybe that was already addressed somewhere on the board. jic then.. bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skree000 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 lmao i feel your pain. Whenever i download a mod i keep it in its zip file where it came from until im ready to try it out, hopefully it has some kind of instructions in there before i go unpacking the files :) (if it came with a doc at all ><) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandianHero Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I basically only download mods with the intention of keeping them on as permanent upgrades to my game. That, and it's not too hard to remember what mods I've downloaded. A good rule of thumb for playing with mods is to only download the ones you're definitely going to use and keep around -- otherwise, you're left with a bunch of cluttered files that do nothing but take up space. As for readmes, pretty much every mod works on the principle of unpacking the zipped files into the fallout3/data folder. There's really no trick to it -- certainly nothing that requires a text file telling you the very fundamentals of modding that you could've figured in five minutes with a simple Google search. I mean, I realize a lot of people use Vista now, but even that's not so horrifyingly crappy (*cough*) that you can't figure this stuff out on your own. Honestly, I can't remember the last time I even bothered with a readme for Fallout 3 mods. I read the mod description before I download it, decide whether I want it in my game, and go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neok182 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 OMG yes i hate people that don't put readmes in. now i leave the file page online open and copy/paste that into a txt file. for everything just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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