Faction cleanup and salvage teams...

[dainsgames]

I noticed when the BOS started operating that any fallen BOS troopers were left behind, as were enemies and their gear. This meant it was easy to get massive amounts of gear via the simple tactic of ambulance - I mean vertibird-chasing.

 

That struck me as wrong on a number of levels. One, the game gets instantly easy-mode when you pick up full suits of T-60 power armor off of abandoned BOS troopers. Two, the BOS is specifically, explicitly about "Tech is power. We want power, so we want any tech we can get our hands on.". Why would they not retrieve their fallen comrades and salvage all the tech around?

 

So this mod request is for exactly that to happen.

 

1. BOS / Gunners / Raiders loot their dead and the enemy dead too and take that away with them. (Bodies are containers and NPCs can loot containers, so this is technically supportable.)

 

2. The BOS and possibly the Gunners also take their dead away. (I have no idea how to get this to happen.)

 

3. Parties walk around and loot all of the containers they can find of usable tech (guns, parts, materials, but excluding salvage-only items like desk fans).

 

That's the idea, thanks for reading!

[Jeffman12]

There exists precedent for the BOS to scuttle their armor to prevent it getting into enemy hands. You might also be able to argue for field cremation as a stop-gap until a more satisfactory solution is developed. Basically, bodies get ashed, thus destroying armor.

[dainsgames]

There exists precedent for the BOS to scuttle their armor to prevent it getting into enemy hands. You might also be able to argue for field cremation as a stop-gap until a more satisfactory solution is developed. Basically, bodies get ashed, thus destroying armor.

 

You're right, that mission where you find the patrol that destroyed their armor. So yeah, precedent for doing *something* instead of just leaving it lying around for the player to pick up.

[Gruffydd]

Having them just pick up the bodies and stash them in their inventories wouldn't really work unless the BoS has tesseract technology, to fit an entire body in a pocket.

 

Since we don't have animation of the BoS picking up a body over their shoulders and running off with it, ashing the body definitely seems the best option (and then have them just take the loot, rather than the whole corpse), especially since ashed bodies are already in the game.

It somewhat reminds me of the Torin Kerr books by Tanya Huff, where they can't take fallen soldiers back full-sized, so they ash them, put the ashes in a little cannister, and take that back.

 

As long as you can chase down and kill the BoS guy who took the loot (assuming you want to go to war with the BoS) if you want the stuff he took (in other words, it goes into his inventory and doesn't just vanish), I think this would work great. Maybe with a couple-seconds delay while the BoS guy sets the charge or whatever to ash the body, and not just a blink and it's done.

 

It always bugged me that they didn't at least take the dogtags of the fallen.

[dainsgames]

There's another thing - why can't I return the holotags of the BOS soldiers I find? I've been saving them just to do that, but they don't care? Or, why can't I return their gear for a faction cred + reward? Here's hoping the GECK gives the chance to put some immersiveness into the factions...