I just started running around in fallout again after just barely discovering LOOT and its magical properties in fixing load orders. Now I stare at the size of my FNV Install increasing in size and it dawned on me....What the crap is Fo4 file structure gonna be like? Will I just be able to drop .nifs and .dds files and add them through GECK like normal? Is it gonna be like Skyrim? Unless someone knows and im just the last person to hear about it -_-.....as always.

Fo4 will open new ideas for mods tho! I geeked out when they showed the power armor, OMG ITS LIKE REAL POWER ARMOR NOW *SQUEEE*. Weapon modifications are on a better level and design. BUT after reading many a post on some of the popular companion mods on the nexus, im noticing a lot of them arent to excited about a vocal hero and might not bring their infamous characters over, understandable and a bummer. But knowing the modding community there will be a mod that'll make the player silent once more or maybe well be able to make a work around with the recorded responses no?

But if some can shed some light on my concerns, please tell me....im losing sleep over this! *panics* (not really, but im really curious). Looking forward to FO4!

Yeah i am so nervous...i feel like there are such great mods for fallout New vegas/Fallout 3... I really hope there is some way to convert most of them.. Come on so many armor mods, weapon mods..ect. Id hate to see some of these mods go. But look at what happened with Skyrim, Morrowind was really modded...oblivion is modded even more than fallout ( likely because its older ) and Skyrim is just above them all. I think much of the same will happen with Fallout 4 taking the top.

Stressing about mod stuff is a bit pointless for the time being, as they're not even going to start working on mod tools until early 2016. So we're a long way from that.

Ya, but what I mean is will modders have to do something different or will the structure be the same? For me, I like having just a tidbit of info on some stuff, for FO 4 im mainly curious if theyre still going to use the .nif files, it would make importing some mods fairly easy once the tools would be released. Im a nerd for the m1911, so it would be like...the first pistol id want back.

also im not losing sleep over it :p, im happy quite a bit of questions have been answered by the devs, but when it comes to these things I merely hope theyd mention something ya know? Besides, ya I figured itd take a while so that would mean why not play FO4 REALLY slow XD, my first run I normally wander A LOT, looking for whatever I can find and "trying" to do everything virtually possible

I can see where you are getting at, I'd love to see some of my favourite mods in Fallout 4 as well...

There were some Oblivion mods that got converted to Skyrim, I wouldn't be surprised if someone out there managed to convert some F3 and NV mods to Fallout 4... I'd be pretty interested to see if Drag's armor packs will be available in Fallout 4 and how they're handled as well, also Milennia does some pretty HQ weapons that I can imagine fitting into Fallout 4. Heh, speaking of weapons, I wonder if we'll be able to combine weapon mods like how in Fallout 4 you can combine and make your own weapons out of the vanilla ones.

On a side note, about the "real" power armor... I agree, very awesome stuff, but I'm still hoping that someone out there is going to make an iron-man suit mod It would fit so well with the power armor gameplay mechanic.

everyone gets stressed over the possibilities of how things will change but in this situation its pointless to worry, bethesda games are notoriously easy to mod compared to other games not much has changed from the file structure from oblivion to skyrim so its doubtful that fallout 4 will be any different but as @Tesvixen said its pointless to worry especially now seen as its so far away and the fact its likely to barely even change all that much

im hyped hop on the hype train with me boys lol

@Panther, Dude the mod system for weapons is a great improvement for weapons :3! ooooo M37 ithaca modded on the flaw into a sawn Ithaca with side saddle and shotgun choke *dreams*, so many improvements this time around. Also, Iron man? Infantry type gundam suits man or Mjolnir Armor!

@falloutveteran20, I said I was joking :p, im just wondering. Ive got like a list of weapons n outfits id like to be able to add...but I get the feeling itll be skyrim where there will be some editing required to mold it to the new bodies n such....*cry* I really need to learn that stuff

I just hope, Beth gives us a generic response voice pack, so we aren't limited to making our protagonist silent.

best thing to do is not even care about things like that for the time being , im sure most of us played fo3 and new vegas a few times even before modding it, I know I did, fo4 is bound to have many many new and exciting things to keep us all interested for a long while. I know im not even going to look at modding it until ive played it right through, once ive experienced everything the game has to offer, then ill mod it. that way ill know what was bad about the game, and what to change for the better... peace

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I just hope, Beth gives us a generic response voice pack, so we aren't limited to making our protagonist silent.

Sounds good. Also would help for quest mods, where you can just get the player character to say something simple like "yeah" or "what" in response to what the npcs are saying to him/her.

Also, Mjolnir armour... yee...

I don't understand why the modding community wouldn't instead try replacing the voice of the character, maybe putting in lines from various characters, just putting together bits and pieces of audio, to give your character the voice of let's say Mark Hammil's joker..

I didnt like the mod system for weapons in Dead Space 3. I felt like oh crap, where in hell are my guns?!!!!!

I think i read some where that you can make your character silent like previous games.
I like the new comunication system(the talking) now the romance can apply like in Mass Effect and The Witcher. With some cinematics pehaps or I dont know something like that.

Honestly, even if the whole structure of modding has changed in fo4(Which I doubt it has), it won't take long for our amazing modders and scripters to find out how to use the new engine and new scripting mechanics. As others have said, it is still very early to be getting worried over this, best thing we can do is just start getting ourselves prepared for the release, get some moddeling programs and what not, maybe even start creating some high quality simple models.

Completely agree with Tesvixen. Let's let the young dog lie until it has had time to soak in the change then rear its head in dissatisfaction with current status. It is then we will see the community stand-up to meet the challenge and provide us Vaulties with something we can chew on.