Adding this here cause some don't read the Description.
Addressing the elephant in the room....
Why isn't there a full replacement mod for the Serious Handler????
Between a couple friends of mine in the modding group. We've research and poked around on what causes the Serious Handler to appear as your main Handler. It came down to a couple Save Flags and an Exe changes that actually made the change work replacing the Handler with the Serious Handler. The problems though I will list below....
Now, this allows the Serious Handler to be in all 6 Expedition stages (Ancient Forest, WildSpire Waste, Coral Highlands, Rotten Vale, Elder's Recess, and Hoarfrost Reach) but the Serious Handler doesn't show up in the Guiding Lands. This here is pretty important for some of us in the modding community as the Guiding Lands is kind of the End game of it all. No Handler in Guiding Lands, no Quests to go through in Guiding Lands.
No Handler? No Problem! Technically we can put the quest board where ever we want but I would need to update the collision on the Questboard...which I don't mind doing but laying over the Serious Handler we lose immersion/functionality of the NPC handler. Makes me sad here so I never made it as an option.
Cutscenes that use the handler doesn't have a quick switch option to replace because they use the Handler's specific animations of bones tied to the NPC model. You can't just change npc002 to npc026. You can change the model and the voice all you want but it doesn't look natural. I would like it to look natural but I am not willing to spend hours and hours editing animations just for the Serious Handler.
I can place the Serious Handler in each camp manually, but she will have no Quest Handling Functionality...She is pretty much a pointless NPC...if you are okay with that. We can release a hack that will change your state of the game to use the Serious Handler but you will break your save which not everyone will enjoy this option.....kind of defeats the purpose of playing the game. I can force the switch of the NPC via exe edit but you will lose her in the Guiding Lands and you can't get quests or use your lures, which lures are kind of important.
The other issue for me....and it's just me. There is only a thousand ish downloads for any inkling of the Serious Handler. This makes me believe that the demand for the Serious Handler is actually really low and the regular Handler is just fine. This is why I stopped looking into any other possibilities for the the Serious Handler. If someone want's to take up this takes please by all means, give it a go. But it's going to take a lot of time going through the memory instructions and actually not trip any flags.
Have you tried adding serious handler in as an Outfit for handler like MR X? Once you finish that, all you would really need to figure out is how to replace the voice lines, right? We've already got portrait replaces!
This also serves a dual purpose of adding other characters in like, for examples, Deku From MHA or Inosuke from KNY. And if we figure out how to replace the voice lines, technically you can make an ALL NEW handler, like, Insert your OC into the game. Just record your voice lines, whether by A.I. or yourself, if you want and BAM. You've replaced Handler with someone you want.
the mod has a bug where it comes after the seliana canteen (grandmeowster) animation, even if you try to skip it.
also what about that full handler replacement mod? i still don't know why it isn't as easy as flipping a switch seeing as serious handler was with you for a few missions
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JumpAddressing the elephant in the room....
Why isn't there a full replacement mod for the Serious Handler????
Between a couple friends of mine in the modding group. We've research and poked around on what causes the Serious Handler to appear as your main Handler. It came down to a couple Save Flags and an Exe changes that actually made the change work replacing the Handler with the Serious Handler. The problems though I will list below....
I can place the Serious Handler in each camp manually, but she will have no Quest Handling Functionality...She is pretty much a pointless NPC...if you are okay with that. We can release a hack that will change your state of the game to use the Serious Handler but you will break your save which not everyone will enjoy this option.....kind of defeats the purpose of playing the game. I can force the switch of the NPC via exe edit but you will lose her in the Guiding Lands and you can't get quests or use your lures, which lures are kind of important.
The other issue for me....and it's just me. There is only a thousand ish downloads for any inkling of the Serious Handler. This makes me believe that the demand for the Serious Handler is actually really low and the regular Handler is just fine. This is why I stopped looking into any other possibilities for the the Serious Handler. If someone want's to take up this takes please by all means, give it a go. But it's going to take a lot of time going through the memory instructions and actually not trip any flags.
Once you finish that, all you would really need to figure out is how to replace the voice lines, right?
We've already got portrait replaces!
This also serves a dual purpose of adding other characters in like, for examples, Deku From MHA or Inosuke from KNY.
And if we figure out how to replace the voice lines, technically you can make an ALL NEW handler, like, Insert your OC into the game.
Just record your voice lines, whether by A.I. or yourself, if you want and BAM.
You've replaced Handler with someone you want.
also what about that full handler replacement mod? i still don't know why it isn't as easy as flipping a switch seeing as serious handler was with you for a few missions
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