sector_corrector posted:

Slightly off topic, but there's no convenient Fallout 3 thread (no surprise). I decided that after ragging on FO3 a lot, I haven't really given it another try recently, so I just reinstalled. I'm getting a weird thing where, no matter where I start, the game hangs after about 2 minutes of play. I just made some upgrades to my computer, so I'm not sure if it's that or if it's not having up to date drivers. Anyone else experienced something along these lines?

Horns posted:

Sounds like an UAC issue. Is Steam installed to program files?

habanero walrus posted:

I actually really like MO and have been able to use it just fine. The only problem is that it makes installing UI mods a huge pain. I ended up installing them all through NMM, running uHUD, grabbing the files generated by uHUD, zipping them up, and installing them as a mod in MO. Sane people would probably just leave them installed through NMM, but I really wanted to keep my install folder clean for some autistic reason.

EDIT: That being said, if you know an easier way to do this through MO, let me know! The problem is that the uHUD fomod doesn't see the other mods in the data directory because of MO so it can't generate the files based on what you have installed. You have to do the same thing with Project Nevada Extra Options because the fomod won't let you install one of the modules (I don't remember which) if it doesn't see one of the regular PN modules.

Mage Ham posted:

Is there anything I'm leaving out that would be considered obligatory and/or highly recommended? I want overall improvements without too complex a load-order, whence the current minimalist approach.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

Absolutely use CASM for save game convenience and consider using both the Stutter Remover and NVAC extensions for NVSE. Aside from that, it's all a matter of taste, CCO and Project Nevada are both pretty good and play well together, and they also have compatibility patches with jsawyer (well, CCO has, don't remember if Nevada Rebalance had one too), but they might make the game too fidgety for your tastes. Those are the only mods I'd think of as "essential/universally recommended".

Mage Ham posted:

Thanks to everyone who offered advice re: MO/FOMM/etc.- it turned out the problem is that I'm an idiot and hadn't actually run the launcher first. After that, worked like a charm.

Since OneHUD is the only mod on my list I wasn't able to painlessly install via MO (it gives a script error), let me make sure I understand the procedure here:
1. Install HUD mod via means other than MO.
2. Start game, configure mod via in-game menu(?).
3. Find resultant files in Data folder(?), copy, create archive, install as mod via MO.
Am I leaving anything out? And does this work for OneHUD as well as uHUD?

Also: I'm running a pretty minimal set of mods:
Fellout, Project Reality, a Texture Pack, Character Overhaul, and Flora Overhaul for graphics.
Project Nevada, Universal Perk Requirements, OneHUD, and LPAM for content.

Is there anything I'm leaving out that would be considered obligatory and/or highly recommended? I want overall improvements without too complex a load-order, whence the current minimalist approach.

Mage Ham posted:

Thanks to everyone who offered advice re: MO/FOMM/etc.- it turned out the problem is that I'm an idiot and hadn't actually run the launcher first. After that, worked like a charm.

Since OneHUD is the only mod on my list I wasn't able to painlessly install via MO (it gives a script error), let me make sure I understand the procedure here:
1. Install HUD mod via means other than MO.
2. Start game, configure mod via in-game menu(?).
3. Find resultant files in Data folder(?), copy, create archive, install as mod via MO.
Am I leaving anything out? And does this work for OneHUD as well as uHUD?

Also: I'm running a pretty minimal set of mods:
Fellout, Project Reality, a Texture Pack, Character Overhaul, and Flora Overhaul for graphics.
Project Nevada, Universal Perk Requirements, OneHUD, and LPAM for content.

Is there anything I'm leaving out that would be considered obligatory and/or highly recommended? I want overall improvements without too complex a load-order, whence the current minimalist approach.

Jerry Steinfeld posted:

So I assume there's no short way to get BOSS to recognize unrecognized plugins? I'm fairly surprised at what it's not recognizing, especially the really common stuff like parts of Western Skies.

Head Hit Keyboard posted:

You can define user rules in the GUI to make it sort plugins that it normally doesn't recognize.

Project Brazil's page on ModDB on December 15th posted:

We've begun our mass dialogue and quest overhaul, ensuring all of our design documents are fully implemented in GECK and ready to script. As part of this, we've also taken a hard look at our plot, our characters, and our overall direction, and decided on some important changes. The first of which is to cut out the Third Instalment, and instead focus on making the Second Instalment the best it can be.

This is actually great news for fans of F: PB. While we are cutting out the LA Worldspace, we're doing it because we don't need it. The story can be totally self-contained in the San Bernardino Cajon Pass and surrounding areas. As much as I love ruined urban environments, it's superfluous to the core of the story we're trying to tell out on the frontier of civilization.

