It was a long, long wait for Playstation 4 owners to finally get in on the wasteland modding action, and when it arrived, Fallout 4 fans weren't exactly pleased by the extra limitations above and beyond what's found on the Xbox One edition.
Even now, months after mods have been available, the number of PS4 entries continues to lag far behind what's on tap over on the other side of the console fence. Sadly, due to the restrictive nature of what's allowed on console mods, it's unlikely we're going to get an epic total conversion like you'd see on the PC.
The lack of space and inability to add in huge new assets just won't allow for such major changes to the base game. Don't let that kill your enthusiasm for PS4 modding entirely though, as there's still several overhaul mods that significantly change up the Fallout 4 experience on the Playstation platform.
Over the next several slides we cover some of the best of the best in PS4 overhaul mods that you should be trying out immediately.
Unified Clothing Overhaul
For a change in the game's aesthetics and how you can make your character look while stomping across the Commonwealth, this is the mod that should unquestionably be downloaded straight away.
The UCO mod completely opens up the clothing opportunities, allowing you to craft essentially any outfit you can imagine while still have the benefits of armor. If it's something that appears in the game anywhere on any NPC, you can now equip it as your outfit.
Don't like how your current armor looks but prefer its stats? No problem, with UCO you can make exterior clothing invisible, so the defensive qualities remain while the cosmetics are shifted to whatever style you prefer underneath.
Overgrowth Forest Overhaul
Like a much more invasive and complete version of the Simple Green mod (see the next slide), this Overgrowth offering turns most areas of the Commonwealth into a much more verdant forest.
It makes the entire Fallout 4 experience less dreary and empty-seeming, with vegetation overtaking the Boston area long after the radiation has subsided 200+ years after the bombs first dropped. The color scheme is probably the most frequently sited visual problem with the modern Fallout games, and mods like this handily take care of that concern.
Simple Seasons - White, Red, Green, and Yellow
A clever way of getting around some of the restrictions on adding new external assets in PS4 modding, this series of mods tweaks the colors of grass, trees, objects, and vegetation to let you change the Commonwealth to whatever season you desire.
While it may not radically change the game in terms of content or weaponry, it does completely alter the feel of the story with a different season overtaking areas rather than just having everything be that washed out brown/gray color.
Shown above is an example of Simple White, which takes us from eternal nuclear winter to actual, regular old winter. Even more striking is Simple Red, which sets the trees afire with fall leaf colors for a much less monochromatic playthrough.
Wacky Weapons Workshop
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The lack of external assets really hampers weapon mods on the PS4, but one forward-thinking player put together something really interesting just by changing how weapons can be crafted.
Now you can put together just about any combination imaginable - including some that really shouldn't exist, like adding a fatman launcher to a revolver. Who doesn't want to launch nukes from their handgun?
The mod also lets you manually add in multiple legendary effects to a wackified weapon, allowing you to craft some truly outrageous guns and melee weapons without having to kill legendary monsters and hope you randomly get something good.
Remember seeing some of the more bizarre robotic companions when Automatron first came out and laughing at how ridiculous some combos could become? Get ready for that, in weapon form.
Scrap That Settlement
Having primarily played Fallout 4 on the PC, it didn't occur to me until seeing this mod that console players are still having to deal with Bethesda's terrible settlement system in its original form. My sincerest apologies, console peons, because that sounds like a real bummer.
If you want more control over how your settlements look, this very nifty mod lets you scrap almost everything -- grass, rocks, bodies, and all sorts of objects that weren't originally scrappable.
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New versions of this mod are slated to land soon that will allow you to scrap whole creatures and structures as well.
Zombie Walkers
The feral ghouls in the Fallout universe have always flirted with being zombies, but they never quite go the whole way there. Putting you in an episode of The Walking Dead (or any given classic zombie flick), this overhaul mod takes ghouls and makes them into a shambling horde of the living dead.
Unfortunately, this PS4 version is a bit stripped down from the PC mod of the same name, but it still gets the job done for console players. Feral ghouls are renamed to zombies, sprinting is disabled, and health is modified so that head shots appropriately take them out. A few animations are also tweaked as well for more of a horror feel.
