My last playthrough I collected a total of full 5 X01 PAs, 8 T-60s, and some other of the special ones. This was after completing all the DLCs. I had a building with all the suits. Haha.
Generally speaking, I don't use power armor at all.
I finished the Main Quest two nights ago and again mornfully watched the mushroom cloud sprout over the C.I.T. Ruins, north of the Charles River wiping out several hundred years of technology and asked myself, WHY? (within my game persona.) 🙃
Based on a post over at Steam, someone suggested the Valkyrie Project as the best ending (options) and more investigation reveals there are four associated mods that beside not locking you into a hogtied predetermined Bethesda ending, substantially open up your path through the Commonwealth.
I said 4, but I listed 6 mods and there is a reason. First, if I understand it right, I don’t have to blow up the Institute, nor kill any faction off if I don’t want to. And I have the ability to take over the Brotherhood of Steel and the Institute! This is an exciting development, much better that the Best Ending you can manage by not completing certain quests in vanilla F4, which I described several posts ago.
- Project Valkyrie: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/28085
- Outcasts and Renegades: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21469/ (required)
- Depravity: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21469/
- Fusion City: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16423
- Hookers of the Commonwealth(HotC): https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21354
- Hookers of the Commonwealth, Settlement Edition: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22074
- Important: How to approach this content? Go to this link: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/articles/1112 and then scroll down to this section: Fusion City Rising, Outcasts & Remnants, Depravity, and Project Valkyrie: Which order should I play them?
Secomd, you may look at these mod names and think, why do I want to introduce a bunch of low life’s into the Commonwealth? What these mods do is add richer, in some cases adult content like slave trade and prostitution, but can you really imagine a post apocalyptic future where prostitution is not rampant and slave trade does not exist? In comparison, the vanilla game from a social dynamic is a bit boring. Do you want the PG-13 version of the P-A world?
I like it for the flavor, added depth and immersion, and my understanding is even with the Hooker Settlement version installed you have control over how much if any prostitution you allow in any settlement. What actually drew me to HotC mod is that the first one listed incluses a working subway system that takes you to Fusion City. You get to visit a place other than the Institute that is not a falling down ruin.
Now despite the sales pitch, I got 5 the above mods installed last night using Nexus Mod manager (Farther down the linked page, not Vortex, doing manual downloads and installing from files), but have barely touched this content. It all installed and since I had just completed the main quest, I jumped back to my game progress 2 months ago, where I had a bunch of settlements already established to try out the new content.
I visited Cambridge and met a little girl wandering the street (coming from Red Rocket), but when I approached her she just texted me in Russian, no recorded dialog. So I reloaded the Depravity mod again, (this is where the Deprwvity quest line starts), and this time I got a zip file to install instead of... something else. Removed the old mod, installed the new file and now she talked in English.
This time I approached her, her name is Stella and she told me she was waiting for her friend who had gone down the street to a building to loot, and he had not come back, would I help find him? I had to say yes, of course! 😝 Without spoiling what transpires, I’ll say this one quest is dynamic, in tempo and the narrative it tells, as compared to the vanilla, usual sweep the building to kill off feral gouls or raiders.
And it seems that Stella has a grudge against the minutemen who she holds responsible, including Preston Gravey for getting her family killed! I can’t vouch for all of these mods yet, but this was a great start. Now there is a video of this quest which is a huge spoiler so I have declined to post the link. 🤗
As I get farther in, I’ll report back.
Spoilers Regarding Fallout 4
Is this post a spoiler? Yes and No, Yes because you become aware of the options the game gives you but no, because you don't have free will to make the choices you most likely would, so it's a matter of being intelligently informed.
Depravity, Outcasts and Renegade plus Project Valkyrie Mods Report
These mods include nudity, ie naked women when they are taking showers and the F word on occasion.
I just completed most of these three mods overall, I am very pleased with them. They are really outstanding. I have become the interim Mayor of Diamond City, I manage Hotel Rex, I have deposed Elder Maxum as the head of the Brotherhood of Steel and I've become Director of the Institute and released all of the synths to stay or go as they please. These are really terrific options.
