No Rad Storms after v1.10.980 update

[barbara917]

The in-game date is 11.9.2287. So approximately 2&1/2weeks has passed. Survival mode. 3 total mods. UFO4P. VATS Freeze Fix, Survival Quick Save. Have not yet visited the Glowing Sea. Not one Rad Storm has occurred. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

[Wolfsun]

Hmmmmm.

Maybe you've just been a victim of the dreaded RNG Barbara? Ehhhhhhnh. Probably not - then again I just play the game and accept what it throws at me (i.e. I role play - not my place to question the Fallout GODS (devs) or turn FO into a deep dive into the underlying algorithms that make it work. Or care much about finding my character dying in an out of the way lonely spot waiting for my soon to be rotting radiation burned carcass to be devoured by a YuaGuai(Sp?) (may she get a terrible belly ache).

Anyway - warning - my answer is more one that talks to the way one approaches playing FO than the bells, whistles and mechanics of how it works. Sooooo... if you are not easily offended (and my intent is not to offend) then read on - else - abandon ship - now.

Not being a survival mode guy it is probable that my laissez-faire attitude towards rad storms may not be relevant to you @barbara917. If so, don't sweat it; you won't hurt my feelings if you move on without continuing to read otherwise, in my experience, rad storms just aren't all that common and since I don't bother to keep track of 'em IMO not even worth worrying about (they're pretty easy to deal with - well - maybe not in survival mode?). FWIW, to me they're just an annoyance. Easy to hide from and easy enough to run away from without accumulating too much radiation.

However, I have noticed that on the rare, very rare occasion that there will be a rad storm that will - kick - your - a$$ with some pretty severe rad levels if you don't immediately take a couple of doses of radx and maybe even a radaway or two to get rid of what rads one has accumulated while you search for shelter. Not fun at all but they are and can be a bit more annoying than a typical rad storm is, especially if radaway is in short supply.

Anyway, Barb - pretty sure someone will come along with an answer to your question both more relevant and spreadsheety than mine.

That said: Play the game (emphasis on game) and don't sweat what's going on in the depths of its innards.

Here's to ya!

[Cor.]

Just the opposite here.

My drive-in gets hammered constantly.

[barbara917]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Just the opposite here.

My drive-in gets hammered constantly.

That's my point. Not to be rude to the previous reply but there is a reason people play on Survival Mode. They want the game to be hard. Radstorms are one of the many annoyances of Survival Mode which all added together makes it more difficult. To go two and half weeks in game with no Rad Storms just isn't normal.

[Cor.]

Originally posted by barbara917:

Originally posted by Cor.:

Just the opposite here.

My drive-in gets hammered constantly.

That's my point. Not to be rude to the previous reply but there is a reason people play on Survival Mode. They want the game to be hard. Radstorms are one of the many annoyances of Survival Mode which all added together makes it more difficult. To go two and half weeks in game with no Rad Storms just isn't normal.

Could be youre moving enough to never be in a place where they are happening.

It "Could" happen, I guess.

[Wolfsun]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Originally posted by barbara917:

That's my point. Not to be rude to the previous reply but there is a reason people play on Survival Mode. They want the game to be hard. Radstorms are one of the many annoyances of Survival Mode which all added together makes it more difficult. To go two and half weeks in game with no Rad Storms just isn't normal.

Could be youre moving enough to never be in a place where they are happening.

It "Could" happen, I guess.

That was one of my 1st thoughts too, Cor. Good on ya. My play style is one that finds me moving all the time. Get in, kill, loot, get out and do it now. I rarely encounter rad storms. My deal is I just don't waste time wondering why.

[Cor.]

I must be having the opposite luck then haha

[cswiger]

I've seen several over the course of a few hours. But they aren't so bad compared to simply taking a walk around Far Harbor.

[Wolfsun]

Originally posted by Cor.:

I must be having the opposite luck then haha

My Grandmother used to tell me, "Ya hang out in bad places, bad things tend to happen".

[Cor.]

Originally posted by Wolfsun:

Originally posted by Cor.:

I must be having the opposite luck then haha

My Grandmother used to tell me, "Ya hang out in bad places, bad things tend to happen".

Heh.

Cant bring law to the lawless if I hide

[barbara917]

@Cor - Did you say you were playing with the next gen update? I started a new game with no mods. Not that the mods I was using are at all unreliable. No Rad Storms yet. The way I remember Survival Mode I would usually get my first rad storm on day one or at the latest day two in Sanctuary. Nothing. Nada. I am wondering if this has something to do with Bethesda tweaking performance and they decided rad storms were too expensive FPS wise.

[Livy]

Had multiple rad storms? Only minor mods like enabled achievements and ballistic weave for everything.

[HuskyDynamics]

No mods here, I think I've had one or two rad storms since the update dropped.

[maestro]

Originally posted by barbara917:

The in-game date is 11.9.2287. So approximately 2&1/2weeks has passed. Survival mode. 3 total mods. UFO4P. VATS Freeze Fix, Survival Quick Save. Have not yet visited the Glowing Sea. Not one Rad Storm has occurred. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

I've been seeing plenty of Rad Storms, so the update definitely didn't break them. only mod I run is Load Accelerator.

[Varanus]

Now that you mention it, my new playthrough, I havent seen a single rad storm. BUT, I started it before the update. And am playing on survival. Which my previous play on survival, which was maybe back in Nov/Dec, I, at around level 90 something, had 1 rad storm, the whole game.
So, in my experience, rad storms seem to be astonishingly rare on survival. O_O
Zero mods btw.