Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

3: Like you could have set up for an interesting thing of how the people trying to get in were people who found out about this secret elite vaultdome thing and wanted in, but the elites were like "PSH, no, fuck off, scrubs." and then forced their way in and that caused it to fail, but noooope, it's just dipshits and raiders I guess. Very Fallout 3 writing honestly.

This presents several plot points.
1: Your character is made immune to it as they have the cure in them apparently. (Oh and there's another character who you meet once right the beginning and have a forced conversation with, then NEVER SEE AGAIN EVER, who is apparently also immune.), but everyone else has to wear these suits to keep themselves alive or be in stasis I guess.
2: If this is the case, why the fuck didn't the raiders immediately die?

- one of the lead scientists, supposedlyone of the Best and Brightest who is put into this Cty of the Future pre-war, let in a bunch of raiders because they said they were scientists with a cure for Seltsam Syndrome, despite their admittedly Paper Thin Disguises of a tattered, stolen labcoat (seriously his own logs talk about this and make it very clear he was blatantly an idiot and then he blames everyone else, ugh.)

- Seltsam Syndrome, the 'major plot point'?? for want of a better word for the entire mod is just Ghoulification combined with a sort of really slow acting Post-Cryonic Syndrome that doesn't require going into cryo stasis, so it's hardly fucking interesting, original, or even all that threatening.
- Supposedly the Boulder Dome itself is full of people sick with it. SO WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY ALL!?

- No really, lots of fucking backtracking, I'm not kidding. It's fucking awful and tiresome and I just spammed movetoqt to avoid it before I was even halfway through because holy FUCK. Even if you fast travel to the nearest area, there's still a trek through a BUNCH of load zones, some of which are literally ONE FUCKING TINY ROOM BIG, fucksake. SO much bullshit padding!

That is the only good points of the mod.
The bad points?
- Abysmal dialogue that's stilted, unrealistic and corny as fuck for the majority of it
- sideplots that come out of nowhere with barely any resolution or explaination
- uninteresting characters with piss all motivation or depth
- MASSIVE amounts of backtracking across the whole length of the area CLEARLY just used to pad out the playtime of this "DLC sized Mod" *cough bullshit cough cough*

+ Deadpan the Ghoul playwright companion is kinda adorable and fun, as is Lenore, the Ghoulified Cat who acts as a sort of... companion's companion really?
+ The Boulder Underground is a really nice Ghoul City and is pretty nicely designed and attractive, though is basically visited for a short while and then left forever, and NEVER brought up again at all.
+ a couple cool looking guns, like the Gauss Compact Rifle and a nice, hightech looking compact 9mm.

Beyond boulder dome is getting worse, and worse, and worse...

...god dammit i wish i never installed this pile of crap it doesn't even have any good weapons so far or gear that's any good and I just fucking want out i am SO tired of it.

oh dang I found the backer satellite easter egg in Outer Wilds :D

oh no the fairi.es are stuck in tar it seems ;;

Oh. of COURSE. OF COURSE they set this jackass to be Essential so he's immortal and can only ever be knocked unconscious. OF COURSE he is.

for fucks sake.

hilariously enough though if you accidentally shoot him, like I did (I swear), the rest of the NCR soldiers there DO NOT go hostile. just one guy, his lietenant, who you can murder with impunity, and the other soldiers just sit there like "eh whatever".

but Despot? Nah he's immortal.

like, do I even need to say what a fucking plothole this is?

like... holy fuck, dude. then WHY THE FUCK did you bring me here instead of just shoot me on sight so I didn't fucking infect everyone who talked to me, INCLUDING YOU!?

the FUCK is wrong with you?? I'm supposed to take this guy seriously and at face value? Bull shit.

goddammit. fucksake.
whoever wrote this bullshit script needs a SLAP.

Okay so I finally meet this NCR dingbat, Mr Despot. who is all like "blah blah the Brotherhood brought you here, told you lies and halftruths, like the half truth that the virus can be cured. It can. only with BULLETS"
"but I'm cured, they cured me!" I reasonably say, because holy fuck, like, literally, i am cured.
"NO that's a HALF TRUTH. (again??) you're still a carrier!"

oh my god it's a bug

it's a bug from 2013 that still isn't fucking fixed oh my GOD

oh AND I keep getting popup messages saying "You do not have an ignition key" seemingly at random and what the fuck is that about.

(oh and the two kidnapped/absconded feral ghouls?? because this mod is badly written, whereas all the other cybernetic ghouls are set to be friendly so they do not attack you - and neither do companions with you - these two never are. and as an additional note, if you kill them even in self defence, the two npcs go immediately hostile for not dying to them. fucksake.)

I'm genuinely tempted to just... kill everyone and everything in this mod just so I can fucking leave asap and just delete the goddamn mod but fffuuuck... there had BETTER be some decent fucking quest rewards from this. christ.