8/9/2019 How To Install Fallout 4 Mods Nexus
Now that Fallout 4 is in its third year and the DLC has dried up, is there any point in returning to the Commonwealth Wasteland? Yes! There are loads, largely thanks to the still-growing list of mods, overhauls and user tweaks. Here, I’ve gathered over 50 of my favourites, ranging from weird weapons to wild weather.
Before we start, a couple of things to remember: some mods will require some or all of the DLC expansions, as well as additional mods, while others don’t play nicely with each other. The mod descriptions on Nexus will usually tell you, so keep an eye out.
Best Fallout 4 mods
Fallout 4 mods come in all shapes and sizes and so we’ve split this guide into sections, so you can hop directly to the kind of mod you’re looking for.
How to install Fallout 4 mods
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Like Skyrim and other Bethesda games before it, modding is one of Fallout 4’s huge draws on the PC. But Fallout 4 and Steam don’t offer an easy, built-in way to install these mods. Thankfully, there’s a tool called Nexus Mod Manager that makes this easier, so you don’t have to do everything by hand.
The PC version of Fallout 4 doesn’t offer Steam Workshop support, so there’s no one-click subscribing to mods. Mods will eventually be available through Bethesda.net when Bethesda releases official modding tools. However, even when that occurs, this method will still allow you to install mods Bethesda hasn’t officially blessed. This actually works for many other games, too, including Skyrim, The Witcher games, Dragon Age, Dark Souls, and other Fallout games, so you should be able to adapt the instructions for any other game Nexus Mod Manager supports.
How to Enable Modding in Fallout 4
Even though you’ll be using the Nexus Mod Manager, you’ll still have to perform a quick tweak to Fallout 4’s game files before it will accept the mods you install.
First, navigate to the Fallout 4 folder in your documents directory. You’ll find it under
C:UsersYOURNAMEDocumentsMy GamesFallout4 .
Double-click the Fallout4Prefs.ini file to open it in your default text editor. It’ll open in Windows Notepad unless you’ve installed another text editor like Notepad++.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the text file and you’ll see a [Launcher] section. Add the following line below it:
Click File>Save to save the file, and then close Notepad.
Double-click the Fallout4Custom.ini file to open it in your default text editor. Add the following lines to the end of the file:
[Archive] bInvalidateOlderFiles=1 sResourceDataDirsFinal=
Click File > Save to save the file, and then close Notepad. Fallout 4 will now accept and use the mods you install.
How to Install and Configure Nexus Mod Manager
It’s possible to manually install Fallout 4 mods. However, we recommend using the Nexus Mod Manager tool to make this process easier and reduce the risk you’ll break something while installing a mod.
Download Nexus Mod Manager and install it on your PC. If you don’t yet have a Nexus Mods account, you’ll be informed you need to register for a free account to download it. You’ll be asked to sign up for a paid supporter membership during the sign-up process, but you can just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “Create Account” to continue.
Launch Nexus Mod Manager after you install it and it will search your PC for games. If you have Fallout 4 installed, it will find it. Just click the checkmark to confirm Fallout 4 is installed at that location and then click “OK.”
Select “Fallout 4” in the list of installed games and click “OK.” If you always want to use this program to manage Fallout 4 mods, click the “Don’t ask me next time” checkbox here.
You’ll be informed that you need to set up the paths where Nexus Mod Manager will store mod-related files. Click “OK” to continue and you’ll see a Fallout 4 Setup screen. By default, Nexus Mod Manager will store these files under
C:GamesNexus Mod ManagerFallout4 .
There’s a problem with these default folder settings. It won’t work unless you run Nexus Mod Manager as Administrator. If you run it normally, you’ll see an error informing you that Nexus Mod Manager is “unable to get write permissions for” the directory.
To solve this, set the folder paths to something like
C:UsersYOURNAMEDocumentsNexus Mod ManagerFallout4 . Alternatively, keep the default folders and run Nexus Mod Manager as an Administrator. To do so, right-click the Nexus Mod Manager shortcut and select “Run as administrator.”
