I agree. I only wish they had a bit more testing. On two different PCs now I've tried NAC X and while it starts off amazing, long play times especially push it to bug out with horrors beyond imagining, like permanently FUBARing game visuals in a save-file-persistent way that no simple game restart can fix. But it takes a lot of time into testing to find bugs sometimes, in any mod. Which hardly anyone ever does when reviewing mods. But which players spending a weekend geeking out will absolutely find. Not that I blame anyone for though. Who has time for deep tests AND video editing? LOL
@@justsomeperson5110 I've noticed regardless of what mods I'm using a lot of the time what lags out my fallout 4 is after you kill an entity they drop their weapon and that weapon stays there even after the cell resets so over time the longer you play on that save the lagger it will get. I have seen a couple of mods that say they'll remove weapons after a seller's cleared but I've never tried them myself.
This is literally the worst Fallout4 UA-camr in existence. The clown hates FO4 and every mod for FO4 but for some reason keep making videos about FO4. And 90% of everything he says is 100% bs.
This guy is literally the best mod reviewer for fo4 in UA-cam, despite his cheekyness, there's nobody so through. Plus, most of the time he recomends leaving the game vanilla, showing how much he loves the game. Keep it up, pichula
I love this video, gets straight to the point and doesn't just chalk it up to a top 10 with nothing else to add. So aggravating to find those videos 90% of the time.
I haven't played for some time but I played with Truestorms. Could be remembering it wrong but I believe the deciding factor for me was the sound. I think Truestorms has the most vivid and realistic sounding storms and rainfall without changing the vanilla weather too much. It's like an intensity boost.
I use NAC X on Series S and love it. I do use a night vision mod as well (WestTek). It does take some time to configure everything to your liking, but being on Series S or a low end machine the ability to limit foggy weathers or remove them completely is advantageous to your performance. I also pair it with Clarity and the patch for NAC X. As for the raindrops...disabling (weather effects) in the mod settings rids the mod of it and all other floating particle effects.
Nac X can look downright absurd even on Xbox if you config it right, i fiddle with it constantly on my PC, i made RDRII, MW 2019, BF1 and a few other game based presets, the best part is that it doesn't affect performance, my sister uses it on her SS with no performance hit and it looks amazing.
Your reaction to NAC X chem effects was so relatable and this is good to know in advance if anyone plans on playing with nacfx, i couldnt figure out why for quite a while.
I've been using True Storms and Darker Nights together essentially since they released within a couple months of the game's release itself. I'm both glad and disappointed to see that nothing better has been made since, since that means I've been playing with a combination of weather mods all this time that suits my tastes the best, BUT it would have been nice to make a discovery that would add something refreshingly new to an old game.
I believe its time for Fallout 5... Also a bigger world, Because the TV show is testing my patience... We have a mini version of Boston while they cross miles just to find another place with people... Do you have any idea how much you can add in that big empty space with mods? But sadly Fallout 5 will be out probably at 2028~2030 Earliest 2027 and that's hoping...
NAC X combined with its ENB preset is an excellent mod. You can configure it a lot. Most natural looking world lighting compared to other similar mods, especially in clear weather. It also eliminates the vanilla yellow tint to a degree. There are comparison videos on youtube, where you can clearly see it: no gloomy or oversaturated BS like other weather / ENB mods, just natural looking lighting and colors.
You came up with a great topic, don’t worry! Ok PS4, i was using (what I think was named) Weather Redux. Sandstorms, deadly red Rad storms, darker nights. About my only complaint was that the character models at night had a glow to them. It actually made seeing them at night easier. My impression is that nighttime was to find dead enemies.😅
Slightly more on Lightweight Lighting: - Includes universal interior imagespace changes. Not too dark, not comically bright any more. - Strong colors are toned down ever so slightly so you get less of that weird Fallout 4 thing where reds, blues and greens practically glow. - It replaces most radstorms with it's own "polluted" weather type, unfortunate scope creep in an otherwise restrained mod.
Fortunately it can be fixed in xedit, did it a while back so I forget what parameter it was that I had to change, but they added rain to the radstorms along with darker shadows. Really interesting and enjoyable changes but for whatever reason they changed a parameter so radstorms simply never showed up.
True Storms with True nights + (BUG FIX!). I like the ghoul hoard option, had them spawn in Far Harbour itself that was fun. Even at a 5% chance they will almost infinitely spawn in the glowing sea, that made it real interesting.
Thanks, man. I appreciate this review. Excellent format and the information had enough character to be entertaining without being distracting. For comparison, what would you consider a low-end GPU and a high-end GPU. I know your setup has changed recently.
I've only played Fallout 4 on 3 GPUs: The AMD Radeon HD 6870 from 2010, which often failed to load textures because it only had 1 GB of VRAM, but otherwise handled the game at 40-60 fps at 1440x900. I never tried playing on higher settings or with godrays on, but I imagine framerates would have tanked. I didn't play the game very long with this GPU, it was a bad experience. The GTX1060M laptop GPU I used next was actually worse because it started overheating late in its life. I had to lock the fps to 30 when playing at 1920x1080 to prevent thermal throttling. I imagine a 1060M without thermal issues or a desktop 1060 would be able to get a locked 60 at 1920x1080 without godrays, or maybe with godrays on medium. My new RTX 4060 can handle the game at 1920x1080 at over 100 fps even with Ultra godrays, but a 2560x1440 resolution can take it just below 60 sometimes in forested areas with a lot of godrays. Turn off the horribly optimized todd rays and it's 160+ fps when not CPU limited at 1080p, and 120+ at 1440p. I haven't tried 3840x2160 with the RTX 4060 but I'd predict a 60 fps lock would be doable without godrays, and maybe 30 fps with them, they seem to be more intensive the higher the resolution gets. Everything depends on resolution. If you want a great experience at 1080p or 1440p, you need a high-end GPU from the time Fallout 4 released like the GTX 980 Ti, or a low power GPU from today. For 4K, you need a more recent, powerful GPU. For any GPU, disabling godrays or reducing their quality will provide a massive performance boost, and so will lowering shadow map resolution and draw distance.
Personally I just use the one that makes the weather either foggy, raining or various storms. I have got true storms, but it's mostly just to change to the fog and storm weathers, I just really like foggy weather.