If this were a 31M$ production, I'd totally have everything from as far as Palm Springs to Santa Monica Pier explorable and scripted, but our story focuses on one event: The origin of the player, the fall of the last squadron of West Coast Enclave, and the lead up to events in New Vegas & Honest Hearts's lore years later, stemming from these quests.

Countless people have pointed out that the NCR has been in control of LA, The Angel's Boneyard, for 71 years as of 2260. It "couldn't be in ruins, because they're too advanced," they say. The reason downtown Santa Monica is burning in our intro video, is because it gets nuked as part of the lead up to the war with the Survivalist Raiders in San Bernardino. The rest of LA is fine. They recover, but with massive economic ramifications, leading to the Mojave invasion in our credits roll.

In a revanchist war with the LA Mob Bosses, the Survivalists were attempting to ensure the longevity of their holdout by crippling the capital of the Core Region. The Mob would attempt to seize power in LA from Congress, and the Raiders would be free to remain isolated in anarchy as the chaos overtakes the NCR - a Chaos incited by President Eden in a last "screw you" from the Enclave before switching all their attention to the East (Fallout 3.) Colonel Bragg was supposed to finish operations there and leave, but got "distracted," namely by you and Vault 18's Wasteland Scouts.

We assume the NCR has stuck to the coast, and most of their power is along that zone of influence. After you get near San Bernardino, it's basically post-nuclear sand dunes from there all the way out to Arizona, kind of like in real life, just worse. There's nothing out there, so there's no reason to expand that way. Union City is the last territorial HQ before the wasteland turns into the Dune Sea, which incidentally makes a great insulator for Caesar's Legion to take over everything from Flagstaff to Tucson with nobody in the NCR being the wiser.

The Fallout New Vegas Lore states that getting to the Hoover Dam was a HUGE milestone in NCR exploration, a landmark event in their history, even though it's a 4 hour drive up I-15 from LA. That's why we set F: PB in the Cajon Pass along I-15, between Mt. Baldy and the Big Bear National Forest. It was, in 2253- 2260, a significant geographic and political roadblock. Athens-Tec is where the Vipers, Jackals, and misc. Raiders fled, along with the failed Shi Resistance and Tribes that refused to be "pacified." That is why they are called "Survivalist Raiders."

The lore educated fans that read our designs hated the Third Installment. It's not that I'm caving to the extreme sticklers, but they made a very valid point. No one complained about the lack of more sci-fi elements in the story, but many maligned those that were too far outside of tradition already, like Aliens in Mothership Zeta. I didn't like that either, so I'm listening to sound reason from hardcore Fallout fans, something everyone can agree is a good thing.

Now, we can ensure that the player has two entirely different Main Quest Paths to follow, and a third if they find it. Plus, we have Enclave-player side quests for each of the 5 Main Quests (5 for each of 2 branches,) and several for those that joined Vault Security and the Wasteland Scouts. We can sum up the Lore Friendly endings to all Three Main Quests in one worldspace, and just focus on making sure the player has more ways to accomplish objectives based on their stats and decisions, rather than drag out the story to accommodate extra fluff and combat.

Ernie Muppari posted:

Say, there doesn't happen to be a mod that lets me toggle stuff from hardcore mode on/off through MCM or something does there?

Ernie Muppari posted:

Say, there doesn't happen to be a mod that lets me toggle stuff from hardcore mode on/off through MCM or something does there? (and maybe tweak some elements?) I really like the idea of having to heal limbs with doctor bags/an actual doctor and worry about staying hydrated, but stuff like companions being able to die permanently sounds like a recipe for massive frustration.

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Has anyone else had problems with Lombard Station becoming increasingly unstable? More than half the time I try to enter, especially if I've been playing for a while, the game crashes to desktop. It got so bad that I had to revert to an earlier save and lost some play time. The only thing I can think that's doing it is some of the extra weapon mods I have.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

No problem with instability, but after 35 hours with this modded playthrough I still can't find where it's supposed to be.

Paracelsus posted:

Have you been to Jean Sky Diving and picked up the holotape and key from the NCR trooper there?

Jerry Steinfeld posted:

These are manual though, right? In that case, I'm a complete dummy when it comes to knowing the why and how of what mods should go before what.

Ddraig posted:

Ddraig posted:

Is there any mods that add in cold turkey chem withdrawal like in the original fallouts?
As in, your withdrawal effects start off pretty bad but get less worse the longer you go without the drug until you eventually kick the habit?
If not, how difficult would it be to make one?