Blood Disabled Permentally?

[Yocandy4]

So, I got fallout 4 almost 3 years ago and when I was first playing it I wanted to play it without blood and gore (I know I know it's a staple of the franchise and I came to love its goofy effects when I played NV for the first time), but anyways how I did it was by going into the .ini file and changing the gore settings. Recently I wanted to playthrough the game again with everything turned on and I switched it back to how it was originally in the .ini file and started a new save and the blood and gore effects still did not appear. Since then, I have tried uninstalling and installing the game, downloading a new .ini file, and purging my cloud data. Does anyone know a fix without mods?

P.S. When I downloaded the game with gamepass the blood and gore worked as designed but I do not want to be tied to gamepass and I prefer to keep all my games on Steam.

[Fluffy_Llama]

Go into documents/My Games/Fallout4 and delete the Fallout 4 ini and Fallout4Prefs ini and let the game generate new ones when you next launch it. Should put everything back to default.

[Death Approaches]

the 3 .ini files below Documents\My Games\Fallout4\ control everything... if you're editing the right ones, and it sounds like you know what you're doing, then yeah I'd blame either onedrive or auto-cloud replacing them on-the-fly and overwriting your changes. There's no such thing as what you're imagining, permanent gore disabling, you're imagining the original German version of Fallout 3, that doesn't exist now... but I get it, I mean you edit it then it goes on and ignores you, what are you supposed to think?

did you know you can check gore and blood spatter from the console? 'isgoredisabled' will return 1 if you're gore-free mode, and 'tsb #' / 'csb' puts up blood splashes on the screen and clears it, respectively. (try 'tsb 1000' for a lot of blood splash on your screen)

you can even query your .ini settings (if you know the name anyway):

getini "bDisableAllGore:General"; getini "bBloodSplatterEnabled:ScreenSplatter"

if those aren't 0 and 1, respectively, set them:

setini "bDisableAllGore:General" 0; setini "bBloodSplatterEnabled:ScreenSplatter" 1

this way it won't care what .ini it's reading from, it'll change it...

if you don't have Bloody Mess, give yourself some perk points for free with 'cgf "Game.AddPerkPoints" 3' and give yourself some exploding heads, now take aim and gib some raiders and see how it's going, bloody or not.