One big problem I have with Vivid Weathers is that when you enter indoors, the rain audio sounds exactly the same as if you were outside. I’m not talking about entering interior cells, I mean entering a building, like the Red Rocket Truck Stop or a house in Sanctuary. There’s no difference in audio when in shelter compared to being outside, unlike vanilla Fallout 4, where when you enter a building, it actually sounds like you did. The rain audio quiets down a bit, and you can here the pitter patter of the rain on the roof of the building you’re in. It’s much more immersive, because realistically the rain should sound different depending on where you are-out in the open, or in shelter.
@@connycontainer9459 no it's the mod, true storms is like that to. all you have to do is go into the settings and adjust the sound of the rain and thunder, i had to do that a few times with true storms, because yeah it does get pretty loud and it overpowers the in game audio sound. so to get the sweet spot, set the rain and thunder lower than where you have sound effects set to. i think Seventy Six Weathers is the best mod I've tried, but it's still relatively new, and not alot of people talk about it. but if you like how Fallout 76 looked with the weather, it kinda gives that sort of feeling. but other people think it's too colorful, so even i mostly just stick to vanilla, however if i do decide to use one, i think Vivid Weathers fits Fallout better than true storms. because it gives this bleak sort of feeling, Calamity is similar, but you can't control how that one works. with Vivid you can atleast adjust the settings.
6:36 , pitch black nights is one of the best features of modding in Fallout 4. You install the Pipboy Flashlight mod and set it to 150-200% and turn on flashlight shadows and it increases the immersion so much. If I could only have one mod in Fallout 4 it would be Darker Nights.
My ideal set-up would be to have NACX, True Storms, and Vivid Weathers all working together, with VW's winter settings, TS's weather effects, and only, and I mean only, NACX's various radiation storms.
I personally love NAC X, for the nights to be more manageable I use the pip-boy flashlight, XM2010 thermal vision, and the target tracking scope (might be from attachment pack idk). It can still be pretty annoying but I play on survival so just end up sleeping through the night 90% of the time. You also should get: -NAC MCM Menu -NAC Fogline Fix -NAC Fix for Fogline Fix (😂) -NAC water LOD and God Rays fix and the other 2 fixes u mentioned. In my opinion, its 100% worth it, so beautiful, Ive never had the time storm but yeah the fire storm is super annoying. The rad storm is so 😍 tho
I played Fallout 4 last week for the first time. Installed bunch a mods right away, playing on an old GTX 980 or st.. NAC X is pretty good and True Storm and Vivid Weather can be incorporated very easy (I had no clue how far modding had evolved). You can even choose that weather is tied to current in game season or any other thing you want, so you are not forced to choose one and stick with it (even if, you could just reinstall the mod once 3 in game months had passed, which should take a while - alas you dont need to). All the other features you disabled, I very much enjoyed. Sunglasses help you see better in sunshine and make it harder in dark areas (visually not perk wise). Nights can be made as dark as pitch black as they should be (IMO), where night vision scopes and horror come into play . Taking daming, beeing drunk etc has nice visuals for 1st person mode. So for everyone who is going for immersion I'd say give it a try. I know it's very subjective but I felt this video didn't do the mod any justice.
Nah man this video did not sucked ass. Finding this channel on my third FO4 Reinstall its godsend. The format its the best, there is so many options that just knowing whats new does nothing for me there are so many already...I need to know which of the options I should pick from the available for a specific category so I can build something that works consistently with all my mods trough the whole run. And the fact that you give me the high lvl overview first its Honest Youtubing my man, I appreciate you respecting my time and I have the Drivables Mod video playing in the background in silence for you after you just gave me the answer. I got the game a couple of months ago on a steam sale and it's fking gold. I'm experienced Modding games but first time with FO4, I went trough the main quest on my first go with my version of "Vanilla Plus" and it hold together all the way trough but there where opportunities for improvement. I put a lot more time in Modding the game than it took my took me to find Shaun, choose to stay in the institute because that's the only sensible decision, I don't know this people I don't care about their problems and just a couple of months I was in the previous age so I'm just going to skip the post apocalyptic radioactive suffering thanks. The second Mod run did not went well, huge drop in FPS and I now thing it was Weather Synergy and should probably drop Vivid Weathers since True Storm ran well on my first run, also side note if you run a couple of radiation damage mod True Storm weather, food and water can be a fking menace which I found it really fun. Anyway, just wanted to let you know how great this series has been for me while I build my "Vanilla Premium" so I can do one character and explore the whole game in 1 go.
Nac X weather indeed fun. They also have filters amd somewhat ENB emulation that work flawlessly for my old PC. Make the game more colorful or more horror like with just using the menu. Also the stalker like weather is fun even sometimes it takes too long. But yes the rain issues is pretty weird, and some sounds didnt disappear even after weather ended and agreed about raindrop lol. It feel like GTA SA remastered issues. So again i get back to true storms and darker night
honestly man your video was more helpful than most. Very informative and realistic from a gameplay perspective. Currently trying to find the best one for me is hard as fuck bug testing. I will definetly have to check out synergy tho!
Plese not. He is the worst FO4 youtuber in existence, he has not idea what he's talking about, he hates every mod and he hates FO4 (no idea why he keeps making these puny videos? trolling?)
09:11 No, everything else is not the same as Vanilla. True Storms does more than visual weather enhancements. It is improving sounds of the weather as well. That one is musthave mod imo no matter the GPU (its game from 2015 u dont need expensive card)
It's been a while since I played FO4 and my memory is a bit hazy, also maybe others didn't have this issue, but something I REALLY disliked about Vivid Weathers was that the weather in the Glowing Sea isn't always that sickly green that the vanilla weather system forces every time you enter that area. I can't recall if VW allows all types of weather or if the Glowing Sea has its own list of possible weathers, but that green toxic mist is such a big part of the GS's character that it feels wrong for it to not be there.
Well done! First UA-camr (at least to my knowing) that has the guts to critic NAC X, the weather mod darling of modder channels. I agree, at the latest when you see how crappy this mod renders rain, it's an uninstall. This together with hilarious and downright immersion breaking weathers, off color 'corrections' and constant heavy GPU load - I have no idea at all why this mod is so popular. True Storms looks good and runs fine, Vivid Weathers looks even better and runs (at least without 'Heavy Fog') fine, too (although my GTX1080 handles 'Heavy Fog' at 1440p without any 'sweat'). I use Vivid Weathers for years now and recommend it as best choice (tip: use 'no season limitation', because snowing looks like 'ash rain'). Maybe NAC X plays better with ENBs? I don't use an ENB (hello GTX1080), so maybe that's the charme of this mod I'm missing. Thumbs up, your video provides a helpful overview of weather mods and your conclusions match my experiences from thousands of gameplay hours with all sorts of (weather) mods.
