Early 2023 review: Another expansion of great "The Librarian - Orion's Gate" mod which, sadly, didn't receive enough patience and love, like second addon "Northern Enclave Base" from other creator. Too bad that author of this interiors mod was banned, because maybe he could've polished and expanded his creation, but as for now, after 13 years from initial release, it's not on the same level of quality as main "Orion's Gate" content. I can agree with other users in this section about feeling of "too little" of new content to actually appreciate it. First interiors near starting location felt empty, not "abandoned", but precisely empty and unfinished. Raider camp in modified Tenpenny Tower first floor looked more like a testing area for future updates, rather than actual base where gang can live. City Hall (or something like that, don't remember exact name of this interior" absolutely unfinished with no enemies to fight, or interesting loot/notes to find. And, as in raider camp, most of the rooms in this City Hall blocked by shelves and tables, so you have very little area to actually explore. And crushed spaceship with aliens was good at least for providing large amount of sweet and useful alien epoxy, which you can't find anywhere in the Wasteland, if you didn't complete Mothership Zeta DLC. As for technical side of things: no bugs, freezes or conflicts, so major plus for that. Overall, as in hundreds and maybe even thousands of times before, with many different mods for Fallout 3 from 2009-2012 period, final verdict, again, will be the same. This project has big potential and great idea to expand good main quest mod, but was unfinished due to unknown reasons (again, maybe author wanted to add more before he was banned). Should your try this mod in 2023? This time you need to decide for yourself, because in "Northern Enclave Base" case, without any doubt, I would recommend to use mentioned additional content. But this interiors mod doesn't provide enough life or quality (hell, even quantity) to actually use it. You may explore these new interior cells for 10-15 minutes, just to see what could've been done, but don't expect anything in the same vain as main "Orion's Gate" mod or it's another expansion "Enclave Northern Base". No endorsement this time, but still, if creator will ever see this review. You tried, we all can see and understand it, but that wasn't good and polished enough.
Good add-on, nice to see those unused buildings in East Anacostia being utilised as well as other locations. A few errors in places and some design choices were seemingly done in haste or not thought through, but on the whole very well done, shame there isn't more.
this mod ties up a few loose ends, i enjoy it. if more content is added like more motel rooms similar to the mysterious travelers and the motorcycle repairmans houses, it will get my endorsement.
Not working. I tried to use v1.2 with the latest orion mod and doors still boarded. I use mods with masterupdate. Perhaps that's the problem.
Edit: Yep, that's the problem. This is the second mod I enconter which has problem with masterupdate. The other mod's author said nothing wrong with his mod and I shouldn't use masterupdate.
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WHO WANTS A TTW VERSION ? fully integrated with all the add-ons, interiors, and tweaks ?
(subject to permissions from the other authors of course)
The Librarian Orions Gate
Too bad that author of this interiors mod was banned, because maybe he could've polished and expanded his creation, but as for now, after 13 years from initial release, it's not on the same level of quality as main "Orion's Gate" content.
I can agree with other users in this section about feeling of "too little" of new content to actually appreciate it. First interiors near starting location felt empty, not "abandoned", but precisely empty and unfinished. Raider camp in modified Tenpenny Tower first floor looked more like a testing area for future updates, rather than actual base where gang can live. City Hall (or something like that, don't remember exact name of this interior" absolutely unfinished with no enemies to fight, or interesting loot/notes to find. And, as in raider camp, most of the rooms in this City Hall blocked by shelves and tables, so you have very little area to actually explore.
And crushed spaceship with aliens was good at least for providing large amount of sweet and useful alien epoxy, which you can't find anywhere in the Wasteland, if you didn't complete Mothership Zeta DLC.
As for technical side of things: no bugs, freezes or conflicts, so major plus for that.
Overall, as in hundreds and maybe even thousands of times before, with many different mods for Fallout 3 from 2009-2012 period, final verdict, again, will be the same. This project has big potential and great idea to expand good main quest mod, but was unfinished due to unknown reasons (again, maybe author wanted to add more before he was banned).
Should your try this mod in 2023? This time you need to decide for yourself, because in "Northern Enclave Base" case, without any doubt, I would recommend to use mentioned additional content. But this interiors mod doesn't provide enough life or quality (hell, even quantity) to actually use it. You may explore these new interior cells for 10-15 minutes, just to see what could've been done, but don't expect anything in the same vain as main "Orion's Gate" mod or it's another expansion "Enclave Northern Base".
No endorsement this time, but still, if creator will ever see this review. You tried, we all can see and understand it, but that wasn't good and polished enough.
Of course
Edited to correct mistaken assumption.
Well, honestly it's way too little content.
The raider hotel is just a copy-paste of Tenpenny Tower with blocked doorways.
The spaceship is the best but too short. What's the use of the key?
I hope you will add more. Much more!
I tried to use v1.2 with the latest orion mod and doors still boarded.
I use mods with masterupdate. Perhaps that's the problem.
Edit:
Yep, that's the problem.
This is the second mod I enconter which has problem with masterupdate.
The other mod's author said nothing wrong with his mod and I shouldn't use masterupdate.
What's your opinion about this?