Reviving this just to say I'm back to FO4 and upgraded my HD 6870 to an RX 480. The honourable HD 6870 is now resting on a nice box inside a nice wrapping on my wardrobe - that damn GPU served me for around 5 years. It deserves a rest.
I've been playing with over 75 mods I think, but the biggest one is the
Horizon mod. It's a total overhaul that aims to make things harder. I'm finding it REALLY fun, playing on the "Easy Survival" difficulty - which just means everyone does 100% damage instead of Player doing 100% and Enemies doing 150%. This mod is WAY harder than Vanilla Survival! I almost died to the first Bloatflies in Sanctuary, they left me with maybe 10 hp! And having everyone be a bullet sponge while I am a Bloatfly meal didn't feel fun.
(I'll probably boost the difficulty back to Horizon's "Normal Survival" soon, though, since I think other mods that I had in the beginning were making the game too hard to the point of ridiculousness)As a total overhaul, it becomes a different game.. It adds, changes and removes all sort of features - from new settlement items to weapon mods, combat, loot, perks, levels, experience, balance, progression..EVERYTHING is changed. Check the size of the mod page to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
The thing is, though.. I installed Horizon together with
Fallout Loot Overhaul, and that's a crazy dumb thing to do. It became MISERY Mod on Fallout, because what Horizon doesn't make much harder, Fallout Loot Overhaul does. So its insanely bad, it feels everyone stole all the loot from everywhere, so I'm not sure even if Misery players would like it. Also, the mods are clearly not meant to run together as they change a lot of the same stuff.
Uninstalling Loot Overhaul made it very fun. I can find one or two bullets every 30 minutes now!! Ha.
It's really good. If anyone is looking for an excuse to Fall back into Fallout, I suggest that mod. And most definitely grab a 'Save Game on Survival' mod, because crashes are insanely infuriating when each and every encounter are tactical as hell. I was forced to set 3 frag mines and throw a molotov at THREE RAIDERS (!) because I had no ammo and had low health. Only one mine exploded, though.
In any case, I'm finding this mod has a good balance between combat difficulty vs. survival difficulty vs. progression/crafting difficulty. It makes everything non-trivial, and good stuff (like becoming self-sufficient) requires perks or exploration, therefore everything is REALLY rewarding. I stumbled upon a known bandit which was clearly too strong for me, but since the combat overhaul makes headshots count, I managed to explode her head. She dropped a great rifle completely over my level which I had no ammo for, but it had a bayonet and the melee attack of it was stronger than everything else I had. I even got to one-shot a skull-marked bandit with the only .308 bullet I had.
THIS is the kind of experience I wanted to have in Fallout 3 but was too young to realize, and it was the experience I wanted on Fallout 4..but I kinda enjoyed and accepted my richness as I was really hoarding the whole goddamn map inside Sanctuary's inventory..
The only thing that is a little disappointing with Horizon, but understanble, is that weapon mods might throw off the balance, so you have to try out for yourself if it's worth it.
Mind that I'm only a few hours in, though, so I'm yet to see if it's a solid experience at all times.
And..
True Storms: Wasteland Edition - This alone changed the atmosphere enough to make the game exciting again. You should probably be using this anyway if you can. Adds new and improved weather, including some of the densest fogs I've ever shot a laser through.
This mod is amazing. It was midnight, and an insane fog came up. I was hungry, thirsty, sleepy and far away from home. And then I bumped into a lone raider in the middle of the fog - IT WAS INSANE! Later on, on another crazy fog, I bumped into three roaming feral ghouls, and it scared the hell out of me. Do get this mod.
Survival Options - A personal must for Survival even though all I do is set it to autosave every 10 minutes. That way I can't really savescum, and if some Bethesda-style BS or mod-related crap happens, I lose a max of 10 minutes progress.
Thanks for mentioning this! I got two survival-save mods but I don't like the way they work, and they can easily be abused. A 10 minute auto-save is all I wanted.
I'm a bit sad, though, that I don't have money for all the DLCs. Some fun/good/interesting mods require one or all of them, and I'm more interested in the mods than the DLCs themselves.
Mind that Horizon itself is balanced around having all DLCs, so if you have them you'll be happier than me. The mod is modular so you can add the modded-DLC content as you buy them.
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