Absolute garbage video. The worst FO4 UA-camr, literally every video I watched (not many, but still too many) is him talking total bs and hate everything about FO4, every mod and the game itself, something he openly says but keep making these bs videos. And muppets keep adoring his total bs for some reason.
Quality and accurate video, thanks for this, you have had to spend time on the game and editing. I have tried all these mods and agree on almost every point: -NAC X touches too many things and certainly adds absurd effects that ALSO interfere with other mods and performance. -Vivid Weather is the one I have used the most, BUT it is true that there is too much fog and rainy days, It is simple to use and with a holocast you can change the weather when you are tired of Boston looking like an eternal swamp. It doesn't feel natural, but atfosmeric, looks good and doesn't affect performance much and gave me less problems than NACX. -I don't like True Storm, it doesn't add much and I'd rather use Vivid Weathers or Radiant Clouds. -Clarity I wouldn't consider it a climca mod exactly and it combines well. I play without god rays (gr off) and without enb, it removes absurd blur, bloom, dof effects, I'm not a big fan of some post-processing, so I'm using it. -Lightweight Lighting darkens some interiors too much, maybe it can be useful, but I'm a bit tired of trying different combinations and I don't want to make many more changes. What do I recommend? ELFX gives the best interiors, however it affects the performance a lot, BUT it is not because of GPU stress (as it could be a mod that adds forestation) but because of CPU botleneck and/or the drawcalls limitation that Creation Engine has, so even with a Ryzen 5600-5800 you can have problems if you are looking to play at 80-100 fps in interiors. Maybe with a 5800X3D or a Ryzen 7000 you can handle it. So I don't know if I would recommend ELFX. Darker nights + interiors enhanced give good results and combine well with "Fallout 4 Realistic Lighting" which doesn't affect as much as ELFX. With these 3 mods combined you get decent interiors and dark nights not as excessive as the ones shown with NAC X. I need to try Lightweight Lighting without enhanced interiors and Ultra Interior Lighting. Regarding climatology I like the most: Vivid Weathers, Radiant Clouds and Vanilla. Radiant Clouds and Fogs i think that did not cause me CTDs, and as I do not want to combine it with other mods that affect the weather, I have no incompatibility problems. It can be combined with clarity, interiors enhanced, darker nights and interiors enhanced; all simultaneously I mean. I play at 3440x1440 with a 5800x + 3060Ti and I don't like it to go below 70 fps, apart from this, there are things about the mods that I don't like. PD: I use translate, sorry for bad english.
"Quality and accurate video" lol. It's neither. Lame nitpicking and total bs. He's absolutely cIueless, all his videos are about how much he hates FO4 and every mod in existence.... Sorry, didn't bothered to read the rest of your comment, being an adoring fan of this cIown is laughable...
If you're playing on an ancient machine or PS4/One, try "Far Harbor Style Commonwealth", might not seem like much, but it legit changes the game's vibe.
Bro thank you so much, I blindly downloaded NAC after a recommendation, uninstalled it and your right, game looks much crisper and runs smoother, also have a 6700xt card not great but also not bad, xD holy shit
If your pc was not made before Skyrim was made, I suggest you use True Storms + Darker Nights. You don't really need Vivid Weather along with it, just get Ultra Interior Lighting + Ultra Exterior Lighting. Also if you like green, use Luxor's Summer there's a bit of instructions on how to make it looks even better at his mod page. Luxor's Summer with all these mods and the HD DLC makes the game looks as if you have an ENB. Especially since UIL has DYNAMIC LIGHTING, had to use caps there because most of the people get an ENB for the sweet dynamic lighting. Have fun and Enjoy the game lag free, Unless like I said, your PC was made before Skyrim was made. Then enjoy some lags lol.
For me the there are two problems with NAC X. First (and the main) - by default there is a Rad Storm Alert enabled. For almost three years we have been hearing air raid alarms every day in my country, and this sound in the game scared me very much (I didn’t know that it was even present in this mod). Second problem is that Volumetric Lighting tanks my fps (very) badly. I do not know what did mod's author do with it, because with other weather mods it doesn't drop my fps too much. Also it is too bright (sometimes screen almost white and I barely can see anything). Also I saw some posts on reddit that people have different visual bugs with it.
Radiation aside, Calamity is amazing paired with Moribund, especially if you're on xbox and limited in options. I wouldn't mind trying Synergy with the Darker Nights but sadly that seems limited to PC.
Using Vivid weathers had this weird black outline of distant objects during heavy fog. Not sure if its something to do with vivid fallout and its LOD, but yeah, it's definitely sad sense you can't exclude certain weather in the MCM.
I recommend "Better Graphics And Weather" its basically just a updated and polished Weather/Graphics from vanilla. I COULD be wrong because I only read so much of the description and just looked around in the mod.😂😂😂😂😂
I'm really surprised you didn't check out polluted climate which enhances all of the vanilla weathers by making them look a little bit more Vivid and dirtier like a actual apocalyptic landscape while also increasing the chance of storms and foggy weather plus it's also compatible with true storms and all of its features either with the patch or the merged version which adds all of true storms settings to the installer in order to get rid of unnecessary menus or configuration tapes. It even has a frame rate friendly ENB to go with it that makes the game look truly apocalyptic and HD with the right monitor settings
You said it might be best to stick with vanilla weather as there's really nothing wrong with it and its best for performance... except vanilla weather has an abundance of god rays that absolutely tank the framerate- especially in heavily forested areas. I tried turning God Rays off with an .ini tweak but that just reveals how ugly as all get-out the LOD is in the game. So if a person really wants vanilla weather and great performance they have to turn off the god rays and install something like dynavision to intentionally give their character near-sightedness and make distant areas blurry. The healthiest option I think is still NAC X, not for the weathers it adds but for how it simply tones down god rays and balances the existing lighting out to a point where even vanilla textures and models look nice.
Shadow Boost or Ultra Quality God Rays Performance Fix can be used to lower the quality of volumetric lighting (often imperceptibly) to gain back much of the performance lost from having it on.