These modified ghoul zombies also come in big herds that you don't want to get caught in! Needless to say, this pretty drastically changes the feel and tone of a Fallout 4 playthrough. Hiding under a dumpster won't keep you safe here.
Outfield Retreat Home
Don't care for the home options in Diamond City or want to have everything at your fingertips in one centralized location?
This RV home not only looks fantastic -- complete with Nuka Cola themed knick knacks all across the outside -- but also has multiple connected crafting locations, storage space for your bobblehead collection, clean water for survival runs, and a bed offering the well rested bonus.
Plenty 'O Exploration
This is an overhaul mod that fans have to put together every time a new Bethesda entry arrives, especially in the Fallout universe. You'd think eventually the developer would get on this without the players having to do it..
The game maps are always huge, with tons of areas to explore, but then you arrive at a specific location and most of the buildings and hallways can't be accessed and are just cosmetic. Whether doors that can't be opened or piles of rubble blocking your way, there's a distinct lack of indoor exploration.
Fallout 4's rendition of this perennially needed fix, Plenty 'O Exploration, is currently in beta for PS4, but still provides a drastically needed service by adding in many new interior segments for a huge increase in the amount of area actually available to explore.
Cheatmaker
Last but not least is Cheatmaker, which overhauls the game by putting everything at your fingertips with no effort required whatsoever! After crawling out of the vault, the Sole Survivor can craft anything at all with no materials required. Want some sweet power armor straight off the start? No problem!
There are a whole lot more Fallout 4 mods out there ready and waiting to be downloaded than the nine PS4 overhaul mods we've covered here. What's your favorite PS4 overhaul mod we should try out? Let us know in the comments section!
If you're still on the hunt for even more ways to modify your Commonwealth wasteland experience, be sure to also check out these mods as well:
Published Apr. 11th 2017
Fallout 4 PS4 mods are coming soon, so Bethesda has released a list of compatible tweaks that should be ready for use on or around day one. The number of choices is steadily growing as the days pass, but it’s clear that Sony players will have dozens of small ways to customize their game very soon.
The full PS4 mods list can be viewed as it updates at the link above, but, at the time of writing, there are about 68 unique options. Because PS4 mods are restricted to only using assets found in the official Fallout 4 Creation Kit the end results aren’t life changing, but they should be fun to mess around with. What we see are several small attempts to improve character aesthetic, settlements, environments and smaller gameplay mechanics.
Here’s every current mod that’s expected to be available on the feature’s release date. Descriptions of how they work can be found by clicking the associated link
It’s worth noting that even though the respective Bethesda pages are live for each of these mods, that doesn’t mean they can be installed on PS4 right now. That will unfortunately have to wait until the actual feature update goes live in the near future.
As a restrictive list crafted entirely by players, the showcased variety here is fairly impressive. It will also grow over time as creators continue to learn the ins and outs of what they’re able to work with. As of now, Xbox One supports over 4,000 different mods with just a few months work. If the right minds embrace Sony’s process, the use cases will expand. Bethesda is also currently working with the hardware maker to allow mods with outside assets. If agreements are reached, major growth seems inevitable.
Fallout 4 is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Mods are only compatible with the latter two platforms at this time.
Do the above-listed mods make you feel better about what Fallout 4’s PS4 audience is getting? Are the tweaks too small for you to care? Tell us in the comments section!
