Read If you'd like to finish our Cassidy Mod

[omega549]

I messaged the origional author awhile ago and got no response, but I have a location if your interested, PaladinRider and myself made a mod called "Run the Lucky 38" and though it may sound odd to have cassidy there I have made a huge underground Vault under the Casino where Mr. House made his preservation chamber and ran expierements.

 

I would happily suggest you download and check the levels in the Casino, we could easily add him in the Haven, locked in cryogenetic slumber, and say that Mr. House took him to brainwash him into being his "assassin". Though we could change that for however you wish.

 

I currently have no use for the area as I havent decided its purpose, but if your interested let me know. If you gave me your email I could send you a folder including pictures of the areas, and a place where he could be kept. It is extremely well-designed, if I may boast alittle, though again, it serves no purpose currently.

[simplywayne90]

My apologises,

I never recieved the message, however that does sound like it may be a good start to things I'll post more later, but I'm currently busy.

[simplywayne90]

Okay Now That I have a moment to come back to this...

 

@Omega

I do like how it sounds and would love to work with you and Paladin more. Since up until now I've simply provided advice and resources.

 

However, Cassidy would need a lot of attention, I've promised that he will not be another "simple" companion, by that I mean companions who simply follow, shot, and have about 3 lines of dialogs (Which arn't even voiced.) like "You Want I Join?" "okay" and finally "Alright I stay here"

 

If you really want to work on him I'm estatic then, I've gotten a basic dialog down, I even wrote banter for him if you have other companions (Mainly on for vanilla ones like Rex, or Raul...Haven't really gotten around to Cass since she'd be the most complex issue of a Cassidy mod)

 

So I hope you PM me or post here soon so we can discuss features and things. And If we decide to begin, then I'll contact a few modders who want to volunteer things like a custom shotgun for Cassidy, custom facial features (Like the scars, metal plate, dead eye, etc.) and I also had a professional voice actor approach awhile back willing to voice Cassidy if the mod ever made progress.

[omega549]

Okay Now That I have a moment to come back to this...

 

@Omega

I do like how it sounds and would love to work with you and Paladin more. Since up until now I've simply provided advice and resources.

 

However, Cassidy would need a lot of attention, I've promised that he will not be another "simple" companion, by that I mean companions who simply follow, shot, and have about 3 lines of dialogs (Which arn't even voiced.) like "You Want I Join?" "okay" and finally "Alright I stay here"

 

If you really want to work on him I'm estatic then, I've gotten a basic dialog down, I even wrote banter for him if you have other companions (Mainly on for vanilla ones like Rex, or Raul...Haven't really gotten around to Cass since she'd be the most complex issue of a Cassidy mod)

 

So I hope you PM me or post here soon so we can discuss features and things. And If we decide to begin, then I'll contact a few modders who want to volunteer things like a custom shotgun for Cassidy, custom facial features (Like the scars, metal plate, dead eye, etc.) and I also had a professional voice actor approach awhile back willing to voice Cassidy if the mod ever made progress.

 

you get the companion features (dialouge, textures) finished, I'll get him in the world. It will be a week before I can focus entirely on Cassidy, but the location is ready. Tell me your designs, I could write a script about why he's there and such, and this will fit in nicely with the mod we are making.

 

Do you have experience scripting/quest designing. Mine is limited, and honestly I'll be pressed for time to learn in the next month and a half, but if you get the dialouge and textures, companion aspects finished I could have the mod ready by june, mid june most likely. Or it could be much faster depending on school and if another quest designer chooses to help.

 

I would appreciate if you listed the things you and your cadre of modders could accomplish and what you expect me to do?

 

Also I could give you the run-down on the location, if you dont like it I could make a military bunker instead (I was going to any sooner or later) and I could tell you what the process of my mod will be and what could be done.

[simplywayne90]

Hmm I'm not a modder but I'll ask some people on the forums if they'd be willing to help with the companion aspects, as for the textures we already have a "clean" Cassidy but I'm trying to add scars and a metal plate like in the photo So I'll focus on that and ask Riven if she can help me with that using her famous faces.

 

The dialogs for the most part are already written down, I'll edit them to fit the new changes in location however. I wrote them originally with the intent of finding him in stasis inside of a derelict vault that has a corrupted A.I that is trying to save people from the bombs by capturing them and preserving them, but never realized that the bombs had fallen long ago so it's just been capturing people.

 

I'll send you the basic outline later on as I'm currently consoltating on several mods as usual, on top of my own school, on top of updating my mega-threads. But I'll have it to you by morning here in Texas.

 

I can't script unfortunatly, however I'm sure that a reader may volunteer shortly, or if not I'll ask a few modders and hope for the best.

 

But I'm happy to see that this is finally getting on its feet.

Edited March 25, 2011 by simplywayne90

[omega549]

I like the ideal to, and I was planning on putting a A.I. in our vault, I could send you pictures of the vault through your email. I tried uploading them here but it wont let me as an attachment. Still you could download our mod, http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40531#fileanchor, and the vault is located through the room named "Studio Club" you have to clip through a few doors and unlock the elevator to it, since I didnt want it included with this version of the mod.

 

I will try my best to help, I could always remove the vault from the casino, or make anything, though I like the ideal of Mr. House having one of the most advanced scientific centers under his casino, since it already has lasers on the roof and is really huge bomb shelter.

Edited March 25, 2011 by omega549

[simplywayne90]

I will try my best to help, I could always remove the vault from the casino, or make anything, though I like the ideal of Mr. House having one of the most advanced scientific centers under his casino, since it already has lasers on the roof and is really huge bomb shelter.

