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July 16, 2023 Heather v2.6 has been uploaded to Bethesda.net
I cannot test the content myself so be sure to tell me if you are an xbox player if you come to report issues as they may be different than those experienced by players downloading from Nexus.
New playhthough and couldn't help to grab Heather on my side again, the best companion ever made ^^
Im on Survival and took her pretty early in the game and I find her very OP, I don't recall she werer that strong before. Im not complaining I changed her equipment to something more accurate to my player stuff. Just wanted to notify Survival and scarcity mods user that Heather will mawl everyone with her lazer gun and 60+ armor.
Maybe a small patch to reduce her stuff by half could be a thing, just sayin' ^^
You obviously made it work for yourself by changing her gear. That's the solution which requires no patches or alt versions. Players are free to make those changes in their own games and those that like her level are covered and those that don't can manage her accordingly.
Yup I managed, she has her body disappear after a couple of loading, it happened randomly twice after I "update" her outfit.
After a transition, she became a walking head, and I need to unequip/equip her main outfit again to fix it. Could be a little bug because of her underwear, can't really say, nothing game breaking tho.
That's very weird. If you are using her default body that would be replaced by any outfit that is equipped on her and I don't do anything to force her vanilla body or outfit onto her. Not sure what the problem would be. Make sure any outfit you put on her you force equip in the inventory menu.
i ran into a nasty random bug. heather got stuck in the ground, i used moveto player in console to get her out...now on most cell loads she is invisible/unselectable. recycle actor didnt help, disable / enable didnt help. any ideas? i guess ill have to find a save before the event.
Getting stuck in the ground would be a navmesh issue or some other location problem. Weird that it would break her in some way since that's an environmental issue, not a Heather one. Could be the console commands messed her up.
When you need to move her use her transponder. It's designed for that and nothing will break. If you no longer have one in your inventory you can craft one at a chem station.
thank you for the reply. yes i tried the transponder with no luck. very strange, and this is a new play through. i dont think its a problem with heather as a mod, i think its a corrupted save.
update, i figured out what is going on but i have no idea how to solve.
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whenever i run away from heather and she rubberbands to catch up, she teleports far away and even into the sky. I use her quest marker and tcl to travel there and she is just standing there. using her transponder teleports her to this spot. its like there is an offset between my character's location and where she thinks i am in worldspace. i really have no idea. other companions are not acting like this.
update:i uninstalled heather, did a fresh save, re-installed all related mods and restarted her. everything seems to be working fine now.
I just wanted to leave a comment. I think this is one of the best companion mods currently. So much attention to detail in conversation to account for pretty much everything in the game. The voice acting seems realistic and immersive. It actually makes the game more immersive on its own just with that. She talks to other companions and people in the world, talks to dogmeat, has comments for most situations, seems like an actual individual personality, unique to the rest. And sings songs from the fallout games. And, if any of that annoys you, there's a setting to turn it off. But I thought it was great and added to the experience. And any faults that can be found, -like her suddenly talking when someone else is talking, is all really the fault of the game engine and Ai. Not the modder's. The other one for New Vegas (Willow, by the same author) is really good too, if not just as good, but for that particular game. You know, I feel silly for it, but I just realized in the last playthrough -even though she says she could do it for you at that point- that she can help you skip Dima's memory thing. Just send her to the console instead and she basically jumps to the computer and then hands you all the files a few seconds later. A lesson for me, maybe. When Heather says, "You know I could grab that for you," Let her do it. lol Anywho, thanks for this. It added life to the game. And I will probably use this companion for many more playthroughs.
Will Heather work with Ivy and Liga? Or Ivy and RAM? I intend to add Darlene and Kristina if Liga works with Ivy. I am told that AFT plus now works with Ivy but I just wonder how Heather fits in with her own system. BTW as Ivy is in fact, a synth and not a robot with a brain, will Heather be hostile in any way or so to X6-88? I know that these are all naive questions, but I am a complex follower beginner, and I need to know before I dive in.
Heather works fine with Ivy. Since she does not use a vanilla follower slot, she won't need to be included in any multi-follower framework.
Having said that, Ivy changes the way companion dialogs work, so there are a lot of interactions between Heather and other companions that will never happen because they are blocked by Ivy.
Heather will not attack Ivy, nor will either of them even recognize that the other exists.