Fallout: The aftermath of nuclear war
So many of us love Fallout. This post-apocalyptic series of games—which began way back in 1997 with the PC’s Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (if you want to use the full title), before many players, now had even heard of it—features several sci-fi RPGs, with the most recent entry being spinoff game Fallout 76. The games take place in an alternate history in which the transistor was developed 120 years after its real-life creation (that would be 1947 here on our world)—with the result that atomic physics and vacuum-based tech became majorly important—and in which the culture of the fifties survived well into the 2000s. The games focus on different parts of the US—Texas, West Virginia, and (in the case of Fallout 4) the East Coast—as they are affected by the aftereffects of nuclear war. In the case of all the games, the war, named the Great War (like World War I was before there was a World War II) began on October 23, 2077, when either China or the US fired missiles at their adversary. No one knows who launched the first blow, but the damage is done: from that point on, nuclear war is the name of the game, and the landscape is soon destroyed. Despite this, humanity survives, not just in sparsely scattered shelters, but also thanks to the Vaults, which are underground bunkers built by Vault-Tec, a for-profit corporation. The Vaults have secrets, however—and players get caught up in all of these secrets as they play through the series. The games are known for their open-world, sandbox style of gameplay, which allows players to explore very large swathes of land (and underground) as they go throughout their journeys and complete the main quest.
Fallout 4: an amazing entry to the series
Out of the Fallout games, in particular, so many of us love Fallout 4 because of its amazing Mods and Fallout 4 console commands. The open-world RPG by Bethesda—the fourth main game in the Fallout franchise—was released in November 2015 and has been loved all over the world since then. Indeed, what’s not to love about its post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear-war versions of Boston and Massachusetts? Also very well-done in the game is the journey of the Sole Survivor, who sets out on a journey that involves exploring this post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of their son, who was kidnapped, after having been in cryogenic stasis for more than two hundred years. And that’s not even counting the murder of their spouse, which happened at the same time. Our poor Sole Survivor is in for a wild ride. This wild ride takes place in the year 2287, following a disastrous nuclear war that basically destroyed much of the US. What was once familiar, suburban, and even fairly white-picket—that is to say, you (the Sole Survivor), your spousem and your baby son in the town of Sanctuary Hills, Massachusetts—has now become destroyed, barren, and very much a wasteland, thanks to the release of missiles as part of the US-against-China nuclear war. It’s your job to traverse this wasteland in search of your son (who has come to the future with your family, only to have been kidnapped shortly after the three of you woke up)—gathering items, building settlements, and helping out different factions achieve various goals. You can craft your own armor, upgrade your weapons, and create cool housing for your character.
Extend the Fallout 4 experience with player-created mods
But beyond all of this, perhaps what’s even more interesting about this game is the amount of player interaction that it allows, specifically in the form of mods. Mods, in case you didn’t know, are player-developed extensions to games, which can include anything from improved visuals and different textures to new characters, new quests, and even new areas to explore. Although lots and lots of games have mods, some of the most famous ones are compatible with Minecraft (expect new texture packs galore, as well as new skins to change your character’s green outfit), The Sims games, and the Smash Bros. (where you can add different characters, even ones not by Nintendo…or make the female characters have gigantic boobs). One of the most famous mods of all time is Garry’s Mod, which was originally a mod for Half-Life 2, but was released as its own game in 2006. Garry’s Mod isn’t the only one that has been sanctioned by official game devs: other mods that were officially integrated into the canon games include Beyond the Sword for Civilization IV and Vermintide 1 & 2 for the Warhammer franchise. Also of note is Hyrule: Total Conquest, UndyingNephalim complete remake of the real-time strategy game 0 A.D. with the characters and worldbuilding of The Legend of Zelda. So what about Fallout 4 mods? Well, in the almost-three years that have passed since that worldwide November release, players and gamers have created all kinds of mods for the game’s three systems of PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Together, their mods will allow you to better develop your settlements; change the seasons, textures, and atmospheres; modify your crafting abilities; more efficiently decorate your shelter; and enjoy new, fan-developed content, including new quests and areas to explore. If you’re interested in these kinds of mods, then you’re in the right place. We’ve compiled a list of the best Fallout 4 mods for you to enjoy—and, once you have access to your system, download in your own home, for the best playthrough experience.
1- SimpleSeasons
This mod will allow you to add a pop of color to a wasteland that would otherwise be, more or less, nothing except greys, yellows, and browns all the time. In other words, this mod—as the name suggests—will allow you to add the effect of seasons into the East-Coast Fallout landscape: you’ll see snow in winter, green plants in spring, orange and yellow leaves in summer, and leaves turning bright yellow on branches during the autumn mode. The mod has four versions—one for each of the four seasons—and is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. You can download all of them if you like, or even just one, although the PC option is actually a four-in-one pack. It’s also worth noting that it’s one of the most visually enticing Fallout 4 PS4 mods.