Fallout 4's vanilla weather is pretty good. Lightweight Lighting is probably all most players want or need for a vanilla-plus experience, especially if they are not interested in personalizing their load order significantly beyond The Midnight Ride, which is by far the _best_ "hold my beer, I'll tame this engine!" guide for stability and robust foundations. As a bonus, it introduces no conflicts with Previsibine Repair Pack which should be in _every_ load order regardless of scope or direction. NAC X should be avoided like it's 100% genetically Floridian. The amount of unnecessary edits and compatibility issues it generates makes it a nightmare to correctly manage in an expansive load order. Moreover, it just doesn't look as nice as Vivid Weathers. A good concept, an atrocious execution. Vivid Weathers will always be the best _compromise_ between performance, visual and tonal consistency, overall compatibility and user configuration. You can achieve a tone anywhere from oversaturated superbloom to a dreary washed out look. Clarity and Interiors Enhanced are natively supported by Previsibine Repair Pack so they're always worth using as a base layer upon which to assemble a visual overhaul suite but they are not themselves weather mods insofar as they are visual tone mods. Also, they're both absolutely essential if you don't want to blind yourself on FO4's ridiculous interior lighting cast bloom.
Good vid! Keep working on it. Stop with the self-deprecating my good sir. You have a nice voice and you gave great advice and opinions. Now puff out that chest and walk tall and proud!
I love nac x legacy. I use it for the total opposite reason and that is to totally disable the weather and the only weather I allow is clear sky and the presets vivid and gentle boost II.
Great video. I used True Storms and Darker Nights for years on NMM. Recently I had to delete all my mods and start again so I used MO2 and searched for guides, all of which pushed NAC X Legacy. It's been a pain ever since. It took me ages to find what mod had put in that damn siren at the start of every storm. I want to play Fallout, not Stalker. And those stupid rain drops! From your video I'm now thinking of ripping NAC out and going back to TS & DN. The Weather Synergy mod sounds good. I appreciate your video. Besides the weather mod, I was also confused choosing a water mod and the body/skeleton mods. And then the main texture mods.
I know you should not do it because there is not a compatibility patch for them (that I know of or if it needs it) but I like true storms and dead sun weather so long as dead sun is lower then true storms they play nice together note: I have no clue about moding and just add mods that sound good and sort them till I get a stable game
Your presentation is of exceptional good quality, and I will watch another right after this one. This is exactly kind of content I was looking. You are saying about what with what, without what, what's wrong with it and what is right. Despite F4 being hot topic here I don't find much of valuable info in videos of top fallout 4 talkers. They talking about mods like TV advertisement about dandruff shampoo. For me, you are winner here, and I have hope I will see more presentations like this one!
hilarious video hahah. but also honest and straight up. i was messing with weather mods all day today and came to the same conclusion as you... vanilla weathers are just fine and it "just works" no messy load order or conflicts. but I will admit I was liking some parts of NAC X like all the color scheme filters (not weather) but my game would crash when I would mess with the volumetric lighting toggle. keep it up ima watch some more of ur shit
haha this video didn't suck ass, and was actually pretty helpful. I was using NAC but every time I use that mod I always find something that annoys me about it. I just decided to run without it since I think the base game looks decent anyways, especially with my mods. The only thing I'd miss is the saturation control, but I hear vivid weathers has that an I think I will switch to it.
3:50 Very well-deserved put-down of NAC X. It was such a promising mod for Fallout 4 when it first came out, full of incredible and modular features to tailor the perfect weather set-up... and half of them don't even fucking work. It removes all hints of interesting lighting and shading from the game and creates a blurry filter across your game.
Personally, I'm tired of watching mod reviews, half of which are just fancy eye candy, poses, sounds that waste time and divert my attention. If I see a mod in action, I'd like to see it in a vanilla game. For example, I personally haven't liked a single ENB mod yet. If you are not tired of it yet, please continue this trend.
This is literally the best format for a mod review video I have ever seen. For the love of God please keep making these.
I agree. I only wish they had a bit more testing. On two different PCs now I've tried NAC X and while it starts off amazing, long play times especially push it to bug out with horrors beyond imagining, like permanently FUBARing game visuals in a save-file-persistent way that no simple game restart can fix. But it takes a lot of time into testing to find bugs sometimes, in any mod. Which hardly anyone ever does when reviewing mods. But which players spending a weekend geeking out will absolutely find. Not that I blame anyone for though. Who has time for deep tests AND video editing? LOL
@@justsomeperson5110 I've noticed regardless of what mods I'm using a lot of the time what lags out my fallout 4 is after you kill an entity they drop their weapon and that weapon stays there even after the cell resets so over time the longer you play on that save the lagger it will get. I have seen a couple of mods that say they'll remove weapons after a seller's cleared but I've never tried them myself.
This is literally the worst Fallout4 UA-camr in existence. The clown hates FO4 and every mod for FO4 but for some reason keep making videos about FO4. And 90% of everything he says is 100% bs.
This is literally the worst FO4 youtuber: he hates the game, he hates every mod, and his videos are mostly wrong about everything.
This guy is literally the best mod reviewer for fo4 in UA-cam, despite his cheekyness, there's nobody so through. Plus, most of the time he recomends leaving the game vanilla, showing how much he loves the game. Keep it up, pichula
1 year later we still have mod battle, this series has saved me so much time
I love this video, gets straight to the point and doesn't just chalk it up to a top 10 with nothing else to add. So aggravating to find those videos 90% of the time.
Dude, you can't imagine how much I needed this video. THANKS
this is how mods should be reviewed ! underrated as hell !!
I haven't played for some time but I played with Truestorms. Could be remembering it wrong but I believe the deciding factor for me was the sound. I think Truestorms has the most vivid and realistic sounding storms and rainfall without changing the vanilla weather too much. It's like an intensity boost.
I use NAC X on Series S and love it. I do use a night vision mod as well (WestTek). It does take some time to configure everything to your liking, but being on Series S or a low end machine the ability to limit foggy weathers or remove them completely is advantageous to your performance. I also pair it with Clarity and the patch for NAC X. As for the raindrops...disabling (weather effects) in the mod settings rids the mod of it and all other floating particle effects.
