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Immersion

updated 2022

Immersion is one of those little things that makes the world feel like it's not just an empty husk. I mean, it's still pretty empty but this guide will alleviate the boredom... or pain. These mods can range from big content packs, to smaller tweaks. Please note that most mods with the word "Immersive" in the title are most likely created by a dumbass who's just trying to advertise his mod to other dumbasses.

In this section, we will discuss:

-Alternate Starts

-Audio and Music

-Immersive Overhauls

-Backpacks and Gear

-Roleplaying Elements

-Nature and Weather

-Miscellaneous Immersion mods

Still a Work in Progress

Alternate Starts

Dont you hate it when you want to make a new character but you have to go all the way through Vault 111? Well with this mod, you can totally forget about Shawn and go out into the Wasteland with no care but your own sense of adventure!

Alternate Starts

Start Me Up

Alternate Start and Dialogue Overhaul

Provides Alternate start, Quick start, Normal start options. When you use one of the alternate start paths, there are over 800 dialogue edits, with voice and lip sync, so your character is no longer the mother/father of Shaun (or even a Vault Dweller, if you want). Great for role players.

Atmosphere

You might not think that audio plays a big role in immersion, but it actually does. Walking through the wasteland with the sounds of nature or eerie music makes you feel right at home in a game like this. Also because listening to the song, Under an Ancient Sun, can get tiresome and repetitive for some people. A good change of music can make a big difference in how you want your game to feel like!

Silent Protagonist F4SE

A F4SE Plugin to shut the protagonist up. I don't know about you but I do not want a voiced protag in my elder scrolls or fallout games. It does not fit a Fallout game to me, especially with how mod heavy the games are made for. Voice Protags ruin this for quests and such. As well when creating a character to be whatever you want, you'll forever be stuck with Nate or Nora's voice even though in your mind they are probably burly or seductive.

Atmosphere

Overhauls

To make a mod good, sometimes you have to rework a certain aspect of the game. Adding new features while still keeping the game stable and fit with the rest of the original work. Here are a few overhaul mods that add brand new features to the game that will change your experience of Fallout 4 as you know it now.

However, only use these mods on light loads as they are script heavy and impact your game.

Player Comments and Head Tracking This mod makes your character speak other then just in dialog scenes. Includes combat taunts, player hello's, responses to NPC's and much, much more including player head tracking! Comes with full MCM configuration!	Crime And Punishment Brings back Karma Hostage or Arresting Bounty Hunting and more	Nuka World Plus One of the main concerns from players of the "Nuka-World" DLC was that as a good Player, there isn't much to do in Nuka-World after completing the quest, "open season". This will change that!

Overhauls

Faction Overhaul

Factions in Fallout 4 are very basic and lame. Hopefully these will make you feel better. Some are big overhauls and some are just armor additions.

Minutemen

We Are The Minutemen This will be under NPCs and Armors The Minutemen are supposed to be the best alternative for rebuilding the Commonwealth because : More settlements = More resources = Better materials = Better fire power and a larger presence in all the Commonwealth. But currently this is not the case and this mod attempts to fix this problem.	Militarized Minutemen Adds over 15 modular military themed items for the minutemen, overhauling the factions with different classes and combat styles.	Militarized Minutemen - Uniforms Patches This mod greatly expands on Militarized Minutemen by Corvalho1, adding a plethora of new features such as new camouflage patterns, insignia badges, ranks, platecarrier accessories, headgear and whole new outfits. This mod aims to bring a substantial, yet grounded expansion to Militarized Minutemen, and is a must-have for any military enthusiast!
Far West Minutemen This mod enhances the Minutemen to convert them in a more strong background lore faction. Adds a group of minutemen specialist that can spawns individually as others and gives all minutemen dedicated equipment to add a wild west and steampunk touch.

Brotherhood of Steel

Enter The Brotherhood Fixes the BoS quest line so that in order to get them in the Commonwealth, you have to help Danse and his team.	Improved BoS An Overhaul Mod for the Brotherhood of Steel, to fix inconsistencies between equipment, and lore in addition to fixing BoS Specific bugs. Changes include-but aren't limited too; NPC's wear the correct BoS Power Armour paint for their Rank, custom PA Rank insignias for those without (based on Bethesda's designs), Plasma/Gauss weaponry as in F03/NV.	Ad Victoriam A complete overhaul of the Brotherhood of Steel, Turning them into the Commonwealths Foremost super power.
Yet Another Prydwen Overhaul An overhaul for the Prydwen and Cambridge Police Station based on in-game lore and concept art.	B-35C Heavy Brotherhood of Steel armor This mod brings the B-35C armor, built by the Brotherhood of Steel for heavy fire fights and dangerous terrain to the Commonwealth.	CROSS_BrotherhoodRecon The Recon uniform comes in 6 optional parts including: Helmet, Gasmask, Sunshades, Overcoat, Gloves, Underarmor. Each part can be customized to a degree.
Better Vertibird - A Vertibird Overhaul. Based off of Better Power Armor - A Power Armor Overhaul, but for Vertibirds. Vertibirds won't go down so easily anymore.

