Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic Wasteland is far too vast a place to explore on your own.
PS4 Restrictions on Fallout 4. Unfortunately, the PS4 has some pretty tight restrictions when it comes to modding. Sony don’t allow any external assets. They only allow files in their.esp or.esm format. This means that new models, new textures, new scripts and many more modding types simply aren’t available. Unified Clothing Overhaul. For a change in the game's aesthetics and how you can make your.
Loneliness creeps in slowly as the silence becomes deafening, and the banging of a far-away raider’s rifle is as much a warning of danger as it is a respite from the maddening isolation.
The vanilla game offers plenty of options to keep you company during your travels.
One option is to take Dogmeat along, hoping it’ll warn you of incoming threats and become a food supply were things to get hairy.
Another possibility is to recruit synths, humans and even a super mutant you can talk to while roaming the Commonwealth.
But after so many years of playing the same game, talking to the same people and traveling with the same nutjobs that seemed so interesting in the past… everything starts becoming faded and the ranting of irradiated minds goes from hilariously bizarre to boring and dull.
To improve your experience making friends and influencing people in the Commonwealth, I’ve gathered a list of my favorite companion-related mods available for Fallout 4, making sure there’s something for players on every platform.
12. Companion Infinite Ammo
Available For: PS4/PC
Conserving ammunition is an art.
A discipline requiring good aim and control of your emotions.
You don’t empty a whole mag into a deathclaw’s foot because you’re scared of it, do you?
The thing is, companions rarely have the luxury of a thinking mind that’ll correctly assess the situation. So what do they do?
They spray and pray, every time.
With this mod by Olofstrom, this liability can become an asset as your companions make lead rain upon your enemies without spending a single bullet.
11. Everyone’s Best Friend
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
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There’s plenty of evidence in Fallout 4 suggesting that, originally, Dogmeat was meant to accompany you all the time.
This meant not counting as a companion and therefore leaving the spot open for someone else.
Dogmeat does very little damage, companion perks don’t apply to it, and you can even have the Lone Wanderer perks active while traveling together! There was clearly a last-minute change.
This mod by creator Valdacil simply rights that wrong, letting you keep your canine friend with you without sacrificing the aid of someone who can operate a gun and, well, talk.
10. Visible Companion Affinity
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
I’ve never been a fan of how many games with companion approval rating systems give you no way of checking your progress at all.
Now thanks to this mod by Cdante, that should no longer be an issue in Fallout 4.
Not only will you get some extra information each time something affects affinity, such as your current standing, but you’ll be able to check it at any time through an item in your inventory.
Simple, clever, and seamless.
9. MAID – Motorized Artificial Intelligent Doll
Available For: PC
Despite this list being aimed at finding great companion mods that are multiplatform, there are a couple that are too cool to leave out despite being only on PC.
The Motorized Artificial Intelligent Doll is one such item.
It replaces the Assaultron with a dangerously “kawaii” and very customizable anime-inspired robot, complete with THICC legs and adjustable breast size.
Although at first glance seems un-immersive, I wouldn’t put it past some Institute tinkerer to make this in their private time.
8. Dogmetal (Dog Robot Companions)
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
One of my favorite parts about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was the fact that Raiden had a badass robot dog to help him tear his enemies to shreds.
And thanks to modder Darklynxxx, your Sole Survivor can have their very own robot mutt – a Dogbot, replacing the game’s classic Dogmeat.
It has unique armors, a much higher defense, and the strength to rip your enemies apart.
If you’d rather keep the lovely German Shepherd around then you can also add up to three automatron dogbot companions instead of replacing it.
7. Companion Appearance Overhaul
Available For: PS4/PC/XBOX ONE
Speaking of spicing up your companions, consider the Companion Appearance Overhaul by Elianora, which promises to make Piper, Curie and some others much more appealing.
This mod is special because, unlike most of what you’ll find in the Nexus or elsewhere, it’s actually available for the PS4 version of the game.
Which isn’t true for every mod due to some coding challenges for the console.
That said, the PC and Xbox One version also swap the companion’s armors for better-looking ones that work with the CBBE body type – which the PS4 has no access to.
6. Companions Go Home
Available For: PC
Another mod that’s only on PC but too good to leave out is Companions Go Home, which lets your followers go back to their daily lives when not adventuring with you.
Few things are as immersion-breaking as watching Piper farm turnips in Sanctuary while complaining that she’s worried sick about her loved ones back home.
