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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.
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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.
She can only unlock terminals and, to start, can only unlock Novice level terminals. As she unlocks more, she will be able to unlock Advanced, then Expert, and eventually Master.
I've run into an affinity issue with Heather, or I just don't know what I'm doing. Either could be valid.
When I check A Promising Partnership quest it shows a check next to Heather Is In Love With You. However there's no check mark next to You and Heather Are Good Friends. I'm assuming there's a trigger that's supposed to happen to progress into the Romance plot, but I can't figure out what it is. I've checked the Debug Terminal and her dialogue tree and there's nothing there. I've also looped her "Your thoughts" option and exhausted her "What's On Your Mind" options. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Technical Notes: I'm running all Vanilla DLC, plus CBBE, The Eyes of Beauty, Full Dialogue Interface, Pip-Boy Flashlight, and Sim Settlements 3-in1.
I'm not sure what you are asking. Did you look through the affinity progression in the mod description? If you could read through that and be more specific about what you have done and what should come next that would help me a lot.
I completed Sweet Revenge. Checking her dialogue options it no longer shows the Affinity Check. I don't recall having the conversation about remaining friends or being lovers. When I use the "showav CA_Affinity" command with her it shows 0's which I'm assuming is because her affinity is tracked another way?
I'm guessing I tripped that part of the quest but something interrupted the dialogue and the 3 day period came and went. Is there anyway to remove affinity to re-trigger the event?
So the last convo you had with her was the fifth one? The one you can't get until you complete Sweet Revenge and have at least 900 points? You had that and at least three days has passed and she hasn't moved on to the last affinity convo?
I think we started the affinity convo and something external in the game world interrupted it (a fight, etc). It seems likely I just missed the opportunity as the "Is In Love With You" stage of the quest shows checked, while "You're very good friends" remains unchecked. This is likely a case of "user error" on my part. I appreciate you responding to me about this. I've decided to restart my game without Sim Settlements and will pay closer attention this time.
I absolutely love the character by the way. Willow was my favorite and easily one of the two best mods ever written for a Fallout game. Thank you for all your hard work.
I've used Heather in every playthrough since she was released but in my current run I'm having an issue with Into the Fog. The "Sit by the beach" and "Lover's Arch" objectives won't complete. I commanded her to sit in a patio chair and got a conversation about sea monsters, but the objective is still there; when I went to the Arch, I didn't get any special dialogue at all.
Thank you for one of the greatest mods I found on this site. I have an observation though. Not sure if anyone else feels the same but I feel I need to say it anyway because I love this mod so much that I care to share an opinion. One can have Heather as a companion very early in the game . And yet, she has a powerful laser weapon and a never ending supply of bombs which makes progression not lore friendly anymore. I went with her to the Super Duper Mall and I remember it being a big challenge in my first run. With her as a companion I did not need to do anything at all since not only she kills Ferals quickly but also has all the Aggro so enemies always attack her instead of me. She seems to be able to carry a lot of stuff too - more than the average companion. I think you should consider how powerful and useful she can be in order to keep her more lore-friendly.
Heather may be OP in a vanilla game on Normal, but on harder levels, or survival, particularly with enhanced combat mods, she is perfect as is and her laser becomes completely underpowered pretty early.
Thanks, glad you like her but your experience is being affected by other mods.
Heather has zero bombs in her inventory from this mod. I'm not even sure what you mean by bombs. Grenades? She has zero. I'd never give a companion grenades. They'll kill the player.
Heather carries the lowest level laser pistol when you pick her up in this mod and her carryweight, health, etc is in line with the vanillas.
Also, re: OP or not Players have control over that. Don't like her weapon take it away and equip a lousy one on her. Think her outfit is too OP give her something else, etc.
Not sure what mods you are running but in all my bethesda games the companions are mostly there for litteraly a companion and to help carry items. They spend most fights panting on their knees or sitting on their ass going Ahhhh! Eaaah! like Peter Griffen when he falls down. You need some difficulty mods.
I absolutely do not put a grenade in her inventory. As I said above I would never put a grenade into a companion's inventory. The only weapon she will have in her inventory from this mod is her laser pistol as you can see in this image. If she has anything else in there it is added by a mod.
You probably gave it to her. Heather + Grenade equals unstoppable. NEVER GIVE HER A GRENADE! She has become death, destroyer of worlds. However...a Hallucigen nade in her hands is hilarious.
Llama, I’ve lost Heather’s marker on my HUD. I’ve checked her console, and only see an option for her armor, which is still toggled. Only mod I’ve added since running Heather is a pack from Creation from Elianora for settlement decorations.