To always run it as Administrator, right-click the shortcut and select “Open file location.” Right-click the “Nexus Mod Manager” Shortcut, select “Properties, click the “Compatability” tab, and enable the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox. Click “OK” to save your settings and Windows will always launch Nexus Mod Manager with Administrator permissions.
Nexus ModsHow to Install Fallout 4 Mods
You’ll want to sign into Nexus Mod Manager with your Nexus account for easy mod installation. To do so, click the profile icon next to “You are not logged in” at the bottom-left corner of the Nexus Mod Manager window. Enter your Nexus Mods username and password here.
You’ll then see a “Logged in” message here, informing you you’re logged in.
You can now head to the Fallout 4 Mods category page to browse and search the available mods. If you’re logged in, you’ll see “[Name]’s account” at the top-right corner of each web page. If you’re not, click the “Log in” link at the top-right corner of the web page.
Locate a mod you want to install and click the “Download (NMM)” button to download the mod with Nexus Mod Manager. Your browser will hand off to the Nexus Mod Manager application, which will download the mod you chose.
The Download link at the top of each mod’s page will download the main, current version of the mod. However, some mods offer multiple versions, or additional files.
To download multiple versions or optional files a mod offers, scroll down on its download page and click the “Files” tab. You’ll see the various files the mod offers, along with explanations from the mod author about what they do. Click “Download With Manager” to download the mod files you want.
Once it’s downloaded and installed, locate the mod in the list, select it, and click the green checkmark button in the sidebar to enable it. You can click the red cancel button that appears in this location afterwards to disable a mod.
Some mods will walk you through a setup process the first time you enable them. You’ll be able to choose different options, depending on the mod. Go through the setup process and select your desired options to enable the mod.
To change these options later, right-click the mod in the Nexus Mod Manager list and select “Reinstall Mod.” You’ll see the same setup screens again.
Now all you need to do is launch Fallout 4. You can do so using the “Launch Fallout4” button at the top-left corner of the screen or just launch it through Steam normally. Load your existing game or create a new one–either way, the mods you installed will immediately take effect.
To disable or uninstall a mod later, close Fallout 4 and open Nexus Mod Manager. Right-click the mod you want to disable or uninstall and select “Deactivate” to disable the mod or “Uninstall and Delete” to remove the mod from your system.
You can also click the settings icon at the top of the Nexus Mod Manager window and use the “Disable All Active Mods” or “Uninstall All Active Mods” options to quickly disable or uninstall all currently activate mods.
How to Configure Your Mod Load Order (and Why It Matters)
The above process should work perfectly if you’re only using one mod. However, if you plan to install several mods, you may need to think about your mod load order.
This is exactly what it sounds like. Fallout 4 will load mods one by one, in the order you specify.
If you have multiple mods installed, some of them may overwrite each other’s changes. For example, you may have one “total overhaul mod” that tweaks a large amount of things in the game, including all the weapons. Second, you may have a small mod that makes a single weapon function in a certain way. If the game loads the small mod before the larger mod, its tweaks will be overwritten by the total overhaul mod. To have the second mod function, the larger total overhaul mod needs to be loaded first.
This only applies to mods that have plugins. If you install a mod with a plugin, it’ll appear on the “Plugins” tab, as well as the “Mods” tab. To control the load order, click over to the “Plugins” tab. Select a mod you’ve installed and click the up and down arrows in the left pane to adjust the load order. The “Masters” information for a plugin tells you when a mod depends on another mod. For example, in the screenshot below, “Homemaker – SK Integration Patch.esp” depends on Fallout4.esm, SettlementKeywords.esm, and Homemaker.esm. It must appear after all these other plugins in the list. Nexus Mod Manager won’t let you move it above those other plugins in your load order.
It may take some trial and error to get the load order working the way you want it. Some mod authors may provide information about recommended load order on their mod’s download page.
