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Bare Grills Survival Overhaul V0.1(Beta)
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I always felt that survival and outdoorsy stuff was largely over looked in New Vegas. In the vanilla game, survival is essentially just a measure of how well you can cook rather than a measure of how well you can live off the land. This is my attempt to remedy that.
I always thought it would be cool to make like Bear Grylls and have a need to hunt and forage to survive. What I want to do is have it so you need to have a certain level of survival to be able to butcher and skin animals like geckos and coyotes. Also I want to make it so you need to have a certain level of survival to be able to identify and harvest plants.
So far this is a work progress. I am still working out the kinks of how the new hunting mechanics will work so none of that is included in this beta :P I am uploading this to guage interest and see if it will be worth my time in putting lots of work into this. Im open to suggestions so let me know what you think. Leave endorsements if you like it :D Remember to be nice, it is a work in progress.
This mod is designed for hardcore mode. It wont be much use to you if you play on normal mode. If you want the recipes have a look at bivar's recipe mod: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38722
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Update 9/8/11
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So I fried my graphics card a while back and lost all interest in pc gaming. Now that I have fitted my rig with a brand new one and have all the DLC Im going to start working on this again. I hope to have a rather large and awesome survival mod released by the end of the summer. That way I can play it when I am procrastinating in college :P
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What It Does
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So what I have done so far is is tried to make the survival skill more important. Raw meat is now dangerous to eat, prewar food is slightly more radioactive and and wholesome food cooked at the campfire is now better for you. This should give players a choice; you can eat radioactive prewar food and develop a healthy glow and have to invest in more radaway or you can spend time working on your hunting and survival skills and catch and cook your food.
You now need to use frying pans or pots to cook different kinds of food. I also added a whole bunch of new recipes (some of which are courtesy of bivar from his South West Recipes mod). When you start the game now you will only have access to the most basic recipes but you can purchase more complex recipes from food vendors. Most of the survival recipes like cactus water and antivenom now need a higher survival skill.
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In short what it does:
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- Prewar food is more radioactive
- Raw meat is bad for you
- Cooked food is better for you
- Cooking Utensils needed for cooking
- New Perks: Bare Grills, which allows you to cook withoututensils and Survivor which allows you to eat raw meat without penalties
- New Recipes available from food vendors
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What It Will Do Eventually:
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- Add skill checks to butchering & skinning animals
- Add skill checks to identifying & harvesting plants
- Refinement of new foods and recipes
- More Recipes (Maybe?)
- More survival related perks
- Im open to suggestion. Leave comments and tell me what you think and give me ideas.
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Installation
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1. Copy all files to "Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\fallout new vegas\Data"
2. Activate the mod with FOMM or from the Data Files
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Uninstallation
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Delete the .esp file from the Data folder.
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Credits
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Me for coming up with that puntastic name :D
And also for making it
Bivar for his delicious South Western Recipes:
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38722
Bare Grills Survival Overhaul V0.1(Beta)
-----------------------------------------
I always felt that survival and outdoorsy stuff was largely over looked in New Vegas. In the vanilla game, survival is essentially just a measure of how well you can cook rather than a measure of how well you can live off the land. This is my attempt to remedy that.
I always thought it would be cool to make like Bear Grylls and have a need to hunt and forage to survive. What I want to do is have it so you need to have a certain level of survival to be able to butcher and skin animals like geckos and coyotes. Also I want to make it so you need to have a certain level of survival to be able to identify and harvest plants.
So far this is a work progress. I am still working out the kinks of how the new hunting mechanics will work so none of that is included in this beta :P I am uploading this to guage interest and see if it will be worth my time in putting lots of work into this. Im open to suggestions so let me know what you think. Leave endorsements if you like it :D Remember to be nice, it is a work in progress.
This mod is designed for hardcore mode. It wont be much use to you if you play on normal mode. If you want the recipes have a look at bivar's recipe mod: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38722
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Update 9/8/11
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So I fried my graphics card a while back and lost all interest in pc gaming. Now that I have fitted my rig with a brand new one and have all the DLC Im going to start working on this again. I hope to have a rather large and awesome survival mod released by the end of the summer. That way I can play it when I am procrastinating in college :P
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What It Does
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So what I have done so far is is tried to make the survival skill more important. Raw meat is now dangerous to eat, prewar food is slightly more radioactive and and wholesome food cooked at the campfire is now better for you. This should give players a choice; you can eat radioactive prewar food and develop a healthy glow and have to invest in more radaway or you can spend time working on your hunting and survival skills and catch and cook your food.
You now need to use frying pans or pots to cook different kinds of food. I also added a whole bunch of new recipes (some of which are courtesy of bivar from his South West Recipes mod). When you start the game now you will only have access to the most basic recipes but you can purchase more complex recipes from food vendors. Most of the survival recipes like cactus water and antivenom now need a higher survival skill.
-----------------------
In short what it does:
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- Prewar food is more radioactive
- Raw meat is bad for you
- Cooked food is better for you
- Cooking Utensils needed for cooking
- New Perks: Bare Grills, which allows you to cook withoututensils and Survivor which allows you to eat raw meat without penalties
- New Recipes available from food vendors
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What It Will Do Eventually:
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- Add skill checks to butchering & skinning animals
- Add skill checks to identifying & harvesting plants
- Refinement of new foods and recipes
- More Recipes (Maybe?)
- More survival related perks
- Im open to suggestion. Leave comments and tell me what you think and give me ideas.
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Installation
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1. Copy all files to "Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\fallout new vegas\Data"
2. Activate the mod with FOMM or from the Data Files
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Uninstallation
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Delete the .esp file from the Data folder.
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Credits
--------
Me for coming up with that puntastic name :D
And also for making it
Bivar for his delicious South Western Recipes:
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38722