2- Conquest
Camping has always been a fun feature in video games, whether you’re playing Final Fantasy XV or Monster Hunter—or, if you’re anything like me, camping out in the mines looking for gems during winter days in Harvest Moon 64. Nostalgia aside, you can now add camping to your Fallout 4 experience thanks to Chesko’s Conquest mod, which allows you to engage in this relaxing experience while healing and clearing unnecessary stuff from your inventory. The Sole Survivor can even expand his or her campsite, thus turning it into a new settlement in its own right, which in turn will allow you to open up avenues for trade and city-building in the wasteland, like all the other settlements. You can also choose where these campsites are located, and can build ten in all, with the option of dismantling them.
3- Legendary Modification
Legendary Modification is perhaps one of the best mods, and with good reason: it basically gives you the ability to craft items with the attributes that are normally attached to legendary weapon or armor—in exchange, of course, for a significant material cost. The mod is able to do this because it adds a new modification slot to your options for crafting weapons and armor. When creating your legendary item, you can choose from every attribute that is available in the game, effectively giving yourself powerful abilities that will make the rest of the game a little bit easier—and a lot more entertaining. Get on the next level with this revolutionary mod, and have fun experimenting with the full slew of different options. As one of the Fallout 4 Xbox One mods, the mod is available on all systems: Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Note that it’s not compatible with other modded content, however.
4- Fusion City Rising
Are you done the game, but still hankering for some more Fallout 4? Well, in that case, this mod—developed by players Recluse and Thuggysmurf—functions basically like an expansion pack: it adds new locations, a good number of quests, and even some new factions. All of this takes place in Fusion City, which is found underground, and which takes the form of a subway system that’s simply enormous. There are tons of vendors, and lots of entertainment to boot—a mall, shooting ranges, and even a new player home that you can use for yourself. How cool is that?
5- Armorsmith Extended
This mod will allow you to add a new Armorsmith crafting table to the game, with the result that you can both make and upgrade your clothes and armor. It will also allow you to sport gas masks and bandanas under your hats. As a further result, all of the clothes and armor that have been upgraded thanks to the app will become more valuable, so you can get a better experience out of owning them—or sell them for more bottle caps and pre-war money. Not to mention, this mod is particularly well-liked in a game where the wardrobe is…shall we say, a little bit lacking. The mod fixes this by allowing you to wear those combinations of armor that look amazing (or amazingly weird) and give you great stats boosts. You can basically wear any armor piece over your standard outfits. Now you can finally wear your Grognak the Barbarian outfit however you like. The mod, one of many of the Fallout 4 Xbox One mods, is available for Xbox One and PC. While you can’t get it on a PS4, one mod with a similar purpose is the Unified Clothing Overhaul (as long as you’ve installed the Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource beforehand).
6- Lowered Weapons
Mods work like Google Chrome extensions: they contribute to getting rid of not only big-picture kinds of things but also those small, tiny annoyances that niggle at you as you use the game (or browser). In the case of Fallout 4, there’s a clear annoyance that is very annoying, perhaps even more annoying than all the other small things in the game—namely, the fact that the Sole Survivor will continue to have his or her gun or weapon pointed at NPCs while they’re in conversation together. Not only is this irritating on principle (in the same way that it grates when sitcom characters invite guests over without closing their front door), but it’s also needlessly menacing, particularly from a character who is on a mission to save their only son. Anyway, you can get rid of this issue with lesma666’s Lowered Weapons mod, which gives you the ability to (you guessed it) lower your weapon when you’re not in combat, thus clearing your interface a little. The mod can be downloaded to Fallout if you’re using a PC or Xbox One. Unfortunately, because it uses external assets, you can’t use the mod on PS4.
