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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 49 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.)

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't there a way to disable automatic updates?

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months 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 7 points 6 months 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 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Wabbajack is how I always dreamed it would be

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 4 points 6 months 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.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

Just use wabbajack or a nexus collection. Takes out all the guess work