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 Fallout 4 is a first person shooter released in 2015 and is considered the black sheep of the series (before 76 that is). The RPG elements were drastically pulled back, the protagonist is voiced and with it they reworked the dialogue tree to be required to have 4 response options that often just had the same result in the end anyway. Oh and you had a son. Also the settlement system allegedly had Bethesda not bother with making towns and instead leaving it to the player to make them. Personally I had fun with it. Yeah the story sucks and gutting the dialogue is bad. But the gun play is better which is good, even in 3 and NV you were shooting a lot. The weapon and armor upgrade system is great and, with the settlement building system, makes all the clutter in places worthwhile to grab. I liked the voiced protag and that dialogue are scenes rather than staring at whoever you're talking to. As for the lack of cities... eh, when I look back at the other Fallout and Elder Scrolls games I spent as little time as possible in cities. So whats this LP about? I want to show off the Sim Settlements 2 mod. Besides the stuff it adds for settlement making it also has its own series of quests with new npcs and voice acting. I'll also show off a few of the DLC, I don't believe other LPs have shown those off. Sim Settlements 2? Originally this mod was something used to help make settlement building better. Instead of placing down every wall, furniture and piece of decoration you can plop down plots that your settlers will work on building themselves. Now its practically an expansion in itself with its own quests and characters who are decently, if not well, voice acted. Spoilers? Go ahead and talk about the base game story, but please keep anything related to SS2 and the DLCs in tags. Videos Getting Started Farming and industry A Partnership Don't Feed the Bears Sewers and Bandits Leal fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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Aug 15, 2021 00:04
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Codsworth knows a lot of names! I'm partial to Fuckface, myself. I've always had a soft spot for Fallout 4 and this mod seems like a pretty cool addition to the base game. I'm also particularly impressed by the voice acting so far.
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Aug 15, 2021 03:27
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I am very interested to see Sim Settlements 2, the settlements were always the best part of FO4.
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Aug 15, 2021 06:41
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Sim settlements is an excellent mod, practically required if you like doing settlement stuff.
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Aug 15, 2021 06:46
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oldskool posted:I'm also particularly impressed by the voice acting so far. Yeah the voice actor of the Stranger is *really good*, I'm impressed seeing what can come with a mod. NewMars posted:Sim settlements is an excellent mod, practically required if you like doing settlement stuff. BoldFrankensteinMir posted:I am very interested to see Sim Settlements 2, the settlements were always the best part of FO4. The Sim Settlements mods really do make the settlement building better. Being able to set plots and let the game fill in the space is great without dealing with the tedium of making sure you hand place every couch and beer bottle. I admit I'm not that creative but I'll try my best. It'll happen next video, whenever I do a bunch of building I'll have it at the end of the video sped up so you can see what I do.
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Aug 15, 2021 07:40
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It's me I'm the Fallout fan and I'm just here to say that the only objectively bad thing about F4 is how it turned out to be the prototype for the actual only black sheep: F76. While I personally wait for F4NV to come out before I get this game because the better engine and settlement building layer are not interesting to me plenty of people enjoy this game every day for what it is: an RPG-light action game.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:36
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By popular demand posted:It's me I'm the Fallout fan and I'm just here to say that the only objectively bad thing about F4 is how it turned out to be the prototype for the actual only black sheep: F76. Yeah, plenty of people enjoy drinking aged urine as well
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Aug 15, 2021 11:49
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I like F4 well enough, but I'm a storygamer, and there's honestly not really a lot in this game for me- with the exception of the DLC Nuka-World. I won't go into too much detail, but I think that DLC should have been the basis of FO4, instead of Boston. That said, I admit this game is the first time I was ever inspired to install a waifu mod and its dependencies, so there's that 
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Aug 15, 2021 14:16
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I like Fallout 4 a bit more than normal for Fallout fans, but am very disappointed with most of the plot and writing. There are good or interesting bits in there and a number of endearing characters, but you have to hunt for them or grab the larger DLCs because no version of the main story is going to actually take you there. The gameplay can be pretty fun though when you're not off on one of the infinite procedurally generated faction quests. ...anyway, Sim Settlements 2 is a good mod. Fallout 4 is helped by good mods.
