RP mod suggestion?

[WilliamC1514]

I played all the DLCs and mods with some RP in the following list and I'd like a RP mod suggestion, preferably fully voiced, but it must be centred around a compelling RP.

• Diamond City Expansion
  
• Fallout 4 Northern Springs DLC
  
• Welcome to Goodneighbor

Thank you kindly for your help

[hawkeye]

I've played a lot of add-on mods and nearly all involved a lot of gunplay. None were compelling, but some are worth playing.

Interesting NPCs aka TFTC has a couple of main quests and lot of smaller one-act plays. R4-04 is a railroad follower with a lengthy questline with a bit of story. Many extra locations. But you have to get your affinity up before the quest starts. With a follower mod you can recruit other npc's from the quest. Seven is amusing (with looksmenu you can remove her face tatts).

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/8704
http://3dnpc.com/

South Of The Seas doesn't have quests but has new locations, a faction and encounters

The Fusion City Rising series is big and lengthy. I didn't find it compelling, not lore-friendly in places and it has a few bugs. If you are desperate and it's seems more one for the junior burgers.

Sim Settlements 2 has a questline. It's unfinished and only part 1 of 4 so far. Quite promising and has some good-looking characters. It adds extra npc's, some of whom just don't cut the mustard for me. Worth looking at but again a mixed bag. Some bugs.

A good mod for creating a different atmosphere is A Forest. See a recent thread about scenery mods. It creates a woodland landscape. The old pen and paper RPG "Morrow Project" (possibly where a lot of FO ideas seem to have originated) proposed that the Great Forest of early colonial days would have grown back by 2300. It took the Chernobyl forest 20 years to grow. (The Morrow Project has much the same gameplay flaws as the FO games have - lack of interesting npc's and limited rpg play to name two.)

The Bleachers - A Diamond City Story - haven't played it, sounds like a possibility.

The Great Green Jewel - just in case - half-finished, quite buggy so avoid.

Subway Runner - adds some of the subway lines. No quests but makes a change walking via the subways.

The Red Wave - player boat home. No quest but easier to travel to a few destinations e.g. Hangmans direct to Echo Lake Lumber..

[WilliamC1514]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

Interesting NPCs aka TFTC has a couple of main quests and lot of smaller one-act plays. [...]
http://3dnpc.com/

On the site you gave me, on the tab Downloads there's

• Fallout 4 – Tales from the Commonwealth v3.02
  
• Fallout 4 – Settlers of the Commonwealth v3.14

which were you referring to?

Originally posted by hawkeye:

South Of The Seas doesn't have quests but has new locations, a faction and encounters

Is this how to play the most recent version of this mod? You download & install

South of the Sea (1.00Beta) Date uploaded 22 Aug 2019, 5:32PM File size 362.1MB

then download & install

SOTS 1.5 Open Source Final Beta Date uploaded 21 Jul 2020, 5:24PM File size 7.9MB

with the latter overwriting everything in the former?

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

Ive heard good things about Depravity. I downloaded it recently but haven't played it long enough to tell you how well I really like it. The character models look good though. I hear some people swear by Depravity.

Sim Settlements 2 is good as mentioned. I will add that it has a ton of quests added to settlements that have you doing various quests for settlers looking for a home.

Sim Settlments 1 has a variety of options including Conqueror which auto-builds most of the settlements in the commonwealth and gives you a raider storyline to conquer the Commonwealth.

If you're looking at add immersion I'd recommend playing on a harder difficulty possibly survival.

Horizon overhauls the game, makes things much harder and gives settlers the ability to be useful if given enough time although it requires alot of micro-managing. Horizon works well with Sim Settlements 1 and Conqueror if I remember correctly but not Sim Settlements 2.

NPC Travel will add more immersion because it has the various factions in the commonwealth patrolling around. So you'll see large raider groups walking around or super mutants or bos or ghouls, etc. It's highly customizable as well as the ability to have friendly factions to come help you out.

And Amazing Followers Tweaks. Just gives you the ability to have a camp, have up to 5 followers, and it allows them to feed off each others dialogue which adds to immersion. Plus it fixes most of the bugs with companions.

[hawkeye]

Yes, I have both mods installed. I don't use Atomic Radio. As the page says -

"The Tales from the Commonwealth mod adds quests and companions.
The Atomic Radio mod adds a radio station.
The Settlers of the Commonwealth mod adds settlers with interesting dialogue."

Companions = npcs that will follow you like Piper, Nick etc.
Settlers with dialog = npcs that you need a follower mod to recruit like AFT. They will talk to you at times but no quests. The have different personalities. "Seven" is my favourite npc.

For SOTS, as it says in the instructions, install v1 (360 MB) then install v1.5 (8 MB) to bring v1 up to v1.5. It doesn't overwrite everything, just 8 MB of what is fixed.

Use a mod manager.

(Depravity mentioned above is for raider-like players, based on my own experience of it).

[WilliamC1514]

Originally posted by The Father ☯:

If you're looking at add immersion I'd recommend playing on a harder difficulty possibly survival.

