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Reginald_001

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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

03 - Dialogue.txt

04 - Service Menu.txt

05 - Affinity.txt

05a - Affinty - Flirting & Arousal.txt

06 - Teleportation.txt

07 - Combat & HyperCombat.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.

HC Tape Semi Spoiler.flvHC Tape Full Spoiler.flv

Edited by Reginald_001

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00mork

Posted

On 7/12/2024 at 11:32 AM, Sr_Golfo said:

Hi Reginald. 

In my fourth run with Ivy got into this problem. In robotic assimilation, instead of making the fullquest I just stopped searching for Mercy's Diarys and went to do other quests, when I come back to the diarys. I see that Ivy is not commenting after I read them. And in the last one she does not comment, and when I try to talk to her it bugs the replay, so I push talk and then nothing happens (i dont have conversation or dirty talk choices) ... How can I repair her ?  Tried recycleactor or resetai but they donrt work 

In the console the  sqo commando show this last entry 

100 Speak with Ivy DORMANT 

all the other stages of the quest show the COMPLETE tag

 

 

I have the exact same problem, there's no way to talk to her after I had part 9 of the journals.

00mork

Posted

OK, 'SetStage _ivy_MAQ2_Main 1000' solved that one for me, let's hope it did not affect anything else.

Grox028

Posted

 

Hello Reginald, first thank you for creating such good companion, 

I have some questions about Ivy's dialog, I have played for 30h with Ivy, and I heard many good conversations in the early game like her comment about Marcy Long, Skinny Malone, I love when her merge in to the vanilla conversations. However she became silent in the later game, she will not join in the conversation with Vegeir or the Father while in the main quest, I look it up in the Fo4Edit and see some dialogs, am I doing anything wrong that make these lines can‘t be triggered?  I ran some health test and didn't find anything wrong.

 

And Could you give me some hints that what will go wrong if I use Version 6.0 translation patch or change the race of Ivy? will this course malfunction?

OtherAdventurous

Posted

Not sure if it's part of the mod or if another mod is acting up, but it seems like Ivy is putting restraints from one of the restraints mods on my character at random times. I thought at first it was happening with the deviously cursed wasteland mod, but it's happening when I'm wandering around and not just when I'm searching containers. It's also the same restraint device every time it happens. Is this part of the Ivy mod or is it something else?

Reginald_001

Posted

17 hours ago, OtherAdventurous said:

Not sure if it's part of the mod or if another mod is acting up, but it seems like Ivy is putting restraints from one of the restraints mods on my character at random times. I thought at first it was happening with the deviously cursed wasteland mod, but it's happening when I'm wandering around and not just when I'm searching containers. It's also the same restraint device every time it happens. Is this part of the Ivy mod or is it something else?

Yeah that's not Ivy she doesn't have any logic for mods like that. Hope you find the issue tho.

dx46

Posted

А есть список модов, из-за которых часть реплик Айви пропадает? Я удалил Лигу, но в разговорах с Кольтером и Вёрджилом она молчит😣

foreveraloneguy

Posted (edited)

I've dug around a bit, but I'm not turning up anything on this. Ivy keeps repeating "I really don't like this" and "I don't know what you're doing but stop it" immediately after leaving her bunker. I tried "scaonactor" but that didn't change anything. I thought maybe it was related to scanning, and _ivy_scan_frequency was set to 320. I'm on 6.1 and FO4 1.10.163.

Edited by foreveraloneguy
Reginald_001

Posted

4 hours ago, foreveraloneguy said:

I've dug around a bit, but I'm not turning up anything on this. Ivy keeps repeating "I really don't like this" and "I don't know what you're doing but stop it" immediately after leaving her bunker. I tried "scaonactor" but that didn't change anything. I thought maybe it was related to scanning, and _ivy_scan_frequency was set to 320. I'm on 6.1 and FO4 1.10.163.

You have a mod that is altering her height/size. Disable that mod, or exclude Ivy from it.

foreveraloneguy

Posted

Ah, yeah, I use height randomizer. Thanks, I never would have figured that out.

drock90

Posted

I've done HyperCombat!, Into the Deep(only part 1 I guess? I saw there was a video for a part 2?), and Processing Power! I'm pretty sure I haven't done Robotic Assimilation but I'm having difficulty finding anything about it. I'm level 70+, she says that she loves me, CompanionIvy, CompanionIvy_Nuka, Companion_Ivy_quest are all enabled.
I feel like I've been with Ivy for a long time at this point, I honestly assumed I was done with her story until I ran into Dr. Stein in Nuka-World which is when I started looking into her quests to see what I was missing. 


So my questions being: 
Is there something I missed?
If it's bugged is there a way to trigger the next step in console?
I assume my affinity is high enough, but is there a way to check it? I saw "GetGlobalValue_Ivy_Affinity" mentioned somewhere, but when i use that it says script command not found.

