Depending on my playthrough I run between 280 to 360 mods,
Am I still locked on game version .163.
And the arguments for that were strong back when I decided to lock it down ( via never updating and setting my .acf file to "read only")
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But as modders he mostly caught up with .984 the areguments agasint it are, perhaps, not as overwhelming as before.
Still some of my mods including some of my main must-hes, only work on聽 .163, so this is where I am right now still.
Also the worst feature of聽 .984, spamming the user right on vault exit with all sorts of goofy and terribly unbalanced CC quests that were added for free to the game can now be prevented or managed:
Disablement :
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/82345
Postponement:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/82311
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A couple decent new mods he come out in the .984 BA2 format ( thought there is a conversion app on Nexus, for BA2 files, you can use if you run .163, no guarantees though. I ge it a try once and had issues, but that does not mean you will).
I would also check the status of your forite must-he聽 mods to see if they are unupdated. That could sway you either way.
I still prefer .163, but perhaps the case is not as overwhelming anymore, as it still was, say, late last year.
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