Vertibird complaints

[mkborgelt13]

 

 

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I'm using "durable vertibirds" on the penultimate setting and they are still getting shot down often (read: after every encounter). It's completely ridiculous, the Prydwyn flew in with... only like... 4 vertibirds, and so far each one I have seen in the wild (about 7,8 have crashed.

 

I can't stand this any longer!

 

What can be done?

 

Can anything be done?

 

It's getting so bad that whenever I hear the drone of the rotors, I get a depressed feeling in anticipation of the low-res no clip fragments bouncing on the ground.

 

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I have edited VBirdFX.nif, and changed the 3 diffuse lighting objects to emit "null" or black/invisible light. The goal is to remove the horrible pastel-wash red and green lights in the cabin and cockpit. Just a personal preference.

 

However, the changes aren't sticking. Sometimes the lights are off, other times they are on. How can I turn them OFF for good?

 

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I want the damned doors to close. They might as well not even be attached to the vehicle, they are never used. How can I manipulate the NIF controller to close doors when player or NPCs enter the vehicle?

 

I honestly don't care about the minigun. Standing next to the open door RIGHT BENEATH THE DOWNWASH from the turboprop nacelle would incinerate my character anyway, I mean come on, you can see the heat distortion in the air. IIRC real-life V-22 osprey has a door on the rear of the vehicle, so this does not happen.

 

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What's with the fishbowl cockpit windows? Seriously, you can shoot through the glass and kill the pilot, causing the vehicle to tailspin immediately. There are 2 pilot seats.... but only 1 is ever occupied. Why not add another pilot in the chair that is already there? You know, double redundancy and so-on? If the BoS can spare an indefinite amount of vertibirds to get shot down quickly, surely they can drum up the manpower to have 2 pilots as there are supposed to be.

 

More importantly, for a vehicle that is supposed to see heavy fighting, why not armor the windows, as seen in previous Fallout titles?

Edited August 12, 2016 by mkborgelt13

[mkborgelt13]

Anyone? Please...?

 

I want to make the following changes:

 

1.) Turn off or remove cabin and cockpit lights.

2.) Prevent the texture from going low-quality when you board.

3.) Prevent them from getting shot down in all but the most intense scenarios (i.e. getting hit with multiple rockets is OK, but a behemoth thrown boulder shouldn't knock it out of the sky).

 

This is more of a pipe-dream, but

4.) Make the doors close so you can just ride it in peace.

 

For the life of me, I can't turn the lights off, and I have spent a long time trying to do this. I have narrowed it down to (Data\meshes\actors\Vertibird\CharacterAssets\VbirdFX.nif). Messing with the light emitters in this file simply have no effect on the in-game vertibird.

[TheLoneWastelandWander]

I want different seats :/