If you want some additional help, you can try using LOOT, the Load Order Optimization tool. It works by examining your mods and attempting to decide the correct order so that all dependencies are satisfied and that each mod has a maximum impact on your game. It will recommend you a load order you can configure in Nexus Mod Manager.
How to Deal With Mod Conflicts, or “Overwrites”
There’s another way mods can conflict, and it’s totally separate from your plug-in load order. Sometimes, two mods overwrite the same files in your game, and you’ll need to decide which one you want to take precedence. We’ll use Skyrim here as an example. Skyrim and Fallout 4 share the same engine, and work similarly.
Texture packs are a great example of this. For example, the Skyrim HD mod adds over 2,000 high-res textures to the game, making it look absolutely fantastic. But there are also smaller mods for specific textures–like this Real Ice and Snow mod–that (sometimes) look even better. Let’s say you want to replace most of your game with the Skyrim HD pack, but want the ice and snow from the Real Ice and Snow mod.
First, you select the Skyrim HD mod and enable it, just like you would any other mod. If you start the game at this point, you’d see that the Skyrim HD textures have been applied. Then, when you enable the Real Ice and Snow mod, you’ll get this message:
This happens because you have two mods–Skyrim HD and Real Ice and Snow–attempting to modify Skyrim’s snow and ice textures. If you want Real Ice and Snow, you’ll click “Yes to All” or “Yes to Mod” to overwrite Skyrim HD’s textures. If you prefer Skyrim HD’s textures, you’d click “No to All” or “No to Mod”, and any conflicting textures from Real Ice and Snow would not be applied.
You could load these mods in the opposite order, too. If you loaded Real Ice and Snow first, you’d get the ice from that mod, and decide whether to overwrite it with Skyrim HD after the fact.
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If you’re installing a lot of mods, we recommend loading the bigger, game-sweeping mods first as your “base layer”–in the example above, that’s Skyrim HD. Then, load the smaller, more specific mods after, always choosing “Yes to All.”
The more mods you install, the more complex the process becomes, and we’ve only scratched the surface here–there are many mods that require even more steps outside of Nexus Mod Manager to work (like ENBs or interface modifications). But the more you do it, the more it’ll become second nature. If you ever have questions, check the Discussion tab on the offending mod’s Nexus page–there’s a lot of good info to be had, and developers are often pretty responsive.
IGN shows you how to install mods for Fallout 4 using the Nexus Mod Manager. TO ENABLE MODS IN FALLOUT 4: The following must be added to Fallout4Prefs.ini, directly under the [Launcher] section heading: bEnableFileSelection=1 Additionally, in Fallout4.ini, repalce the line sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS (under the [Archive] section), with: sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS, TEXTURES, MUSIC, SOUND, INTERFACE, MESHES, PROGRAMS, MATERIALS, LODSETTINGS, VIS, MISC, SCRIPTS, SHADERSFX Mods shows in this video: Creature Followers: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/696/? Ghost (White Dogmeat): http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/220/? Full Dialogue Interface: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1235/? More Armor Slots: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/745/? Base Power Armor Skins: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/833/? Teddy Bear Nukes: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1265/? Baby Nukes: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/475/? Lowered Weapons: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/522/?
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What are the best Fallout 4 mods on PC? The mod community is out in force, so you have lots to choose from when looking to enhance your adventures in the wasteland. Official PC modding support for Fallout 4 is open for business at the Bethesda Mods page, and the Fallout 4 Nexus has hundreds of mods available. If you are looking to make the game more beautiful, add some new features, or even play as a dog, modding is the way forward.
It’s thanks to mods like these that games like Fallout 4 enjoy such longevity after launch, as the best and brightest minds of the internet come together to create more diverse worlds, tweak tiny niggles of the original game’s game play, or just add something entirely off-beat for the fun of it.
To celebrate the weird and wonderful creations of the Fallout 4 Modding community, we have picked out more than 50 of the best Fallout 4 mods out there to get you well on your way to a more interesting Boston Wasteland.
