Playable Races

[TiggyUK]

Before I get into this, we all know this has been a thing on previous Fallout releases, and has always been an idea, but has never been quite possible. If you remember Terrible Mutants, the Mutant Race mod, it did not go well. Now all the has CHANGED. Playable races, make much more sense now, and are so much easy, once the G.E.C.K lands, this mod needs to be made, but let me describe how this mod should work to be yes, IMMERSIVE, and LORE FRIENDLY, words we have come to love ;) I am going to go through every nook and crany to explain how this mod should work, so it makes sense, and no holes are left in it.

 

Ghoul

Let's start off with a playable Ghoul. Okay so this really can already be a thing, because of Skin replaces, eye replacers, etc. But I'm this can go more in depth. Okay, so you've just left vault 111, you stand next to some nuclear waste for 4 hours, you become very sick. You get the rad meter so that it takes up 90% of your health bar. And 3 days later, you're a ghoul. Now this would be easy with creation kit. I've seen this mod on New Vegas. Why 90%? Because ghouls are people that got irradiated but did not 'have the good fortune to die. ' A really simple mod here, clothing models would remain the same. Here is a list of things that would affect you when roleplaying as a ghoul that could easily be implemented.

- Perk For Ghouls, Immune to radiation.
This would work where the red bar, does not fill instead when taking radiation damage, health points are added. Because ghouls are healed by radiation.
- When basking in radiation ghouls gain plus 2 to strength.

- Ghouls suffer negative 5 to their Charisma
- Ghoul's can NOT join the Brotherhood faction, (Due to them being abominations in their eyes)

 

 

 

Super Mutants

A playable super mutant would Involve a quest. Now this could be given in several ways. Strong could give it when you have a high affinity. Or You COuld stumble upon a new added location. This location has VATS, and shoud be in a factory, or possible a vault if you don't want to be super lore friendly. This also solves a huge Plot whole bethesda forgot about. WHERE DID THEY COME FROM. Super mutants are made, yet in this game, so far I have found no where they could have been made. Sure the institute could make them, but that was an accident. Now, we know the enclave mad a load back west, we know the Mast made a load, giving us Meriposa mutants, 1st Generation, and the 2nd Generation Muties. In the east, they were made somehow, confusingly, but in a very similar way, in vats, then more and more mutants made more and so on. Dance even mentions his friends being made into one. Now, We could have a quest, in a factory, where this happens, you could have an option to make yourself a mutant. Or be turned into one if you follow the quest. Now, for the gameplay, some modding is going to be required, for a working model, as that is the hardest part, making it playable. The clothes themselves, are the easiest part, they will not have to be made from the ground up, because we already have clothes in game built specifically for mutants.


- Super Mutants Gain 2 strength and 2 Endurance due to their stronger physicality and resilience.
- Super Mutants gain a buff to Melee damage and add 10 DR.
- Super mutants suffer - 2 to intelligence. It makes sense that if you have 10 Intelligence, you could still be functional after the change.
The factor that determinants whether you are a smart or stupid mutant, is you radiation levels in your body. Because you just awoke from a vault. It's safe to say that you would be a smart mutant. Or if you had a lot of brains to spare anyway. This means you should be able to act, and talk normal, Similar to Marcus, Or Virgil. There will also be a way for the play character to return to normal. I am not going to bother and say

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Why read into this, if you have not even beat the vanilla game? Come on.

Anyway, Once you have got far enough into the game, you will be able to purchase the cure from Virgil, similar to how you could get cured by Fallion of vampirism in Skyrim.


This is basically worked out, and I am going to be making a comprehensive list of what I want to see in this mod, and would like to help any Moder with designing this mod if they need help. I am an experienced mod writer and voice actor , but not to good at coding. But I can help in those aspects.

[Gruffydd]

I could swear I've seen "alternate start" mods already that let you play those other races.

[skubblebubble]

Alternate playable races are on a lot of peoples minds, believe me.

 

I have one in mind myself. It will happen.

 

Now,having an easy way to choose them at the start, that's going to be more difficult.

It will get worked out though, believe me. Just no idea how soon.

 

(my alternate race will have members working in my nightclub. :P )

[Dracula420]

i support this idea 100%

 

and would like to add a synthetic beginning to this as well i have 2 ideas for this. one is an alternate start and the other involves a plot by the institute.

 

Alternate start: you "wake up" in vault 111 like normal after playing the opening but when you turn around you see not only your spouse but your own body frozen as well. Shaun, knowing he could not save your body, has you transferred into a synth body. whether its a gen 3 with some synth perks or a prototype like valentine would be up to the player. the gen 3 gets more starting perks then normal but the prototype body can be customized and upgraded similar to the automatron DLC.

 

Institute Plot: essentially the same thing but it may happen by choice after you take over institute. it would be the final step for the institute: Generation 4, a synthetic body housing a human mind to achieve near immortality.

Edited April 24, 2016 by Dracula420

[zc123]

I could swear I've seen "alternate start" mods already that let you play those other races.

 

I have seen a few as well

 

Frankly though I would love to see a mod once the geck is out that alows you to transform between human and super mutant like you could in Skyrim as a werewolf.

 

Then I could role play and yell Hulk Smash!

[bigbadlenn]

We need that with an Alternate Start mod!

Add Synth gen 2 too!