Depravity gets the ball rolling when you meet a group of slavers in Concord (same town where you first met the Minute Men and Preston Garvey. Well you'd think you'd want to kill them all, but most likely you won't if you want to do their quests which include making good changes in Good Neighbor and in Diamond City.
Project Valkyrie introduces you to Valkyrie, person who has been locked up in the Parson State Insane Asylum with experiments done on her by, you may guess, the Cabot Family. Note, she is naked when you meet her.
Regarding the BoS- It turns out that in times previous to Fallout 4, there was a power struggle in the BoS and a group split off into the BOG, but I just can't find what the name stands for online. A character told me in the game. Anyway the quest Wag the dog involves the daughter of a former leader of the BOS, Sara who wants to get the BoS back on mission, preserving invaluable technical data and stop plotting to destroy the Institute, the single most important source of technology in the commonwealth.
She also has ideas for the Institute, helping an outcast doctor make some upper management changes in the Institute and helping them see the light, that hording all of their technological goodies, while ****ing with the people of the Commonwealth is a bad idea. You can make this happen. You also have options to kill both Desdemona and Preston Garvey, or make peace with them as a representative of the Institute.
My Opinion (Mod Spoilers)
These are incredible mods, they open up Fallout 4 to offer endings that are more satisfying. I fully endorse them. However, that said, these endings although wonderful, are also on the simplistic side. I don't think that simply having a conversation with Elder Maxum would be enough to make him step down, although it's a long conversation. Also I think there would be real physical conflict in such an endeavor, you would not see the entire BoS organization just roll over even if you are bringing back Sara, a former active member of the BoS back into the fold.
The same goes for the Institute. Here taking over the Institute involves killing or transporting 4 -6 top members of the Institute to prison or murdering them. You do get to talk to Father about it and he is resigned to this new change, and it seems you bypass his death bed scene, but he does die, he is just not there when you return after the overthrow. This is on the simplistic side to. I think you'd have a battle on your hands like you do in the vanilla version of the game when you take over the Institute before blowing it up.
So My reccomendation
In the unlikely even that you've not played this game, play the initial game through to the end and pick an ending that the game funnels you towards, where only 2 factions remain standing at the end. Note, that if you don't pick the Institute to side with, it will be destroyed at the end of the game. And if you choose the Institute, I'd ask, what the hell is wrong with you? 😜
However IMO, if you want to see a better ending with 3 factions left standing, although the Institute still becomes a crater, jump back to this post, and with some choices as to which quests you want to complete, you can have 3 factions living in relative harmony with you being friends with all of them. I will tell you when you are standing on a building and watch the mushroom cloud rise in Cambridge it is sobering, and had impact on you, and while you are wowed, you might just be asking yourself why the hell when we were in the institute, we just did not take the place over, why blow it up for christ's sake???
So to continue, my option is that first time through you take the game to the main quest climax, what the mushroom cloud, and then say to your self I'm going to go this better. Install the mods posted above, at a minimum Outcasts and Renegades, Depravity, and Project Valkyrie, then start over, *or* roll the game back to a mid point where you have met all 4 factions, but have taken no quests where you get a mission where one faction asks you to attack another faction, and preferably before you have made it to Good Neighbor. There is any outcome in the vanilla game where Hancock, the goul in charge of Good Neighbor will resign as mayor and offer to become your companion. If you have already done this, these mods still work, but you may have assigned Hancock to one of your settlements, he will magically appear in good neighbor for some of this mod content. It's not to bad of a disconnect if this happens.
If you are asking yourself how do you approach this mod content, there is a link to the Project Valkyrie Mod posted above that tells you the best way to work these mods into the vanilla game. For example if a new game, don't do the Murphy's law quest until you are about level 20.
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Do you plan on following the best ending strategy (3 factions survive) Or who will you pick?I'm up to level 95 (no mods) and I am still friendly with the Institute, Minutemen, Railroad, and the BoS.
