This mod is reaching its final development stages. Further updates will be mentioned briefly in this section. If you don’t see anything specific it’s just a simple hotfix or adjustment to a junk/misc item weight.
DISCLAIMER:
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WHILE THIS MOD IS AT A PRETTY MATURE STATE, IT CONTINUES TO RECEIVE CONSTANT UPDATES. ALWAYS EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN UPDATING MODS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLAYTHROUGH. THINGS MAY BREAK IF YOU DO SO!
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RECCOMENDED PLACEMENT:
Bottom of the Load Order.
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“Realistic Fallout” is a collection of hundreds of changes to Fallout 4 aiming at increasing the realism while retaining the fun aspect. No changes made here should compromise your enjoyment of the game nor are its features overcomplicated. This mod, however, was unapologetically created for players that value immersion.
I’ve scoured all (ALL) 160 pages of the “immersion” and “gameplay” categories of mods on Nexus to draw inspiration for this mod. My criteria was simplicity and near perfect compatibility. There are no added scripts or new assets in this file, everything was made editing the game’s parameters on Creation Kit directly and slotted in a single “.esp” file.
I tried to keep out tweaks that could override other configurations players usually employ. I also avoided edits that could be considered divisive, so most people can enjoy this mod and add new things without worrying too much.
“Realistic Fallout” was made to compliment the mod “Advanced Needs 76” , but can be used without it (I’m not sure if it exists on Playstation, unfortunately).
I also advise using mods that make the loot and items placed in the world scarcer, for the full, intended experience.
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Features
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Difficulty Settings:
Player damage dealt to enemies is set to 1x in “Hard” and “Very Hard” difficulties to avoid bullet sponginess. Enemy damage dealt to the player is left like in vanilla across all difficulties. Survival Mode is left entirely vanilla.
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Time Scale:
Utilized the popular “6 to 1” time scale (1 minute in real life is 6 minutes in-game, unlike in vanilla where 1 minute in real life is 20 minutes in-game). Fast Travel speed was adjusted to compensate for the slower passage of time.
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Healing and Chems:
Unnatended broken limbs will start healing in 2 in-game days, and will be fully healed after 5 in-game days (adjusted for this mod’s time scale). Sleeping still heals limbs, however, healing from sleep can be turned off or set to partial healing if using “Advanced Needs 76”.
Stimpaks and Radaway heal overtime (10 seconds for full effect).
One Stimpak only heals up to 25% of a damaged limb’s health and the healing process also happens overtime.
Chems that fortify damage only work on melee weapons and fists.
Added “chemist” perk requirement to craft stimpaks, radaways and chems. Level requirement vary according to the buff. Added “robotics expert” lvl 01 requirement to build “robot repair kit”.
Molerat Disease: you get a crippling debuff of -40hp, but it only lasts for 10 days. This retains the moral implications of the Vault 81 questline and is realistic (a child wouldn’t survive for long), but doesn’t punish too harshly players that decide to follow a virtuous path.
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Lockpicking:
The lockpicking sweet spot is reduced to make the minigame more of a challenge. Bobby pins aren’t too brittle so the challenge is fair.
Locks won’t tell you the level of the lock anymore.
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Food, Cooking, Foraging, Hunting and Farming:
- All foods that require dirty water now cost purified water instead*;
- All foods that require heat cost 1 wood on top of the other ingredients;*
- Purified Water recipe is now 1 dirty water and 1 wood*;
- All crops require 1 fertilizer to be planted (a bag of fertilizer can be scrapped for 4);*
- Wood and Fertilizer must be manually scrapped from objects in settlements to be able to be used for cooking and planting. This is to avoid automatic scrapping of objects you dont want to destroy, and is more immersive.
Creatures give food and parts based in their size, a fraction of the loot’s quantity is randomized to keep hunting interesting.
Creatures don’t drop nonsensical loot such as caps, ammo, guns and armor.
All plants yield a random number of produce based on their 3d models in the game.
Wild crops found during exploration can be planted at settlements.