Fallout 4 Nexus: where can I find it and how do I install mods?
Fallout 4 isn’t always the easiest game to mod. Sure, integrated mod support is now available from Fallout’s main menu, and the Bethesda Mods page has hundreds of officially approved mods. Plus, with Bethesda’s Creation Club, you now have even more choice when selecting new Fallout 4 mods. To find them, you will need to head to Fallout 4’s in-game digital marketplace.
But if you are using mods found at the Fallout 4 Nexus you will need to do a bit of messing around in the game’s install folders. Thankfully, Fallout 4 Nexus have made the two videos below that quickly explain how to prepare Fallout 4 for modding, and how to manually install mods.
Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
As we have come to expect from Bethesda, Fallout 4 is as buggy as it is vast, and even the game’s own programmers haven’t managed to squash every issue. Luckily, the game’s community have stepped in to help out. The Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch is a set of fixes from the mod community that aims to fix every problem not addressed in the official patches. It may not add a cool new gun or open up a fantastic quest line, but it goes a long way to making the game a smoother experience.
Mod Configuration Menu
There are a phenomenal amount of Fallout 4 mods out there so you will want this Mod Configuration Menu to organise them all. This feature pops up at the top of the pause menu and provides a central location to tinker with all the settings of the mods you have installed. With more sliders, buttons, and checkboxes that you can shake a mole rat at, make sure you install this mod early on and fiddle with all your mods nice and simply.
Fallout 4 Script Extender
The Fallout 4 script extender gets a special mention. The previous iterations of the tool for other Bethesda games have been vital to the modding community and a required install to run anything more complex than basic functionality changes. Script extenders increase the game’s capacity for alteration. This lets modders write more complex code for it to process. So, if and when they do, you will need the script extender installed as well to handle those Fallout 4 mods. Prospective tinkerers can grab the the current version from the script extender site.
Fallout 4 Graphics Mods
Fallout 4 Cel-shaded
Fallout’s semi-realistic art style is often beautiful, and just as frequently hideous. If its inconsistencies annoy you, perhaps throwing it through SweetFX and turning it into this cel-shaded comic book is for you. The result is, naturally, Borderlands by Bethesda, but it works exceptionally well for a mod that simply retrofits filters over everything.
Enhanced Wasteland
Fallout 4 is a pretty handsome game, even if it does suffer from some technical hang-ups. Its world is full of colourful places, be that the swirling green nuclear fogs of the Glowing Sea, the reds and blues of Boston’s wooden housing, or the earthy tones of its rural districts. But, while more colourful than previous games in the series, Fallout 4 is still quite washed out. The Enhanced Wasteland Preset for SweetFX 2.0 makes the colours of the world pop that much more, ensuring a vibrant visit to the Commonwealth.
Lowered Weapons
The wasteland is a harsh place, so it is no wonder your character is always on edge, with their rifle raised and ready. If you would rather things were a little more relaxed, this Fallout 4 mod keeps your gun in a lowered position until things kick off. It looks more natural on screen, and also frees up a chunk of vision previously obscured by your ready weapon.
Enhanced Blood Textures
There is a lot of blood in Fallout 4. Great torrents of thick, spattery blood. Since you will be seeing a lot of it, it makes sense to make sure it looks as pretty as it possibly can. That is exactly what Enhanced Blood Textures does.
Water Enhancement Textures
Since the Charles River is a location you will frequently be passing by in your travels through the Commonwealth, you’ll want it looking suitably wet and watery. If you are finding Bethesda’s own water textures just aren’t up to standard, try this Water Enhancement Textures mod.
Decay
If you are absolutely disgusted by the use of actual colour in Fallout 4, then Decay is what you need. It adds a suitably Fallout-inspired filter to everything, returning the game to the days of 2008 when everything was a sickly shade of radiation green. No more eye seizures for you!
E3FX
Made by the same modder behind The Witcher 3’s exceptional E3FX mod, this reshader adds SSAO, realistic lighting, and sharpening to help bolster the atmosphere of the game, without radically changing the colours.
