Fallout 4

This document is a collection of all known issues and workarounds (if any).

If you find an issue not already documented here, do let me know.

All in all, I hope you'll find that none of these known issues are show-stopping bugs. (But if you do discover one / think otherwise, let me know!)

Adding third-person cover hasn't been a trivial task at all - thanks for bearing with me as I work out the kinks!

All known issues:

Cannot move directly rightwards in cover.
- WORKAROUND: Use right + forward to move rightwards -OR- face the right, then move forward.
- Related issue to rightwards movement: switching cover side to the right.
- Facing left is as simple as pressing the left movement button
- To face right, just hold right movement (first) and then tap forwards.
- This is an issue with Bethesda's animations! Difficult to fix until animation tools are available.

Weapons switched via favorites hotkey while in cover don't show up.
- WORKAROUND 1: Entering and then leaving VATS will refresh your character.
- WORKAROUND 2: Switch weapons from the Pip-Boy.
- WORKAROUND 3: Switch weapons before you enter cover.
- This is an issue with Bethesda's animations! Difficult to fix until animation tools are available.

Cover doesn't fully work with scoped rifles that bring you into first-person when you enter sights.
- WORKAROUND: None.
- ALTERNATIVES: VATS - You can use the cover-peek available in VATS to target and shoot.
- ISSUE: Because these scoped rifles bring you into first-person mode, and this is a *third-person* cover mod, you end up in the same spot without peeking out of cover!
- I am looking into detecting when a scoped rifle is used and moving you out of cover appropriately.

Cover doesn't work with melee weapons.
- WORKAROUND: None.
- Compatibility with melee weapons is not a priority at this point in time.

Limited Power Armor support
- WORKAROUND: None.
- There is limited support for Power Armor in Fixed Camera mode and no support for PA in Dynamic Camera mode.
- Coverpeek is available in Fixed Camera mode but not cover animations or cover-vaulting.
- I'm not currently planning to further develop cover for Power Armor unless there is demand for it.

Cover Vaulting works anywhere.
- I leave it to you to use cover-vaulting appropriately. :)

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  1. SnafuPeter90
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    when i'm taking cover, left side twisting both my arms to abomination beyond recognition. tried on both vanilla and modded weapons. what went wrong here? please help
  2. alfaz62
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    whenever i am taking cover on a left hand side, my characters gun goes wonky.
    1. xHEINZx
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      This happens to me when using weapons from mods, the left side aim animation dont work. Vanilla weapons works fine so far.
  3. ThatGuy2012
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    I have the same issue with kylemarciano1. I use the Tactical Animations mod (Mod is kind of stretching it, it's more or less just an .ini edit) and I'm not sure if this mod conflicts with said TA mod but every time I exit cover, in third person, the camera seems to have an obsession with zooming in inches away from the back of my skull and whenever I aim, my character disappears, the weapon is gone and the camera is frozen in place.
    I do the next smartest thing and that was to copy over the appropriate text over from my Fallout4.ini file and into the cover ini file. Again, the same issue.
    If there is any way to solve this issue other than removing either mods (Because this is a great mod and I would definitely want to use it. And the vanilla camera positions are trash.) then I would be a very happy individual. As will many others suffering the same issue.
    1. thebreadperson
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      I have the same problem and I have to restart over and over again to fix it I love this mod too
  4. Jackthepikachu
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    found a bug. not sure what triggered it but when it occured i was permastuck in cover mode, and everytime i try to come out of cover or use the "take cover" item it just immediately throws me back into cover mode. literally got stuck in perma cover in the open fighting a mob of super mutants.
  5. Bullockm85
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    When I exit cover my third person cam is centered in thin air and not my character and my first person flashlight doesnt turn on at all only qqq seems to fix this if I find a fix I'll let you know

    cause I LOVE this mod and I just built my gear around it

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    Oops i should apologize i went to this before i checked further on the downloads I apologize pls ignore this post I'll let you know if it works though
  6. kylemarciano1
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    when i exit cover my character cam is zoomed in and my 3rd person is centered in the middle
  7. Nyhteshade
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    On the Xbox1 platform, every time I switch to 3rd person view, my character goes into cover mode out in the open and Im unable to move or exit cover mode unless I return to 1st person view. Also, when leaning out to aim from cover, it doesn't stay aimed in. Just stutters between ADS and hip fire even though I'm holding the aim button. Also, when dynamic camera is enabled, and I exit cover mode by returning to 1st person, my camera zoom is increased and my gun takes up the whole screen lol. Thanks!