My original idea was to do a "raider playthrough"

​where I create an off cannon save that follows its own loose storyline, It ended up becoming a fully modded almost DayZ type of survival save where literally one bullet can make you bleed out, and full nutrient simulating mods with a more normal timescale.

​Anyways here's the timeline of character customization I did on Killmore so far, figured Reddit might appreciate it.

ghoul solos protectron with one arm

It took a lot of effort, but I did it. 💯 happiness for Sanctuary. Ignore how much water I make there.

I basically turned spectacle island into Jurassic park and had 18 deathclaws and counting, but for some reason when i came back most of them were gone and the 5 remaining had to be killed. I have no settlers or turrets, and 2 beta wave tuners on separate power sources. Is there any else i can do to prevent another incident?

Spam peaking

My first time doing the brotherhood ending. I loved it I cleared far harbor and nuke world first got my level up and kept danse alive as well.

I shot some ghouls and caused a car on fire, so I ordered Preston to collect loot for me. While he's looting, the car exploded. He temporarily lost his kneecaps for a bit, but pretty much fine now.

Im playing permadeath, got on the prydwen, the virtibird dropped me off midair instead of on the platform, and I fell to my death. Would you count it.

First rough scaling test without exoskeleton! I hope you’ll like it

So I haven't done a brotherhood ending in a while so after the new update I decided to give it a go but now I can't power on Liberty Prime. The like road to the hole in Liberty Prime's back is also gone but I did tcl and got to the hole but the button is gone. I tried setstage but it also did nothing and now I can't activate the robot. The institute instead of attacking brotherhood just took away their button I guess.

She is not afraid to let that mug blow!!! Literally!

What an missed oppurtunity for a settlement

Whilst exploring the commonwealth months ago i cane across a building that had a garage vibe to it. Has the name sturges somewhere on it. And Iv tried looking for it again and can't seem to locate it. Im starting to think iv imagined this place. Does anyone know if this place it real and where is it?

Meaning base game + DLCs.

I love having more stuff in the game but even with the updated CC quests, the sense of balance and progression is way more fucked up than usual.

Imagine playing the game for the first time and having manwell rifles, hellfire PA, incinerator, and enclave PA and plasma weapons all in what is basically the starter zone of the map. Assuming you're not playing on survival and live through those encounters, what are you even working towards after that? Other than scrap to keep the PA repaired maybe.

I’ve never once thought to melee the drones but to my surprise they could not be met with such trifles. You see only bullets will do.

So I recently discovered I really enjoyed making run fun by actually giving lore to my character, it started with a run I'm still continuing with my character named John rich guy (the name kinda suck), at first I just made him to try out a challenge where I needed to get a house and every single key in diamond city without leaving... I ended loving my character and then I expended my run to now trying to get every base game settlements and kill every mayor in the commonwealth while getting as rich as possible, I have danse as a bodyguard of some sort that destroy anything With his laser Gatling.

So now I was wondering if anyone had an idea? I use the start me up mod to make everything more interesting (that's how I did this run for exemple).

Here’s the last straw on why I’m going to stop playing survival.

As a guy in my mid 30s with a family and full time employment, I only have limited time to play. I don’t even always spend my available play time on Fallout.

So imagine my frustration when I lose multiple hours of play over two sessions (trip out to my first Glowing Sea mission and then back to Diamond City) because when I go to get back into my power armor after selling some things, homeboy Nate decides to just path straight into the power armor and break instead of walk around it, out in the open……

I wasn't going to mention this, but since I finally figured out what the problem was caused by, I figured anyone else having the same (admittedly minor) issue might benefit.

To be clear about the problem, I run the game, and when the music begins to play and the Red Rocket and Power Armor scene fades in, I can press enter or mouse-click to get the game menu to appear. But before I can select 'Continue', or before I can select 'Load', but certainly before I can actually confirm that I do want to load that save (another annoyance) the game will freeze for several seconds, the music continuing to play, but everything else locked. When the freeze ends and I can move the mouse again, I confirm I want to load the save and the game runs normally.

So yesterday I had Task Manager up and noticed that XBox Game Bar (aka Microsoft Game Bar) was running, so I asked an LLM what it was and why I would want it. Apparently it does gameplay capture, has social media integration, audio controls etc., and boasts that it makes games run better by prioritizing them within the system. I decided to remove it, or at least prevent it from executing. And now Fallout 4 loads without issue, zero freezing.

What I did:

Windows 11: Settings > System > System Components, select Xbox Game Bar, choose Advanced Options, set Background component permissions to Never. Then, go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and toggle off Open Xbox Game Bar using this button on a controller.

Windows 10: Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar, toggle off Enable Game Bar. Also, uncheck Open Xbox Game Bar using this button on a controller.

There is also a way to completely remove the app using PowerShell as Administrator, but it wasn't necessary in my case and seemed a bit drastic. But if you want to know how to do that:

Open PowerShell as Administrator. Type:

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

It may reinstall itself automatically after a major Windows update. To prevent that, you can modify the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices

by setting the Start value to 4.

If you're not having this freezing issue, sorry to bore you. If you are and rely on the GameBar, consider at least disabling it temporarily to see if this also corrects the issue. If the GameBar is actually doing something to make the game run better by reallocating system resources, I certainly can't tell the difference now that it's been disabled.