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About this mod
Adds a new ending for the quest I Could Make You Care, allowing Veronica to join the Eastern Brotherhood of Steel and support Elder Lyons.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
This Tale of Two Wastelands mod adds a new ending for Veronica's companion quest, I Could Make You Care, allowing her to join the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel, giving her a new outfit, some new dialogue, a new betrayal scenario and brand new ending slides! This mod was meant to give Veronica a slightly happier ending than the two original vanilla ones while still making sense for her character and staying lore-friendly and realistic.
In order to unlock the new ending, accessed by selecting a new dialogue line after the final confrontation with the Hidden Valley elder:
After joining Lyons:
The player can betray Veronica by having her join Lyons, but later finishing Broken Steel and destroying the Citadel at the end.
The dialogue was fully voice-acted using the XVASynth AI models for Veronica and Elder Lyons, trained by DanRuta.
This mod requires Tale of Two Wastelands 3.3.2. The place in your load order doesn't matter all that much - the potential for conflict with other mods is quite small, unless they modify Veronica's companion quest/dialogue or touch some of Hidden Valley's scripts. Uninstallation in the middle of the game, especially after having Veronica join Lyons, is not recommended.
Potential to-do list:
In order to unlock the new ending, accessed by selecting a new dialogue line after the final confrontation with the Hidden Valley elder:
- the player must have reached the point of Fallout 3's main story when the Citadel becomes accessible
- the Citadel cannot have been destroyed at the end of Broken Steel
After joining Lyons:
- Veronica receives a new perk, Future Made of Broken Steel, which makes her ignore all enemy DT when attacking. In order for the companion perk to work, you need to switch the uNPCPerks setting in jip_nvse.ini to 1.
- Veronica's dismissal location in the D.C. changes from Megaton to Citadel - A Ring, in the library, together with other Scribes. Her Mojave dismissal locations stay the same.
- Veronica will refuse to enter the Hidden Valley bunker with you, like in the vanilla leaving BoS ending.
- Her vanilla ending slides are overwritten with brand new slides - a new death slide, a normal Lyons ending slide, and two slides for the betrayal scenario.
- a new conversation about Veronica with Elder Lyons becomes available.
The player can betray Veronica by having her join Lyons, but later finishing Broken Steel and destroying the Citadel at the end.
- If Veronica is in the Citadel during the destruction, she will die and become inacessible.
- If Veronica is together with you in the Enclave tower, she will become angry and attack, stopping being your companion.
- If you destroy the Citadel but Veronica is not there, while also not being with you in the Enclave tower, she will confront you the next time you interact with her.
The dialogue was fully voice-acted using the XVASynth AI models for Veronica and Elder Lyons, trained by DanRuta.
This mod requires Tale of Two Wastelands 3.3.2. The place in your load order doesn't matter all that much - the potential for conflict with other mods is quite small, unless they modify Veronica's companion quest/dialogue or touch some of Hidden Valley's scripts. Uninstallation in the middle of the game, especially after having Veronica join Lyons, is not recommended.
Potential to-do list:
- an FPGE patch with new dialogue and consequences for Veronica after the Hoover Dam battle (the mod will work with FPGE, it just won't acknowledge the new ending)
- (maybe) additional interactions and dialogue between Veronica and people at the Citadel?