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I'm just curious, since everyone has their own tastes. But what are yours and why do they do it for you? Feel free to tell us about them but if they're priivate, just let us know so people don't ask for them.

 


Mine would probably be CBBE, Looksmenu, and Build Anywhere just to name a few.

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Build anywhere ? I'm curious ...

 

For me :

- F4SE and it's CustomControlMap

- CBBE and Bodyslide (mandatory)

- Looksmenu with some hairpack and compilation of makeup ...

- Snap'n Build, Snappy Housekit ...

- Modern Firearms :D

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The only thing I really can't do without at the moment is my camera mod but I'm to busy with other projects to port it. Hopefully someone who asked me to use it will fix it up so I can do other stuff. </hint>

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I am a big fan of mods which force me to play a character differently, or allows better interaction/manipulation of NPCs, or just jazz up my A/V experience. I am not a huge fan of changing the balance or focus of the game. I do enjoy the adult content so long as it does not stymie the progression of the game. I do enjoy the game, but I do not want to live there. I live in Skyrim. 

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Mods i can't play the game without after using them (alphebetical order)

 

- Easy Hacking Lockpicking Pickpocket - because you already invest into perks to unlock stuff, and don't want those stupid minigames 1000 times a day

- ENB & ReShade

- F4SE

- Fallout 4 Configuration Tool

- FO4 Hotkeys

- Full Dialogue Interface - because you don't want to guess what your character will say next in dialogues

- LooksMenu - to save presets (not sure if this does anything else by now except Bodyslide in-game morphs and injected hair colors)

- No DLC Radiant Quests - because you don't want to disrupt your gameflow by unlocking a DLC area for a random commonwealth quest, ESPECIALLY not when the DLC dialogues imply that you already finished the base game

- Pip-Boy Flashlight & Tactical Flashlights - because the vanilla Pip-Boy light is so 1990's and you need it with high contrast ENBs

- Place Everywhere - ! will never build a settlement without this again

- Scrap Everything - even if you want to keep all the vanilla buildings intact, at least to scrap things like shrubs or leftover objects (example the wooden stairs on the barricade in Zimonja Outpost)

- Settlement Attacks Beyond - because having enemies in settlement attacks spawn OUTSIDE the workshop borders is a good idea

- Settlement Height 9000 - ever built a 2-story house and couldn't build a roof on top? Use this.

- Survival Mode Console - because playing SM without the ability to make a hard savegame, fix broken quests, get unstuck behind walls etc. is masochism

- Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch - because Bethesda quality assurance

- West-Tek Tactical Optics - arguable, but if you play with mentioned high contrast ENBs then you also need this at some point - and the game still looks like shit without those, so they're required to enjoy the game as well

 

 

Anything else i would consider optional. Though there are plenty of other mods i would not want to play the game without.

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Survival Options (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14650/)

The way Bethesda implemented their “survival” mode is atrocious to me. I really, really want to have a talk with whoever decided that disabling the ability to save, in a fucking Bethesda game, was a good idea.
All I wanted was the need to drink, eat and sleep, without every enemy turning into a bullet sponge with insta-kill hitscan weapons and every quest bug resulting in 2 hours of lost play time. Yes, yes, I am exaggerating a little.
Anyway, this mod gives you “on-the-fly” control over survival mode so you can adjust it to your liking.

Place Everywhere (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/9424/)

If you are serious about settlement building you NEED this mod. I would suggest to any newcomer to install it with the optional “Place.ini – toggleable / All hotkeys disabled” configuration file.
The mod can be a bit overwhelming at first, with it giving so much functionality to so many keys. With this configuration file, there is only one key: F8.
Cannot get your piece to snap where you want it? Or the piece snaps but stays red and you cannot place it? Press F8 to enable “place everywhere” mode and be awed.
Then you can slowly enable more and more functionality of the mod over time, giving you more precise control over what you're doing.

DEF_UI (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10654/)

This mod takes some patience and reading to install. Once you get it working (with the mod below) you're never going back. DEF_UI vastly improves the container, barter and Pip-Boy inventory screens, making much better use of the screens real estate.
The mod also implements “sub-folders” in Pip-Boy tabs like “Aid” where items like food, drinks and drugs get their own sub-screens rather than being mixed together in the same list.

Valdacil's Item Sorting (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/3877/)

This item sorting mod complements DEF_UI and really enables its full potential. All it does is rename all those items …which makes it a compatibility nightmare but you load this one as early as you can in your load-order. Let any other mod override it. Once you understand the naming convention and how DEF_UI reacts to these names, you can make any mod conform to it in under 10 seconds with FO4Edit.

Visible Weapons - 3rd Person Holster (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10317/)

Lastly, this mod solves the “problem” that in FO4 you never see your equipped gun holstered on your character through the third person camera.
Well, actually, this mod is only the script framework to do that. You need other mods that provide the actual apparel items.
Basically what you do with this mod is the following: You link a piece of apparel (clothing/armor) to a gun, using the configuration item. Once this is done, the apparel will be automatically equipped while your gun is holstered and unequipped as you draw that gun.
Mods like “Just Holstered Weapons” (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/20838/) provide the needed apparel items. Like a fully modded 10mm on your hip and a scoped rifle on your back.

Happy gaming!

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