after a fight and see where all the dead guys are.
#MODS TO MAKE FALLOUT 4 RUN BETTER UPGRADE#
We’d love to see an upgrade that lets players enter V.A.T.S. Depending on the environments, it can be surprisingly tough to track down a raider’s corpse.
Mopping up the scene of a battle and looting bodies, however, isn’t quite as easy. Bethesda helpfully lets players flag required items and, with a little help from the level-two Scrapper perk, highlights them in an impossible-to-miss green glow. Perhaps a handheld version would do the trick?įallout 4 is filled with things to pick up, many of which can be broken down into useful raw materials. The functionality already exists (kind of) in the bell you can build and ring to summon friends to your location in settlements. It’s especially easy to lose track of Dogmeat in the brush. Give us a way to pull them back to our location when they’re not in our line of sight – and give us the option of putting an icon representing their position on the compass, too. Hollering their name might not be the most effective way to remain concealed, but it would help keep them under tighter control. You can order your buddies to stay put, but once they’ve run off it’s not possible to get them to return to your position. It can get them into trouble, like when they run into the center of a super mutant base or trigger traps. It would be great if someone put together the interactive tutorial that Bethesda didn’t include, giving novices a rundown of the basics of building up to wiring, defenses, and other aspects that are easily overlooked.Ĭompanions have a bad habit of running ahead, finding alternate paths, and getting lost in the worst way. It’s a shame, considering some of the cool things that people have been doing with the tools. The game does a dreadful job of explaining how the base-building works, and we wouldn’t be surprised to learn that only a minority of people dig any deeper in that aspect of the game than the first few Minutemen missions. Of course, asking for better construction materials means that we’re building out our own settlements in the first place – something that’s not a given. We spend enough time scouring horrible places for materials, do we need to rest our weary bones on a mattress that looks like it served double duty as an operating table? As our own Matt Bertz put it, let’s see some construction materials that don’t make your house look like an abandoned shack in the Justified hollow. It might not exactly fit the overall aesthetic, but we wouldn’t mind being able to build things with slightly less-gritty textures. Fallout 4 is set a few hundred years after a nuclear holocaust, and things are appropriately worse for the wear. Getting around in some of the game’s interiors can be particularly disorienting, and pulling out your Pip Boy should provide clarity, not another thing to puzzle out. We’d love to see something simple and clean. It’s a splotchy mess that’s confusing to navigate – a problem for a map. Drill down into the local map, however, and it all falls apart.
The default world map isn’t wonderful, but it gets the job done (even if we can’t zoom out quite as far as we’d like). The game is a lot of fun, but it has its share of annoyances, quirks, and other things that we’re hoping enterprising modders will be able to take care of.
#MODS TO MAKE FALLOUT 4 RUN BETTER MODS#
As you probably know, mods are coming to both PC and consoles this time around. The game does a lot of things right, but there’s certainly room for a number of quality-of-life improvements. Along the way, we’ve been collecting more than bobbleheads and magazines.
The Game Informer staff has spent hundreds of hours exploring Fallout 4’s wasteland.