v4 changelog


Damage & Weapons Overhaul
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Damage & Weapons Overhaul Changes -

- Removed VATS timer changes, they sucked
- Decreased Jamming rates
- FN-FAL Added
- Desert Eagle Added
- Empty container text removed
- Jam numbers turned down drastically more
- New OPtional mod witah NO jamming effects

Power Armor Overhaul
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- Power Armor now requires fission batteries to run, otherwise you'll lack the benefits of wearing it..
(Please note, this doesn't actually effect what it does yet...it'll just consume batteries)

Ammo Overhaul
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- All ammo's given weights


Level Balancing
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- New optional mod added which allows INT to effect skills again at default values.


SPECIAL Overhaul
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Coming soon ;)

NEW MODULE -
HUNGER THIRST SLEEP
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- Being well rested and sleeping no longer heals crippled limbs
- Being well rested DOES still heal health
- Being well rested no longer gives an XP bonus
- Vendors now sell water. Dont forget, your robot in your house purifies water too.
- Timescale is turned down to 10x real life time

please see the included HTS readme file for more details.

NEW MODULE -
New Weapon Integration
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- Integrates vashts1985 and Millenia's "Better Arsenal" weapons.

Graphical & Sound Changes
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- Integrated vashts1985 FN-FAL and Desert Eagle. Thanks vashts1985 and Millenia
- Thank you AnT01 For the ammo weight mod which is now integrated!
- Integrated new AG sound patches

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jaynus Realism Overhaul v4

Hi,

This mod is geared towards dramatically changing the Fallout 3 Gameplay in 2 major ways. Firstly,
to bring back the original "realistic" feelings of the older Fallout games. Next, to give
everything a better sense of realism. This means, sadly, some things wont be balanced once the
true realism starts to go in (like it already has). However, the idea is for this mod to be
challenging, fun and immersive.

Also, please remmember, this mod is a large work in progress and I am only 1 person. I am docing
everything as fast as I can, but frankly I would rather be adding new features rather than writing
down details of my changes. Therefore, so far, all of my changes *are* listed here, but not to a
bit-for-bit level of detail. The documentation will get better as I feel like writing them (like
this blurb your reading right now :) )

Thanks and enjoy!
a

-jaynus
[email protected]

Check for updates at
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=506


! WARNING WARNING WARNING !

This new version has NOT BEEN TESTED FOR SAVE COMPATABILITY WITH OTHER MODS. Please report any
problems, but be careful to CREATE SAVE BACKUPS BEFORE RESUMING A GAME WITH THESE CHANGES.
Specifically -
- HungerThirstSleep will have adverse effects turning it on/off
- The Ammo Overhaul modifies global base settings for the weight. Please see the included
Uninstall ESP inside of the "AmmoWEight-611.zip"

! WARNING WARNING WARNING !


1. Introduction

This mod is broken out modularly. It currently consists of Modules for you to choose from, and
plenty more to come. However, it is STRONGLY RECCOMMENDED THAT YOU USE THEM ALL TOGETHER. Using
the loot table overhauls without the rest of the chemical overhauls will make the game extremely
difficult. Mix-and-match at your own warning. Also, its recommended that you only play this mod
on VH(VeryHARD) setting, as everything is balanced towards that. Remmember, this MOD is made modular but
it is best to use all of the modules together for the best experience.

Following is a list of this modules.

Damage & Weapons Overhaul
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this esp overhauls just about all weapon damages, ranges and speeds. This is mainly done to make them
more balanced against eachother and to realism. Additionally falling damage, critical damage effects,
fall damage, etc. have also been modified. This can be considered a drastic, massive overhaul of the
combat system.

2 Options (PICK ONE)-
jay - Damage & Weapons Overhaul - Keeps new, low jamming numbers
jay - Damage & Weapons Overhaul NO JAMMING - Removes jamming changes


Big Booms
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Overhauls all explosives damages and makes them much, MUCH more deadly. This includes base damage,
explosion radius, and radiation levels.


Chem & Food Realism
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This overhauls just about all food and chem effects to make them A. more useful and B. more even.
Many of the changes made in this module are based off of the older Fallout games specs, as well as
overall "common sense" realism.


Level Balancing
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Overhauls level progression and such. Thanks to XFO overhaul for the idea of limiting skill points.
This has been used but changed significantly. Now your level much slower and difficulty multipliers
have been REMOVED. All experience gains have been dropped by about 30-60%, depending on the activity.
The game should go much slower now, and not reward useless lock picking anymore.

Level Balancing - My original level balancing changes that removes INT from skill equation
Level Balancing INT ENABLED - CHAnges INT MOdificiations to skills back to venilla settings.