Nac X can look downright absurd even on Xbox if you config it right, i fiddle with it constantly on my PC, i made RDRII, MW 2019, BF1 and a few other game based presets, the best part is that it doesn't affect performance, my sister uses it on her SS with no performance hit and it looks amazing.
Your reaction to NAC X chem effects was so relatable and this is good to know in advance if anyone plans on playing with nacfx, i couldnt figure out why for quite a while.
I've been using True Storms and Darker Nights together essentially since they released within a couple months of the game's release itself. I'm both glad and disappointed to see that nothing better has been made since, since that means I've been playing with a combination of weather mods all this time that suits my tastes the best, BUT it would have been nice to make a discovery that would add something refreshingly new to an old game.
I believe its time for Fallout 5... Also a bigger world, Because the TV show is testing my patience... We have a mini version of Boston while they cross miles just to find another place with people... Do you have any idea how much you can add in that big empty space with mods? But sadly Fallout 5 will be out probably at 2028~2030 Earliest 2027 and that's hoping...
Love calamity weathers. Gives the game the og fallout tone
Truestorms adds very intense weather. Thats why its the best.
NAC X combined with its ENB preset is an excellent mod. You can configure it a lot. Most natural looking world lighting compared to other similar mods, especially in clear weather. It also eliminates the vanilla yellow tint to a degree. There are comparison videos on youtube, where you can clearly see it: no gloomy or oversaturated BS like other weather / ENB mods, just natural looking lighting and colors.
UCW - Unified Commonwealth Weather adds Far Harbor and Nuka World weathers to the main Commonwealth, is pretty cool I like it.
Love this format, appreciate the no frills approach to mod reviewing too
You came up with a great topic, don’t worry!
Ok PS4, i was using (what I think was named) Weather Redux. Sandstorms, deadly red Rad storms, darker nights.
About my only complaint was that the character models at night had a glow to them. It actually made seeing them at night easier. My impression is that nighttime was to find dead enemies.😅
on PC you can disable character light "~" then type "cl off" enter. no quotes. not sure how you can do that on PS4
You can't do that on PS4, it's possible on Xbox but modders don't bother to.
Slightly more on Lightweight Lighting:
- Includes universal interior imagespace changes. Not too dark, not comically bright any more.
- Strong colors are toned down ever so slightly so you get less of that weird Fallout 4 thing where reds, blues and greens practically glow.
- It replaces most radstorms with it's own "polluted" weather type, unfortunate scope creep in an otherwise restrained mod.
Fortunately it can be fixed in xedit, did it a while back so I forget what parameter it was that I had to change, but they added rain to the radstorms along with darker shadows. Really interesting and enjoyable changes but for whatever reason they changed a parameter so radstorms simply never showed up.
I’d love to see more of these, I’m always wondering if I’m picking the right mods just because one has more downloads.
Just don't trust this clown, he is literally the worst info on FO4 ever, everything he says is 100% nonsense....
Don't listen this clown, he is the worst FO4 youtuber in existence.
True Storms with True nights + (BUG FIX!). I like the ghoul hoard option, had them spawn in Far Harbour itself that was fun. Even at a 5% chance they will almost infinitely spawn in the glowing sea, that made it real interesting.
This narration was GOAT!
Thanks, man. I appreciate this review. Excellent format and the information had enough character to be entertaining without being distracting. For comparison, what would you consider a low-end GPU and a high-end GPU. I know your setup has changed recently.
I've only played Fallout 4 on 3 GPUs:
The AMD Radeon HD 6870 from 2010, which often failed to load textures because it only had 1 GB of VRAM, but otherwise handled the game at 40-60 fps at 1440x900. I never tried playing on higher settings or with godrays on, but I imagine framerates would have tanked. I didn't play the game very long with this GPU, it was a bad experience.
The GTX1060M laptop GPU I used next was actually worse because it started overheating late in its life. I had to lock the fps to 30 when playing at 1920x1080 to prevent thermal throttling. I imagine a 1060M without thermal issues or a desktop 1060 would be able to get a locked 60 at 1920x1080 without godrays, or maybe with godrays on medium.
My new RTX 4060 can handle the game at 1920x1080 at over 100 fps even with Ultra godrays, but a 2560x1440 resolution can take it just below 60 sometimes in forested areas with a lot of godrays. Turn off the horribly optimized todd rays and it's 160+ fps when not CPU limited at 1080p, and 120+ at 1440p.
I haven't tried 3840x2160 with the RTX 4060 but I'd predict a 60 fps lock would be doable without godrays, and maybe 30 fps with them, they seem to be more intensive the higher the resolution gets.
Everything depends on resolution. If you want a great experience at 1080p or 1440p, you need a high-end GPU from the time Fallout 4 released like the GTX 980 Ti, or a low power GPU from today. For 4K, you need a more recent, powerful GPU.
For any GPU, disabling godrays or reducing their quality will provide a massive performance boost, and so will lowering shadow map resolution and draw distance.
Personally I just use the one that makes the weather either foggy, raining or various storms. I have got true storms, but it's mostly just to change to the fog and storm weathers, I just really like foggy weather.
"Cinematographic Fog Effect" on Nexus is really cool and compatible with other weather mods. It adds mist/fog to alot of weathers. You might like it!
@@Stig69 thank you for the recommendation, I'll check that out later.
I’m almost certain i saw a PS4 mod that makes it foggy a lot
One big problem I have with Vivid Weathers is that when you enter indoors, the rain audio sounds exactly the same as if you were outside. I’m not talking about entering interior cells, I mean entering a building, like the Red Rocket Truck Stop or a house in Sanctuary. There’s no difference in audio when in shelter compared to being outside, unlike vanilla Fallout 4, where when you enter a building, it actually sounds like you did. The rain audio quiets down a bit, and you can here the pitter patter of the rain on the roof of the building you’re in. It’s much more immersive, because realistically the rain should sound different depending on where you are-out in the open, or in shelter.
I thought that was a vanilla problem that has been solved by a mod ? reverb or st ?
@@connycontainer9459 no it's the mod, true storms is like that to. all you have to do is go into the settings and adjust the sound of the rain and thunder, i had to do that a few times with true storms, because yeah it does get pretty loud and it overpowers the in game audio sound. so to get the sweet spot, set the rain and thunder lower than where you have sound effects set to.
i think Seventy Six Weathers is the best mod I've tried, but it's still relatively new, and not alot of people talk about it. but if you like how Fallout 76 looked with the weather, it kinda gives that sort of feeling. but other people think it's too colorful, so even i mostly just stick to vanilla,
however if i do decide to use one, i think Vivid Weathers fits Fallout better than true storms.
because it gives this bleak sort of feeling, Calamity is similar, but you can't control how that one works. with Vivid you can atleast adjust the settings.