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Aug 15, 2021 16:32
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This game is terrible but something keeps pulling me towards it and even an update that stopped it working with the video card I have - despite it being a fairly recent and decent card - I still want to go back to it and fiddle with various mods. I've never played it to the end, I never really followed the various paths to their end, never got to do the final DLC. I'm certain manpower was diverted from this game to 76, causing a handful of neat things being cut. But I'm glad to see you play it, I look forward to seeing what you have to show.
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Aug 15, 2021 19:58
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I enjoyed FO4 by playing a hardcore mode melee character and ignoring the plot as much as I could. I find the game much more fun as a wasteland empire builder than as a fallout game. There is a staggering number of missed opportunities and bad decisions baked into this game, though.
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Aug 15, 2021 23:32
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SS2 is a very very good mod.
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Aug 16, 2021 01:31
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As much as I think New Vegas is the best Fallout game, I confess 4 is still the one I've played the most. The main story is loving stupid and pisses me off, but the wasteland murder hobo gameplay is fun, and I'm actually one of those weirdos who found the settlement building thing engaging even in its vanilla piece of poo poo state (but only so far, I would not use it unmodded any more.)Leal posted:Yeah the voice actor of the Stranger is *really good*, I'm impressed seeing what can come with a mod. Also, this LP is gonna make me reinstall the game and lose two days getting my mod colletion sorted out again, isn't it.
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Aug 16, 2021 13:51
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By the way Leal, which mods are you running, apart from the obvious Sim Settlements?
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Aug 16, 2021 15:48
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inscrutable horse posted:By the way Leal, which mods are you running, apart from the obvious Sim Settlements?  Not too many game altering mods that I'm running here, mostly stuff that improves graphics and crafting. E: And settlements 
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Aug 16, 2021 20:07
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Thank you, Leal! I recently got a new PC and started playing FO4 with mods, so this list is going to be a handy reference.
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Aug 16, 2021 20:11
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Oh btw, since you complained about generators being noisy: There is, unsurprisingly, a mod for that too. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2819 Works as advertised, never caused any problems for me.
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Aug 16, 2021 20:22
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Pffft, what a lightweight weakling who won't overstuff the load order like god intended! I approve of the dog petting mod.
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Aug 16, 2021 20:29
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By popular demand posted:Pffft, what a lightweight weakling who won't overstuff the load order like god intended! Be glad I didn't run with the mod that turns everyone into an anime girl.
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Aug 16, 2021 23:42
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Leal posted:Be glad I didn't run with the mod that turns everyone into an anime girl.
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Aug 17, 2021 21:53
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theshim posted:each day we stray farther from god but thanks to the "have dogmeat and another companion at the same time" mod, we no longer have to stray farther from dog
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Aug 18, 2021 06:48
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Never cared for the settlements myself, and now that I finally have it on a PC that can run it, all I did was add a bunch of guns. I'm a sucker for boring loop of shoot, loot, sell, upgrade, repeat 
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Aug 19, 2021 23:14
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ShootaBoy posted:I'm a sucker for boring loop of shoot, loot, sell, upgrade, repeat Same, and I think they really made this better with the crafting system. You aren't just grabbing stuff for caps, but now you're keeping an eye out for stuff that can break down into components that you can use to upgrade your equipment. Its a good way to reward you with exploring without just giving you a piece of equipment that you'll just sell. That glow sighted pipe rifle can get you some valuable screws!
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Aug 20, 2021 01:15
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I really disliked the weapon and armor design if FO4. Just a massive downgrade from New Vegas. Game itself was... fine. But I never finished it.
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Aug 20, 2021 02:06
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Just a quick note in case anyone in interested, F4 and the DLC is on sale on steam. Base game for $8 and $5.25 for the DLC packs in a season pass. Pretty good deal Personally, I liked the potential of this game's story more than what we got. Like a lot of Bethesda games, it really isn't that great until you put mods in. Looking forward to this run.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:52
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Buy this game so Todd Howard will remember there are properties besides Skyrim that is getting both its 10th rerelease and 10th anniversary release.