My 2nd PC is at survival. Here[imgur.com] she is just completing The Nuclear Option. She's currently right before entering Faraday's program shown here[imgur.com], which I can't bring myself to do a 2nd time , and since I avoid doing side-quest with her, I haven't played her for months.

I'm looking to play a mod for my 1st PC, at normal difficulty that can be seen here[imgur.com].

[WilliamC1514]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

Interesting NPCs aka TFTC has a couple of main quests and lot of smaller one-act plays.

I've installed it but I don't know if there's an order of the quests[3dnpc.com]. Below is my own version of the quest list, in which I've added some content of the linked page. If the mod doesn't have something suggesting a quest order, perhaps you can suggest one?

QUESTS

• A Pair of Jacks [QUEST GIVER Jack – Back entrance to Art’s Diner east of Lexington Apartments LOCATIONS Art’s Diner]
  
• A Soldier’s Duty [QUEST GIVER Paladin Brend – Boston Airport LOCATIONS Boston Airport, Danver’s Hideout]
  
• Atom’s Glow [QUEST GIVER Father Malcolm – Lakeview Pier north of the Mass Fusion Disposal Site LOCATIONS Church of Atom, Mass Fusion Disposal Site, Robot Clinic]
  
• Full Exposure [QUEST GIVER Cameron – Full Exposure shop southeast of Diamond City LOCATIONS Full Exposure, Natick One Hour Photo]
  
• Indecent Exposure [QUEST GIVER Art Collector – Boston Bordello PREREQUISITE Complete Full Exposure LOCATIONS Boston Bordello, South Boston Cathedral, Wildwood Cemetery, Hyde Park Church]
  
• Human Nature [QUEST GIVER R4-04 – Requires max affinity (1000) LOCATIONS Freeway over Graygarden, Vault-Tec HQ, Glowing Sea]
  
• Jet Fueled [QUEST GIVER Rabbit – Cambridge Safehouse in the area near Kendall Hospital LOCATIONS Cambridge Safehouse, Hallucigen Inc]
  
• Love and Peace [QUEST GIVER Cosmos LOCATIONS Fiddler’s Green, Trinity Church]
  
• Paradise Bay [QUEST GIVER Doctor Singh – Paradise Bay south of Gunner’s Plaza LOCATIONS Paradise Bay, Underground Facility, Medical Lab]
  
• Patriots [QUEST GIVER Clarissa Barton – Old Corner Bookstore LOCATIONS Old Corner Bookstore, University Point Bunker]
  
• Picket Fences [QUEST GIVER Joe – East Boston area outside Robot Medical Clinic LOCATIONS East Boston, Sanctuary]
  
• Radio Raiders [QUEST GIVER Radio Distress Signal, Black Eye Bobby LOCATIONS Belcher’s Cave]
  
• Like a Goodneighbor
  
• Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots
  
• Saints and Sinners [QUEST GIVER Sadie – Boston Bordello east of Hangman’s Alley LOCATIONS Boston Bordello, Holy Mission Congregation]
  
• The Great Green Jewel [QUEST GIVER Brennan – Townhouse across the street from Marlborough House LOCATIONS Townhouse, Boston Public Library, Copley Station, Auction House, Concord Museum, Fairline Hill Estates]
  
• The House that Bruce Built [QUEST GIVER The Pin – Back Alley Bowling in front of East City Downs LOCATIONS Back Alley Bowling, The House of Bruce]
  
• Three Little Wastelanders [QUEST GIVER Intercom – Neighborhood just outside Old Gullet Sinkhole LOCATIONS Old Gullet Sinkhole, Franz’s Bunker, Annie’s Bunker, Abraham’s Bunker, Carlos’ Bunker]
  
• Two Lane Blacktop [QUEST GIVER Smokescreen – Rooftop of the Layton Towers LOCATIONS Layton Towers, Theater District]
  
• Under the Bridge [QUEST GIVER Audrey – Goodneighbor The Third Rail LOCATIONS The Third Rail, North End Valenti Subway Station, Fens Street Speakeasy, Summer Home]
  
• You’ve Got Mail [QUEST GIVER Marion – Nahant Post Office outside Croup Manor LOCATIONS Nahant Post Office, CIT Dormitory, Cambridge Police Department]
  
• Vote of Confidence [QUEST GIVER Birdie LOCATIONS Niah’s shop, Washington Retirement Center]
  
• Alternative Medicine [QUEST GIVER Tzen LOCATIONS Diamond City, Murphy’s Clinic, Mass Pike Tunnel, Waterfront Hotel]
  
• Memory Loss [QUEST GIVER R4-04 LOCATIONS Waterfront Hotel, Catacombs, Memory Center, Boston Mayoral Shelter]

I've also installed:

Originally posted by The Father ☯:

NPC Travel will add more immersion because it has the various factions in the commonwealth patrolling around. So you'll see large raider groups walking around or super mutants or bos or ghouls, etc.

Update 1

About Interesting NPCs, there was a startup quest but it doesn't interest me so I'm wondering if there's a recommended order for the rest.