Fallout 4 Settlement Mods
Manufacturing Extended
Contraptions DLC added several interesting manufacturing elements to Fallout, but this Extended mod brings even more interesting and complex additions to the system. New machines can take junk directly from your inventory and create whole new items from them, generating power armour, faction gear, or even cola for your every need.
Looks Mirror
Remember the magic mirror from the opening? The one where you could change your looks, features, and even gender, just by looking at it? Well this Fallout 4 mod allows you to install one of those reflective cabinets in any settlement, meaning you can access the character creation screen at any time. Need a nose job or a new hair style? A glance at this and your wish is fulfilled.
Robot Home Defence
So you have seen the Automatron Fallout 4 DLC and love the idea of having robot servants, but don’t like the idea of paying money for the blighters. Enter the Robot Home Defence mod, which allows anyone with ranks in Robotics Expert and a Fusion Core to create their own AI slave.
Protectrons, Mister Gutsies, Assaultrons, and more are available to be built and defend your settlements from raiders. You can even have any number of robots accompany you on your travels around the Commonwealth. Having trouble with a mission? Just take an army of droids with you!
Clean Snap’n Build
The settlement building system is great, but it is by no means perfect. Clean Snap’n Build improves it significantly by adding quite an obvious function: snap-together components. They are kept in their own tidy section of the build menu, meaning you can use both means of construction, but the snapping elements of this mod makes multiple-tier building so much easier. Don’t tear your hair out trying to build the perfect staircase, just download this Fallout 4 mod.
Functional Weapon Racks
Fallout 4 Mod Organizer
The opening menu shows a variety of cool weapons proudly displayed on the walls of the Red Rocket Garage. It is just for show, though: try and do this yourself and you will end up buried under half a tonne of weapons. This Fallout 4 mod adds fully-functioning weapons racks to the game, meaning you can finally show off your rarest finds and creations.
Better Settlers
Add some variety to your settlements with Better Settlers. It brings greater diversity to your settlement population, and also provides them with better weapons. There is also now the chance for them to use stimpacks, and Lifegiver and Adamantium Skeleton perks to make them hardier in battle. Not only will your towns be more interesting to live in, they will be better equipped to fend off raiders, too.
Clean Settlement Greenhouse
If you are deep into Fallout 4’s settlements side, then you know how vital good plant keeping is. If you want populations to thrive then you need crops, and lots of them. Keep your mutfruits and melons protected and healthy with Clean Settlement Greenhouses. It’s not just a single item: you can build your greenhouse however you please with a variety of available walls, floors, and roof tiles. You are just moments away from creating your own glass superstructure.
Create a Settlement Anywhere
Building settlements is the game’s killer feature, but you have to set up home exactly where the game tells you to. If you have found the perfect hillside retreat, though, don’t let rules and regulations stop you from building a castle. Just install this Fallout 4 mod that spawns a workshop anywhere in the world and create a settlement location around it.
Unlimited Settlement Objects
And while we are on the subject, don’t let anything stifle your creativity – especially the game’s’s object limits. The game prevents you from building any more items in your settlements when you reach a certain limit. This Fallout 4 mod breaks that barrier and lets you craft as much as you please. Don’t take no for an answer, just mod instead!
Infinite Settlers
You have modded your game to make sure you can build with no limits, but it is pointless having a massive town if you can’t fully populate it. Fill all those hotel rooms and shanty houses with as many people as you like with this Infinite Settlers mod.
Homemaker – Expanded Settlements
If your settlements don’t quite feel like they are packed with enough home comforts, the Homemaker mod is what you need. It adds over 100 new items to the game’s crafting system, allowing you to create a wide variety of new objects to furnish your settlement with. New lights, chairs, showers, crates, crops, and many more items are available in the crafting menu when working on your settlement.
