Healing a non-hostile alien?

[MusicMicroscope]

Any chance someone might make a mod to make the alien in the cave non-hostile and healable ala the wounded dog? Even knowing the backstory of Fallout aliens, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to kill the wounded survivor of an intergalactic car crash.

[pra]

Might be interesting, if somewhat non-lorefriendly.

 

You heal it, and it becomes a companion. Not sure how many alien speech sound files are in F4, though, but even some gibberish would be enough. The player's responses could be the lines you use when talking to a robot with the Blip Beep voice. Especially the part about "I don't understand you, but we will get along".

It then just follows you around and shoots stuff with it's alien blaster.

 

Even an affinity system could be added.

The alien could like:

- Harvesting plants (collecting samples)

- Killing Brahmin (mutilating cattle)

- Sneak-attacks with melee weapons (probing)

- modding energy weapons (rayguns!)

 

and dislike:

- collecting toys like Jangles the Moon Monkey, Toy Rocketships, Toy Aliens (unrealistic portrayal of space travel and aliens)

- modding projectile or melee weapons (too primitive)

- eating anything which doesn't come in a can or box (you put THAT into your mouth?!)

 

When max. affinity is reached, the alien talks some more gibberish with you. You can, again, only respond like, "what?", "I don't understand you", etc. Then the alien gives you an alien blaster. If you have it equipped and the alien is your companion, it will give you more alien ammo from time to time. Or alternatively, this blaster comes pre-modded to use fusion cells.

[SKKmods]

There are zero alien voice assets in the game and many missing animations (e.g. no grenade throw or lip/mouth/talking) that would make full companionship tough. I have just been customising a hardened hostile alien derivative with some lines of combat, err dialogue ... which takes, like for-ever.

 

https://youtu.be/B3V1JvlhNzo

Edited December 7, 2017 by SKK50

[pra]

There's the "garbled radio station" with alien language. Maybe this can be cut to useful pieces?

[SKKmods]

Good shout, have sliced up QST_AlienRadio_01.xwm ... but not much material.

 

There are already mods out there that spawn new aliens as companions, I'll see if the vanilla guy is workable to rescue and rehabilitate as a chum or follower.

[pra]

I'd suggest taking the clips from F3, but that would most certainly be highly illegal... The "cleanest" solution would probably be to find some voice actor who is able to use some audio tools to make his voice sound similar enough to the F3 aliens....