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Allows you to completely reconfigure everything about your character, including re-allocating all skill increases and S.P.E.C.I.A.L. whilst preserving any bonuses from skill books, etc. Correctly removes all perks from all DLC and mods, and includes patches for More Perks and More Traits to ensure that all the perk effects are reverted.
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Description
Complete Respec allows you to completely remake your character. I was always bothered by the permanency of all the decisions you made during character progression, now nothing is permanent - it can all be re-done.
This mod works by resetting your character back to their level-1 state, whilst remembering a few important things such as reward perks, and then giving you all your experience back so you can level up all over again. This means you are free to pick new perks at level-up and completely re-allocate all your skill points however you wish.
You are also given the option to change anything else you want about your character. So that means name, S.P.E.C.I.A.L., tag skills, traits, appearance and race (meaning this mod is the only safe way to change race without the game removing all your perks) - basically you can re-do everything you've ever chosen during character generation and leveling-up.
To respec your character you must be level 2 or higher. Use the Vit-o-Matic Vigor Tester in Doc Mitchell's house again, and pay attention to the warning which is displayed.
When respec'ing you retain all bonuses from Skill Books and Bobbleheads, etc. Intense Training, Tag!, and other such bonuses are removed, but you're free to get them again if you re-select those perks. The bonus SPECIAL point gained from completing Lonesome Road is also removed, but you will get the chance to re-allocate it again when you're done. Implant bonuses are preserved, but they are removed whilst respec'ing and re-added once finished. This means they don't show up when you're given the option to re-allocate your SPECIAL so you'll need to remember which ones you have (so that you don't put a SPECIAL to 10, forgetting that you get a free +1 from an Implant).
During the respec process you might get notifications that your reputation with certain factions has changed. This is due to some perks adding reputation when you receive them. However, Complete Respec accounts for that. The reputation effects are undone when you begin respec'ing, allowing the perks to re-add the reputation when your done. Basically you can ignore any reputation notifications.
Installation
Complete Respec requires:
The mod will not check for these dependencies so make sure you have the latest version of each or things will go wrong. If you have any issues, please ensure the plugins are up-to-date before reporting it.
Uninstallation
This mod can be uninstalled at anytime, just not in the middle of respec'ing your character.
Compatibility
Complete Respec should work fine with the overwhelming majority of perk mods. The only exception is perks that have non-standard implementation, and for which the author didn't account for the loss of the perk.
An example is the vanilla perk, Scrounger. Acquiring the perk sets a global variable so that more ammo can be found. However when the perk is removed the global is not reset, so Complete Respec fixes this by manually resetting the global so the perk's effect is correctly removed along with the perk. Other examples are Animal Friend, Bloody Mess, Ferocious Loyalty, Fortune Finder, Friend of the Night, and Implant GRX - these are all correctly handled by Complete Respec.
Basically, mods which have perks with these sorts of implementation will require a patch so that the perks are undone when removed.
The Mojave Investor and Shells for Shelly perks from More Perks make permanent leveled list edits. The Complete Respec patch solves this by cancelling out the changes if the perks are removed during a respec, but removing the Complete Respec patch will also remove this change meaning the unused perks will have their effects again. Therefore you will need the patch loaded even after you respec to ensure these two perks aren't affecting gameplay when they shouldn't. Alternatively, the way to fix this permanently is to uninstall More Perks, make a clean save, and then re-install it. The obvious downside to doing this is that you'll lose any perks from More Perks (but hey - with this mod you can just respec and select them again).
Known Issues
This mod will attempt to fix broken stats - those being stats which have a permanent negative modifier. This can be the result of using ForceAV or ModAV in the console, or if a mod uses either function inappropriately. The problem is that skill books and bobbleheads add a permanent positive modifier. Hence, if your stats have been broken this mod will fix them but not preserve such bonuses (as the other mod has effectively cancelled them out). For most people this won't be a problem as stats will rarely be broken, but if you wish to fix your stats the following can serve as a guide to how.
