• @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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    4929 days ago

    Unfortunately with the upcoming FO4 patch in a few days, a lot of those mods are gonna be broken for a few weeks/months. Bad timing by Bethesda on that front.

    The show caused me to finally buy FO4, and so I immediately hopped onto Nexus and downloaded the highest-rated mod collection for the game. It has over 700 mods, so something tells me I won’t actually be playing much of the game for a while yet. (I wouldn’t deign to play a modern Bethesda game without mods.)

      • @Qkall
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        1729 days ago

        There is… But let me tell you… I’ve had to restore my backups several times. Occasionally steam just will update it… It drives me nuts

        • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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          129 days ago

          Can’t you start the game from the copy? You might have to manually set the Steam app ID, but that should be the easier way.

          • @Qkall
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            129 days ago

            i cloud game and luckily there’s back ups. but i boot the cloud, boot moonlight and click skse64… about 1.5 months skyrim will update. and its a pita. steam just be like that. it’s honestly why i havent tried fo4 lately. i wanna bad.

      • @nul9o9@lemmy.world
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        729 days ago

        What i did with Skyrim was setting the update option in steam to only update when i launch the game. But then only launch the game with the script extender.

    • @neutron@thelemmy.club
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      729 days ago

      Back in the day I used Mod Organizer + F4SE so I could avoid the official launcher and all the bs that came with it.

      • Gamma
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        29 days ago

        Nowadays you can pick a collection and install a hundred mods without having to worry about compatibility, someone else already figured it out! I think that’s worth using vortex

        • @CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com
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          Wabbajack is even better! If you’re playing Skyrim, Nolvus is amazing and has its own installer, even installs an enb for you, you can choose between 4 or 5 of them

          • Gamma
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            629 days ago

            Wabbajack is how I always dreamed it would be

    • Monster
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      629 days ago

      You’re gonna have to watch that mod count. I had to axe a bunch of my mods because the game kept crashing every few minutes due to scripts and visual stuff

      • @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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        429 days ago

        That’s what I thought when I saw the number of mods in that pack, but after a bit of tweaking (a few mods that cause crashing in Linux) it’s been quite stable. I’m only about 10 hours in though.

    • FenrirIII
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      129 days ago

      I was about to install and play, but now I’m waiting. I have ancient mods that still work, but I can live without them. I’m mostly concerned with newer mods, which generally have active support from the authors.