About this mod
Introduces some variety into your hacking by replacing the hacking minigame with Wordle, the well-known hangman-esque word game, on some or all terminals.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Check out the official version of Wordle at the NY Times website for more info.
(Click the question mark and select How to Play to see the rules.)
Features
- NEW: controller support
- NEW: now includes 4-letter and 6-letter dictionaries and boards (and support for others of length 3 to 9)
- NEW: difficulty settings for each lock level - harder terminals now tend to have shorter words or fewer attempts*
- NEW: INI options that let you tweak or disable these new features
- NEW: customizable fonts
- a new minigame that integrates seamlessly into the terminal hacking menu
- 5-letter dictionaries with over 2000 possible answers and over 10000 possible guesses, just like the real thing
- a dictionary-agnostic implementation that lets you replace those dictionaries with any others, or modify the existing ones at will (as long as you keep the formatting)
- a configuration file that lets you control the following:
- the percentage of terminals that will have their minigame replaced with Wordle (default: 100 %)
- whether terminals should remember half-played games (default*, harder), or reset on each visit like vanilla hacking (easier)
- the path to the keyboard layout file, see below (default: qwerty)
- separate JSON configuration files for different keyboard layouts (included options are QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, DVORAK, COLEMAK, or an alphabetically ordered layout for QWERTY, and it is very easy to create your own, see article)
- a successful hack rewards XP based on terminal lock difficulty, and correctly increments the active hacking challenge (A Healthy Glow/H4x Supr3m3)
- a locked out terminal can be accessed again with the Computer Whiz perk
* You can set bAllowRepeatedAttempts to 1 in the INI if you really want behavior similar to vanilla hacking, where the terminal chooses a new word on each visit unless you exhaust your guesses. But if you leave bAllowRepeatedAttempts at 0 as suggested, it makes hacking reasonably difficult instead of giving you unlimited attempts, which finally makes the Computer Whiz perk relevant. This is one of the reasons I chose to set 0 as default. Others may become apparent as more features are added.
Installation
- make sure you have all the requirements
- the mod is packaged as a FOMOD archive for your convenience, use your favourite mod manager to install
Controls
- mouse and keyboard: use keyboard keys or click the on-screen keyboard
- controller: use the D-pad to move the highlight around, A to enter letter, Y to enter guess, X to delete, B remains the terminal exit button
Planned Features
- game statistics and streaks (since 1.1.0, scores are already being collected quietly)
- conversion to ESPless (you DO NOT have my permission to convert this into an ESPless mod, even though it is already somewhat structured for that; I promise I will do it myself)
- support for layouts and dictionaries in different languages (this is in the more distant future, as it will require me to familiarize myself with the Oblivion Font Editor to create my own fonts and/or gain permissions for some existing fonts that are suitable, and also a lot of feedback from the community)
- ... and some other really cool stuff I'd rather not mention in case I'm not able to do it
- you are very welcome to share your own ideas and feature requests in the comments section!
Credits
- NVSE team for making New Vegas Script Extender
- xNVSE team for feeding it steroids
- jazzisparis for JIP LN NVSE and UIO
- c6, carxt, lStewieAl and WallSoGB for JohnnyGuitar NVSE
- Demorome and Trooper for ShowOff NVSE
- TommInfinite for SUP NVSE
- Josh Wardle for Wordle
- Don Ho for Notepad++
- Ivan Perdona for his showcase video
- Wenderer for the FOMOD Creation Tool