What’s Publick Occurrences without Piper, or the Valentine Detective Agency without Nick?
5. Heather Casdin
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
If you’ve been modding Bethesda games for a while, you may be familiar with LlamaRCA. Or at least their famous companion mod for Fallout NV – Willow.
This amazing creator is back in the scene, offering their take on what an immersive companion in Fallout 4 should be like.
Meet Heather Casdin, a synth-phobic girl living in a run-down world and hating every second of it, which she’ll let you know through over 1200 lines of custom voiced dialogue.
4. Ellen – The Cartographer
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
In the same vein as the previous mod comes Ellen The Cartographer, a lore-friendly companion born and raised in New Vegas who couldn’t pass up the chance to come and check out the almost-intact Commonwealth area.
She’s romanceable, has custom quests related to her, and she’s fully-voiced by none other than PotasticPanda, known as the voice for the Recorder companion in Skyrim & girlfriend to a legend in the modding community – MxR.
3. Unlimited Companion Framework
Available For:PS4/PC/XBOX ONE
A very simple and useful mod that’s luckily available on every platform is the Unlimited Companion Framework.
As the name implies, this mod by Expired6978 allows you to keep up to 15 companions at once with full functionality, and even more if you’re willing to give up companion dialogue.
Running a small army has never been so easy.
2. Nora Spouse Companion
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
Fallout 4’s protagonist is a tragic hero that truly embodies the name “Sole Survivor”.
Not only do they wake up alone in an unknown place, but they’ve also lost their son, and their spouse is too dead to help them find him in any way.
With the addition of the Nora Spouse Companion mod, Fallout 4 can become a game about family and the lengths a loving couple is willing to go to stay together and take back their son.
Or, you know… if you decided to play a female Sole Survivor it can be about a girl and her clone going around shooting stuff.
1. The Machine and Her
Available For: PC/XBOX ONE
Without the shadow of a doubt, the most sophisticated and expansive companion mod available for Fallout 4 is The Machine and Her, introducing the mysterious Kit.
Modder NikaCola designed a companion with a complex AI capable of judging you based on both trust and your moral compass.
And she’ll let you know her opinions through her myriad of voiced dialogue lines.
With an amazing soundtrack and a long well-written quest to uncover her mysteries, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better companion than Kit.
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What if you could put Darth Vader in Fallout 4 or pursue a same-sex relationship in Fire Emblem Awakening? Game modifications — known as mods in the gaming community — allow players the change their favorite titles in almost any way imaginable. Additions range from weird and wacky to socially conscious. Of course, just like pretty much everything else on the internet, mods can also be twisted and perverted into something exclusionary and cruel.
Modding, as it's called, is a common practice in online neo-Nazi gaming communities. On popular hate forums, racists collaborate on ways to apply digital ethnic cleansing to their favorite games, rendering titles like Doom and Counter-Strike 100% white.
White supremacists don't trust game developers
In the gaming section of Stormfront, one of the oldest and most popular white supremacist forums, users often lament that there are no major games for white people. They complain that large developers now try to appeal to the liberal left by being 'politically correct' — a gripe anyone who followed the GamerGate saga will remember well.
In one Stormfront thread titled 'Triple AAA White Power Games!! Will they ever be made?,' user GuyVelella wondered if the industry would ever make a game designed to appeal to the neo-Nazi community. 'When are they going to make another game for the WHITE RACE to enjoy!!!?' they asked.
The response was a resounding no, but another Stormfront user, going by the Sharknado, offered a solution. Instead of relying on big game developers, GuyVelella should start exploring explicitly racist fan-created mods for popular games.
This kind of conversation has taken off on Stormfront as gamer culture and white nationalism continue to mix online. It's become increasingly accepted that if you can't find a mainstream game that fits your vision of a whites-only world, someone will make one.
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Doom mod lets you score points by shooting Jews
One of the most horrifying examples of this type of mod is 'Stormer Doom,' which puts a fascist twist on classic first-person shooter Doom 2. Instead of killing demons, you're hunting Jews and communists. The mechanics of the game and its graphic depictions of violence are kept intact. The only difference is whom the blood is coming from.
In one screenshot of 'Stormer Doom,' the player is shooting at what appears to be two Orthodox Jews who are standing in front of an image of a menorah with Hebrew circling it. Other images from the game show the player shooting at images of U.S. presidents wearing yarmulkes and historic communist leaders.
