Recent content by FrankManic

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=618041#618041 Oh look, someone left this neat horn here. Toot toot.

I like that Kangaroo. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on running into something like that in Texas. Texans will herd anything, you know.

Think of this as the design document for a Mod that I'll probably never make. Bethesda's reasons for the Enclave and Super Muties being on the East Coast can best be described as piss poor, so I decided to write up a better explanation. It includes a lot of the ideas used in FIII, but with a...

There is nothing mystical, magical, or special about a sword. There is no deep and mysterious way of the sword. There is nothing special about swords. Any long, thin piece of metal that is intended to be used to kill people and that you don't feel comfortable calling a knife is a sword. It...

Wouldn't it be great if we had a slave-race of genius coder/modeler-graphic artists who would feverishly produce any mod that we desired? Of course it would suck when they programmed our games to rise up and kill us in the night...

Short answer? You can't really defend yourself with an axe. most fighting axes are too top heavy to use effectively on the defense. Spears can be awkward to carry, especially if it's a back up weapon. It's also awkward to maneuver in tight areas. If your main weapon is a rifle you'll have to...

Depressed Chinese Moon Ghouls who demand you bring them potatoes and a radio from the US moon base so they can make hooch and listen to 3Dog!

I do a decent bit of metal working. There are a couple of ways to make a long, straight, edged weapon, which for convenience we're going to call a sword. The one most people are familiar with is buy blacksmithy or forge work. In this method a blacksmith heats a piece of steel until it is...

Word on the street is that there are pump shotty animations already in the game, but unused. So all you need in that regard is the model.

Maybe create a persistent particle that has an area fire effect?

Yes, it is. It's just sort of an odd mortar. Something a little more conventional might be nice. Plus nothing says "I'm having fun" like being shelled by enemies outside of your line of sight!

I'm still kind of keen on having a nuke launcher. I don't suppose someone could mod a weapon based on the Davy Crockett? Something more in line with the peewee-A rockets from Starship Troopers? I don't know what the heck you'd actually do with it in game, but it seems like the sort of thing...

I don't think I'm going to make it for release. It seems like people are going to be cranking out a lot of new weapons, AI mods, and all sorts of other things in the next few months. As such, a mod like this that will directly change the leveled lists of NPCs will probably interfere with a lot...

I agree. Having a desert in a bad destroyed California without human interference for irrigation made a certain amount of sense, but Virginia is a swamp without humans dickering with it. There should at least be some vegetation in the lowland areas near water. Frankly, I was sort of...

I've started going through the level lists and modding them to what seems sensible to me. When I'm done, a Brotherhood trooper with an energy weapon is going to have a laser rifle or a plas rifle, a laser or 10mm pistol, a knife or ripper, various grenades, stims, dogtags, water, between...