It's one of the reasons why I always detest the whole "It's okay if the game isn't that good, because modders will fix it" approach

I don't want to have to install an additional 150gb of mods to fix a game with overhauls when I could just play a good game and download one mod to make it look better

It's funny, I only arrived at Damn Apocalypse because I didn't vibe with Horizon, a much more monolithic survival overhaul for Fallout 4. I guess I'm looking for yet another step down into tweaking and modularity

Mod auteurs are bizarre to me because they're already modding shit. You'd think they would have gotten over the idea of having their work modified before modifying people's work

Lol, this reminds me of Skyrim Arthmoor, dude went crazy at people removing the gate from his mod.

I would never play with random individual Minecraft mods but I do like modpacks, particularly the ones that set up progression in an interesting way. Playing through Sky Capsule Project right now, it's a fairly novel take on Skyblock with lots of time saving measures like ProjectE

Minecraft creature mods that weren't tested enough so it ends up that one mob spawns 100x times as often and blocks vanilla mobs and the interesting mob doesn't spawn at all

I feel like the most in-depth versions of that are fun though, because they're basically just creating an entirely new gameplay loop around automation. Create in particular sets the gold standard there, because it's all just building absurd bespoke multi-block machines to automate the resources you need to make more, bigger machines and your reward for doing that is you have a giant factory with whirring belts and working elevators and an automated train network.

feature creep

Vault 81 was completely isolated from the outside world until opening in 2277, and they don't seem to have any problems with wasteland food ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think a big difference is Skyrim's popularity. With many more people being passionate about it, there's both a higher likelihood that some talented modders will trickle out of that population, and a stable critical mass that compels people to invest in big projects. Fallout 4 has much less staying power due to being a less popular genre & aesthetic, being percieved as a let down compared to previous Fallout games, and technical issues like the precombine system that significantly hamper mod development. Put together, that's less people modding, a lower standard of quality, and less willingness to stick around the community

also what's that mod you mention 👀

nooo miyazaki i don't wanna go to ~~caelid~~ the creation kit

my preferred solution would be to make the soup recipes require boiled water, a middle ground between dirty and purified that's still irradiated but without disease risk. Also having additional recipes that don't require water, like baked tatoes. Additionally I'd like to have more indigenous recipes like succotash make an appearance

there is a config holotape available (and an mcm as a separate download) but it doesn't have settings for anything i have issues with :')

I'm building my load order off of The Midnight Ride which uses High FPS Physics Fix and Long Loading Times Fix by default, and I haven't experienced a loading screen I'd call "long" yet

My recent experiences with modding have definitely made my perception of it more cynical. Outside of straightforward things like bug fixes, mesh/texture improvements, etc., most mods are hopelessly inferior quality-wise to professionally made games. There are exceptions, and in fact a fair few of them in the Skyrim scene like jayserpa and simonmagus, but unrepresentative exceptions nonetheless.

It makes me feel like an asshole saying it, especially since these are hobbyists doing it for a love of the game, but it's true, and as someone who really values cohesiveness and internal consistency in games it's impossible to ignore

I think some of that is based on how the original game is structured. Rimworld and bg3 mods play well together, for the most part

I keep trying to play with Skyrim mod collections but I'm so picky about everything in that game to the point that I get mad if the town mods aren't 100% to my taste and I will pick out singular terrain textures and/or hand edit them until I'm satisfied and by that point I might as well go back to making my own custom mod collection.

One of these days I'll get through the Skyrim main quest lol...

There's research suggesting real life benefits from the ethanol. Additionally, the diuretic effects of alcohol help flush tritium from your system faster before it can do more damage. This is represented in the mod by healing your ingested particle damage.