1st update

if you follow the plan to capture female raider bosses and "re-educate" them (with sexual means like BDSM) - you should also pay attention to their appearance.
Unfortunately, the faces of the "Vanilla" game are rendered so greyish - that it is extremely demotivating to play this way without modifications.

A mod on the (in-house) LL platform is ideal here

Several things are important to get this to work as described in the mod itself:
1) the required mods listed in the list

2) a mod that "embellishes" the raiders in general
I use -> https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/64850

A clear optical improvement can already be achieved with this

3) the mod has to get as far as possible to the end of the sequence of loading rows - otherwise it will quickly look like this

Ultimately, from my point of view, the time spent trying out and troubleshooting was worth it.
Thanks also to the mod author who ultimately gave the crucial hint

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another important aspect for me is the landscape of the "Commonwealth" itself

it can definitely NOT be justified from the "lore" why the landscape looks so desolate after 200 years - especially since field cultivation is successful in it and this WITHOUT artificial irrigation.

So natural precipitation is sufficiently available - warm and cold periods - i.e. seasons - are also available.

From my point of view, it was more the game studio's financial considerations - since a barren landscape requires little graphics computing power and you can still play Fallout with the "last carrot".

Only then is the botched additional package for "high resolution" even less explainable - instead of new models and textures, every blade of grass in the desolate landscape is "extrapolated".
(not to mention the disaster with the "rusty faces")

In general, the (possible) lushness of the landscape in a normal game doesn't matter to me - only this time I want to take pictures to visually support the story I'm about to tell - so a few mods were needed:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/57319

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11267

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/62129

I use the alternative start on the "robot parking lot" north-east of Sanctuary - as soon as I left the "shelter" there was an "OMG" effect

Do I plan to change the landscape to a "winter" one?

Yes - the idea exists - especially since I'm currently completing the "Mechanists" quest in the story pre-run and thus have full story-related access to the robot technology.
This makes it possible to completely expand the vault (with a "real" reactor) and to increase the hydroponics so that "overwintering" in the vault seems viable.

Since a longer mission outside of the Commonwealth is planned anyway with the mod "Point Lookout" - one can also explain the seasonal change after the return.

But I still have to find and test appropriate mods for this

2nd update

In a discussion about a new android mod, the topic of lighting/light came up in connection with modified landscapes (see the previous entry, among others) - especially the change at night.

I use a mod to make the nights much darker.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/191

This goes back to a recommendation from the authors of this mod here

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47931

Of course, as a player, you are significantly limited in your ability to act - which you can compensate for with this mod.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12220

A few notes on the "Vampirism" mod.

I discovered this mod about 1 year ago on Nexus - the description promises a lot:

"Sanguinaire is a Vampire Survival Experience of Personal Horror. Experience the wasteland as an immortal suffering the curse of vampirism.

Play as one of 10 different bloodlines each with their own unique perks and detriments (the bloodline curse), maintain your humanity or fall to the beast within."

But I also saw that the mod was no longer developed or maintained.
So I test what works from this mod and what things are not finished or not implemented at all.

My experiences:
1. The base framework for vampire disease works.
You can either become infected by encountering a vampire or by drinking their blood (canned blood).
The result is the "disease" - after 3 days the transformation into "immortality" takes place.

2. The clan affiliation of the infection carrier (vampires or blood bags) decides what kind of vampire you become...
..so the blood or the bite of an "Umbra" vampire leads to the transformation of an "Umbra" vampire
Special case: "Clanless" vampires - here there is the possibility that members (the bosses) of other clans "overwrite" this - i.e. make a "clanless" player char a member of their clan.

3. In the vampire form, the playability of the character changes very drastically - the sun damage forces you either to only act outdoors at night or to wear power armor or something similar during the day

4. A companion is "by default" a vampire -> Cait
she can also give you the blood to transform yourself

5. Another companion (Deacon from the "Railroad") is also a vampire - you can tell by the eyes - but there is no dialogue option regarding this
(probably one of the unfinished parts)

6. A number of NPCs are vampires - here you can usually tell by their eyes - but you can't get infected from them or talk to them about it

7. The random encounters with vampires happen at night and only outdoors - but they really surprise you - they are literally "invited" in front of or behind the player. In connection with the "darker" nights, a real shock factor that forces you to adapt your own way of playing
That's exactly why this mod is active, although I have no intention of turning my char into a vampire!

8. A number of indoor locations are occupied by vampires - some of them even serve as clan headquarters.
Because if you act according to the "vanilla" style of play you get into the sewers of Concord quite early...
...ahem - so have fun down there I say!
Sometimes a location occupied by vampires overlaps with another mod - i.e. two factions act in the same location (which is empty in the vanilla game)...
..who are then usually hostile to each other.
Well - everything I've experienced so far hasn't hindered the execution of the quests.

9. Your own quest lines are only very rudimentary - you can either work for the clan next to the "SuperDuper" market (in Lexington) or for the faction of vampire hunters - with the latter you have your orders and rewards via "mailboxes" receives.
When I was supposed to kill for the clan in Lexington - the boss of the "Memory Den" (Irma - who is a vampire from another faction) in "Good Neighbor" - that was the end for me.
Since neither they nor their employees are hostile to me and especially since they are essential for important vanilla quest lines (e.g. "SilverShroud") - this quest line is not very mature in terms of logic.

This mod is completely unsuitable as a quest giver - since even the existing rudiments are highly questionable.

Conclusion:
As an additional background for threats, this mod does very well - it adds a well-done horror element in a few key places.

Is it worth playing as a vampire?
It is currently not planned for the current run.

Can you be cured of vampirism if you are a full fledged vampire?
Supposedly yes - there is said to be a special "virus" in the institute (in Virgil's laboratory) that reverses the conversion ONCE - because it only exists once.
But I haven't found it - it's possible that another mod that changes the institute overwrites the laboratory.

"The power suits and armor from "angeli" are a particularly complex case. Firstly, the mod author hasn't been active for years - secondly, it's difficult

to find fixes and conversions - several authors have tried to do this"

Dang, that would be the main reason for me installing Fallout ?

Vor 8 Minuten sagte donttouchmethere:

„Die Power-Anzüge und Rüstungen von „angeli“ sind ein besonders komplexer Fall. Erstens ist der Mod-Autor seit Jahren nicht mehr aktiv – zweitens ist es schwierig.“

um Korrekturen und Konvertierungen zu finden - mehrere Autoren haben dies versucht.

 

Verdammt, das wäre der Hauptgrund dafür, dass ich Fallout installiert habe ?

I got it so far that I can use the suit mods in the game

and

he plays a kind of "leading role" for some chapters

11 hours ago, Miauzi said:

he plays a kind of "leading role" for some chapters

sweet!

I mean SHINY!

You're not following every single page of your blog right?

Can you tell me if you got a notification after I left a comment here?

is always displayed to me - so the update works ... but I also sleep at some point

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