Fallout 2 mod Fallout Sonora 1.14 and Sonora Dayglow 1.14 Vanilla Translation

Hey so I have a question: What are the conditions for no longer getting the disappearing photo?

I've rescued Padre and Madre, attended the village council meeting, but I'm still got the third photo cutscene. I've noticed it isn't lowering my reputation like it usually does.

Is there a certain amount of mandatory progression to stop getting them?
 
They are replacements for the Hakunin dream sequences of Fallout 2, which were hardcoded, and timed. So, as far as I know, nothing you actually do in game affects their appearance/progression.

The player is left to interpret their meaning on his own.

I have built/am building a custom version of Fallout CE, and I may remove the appearance of the photos, or attach them to something (deaths of family members off-screen/timed?)
 
I think they are fine as they are. Attaching them to the main quest might catch some players who played Sonora before off guard (Madre/Padre suddenly die or Villa quests fail, but I didn't do anything special in my playthrough), unless you add a timer note similar to the water timer in FO1.
 
They are fine, but they are also something Nevada Band was forced to include. So not including them might have been their preferred option. They do confuse a LOT of people.

I thought a voice-over of some kind accompanying them could help explain their significance. Maybe a hearkening back to words of wisdom/warning from Granny Adonisia or some such. If only she was voiced.
NovaRain said:
unless you add a timer note similar to the water timer in FO1.
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Interesting, though it would be tough to connect a specific date/length of time for the rescue of/failure to rescue your kin.
 
Cambragol said:
They are fine, but they are also something Nevada Band was forced to include. So not including them might have been their preferred option. They do confuse a LOT of people.
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CE doesn't include sfall's MovieTimer_artimerX setting yet, so if you're gonna to include your own CE build, removing the whole timer/movie/rep decrease code should be a simpler choice.
 
Jogre said:
Hey so I have a question: What are the conditions for no longer getting the disappearing photo?

I've rescued Padre and Madre, attended the village council meeting, but I'm still got the third photo cutscene. I've noticed it isn't lowering my reputation like it usually does.

Is there a certain amount of mandatory progression to stop getting them?
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the simplest thing to do is to disable them in sfall:

there are four settings named something like Arroyo_timer1, 2, 3, 4 each one like
arroyo_timer=XXX
where xxx is the number of days from the start when the movie plays ( th movie plays at midnight ).
in order to prevent the movie from happening, simply set the =XXX to =-1 , and that's it no more annoying movies, and since ingame scripts are tied to the arroyo timer movies display, if the movies don't play the events after them don't happen.
 
Cambragol said:
They are fine, but they are also something Nevada Band was forced to include.
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Can the movies be deactivated by hex-editing the exe? If yes, then Nevada Band could have done that, since they use their own modified exe - and the inclusion of the movies would be a voluntary decision.
I think it would be nice to at least have them available optionally, since they are a part of the original release.
 
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