Better Generators
Settlements are big, but not big enough to waste space. If you want to have plenty of lighting and laser turrets guarding your zones you need a boat-load of power, and that means generators. To power an ambitious settlement you need to make so many generators you may as well build the walls from them. Reduce the number of engines you need chugging in your villages by installing Better Generators, which ensures each standard unit produces much more power.
Crafting Workbenches
Crafting is a huge part of Fallout 4 but, unusually, weapons and armour are something you cannot create from scratch. Sure, you can modify existing ones, but making your own bespoke item? Nah. Until now, that is, with these workbenches that introduce new crafting systems for post-war weapons, armour, and clothing. You can even craft ammunition. Just drop these in your settlement and get your gun nut hat on.
Settlement Supplies Expanded
Here is another mod for vastly increasing the number of items you can create and place in your settlements. Settlement Supplies has 243 static objects like cars, trees, and rocks, alongside over 100 usable items and a new alternative Power Armor Rack design.
Fallout 4 Gameplay Mods
Vault Girl Mod
Fallout’s mascot Vault Boy has been a staple part of the franchise the whole thing began in 1997. Somewhat lesser known is his female counterpart Vault Girl. Looking to change things up a tad? Thanks to the Vault Girl mod, you can now take her on your Pip Boy where ever you may roam.
Another Life
Fallout 4 is, in essence, a tale not unlike Blade Runner about Synthetics – or ‘Synths’ – that are so technologically sophisticated they can pass for their squishy counterparts, more often than not. While vanilla Fallout 4 sees synths trying desperately to blend in with humans and live a normal life – to the dismay of persecuted robots the wasteland over – the Another Life mod gives you the choice to become a synth, rather than a human.
Another Life, then, is an alternative start mod similar to the ones you will find for Skyrim. The pre-war sequence can merely be a simulation taking place in the mental circuits of the latest bot – i.e. you – off the Institute’s production line. Once you leave the bathroom at the game’s beginning, choose ‘awaken’ rather than ‘slumber’, when prompted, to start your new life as a Replicant Synth. When you wake up in the Institute instead of Vault 111, it is time to choose one of 36 occupations – as a synth ready to go out into a dangerous human-infested world would need to, of course.
From the red-hot Arsonist to the thoroughly modern House Husband, occupations define your starting gear, weapon, perk, and location as well as faction allies. It also dictates the starting quests you are given. Another Life, then, is one of the best Fallout 4 mods for replay value.
Fallout 4 Configuration Tool
Since you are playing Fallout 4 on PC, chances are that you want to fiddle about with its settings a bit. This small and easy tool allows you to adjust things like field of view, framerate locks, and mouse sensitivity.
Beast Master
Ever fancied a Deathclaw as a sidekick? The Beast Master mod allows you to do just that, granting you the power to tame creatures in the wild and recruit them as companions. They won’t just simply follow you around either; the mod has functions to let you rename your pet, accessorise them, send them out on scavenger hunts, and mutate them with serums. A far more interesting creature feature than the Wasteland Workshop’s taming function.
Minecraft FO4
More a bit of fun than an actual hybrid of two game styles, Minecraft FO4 brings the visual flair of Minecraft to the wasteland. As a new location, it has all your favourite blocks: grass, dirt, wood, redstone, and more. Fallout enemies have been Minecrafted up, so expect to see raiders with bright green faces take on the role of creepers. A settlement area allows you to using crafting within this world, making it a little Minecrafty, but this is mostly about bringing fun, colourful nonsense to Fallout’s dour world.
Wasteland Imports
If you are a Fallout veteran you almost certainly have a few favourite items from the many different wastelands. Perhaps that is a refreshing bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla, or a dose of Cateye. You won’t find them in the Commonwealth, but you can change that with Wasteland Imports. This mod makes various legacy items available in Fallout 4’s shops.
Ransacked Relays and Shuddersome Subways
If you are hungry for additional scripted content, then this quest mod will keep you going a little further. It contains two new dungeons with questlines that hand out decent rewards. There are bosses to be fought, new weapons to be found, and creepiness to endure. It is fully voiced, too, to keep up those professional standards.