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You can fix broken stats by using ModAV and ForceAV in the console to manually re-add the proper bonuses. To check the components of each stat, you can use the console command Player.GetAVInfo [stat name]. The components of an actor value are:
Reference Base Value - For skills this can be ignored. For S.P.E.C.I.A.L. this value is only used in the absence of a SetAV override.
Derived Value - This is only present for skills. It is the base value of the skill calculated from the governing S.P.E.C.I.A.L., Luck, and the default starting value.
SetAV Override - For skills this seems to be the total skill increases allocated when you level up. For S.P.E.C.I.A.L. this value will take precedence over the Reference Base Value. It can easily be manipulated using the command SetAV.
Temporary Modifier - The bonuses from magic effects such as aid, armour enchantments, temporary debuffs, and some perk abilities. Removing your armour is always best before messing with stats, and the console command Player.DispelAllSpells will remove temporary effects.
Permanent Modifier - This is the main one. In my opinion, this should never be negative. Positive values are most likely from skill books and bobbleheads, or even some quest rewards. If the permanent modifier is negative, the easiest way to fix it is to respec once (as this mod will fix it for you), or you can fix it manually using Player.ModAV [stat name] [value] where [value] is the negative of the modifier. For example, if you have a modifier of -7 for the Guns skill, use Player.ModAV Guns 7. You'll then need to work out if you should have any bonuses from skill books or bobbleheads and re-apply them in the same way.
Damage Modifier - This is very rarely used in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. It is the repairable damage done to a stat, which differs from the temporary modifier as it is permanent until you use the corresponding Restore effect to reverse the damage (think attribute damaging spells from Oblivion). It can only ever be negative. You can reverse this damage using the console command Player.RestoreAV [stat name] [value] if you wish, and DamageAV can be used if you need to apply damage for whatever reason.
Level-up Value - You can ignore this. It is simply the value that will be shown on a level up screen. It includes the permanent modifier and is truncated by the maximum value of the stat - e.g. skill cap at 100. The function GetPermAV will also return this value.
Reference Base Value - For skills this can be ignored. For S.P.E.C.I.A.L. this value is only used in the absence of a SetAV override.
Derived Value - This is only present for skills. It is the base value of the skill calculated from the governing S.P.E.C.I.A.L., Luck, and the default starting value.
SetAV Override - For skills this seems to be the total skill increases allocated when you level up. For S.P.E.C.I.A.L. this value will take precedence over the Reference Base Value. It can easily be manipulated using the command SetAV.
Temporary Modifier - The bonuses from magic effects such as aid, armour enchantments, temporary debuffs, and some perk abilities. Removing your armour is always best before messing with stats, and the console command Player.DispelAllSpells will remove temporary effects.
Permanent Modifier - This is the main one. In my opinion, this should never be negative. Positive values are most likely from skill books and bobbleheads, or even some quest rewards. If the permanent modifier is negative, the easiest way to fix it is to respec once (as this mod will fix it for you), or you can fix it manually using Player.ModAV [stat name] [value] where [value] is the negative of the modifier. For example, if you have a modifier of -7 for the Guns skill, use Player.ModAV Guns 7. You'll then need to work out if you should have any bonuses from skill books or bobbleheads and re-apply them in the same way.
Damage Modifier - This is very rarely used in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. It is the repairable damage done to a stat, which differs from the temporary modifier as it is permanent until you use the corresponding Restore effect to reverse the damage (think attribute damaging spells from Oblivion). It can only ever be negative. You can reverse this damage using the console command Player.RestoreAV [stat name] [value] if you wish, and DamageAV can be used if you need to apply damage for whatever reason.
Level-up Value - You can ignore this. It is simply the value that will be shown on a level up screen. It includes the permanent modifier and is truncated by the maximum value of the stat - e.g. skill cap at 100. The function GetPermAV will also return this value.
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