Documentation And Technical Support
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Technical Support
So it's not working as expected? Don't despair! We're here to help.
Post in this thread if you are in need of technical support with the mod.
Attached you will find the documentation for Ivy 5.0.
You can find this same documentation in game, in the NX-2C Controller Holotape.
Do not hesitate to ask any questions, should you have them!
Ivy's Affinity Quests
- HyperCombat!
Kicks off after speaking with Ivy and Ivy has engaged an enemy in combat more than 20 times.
- Into the Deep
Needs a minimum player level of 17. Kicks off several affinity levels after establishing a deeper love relationship with Ivy. (Affinity = 46. PL > 17)
- Robotic Assimilation
Kicks off once you reach affinity level 60+ with Ivy and speaking with Ivy.
- Ivy Goes to NukaWorld
Kicks off after finishing Into the Deep and Robotic Assimilation, and after NukaWorld has been unlocked (e.g. the NukaWorld radio signal can be found)
- Processing Power! (short quest)
Kicks off after Ivy has asked you for a spare secondary backup processor for over 10 times.
- Nice Rack!
Kicks off after picking up more than 20 magazines with Ivy in the vicinity.
How to recruit Ivy in a few minutes:
Introduction
Welcome to Companion Ivy 6.0!
Ivy was created with the greatest of care and dedication.
Over 4 years of development time went into creating a rich and full backstory that fits in the world and in the story line of Fallout. While she may at first glance appear to be a mindless sex puppet, she is far more than that!
Her 'mind' was created using real life psychological models, exploring childhood trauma, nihilism, existentialism and other psychological phenomenon. She draws upon a rich history of psychology as taught by Freud, Carl Jung and many other renowned clinical psychologists around the world. But next to that, she is also sexy as hell and delivers powerful lines with a comic punch that will make you smile, smirk, or cry every time she surprises you with a new line of dialogue as you travel the wasteland together.
Her psychological profile was created from three distinct personalities, which you as player will come to meet as you travel with her and get to know her better. Each personality fights for its own place within Ivy, making her a unique individual and one that is consistent in the world, based on real life psychological principles.
Always remember when talking to Ivy that she likes to use metaphors!
Ivy is a so called 'Prime Companion'.
You could also describe it as a 'Gold' companion.. what does this mean? It basically means she has a shitload of content. Much, much more than regular companions have and perhaps... maybe even the most content of any custom companion for any Bethesda game to date (the jury is still out on that one). At the time of writing all of her dialogue in all of her base mod and add-ons count for nearly 9500 lines of dialogue. But the current base mod has around 7000 lines of dialogue. In comparison, the player character has 12000 lines!
This means that she is meant to be used as a SINGLE FOLLOWER and has about as much content as a regular DLC sized add-on as released by Bethesda.
Ivy comes with many special functions, multiple quests (in new locations) and thousands of lines of dialogue, unique for each situation, location and quest. Her radio station offers trailers, music, news and weather reports. She comes with add-ons, DLC and other extras.
Consider Ivy to be a game-long quest.
Ivy needs a NEW GAME.
Meaning you, walking out of the vault, and recruiting her directly, to run with you through the game.
She was not designed to be recruited in a later/high level save. It will result losing a lot of content that's important. Her quests and affinity are designed to be built up from the moment you leave the Vault. This is an important distinction between regular followers. Ivy is like a long running quest, not a follower to fill the troupe of other followers with. If that's your thing, Ivy is not for you!
- You CAN dismiss her at any time to recruit other followers to get their perks.
- You CAN run with other companions and even use AFT. But you will lose support (see the AFT fact sheet in the spoiler below).
- Installing Ivy will not interfere technically with other custom companions, unless they overwrite vanilla assets and/or vanilla quests.
WARNING: Using Ivy with multi follower mods will result in lack of functionality for Ivy.
Ivy allows you to travel with Dogmeat as a secondary companion if you use a suitable mod to enable that functionality.
01- Introduction (See above)
02 - Recruitment & Dismissal.txt
05a - Affinty - Flirting & Arousal.txt
Hyper Combat Attack Moves
Electric - Ivy teleports to combat target and drops an electric / flash grenade.
Forcepush - Ivy teleports to combat target and uses a concussive grenade, pushing combatants away.
Telefrag - Ivy teleports to combat target and re-emerges inside of them, thereby eviscerating them.
Grenade - Ivy teleports to combat target and drops a random type grenade.
Frenzy - Ivy teleports to combat target and whispers into their ear, making them frenzy.
FreeBird - Ivy does NOT teleport to the combat target. Instead she teleports them 500 meters up into the air so they free fall to their death.
DeathAbove - Dito as FreeBird.
Headpop - Ivy teleports random limbs from the body of the combatant.
Overkill - Ivy becomes panicked. Time slows down and she teleports towards up to 7 different combatants at a time, killing them all through telefrag attacks.
AWKR / Keyword mods
- If incompatibilities found, prefer AWKR in your load order (e.g. make sure it's loaded AFTER Ivy)
START ME UP / ALTERNATIVE START MODS
- Should work fine with 6.0, but you might miss some of Ivy's content during the initial quests.
How will affect her Outcast And Remnants, Project Valkyrie and Depravity?
- Ivy will work well with all of those mods, but you might lose any of her quest related content for quests that are skipped. None of these affect her affinity for you or the outcome of her own storyline. My advice is to 'try the artist vision' with a clean playthrough just with Ivy, then play her and integrate into any mod you'd like.
SCANNING
- Ivy sometimes SCANS too often. If it's bothering you, open the console and adjust the SCAN frequency:
Open the console, type 'set _ivy_scan_frequency' to 100 (disables her scanning)
Setting it to 0 makes her scan ALWAYS, so don't do that lol.
You can set it to 99 to only make her scan every so often.
See the Advanced Gameplay Guide below for more information on Ivy's Global Variables.
Edited by Reginald_001
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