Edit: OH. I unchecked her quest in my list, I think. I’ll check that when I play this evening. Edit#2: Yup. Reselecting the Partnership quest re-activated her and her armor markers.
Thanks again for the best companion in a game, ever, Llama!
First off this is one of my favorite companion mods. Every new game, I make the trek to recruit her.
But I ran into an issue and can't seem to remedy it.
I dismissed her back to bunker, later went to get her back but was looking at her terminal when it seemed like extra dialogue stuff was showing off even tho she was working fine. So toggled all back on but she seems super quiet now. Will talk if talk to her but no singing, humming or comment on surroundings. Not sure best course of action. Hate playing with reset or uninstall reinstall.
I tried toggling on/off and she will still talk just not as much as before. I have been using AFT mod and even tho she isn't part of that group, she worked fine. Could be something else, I noticed that Strong and Darlene mod have constant convo with each other and maybe just muting her out, but when time will try dismissing everyone and just take her with me for a walk about and see if she gets back to singing and such.
Just seems odd she was fine til dismissed her but afterwards she just seems quieter than normal. Usually I never dismiss her when get her, and havent started nuka world so haven't unlocked her bench yet.
My guess is it's your list or this save since you haven't seen this before. I've had it happen occasionally but it's been in a save that I've been tinkering in esps or adding new mods midsave, etc. Could be the particular mix of mods. I can't say for sure.
Lol yeah, thats always been my downfall. Game runs smooth and no crashes so say to myself, maybe I should add a few more mods or companions. I will probably restart down the road since I have been tinkering. I hate to, since spent alot of time with current save, but few things did wrong this current playthru so it will come, but I want to see if have issues with current loadout for midtear but hard to say if my playing around caused other havoc. Thanks for replying tho, Heather is like American express, never leave FO4 without her. She does hold grudges tho, lol the synth and Piper hate rolls off her. :) Oh and BTW TY for the VIS patches, I was skipping her drinks due to using the wheel and hers not showing up but patch changed all that.
Recently been using this mod and oh wow this is some amazing work you've done.
In Heather's bunker there is a cabinet in her bedroom that requires a key. I can't figure out how to get this key and I've already romanced her including wedding rings and all? A quick google (this posts page is unsearchable sadly) suggest to use Dogmeat to find it, although the poor dog can't find anything. Another snippet of a search result say that it's an Easter egg from the Willow mod you made for an older FO game which I don't have?
Any advice or hints please?
Many thanks and thanks again for such an amazing mod. This is easily one of the best mods I've used.
It's an easter egg that if you haven't played my Willow mod you will probably never stumble on how to unlock it and likely won't appreciate what you found in there if you did.
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Give her 25 pencils or have 25 pencils in your inventory and then talk to her. She'll give you the key and the items in the cabinet won't mean anything to you, but you'll have unlocked the cabinet :P
Make sense...thanks! It at least scratch an itch for me if nothing else ;-)
One thing for sure, should I get an older FO game, I'm definitely getting the Willow mod since then I'll have a new itch that need sorting. Mild OCD and all that. :-D
Probably a very stupid question but does she say anything regarding America Rising 2's Enclave? Seeing that she likes the BoS and carries the last name of a certain outcast i feel she wouldnt approve of an Enclave character.
I can't seem to progress the Sweet Revenge quest, specifically the visit to University Point. The quest marker is in the air above the green and Heather says nothing when prompted. The main University Point related mods are Scrap Everything,University Point-New Settlement Area and Cartographers Map Markers. I don't think any of the other mods should be interfering but if this is common with other mods then I'd love to know.
Edit 1: Forgot that I also had the Unlimited companions mod but I will try what was recommended.
If you get the quest marker and she's asked you to take her there then she should have a convo for you. However, if she's in combat (which you cannot always tell except that she won't talk to you) then she won't talk. Companions don't when they are in combat. So you can kill everything around you that is hostile or go into the console and type
kah
and that will Kill All Hostiles and then she'll talk.
If that isn't the issue then you can set any quest objective that does not set in game in her terminal. You can build on in a settlement (power > misc) or use the one in her bunker.
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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
Regards,
Dan
When I check A Promising Partnership quest it shows a check next to Heather Is In Love With You. However there's no check mark next to You and Heather Are Good Friends. I'm assuming there's a trigger that's supposed to happen to progress into the Romance plot, but I can't figure out what it is. I've checked the Debug Terminal and her dialogue tree and there's nothing there. I've also looped her "Your thoughts" option and exhausted her "What's On Your Mind" options. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Technical Notes:
I'm running all Vanilla DLC, plus CBBE, The Eyes of Beauty, Full Dialogue Interface, Pip-Boy Flashlight, and Sim Settlements 3-in1.
