ggdonovan Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 I just bought the game and I want to start with a vanilla-ish run to feel the game before go to heavy modding. Is there any indispensable mod to fix/improve basic functionalities or a cosmetic mod to bring the game to 2021? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraquar Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) I'll be honest - you don't want a cosmetic mod if you are going to play Vanilla. Vanilla is vanilla - for all it's good things and it's faults.What you do want is stability and QOL overhauls (i.e. HUD display, sorting, etc).You need to experience Vanilla to really know what you want and need with mods. Example: I have 53 mods which address everything I'm talking about even before I start changing things..... Edited February 27, 2021 by fraquar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexbil01 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 if you want (or care about) steam achievement points you have to play unmodded first. After you finish you might want to build settlements, run quest mods, load up new guns, or just CBBE everyone so it really depends on your tastes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggdonovan Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 I don't care much for Steam archivements but as fraquar said, vanilla is vanilla and until I don't play it I won't know what I miss... sooo... there we go! :) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romalight Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) Hello and happy new year. if you play the game at vanilla mode, some times, especially at Far Harbor, you spend hours to explore, because you can't jump (there is a mod to jump high) and go to high level. There are many mountains there and you are going to go around to climb there. Also if you don't use mods, the armor you are going to have to your character many times is not enough and that lead your character many times to die. After all, if you want to play Fallout 4 at vanilla mode, first download some mods/bat files -using the ~ console to run them- to get more ammo, more healing stuff, upgrade your carry weight so you can carry all the stuff you want to build things. And if you want to build at a settlement more stuff that a settlement don't allow to build, use also a console command to do this.There more people here to help you about that.i play this game many years and sometimes to play it again and again, even with mods (there are not many good new mods), makes me boring to do.If you don't play this game with mods, you are going to miss many great things and have many great companions to travel and protect you every time. Playing the game at vanilla mode. Do those: after you exit the vault 111, open the console ~ and typecoc diamondcityextThis command send you outside of diamond city. Run a bat file to get more ammo or caps and trade them with Cricket there -the trader- and get the explosive gun, Spray and pray. if you don't trade with her this time, is very hard to find her, because she is traveling, between Warwick homestead, diamond city outside and Bunker Hill often. Not so often to other settlements. This gun is help you a lot to deal with many enemies. That's all. Thanks. Edited March 2, 2021 by romalight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I would go ahead and add CBBE and not worry about that change to the vanilla Fallout 4 experience. Maybe Heather Casdin, Tales from the Commonwealth, and Fusion City, since they only compliment the vanilla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zed140 Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Currently I play with 232 mods and 182 plugins installed... It's not easy to say what are the best mods to use for a first play. I played to the level 180 in vanilla before playing with mods. It's a very long time consuming to select the mods and test the mods. Updating the graphics can be a good idea to start, you can use vivid fallout for that https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/25714And a lot of mods from Savrenx https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/users/55611457?tab=user+files Reconstructing the commonwealth nice is a gargantuan task, after you experience building yourself, go to sim settlements + his extension rise of the commonwealth. And be ready for tons of hours of modding, play style, ect... I'm around 4500 hours of fallout 4 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bait4dragons Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Research fallout 4 starting choices at https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Sole_Survivor FO4 FORCES you to be married and have a son so i suggest starting with at least ONE mod...one of the FAST START mods...https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/users/46256407?tab=user+files&BH=0 hav fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taryl80 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Not really. Your spouse is dead by the beginning of the game. So you are not married anymore, since nobody can be married to a dead person. Of course, you can still feel emotional attached to your dead spouse, but that doesn't change that you are not married anymore :smile:. Edited March 7, 2021 by taryl80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popvirus2 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I, like others have played thousands of hours in FO4...a little over 5K...with that being said, there is one thing I did over the past couple of years that has made the game a lot simpler for me. First...you need a weight "improvement mod" like... https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/214/? ... which allows you several different "increase carry" amounts. Then through your research on FO4 Wiki ( https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_items ) , you can make your own bat files...ammo, armor, weapons, etc..really any item in the base game...I use notepad to create my bat files... I am still using Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) and have not switched to Vortex or Mod Organizer so the following may not be true for those NOT using NMM. After you create the text file, name it whatever you wish, then drop it in the game root folder (where the FO4 executable is)... Then in game, type bat "whateveryounamedthefile" (without quote marks) and the items in the bat file will be put in your inventory.. The best way to explain it is just put one of my bat files here so you can see the format...this is my ammo1 bat file...so when in game I open the console and type "bat ammo1" (without quotes) and the following is automatically entered in the console ....which in turn adds the items to my inventory ---- player.additem 0001f278 2000; 5.56 Roundplayer.additem 0001f66b 500; .308 Roundplayer.additem 0001f673 1000; Shotgun Shellsplayer.additem 0001f279 100; .50 Calplayer.additem 0009221c 2000; .44 ---- I hope I did not confuse you...I have about 20 bat files for various reasons...ammo, armor, weapons, stimpaks/radaway, even mutated fern for Heather. My one and only mod release on Nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/42011. This file provides all necessary items to build the molecular relay so I don't have to run around looking for all the items required. Pretty easy to type bat relay. if adding items from the DLCs, the wiki numbers look like xx001234 so the xx is the number associated with that DLCs load order number, usually 01-06. One other suggestion for you is to become very familiar with FO4Edit ( https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2737 )...this is your best friend hope this helped, What was the original question? :confused: V/R, pops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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