Practical Defeat: (Re)Animated 0.4.9

As some of you may know, our pyramid friend has retired from the modding scene, and left his projects to us. And, some of you may remember that I've once made a couple of animations for Practical Defeat to be featured during the defeat sequence - but the update with them never made it to the public. Also, I feel like Practical Defeat was one of ponzi's main flagship mods, so having it relegated to being hidden in the depths of the @Nuascura's kindly provided file dump feels unfitting to a mod of that calibre.

 

So, let's kill two birds with one stone, sort of speaking. Welcome back to its own page:

 

Practical Defeat, the (re)Animated version.

 

I will not be taking over it's development, adding new features and such, but I'd like for a somewhat finalized version of ponzi's efforts to be back on here. I will try do some interim care taking of PD until someone adopts it properly - if the found bugs aren't going to be too hardcore to fix, as the original author's coding proficiency far outpaced mine. Basically, I'll keep it as close to the known original vision as possible.

 

A comprehensive, modular, and extensible human enemy-player defeat system for Acheron. Features include:

• Parametrized robbery by item type, value, and chance
• Varied defeat events and release outcomes including Simple Slavery, Devious Devices, Follower Slavery Mod, etc.
• Struggle animations + minigame via Acheron Extension Library
• First class followers support (up to 3)
• Fast, multi-threaded operation with fail safes
• Designed/written for any player character and follower gender
• Devious Devices awareness - default idles will change, enemies will react to player already being restrained, confiscate keys, and tamper with devices
• Easily extendable by other mod authors and can be used to hook into other Acheron consequences

 

You can use other Acheron Consequence mods like Simple Outcomes for Acheron and/or Yamete Kudasai 2.x with this mod for creature support and to defeat NPCs. To reiterate, this mod only adds a system for player defeat at the hands of humanoid enemies e.g. Nords, Khajits, etc.

 

Compatibility
Acheron is SE/AE-exclusive and as a result so is this mod.

 

Not designed for use with defeat mods beyond other Acheron Consequences i.e. you should not use Defeat, Naked Defeat, etc. with this mod. You can add similar features from those mods to this one using Simple Outcomes and/or Yamete Kudasai.

 

Requirements
Hard:

• Acheron 
• SkyUI
• Fuz ro D'Oh
• PO3 Papyrus Extender
• PapyrusUtil (latest for your version SE/AE)
• Sexlab
• FNIS / Nemesis / Pandora
• Scrab's Papyrus Extender (v 2.0.0 or higher - this will act as a full replacement for PyramidUtils, many thanks to Scrab)
• Open Animation Replacer (for crawling/surrender animations)
• Paired Animation Improvements (for the paired animation sequences to work correctly)
• Backported Extended ESL Support (if you're using Skyrim version < 1130)

 

Soft:

• Struggling QTE (for struggles)
• Simple Slavery++ (for player enslavement)
• Sanguine Debauchery (for player enslavement)
• Follower Slavery Mod (for follower enslavement)
• Devious Devices NG (for restraints)
• Amputator Framework Tweaked (for post-defeat amputation)
• Kidnapped by Rieklings (for the titular post-defeat outcome)
• Simple Capture (for post-defeat outcome)

 

Recommended:

• Spectator Crowds Ultra Edition (for immersive comments and reactions during events)
• SL Survival (for amputee gameplay effects and healing methods)
• Sexlab P+ (for faster starting scenes but only if you're okay with using a work-in-progress mod)
• RemoveAllItems Freeze Fix (you should be using this anyways, it will help against any bugs in the mass item removal for any mod, including PD)

 

Addons

• Simple Events (updated by @gerroth)
• Bad Endings (updated by @guliguliradish)
• Creature Comforts (didn't test)
• Voice Pack (updated)

 

Installation

1. Install as you would any other mod.
2. Run FNIS or Nemesis
3. Configure the weight of this outcome in the Acheron MCM.

 

For Users
If all members of your party including you enter bleedout, an enemy will initiate a struggle minigame with you. If you win, you and your followers will recover and can get back in the fight.

If you lose, you and your followers will be robbed and subjected to some...unsavory events until the max number of rounds is reached or (if enabled) all aggressors are satisfied. Once the last round is complete, a release event will play out.

 

You can find all registered events in the MCM's events page. It features a number of configuration options including robbery parameters, event weights, and restraint type chance.

 

You can edit the default restraints by modifying Data/SKSE/Plugins/Practical Defeat/Devious Devices.json which includes a list of each of potential restraints for each area. I've mostly picked ones I feel are appropriate for Skyrim's world (rope, iron, leather). Being restrained with DD's may spawn the necessary keys on the enemy which should incentivize you to get revenge.

I've included some safe measures for preventing item loss on enemy despawn.

 

Performance may be slightly worse on 1.5.97 (SE) due to missing PapyrusUtil functions.

 

For Modders
 

 

Changelog for the (re)Animated version vs the 0.4.7 in the filedump:

 

 

Permissions:
Practical Defeat's code base is open source, as per wishes of the original author.
Assets such as meshes & animations belong to their authors (i.e. if you wish to create your own fork of PD - make sure to seek and clarify the permissions for their usage)

 

Credits

• ponzi for, you know, making this whole thing
• @Scrab for Acheron, Acheron Extension Library, and a bunch of general development help and helping to preserve the more complicated native ponzi's mods
• @Mister X for laying the groundwork for Acheron defeat mods
• @Pamatronic for inspiring this mod's design with Prison Alternative
• @Nuascura for preserving and keeping up ponzi's mods after his departure from modding
• @naaitsab & @Frayed for smart answers to my stupid papyrus questions
• ZAP team for some assets.