Fallout: Unity

Post by **Risewild** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:13 am

The undertakers? better give them some shovels , joking.

I have been following this project from the beginning and I must say it does sound like a great project I will wait eagerly for the time I can try it out .

Post by **retlaw83** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:47 pm

Thanks for a the support!

The Undertakers are the Enclave version of Lyons' Pride, except more badass. Their weapons are geared towards killing power armor. They are sanctioned killers and enjoy the role. Their custom vertibird is called The Morgue. Hopefully I don't suck too hard to give it it it's own texture.

Post by **Risewild** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:42 am

Does that mean that when the mutants come to attack Big Town, the girdershade people will get slaughtered too? sorry if you already refer to that but I can't remember reading about it in here before .

Post by **retlaw83** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:49 am

Actually, in a few hours of fiddling, I found out I can't relocate Girdershade's people without bad things happening. That makes the new plan expanding Girdershade.

Post by **retlaw83** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:00 am

Found out a lot of the content I wanted to change is unchangeable, but am adding new content around it to get the same goal. My whole Germantown thing is not going to be doable, however.

Does anyone have any suggestions for places that are logical to insert two intelligent super mutants in command of D.C. mutants?

Post by **bigbobblehead** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:50 am

I just asked bethesda the other day for permission to use Oblivions assets and this is what they had to say "

Response Via Email (Dina)

04/29/2013 06:18 PM

Dear Jeffrey,

We are in receipt of your request to use the The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Creature assets for your project. Please be advised that the Creatur assets may not be used to create new material or content for any commercial use or exploitation (including disseminating, uploading, downloading, transmitting, whether for pay or otherwise) without a license agreement from Bethesda Softworks. While we appreciate your inquiry, we regret that we cannot give you permission or a license for such use of our intellectual property.

Thank you for your interest in Bethesda Softworks.

"

Post by **retlaw83** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:49 am

I've finally moved and this is getting back on track. If I don't include the Broken Steel missions and voiced dialog, I can have everything else done for the mod competition.

Post by **hellblazer** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:16 am

This sounds great. How is the project now? The guys at Duckandcover will be surprised to learn that you are pulling it off.

Post by **retlaw83** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:10 pm

I'm trying to pull it off. Seems ever idea I had, something in the way the game engine works or how the original devs did their design has mucked me up.

Also extremely busy in real life right now, so it's on the backburner, but things are progressing.

Post by **retlaw83** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:09 am

Okay, I have to admit some defeat here. Basically, if I try to change the major scripted events in the game, it breaks. I don't know if that's down to me being not good at this, or just the way it's designed. Also, with the way the factions are setup in the game and the way factions are tied to NPCs in Fallout 3, things like a non-violent resolution to Germantown can't be done. My prior modding experience is from NV, where the devs would do something like make subfactions for each major settlement - prime example, Legionaries in Nelson, Cottonwood Cove and the Fort all have factions for those areas, in addition to belonging to the overall Caesar's Legion faction. Fallout 3 is simply not built like this. Without being able to change the story, a faction system is useless.

Another obstacle is adding/removing statics from the gameworld. When I disable statics in GECK, they're never disabled in exterior cells, and if I attempt to move them they stay in place. So making major geographical changes is something I can't do.

So what am I going to do? Virtually all the item changes have been made. I added the Old Olney quest, changed Little Lamplight and added an NPC explaining it to Bigtown, and I still plan on adding the supermutant making sense plot. Also to tell some of the Enclave story I wanted to, I plan on making a small Enclave splinter faction, probably headed up by the General Cotter character, though I might bump him down to major. I also plan on an Outcast questline where they make contact with the Mojave chapter - the more exposure I have to the D.C. BoS the more annoyed I become with their incredibly hokey Oblivion-esque dialog.

On the dialog front, I'm literally going through all the dialog in the game and trying to change the player responses to sound like things written by the NV developers. Can't do much to fix the other side, though.

I really hope they don't let Emil Pagliarulo do any writing for Fallout 4.

Sorry if I've disappointed anyone.