Hi, I wonder if there is any compatibility problem on this mod with NG version? Because I am suffering from random game freeze for hours and finally I found an exactly freeze point that Heather just sit down at a random chair.
Anything could cause that kind of freeze, it's unlikely that Heather sitting in a random chair caused it and if that were the cause it would likely be a vanilla animation issue and not a Heather specific one.
Just an FYI for those finding this mod recently...
For me... I had Heather for a while now.. the mod works wonders and is truly a stand out mod amongst a sea of copies.. truly.
I did run into one issue though... I had Heather as part of my group when I had issues with another mod, Companion Eppie. See, for those unfamiliar with that mod... Eppie can die if you take too long in finding her. Not going to spoil how... but, after a quick reinstall, I had Eppie back where I could recruit her.
Soon as I did that... Heather left the group... she literally just started walking away. Then she disappeared. I found her using the trace, located her at the last settlement I sent her to some time back. She was using a chem station and I could not talk to her. "This individual is busy" is all I could get.
Thought to myself.. only recent change was adding Eppie... so I turned around, dismissed Eppie then suddenly, Heather was right as rain. Strange because though Eppie is a "vanilla" type follower (needing that precious spot)... this mod isn't.
So... out of no fault from either mod, just thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone seeing these mods for the first time, to be wary.
That sounds purposeful if reproducible and you should verify that the other mod isn't specifically making that happen. Nothing in this mod or vanilla would auto-dismiss Heather like that.
Or if you are managing your companions with another mod be sure not to register/manage Heather with that mod. It can break her behavior and this would be an example of that.
I am nearing the end of my FO4 run... meaning, I have played hundreds of hours thru several playthroughs because some mods just don't play well with others regardless of load order.
I already had Heather for some time now... reached the end of everything we can do with her. After doing about as many Quests as I can, and new Locations I can find... I am going thru the endless list of Companions that this site has to offer. Although Eppie is pretty generic, I didn't think much of it... I typically like companions that have stories or quests as there are just way too many here that are just space on your drive and and extra gun that keeps getting in your way as you progress thru stories.
However, like you said... every set up is different, what happened with mine may just be a one off, but then again, someone would have to have my set to reproduce, but you never know.. so I posted it just in case. I like Eppie... she is pretty cool and will continue with her until I decide to wipe everything and start fresh yet again.
They work fine, so long as I don't have them both in my group at the same time.... and no, I don't use any multi-companion mods as the two I found, do screw up mods like Heather and especially Companion Ivy. And you don't go thru the hundred hours of Ivy just to have her get borked installing a mod you really don't need.
What does crack me up tho... you have a patch that keeps Heather from speaking about Shaun or your spouse... thru my entire playthough with her, she has yet to mention anything at all in regards to "my past" as it were... unless that only triggers if we return to Vault 111.
If you completed her quests you talked about the player's spouse and the player's feelings about them. There are other lines delivered in other conversations and also, yes, if you go back to V111 with Heather in tow. But you won't get all dialogue from Heather in any one playthrough because she has responses to things you do with the Institute, for example, which includes some dialogue about Shaun, but you won't hear it if you don't side with them.
well after the random shooting episodes i was experiencing, It seems to have stopped..I am currently at 130 levels in still going strong with no mod changes.. So why the random shooting happened lord only knows, The only obvious change are her eyes, which look either left or to the right when speaking to you...It's like she is thinking before speaking, but she never looks straight at you where as before she did...
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1. Thank you, everyone for your continued support over the years. Please remember to endorse if you haven't. Endorsements are what keep mods visible for new players to find.
2. Please continue to post pics of Heather to mod images, but be aware that NSFW images will not be approved because Heather does not carry the "adult" tag.
3. If you would prefer to ask for support on Discord see the following invite to my server. Please DO NOT post your questions in both locations. I'll answer you as soon as I can. Sometimes that might take me a day or two because modding is a hobby, not a job.
https://discord.gg/nDm47QU2b5
ShilohMc33 does interviews with mod authors and he and I talked recently about my work, Starfield, voice acting and all kinds of things. It was a lot of fun. Check out his channel to see interviews with Elianora, Neeher and more. Here's the link to my interview if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12RUgKFKiQ
Heather v2.6 has been uploaded to Bethesda.net
I've also uploaded a version that gives Heather a vanilla body. You can find it here
Heather with Vanilla Body on Bethnet
Im on Survival and took her pretty early in the game and I find her very OP, I don't recall she werer that strong before.