 

Hmm, perhaps we can make it work out,

 

Heres my new ideas on the story, The same vault idea with the A.I acting like a venus fly-trap and lures and captures people from the wastes ending up in a scenario like Mothership Zeta with the samurai and whatnot, of course the Vaults only been active for a short time before the war.

 

So that is what should stay the same.

 

Heres what I'm thinking we could do to make it more in line with Fallout lore. But also able to keep it in that mod without making Cassidy seem too easy to get to.

 

Mr. House cannot know about the Vault. Otherwise he'd have filled it up, repaired the A.I, or used its tech to better preserve himself.

 

However, Perhaps the Vault is under the 38 or New Vegas since in pre-war times that was a large tourist location which meant that if people went missing, then it wasn't so hard to dismiss to their estranged families, and also would've allowed for more genetic variation if the people were ever released from stasis (but the A.I failed)

 

So perhaps Cassidy wandered into New Vegas about 10-15 years back, I've already posted why he'd be wandering, and he stumbles into the derelict city since Vegas wasn't fixed or occupied until 7 years ago. So back then it would've been just more ruins to loot or search to Cassidy, unfortunatly he wandered to close to the Corrupted Vault and recieved a radio signal or something drew him in and he became the newest victim of the Vaults madness.

 

Then you could include the Vault into your mod as a quest or renovation, perhaps after awhile your manager or whatever says that a since Mr. Houses death that radio signals are more clear and they've picked up a strange beacon from nearby.

 

And of course I'll write more if you like this idea so far. Does PaladinRider plan to join in this idea as well?

Edited March 25, 2011 by simplywayne90

[simplywayne90]

Okay I double posted but I resolved to put in some photos from different modders like Riven (Of the Famous Faces mod) and Tribalizer (Creator of the Burned Man, and the original creator of Cassidy for this mod)

 

Heres how Cassidy will hopefully look by the time we release him.

http://i54.tinypic.com/a9pumt.jpg

 

"Thorn Of John Cassidy"

 

Kinda corny but I thought It'd be an okay tie-in with Cass since she is his "baby" girl (daughter)

 

We wanted Cassidy to have his own custom sawed-off shotgun, its a very earlier attempt but will no doubt evolve as we put more work into things.

 

What do ya'll think of it's name?

We'll either name it "The Thorn Of John Cassidy" or simply "Cassidy's Thorn"

 

I really loved the idea that his gun has just as much history as Cassidy does, so I suggested that his gun has large claw marks across the barrel, as if he'd gotten up close and personal with an angry Deathclaw alpha.

 

Although you cannot see it the claw marks start on the barrel and continue to where you can see it, kinda like a bear (or Deathclaw) took a swipe at it as he shot and killed it :)

 

So this is Rivens idea for the gun

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/kitcloudkicker1/ScreenCapture001-1.jpg?t=1298485669

 

 

And here is Tribalizers.

I think something simple like Rose Thorn would do, also I liked the idea of the rose on the handle so I decided to make my own version.

 

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5593/rosethorn.png

Edited March 25, 2011 by simplywayne90

[omega549]

PaladinRider is working on the functions of our casino, I told him about this and he was very open to it.

 

As for the Vault, it wouldnt make much sense if Mr. House wasn't aware of its exsistence. Its huge, is under the casino (is accessed from it too), and is were he ran his personal projects.

 

How I thought it up is like what Victor did with the player. a Securitron witnessed Cassidy battling some raiders (or whatever) but he was critically injured, so Mr. House decided if he could save him he might be able make Cassidy into his personal worker (more like soldier/assassin) to find the platinum chip, so he brought him back to the casino, to the vault, and locked him up in a cryogenetic chamber.

 

But he couldn't develop a formulae that could save Cassidy, so he abandoned the project, and a few years (or decades) later the events of New Vegas transpired.

 

The A.I. that runs the vault is just your average helper A.I, we can make it however you wish, though I wouldnt want it aggressive towards the player because the vault is in effect the players personal vault.

 

However, I am going to make a derelict American Bunker that held information on a superhuman soldier project, and that can be used to save cassidy (and explain how he can be a companion and still be around, what 60-70 years old (not including the time in stasis) while still kicking ass.

 

We could put the crazy A.I. in the Bunker.

 

But I was gonna put several personalities in the Research wing with Cassidy, like House is keeping all the great minds of before the war in stasis. and it would be neat if Cassidy is the only one (at present) who could be revived. the area is already 95% done,

 

I just need to develop a viable cryogenetic chamber, so if you have any ideas let me know.

 

Then again, while I think this script is very reasonable and Fallout-esque it is completely open to alteration, but if you visit the locations you'll see it doesnt make sense if house doesnt know, and with what I'm planning Cassidy could be a great addition to the aspect of House's scientific projects.

 

I could send you a version of the mod that has the areas, or i could send you a word document along with pictures that explain in detail the project as it stands.

[omega549]

Certainly unique, the textures I mean, and I could easily find a place for them in the mod (very near cassidy but not on his person).

 

view the above comments. I'm gonna write up a word document (with graphical representations) for my plans as to the layout (which is finished) and design of the vault, and I'm gonna start working on the military bunker. Ill attach the file here for your perusal, but would like to still talk about the direction of the project.

 

The only difference is that Mr. House will be aware of the vault, and he is keeping the people (the vault was his personal scientific center where he developed his preservation chamber, and subsequently the stasis pods, which would explain why they are there, and I have the backstory on why he doesnt use them himself/why people arent in preservation chambers).

 

as for the A.I. I dont know which direction you would like to go, it can either be in the Vault of military complex, and its purpose can be anything (but I love the ideal of crazy robots).