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A few small changes to the Beyond The Beef quest aimed at improving options and making the conclusion more fulfilling.
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Beyond The Beef Tweaks
This mod makes a few small changes to the Beyond The Beef quest aimed at improving options and making the conclusion more fulfilling.
Things this mod changes:
In a nutshell, when playing through this quest, I had three goals: Make Heck Gunderson pay dearly for callously strong-arming his way to riches, rid myself of Veronica in the most elaborate way the game allows, and attend the banquet where she is the main event. Naturally, when I discovered that there were unnecessary shortcomings in the quest that prevented me from doing all three of these things together, I took it upon myself to correct this. The members-only banquet is filled with honorary members, so it felt like a rip-off and a legitimate oversight that the player was not instantly awarded a seat at the banquet they were responsible for enabling, as did the fact that even if they were a member, all of the food was off-limits. A well-done quest deserves special attention to push it closer to perfection, and these are changes that I consider essential to that aspiration.
V1.1, by request, eliminates some ITM records and removes unneeded dependencies. Functionally, it is no different.
V1.2 fixes a bug that permitted a dialogue option to appear too early.
Notes:
Other New Vegas mods I made:
This mod makes a few small changes to the Beyond The Beef quest aimed at improving options and making the conclusion more fulfilling.
Things this mod changes:
- The dialogue option to offer your companion as a replacement is now permanently available until the quest concludes. Normally, this dialogue option disappears for good once you agree to Mortimer's initial proposal, cutting the option off.
- When you offer your companion as a replacement, the quest now updates to reflect that optional task.
- The quest no longer outright completes the moment you let Mortimer know that you have trapped your companion in the freezer. This change enables one to frame Heck Gunderson for murder as well as offer one's companion for the banquet -- these two options are normally mutually exclusive, as the quest ends with either one.
- If you complete the quest in Mortimer's favor, you are now made an honorary member of the White Glove Society on the spot, and are given the membership key and formal wear that you normally only get from Marjorie. This also means that you may freely join the exclusive members-only banquets at 7pm, including the first one where Mortimer makes his revelation speech. Without this change, the only way to become an honorary member and gain access to the banquets is by working against Mortimer.
- If you are made an honorary member of the White Glove Society (by Mortimer or Marjorie), picking up the food and drink found at the members-only banquets no longer counts as stealing.
- If you complete the quest in Mortimer's favor, the amuse-bouche appetizers available at the banquet will be "Strange Meat Pie" rather than "Imitation Strange Meat Pie."
In a nutshell, when playing through this quest, I had three goals: Make Heck Gunderson pay dearly for callously strong-arming his way to riches, rid myself of Veronica in the most elaborate way the game allows, and attend the banquet where she is the main event. Naturally, when I discovered that there were unnecessary shortcomings in the quest that prevented me from doing all three of these things together, I took it upon myself to correct this. The members-only banquet is filled with honorary members, so it felt like a rip-off and a legitimate oversight that the player was not instantly awarded a seat at the banquet they were responsible for enabling, as did the fact that even if they were a member, all of the food was off-limits. A well-done quest deserves special attention to push it closer to perfection, and these are changes that I consider essential to that aspiration.
V1.1, by request, eliminates some ITM records and removes unneeded dependencies. Functionally, it is no different.
V1.2 fixes a bug that permitted a dialogue option to appear too early.
Notes:
- If you don't use Yukichigai Unofficial Patch, download the non-YUP version of this mod.
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