Is the FO4 modding community really already dying?

[raptor4d4]

Found a threat on another website where people were insisting that the modding community for this game was already on its way out the door, even before the final DLC has come out. 

 

Do you think this is true?  I was looking forward to getting this game again when I get a stronger gaming PC.  I've already sampled some mods on the X1 but I've been eager to get the full library. 

 

Thoughts? 

[Halstrom]

There's already a thread here with the similar title obviously you don't read these forums much why not go to that website and discuss it there?

Can a mod please lock this or move it to the other existing FO4 is dying thread.........

[raptor4d4]

There's already a thread here with the similar title obviously you don't read these forums much why not go to that website and discuss it there?

Can a mod please lock this or move it to the other existing FO4 is dying thread.........

 

This is my first time visiting this board and I didn't delve that deeply into it.  Yeesh.

 

I just wanted to get the perspectives of different people.  No need to jump down my throat about it. 

[Captain Cobra]

Don't worry about him, he's Australian.

 

Anyways I'm not totally surprised.  Fallout 4 seems to have left a bitter taste in more peoples mouths than usual for a Bethesda game.  With only two of the 5 DLCs adding a new explorable world space (the second one being in production right now). The rest of the DLCs are mainly crafting focused, and I can see where disappointment and and a little bit resentment can bubble up from, especially from people who bought the season pass for $50.  When the final DLC gets released and the game gets it's final patches hopefully we'll see modding pick up again, with people no longer fearing patches changing everything up.

[ralfetas]

Funny to see this topics in every game... In skyrim was the same topic, modding community is dead because i don't see X stuff or Y stuff, even in metal gear i see this "the game is dead no one is playing anymore" topics.

The modding is still here, strong and doing stuff, the game is not even ready yet, and everyone have their lifes to take care too.

[LeFlemard]

A majority of modders are waiting for the game to be relatively in a "done" state, or for more tools to be available. Some are also just taking holidays too

[KumamonTheWorshiper]

Recently people has discovered that new animation in FO4 is possible without the need of something like fnis for Skyrim. Literally just plug and play when installing any mods that adds new animation.

 

Yep, FO4's modding community is dying indeeeeeed~~

[Jazzman]

As long as sites like The Nexus show up with new Fallout4 mods on a daily base, the human mind should be convinced that the Fallout4 modding community is everything but dead. However, apparently the human mind doesn't work that way anymore. Amazing...

[Guest]

i believe posts like this arent helpful, are discouraging for the people that love the game, and insulting to the mod authors

- its along the lines of being a fare weather friend

 

(my 2cents sorry if i sound like a tightwad)

[BoozeJunky]

I can't speak for anyone else, but for myself, I don't have any plans to make mods for Fallout 4. I've only made a few publicly released mods, none of which are of any particular note, and I can't say I'm even particularly competent at it - but I don't have really much motivation to mod Fallout 4, nor to use FO4 to practice and get better at making them. I'd rather just stick to modding NV/FO3/Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind, as those are games I'll still regularly go back and play.

 

Fallout 4 is an alright game, but it doesn't scratch that itch I had for a Fallout game - or a Bethesda open-world RPG. I can't see myself replaying it, or hell, even going back and finish exploring the map. So there's little incentive for me to tinker with it.

 

If I were to create anything at this point, I'd want to go back and strip out half the "settlements" from settlement building mode and make unique towns, with unique NPCs, and their own quest-lines. Maybe incorporate settlement building back into them as something to personalize on-top of an already existing base, or to set up/improve defenses. Still, I'd want to wait until some decent resource packs are out (I suck at modeling & texturing) - and I wouldn't have access to any of the new DLC stuff since I don't plan on buying any of them. Least not until they drop substantially in price via Legendary Edition or something, and even then, on Steam Sale. So that will be a while before all of those conditions are met.

 

Despite how bleak the outlook is at this point, I wonder how many people are holding off on modding FO4 out of the potential for a New Vegas style spin-off. The Fallout 3 modding scene was kind of neutered by New Vegas, and (aside from just not liking the game as much, or not liking the CK) some people might be holding off to see if their efforts would even have some kind of permanence in the community - or if it'd all just be steam-rolled and forgotten like many FO3 mods.

