Welcome to Decisions With Regrets, a fully voice acted quest mod by David L Allen. Join a medical research project which may help a problem sweeping the wasteland ... but is the cure worse than the disease? Decisions with Regrets is a medium size quest mod, with emphasis on conversation and moral decisions rather than combat.

If you like this mod, you may also like my second mod, The Most Dangerous Game. It has more combat than this mod. Plus, robots!

This is version 1.2, released February 8, 2011.

Changes in 1.2

• Added two unique quest rewards for leaving either Lavelle or Crosby in charge. You can get these rewards, without losing NCR standing.
• More voice acting! Added the last NPC (John Stoyer). Replaced voice for Mark and Cahill. Re-recorded a few lines for Doctor Lavelle and Doctor Crosby.
• Fixed bug in 1.1, first attempt at letting Mark sleep downstairs introduced multiple problems such as being able to enter the shelter too early.
• Added message box to give a clue about why the securitron loses power.
  

Changes in 1.1

• Voice acting! All but one of the nine NPC's now have voices. There is no lipsync. The tools to do this are too painful and time-consuming for me to use.
• Re-arranged dialog at the climax to avoid problem for some players, where Major Stoyer does not have any conversation to start. For these players it made the quest impossible to complete.
• Fixed bug which sometimes prevented Glowing One ghouls from dropping the Glowing Tissue Sample.
• Multiple small dialog tweaks for clarity and characterization, mostly suggested by phoenix1213 @ bethsoft.
• Since female voice acting is harder to find, changed gender of Major Stoyer from female to male.
• Changed appearance of several minor characters to match voices.
  

Installing

Unzip the files into your Fallout New Vegas\data directory. You should see a new file Fallout New Vegas\data\decwithreg.esm and a new directory Fallout New Vegas\data\meshes\decwithreg. Then, in the Data Files section of the Fallout New Vegas launcher, make sure the decwithreg.esm file is checked before starting the game. For best results, start by loading a save game with as few mods as possible.

Playing

To start the quest, you can find Help Wanted signs at various medical facilities, including Jacobstown Lodge, New Vegas Medical Center, and the Mormon Fort. Or, search for the shack west of Searchlight near the abandoned animal farm.

Please let me know your feedback in the Decisions With Regrets endorsements thread in the Fallout New Vegas Uploaded Files forum at newvegasnexus.com. If you like the mod, please endorse it. You can find the thread here:

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/291986-decisions-with-regrets-endorsements

Known bugs

If you collect tissue samples, kills made by your companions will not produce samples. You may wish to ask your companions to wait elsewhere while you collect.

Uninstalling

Remove the directories data/meshes/decwithreg, data/textures/decwithreg, data/sound/voices/decwithreg.esm. Remove the plugin file data/decwithreg.esm. Remove this readme.

Credits

All design and implementation by me, davidlallen. No elements from other mods were used in creating this mod.

Here's to my alpha tester, ninjababe. The first couple of runs were pretty confusing, thanks for helping me work through it.

Voice credits: Lavelle by me; Mary Alice by Ninjababe; Don, Howard, Jill and Cahill by Reebdoog; Mark and John by DoomMunky2000

Thanks to many people on newvegasnexus forums for help in using geck, including rickerhk, Ez0n3, thc1234, WastelandAssassin, Quetzlsacatanango and others.