Power Armor Overhaul
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Currently, this only changes power armor to be weightless (and increase carrying capacity by
55 points) while wearing it. However, this will eventually develope into an overall
restructuring of the way power armor works. Sneaking in power armor has now been disabled.


Loot Overhaul - Chemicals
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This overhaul is the beginnings of the restructuring of all the loot tables involving chemicals
and drugs. The overall eventual goal of this module will be to realistically distribute drugs
and medicine to more appropriate locations. Not all good civilians use psycho, which is a hard
core military drug; and not all raiders are going to have medical supplies available while they
are out in the wasteland hunting caravans.

Loot Overhaul - Ammo
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Ammo is now much harder to find and rarer thoughout the wasteland. Stop throwing away your bullets.


Sneak Overhaul
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This overhaul is going to be geared toward revamping sneak difficulty, multipliers, and run speed.
There are 2 types to this, Hardcore and normal, the differences as follows:
- Sneak Overhaul Hardcore
- Hides all sneak strings. You now dont know if your hidden or seen, listen for it
- Sneak Overhaul Normal
- Changes to Cuation string to [Hidden], and the "Danger" string to [Detected]. This is
like old oblivion sneaking, where you now only know if your spotted because they are
actively attacking you.


Radiation Overhaul
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All Radiation has been increased. Your radiation level does not decrease over time, water is now more
radiated, and you accumulate radiation approx. 3x as fast.


SPECIAL Overhaul
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This is a placeholder and to help save compat for the SPECIAL overhaul package which will be in the
next release.


HUngerTHirstSleep
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See included README FOr details


Ammo Overhaul
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Reduces drop rates of all types of ammo, as well as sales. Decreases their prices slightly, but
also gives them weight.


Following is a breakdown of the different Modules and what they do. This takes us to actual technical
breakdown of the changes made.

PLEASE NOTE, CHECK THE CHANGELOG FILES FOR UPDATES

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Damage & Weapons Overhaul (No Explosives)

this esp overhauls just about all weapon damages, ranges and speeds. This is mainly done to make them
more balanced against eachother and to realism. Additionally falling damage, critical damage effects,
fall damage, etc. have also been modified.

Major Changes Made:
- All weapon damages increased drastically
- Skill does NOT effect weapon damage anymore, only your accuracy (70%, more than vanilla)
- Weapon conidition now only slightly effects accuracy, but it DOES effect damage more now
- Adjusted values for running/crouching/etc accuracy
- All rifle ranges increased accordingly. Scoped weapons have longer range than iron-sights
- All weapon volicities modified to the caliber and size of the weapon. e.g. the assault rifles
should have higher volicity than 10mm sub machinegun...duh.
- Critical leg damage actually stops you from walking
- Falling now actually hurts
- Mines now blow up faster
- Chance to do critical damage increased for specific melee weapons..a sludgehammer will always hurt,
while brass knuckles dont rip legs off.

- Crippled leg damage
- 1 leg = 15% normal speed, your limping
- 2 legs = 5% normal speed, your crawling
- I thought this might be a little drastic; but if you cant hammer a stimpak into you fast..its
obviously going to hurt.
- Weapon Damages
- All rifle damage incrased 70-80%
- All pistol damage increased 60-70%
- All melee damage increased about 80%

Accuracy vs. Damage Changes -
- Damage is only affected by your weapons condition.
- Accuracy is greatly effected by your skill. You get spreads based on your skill
The math on these is pretty whacky, but suffice it to say you're looking at around
70% less accuracy at low levels than higher skills compared to vanilla.
- Weapon condition now affects REGULAR jamming. This means a weapon will randomly jam when attempting to fire.
90+ = 1% random jam, 5% reload jam
- 80-90 = 2% random jam, 10% reload jam
- 70-80 = 10% random jam, 15% reload jam
- 50-70 = 15% random jam, 40% reload jam
- 30-50 = 25% random jam, 75% reload jam
- 20-30 = 40% random jam, 100% reload jam
- 10-20 = 60% random jam. 100% reload jam
- 0-10 = 60% random jam, 100% reload jam
- Crippled leg movement moved to 30% speed for 1 leg cripple, 10% speed for 2 legs
- Made the following changes to repairing:
- You can now canabilize and cross repair between different items of the same type
- All types of Power Armors can now be canablized and cross repaired
- Laser/Plasma Pistol/Rifle - Can now be repaired with: Conductor, Fisson Battery
- All weapon degredation decreased by 40%
- All armor degredation decreased by 40%
- Weapon condition now effects chance for criticals more
- Weapon condition now effects rate of fire.
- Weapon condition now effects reload jams more

VATS changes -
- you now take 50% extra damage while in vats
- VATS now delays you longer, due to the increased accurac
- your weapon now degrades normally in vats
- AP now restores half as fast. gotta call your shots...
- Bonus to crit chance via VATS has been decreased

Gore changes -
- reduced dismemberment/exploding chances

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Power Armor Overhaul

The only change made here right now is making power armor weightless when worn.