Wasteland Camping
Boston’s a big place and, while there are plenty of collapsing houses to make a home in, you may decide it feels more authentic to camp on the roadside when night draws to a close. This camping mod adds the ability to light a fire, set up a tent, use sleeping bags, and cook meals over the flame. It is a simple but effective way of engaging in a little post-apocalyptic roleplay.
Be The Dog
When designing your character, ‘Man’ or ‘Woman’ is about as diverse as the choices get. Don’t settle for that, though: use this Fallout 4 mod to Be The Dog. We are talking playing the entire game as beloved pooch Dogmeat (or another type of dog should you so wish). With a Pipboy strapped to his leg, Dogmeat is ready to tackle the creatures wandering the Boston wastes with his variety of bite attacks, all while dressed up in doggy gear (no guns or power armour here!).
And yes, you can recruit Dogmeat as a companion even when playing as him, meaning you can turn Fallout into a doggy duo roadtrip. We can’t even…
Take Cover
Fallout 4’s shooting is already better than anything in the series before it, but trust modders to improve it even further. Take Cover adds a Deus Ex-style cover system where the camera pulls out into third-person when crouching or leaning against walls or other bullet-stopping objects. You can then lean out and fire with just a click of the right mouse. You can even vault over low items for that authentic cover-shooter vibe.
The mod has plenty of options, allowing you to either enter cover automatically upon contact or use an assigned hotkey to snap-to it. And it certainly goes a long way to helping increase the intensity of Fallout’s firefights.
Armorsmith Extended
The ultimate in defence, the Armorsmith Extended mod makes ten massive changes to Fallout’s armour system. The most notable improvements are the ability to wear multiple armours together (such as clothing under plate) and being able to wear a hat and masks or glasses at the same time. Practically every form of armour is now craftable, too, including a new Therm Optics armour that increases stealth by cloaking the user when stood still or sneaking.
Wearable Backpacks
Considering Fallout 4 is a game that involves an awful lot of picking things up, your character has nothing to hold all that junk in. No, not even pockets! This Fallout 4 mod adds backpacks to the game, which means not only is there now a logical place for all your junk to be kept, but it also comes with the added bonus of extra carry weight stats so you can cart around even more things.
We Are The Minutemen
The Minutemen are the Commonwealth’s last hope. While it is understandable that they have been crippled by time and poor resources, as you help them during Fallout 4 they never feel much more than a group of shabby survivors. We Are The Minutemen makes them a much more formidable force. The most handy adjustment is scaling Minutemen patrols to your level, so when they come to lend a hand in battle they are actually helpful.
True Storms: Wasteland Edition
There is already some impressive weather in Fallout 4, but why not make downpours even more epic with the devastating weather effects that come as part of the True Storms mod? The Skyrim variant was brilliant, and with the addition of radiation rain and heavy dust storms it is sure to add some extra atmosphere to the game.
Craftable Armor Size
Fallout’s armour choices are all pretty basic: while it comes in many pieces for each limb, they all pretty much amount to basic knee/elbow pads and a chest plate. Craft more interesting armour with this Fallout 4 mod, which allows for light/medium/heavy variations of the leather, metal, combat, raider, and synth armour types. Not only are there stat benefits, but you can look much cooler too, equipping big plate armour without the need of the power suits.
Realistic Death Physics
Fallout 4’s engine has an, erm… interesting approach to physics. Notice how, when punched in the face, ghouls are flung back 15 feet? I mean, I know you have been working out, but sheesh. The Realistic Death Physics mod recalculates all the gravity and force effects on dead bodies, reserving big knock-backs for only the heaviest calibre weapons.
Classic VATS
The VATS system in Fallout 4 is a little different to the one seen in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Back in the day, the system would freeze-frame the action rather than just slowing time to a crawl. If you would rather be the true master of time and not risk close enemies being able to take a bite out of you in VATS, then opt for this Fallout 4mod that uses the ‘classic’ stop time method.