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Aug 21, 2021 06:37
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While we wait an update here's a tangential thing to tickle the fancy of olds such as me: LGR demonstrates an amber monochrome 5 1/2 inch in case monitor (skip if you just want some images): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtETkJeqmY  God I so want to play F1 like this, is there like a crt overlay simulator I can use?   Not sure about FNV though.
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Aug 21, 2021 14:40
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By popular demand posted:While we wait an update here's a tangential thing to tickle the fancy of olds such as me: You can mimic this with the highly immersive "Immersive Shades" mod.  Without shades  Wearing shades
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Aug 21, 2021 22:30
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 Farming and industry Today we get a little more use out the ASAM plots. Also our stranger friend is some kind of magician.
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Aug 22, 2021 04:38
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Since I'm a poor PS4 player and am now banned from playing any future Fallout games since Todd himself is Microsoft property, it's kinda sad this is the last Fallout game I'll play unless I get a Gaming PC. This mod set seems pretty neat though and that's coming from someone who enjoyed building ramshackle settlements.
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Aug 22, 2021 21:01
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For anyone that's looking to pick this up and lose themselves in the settlement building sub-game, there are two mods I'd recommend (Though I lost the names, I'll see if I can find them again). The first one lets you scrap Everything at a settlement. All the weeds, brush, prefab homes, abandoned cars and randomly strewn about other junk, can now be scrapped. Completely opens up the area for building/crafting. You get a little bit of random scrap as well, usually a little wood or plant matter, but sometimes you get some useful metal and bits. Second, and Leal might be running a variation, but there are probably hundreds of mods by now that will turn off the settlement size limit. So now you're not limited to a paltry 100-200 "objects" per location, the sky is literally the limit. Works really well with the above mod
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Aug 23, 2021 01:59
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 A Partnership Today we learn a little more about our stranger friend. Also I'm an amazing hostage negotiator.
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Sep 12, 2021 01:44
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CzarChasm posted:The first one lets you scrap Everything at a settlement. All the weeds, brush, prefab homes, abandoned cars and randomly strewn about other junk, can now be scrapped. Completely opens up the area for building/crafting. You get a little bit of random scrap as well, usually a little wood or plant matter, but sometimes you get some useful metal and bits. It is, imaginatively, called "Scrap Everything". There was some other one too but this is the more recently updated one by far. It's one of those mods I will absolutely refuse to play without (even if it results in me spending lots of time obsessively scrapping every little piece of trash).
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Sep 14, 2021 12:55
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Hey leal, the next chapter of the mod is coming out sometime in (northern hemisphere) fall this year!
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Sep 14, 2021 20:32
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Siegkrow posted:Hey leal, the next chapter of the mod is coming out sometime in (northern hemisphere) fall this year! I'm praying it wont require a brand new save 
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Sep 14, 2021 21:47
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Leal posted:I'm praying it wont require a brand new save I mean, decided to purge my hellsave and play a clean+this mod once the next episode is out because I noticed I just don't advance past Boston with too many mods because there are too many crashes lol
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Sep 18, 2021 01:51
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I dearly wish they had let you do settlement building stuff from an above camera, it would make walls and such way easier to deal with.
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Sep 28, 2021 14:58
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DreadUnknown posted:I dearly wish they had let you do settlement building stuff from an above camera, it would make walls and such way easier to deal with. Yeah, the best option is to build something tall and climb it then build from there. But of course if you want to move you gotta build your look out point again.  Don't Feed the Bears Today we head on over to the West Everette Estates to see about getting some more ASAMs. Sorry for the delay, I tend to get into this circle of commentary not good enough > its taken so long to get an update out so the commentary needs to get better > it isn't > holy poo poo its been a month. Working on getting myself out of that mindset
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Oct 7, 2021 02:17
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 Sewers and Bandits Today we make some more headway into restoring that commhub. Kinda. And hey as an aside, you can get the game plus all its expansions for 13.19 on steam during the sale!
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Nov 27, 2021 20:26
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Thanks to you I now have k9 tactical harnesses and I love this mod.
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Nov 28, 2021 02:27
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