
Levels – All levels are rescaled in Horizon, to provide a more classically controlled environment. Mail – A new mailbox system is created, to allow you to receive messages and items from various NPCs. Travel – A new fast travel system to immersively allow you to travel between settlements. Progression – A new settlement progression system, that has goals/rewards for settlement builders (still in development.). Settlements – New settlement objects: defenses, vendors, decorations, and new types of crafting stations. Crafting – The crafting system is greatly expanded, and has recipes that can be unlocked through various methods. Magazines – Collecting magazines actually has an extra purpose, which unlocks certain recipes. Items – Junk items have been expanded to provide more purpose for crafting (including MANY new items.). Survival – Many changes have been made to rescale and rebalance how survival mode works. Specializations – Based on the perks you have, you can choose 1 combat-based specialization. Perks – Many perks have been completely redesigned to provide new bonuses and have new purposes. Ammo – Ammo is much more difficult to acquire, but can also be crafted at the Weapons Lab. Lock Breaching – Horizon has it’s own system of breaking into locks and terminals, aside from the standard methods. Containers – Many new items and loot changes make looting containers and NPC’s more immersive. Loot – A VERY large amount of changes were made to loot in order to balance and add immersive detail to the game.
NPCs – Many NPCs have a custom scaling system to allow them to properly scale with your level. Combat – Combat is more challenging, while removing the “bloated” health pools many enemies have. Aid – Many brand new healing/buff/utility items have been added to expand survival and quality of life. Medical – Healing in Horizon requires actual medical treatment, and you can no longer be healed otherwise. Here are some of the key gameplay changes:
As such – and as the modder suggests – players should not remove it in the middle of their playthrough. Since Fallout 4 Horizon brings major gameplay improvements and changes, it should be played over an entire playthrough from start to finish. As such, its ultimate goal is to create a more challenging and immersive experience. This mod contains thousands of changes, redesigned systems, and new additions to very carefully balance everything together. Fallout 4 Horizon is a large scale overhaul of Bethesda’s RPG that rebalances and expands the gameplay from the ground up. Modder ‘zawinul’ has released a brand new version of his Horizon mod for Fallout 4.