Bethesda Wants to Make Fallout 4 Modding "Easy"

Modding support is something Bethesda wants all its titles to have.

Bethesda's marketing executive Pete Hines spoke with Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb about the developer's plans for Fallout 4's mods.

"It's a big deal," Hines said. "It's something that [Fallout 4 game director Todd Howard] has talked about for years; since back on Morrowind in 2002. Modding is something we've always supported, with all the Bethesda Game Studios titles."

Hines didn't reveals specifics about how Fallout 4's PC mods will work on console, but he spoke about how Bethesda wants to make it work.

"We want to do it in a way that's easy," Hines said. "This is not about, 'You have to have a PC,' 'You have to do it yourself.' The idea is you go to play the game, there's a menu option, you click on it, and there's a bunch of stuff for you to download. And you click on the stuff that you want and you start playing a game with these new mods. So we want it to be a really streamlined, fun experience. There's still specifics that we have to work out. It's part of our post-launch plan."

Fallout 4 was officially launched today for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.