Carry Weight Modifications
As much as we all love Fallout 4 there is something none of us can deny: you are going to spend a lot of time faffing in menus, especially when it comes to trying to choose which items to hang onto when you are over-encumbered. If you are on the hunt for as much scrap as possible, you will know this is a real pain. Remove your weight woes with this Fallout 4 mod, which ensures you can carry exactly as much as you want to, be that carting the entirety of Boston’s bin contents on your back, or reducing it to more realistic levels.
Improved Map With Visible Roads
This Fallout 4 mod tweaks the map to make it a little more usable, such as adding numbered grid lines, brightness levels, and distinct waterlines. It also makes roads visible (you are shocked, we know) so you can work out where is easier to traverse.
More Where That Came From – Diamond City Radio
Fallout 4’s radio is wonderful, but it does not exactly have GTA’s station selection in terms of scope. While this Fallout 4 mod doesn’t add multiple stations with various music styles, it does add 74 new lore-friendly tracks to the game, meaning you won’t be getting sick of Atom Bomb Baby quite so soon. The tracks are even woven in to ensure Diamond City DJ Travis still gets to broadcast between tunes. An alternative to Diamond City Radio is Atomic Radio, a similar mod with loftier goals.
Realistic Survival Damage
The Survival difficulty mode means you can be killed in a single hit, but enemies won’t afford you the same courtesy. Instead, they become bullet sponges thanks to your damage output being half of what it usually is. Not exactly realistic. You can make your bullets powerful again by installing this damage mod, which keeps enemies challenging and dangerous, whilst still susceptible to a well-placed headshot.
More Armour Slots
Quite a few of Fallout’s clothing options prevent you from equipping limb armour, which doesn’t make sense. Why can I wear arm guards over a Vault-Tec jumpsuit, but not over a two-piece? This Fallout 4 mod champions sartorial logic, and allows you to match armour plating with most outfits, meaning you can have the best of both worlds when it comes to armour and charisma boosting gear. There are a few clipping issues since armour was never intended to be worn over clothing, but that is a small price to pay for the huge benefits, and fashion is pain.
Atom Bomb Babies
Atom Bomb Baby is a 1957 song recorded by The Five Stars, and one of the tracks on the game’s soundtrack. It also seems to be the inspiration behind this Fallout 4 mod, which takes the lyrics quite literally. It replaces the mini nuke ammunition for the Fat Man launcher with babies. Your baby, in fact. Your quest to find Shaun is over, as you fire him out of a length of gutter and watch him detonate in a mini mushroom cloud. Actual parents should probably steer clear of this one.
Full Dialogue Interface
Many players have been annoyed by the simplified dialogue choice system in the game which displays short paraphrases of what your character can say, rather than the whole dialogue. This Fallout 4 mod replaces the Mass Effect-style interface with a more traditional one, listing full responses in a numbered list.
Fire Team Support
When things get sticky in battle, you need friends to rely on. This Fallout 4 mod makes your allegiances with factions even more useful by allowing you to call in members as a Fire Team to support you. You can summon individual or groups of Brotherhood of Steel and Minutemen troops. Or, if you want to go really crazy, there is the option to call in tamed Deathclaws.
Unlimited Crafting Supplies Container
Want to make more supplies without having to find the necessary ingredients? This adds a container outside of Vault 111 that has an infinite number of crafting materials in it, letting you refill whenever you need to. It refills itself every couple of in-game days, so you just need to wait a little while outside of its zone of influence if you somehow run it dry.
Remove Power Armour Drain
Power Armour requires fusion cores in order to keep moving, but they are not the most common sight in the wasteland. If you are finding it impossible to keep your armour rig fuelled up, this Fallout 4 mod allows you to cheat a little and stop your armour from draining batteries.
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And there you have it, all the best Fallout 4 mods. From quality of life improvements to mods that allow you to play as a dog, Fallout’s busy modding community has something for whatever you fancy. Have you found any amazing Fallout 4 mods not on our list? Let us know in the comments.
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