Fallout: The Sum / Nous Aurons mod

Ah thanks for all these comments. It's sad about the armor bug you encountered. I heard it once from another player too, but I was never able to pinpoint the source of that rare bug, or reproduce it. A shame because I am currently creating a big patch (debug) version with some new mechanics to improve a lot on the gameplay, It could be a good opportunity to remove it, if it is even possible. The original engine can have very strange behaviours from time to time...

Hehe yess as the watercooler is in fact the quartermaster in disguise, everything there is swallowed into a parallel universe without limit. I hope this is not killing the immersion for you, better only use it to store your food and let it be used to spawn cooked meat and other delicacies. I don't think there will ever be a way to limit those items there, but yeah, this is a videogame afterall, sometimes realism is away fishing. Like the new keyring I added could hold 1000 keys, a bit heavy for any normal living an breathing human :P

I have a hunch that maybe you could not wear armor as your charisma got at 1 at some point... I added that 2 charisma requirement for armors to make sure Dogs and other recruits would not be able to wear armors. It might simply be that. So to make sure you can wear any armor, you will have to make sure you have enough strenght and always 2 or more charisma. Fortunately, your current version of the game feature alcool that give a bonus of 1 to charisma, bonus that I removed in my current built. As dogs could drink alcool, it would probably make them wear armors after drinking alcool which makes no sense.

This said, Yess please report any bug you come across. But note that many of them risk being already covered by Endocore, as he reported me about 200 of those in the last weeks. I am in the proecess of solving them at the moment, and I think I have about 100 more to go before releasing my next "debug" version. In this version, it will get CONSIDERABLY more difficult to explore the whole map, as traveling will induce possibly lethal hunger to all your squad members. I will try, still, to add some options in a text file to reduce or disable that feature if you really want to travel the whole worldmap. Let's hope this will be easy to implement.

Okay neat, I took a note about adding that 2 CHA requirement for armors. Not perfect as it will show differently than the ST requirement, but I'll try to figure something out that works well.

You also make me realize I need to search and remove all possible effects that might reduce charisma, like the permanent drug (probably the sort of FEV), addictions and other types of effects. Quite sure we can go without them and still have a good realist experience.

Dog armor: Unfortunately, what I meant was that dog wearing armor would probably result in having them change their appearance for a human lol :P If there would be a way to keep it, it would in a way be a nice thing yes, as it is always possible, theorically, to "modify" an armor to fit a dog yess...

As for hunger, I think players will appreciate that I already programmed a small config file to disable it completely, or to tweek its intensity value... Some more options might appear there later on, giving me the opportunity to go strongly with some survival mechanics without fear of having the game being unplayable to casual gamers. Casual gamers are a big concern for me because I used to and plan on having this game displayed in exhibition centers and other art dedicated spaces... I don't want them to quickly die and move on without having experienced any interesting narrative part.

Interacting with settlements: I took a note to create a new feature involving vendors in settlements. I would love them to automatically replenish their inventory of food, water and money on each visit, based on the days passed sinced the last visit. This would be nice to be able to count on vendors for food for the entire duration of the game, not just the beginning, I mean until you have bought everything.

Combat tactics: Pretty great tactic for fighting. I guess it should work good on harder difficulty too, as the diamond spear is one of the best melee weapon in the list. I also increased the melee damage on my last working version, to account for the extra risk of closing the gap. Hope you'll like it!

Ah AMAZING! It's a real honnor, sir. And I wouldn't be surprised if your maps are the most represented in the Sum, as they were very high quality when I got my hands on them :D

Also, if you are interested with the engine new found possibilities, you'll be amazed by the next version of The Sum that I am working as an army of monkeys to complete. There will be a new Travel hunger system, taking track of the days you travel and killing you if you travel for too long without eating, a keyring to gather all your keys in one place and a new series of other mechanics to combine items of various origins, names and sprites to one stack, like all those junk small items that serve as a currency, the "trinks".

Oh yess! I was in communication with RobertHouse for a long period a while back, the guy that took the Enclave work from GunnerShi, debugged it and ported it to various platforms. Unfortunately, I think it is not being worked on anymore, as well as Enclave 2. Or I only didn't receive news from RobertHouse for quite some time. The last time we exchanged, there was some discussion about using The Sum as a starting platform for a mod he was working on, maybe Enclave 2, maybe Project Safehouse. I might interest myself on improving the Enclave mod one day as it does not seem to be too hard work. But before, I would like to spend some days on Redux mod to improve its item sprites, and maybe some portraits. Not much else would be needed there to make it the very best way to play the original campaign :D

Absolutely. Not only you don't need any other copy of Tactics, but also you must run it using FT Improver.exe and not BOS.exe as you are used to with Tactics. BOS.exe will create crashes, or at the very least have a lot of missing features, like custom armors, ammos and broken triggers. And I never use it myself, so it is in no way tested other than with FT Improver.exe.