6:36 , pitch black nights is one of the best features of modding in Fallout 4. You install the Pipboy Flashlight mod and set it to 150-200% and turn on flashlight shadows and it increases the immersion so much. If I could only have one mod in Fallout 4 it would be Darker Nights.
My ideal set-up would be to have NACX, True Storms, and Vivid Weathers all working together, with VW's winter settings, TS's weather effects, and only, and I mean only, NACX's various radiation storms.
How did you do this on FO4edit? I really want to delete the other effects in Nacx but keep the weather system. Can you please share it?
@@kanatagideon5431No no, I'm saying that WOULD be my ideal set-up.
There's no way I'd be able to make that a reality.
Lightweight lighting also makes interiors a little darker. And you can use the interior only version if you want.
I personally love NAC X, for the nights to be more manageable I use the pip-boy flashlight, XM2010 thermal vision, and the target tracking scope (might be from attachment pack idk). It can still be pretty annoying but I play on survival so just end up sleeping through the night 90% of the time.
You also should get:
-NAC MCM Menu
-NAC Fogline Fix
-NAC Fix for Fogline Fix (😂)
-NAC water LOD and God Rays fix
and the other 2 fixes u mentioned.
In my opinion, its 100% worth it, so beautiful, Ive never had the time storm but yeah the fire storm is super annoying. The rad storm is so 😍 tho
I played Fallout 4 last week for the first time. Installed bunch a mods right away, playing on an old GTX 980 or st.. NAC X is pretty good and True Storm and Vivid Weather can be incorporated very easy (I had no clue how far modding had evolved). You can even choose that weather is tied to current in game season or any other thing you want, so you are not forced to choose one and stick with it (even if, you could just reinstall the mod once 3 in game months had passed, which should take a while - alas you dont need to).
All the other features you disabled, I very much enjoyed. Sunglasses help you see better in sunshine and make it harder in dark areas (visually not perk wise). Nights can be made as dark as pitch black as they should be (IMO), where night vision scopes and horror come into play . Taking daming, beeing drunk etc has nice visuals for 1st person mode. So for everyone who is going for immersion I'd say give it a try.
I know it's very subjective but I felt this video didn't do the mod any justice.
This video is absolute garbage.
Thanks for the honest, no baloney review.
Fantastic video honestly
Nah man this video did not sucked ass.
Finding this channel on my third FO4 Reinstall its godsend. The format its the best, there is so many options that just knowing whats new does nothing for me there are so many already...I need to know which of the options I should pick from the available for a specific category so I can build something that works consistently with all my mods trough the whole run.
And the fact that you give me the high lvl overview first its Honest Youtubing my man, I appreciate you respecting my time and I have the Drivables Mod video playing in the background in silence for you after you just gave me the answer.
I got the game a couple of months ago on a steam sale and it's fking gold. I'm experienced Modding games but first time with FO4, I went trough the main quest on my first go with my version of "Vanilla Plus" and it hold together all the way trough but there where opportunities for improvement.
I put a lot more time in Modding the game than it took my took me to find Shaun, choose to stay in the institute because that's the only sensible decision, I don't know this people I don't care about their problems and just a couple of months I was in the previous age so I'm just going to skip the post apocalyptic radioactive suffering thanks.
The second Mod run did not went well, huge drop in FPS and I now thing it was Weather Synergy and should probably drop Vivid Weathers since True Storm ran well on my first run, also side note if you run a couple of radiation damage mod True Storm weather, food and water can be a fking menace which I found it really fun.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know how great this series has been for me while I build my "Vanilla Premium" so I can do one character and explore the whole game in 1 go.
Oh but it does... and so does he and his adoring fans. The worst FO4 youtuber in existence.
Nac X weather indeed fun. They also have filters amd somewhat ENB emulation that work flawlessly for my old PC. Make the game more colorful or more horror like with just using the menu. Also the stalker like weather is fun even sometimes it takes too long. But yes the rain issues is pretty weird, and some sounds didnt disappear even after weather ended and agreed about raindrop lol. It feel like GTA SA remastered issues. So again i get back to true storms and darker night
I'm glad there's no semen limitation
Make more of these I love em!
love the format
honestly man your video was more helpful than most. Very informative and realistic from a gameplay perspective. Currently trying to find the best one for me is hard as fuck bug testing. I will definetly have to check out synergy tho!
Please do more of these. Thank you.
Plese not. He is the worst FO4 youtuber in existence, he has not idea what he's talking about, he hates every mod and he hates FO4 (no idea why he keeps making these puny videos? trolling?)
NAC X
09:11 No, everything else is not the same as Vanilla. True Storms does more than visual weather enhancements. It is improving sounds of the weather as well. That one is musthave mod imo no matter the GPU (its game from 2015 u dont need expensive card)
It's been a while since I played FO4 and my memory is a bit hazy, also maybe others didn't have this issue, but something I REALLY disliked about Vivid Weathers was that the weather in the Glowing Sea isn't always that sickly green that the vanilla weather system forces every time you enter that area.
I can't recall if VW allows all types of weather or if the Glowing Sea has its own list of possible weathers, but that green toxic mist is such a big part of the GS's character that it feels wrong for it to not be there.
My go-to is Lightweight Lighting + True Storms + Spectrum ENB (made for Lightweight Lighting).
Well done! First UA-camr (at least to my knowing) that has the guts to critic NAC X, the weather mod darling of modder channels. I agree, at the latest when you see how crappy this mod renders rain, it's an uninstall. This together with hilarious and downright immersion breaking weathers, off color 'corrections' and constant heavy GPU load - I have no idea at all why this mod is so popular.
True Storms looks good and runs fine, Vivid Weathers looks even better and runs (at least without 'Heavy Fog') fine, too (although my GTX1080 handles 'Heavy Fog' at 1440p without any 'sweat').
I use Vivid Weathers for years now and recommend it as best choice (tip: use 'no season limitation', because snowing looks like 'ash rain').
Maybe NAC X plays better with ENBs? I don't use an ENB (hello GTX1080), so maybe that's the charme of this mod I'm missing.
