Plays the 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds in 10 tracks. The one that supposedly caused national panic. Includes many qol functions.
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Changelogs
Version 5
- QOL Feature: From the custom menu, If a chapter is selected while the pipboy is off or a different channel playing, the game switches to War of the Worlds, the pipboy radio turns on, and the selected chapter will tart playing. - Changed MP3s to 16bit PCM as recommended. - Made compatible with Dracula 1938 Radio Play.
Version 4
- Edited the menu item text so it will appear at the bottom of the armour inventory - Gave the menu item an icon to prevent the missing icon image appearing
Version 3
- Moved the radio Talking Activator to an unused worldspace to so mod load order does not matter at all. - Includes a spelling fix added in v2.1
Version 2.1
Fixed a spelling mistake in the pipboy menu item
Version 2
Changes and improvements:
- Chapters will now start immediately when selected from the menu
- In-game menu can be opened by using a pipboy item(Default) or hotkey.
- Config file option for choosing which method to open the menu.
-Reduced audio file size to about a 3rd of the original size.
Bugfixs: -Fixed sound stopping bug when in the start menu by changing files to mp3.
- last 5 couple of seconds of audio tracks don't get cut off.
Extra Functions: -Set current chapter to repeat -Bookmark current chapter -Play bookmarked chapters immediately
War of the Worlds (1938) Radio Play
Content Description Cut into 10 chapters, this station plays the infamous full 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds starring Orson Welles based on the book from 1898 reimagined for 1930s America. The transatlantic voices, music, and general theme of this broadcast fits Fallout very well.
Continuous Broadcast: This is a radio station that will broadcast continuously like any other station. You don't have to manually select chapters. They will play in order continuously unless you want to use the functions mentioned below.
What's Different about this mod compared to other drama mods? It has a framework that allows players to chose which part of the drama to go to. So situations like CTD, restarting game, loosing track of the track because of combat or NPC interaction doesn't mean you have to listen from the start again -- you move to the chapter you wee on. Added functionality:
Bookmark current chapter
Move to bookmark
repeat chapter
Start chapter now
Chapter Control Options
At any time, you can choose which chapter to move to, and the station will immediately start playing from that point and continue progressing through the show as normal.
The current chapter can be bookmarked. So when you turn off the pipboy or use a different station, you know which chapter was playing.
There is a function to immediately move back/forward to the bookmarked chapter.
There is a function to set the current chapter to repeat.
Use a key bind or the pipboy menu item to activate the mod's menu
Config File Options
If you don't want to use the default pipboy menu item, you can use a hotkey to activate the in-game menu by setting iMenuType=0 in the config file. This will also remove the pipboy menu item from your inventory. Alternatively download the optional hotkey config file.
The menu key can be changed in the config file. Data\Config\Drarack\WarOfTheWorldsRadio.ini
A txt file with all key codes is included.Data\Config\Drarack\key values.txt
Installation Unzip the files into your FO3 game folder or use a mod manager. Can be installed or uninstalled mid playthrough
Load Order Anywhere
Demo This demos the control users will have in playing chapters. Should be said, if you don't interact, it still plays as any radio does and doesn't require user input. Some people were confused about this.
History and Info
Wikipedia
"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.
The first half of Welles's broadcast had a "breaking news" style of storytelling which, alongside the Mercury Theatre on the Air's lack of commercial interruptions, meant that the first break in the drama came after all of the alarming "news" reports had taken place. Popular legend holds that some of the radio audience may have been listening to The Chase and Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen on NBC and tuned in to "The War of the Worlds" during a musical interlude, thereby missing the clear introduction indicating that the show was a work of science fiction. Modern research suggests that this happened only in rare instances.
In the days after the adaptation, widespread outrage was expressed in the media. The program's news-bulletin format was described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC. Welles apologized at a hastily-called news conference the next morning, and no punitive action was taken. The broadcast and subsequent publicity brought the 23-year-old Welles to the attention of the general public and gave him the reputation of an innovative storyteller and "trickster".