All sealed, prewar industrialized foods have their rad effects removed (except Nuka Colas);
Removed healing effects from food. Now food is only used for sustenance and for its secondary buffs (note: health will still “increase” when the food has a “fortify health” buff);
Bubblegum gives a temporary +1 charisma buff (sweet breath)
Mystery Bacon and Mystery Jerky now increase hp temporarily according to your cannibal perk level (lvl 1 = 10hp for 1min, lvl 2 = 15hp for 2 mins, lvl 3 = 20 hp for 3 mins).
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Carry Weight and Power Armor:
- The weight of most junk and misc items have been revised. Hundreds of objects have had their weights adjusted to resemble real life more closely while still being adequate for gameplay purposes. In general this means 90% of the junk you find will be 2 to 4 times lighter than in the base game (weapons and armor are unnafected).
- Base carry weight is reduced to 60, and CW per strength level is decreased to 5 points per level. You gain no extra carry weight at level up besides the points you get from investing in strength. This balancing aims to simulate real life more closely (a fit adult that is able to carry 60 to 105 pounds), but should be balanced for gameplay purposes. It is highly advisable to use a backpack mod, since these usually adds CW in a range of 40 to 60 pounds. **
- Power Armor has a base bonus of 200 carry weight to compensate for the carry weight debuff. You still can’t wear backpacks in power armor, but this won’t be an issue since you’ll have 60 + 200 + 55 from the strength buff PA gets, which is roughly 315 carry weight.
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Ammo prices:
Ammo prices are increased across the board. I tried applying some logic into it while retaining a balance for gameplay purposes. This is meant for games where ammo is rare and very expensive. Guns have vanilla prices because in the post-apocalypse they would be lying around, but ammo is increasingly scarcer.
I believe I covered all ammo in the game except for the “Contraptions” stuff and whatever Creation Club and the next gen patch might have introduced. These may come later. Contrary to popular belief I never actually finished Fallout 4 so there are tons of things I never witnessed in the game.
Here are some examples of prices per round from the top of my head (the prices CK uses take in consideration a character with charisma 10 if I’m not mistaken. Your actual prices in game will be higher):
.38 = 10 caps
10mm = 20 caps
Energy / Cryo = 25 caps
Shotgun Shells = 30 caps
Rifle Shells = 30 caps
Syringer = 20 caps
Alien = very expensive (don’t recall, probably 300 or 500)
Automatics = around 12 or 13 caps (cheaper than most regular rounds)
Fusion Cores = 500 caps (yeah…)
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Crafting:
All turrets have “Scrapper” lvl 1 as a base requirement;
All generators, powered water pumps and water purifiers now have “Scrapper” lvl 1 as a base requirement, and more advanced models have “Science” perk requirements. Component requirements have been slightly increased;
The regular water pump still has vanilla costs and doesn’t require “Scrapper” lvl 1, so you can help Sturges out easily;
The Decontamination Arch now requires “Science” lvl 2, “Medic” lvl 2, “Scrapper” lvl 2 and the component requirements have been slightly increased;
Fusion Cores can be recharged at Chemlabs using 150 fusion cells and perk “Science” lvl 1. Make sure you only have one fusion core in your inventory at the time or the chemlab will recharge a random fusion core from your inventory (you can’t choose which).
All poisons (syringer ammo) require “chemist” lvl 01 to be crafted.
Workbench crafting requires specific perks and are no longer tied to “Local Leader” 2. Changes are as follows:
-“Armorer “ 1 for armor and PA benches;
-“Gun Nut” 1 for weapons workbenches;
-“Chemist” 1 for chem workbenches;
-“Robotics Exp” 1 for robot workbench.
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Things this mod doesn’t do
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This mod focuses on implementing changes for:
gameplay settings
misc items
junk items
ammo
recipes
specific leveled lists for flora and fauna.
I will not implement changes that relies on external assets or scripts.
I will most likely dont do edits to movement speed and enemy AI since these could conflict with combat overhauls.
I will not edit records that tweak weapons and armors, since these are often handled by other overhauls, which could end up being overwritten by my mod. Compatibility is a central concern in RF2.