Institute

Courser Crusher An overhaul to coursers, giving them new abilities and behaviors, as well as restoring their cut weapon Institute bioweapon from the concept art!	Synth Overhaul - C.A.S.T This mods overhauls all the Synths by giving them 70 new armor sets, 77 helmets, 42 uniforms and 2 Synth weapons. From damaged armor to undamaged looking armor sets. This is done by editing the vanilla armor pieces, uniforms and weapons with new textures in 2K and 4K.	Heavy Institute Armor Corpus Praesidium. The modification adds Heavy Institute Armor series Corpus Praesidium and be on Synth Leaders and Institute Coursers.
CROSS_Courser Strigidae The Strigidae suit is made up of 4 unique parts: Suit (underarmor), Armguards, Visor, Overcoat. Each part has its own customization, see the 'unique mods' section below for a complete detailed breakdown.	CROSS_InstituteExpeditionarySuit The base outfit itself is enough to completely neutralize minor radiation hazards from shallow water, and when worn with all items of the set provides near total immunity to radiation on par with industrial hazmat suits.

Children of Atom

Church of Atom Overhaul Originally reclusive eccentrics, the Bostonian CoA have begun a transition as a new leader transforms them into a dangerous cabal. Adds new weapons! Adds new armors! Adds new consumables! Stronger enemies! All integrated into overhauled leveled lists! PRAISE ATOM! Don't Download this if you get South of the Sea!	CROSS_Chosen_Of_Atom Adds the DB-507 uniform, a recovered military Underarmor/Over-armor/Overcoat set from before the war. The set is worn by new "Chosen of Atom" NPCs which can show up in place of any leveled Child of Atom NPC. The armor makes these guys quite a bit tougher than the normal rag robe wearing Children of Atom.

Others

Diamond City SWAT This mod upgrades the Diamond City security guards with better weapons, Swatters, and headgear.

Faction Overhaul

Roleplaying Elements

Do you want to RP in a single player game? Well my friend that sounds kind of dumb, but we can at least help you out with some very unique mods.

First Person Messages Changes the messages you get to first person messages.	Alternative Female Cinematic Intro Replaces the male-centric intro cinematic to a female perspective. Lore Friendly

Roleplaying Elements

Backpacks and Gear

Any immersion nut knows that to make an immersive character, you have to wear a bunch of random shit on yourself! Backpacks, capes, potions, books, hoods, torches, etc. are all viable options to make your character look like a person who actually lives of the wastelands. However, this list is mostly just backpacks because I fucking love backpacks.

Backpacks and Gear

Nature and Weather

It's the small things that you admire in a vast game like this. Usually when you want to get immersed into something, you take it slowly and observe all the hidden elements it has to offer. Mods are no different.

Natural and Atmospheric Commonwealth 5000 random weathers within a customizable climate, shader FX to turn the pipboy into a small ENB, night vision goggles & functional sunglasses, drugs FX, skin and water enhanced and more...

Vivid Weathers It will add more than 75 new Weathers with over 110 new cloudtextures to the Fallout 4 World for you to experience. It also improves the general Image quality by adding new LUT and Imagespaces to the game as well as a Player home and base to complete the Lore!

Deadly Fog Transforms the Fog consuming Far Harbor into the bonafide radioactive threat that everyone claims it to be, instead of a minor nuisance. Be sure to pack some extra Rad-X and RadAway!

Nature and Weather

Radio

OLD WORLD RADIO - BOSTON

The Radio feature in Fallout 4 has been a feature in the Fallout Franchise since Fallout 3. However one thing that many of the fans complained about was the lack of options and genres of music being represented in the game and its lack of atmosphere. This mod adds over a dozen radio station with multitudes of themes that are not usually seen in the Fallout Universe. All stations use resources that are in the public domain so the chances of the mod being taken down is close to none.

More Where That Came From

This mod adds over 100 tracks to Diamond City Radio, and acts as an addition to the station rather than a Standalone mod. This features countless hours on content in addition to that you also gain the ability to enjoy more music from the Cold War, such as West of the Wall, and We’ll Meet Again. Thankfully the mod author does update the mod periodically for bug fixes and what not.

Radio

Miscellaneous

Mods that don't fit into any of these previous sections. I honestly don't know where to put them, but here they are!

Visual Reload Weapon magazines and casings are now dropped and visible when reloading	Shell Rain Makes weapon shells stay longer.	Automatically Lowered Weapons Lowers your weapon automatically when not in combat
Diamond City Auto Close Gate This mod automatically closes the gate to Diamond City everytime you leave the area and come back again.	No Billy Peabody or Kid in a fridge 210 years in a fridge? haha Indiana Jones no Fuck you

Miscellaneous

FAQ

Q: Why isn't this or that mod in the guide?

A: This guide was made specifically so that all or atleast most of the contents on this page will work together without any compatiblity issues unless notified on the mod page.

Q: Will you be adding more to these guides?

A: Of course! We'll try to keep all the guides up to date and will notify everyone if something has changed or has been added on. We also accept submissions if the mod is good enough!