Thumbs up, your video provides a helpful overview of weather mods and your conclusions match my experiences from thousands of gameplay hours with all sorts of (weather) mods.
Absolute garbage video. The worst FO4 UA-camr, literally every video I watched (not many, but still too many) is him talking total bs and hate everything about FO4, every mod and the game itself, something he openly says but keep making these bs videos. And muppets keep adoring his total bs for some reason.
Quality and accurate video, thanks for this, you have had to spend time on the game and editing. I have tried all these mods and agree on almost every point:
-NAC X touches too many things and certainly adds absurd effects that ALSO interfere with other mods and performance.
-Vivid Weather is the one I have used the most, BUT it is true that there is too much fog and rainy days, It is simple to use and with a holocast you can change the weather when you are tired of Boston looking like an eternal swamp. It doesn't feel natural, but atfosmeric, looks good and doesn't affect performance much and gave me less problems than NACX.
-I don't like True Storm, it doesn't add much and I'd rather use Vivid Weathers or Radiant Clouds.
-Clarity I wouldn't consider it a climca mod exactly and it combines well. I play without god rays (gr off) and without enb, it removes absurd blur, bloom, dof effects, I'm not a big fan of some post-processing, so I'm using it.
-Lightweight Lighting darkens some interiors too much, maybe it can be useful, but I'm a bit tired of trying different combinations and I don't want to make many more changes.
What do I recommend? ELFX gives the best interiors, however it affects the performance a lot, BUT it is not because of GPU stress (as it could be a mod that adds forestation) but because of CPU botleneck and/or the drawcalls limitation that Creation Engine has, so even with a Ryzen 5600-5800 you can have problems if you are looking to play at 80-100 fps in interiors. Maybe with a 5800X3D or a Ryzen 7000 you can handle it.
So I don't know if I would recommend ELFX. Darker nights + interiors enhanced give good results and combine well with "Fallout 4 Realistic Lighting" which doesn't affect as much as ELFX. With these 3 mods combined you get decent interiors and dark nights not as excessive as the ones shown with NAC X.
I need to try Lightweight Lighting without enhanced interiors and Ultra Interior Lighting. Regarding climatology I like the most: Vivid Weathers, Radiant Clouds and Vanilla.
Radiant Clouds and Fogs i think that did not cause me CTDs, and as I do not want to combine it with other mods that affect the weather, I have no incompatibility problems. It can be combined with clarity, interiors enhanced, darker nights and interiors enhanced; all simultaneously I mean.
I play at 3440x1440 with a 5800x + 3060Ti and I don't like it to go below 70 fps, apart from this, there are things about the mods that I don't like.
PD: I use translate, sorry for bad english.
"Quality and accurate video" lol. It's neither. Lame nitpicking and total bs. He's absolutely cIueless, all his videos are about how much he hates FO4 and every mod in existence.... Sorry, didn't bothered to read the rest of your comment, being an adoring fan of this cIown is laughable...
If you're playing on an ancient machine or PS4/One, try "Far Harbor Style Commonwealth", might not seem like much, but it legit changes the game's vibe.
Nice stuff man. Thanks
I might not want to know but cursed info is always great what was that 4th site in the intro joke?
If I recall correctly it was the drowned mods subreddit, which no longer exists.
Bro thank you so much, I blindly downloaded NAC after a recommendation, uninstalled it and your right, game looks much crisper and runs smoother, also have a 6700xt card not great but also not bad, xD holy shit
I would recommend Fallout 76 Weather. It actually gained me a few FPS. Before that I was using Clear Weather Only, which was also great.
Great vid just what i was looking for thx
If your pc was not made before Skyrim was made, I suggest you use True Storms + Darker Nights. You don't really need Vivid Weather along with it, just get Ultra Interior Lighting + Ultra Exterior Lighting. Also if you like green, use Luxor's Summer there's a bit of instructions on how to make it looks even better at his mod page. Luxor's Summer with all these mods and the HD DLC makes the game looks as if you have an ENB. Especially since UIL has DYNAMIC LIGHTING, had to use caps there because most of the people get an ENB for the sweet dynamic lighting.
Have fun and Enjoy the game lag free, Unless like I said, your PC was made before Skyrim was made. Then enjoy some lags lol.
I’m so glad I found your channel😂
That black screen was particularly enjoyable
The only think i like about clarity is how it increases the distance of the frog from the player. Not a fan of its puddle and bloom removal.
looks like mod battle is doing well lol
For me the there are two problems with NAC X.
First (and the main) - by default there is a Rad Storm Alert enabled. For almost three years we have been hearing air raid alarms every day in my country, and this sound in the game scared me very much (I didn’t know that it was even present in this mod).
Second problem is that Volumetric Lighting tanks my fps (very) badly. I do not know what did mod's author do with it, because with other weather mods it doesn't drop my fps too much. Also it is too bright (sometimes screen almost white and I barely can see anything). Also I saw some posts on reddit that people have different visual bugs with it.
Radiation aside, Calamity is amazing paired with Moribund, especially if you're on xbox and limited in options.
I wouldn't mind trying Synergy with the Darker Nights but sadly that seems limited to PC.
Using Vivid weathers had this weird black outline of distant objects during heavy fog.
Not sure if its something to do with vivid fallout and its LOD, but yeah, it's definitely sad sense you can't exclude certain weather in the MCM.
Of course bro chose the 'no semen limitation' 💀💀💀
LMAO great vid dude, saved me a lot of time testing these out one by one, and the video format rocks
Cheers dude, this was, exactly what I was look for, 😎👍👍
The Fallout GOAT!!! 🐐😂😂😂
legend.
I recommend "Better Graphics And Weather" its basically just a updated and polished Weather/Graphics from vanilla. I COULD be wrong because I only read so much of the description and just looked around in the mod.😂😂😂😂😂
I'm really surprised you didn't check out polluted climate which enhances all of the vanilla weathers by making them look a little bit more Vivid and dirtier like a actual apocalyptic landscape while also increasing the chance of storms and foggy weather plus it's also compatible with true storms and all of its features either with the patch or the merged version which adds all of true storms settings to the installer in order to get rid of unnecessary menus or configuration tapes. It even has a frame rate friendly ENB to go with it that makes the game look truly apocalyptic and HD with the right monitor settings
This is invaluable. Thanks for the breakdown
You said it might be best to stick with vanilla weather as there's really nothing wrong with it and its best for performance... except vanilla weather has an abundance of god rays that absolutely tank the framerate- especially in heavily forested areas.