The original page for the mod on Mod DB shows a little over 500 downloads. However, there are other sites that have the mod available for download and with the volume of conversation around the mod, it seems like there might be a larger audience than is recorded on Mod DB.
Warning: This video contains graphic violence.
Counter-Strike mod gives your gun-toting heroes neo-Nazi regalia
Another popular first-person shooter, Counter-Strike, has also gotten the fascist mod treatment. GameBanana — a popular site for the mod community — lets you download new skins that lets your characters dress up as 'neo-Nazi skinheads.'
This type of mod may not be quite as popular the ones that let you shoot and kill minorities, but it still gets plenty of positive feedback. The Counter-Strike Nazi mod was downloaded over 3,000 times. Other mods with Nazi imagery, like a skin of Hitler — also for Counter-Strike —received over 17,000 downloads.
The Euro-Solarian Empire: Nazis in space
Beyond shooters, neo-Nazis also seem to be particularly fond of grand strategy games like Civilization or Crusader Kings — presumably because of the imperialist gameplay. So, It's no surprise they would want to mod games like that as well. That also extends to space-exploration games like Stellaris, which received a mod in May 2016 making it possible to oversee a galactic empire ruled by only white men.
'The Euro-Solarian Empire is united by the beauty and superiority of the white race,' reads the mod's description, adding that all races are 'subservient yet united under the rule of white European descended peoples.'
What are all the women doing in this male-dominated space society? The mod has an explanation for that too. 'The great destroyer and cancer of feminism has been wiped out and women are back in their rightful place subservient to men,' it notes.
In this case, Stellaris'developer Paradox actually removed the mod from Steam. Here's the company's statement on the issue (via Polygon):
'We embrace the idea that players mod the game to best represent how they want to play, we do NOT however wish to enable discriminatory practices. We appreciate any inappropriate mods being brought to our attention and will take them down where necessary, we also encourage players to make use of the flagging function provided by Valve where needed.'
On Stormfront, Neo-Nazi gamers create a wishlist for future mods
In addition to the racist mods that have already been created, Stormfront often hosts discussions among white supremacists about the types of mods they wish were being created. There are a few different threads on the site attempting to seek out or establish groups of developers to create these mods.
'It seems to me any game, that's set up to be moddable, could be used as a vehicle to spread [white nationalist] ideas,' one Stormfront user wrote. 'I'm surprised there isn't already a group of people doing this. Or is there, and I'm just not in the loop.'
It doesn't seem like anything ever came of this post, though the thread did receive 33 replies with serious discussion. It even spilled over into 'Youth,' another section of the Stormfront forums.
In this thread, user 'TheTrojan' asks for suggestions for modding Bethesda's Softworks' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Most of the ideas focus on promoting nationalist ideologies and creating storylines that parallel the histories of white European cultures.
Another Bethesda title, Fallout 4, also comes up fairly often on these Stormfront mods. In one thread, user 'IndustryBlue420' suggests a mod that would allow for whites-only settlements:
'My idea is:
In response, user 'Don The Fleming' provides his own plans for an even more offensive Fallout 4 mod:
'I was actually planing on making a mod that would remove all the useless blacks, 're-color' people according to their voice actor and reduce interactions of quest non-whites.
In this case, the purpose of gaming mods isn't just to re-skin the player character of the enemy. Instead, white nationalists want to cleanse their favorite games of all nonwhite characters and voice actors.
There's an entire world of wholesome, positive, cat-inspired mods too
It's easy to come away from these examples convinced that modding is a dangerous activity, but most mods are pretty harmless.
When people think of modding, they mostly think of the outrageous revisions and additions that players come up with for specific games. One mod for Grand Theft Auto V lets you to hire cats as bodyguards, and another Skyrim mod that turns all the dragons into Thomas the Tank Engine characters.
The neo-Nazi modding community may seem like a niche corner of gaming culture, easy to ignore. But it's important to be aware of these mods and recognize them for what they represent: a right-wing faction of the gaming community that's gaining influence and popularity as influential personalities start to push white nationalist talking points on YouTube and other platforms.
We've already seen these fringe political beliefs regurgitated by people with millions of followers like JonTron and PewDiePie. Modding provides an engaging way for neo-Nazis to reach young, impressionable gamers and spread their ideology. It's up to the gaming community, regardless of politics, to call out these racist ideals before they become even more prevalent.
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