I completed Sweet Revenge. Checking her dialogue options it no longer shows the Affinity Check. I don't recall having the conversation about remaining friends or being lovers. When I use the "showav CA_Affinity" command with her it shows 0's which I'm assuming is because her affinity is tracked another way?
I'm guessing I tripped that part of the quest but something interrupted the dialogue and the 3 day period came and went. Is there anyway to
remove affinity to re-trigger the event?
I absolutely love the character by the way. Willow was my favorite and easily one of the two best mods ever written for a Fallout game. Thank you for all your hard work.
I have an observation though. Not sure if anyone else feels the same but I feel I need to say it anyway because I love this mod so much that I care to share an opinion.
One can have Heather as a companion very early in the game . And yet, she has a powerful laser weapon and a never ending supply of bombs which makes progression not lore friendly anymore. I went with her to the Super Duper Mall and I remember it being a big challenge in my first run. With her as a companion I did not need to do anything at all since not only she kills Ferals quickly but also has all the Aggro so enemies always attack her instead of me.
She seems to be able to carry a lot of stuff too - more than the average companion.
I think you should consider how powerful and useful she can be in order to keep her more lore-friendly.
Regards,
Dan
Heather has zero bombs in her inventory from this mod. I'm not even sure what you mean by bombs. Grenades? She has zero. I'd never give a companion grenades. They'll kill the player.
Heather carries the lowest level laser pistol when you pick her up in this mod and her carryweight, health, etc is in line with the vanillas.
Also, re: OP or not
Players have control over that. Don't like her weapon take it away and equip a lousy one on her. Think her outfit is too OP give her something else, etc.
I see the answer is to just take it from her inventory. I had already considered that but didn't want to break her scripts.
I started a new play through and sure enough she didn't have that player killing grenade.
I must have given it to her very early by accident, completely forgot about it, then cursed her descendants repeatedly for all her PK'ing.
/derp
Only mod I’ve added since running Heather is a pack from Creation from Elianora for settlement decorations.
Edit: OH. I unchecked her quest in my list, I think. I’ll check that when I play this evening.
Edit#2: Yup. Reselecting the Partnership quest re-activated her and her armor markers.
Thanks again for the best companion in a game, ever, Llama!
Regards,
Dan
But I ran into an issue and can't seem to remedy it.
I dismissed her back to bunker, later went to get her back but was looking at her terminal when it seemed like extra dialogue stuff was showing off even tho she was working fine. So toggled all back on but she seems super quiet now. Will talk if talk to her but no singing, humming or comment on surroundings. Not sure best course of action. Hate playing with reset or uninstall reinstall.
Also this is pre-update version of FO4
Just seems odd she was fine til dismissed her but afterwards she just seems quieter than normal. Usually I never dismiss her when get her, and havent started nuka world so haven't unlocked her bench yet.
In Heather's bunker there is a cabinet in her bedroom that requires a key. I can't figure out how to get this key and I've already romanced her including wedding rings and all? A quick google (this posts page is unsearchable sadly) suggest to use Dogmeat to find it, although the poor dog can't find anything. Another snippet of a search result say that it's an Easter egg from the Willow mod you made for an older FO game which I don't have?
Any advice or hints please?
Many thanks and thanks again for such an amazing mod. This is easily one of the best mods I've used.
It's an easter egg that if you haven't played my Willow mod you will probably never stumble on how to unlock it and likely won't appreciate what you found in there if you did.
One thing for sure, should I get an older FO game, I'm definitely getting the Willow mod since then I'll have a new itch that need sorting. Mild OCD and all that. :-D
Again sorry if this is a stupid question
I can't seem to progress the Sweet Revenge quest, specifically the visit to University Point. The quest marker is in the air above the green and Heather says nothing when prompted. The main University Point related mods are Scrap Everything, University Point-New Settlement Area and Cartographers Map Markers. I don't think any of the other mods should be interfering but if this is common with other mods then I'd love to know.
Edit 1: Forgot that I also had the Unlimited companions mod but I will try what was recommended.
kah
and that will Kill All Hostiles and then she'll talk.
If that isn't the issue then you can set any quest objective that does not set in game in her terminal. You can build on in a settlement (power > misc) or use the one in her bunker.