Im not complaining I changed her equipment to something more accurate to my player stuff.
Just wanted to notify Survival and scarcity mods user that Heather will mawl everyone with her lazer gun and 60+ armor.
Maybe a small patch to reduce her stuff by half could be a thing, just sayin' ^^
After a transition, she became a walking head, and I need to unequip/equip her main outfit again to fix it.
Could be a little bug because of her underwear, can't really say, nothing game breaking tho.
When you need to move her use her transponder. It's designed for that and nothing will break. If you no longer have one in your inventory you can craft one at a chem station.
update, i figured out what is going on but i have no idea how to solve.
whenever i run away from heather and she rubberbands to catch up, she teleports far away and even into the sky. I use her quest marker and tcl to travel there and she is just standing there. using her transponder teleports her to this spot. its like there is an offset between my character's location and where she thinks i am in worldspace. i really have no idea. other companions are not acting like this.
update:i uninstalled heather, did a fresh save, re-installed all related mods and restarted her. everything seems to be working fine now.
The other one for New Vegas (Willow, by the same author) is really good too, if not just as good, but for that particular game.
You know, I feel silly for it, but I just realized in the last playthrough -even though she says she could do it for you at that point- that she can help you skip Dima's memory thing. Just send her to the console instead and she basically jumps to the computer and then hands you all the files a few seconds later.
A lesson for me, maybe. When Heather says, "You know I could grab that for you," Let her do it. lol
Anywho, thanks for this. It added life to the game. And I will probably use this companion for many more playthroughs.
Having said that, Ivy changes the way companion dialogs work, so there are a lot of interactions between Heather and other companions that will never happen because they are blocked by Ivy.
Heather will not attack Ivy, nor will either of them even recognize that the other exists.
Regards,
Dan
Anything could cause that kind of freeze, it's unlikely that Heather sitting in a random chair caused it and if that were the cause it would likely be a vanilla animation issue and not a Heather specific one.
For me... I had Heather for a while now.. the mod works wonders and is truly a stand out mod amongst a sea of copies.. truly.
I did run into one issue though... I had Heather as part of my group when I had issues with another mod, Companion Eppie. See, for those unfamiliar with that mod... Eppie can die if you take too long in finding her. Not going to spoil how... but, after a quick reinstall, I had Eppie back where I could recruit her.
Soon as I did that... Heather left the group... she literally just started walking away. Then she disappeared. I found her using the trace, located her at the last settlement I sent her to some time back. She was using a chem station and I could not talk to her. "This individual is busy" is all I could get.
Thought to myself.. only recent change was adding Eppie... so I turned around, dismissed Eppie then suddenly, Heather was right as rain. Strange because though Eppie is a "vanilla" type follower (needing that precious spot)... this mod isn't.
So... out of no fault from either mod, just thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone seeing these mods for the first time, to be wary.
Or if you are managing your companions with another mod be sure not to register/manage Heather with that mod. It can break her behavior and this would be an example of that.
I already had Heather for some time now... reached the end of everything we can do with her. After doing about as many Quests as I can, and new Locations I can find... I am going thru the endless list of Companions that this site has to offer. Although Eppie is pretty generic, I didn't think much of it... I typically like companions that have stories or quests as there are just way too many here that are just space on your drive and and extra gun that keeps getting in your way as you progress thru stories.
However, like you said... every set up is different, what happened with mine may just be a one off, but then again, someone would have to have my set to reproduce, but you never know.. so I posted it just in case. I like Eppie... she is pretty cool and will continue with her until I decide to wipe everything and start fresh yet again.
They work fine, so long as I don't have them both in my group at the same time.... and no, I don't use any multi-companion mods as the two I found, do screw up mods like Heather and especially Companion Ivy. And you don't go thru the hundred hours of Ivy just to have her get borked installing a mod you really don't need.
What does crack me up tho... you have a patch that keeps Heather from speaking about Shaun or your spouse... thru my entire playthough with her, she has yet to mention anything at all in regards to "my past" as it were... unless that only triggers if we return to Vault 111.
So why the random shooting happened lord only knows, The only obvious change are her eyes, which look either left or to the right when speaking to you...It's like she is thinking before speaking, but she never looks straight at you where as before she did...