[Hats Are Cool]

 

 

 

This is my first time visiting this board and I didn't delve that deeply into it.  Yeesh.

 

I just wanted to get the perspectives of different people.  No need to jump down my throat about it. 

 

 

It just gets annoying seeing threads like this pop up after a while. They are repetitive, with people saying things that have been said 1000s of times before and largely end up in people talking about which game is better and how they won't be modding one of the others, ect ect.

 

And it isn't that hard to find a thread on it, you literally just have to type in "loverslab is fallout 4 modding dead" into google and its the first result.

 

Here's the last major one if you want to see all these 'perspectives'

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/63464-status-of-fo4-scene-almost-dead/

[garg]

Don't worry about him, he's Australian.

 

Anyways I'm not totally surprised.  Fallout 4 seems to have left a bitter taste in more peoples mouths than usual for a Bethesda game.  With only two of the 5 DLCs adding a new explorable world space (the second one being in production right now). The rest of the DLCs are mainly crafting focused, and I can see where disappointment and and a little bit resentment can bubble up from, especially from people who bought the season pass for $50.  When the final DLC gets released and the game gets it's final patches hopefully we'll see modding pick up again, with people no longer fearing patches changing everything up.

 

Hey yea I,m Australian too and I think this thread sux!

[oblivionwithdongs]

Maybe I'm just getting old or something but fallout 4's mods don't excite me as much as previous bethesda mod scenes.

Too much crafting involved maybe? Or maybe just because I also can't get excited about fallout 4, I think that's all down to having 4 dialog options, I have no optimism for amazing quest mods or anything coming out.

We have cool shit like bodyslide where we can finally customize bodies to our liking and yet I just can't bring myself to even bother fucking around with it.

[Jazzman]

Maybe I'm just getting old or something but fallout 4's mods don't excite me as much as previous bethesda mod scenes.

Too much crafting involved maybe? Or maybe just because I also can't get excited about fallout 4, I think that's all down to having 4 dialog options, I have no optimism for amazing quest mods or anything coming out.

We have cool shit like bodyslide where we can finally customize bodies to our liking and yet I just can't bring myself to even bother fucking around with it.

It has indeed something to do with the time that has passed by since the first encounter of a Bethesda RPG when the impact is most intense. I still remember me being a horny Latina bar girl in Desele's House of Earthly Delights... for a year or more. Well, my age has doubled since then and I'd not serve drinks or something to frakkin' Ashlanders anymore - "Sorry babe, no sex! Just cleaned the bar." Today I am the madam and run the show. What a stellar career on the grid, huh? Cha!

[ralfetas]

 

It has indeed something to do with the time that has passed by since the first encounter of a Bethesda RPG when the impact is most intense. I still remember me being a horny Latina bar girl in Desele's House of Earthly Delights... for a year or more. Well, my age has doubled since then and I'd not serve drinks or something to frakkin' Ashlanders anymore - "Sorry babe, no sex! Just cleaned the bar." Today I am the madam and run the show. What a stellar career on the grid, huh? Cha!

 

 

Agreed, the feeling of a open world is different now, in special because we already have a lot of it. FO4 have some mistakes, but is not a bad game, i just think fo4 is stuck between 2 worlds, the sims and doom, the world in fo4 need more life, because we already know the tricks, i talk for myself on this, but i need more to convince me that this world is "real". Many stuff to fix, but not a bad game, far from it.

[Ernest Lemmingway]

Personally, I'm still waiting for a version of the Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch that includes fixes to all the DLC before I call modding dead. If that never happens, then it's a sure sign that the serious, skilled modders have abandoned this game.

 

It's not a great game but it's not the worst out there. It has potential. Unfortunately that potential has been left largely to the modding community and couple that with how long it took them to release even a beta GECK and "finish" the game. No doubt there are still patches forthcoming to "fix" things so it's not actually finished. That's why modders aren't doing much. The real question is, can Bethesda finish mucking fixing things up before modders lose interest?

[gregathit]

Thread Closed as there is a similar one:  http://www.loverslab.com/topic/63464-status-of-fo4-scene-almost-dead/