7- OCDecorator
This mod allows you to place items on top of items so that placing things—whether weapons or armor—on top of shelves, or placing office fans on top of desks, is no longer a hassle to deal with. What all of this means is that your settlement will be tidy and neatly organized, structured however you like it to be structured, and the items won’t keep on getting knocked over (and landing into a pile on the floor) by NPCs who are passing through. This mod can be downloaded to the game on all three systems.
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8- Better Settlers
We’re all familiar with subpar AI in games, whether it’s from enemies or from NPCs. And in Fallout 4, there are less-than-intelligent NPCs aplenty…not exactly ideal when you’re trying to build the best possible shelter to get you through the wasteland. It’s hardly efficient, after all—not when NPCs keep getting in the way of what you’re doing. So, you can solve this problem with Better Settlers, a mode designed by user Thom293. The mod allows two hundred and thirty new settlers to come with you at your shelter. Just about everything you do as a player in your shelter can affect them, their equipment (which, while fan-developed, is highly compatible with the lore of the game), their mortality rates, and their stats in general. And plus, not only are they well-designed (and perhaps more intelligent than Bethesda’s own NPC offerings), but it will be a great experience to not see the same faces day in, day out. As well, the mod is fully compatible with Sim Settlements, another high-quality settlement modé
9- True Storms
This mod, designed by user fading signal, will help you really feel the effects of a nuclear, post-apocalyptic wasteland, as opposed to just a regular old post-apocalyptic wasteland. In particular, the mod adds heavy fog, dust storms, radioactive rain, and other features to the barren landscape. This mod adds other immersive weather effects, too, including both fork and sheet lightning. There are also twenty different sound effects to represent the thunder banging forth up above in the sky. Plus, this mod will help sharpen and revitalize the textures and visuals of the game.
10- Sim Settlements
We already mentioned Sim Settlements before, and with good reason, in that kinggath’s mod is compatible with Better Settlers. But it’s also a very good mod in its own right, designed to alleviate the tedium and the monotony of building up multiple settlements in the way that’s built into the game. Instead, the mod allows the Sole Survivor to establish plots of land, which can have their modes set as being retail, agricultural or residential. After the mode has been set, the settlers will arrive and begin building up their shelters, without you having to manually enter the commands to have the buildings constructed yourself. Because of this, Sim Settlements will also allow you to develop settlements that grow organically, while you have nothing to do except watch your settlements develop as you continue journeying throughout the game. You’ll still have to handle other needs yourself—including water, food, and defense—but Sim Settlements does help relieve a lot of the trouble for you.
A must for fans everywhere
If you’re looking for Fallout 4 mods of any kind—including Fallout 4 PS4 mods and the ones for Xbox One and PC—then countless options are available to you. They will allow you to modify the game experience in all kinds of ways, including by updating graphics and textures, adding new NPCs, and even giving you new, fan-developed areas of the game to explore, with their own quests to beat (thereby adding another level of playthrough to the game, even after you’ve beaten everything else). All you need to do is find the mods that are compatible with your system(s) and choose the ones that appeal to you most. Neato burrito! ** Videos are attached for guidelines and all the rights belongs to their original uploaders**
Earlier this year, Bethesda announced plans to allow mods for Fallout 4 and the upcoming Skyrim remaster on PS4 and Xbox One, an unprecedented move that made console RPG fans very happy. But now, embarrassingly, it looks like mods will be an Xbox exclusive.
In an update on their website today, Bethesda said that Sony won’t allow Bethesda to enable user mods “the way they should work.” We’ve pinged Sony to get their perspective on things.
Fallout 4 mods are already available on Xbox One. Presumably the Xbox will also support mods for the Skyrim remaster when that launches in October.
Here’s the full statement from Bethesda:
After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.
Like you, we are disappointed by Sony’s decision given the considerable time and effort we have put into this project, and the amount of time our fans have waited for mod support to arrive. We consider this an important initiative and we hope to find other ways user mods can be available for our PlayStation audience. However, until Sony will allow us to offer proper mod support for PS4, that content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PlayStation 4 will not be available.
We will provide an update if and when this situation changes.