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Fallout 4 Graphics Upgraded With First PC Mod

Slight update to textures and lighting applied; See comparison screenshots inside.

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Ahead of the long-awaited Fallout 4 release date, one enterprising fan has already created a PC mod for the game that will improve its graphics.

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The Enhanced Wasteland Preset, created by a modder going by the alias 'Razed,' is said to improve the open-world game's lighting and textures with a mod file that appears to be less than one megabyte in size.

According to the mod's description, "the goal of this preset was to slightly add more vibrance to the wasteland environment in Fallout 4 and make it appear less washed out. There is also usage of other settings that I think make the game look better."

A series of screenshots, demonstrating the extent of the graphics comparisons, can be found below.

Ever since Fallout 4 was first revealed, two weeks prior to E3, the game's graphics has been a topic for debate. In August, Bethesda marketing chief Pete Hines responded to graphics criticisms, saying it "definitely doesn't upset us."

"I mean, certainly it ought to look and feel familiar," he said. "If you played Fallout 3 you ought to be able to see things that are recognizable or similar or whatever. Because we didn't make a completely different game. But at the same time, when you're playing it it’s a mix of familiar and different. There are things that are the same and there are things that are very different."

Fallout 4's release date falls on Tuesday, November 10 across Australia, the UK, and North America. GameSpot's Fallout 4 review can be found through the link.

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But but but but but... all the cool kids said the game was too colorful already! Color is baaaad. More grey and brown please!

Tip of the iceberg as far as modding goes. Of course this is a small change but that's what happens with a brand new game. Over time people get used to all the new things under the hood and will understand how to work with them, not to mention that anything that's substantially worthwhile will take time.

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@jinzo9988: And they're right. Color is bad for fallout. A nuclear wasteland is supposed to be bleak like FO3/NV, not colorful and gloomy like FO4.

This mod is obviously pointless and useless, but someone is going to create the opposite mod, which will save the game for me at least.

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@4kgamer_lmxxx: Hiroshima vs Detroit

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@4kgamer_lmxxx: Which is why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are drab landscapes of brown and grey, right?

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@4kgamer_lmxxx: Why would it have to be bleak? I mean, nature always survives and if anything, the absence of humans would technically make nature flourish, Sure, if it's dry and dead like a desert then I can see it. But in this part it apparently wasn't.

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I don't think changing the contrast ratio on your monitor constitutes as a mod.

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O snaps, PC has already started its domination straight out the gate. Congrats Fallout, my PC is waiting.

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@mesome713: I wouldn't call adjusting the contrast and tint settings as "domination". Every TV has those settings.

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Edited By berserker66666

Gamespot's before and after images look pathetic. Check out the original links here and here. The after image looks much much better.

sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/4648/

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/40/

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I don't get it, i don't understand gamers anymore, nobody say nothing about that you don't longer can carry your weapon on your back, i'm the only one upset about it?

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@bluehawk-55: 100% certain someone will make it in next couple weeks

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They somehow made it look even worse.

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@mori70: that's a great mod. o____O

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And still we're waiting for this to happen for Pong. I refuse to play until it's 4K Pong, anything else is not worth the effort.

But seriously, the game doesn't need it as it looks fine, but it is nice to have it, like frosting on a cake, cake is still good without it.

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@DanZillaUK: Same thing was said about skyrim when it came out. Then the mods came in and everyone was like OMG the original version looks like ass compared to this.

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so much for the pc looking better...lol they have to mod to be better then consoles...lol the game looks great on all platforme.

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@hvd2222: "lol they have to mod to be better then consoles"

Well, ummm, yeah. That's the point. The game has the same lack luster graphics on the PC as it does on the consoles. Presumably BECAUSE of the console's lack of power and Bethesda being their normal lazy selves in just doing the bare minimum to port between platforms. It was the same for FO3 and Skyrim and Oblivion.

At least the PC version CAN be modded and will be to look night and day better. The same crappy graphics this game comes with on day 1 is the same crappy graphics you'll have on it 5 years down the road on the console.

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@mikemurphy80: to be honest it looks like it was made for console.if you watched the console verson and pc version you will notice the dialow is in the same layout as the xbox one xyba buttons...lol.the interface looks like it was made for consoles controller as well.i have watched both versions and thats my guess.

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@hvd2222: The game isn't even out yet and people are tweaking it. Just give it a month or two and the game will be gorgeous.

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SweetFX is not a mod, it's a post-process injector. You can use the same preset in practically any game.

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Nice, the modders have already started fixing it. It won't be too long before this game is playable by my standards. :D

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Edited By amaneuvering

Eh, what's the old and what's the new?

I don't see a difference other than a very slightly higher saturation and contrast in some of the comparisons.

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@amaneuvering: "the goal of this preset was to slightly add more vibrance to the wasteland environment in Fallout 4 and make it appear less washed out. There is also usage of other settings that I think make the game look better."

It is, indeed, higher saturation and contrast.

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@amaneuvering: You won't be able to tell with those pathetic screenshots.

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