You ask me all the time in PRSI
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In the vanilla game, you will reach a point where you are asked by one faction to attack another. There is a way to mitigate the outcome somewhat, by picking and choosing which quests you choose to complete or let them lay there.I'm not reading ahead and whomever survives, survives
When I play again, I'll load your recommended mods.
In the vanilla game, you will reach a point where you are asked by one faction to attack another. There is a way to mitigate the outcome somewhat, by picking and choosing which quests you choose to complete or let them lay there.
Yes, you are on the brink of committing yourself. If you want I can tell you which quests actually start turning factions against you if you do them. Mass Fusion (BoS) is one if them. They are described in one of the earlier posts about happy endings. These quests can be navigated (by not doing them) to keep 3 factions alive and you friends with all of the except... the Institute.
I killed a BoS guy in power armor without ramifications with the BoS. I decided to kill the Institute Corsair I was working with (after the Battle started), turned the synths loose, and then lied to Father about how we were ambushed. He was unhappy about it, did not throw me out, and inexplicably, decides he wanted me to take over as leader of the Institute over the objections of just about everyone there.
. My favorite action is to sneak up on BoS that are wearing power armor (from behind) and pickpocket their power cores. They then exit their power armor and I steal the armor when they walk away.. You can even shoot the BoS that are outside and up on the deck of the Prydwin without them becoming unfriendly..
I shoot BoS guys in power armor and synths all the time without ramifications (Stealthed with a silenced radium rifle) )
I found that you lose the BoS faction if you kill any in / next to the hanger and inside the Prydwin (probably inside the police station too although not right outside it).
I'm not sure what kills will lose the synth (probably in their base).
One of my favorite missions is the BoS clear the fish packing plant. The plant is full of synth and the BoS kid you bring along (can't be killed) often runs around aggroing all the synth (similar to Leeroy Jenkins from WoW). Since I'm friendly with the synth, they ignore me and I can quickly take them out when they come together in a group.
Last game, I was shooting at the BoS base on the ground from the Prydwin
I have been doing a lot of building in the settlements and I'm curious about the physics when you can build a multi story unsupported wooden staircase. Also, what does the designer have against safety rails on a staircase
World of Warcraft Leeroy Jenkins
That’s interesting. Do you have a 4k monitor? If not, maybe there you’d notice it better. In my F4 mod content, I used a Greener Commonwealth type mod and am happy with how the game looks on 4k. I would think twice about a 58Gb download just for textures.I picked up an EGPU and an RTX 2060, so one game I was interested in seeing how it improved was Fallout 4 - not game play but downloading and installing the text pack. I forgot that said texture pack was 68GB
In firing up the game, with the texture pack, it was barely noticeable. I also googled it, and watched a couple of comparison videos. While the texture of rocks, bricks and other objects had more clarity in a side by side comparison, actual game play resulted in almost no noticeable difference. I've since deleted it, since its not giving me any improvement and hate into my SSD way too much
No, an ultra-wide, not 4k.
I was trying to figure out why my C drive was almost out of space, and then using a utility, I zoomed in on fallout 4 and boom, I recalled the size was 68 GB - ouch. I've since deleted it
I did mention the Triangle of Death with Sim Settlements, a known condition the developer is aware of and has posted on their web site.
You don’t want 3 Sim Settlements in at least two places, Santuary-Red Rocket-Abernathy Farm and The Castle, Spectacle Island and Warwick Honestead. It overloads the game causing it to crash to desktop. The mod developer does offer a way to revert a settlement back to it’s starting point remotely if you can’t get inside the settlement without experiencing a crash. Let me know if you want more info. If you’ve finished maybe not.
Yep, I had read about the issues a while ago and I was saving it often but sometimes you forget. In fact the developer recommends that the auto-upgrade be disabled because of instability.
Yep, I used that to push to the castle to level 2
I went overboard partly to see what each settlement looked like, I'll probably go light myself and pick and choose.