Fallout 4 and general Fallout discussion

Er yes. I've played it, and let me tell you of my experiences with it.

Now, reading the description it sounded ideal. Real choice on how to deal with The Institute and other factions! What's not to love? Get that bad boy installed!

So I did just that.

I'll start with the good:

Thuggysmurf is an incredible level designer. Very, very skilled, with fantastic attention to detail. His new areas and interior locations are very, very professionally done.

The downside is he tends to make them 'pristine', almost clinical, very pre-war, which can feel kind of jarring when set against the rest of the universe.


Now for the bad:
Aside from being a brilliant level designer, Thuggysmurf appears to be a 15-year-old pubescent teenager, filled with raging hormones, trapped inside the body of a grown man.

He areas are absolutely STUFFED TO THE BRIM with scantily-clad female NPCs in stripper outfits, with their breasts so massively enlarged as to defy all laws of gravity.

All of his areas have these, not just the obvious ones. One of the main new areas is actually a stripper bar, so I guess it kind of makes sense to have them there - but he has the same thing in his 'Brotherhood of Gold' military bunker which features topless female technicians running around in overalls, with only the straps covering their nipples of their quadruple D-sized breasts, and this theme persists throughout. Valkyrie herself is a schoolboy's fantasy object dressed in skintight leather.

If you can somehow get your head around the ultra-sexual content and don't find any of it jarring you also have to contend with the changes to the main world.

Do any of the missions from Outcasts and Remnants leading up to the main Project Valkyrie campaign (and at least one or two are mandatory) and you'll find areas of Boston, along with former peaceful areas like Concorde are now an invasion point for scores of uber-level enemies. Concord will now have several fast-respawning Super mutant Behemoths prowling around at all times, engaged in huge battles with Gunner Commanders armed with Fat Men and gauss canons, in turn fighting dozens of Uber Raiders in power armor and end game weapons - all mixed in with Thuggysmurf's own newly-created 'ultra versions' of regular foes, such as Supermutant Grenadiers who spam Nuka Grenades and a whole lot more besides. Entire areas of Boston and it's outskirts become massive war zones, packed with these super-enemies, who will all instantly turn on you and ignore their previous targets. I found that even on Survival mode they also respawn insanely quickly, meaning you can never be free of them.

Once you 'liberate' the Institute and make peace with all factions (which you genuinely can do, though the solution the mod gives you is pretty cheesy) the place is taken over by the residents of the afore-mentioned stripper bar.

The entire Institute gets a new coat of dayglo purple paint, and the research areas are turned into 'pleasure rooms' featuring hot tubs filled with frolicking naked nymphettes, blasting out pumping techno music over the PA.

If this still feels like your thing, then feel free.. but don't say I didn't warn you.