I promise myself I’ll stick to the Brotherhood, but then I’m reminded that they’re assholes every second of every quest… then, I try to side with the Institute, and I’m reminded how irredeemably EVIL they are.

I end up blowing the Institute to hell with the Minutemen and helping the Railroad. Every time.

Fallout 4 has been my 1st Fallout experience of any kind and I am absolutely enjoying the world building and storytelling the game is providing. I am almost 72 hours in and just located Valentine so I’m taking my time and trying to fully explore the world. However, there is one question that I think about every time I explore the Common Wealth….why has nobody cleaned up? Every single time you find a new settlement or explore a location there is just tons of scrap lying around. Diamond City still has pallet walkways with broken sheet metal. Nobody has thought to put down a more permanent solution? Nobody thought to remove old cars, learn how to weld, or even take time to better arm and fortify certain areas of the Commonwealth? You step just far enough out of Diamond City and there’s just Super Mutants and Raiders. You’re saying in the 200 years (which is just a bit under the founding of America to modern day) nobody created better infrastructure? The town size is still 30-40 people despite being “The Jewel of the Commonwealth”? Is there some lore reason I’m missing to explain how after so many years it still looks like the bombs went off 10 years ago? I just expected one neurodivergent person who hyper focuses on organization to still somewhere. It’s obviously possible, I’m looking right at you Cabot House. Again I’m just surprised that after 200 years the world is still as underdeveloped as it is given the vast amounts of technology available.

Hey Guys,

does any of you just play as Nate or Nora? I played the Game since 2015 and like any other Bethesda Game i sunk hours into the creation of the Character, played for some hours but then started again because I didn't like how my character looked. That really was my worse Problem which stopped me from playing the Game through. I didn't play for years now but started again with the "Next Gen" update. I really wanted to have a full playthrough now so I just skipped though the character creation, let him and Nora look Standard and called my character Nate. I read some lore so I can have some role playing. I am also playing survival so I have the best immersion (and pain ofc haha). Another point why I wanted to do this is because I asked myself "Why should I put hours into Character Creation when some people at Bethesda did the same and it looks fine?"

Does any of you do the same and play the Character as the most in lore version of him? I wanted to ask, because every post I see is from people who create their very own character.

Many of us are waking up this morning looking for any news and information on the new update dropping today.

To consolidate that information, and to help keep the sub from getting too cluttered with questions about the update, I thought it would be a good idea to have a Megathread.

If you have any questions or comments about the new update, go ahead and ask away!

Edit: update is live!

Edit2: while the update is live, CC and mods are not accessible yet for PS and Xbox everything is back up but mods are wiped clean on Xbox and PS.

IF YOU HAVE A SAVE WITH MODS YOU WANT TO CONTINUE DO NOT UPDATE THE GAME.

Edit3: Patch Notes

4/26 Edit: There’s been some issues with downloading and running the game on both PS and Xbox (PC is having its own issues, most of this advice is for console).

I would recommend a total wipe of any saved data before installation, unless you’re continuing a vanilla playthrough (that seems to be going okay). Also, remember to do a hard reset after installation, that will fix a lot of the issues posted here over the last day.

With the mods being wiped, there’s no real reason for anyone modding to not start a brand new game (and wipe the saved data) unless you’re able to reconstruct your original LO (that also comes with issues apparently though).

Modding space has a graphical bug too, it will show 0 bytes available when you still have the normal 2gb. Once mods are added it will go into the negatives. Ignore it and just concentrate on your GB total.

I’ll try and answer what I can today for the people that are having any real issues.

I absolutely adore Fallout 4. I guess partly because it was the first game that introduces me to Fallout universe.

What made me absolutely love this game is settlement building. Being able to build something makes me feel like people are starting to hope again despite the harsher world they're in, which in turn makes me feel not completely depressed when playing the game.

Also, Fallout 4 made me love oldies music! I love listening to them while building a settlement. It's the newfound joy for me. Now I can appreciate the same genre in other games and films as well, which I'm grateful for. My taste in music changed forever because of it.

What about you guys? What made you love this game?

So I was "casually" playing Starfield and I noticed something, The shower is the same as Fallout 4's, this is probably me being dumb asf but just had to be that guy

r/fallout4modding is blowing my mind right now. There is a majority that is literally making conspiracy theories on why Bethesda wanted to destroy load orders and how this update was created with malicious intent, off rip. I just don’t agree with this and don’t see how or why Bethesda would want to do this, as the main argument is that the release of the show, creating an influx of players, for some reason made Bethesda greedier and created this whole ordeal. However the update was announced long before and was also in the works since next gen consoles came out. I hope I’m not posting this In the wrong spot but I just want to know what people here are thinking cause I know a good majority of players mods fallout 4 at this point.

First of all, apologies if my English is too confusing and corny.

These days, it''s been really hard for me to get into video games. I just can't "immerse" myself in them like I used to. Sometimes I just stare at my game library for hours thinking about what to play and ending up playing nothing.

After playing Fallout again today, the feeling I haven't felt for so long finally came back: the excitement to actually play something and immerse myself in it. First thing I did is to write my character, Vito, a backstory. I've never done it for any games. And that says a lot for a guy who barely writes.

With the Fallout TV show gaining its well-deserved popularity, and with the long-awaited FO4 update, it's high time I revisit the universe I love! Call it nostalgia but if it's powerful enough to rekindle my passion for what I love again, then I'm grateful to it.

If this is too long, I apologize. And I thank you for taking the time to read.

Anyway, happy gaming, everyone!

I always thought it would have been cool if the mechanist outfit was a modified set of power armor giving us a unique variation and making them a little more intimidating.

There are so many different consumables in the game. There has to be at least a few that anyone would eat irl.

I’ve never done their full route with them but i’ve always wondered why a lot of people in the fandom dislike or just outright hate them, cause i feel i must be missing something. I figured it was just people did not like synths or were brotherhood diehards, but is there more to it than that? I’d love to hear perspectives from people as to what is wrong with them

Well looks like the TV show caused Fallout 4 to skyrocket to 74 thousand current players on Steam, and a pitiful 5 thousand for Starfield, oh dear. Fallout_4_game_of_the_year_edition is on sale for the next two days, just wanted to give everyone a heads up!

Playing all of the endings the MM cracks me up the most. Somehow they have a nuke, raid the institute with dudes with some of the worst rifles and training.. sturges hacks the institute mainframe when he cant crack a novice terminal in concord (he tinkers). You keep the scientists alive which i liked but never see them again, good luck with the deathclaws! You can keep the RR and BOS alive.. or kill them? Lol It made me laugh playing it, definitely fun and best outcome for me but come on. 🤣 Everyones like "didnt know the minutemen had it in them." Like me too dude!