I tried turning God Rays off with an .ini tweak but that just reveals how ugly as all get-out the LOD is in the game. So if a person really wants vanilla weather and great performance they have to turn off the god rays and install something like dynavision to intentionally give their character near-sightedness and make distant areas blurry.
The healthiest option I think is still NAC X, not for the weathers it adds but for how it simply tones down god rays and balances the existing lighting out to a point where even vanilla textures and models look nice.
Shadow Boost or Ultra Quality God Rays Performance Fix can be used to lower the quality of volumetric lighting (often imperceptibly) to gain back much of the performance lost from having it on.
Fallout 4's vanilla weather is pretty good. Lightweight Lighting is probably all most players want or need for a vanilla-plus experience, especially if they are not interested in personalizing their load order significantly beyond The Midnight Ride, which is by far the _best_ "hold my beer, I'll tame this engine!" guide for stability and robust foundations. As a bonus, it introduces no conflicts with Previsibine Repair Pack which should be in _every_ load order regardless of scope or direction.
NAC X should be avoided like it's 100% genetically Floridian. The amount of unnecessary edits and compatibility issues it generates makes it a nightmare to correctly manage in an expansive load order. Moreover, it just doesn't look as nice as Vivid Weathers. A good concept, an atrocious execution.
Vivid Weathers will always be the best _compromise_ between performance, visual and tonal consistency, overall compatibility and user configuration. You can achieve a tone anywhere from oversaturated superbloom to a dreary washed out look.
Clarity and Interiors Enhanced are natively supported by Previsibine Repair Pack so they're always worth using as a base layer upon which to assemble a visual overhaul suite but they are not themselves weather mods insofar as they are visual tone mods. Also, they're both absolutely essential if you don't want to blind yourself on FO4's ridiculous interior lighting cast bloom.
Polluted climate though
Good vid! Keep working on it. Stop with the self-deprecating my good sir. You have a nice voice and you gave great advice and opinions. Now puff out that chest and walk tall and proud!
thank you so much for the helpful video
I love nac x legacy. I use it for the total opposite reason and that is to totally disable the weather and the only weather I allow is clear sky and the presets vivid and gentle boost II.
you are a goddamn godsend and a goldmine. I pray all goes well in your life. nobody does it like this
Thanks for the info, I have been looking at weather mods lately, and I cannot be bothered anymore (so vanilla for the win)
Great video.
I used True Storms and Darker Nights for years on NMM. Recently I had to delete all my mods and start again so I used MO2 and searched for guides, all of which pushed NAC X Legacy. It's been a pain ever since. It took me ages to find what mod had put in that damn siren at the start of every storm. I want to play Fallout, not Stalker. And those stupid rain drops!
From your video I'm now thinking of ripping NAC out and going back to TS & DN. The Weather Synergy mod sounds good.
I appreciate your video. Besides the weather mod, I was also confused choosing a water mod and the body/skeleton mods. And then the main texture mods.
Terrible video, and the worst FO4 youtuber in existence.... 80% of what he say is total bs, the rest is just wrong
@stlawstlaw7585 I'm glad you don't watch his content because he's been getting better at YT while you're in your bed eating shit.
bro your video has me cracking up... lol
I just go true storm/vivid and dark nights together.
I know you should not do it because there is not a compatibility patch for them (that I know of or if it needs it) but I like true storms and dead sun weather so long as dead sun is lower then true storms they play nice together note: I have no clue about moding and just add mods that sound good and sort them till I get a stable game
Decent vid bud
This was a great break down for people getting into modding, I hope you continue this with starfield in the future possibly. Good job man👍🏼
i hate to break the 420 like number, but the video deserved it. Nice job man , helpfull :)
Your presentation is of exceptional good quality, and I will watch another right after this one. This is exactly kind of content I was looking. You are saying about what with what, without what, what's wrong with it and what is right. Despite F4 being hot topic here I don't find much of valuable info in videos of top fallout 4 talkers. They talking about mods like TV advertisement about dandruff shampoo. For me, you are winner here, and I have hope I will see more presentations like this one!
hilarious video hahah. but also honest and straight up. i was messing with weather mods all day today and came to the same conclusion as you... vanilla weathers are just fine and it "just works" no messy load order or conflicts. but I will admit I was liking some parts of NAC X like all the color scheme filters (not weather) but my game would crash when I would mess with the volumetric lighting toggle. keep it up ima watch some more of ur shit
I respect your honesty and straight forward conclusion. Can't not Subscribe after this.
This man is doing a service for the people.
More mod comparisons?
That intro didn't age well lol
Good job
Спасибо за работу бро, лайк, подписка.
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Honestly just want my game to feel more dead and bleak, like fallout 3.
Umm seasons? It's freaking New England lol
Thanks for this comparison, I have fought to find a good weather mod for my game. This helped out a lot. Video did not "suck ass"!!
Calamity is by far the best for me
you got a nice voice man
Super helpful! Thanks 😊
Super wrong on everything.
Why are you pure gold
haha this video didn't suck ass, and was actually pretty helpful. I was using NAC but every time I use that mod I always find something that annoys me about it. I just decided to run without it since I think the base game looks decent anyways, especially with my mods. The only thing I'd miss is the saturation control, but I hear vivid weathers has that an I think I will switch to it.
7:25 no WHAT? 💀💀💀
I even said “aaaayyyyooo”
3:50 Very well-deserved put-down of NAC X.
It was such a promising mod for Fallout 4 when it first came out, full of incredible and modular features to tailor the perfect weather set-up... and half of them don't even fucking work.
It removes all hints of interesting lighting and shading from the game and creates a blurry filter across your game.
Are these on xbox?
Some of them are. Over the next few days I'm going to update all my descriptions to add links to Bethesda dot net versions of mods, if they exist.
Personally, I'm tired of watching mod reviews, half of which are just fancy eye candy, poses, sounds that waste time and divert my attention. If I see a mod in action, I'd like to see it in a vanilla game. For example, I personally haven't liked a single ENB mod yet.
If you are not tired of it yet, please continue this trend.
Cheat mod works
Dont use true storms or vivid - my game runs much better and no ctd's