Fallout 4 fans urged to change one setting to make it 'completely different game'

Fallout 4 is one of the most popular open-world RPGs in recent years but one Reddit user has suggested a setting that makes it feel like a completely different game.

Released in 2015, Fallout 4 may have had a typical Bethesda buggy launch, but there’s no doubt that it eventually became one of the best entries in this beloved series. What’s more, Fallout 4 was eventually made an even better experience, not only with post-launch updates to fix bugs but this year we finally received the free next-gen update.

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Fallout 4 is a huge and dangerous, post-apocalyptic world with anything that breathes having a desire to kill you just for existing. In fact, there are even things in its world that are not living, that will also try to kill you.

So it’s fair to say, that whatever the difficulty you play in Fallout 4, it’s always wise to keep your wits about you unless you want an untimely demise thanks to those pesky raiders, ghouls, radroaches and more.

However, if you’re a glutton for punishment and welcome danger at every turn, perhaps the survival/hardcore mode in Fallout 4 is for you, as suggested by Redditor Unoriginal1deas. “Fallout 4's survival mode is a completely different game,” they exclaimed.

In case you didn't know, survival/hardcore mode in Fallout 4 not only takes the enemy difficulty up several notches but also disables autosave, with saves now only being possible when sleeping on a bed, mattress or sleeping bag.

Items will carry more weight, so you will become over-encumbered far more easily, and your ability/endurance points will drop while that happens. “Hardcore mode has one of the single most satisfying progression curves I’ve ever seen. You start extremely weak, getting killed in a handful of shots and needing to play extremely carefully,” Unoriginal1deas explained in a very lengthy post.

They continued: “Going too far into unfamiliar territory leaves you struggling with a bunch of diseases, no idea where the nearest safe bed to save is and dwindling ammo supplies from a limited inventory. And the best part about this is nearly the entire gameplay loop becomes player-motivated.”

“You’re asking about endangered settlements not because Garvey told you to, but now it’s because you want to explore further east and a settlement out there would make it easier to stay alive. You’re doing a quest to help a guy find green paint not because you give a damn risking your life so some idiot can paint a fence but because the other paint you’d find should give you enough oil to build more generators.”

“So, if you’re the kind of person who played Fallout 4 and thought it was only okay, maybe try survival and watch the game straight up transform into something else,” they concluded.

Fallout 4 is out now on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. It’s also included in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at no extra cost.