JohnDoe0722 Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 (edited) | Greetings all! This is simply a post to see what the Fallout/modding community would think about an AU (alternate universe) mod for New Vegas. When Bethesda gained control of the FOU, they declared the game Fallout Tactics to be non-canonical. Basically saying it's just a game and the story holds no real footing in the lore. A small nod was made to it in F3 saying the Chicago branch of the Brotherhood of Steel "went rogue", but that's about all we've gotten to my knowledge.My suggestion is to create a mod that features what would have happened if the events of Tactics would have remained canon. This would allow the Mid-Western branch of the BoS to become the leading dominant power east of the Colorado River, rather than Caesar's Legion. My personal canon ending would be the following: The Calculator is repaired thanks to the sacrifice of the Warrior. Repairing the Calculator with his brain make Vault 0's resources fully available to the Brotherhood, increasing their power exponentially. The Midwest will be restored to its former glory in decades, rather than centuries. Discrimination is outlawed, and no harmful acts are committed. Mankind, both Prime and not, prospers greatly at the hands of the benevolent Brotherhood and the Warrior-Calculator hybrid's machine legions. Fast forward to 2276, the Mid-Western Brotherhood has now established a rather large territory for themselves. They've sent an envoy further West to meet with the original Elders who had "banished" them to the East. Once nearing New Vegas they find out that not only is the Western branch a shell of it's former self, but that the NCR is now effectively hunting down any BoS survivors. Along with having taken over Hoover Dam. From then on the story parallels that of FNVs pretty closely. Everything is the same, except the Mid-Western BoS is now the in place of all the Legion encampments.Note that the MW-BoS was willing to accept just about any type of Human, Mutant or Creature within their ranks. (So long as they passed trails and continued to contribute) They were much more laid back about who was able to join the Brotherhood. This allowed Tribals, Ghouls, Super-Mutants and even a small group of intelligent Deathclaws to join the ranks.Places like The Fort, Legate's Camp, Cottonwood Cove and other Legion locations would now be completely revamped to have a BoS feel to it. This would include completely new models/textures for the locations. Rather than just replacing the Legion NPCs with BoS NPCs, and the locations still having the same Roman-esque theme. These locations would also include new weapons, robots, vehicles and clothes/armor additions seen in the FOT game.For those of you who haven't seen the gameI suggest clicking on the links seen through the post. They'll take you to several of the various different wiki pages that have information about the game. If you didn't see them, then click here.Please note, I do realize that something like this would be a pretty daunting and massive task. It's just something I've had on my mind for quite a while now. Especially since my own mod, that I've been working on and off with a friend, would fit perfectly in this AU as a potential expansion (DLC) to the story. Kinda like Dead Money, Lonesome Road and so on. Heck in the future if the mod was successful we could end up having the Courier travel east to Colorado to visit Vault 0.So what do you all think of this? Could this be something the community would enjoy? Is there anything you'd want to add or do differently? If you're interested in possibly starting up something for this potential mod or would like to help with my other AU mod, please feel free to PM me! | Edited May 2, 2015 by JohnDoe0722 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcdenton2012 Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Lolz, I built Buena Vista... take a look at it under my profile. If you want to create a mod like this... odds are you're going to need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDoe0722 Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 (edited) Lolz, I built Buena Vista... take a look at it under my profile. If you want to create a mod like this... odds are you're going to need it.| Heh, well I'd certainly need the skills that were used to create it. Your work it pretty impressive! Having four different "DLCs" for a mission at Buena Vista, Vault 0, and two new places would be wonderful idea. What do you think of the mod in general? | Edited May 2, 2015 by JohnDoe0722 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcdenton2012 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Sorry, had to get caught up... lots of work on my end... I like the mod idea, but to be honest... I don't really have time to build so many areas... way to many projects on my desktop as it is... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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