RokHere Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Or maybe that's not needed anymore, as the mod suddenly disappeared from the web—it seems! But for older users, I have just discovered that a mod called "Fatality Tweaks", which was actually listed among the best 25 Fallout New Vegas mods, apparently on PC Gamer itself, has misleading information about what it does. As I said, I cannot find a page for the mod anymore for some reason, and the strange thing is that Google cache does not show me a cached page for it, which is very strange; but from what I remember, Fatality Tweaks was published with the claim that it only tweaks the death animations of NPCs, so that they do not fly all over the place or explode violently when killed, because bullets do not do that, which all sounds great. The problem is that I found out that that's a minor part of what it does; Fatality Tweaks actually lowers the damage of several guns & weapons in the game, sometimes ridiculously lowering the damage (like lowering "That Gun's" damage from 30 per shot to 18 per shot!), and it also increases the spread of many guns (and not shotguns)! In other words, makes those guns less accurate! I could not believe myself when I discovered that. And I found out by coincidence, after embarrassing myself on Wikia by changing the damage per shot and DPS of That Gun on the page, thinking what I see in-game is the real damage. I felt so upset with this, especially because I played for hours in the beginning of the modded Fallout NV, feeling that my guns are frustratingly ineffective against the Legion assassins that keep being sent to me during my travels. It was a really frustrating experience, and no matter how much I raised my Guns skill, and no matter what best rifle I could find I use against them, I kept feeling like I'm using a BB gun against any heavily armored NPC. And right now I strongly believe that that deceitful mod was a major reason for this. In summary, whoever published the Fatality Tweaks mod was a dishonest person who failed to highlight to people what the mod truly does, or what the mod majorly does. Taking away "dismemberment" animations and the like was a very tiny change compared to all the numbers changed, which were mainly about making a lot of weapons...a lot less effective, or with a lot less damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luthienanarion Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 How old is the mod? Before the 1.3 patch, That Gun did do 18 damage per shot. I suspect that it was made before that patch and all of it's "changes" to weapon stats were not changes at all but the correct vanilla values at the time. NEVER install a plugin that was created for an old version of the game, as you can expect issues like this with them. Way to fly off the handle, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokHere Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Ohhh man, you're totally right!! As you explained the situation, it all dawned on me...and I suddenly felt very guilty for thinking so cynically about a fellow modder or ex-modder. :confused: Indeed it is a very old mod. Crap. Well, let my apology be published to whoever produced the Fatality Tweaks mod back in the day, just as I published an unfair accusation. And yes, when I found out about what the old mod was doing to my game and how it was severely unbalancing it, especially during the first few levels, I indeed got really angry. Few things in this world upset me more than wasted time, because playing games can sometimes be a bit of a waste of time, but at least it is fun and considered like a little "R&R" for one's soul, by some of us at least, so when the experience is stripped of its fun, replaced by frustration, it becomes waste of time / life and frustration... = super angry. :nuke: Hehehe. One important bit, though: the mod must be still available on the web, and it must also be showing up on the first page of Google results, because I did install it only a week ago or so; but it is obviously listed with a different name, and even the description will not even include either keywords "fatality tweaks". I think it might be important to alert users on whichever site is hosting it, and perhaps to update the mod (which maybe I can do). But I don't know how to find the mod's page now; I tried and failed. I'd like to alert people on the site, and at the same time upload an updated version of the mod so that others don't have to go through the same problems. Any ideas how I can find its page? Or help? All I know right now is that it is called "Fatality Tweaks.esp". And it was listed with the explanation that it adds more realism to death or fatalities of enemies in the game, so that they do not explode ridiculously or suffer dismemberment all over the place when all that the player did was shoot them with a pistol. Any help finding the current page of that mod would be really appreciated, and I plan to use the info to help potential users and the community by updating it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokHere Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Never mind, I found it! It is called Displode Changes, even though the ESP file is called "Fatality Tweaks.esp":http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35025/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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