Fallout 4 Save Files suddenly have an "[M] in the front of them.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Why is there an "[M]" in front of all of my save files?

[Spool]

Has something to do with mods.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

I read on a topic that it disables achievements. Is this true? If so, who's "bright" idea was that?

[Spool]

There is already a mod to re-enable achievements.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Oh good. I have no idea why Bethesda would want to disable achievements due to mods. It just doesn't sound like Bethesda, a company that seemed to in the past be so supportive of mods.

Anyways, thanks. I'll take a look at that mod

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

I just installed the FO4 Script Extender as well as the mod to re-enable achievements, so hopefully I should be good to go. Thanks everyone :)

[darinbob]

I think some console makers insisted on disabling achievements if mods are used. For some bizarre reason, the treat achievements as currency. Get a billion points and trade them in for fuzzy slippers or something. So they don't want any chieating at all, even in single player games (I presume this means the console won't work on consoles, which would be ironic).

Anyway, it's not too hard to get achievements back with the mod. But you need F4SE script extender, which is a bit lacking in instructions suitable for people who aren't computer savvy. But like in Skyrim for Fallout 3, the script extender should eventually enable some of the most useful mods.

Also, any save game marked [M] might not allow achievements even after the mod is installed. Best to choose an earlier save game and continue from that.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Fortunately for me, my save games didn't actually have an "[M]" in front of them. It was whenever I made any new saves from those saves that the tag would appear.
Fortunately, I installed the FO4 Script extender and the mod to enable achievements.

For the convenience of others, I will provide relevant links.

Fallout 4 Script Extender- http://f4se.silverlock.org/

Fallout 4 Script Extender Video Guide- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46KHM2zBM0

Fallout 4 Achievements (To re-Enable)- http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12465/?

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Okay so, after further testing, achievements still aren't working even with the mod active.

Whenever I load up a non-tagged save and then save, the new save has the "[M]" tag even with the achievement mod. I tried to get the "Old Guns" quest achievement but, despite completing the quest, the achievement didn't unlock. What gives?

[Pain]

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Okay so, after further testing, achievements still aren't working even with the mod active.

Whenever I load up a non-tagged save and then save, the new save has the "[M]" tag even with the achievement mod. I tried to get the "Old Guns" quest achievement but, despite completing the quest, the achievement didn't unlock. What gives?

You need to use the F4SE loader to have the mod work.

Make a shortcut to the F4SE loader and use that. Then you need the mod to be a plugin in the F4SE folder which will simply be putting the mod's zipped content in the 'data' folder in the Fallout 4 directory. The F4SE stuff will go in the base directory. the 'src' folder from the F4SE stuff is not needed. You can discard that unless you want to write script.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Is there a way I can have F4SE installed but still use the original launcher with the same effects?

[Pain]

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Is there a way I can have F4SE installed but still use the original launcher with the same effects?

It's called making a shortcut to the F4SE loader and renaming the shortcut as Fallout 4 and replacing the icon of the shortcut with the Fallout 4 icon found in the steam directory.

The answer is 'nope'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14

[Shahadem]

Publicado originalmente por ♩♫Shade♫♩:

Okay so, after further testing, achievements still aren't working even with the mod active.

Whenever I load up a non-tagged save and then save, the new save has the "[M]" tag even with the achievement mod. I tried to get the "Old Guns" quest achievement but, despite completing the quest, the achievement didn't unlock. What gives?

Blame capitalism because that's the actual cause via Microsoft throwing a hissy fit over mods for games on the Xbox.

[Pain]

Publicado originalmente por Shahadem:

Publicado originalmente por ♩♫Shade♫♩:

Okay so, after further testing, achievements still aren't working even with the mod active.

Whenever I load up a non-tagged save and then save, the new save has the "[M]" tag even with the achievement mod. I tried to get the "Old Guns" quest achievement but, despite completing the quest, the achievement didn't unlock. What gives?

Blame capitalism because that's the actual cause via Microsoft throwing a hissy fit over mods for games on the Xbox.

Don't want consolol's getting easy gamerscore discounts, I bet. Consolol's continue to bring down the glorious PC master race.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Publicado originalmente por Pain:

Publicado originalmente por ♩♫Shade♫♩:

Is there a way I can have F4SE installed but still use the original launcher with the same effects?

It's called making a shortcut to the F4SE loader and renaming the shortcut as Fallout 4 and replacing the icon of the shortcut with the Fallout 4 icon found in the steam directory.

The answer is 'nope'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14

Oh well, guess it isn't that big of a deal. It's just a real shame that Bethesda would pull such a move in the first place.

Publicado originalmente por Shahadem:

Publicado originalmente por ♩♫Shade♫♩:

Okay so, after further testing, achievements still aren't working even with the mod active.

Whenever I load up a non-tagged save and then save, the new save has the "[M]" tag even with the achievement mod. I tried to get the "Old Guns" quest achievement but, despite completing the quest, the achievement didn't unlock. What gives?

Blame capitalism because that's the actual cause via Microsoft throwing a hissy fit over mods for games on the Xbox.

If I learned anything about Microsoft before this whole mess, it was that their name must be describing something of theirs...

[Haunt Fox]

Frankly, this "using game achievements as currency" thing is about the chimpiest thing I've heard of humans doing in ... a small while. It's just too bad they couldn't take care of the console side of things, without punching PC users in the face with chimpy stuff that doesn't even affect PC users.