Miauzi

Posted

Vor 1 Stunde sagte drock90:

Ich habe HyperCombat!, Into the Deep (nur Teil 1, glaube ich? Ich habe gesehen, dass es ein Video für Teil 2 gibt?) und Processing Power gespielt! Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass ich Robotic Assimilation nicht gespielt habe, aber ich finde nichts darüber. Ich bin Level 70+, sie sagt, dass sie mich liebt, CompanionIvy, CompanionIvy_Nuka und Companion_Ivy_quest sind alle aktiviert.
Ich habe das Gefühl, dass ich zu diesem Zeitpunkt schon lange mit Ivy zusammen bin. Ehrlich gesagt dachte ich, ich wäre mit ihrer Geschichte fertig, bis ich in Nuka-World auf Dr. Stein traf und begann, mir ihre Quests anzusehen, um herauszufinden, was ich verpasst hatte. 


Meine Fragen sind also:
Habe ich etwas übersehen?
Wenn ein Fehler vorliegt, gibt es eine Möglichkeit, den nächsten Schritt in der Konsole auszulösen?
Ich gehe davon aus, dass meine Affinität hoch genug ist. Gibt es aber eine Möglichkeit, das zu überprüfen? Ich habe irgendwo die Erwähnung von „GetGlobalValue_Ivy_Affinity“ gesehen, aber wenn ich das verwende, wird die Meldung „Skriptbefehl nicht gefunden“ angezeigt.

 

Have you found the diaries or diary pages (entries) and listened to Ivy's comments on them?

 

When you enter Nuka World, everything you've done up to that point and the status between Ivy and you as a player is irrelevant.

 

All that matters now is your behavior toward Ivy during HER special tour through Nuka World... all of that influences the final encounter in Dr. Stein's "protection system" - and how Ivy behaves toward you afterward!

 

The mod does NOT use Fallout's usual "affinity" system - the one specially created by the mod author has MULTIPLE variables... Ivy's statements about "love" or "sex" ultimately don't matter much - since Ivy has something like a "split personality" (not a medically correct term - but that's the best way I can explain it to myself)... Ivy's personality is a very complex "construct."

:flushed:

drock90

Posted

On 6/28/2025 at 12:42 PM, Miauzi said:

 

Have you found the diaries or diary pages (entries) and listened to Ivy's comments on them?

 

When you enter Nuka World, everything you've done up to that point and the status between Ivy and you as a player is irrelevant.

 

All that matters now is your behavior toward Ivy during HER special tour through Nuka World... all of that influences the final encounter in Dr. Stein's "protection system" - and how Ivy behaves toward you afterward!

 

The mod does NOT use Fallout's usual "affinity" system - the one specially created by the mod author has MULTIPLE variables... Ivy's statements about "love" or "sex" ultimately don't matter much - since Ivy has something like a "split personality" (not a medically correct term - but that's the best way I can explain it to myself)... Ivy's personality is a very complex "construct."

:flushed:

Do you find the diary entries in Nuka World? I believe the only diary like entries I've read for her are the entries on the terminal in her bunker. It sounds like I may need to just keep progressing through, I appreciate the help.

Nicolobot69

Posted

I wish I could use power armor with her. It would be so nice. Is there a way to edit it so she doesn't hate it when i wear power armor?

 

Reginald_001

Posted (edited)

8 minutes ago, Nicolobot69 said:

I wish I could use power armor with her. It would be so nice. Is there a way to edit it so she doesn't hate it when i wear power armor?

 

As it would undermine a large part of the entire reason why her character is the way it is, no. But despite the 'hate' messages every now and then you do not lose affinity points in anyway for using it. The only thing that does not function in power armor is Flirting (for obvious reasons). You can use power armor yourself all you like without negative effect on the affinity.

 

Also note that her hate is not so much hate, as it is intense concern caused by trauma.

 

She hates wearing Power Armor because is already brain inside what for her is effectively power armor. It feels like being put inside a coffin to her and it very much incapacitates the use of her body, which is already hard to control (being a brain in a jar and all).

Edited by Reginald_001
Miauzi

Posted

Vor einer Stunde schrieb Reginald_001:

Da dies einen Großteil des Grundes, der ihren Charakter ausmacht, untergraben würde, nein. Trotz der gelegentlichen Hassnachrichten verlierst du jedoch keinerlei Zuneigungspunkte durch die Nutzung der Powerrüstung. Das Einzige, was in der Powerrüstung nicht funktioniert, ist Flirten (aus offensichtlichen Gründen). Du selbst kannst die Powerrüstung so oft benutzen, wie du willst, ohne dass sich dies negativ auf deine Zuneigung auswirkt.

 

Beachten Sie außerdem, dass es sich bei ihrem Hass nicht so sehr um Hass handelt, sondern vielmehr um eine intensive Besorgnis, die durch ein Trauma hervorgerufen wird.

 

Sie hasst es, eine Powerrüstung zu tragen, weil ihr Gehirn ja bereits in etwas steckt, das für sie im Grunde eine Art Rüstung ist. Es fühlt sich für sie an, als würde sie in einen Sarg gesperrt, und es schränkt die Kontrolle über ihren Körper stark ein, der ohnehin schon schwer zu beherrschen ist (schließlich ist ihr Gehirn ja quasi in einem Glas).

 

And there's a very good (and, to me, understandable) reason for that – an event from her "previous" life... but mentioning more would be a "spoiler" – because it will all be "revealed" during their journey together.


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