is fallout 4 playable without mods?

[CptZhu]

so many mods I have to install in order to play the game, and I dont know how to.

[Ellorien]

I play without mods. 4.600+ hours. To me, the game is unplayable WITH mods.

[Shadowrun]

3,000+ hours here and many of them have been unmodded hours. playing with the mods is fun but this game is so much fun even in vanilla mode that it's totally playable without mods.

EDIT:
I am doing my 2nd vanilla play-through right now with no mods so that i can get the rest of the steam achievements i missed on the first time around. so far i'm level 42 and having a blast :)

[ErzPaladin]

Well, it is playable without mods, but you've to live with a lot of ingame bugs and a lot of hardcoded garbage.
In some settlement for example the NPCs are running through the buildings or don't fullfill their job as intended. That's cause I placed a building on former farmland where corn was cultivated. So, even though there stands now a bigger, double-level building, the NPCs still act as farmers.

Some people also have issues with crashes. I mainly had it in the first 50-100 hours.

The game also loads every object onto the map, which you've ever dropped onto the map. That can be a problem, cause your character can only carry a certain weight-limit and loot has different "kilo-prizes". Some loot is simply more valuable.
So, the more junk you drop onto the map, the more the program has to load into the screen.

From my experience: every time you leave a building I've to wait 30-300 seconds (can really vary a lot) that the screen loads. That's at least my experience. And I'm lvl 90+

[CptZhu]

Originally posted by ErzPaladin:

Well, it is playable without mods, but you've to live with a lot of ingame bugs and a lot of hardcoded garbage.
In some settlement for example the NPCs are running through the buildings or don't fullfill their job as intended. That's cause I placed a building on former farmland where corn was cultivated. So, even though there stands now a bigger, double-level building, the NPCs still act as farmers.

Some people also have issues with crashes. I mainly had it in the first 50-100 hours.

The game also loads every object onto the map, which you've ever dropped onto the map. That can be a problem, cause your character can only carry a certain weight-limit and loot has different "kilo-prizes". Some loot is simply more valuable.
So, the more junk you drop onto the map, the more the program has to load into the screen.

From my experience: every time you leave a building I've to wait 30-300 seconds (can really vary a lot) that the screen loads. That's at least my experience. And I'm lvl 90+

what mods do you recommend then?

[ErzPaladin]

Originally posted by MoraleBooster:

what mods do you recommend then?

You're asking the wrong person. I'm not using mods. If a developer wants me to play a proper game, then the developer has to fix this.

[CEPHY]

Can you? Yes.
Should you? That's a matter for debate.

Personally, I'd say modding is like an addiction. You can do just fine without it, but once you get into it, you're not going back.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by CEPHY:

Can you? Yes.
Should you? That's a matter for debate.

Personally, I'd say modding is like an addiction. You can do just fine without it, but once you get into it, you're not going back.

Haven't played a Bethesda RPG without mods except when my PC died and I replayed Oblivion and FO3 on the PS3.

So yeah, addiction, sure, but it's more like "willfully choosing the preferable option."

[wtiger27]

Over 2600 hrs playing the game with no mods. Have never used any. And I still enjoy it very much. So to answer..... yes you can.

[Jouchebag]

inb4 wtiger tells us about his awesome unmodded experience.

Noooooooo!

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

inb4 wtiger tells us about his awesome unmodded experience. :sans:

Noooooooo!

Beat cha. :)

[Dinger]

so i m not normal . played some mods .. didn t care for it

even removed the DLC s .. only vanilla noew .. and feeling much better now .

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by MoraleBooster:

what mods do you recommend then?

i had a lot of fun with the following mods:

- better (power) generators
- better junk fences
- better settlers (v.2)
- boss chests contain legendaries
- brighter settlement lights
- stackable concrete blocks (foundations)
- easy hacking & easy lockpicking
- faster terminal displays
- homemaker (adds more building objects)
- increased settler population
- longer power lines
- lots more settlers and enemies
- unofficial bugfix & patch
- scrap everything (from settlements)
- very rich merchants
- weightless junk
- unlimited settlement objects
- item cheats

and my mod list was a lot longer at one point but these are the ones i kept back and remember being glad i was using them. i built up these settlements with towers of glass buildings at each site, elevators, each place all lit up. it was glorious. so yes, you can have fun with mods too, and they're really not that hard to install and get into.

[Bringer of Locusts]

I've spent hundreds of hours playing with mods in Fallout 4, but for some outlandish reason I decided to go back to the vanilla version because it just felt right and authentic to me. Hard to explain, but I wanted a clean version of the released game that is free from the clutter that comes with mods.

[V]

I have mods that are tailored for me, you can play without mods but why not just get ones that fit your style.

that's what i recommend cos there are so many mods that fix stupid features in the game

[Levianne]

From my own experience, some games do require modding. For some reason I couldn't launch vanilla FO3, without a single mod. It refused to start the game at all. A friend helped me, gave me a list of "needed" mods to even launch the game. Some fixes and stuff. So from that experience I understand TC's question.
But that's not the case with FO4, the game works without mods very well, might contain some bugs, but what game is perfect? I say none. Mods do help with that, sure, but aren't really necessary in that regard. Even unmoded FO4 is playable. That being said, it's a Bethesda game, so mods are a must here. Mainly character beautification mods, because let's be honest, Bethesda's characters are ugly. That's how it is. Then you go with some QoL mods, because the game mechanics isn't the most attractive out there. And then you add some companion framework, because vanilla companions suck. Having just one companion with you? Whose ingenious idea was that? And the list goes on. XD In the end you can have a lot of mods just to adjust the game to your taste. Vanilla FO4 is playable, but modded FO4 is way better. That's an old truth.