


Not only can you mod all of your outfits, hats, helmets, eyewear, and accouterments to your liking, but they can also now be worn beneath armor.

Improve that radiation suit's lining, add ballistic-weave protection to your duster, put leaden weights in those gloves for a proper sucker-punch. The only reason to grab anything else was to improve my settlers' gear.Īrmorsmith Extended, by Gambit77, changes all that, bringing the same level of customization to clothing and armor that Bethesda brought to weapons. In my original vanilla playthrough, once I got power armor there seemed virtually no use for any clothing or armor except "specialty outfits"-you know, for things like maxing out Charisma prior to selling off a bunch of rusty assault rifles. With translations for nine different languages!Ĭraftable radios with station-related skins are baked right in, giving your settlements more of the ambiance you were (probably) shooting for. Full Dialogue Interface now shows you exactly what you're going to say, which took not only recreating the menu style from past Fallout games, but also manually typing all the responses into the mod for each and every encounter. As with Mass Effect, the difference between what you selected and what you said often made the choices somewhat misleading.

The problem was that this was a bit clunky for those using a keyboard/mouse interface, and additionally the dialogue options had to be short to fit into the new style of menu. Here's a great example of how dedicated modders can be Cirosan's Full Dialogue Interface replaces the " Mass Effect-like" conversational system, which Bethesda meant to be friendlier to console players. Fog, drizzle, and hard rain can improve your chances at stealth, duststorms can virtually destroy visibility altogether, and nothing quite says "hell on earth" like traversing the Glowing Sea during a heavy radstorm! Not only is it an audiovisual feast-describing it as merely "pretty" would be misleading-but its effects will definitely change the way you play. Weather overhauls have always been a big hit for Bethesda's sandboxes, and this upgraded port of the popular Skyrim mod is, hands down, the best I've ever seen.
