Fallout: New California mod

Originally I intended them to be totally different characters and never meantion the other at all. I thought the very idea of bridging to New Vegas was going to result in too many hanging threads we could never afford to attach quests to and add a bunch of unearned twists. BUT, because so many people asked for the ending which goes to New Vegas with all their gear and conmpanions as the courier, I went with that. And while that needed more time to cook in the Father conversation, which I rewrote, and more content from the companions, which I also rewrote, the ending videos as they are will stand as pretty damn good. They came out good enough that I felt we earned the bridge to New Vegas, the transition was super smooth and came together very well. The Father needs to be redone and redact the cloning ****, no one like it, including me. But other than that, it's the ending Project Brazil players asked for and confirmed repeatedly in private. Then it went public and the part of Reddit and NMA that haaaaates mods and "fan fiction" **** the bed, and to be honest if they hate my work I'm glad. I wouldn't want to make something they enjoy. For everyone else I'm happy if this gets picked up by another modder who continues to work on it and change the most egregious parts where it's obvious we ran out of momentum and volunteer hours. With some revisions and expansions which I wrote or someone else is willing to write, it could be much better.

We actually never got any kind of tangible reward for making this mod at all. :p

You can read the full postmortem design document here: Docs.google.com

This isn't the rewrite I would do if I had a budget and secure team, mind you. If I COULD, I would revise the beginning so the player isn't some kind of hero at all, juts some human in the wrong place at the wrong time, brought back to Vault 18 after getting shot by a Super Mutant while Rossman and the Wasteland Scout were defending their home from some Raiders. This would let the player determine all their characteristics during a brief medical exam and interrogation by the Overseer on what they know about the world around them: their home, their family, their job, etc... Then be given a chance to earn citizenship in their thriving underground city that remains independent from the NCR by strength and politics, trading with the outside.

I'd still have the 3 major outdoor factions: Super Mutants would play as big a role as the NCR and Raiders, and I'd still provide the player with the opportunity to join the Enclave or Wasteland Scouts, but wouldn't start the Vault Civil War until they've been in and out of Vault 18 using it as a hub for several missions, and I'd make that route fully non-linear (it's the way it is because of resource and time constraints.)

I'd also rip out the ending totally and ignore New Vegas except in scant references, still set 20 years before FNV during the presidency of Windell Peterson following the impeachment of Johanna Tibbet.

I'd focus more on the Raiders and their Chinese, Spanish, and Tribal Pidgeon English and Southern Slang, giving each Raider Faction a fleshed out Warlord and side quests to gain their favor. Instead of Elsdragon singling out the player from the start, have the player earn their stripes before ever getting his attention.

Same with the NCR. The player only arrives there as a refugee of the conflict like anyone else and has to barter, trade, or take mercenary contracts to gain attention. Maybe even give speeches to revolutionary citizens tired of the corruption and run against the Senate and Mob.

The Super Mutants have been carrying out experiments to resurrect their dead god, and bring The Master back. They've formed an independent city of mutants around Daggerpoint and spread a "meaty vine" that grows like a cancer around them, causing illness in the nearby communities. The player can trade with them in the safe zone, or try to get close to their leaders and infiltrate their ranks, possibly become a mutant themselves.

I'd also give the Enclave a bigger presence, and let the player have their power armor, weapons, and vertibirds for the mid game to late game events when their clandestine micro-faction springs the trap. Or allow the player to fight them and win. I'd focus more on their motivations and cult-like philosophy, more on their goals for human purity and American pride, and more justifications for their otherwise inexcusable deeds.

But, that would take a budget. It'd be Fallout 5. Not a mod.

I made icons for all the armor and weapons I made, and many others. But there are no new icons coming unless someone new to the team joins and makes them. It would be a good gateway to modding FNC for an artist.

Yes. Get version 230 on our discord to make that a more smooth experience.

There is a 223 Update in the works right now. Should be out eventually this month.

1.0 will take as long as it will take and has no deadline and no one is assigned any tasks in involving that content expansion. Since no one wants to do it, we'll take anyone willing to work on it.

What is a save creator? And what purpose does it serve? FNC is a new game. It doesn't move to New Vegas until the end.

Global mods are fine, it's mod that change the startup quest or very processor & memory intense mods that cause problems with FNC. Mods that add weapons to the world but not to level lists in FNC also won't show up til Vegas. Replacers will work most of the time though.