This may be a bug, or just a result of interacting with other mods in an ancient engine. I was playing with it along with around 100 mods (which I know, I know, but bear with me), and came across a non game breaking but still annoying bug: Virtually every power armor in the commonwealth spawns as a t-45, except for those who are scripted with an NPC inside already (like Danse or the raider in the boat south of CIT ruins). I was level 30, so it wasn't a matter of me being underleveled, I also discarded the possibility of me exploring early (in the lvl 10-20 range) because in the testing I leveled myself to lvl 60 using player.modav experience and went far from places I had ever gone to, and it was still 95% T-45s (and 5% T-51s) even in places where it can spawn higher level ones (such as the trailer camp next to fort hagen, or the warehouse south of it, or the convoy nearby the National Guard Training Yard and the N.G.T.Y. itself). Ran multiple tests in a new/fresh save deactivating everything that even dared to look in the Power Armors' general direction such as Immersive Scaling - Damage, paint jobs, or W.A.T.M., but no dice, until I deactivated this mod. Then T-60s and X-01s started to spawn as they should. Reactivated everything except LIF, and everything was still working as intended with those PAs spawning in the game.
It could very well be that this isn't the mod's fault, and it's on me for playing with a ton of mods (none of which are that extensive though, stuff like NPCs travel, easy hacking, true storms or Ultra Interior Lighting), but if anyone reading this has the same bug, maybe this could help you.
Yes, that sounds like either a mod conflict or another mod in your load order limiting the max cell (zone/area) level everywhere in the game to less than 14, because at 14 and above you should start seeing other PA variants, even though not guaranteed.
Yeah, I searched across all the coments here and no one else said anything remotely similar before. And if it's just me out of over 400K downloads who has this problem, then it's more than likely that it's something on my end that's wrong. But there's no shame in giving a heads up in case someone else ever has the same problem in the future.
Still, to continue this train of thought, ignoring mods that are not related at all (for example: taming red death, or gorillas for all), these are the mods I have that could take part in that bug: Immersive Scaling - Damage (not the AIO package, just that) (most likely suspect, though i've been using it for years without this problem); Encounter Zone Recalculation (2nd most likely suspect, though it says it does just that); We Are The Minutemen; South Of The Sea - Atoms Storm; F4SE - Buffout - xSE Plugin Preloader - High FPS Physics Fix - Sprint Stuttering Fix - MCM - Baka ScrapHeap (and the settings file for buffout) - Adress Library - Interior NavCut Fix; More Enemies; NPCs Travel; IllusiveMan196's Everyone's Best Friend fix (not related to PAs, but the og mod is pretty bugged anyways so I have his 'fixed' version); Mutant Menagerie (just because it involves a lot of spawning stuff).
It could very well be that the culprit behind the uncompatibility is a mod I didn't mention, but that would be an unlikely possibility I think, because I can't see how mods like Settlers and Companions Dialogue Overhaul, Settlement Menu Manager, or Equipment and Crafting Overhaul (ECO) would do it (let alone things like audio-only, or the very few weapon mods I have like SVT-40 and Doombased's 1911 and Kalash).
Still, for what it's worth, everything else was working as intended. I was seeing DLC stuff spawn in a balanced way, and not like 4 out of 5 raiders using handmade rifles w/ DLC clothing or anything like that as it happened with other mods. So, despite that inconvenience on my end, thank you for your work!
Hey so. I got a pop up message saying if i should inject or skip. I clicked skip. Im 3hrs into my playthrough so i wonder if its possible i can safely uninstall the mod since i chose not to inject it. Will it work?
Is there any chance you could make a version without the in-game levelled list notification? I'm sure its essential for console users but kind of unnecessary for PC.
there's now a global variable in the plugin that controls what happens when you use the mod for the first time in a playthrough or start a new playthrough: if it is set to 0 (default) the DLC item injection message will show, a value of 1 skips the message and injects all DLC items right away, and a value of 2 or higher skips both the message and injection entirely
if you want to change LIF's startup behaviour simply fire up FO4Edit and modify the value of the "LIF_StartupMode" global variable accordingly
Changelog v2.3.3:
the "LIF_StartupMode" global variable got a fourth valid state, setting it to 3 or higher does everything state 2 does (disabling LIF's startup message and skipping DLC item distribution) and also disables/hides the DLC item distribution settings in the holotape
Or use the option from the installer to disable it altogether.
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It could very well be that this isn't the mod's fault, and it's on me for playing with a ton of mods (none of which are that extensive though, stuff like NPCs travel, easy hacking, true storms or Ultra Interior Lighting), but if anyone reading this has the same bug, maybe this could help you.
Still, to continue this train of thought, ignoring mods that are not related at all (for example: taming red death, or gorillas for all), these are the mods I have that could take part in that bug: Immersive Scaling - Damage (not the AIO package, just that) (most likely suspect, though i've been using it for years without this problem); Encounter Zone Recalculation (2nd most likely suspect, though it says it does just that); We Are The Minutemen; South Of The Sea - Atoms Storm; F4SE - Buffout - xSE Plugin Preloader - High FPS Physics Fix - Sprint Stuttering Fix - MCM - Baka ScrapHeap (and the settings file for buffout) - Adress Library - Interior NavCut Fix; More Enemies; NPCs Travel; IllusiveMan196's Everyone's Best Friend fix (not related to PAs, but the og mod is pretty bugged anyways so I have his 'fixed' version); Mutant Menagerie (just because it involves a lot of spawning stuff).
It could very well be that the culprit behind the uncompatibility is a mod I didn't mention, but that would be an unlikely possibility I think, because I can't see how mods like Settlers and Companions Dialogue Overhaul, Settlement Menu Manager, or Equipment and Crafting Overhaul (ECO) would do it (let alone things like audio-only, or the very few weapon mods I have like SVT-40 and Doombased's 1911 and Kalash).
Still, for what it's worth, everything else was working as intended. I was seeing DLC stuff spawn in a balanced way, and not like 4 out of 5 raiders using handmade rifles w/ DLC clothing or anything like that as it happened with other mods. So, despite that inconvenience on my end, thank you for your work!
Or use the option from the installer to disable it altogether.
Thanks for an awesome mod nonetheless.