Summary
AFallout 4player found themselves asking for help after discovering that one of their weapons had turned bright pink. The weapon’s hue stands out bizarrely in comparison to the stark and gritty landscape ofFallout 4.
Fallout 4is one of the most popular titles that Bethesda has developed over its years. While there’s tons of content in the base game and its DLC alone, many fans look to the net to discover fresh additions to the title, like fan-made campaigns or cosmeticFallout 4mods. One such issue likely led to the problem that this player experienced.
Fallout 4fan BeARbOyWoNzI shared a brief video of their bright pink weapon and a text message detailing their plight, looking for answers from fellow players. In the video, one can see that they’ve equipped an AK-47U, notably a weapon not available in the game. Though they mention a series of mods that they’ve employed, nothing that would include this weapon was included, but players had insight and a likely resolution to share.
Fellow fans looking at the gun recognized it as part of the Modern Firearms mod and suggested that the player was most likely running an out-of-date version based on the weapon’s reload animation. It’s not clear what went wrong, but it seems that theFallout 4weapon modwasn’t installed correctly or somehow otherwise became corrupt. In the end, while the gun seems to be functional, the textures for it aren’t loading correctly, and the bright pink hue appears as a placeholder to indicate that the file isn’t available. While it technically still works as it is, reinstalling theFallout 4mod would likely fix this issue.
Other players looking at the gun seemed amused by the color, pointing out similarities to some of the more gaudy weapon skins available in modern shooters. Meanwhile, some fans talked aboutGarry’s Modand Source Engine games, which display a similar missing texture placeholder, except Source’s is checkered in pink and black. Tinkering with any game can lead to issues like these if something goes awry. Thankfully,Fallout 4and other Bethesda games are intended to work readily with mods, so it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle to fix this problem.
Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open world game, isn’t set up for official mod support just yet, but that hasn’t stopped players from tinkering with the game. Chances are that more than a few fans will end up seeing a similar placeholder texture at some point when installing or creatingmods forStarfield.
Fallout 4is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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