- Increases carrying capacity by 100lbs when worn (therefore, negates 45lb weight of armor, plus adds an
additional 55lb of carrying capacity)
- Its now extremely hard to sneak in Power ARmor.
- POwer armor now requires fission batteries.

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Big Booms

Overhauls all explosives damages and makes them much, MUCH more deadly. This includes base damage,
explosion radius, and radiation levels.

Major Changes:
- All explosives damages increased anywhere between 70-200%
- All explosives radius increased at least 70% (A grenade blowing up in the same 5x5 room should
rip you to shreads...)
- All nuclear weapon radiation fallout and damages have been increased. We assume all are dirty
bombs

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Level Balancing

Overhauls level progression and such. Thanks to XFO overhaul for the idea of limiting skill points.
This has been used but changed significantly. Now your level much slower and difficulty multipliers
have been REMOVED. All experience gains have been dropped by about 30-60%, depending on the activity.
The game should go much slower now, and not reward useless lock picking anymore.

- Skill Points are now limited to 10 points her level. Period. Intelligence no longer effects these, and
you have to make some important choices on where your putting your skills now.
- XP Changes
- All XP gains dropped by about 30-70% Overall, heres the breakdown
- All XP gains for hacking & picking have been dropped by about 85%. Also, gains on hard/veryhard are
about 20% higher than what they should be. If your a master at it, you get more xp for it.
- XP Gain on location discovery raised about 20%
- XP Gain for easy/very easy enemies is dropped to almost nothing.
- Level cap at lvl20 is still in place since we cant fix all the issues turning the cap off causes.
- Changing your karma is now much harder
- Its easier to become evil than it is good...
- Tweaked XP rewards for "very hard" encounters some more
Leveling Changes -
- Changing your karma is now much harder
- Its easier to become evil than it is good...
- Tweaked XP rewards for "very hard" encounters some more

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Chem & Food Realism

This overhauls just about all food and chem effects to make them A. more useful and B. more even.
p.s. This is recommended to be used WITH the chem & food loot overhaul
.
Major Changes:
- All drug effects lengths have been increased. These were not universal.
- Physco: raised from 4m to 10m
- Jet: raised from 4m to 7m
- Buffout: raised from 4m to 30m
- Rad-X: raised from 4m to 60m (long-lasting anti-radiation medication)
- Med-X Renamed Morphine: Raised from 4m to 10m
- Fire Ant-Nectar: raised from 2m to 4m
- Ant Queen Pheramones: Stays at 4m
- All Alchohols: raised from 4m to 20m
- Mentats: stays at 4m
- All drug additions now are weighted depending on how hard the drug is and what kind it is.
- For example, you addict faster to jet than mentats

Changes to Effects of Drugs (new values):
Buffout: +3 END, +2 STR, +60 HLTH, -2 AGL
Jet: +30 AP, -1 INT, -1 PER
Physco: Damage +25%, -10% damage resist, -1 PER, -2 INT
Morphine: -2 PER


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Chem Loot Overhaul

Extensive changes will be made to loot and item pricing in order to make things more
realistic.
Loot Changes -
- Stimpaks are now even HARDER to find
- Integrated many WTW loot table changes (Thanks TheMandrake!)
- All food weights have now been rebalanced to realism

Broken down modularly:


Currently, *ALL* chem prices have been increased based on rarity. Overhaul, everything
is about 60% *harder* to find, and it is also worth that much more though.


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Ammo Loot Overhaul

Ammo is now much harder to find and rarer thoughout the wasteland. Stop throwing away your bullets.
Ammo now also has weight.

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Sneak Overhaul

This overhaul is going to be geared toward revamping sneak difficulty, multipliers, and run speed.
There are 2 types to this, Hardcore and normal, the differences as follows:
- Sneak Overhaul Hardcore
- Hides all sneak strings. You now dont know if your hidden or seen, listen for it
- Sneak Overhaul Normal
- Changes to Cuation string to [Hidden], and the "Danger" string to [Detected]. This is
like old oblivion sneaking, where you now only know if your spotted because they are
actively attacking you.


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And more...

Thanks & Credits

wealistic rifle ranges - Great idea, makes rifles that much cooler...thanks for the testing.
increased damage - again, great ideas but I am going for strict realism
XFO overhaul - lots of good ideas you had
Fallout 3 Official Forums
Timeslip for FOMM and TESSnip
ApocalypticGirl for her great sound mod which is now packaged with this!
gzilla @ the official forums for working as hard as me :P
Thank you AnT01 For the ammo weight mod which is now integrated!
Thanks vashts1985 and Millenia For the "Better Arsenal" packages


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