• herrcaptain
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    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.)

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      Isn’t there a way to disable automatic updates?

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        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

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          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.

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            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.

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        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.

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

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        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

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          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

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            Wabbajack is how I always dreamed it would be

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      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

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

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        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.

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      I was about to install and play, but now I’m waiting. I have ancient mods that still work, but I can live without them. I’m mostly concerned with newer mods, which generally have active support from the authors.