this mod is 12 years old, if made today it will: -have AI-powered dialogue -will travel alongside the other companion -not appear until the end of broken steel because he need to make sure that enclave didn't go looking for him and his son/daughter anymore. unfortunately i have limited time to learn how to make this
had a big red marker on dad when starting new game, i know ive used this mod before and it worked fine so maybe it should only be installed after he dies
The first time I played Fallout 3, just after release, and Dad died after going through that horrible Tranquility Lane to save him, I quit the game. I have played many times since then completing all dlc, but that first time it just pissed me off that there was no way to save him. Just found this mod, wanted to say thanks, Dad lived for the first time in a great many playthroughs. So, THANKS.
Because he's magically brought back to life? Ah, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbMUdw-OU6U And that's not a fake vid, as the Waters of Life wiki has a pic. I never noticed him doing that in the original game. Maybe Broken Steel tweaked the scene to make it more obvious. But from our viewpoint outside the chamber we'd be hard pushed to see it, even the wiki's pic seems to be taken from a different view to the player's, so it'll depend on his angle as he does that injection animation.
Another reason some think he's a synth is because he looks a bit generic and like the one(s) you meet at Rivet City. But he isn't. Another is due to terminal entries in FNV, but they're old communications and predate FO3 events - could even his dad Col Autmn Sr.
As a companion he's got extremely limited dialogue, so basic it's not even always clear what telling him to do means. And in Rivet's lab he's alone (after the main quest), and little sandboxing (just paces back & forth or stands). However, he works. I always disliked how in the game he died so soon after you found him (unless you keep putting off the main quest), so this makes him live - and for that alone it's worth endorsing. Thanks.
Oct 2022 update: Btw the plugin tested clean in FO3Edit. Some thoughts & experience (which is a bit wordy so I'll hide in a spoiler)
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Just came back to say I later moved him out of Rivet's lab, got him to follow me to the BoS-occupied Project Purity to be with the other surviving science team, spawned a desk & chair for him in a corner, and left him there. Yes, his old digs is in the bowels of the place but it's lonely down there. He does sandbox a bit better there, albeit mostly still just paces, scratches his head. I promised to visit on his birthdays and Xmas of course, but in two minds about using this mod again. He's far too basic to be a proper companion, but having him be a repairer and medic at least makes him useful and worth visiting or keeping at home if you're lonely. But it does kinda destroy the shock drama of his passing. Also, of course, there's the problem that you and everyone still do all the dialogues about him dying. That can be obviated by only enabling him much later, so he doesn't escape with you but turns up only after you destroy the last big Enclave base in Broken Steel. You can then go through all the grief dialogues, everyone thinking he's dead, but imagine he used the distraction of the attack on Adams AFB to escape.
plz can you make this taht after you did not installed taht mod. and you destroyed raven rock, can can you make it taht you can find him. its either near raven rock or rivet city and aha and for broekn steel dlc it could have been like. you tell dad that doc li has moved.
IIRC if you only install the mod after Raven Rock, dad's found in Rivet City, and either way would hear Li had left before even you do. - And anyway, the mod hasn't been updated for 9 years so probably isn't being worked on any more.
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-have AI-powered dialogue
-will travel alongside the other companion
-not appear until the end of broken steel because he need to make sure that enclave didn't go looking for him and his son/daughter anymore.
unfortunately i have limited time to learn how to make this
thanks for the mod
Another reason some think he's a synth is because he looks a bit generic and like the one(s) you meet at Rivet City. But he isn't. Another is due to terminal entries in FNV, but they're old communications and predate FO3 events - could even his dad Col Autmn Sr.
Oct 2022 update: Btw the plugin tested clean in FO3Edit. Some thoughts & experience (which is a bit wordy so I'll hide in a spoiler)
- And anyway, the mod hasn't been updated for 9 years so probably isn't being worked on any more.