Immersion

updated 2022

In this section, we will discuss:

-Alternate Starts

-Audio and Music

-Immersive Overhauls

-Backpacks and Gear

-Roleplaying Elements

-Nature and Weather

-Miscellaneous Immersion mods

Still a Work in Progress

Alternate Starts

Dont you hate it when you want to make a new character but you have to go all the way through Vault 111? Well with this mod, you can totally forget about Shawn and go out into the Wasteland with no care but your own sense of adventure!

Start Me Up

Alternate Start and Dialogue Overhaul

Provides Alternate start, Quick start, Normal start options. When you use one of the alternate start paths, there are over 800 dialogue edits, with voice and lip sync, so your character is no longer the mother/father of Shaun (or even a Vault Dweller, if you want). Great for role players.

Atmosphere

Silent Protagonist F4SE

Overhauls

However, only use these mods on light loads as they are script heavy and impact your game.

Player Comments and Head Tracking

This mod makes your character speak other then just in dialog scenes. Includes combat taunts, player hello's, responses to NPC's and much, much more including player head tracking! Comes with full MCM configuration!

Crime And Punishment

Brings back Karma Hostage or Arresting Bounty Hunting and more

Nuka World Plus

One of the main concerns from players of the "Nuka-World" DLC was that as a good Player, there isn't much to do in Nuka-World after completing the quest, "open season". This will change that!

Faction Overhaul

Factions in Fallout 4 are very basic and lame. Hopefully these will make you feel better. Some are big overhauls and some are just armor additions.

Minutemen

We Are The Minutemen

Militarized Minutemen

Adds over 15 modular military themed items for the minutemen, overhauling the factions with different classes and combat styles.

Militarized Minutemen - Uniforms Patches

Far West Minutemen

This mod enhances the Minutemen to convert them in a more strong background lore faction. Adds a group of minutemen specialist that can spawns individually as others and gives all minutemen dedicated equipment to add a wild west and steampunk touch.

Brotherhood of Steel

Enter The Brotherhood

Fixes the BoS quest line so that in order to get them in the Commonwealth, you have to help Danse and his team.

Improved BoS

Ad Victoriam

A complete overhaul of the Brotherhood of Steel, Turning them into the Commonwealths Foremost super power.

Yet Another Prydwen Overhaul

An overhaul for the Prydwen and Cambridge Police Station based on in-game lore and concept art.

B-35C Heavy Brotherhood of Steel armor

This mod brings the B-35C armor, built by the Brotherhood of Steel for heavy fire fights and dangerous terrain to the Commonwealth.

CROSS_BrotherhoodRecon

The Recon uniform comes in 6 optional parts including: Helmet, Gasmask, Sunshades, Overcoat, Gloves, Underarmor. Each part can be customized to a degree.

Better Vertibird - A Vertibird Overhaul.

Based off of Better Power Armor - A Power Armor Overhaul, but for Vertibirds. Vertibirds won't go down so easily anymore.

Institute

Courser Crusher

An overhaul to coursers, giving them new abilities and behaviors, as well as restoring their cut weapon Institute bioweapon from the concept art!

Synth Overhaul - C.A.S.T

This mods overhauls all the Synths by giving them 70 new armor sets, 77 helmets, 42 uniforms and 2 Synth weapons. From damaged armor to undamaged looking armor sets. This is done by editing the vanilla armor pieces, uniforms and weapons with new textures in 2K and 4K.

Heavy Institute Armor Corpus Praesidium.

The modification adds Heavy Institute Armor series Corpus Praesidium and be on Synth Leaders and Institute Coursers.

CROSS_Courser Strigidae

The Strigidae suit is made up of 4 unique parts: Suit (underarmor), Armguards, Visor, Overcoat. Each part has its own customization, see the 'unique mods' section below for a complete detailed breakdown.

CROSS_InstituteExpeditionarySuit

The base outfit itself is enough to completely neutralize minor radiation hazards from shallow water, and when worn with all items of the set provides near total immunity to radiation on par with industrial hazmat suits.

Children of Atom

Church of Atom Overhaul

CROSS_Chosen_Of_Atom

Others

Diamond City SWAT

This mod upgrades the Diamond City security guards with better weapons, Swatters, and headgear.

Roleplaying Elements

Do you want to RP in a single player game? Well my friend that sounds kind of dumb, but we can at least help you out with some very unique mods.

First Person Messages

Changes the messages you get to first person messages.

Alternative Female Cinematic Intro

Replaces the male-centric intro cinematic to a female perspective. Lore Friendly

Backpacks and Gear

Nature and Weather

It's the small things that you admire in a vast game like this. Usually when you want to get immersed into something, you take it slowly and observe all the hidden elements it has to offer. Mods are no different.

Natural and Atmospheric Commonwealth

5000 random weathers within a customizable climate, shader FX to turn the pipboy into a small ENB, night vision goggles & functional sunglasses, drugs FX, skin and water enhanced and more...

Vivid Weathers

It will add more than 75 new Weathers with over 110 new cloudtextures to the Fallout 4 World for you to experience. It also improves the general Image quality by adding new LUT and Imagespaces to the game as well as a Player home and base to complete the Lore!

Deadly Fog