The Machine and Her review and notes

[valcon767]

a decent story mod

 

about 1-2 hours of gameplay (5-6 if playing survival)

 

ran into several problem points while playing and had to play hunt and find on the net toi try to find workarounds

having to watch a 30-45 minute video just for 10 seconds of possible help was the worst part

 

The Machine and Her (main mod) is fairly buggy

The Machine and Her Revival does fix a lot of the bugs but not all

 

as this is an adult website and has a lot of adult mods if Kit does not interact (or interacts strangly) with mods one possible reason is

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NOTE = Kit is 17 years old according to the creator and uses a custom body

 

if you have any other mod that changes (or possibly just affects) locks or terminals this mod can cause issues once Kit is a follower.

just use the AGNIS Portable holotape (its in misc section) and in the debug functions you can turn Kits abiliy to pick locks and hack terminals off which

should let you handle locks and terminals as usual.

 

i played through and got the ending i wanted on Revival and will list the 4 problem points and how i solved them

 

problem points

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these are listed in the order i ran into them during the mod

 

radio station - cutscene not playing right

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when you get the vacuum tube from the librarian

1 - if you have other followers either dismiss them or make them wait by the entrance to the radio station

     make sure of this just before you grab the vacuum tube

2 - make sure Kit enters the room with the librarian before you grab the tube or the coming cutscene may mess up

      get to a point you can grab the vacuum tube but before grabbing it look around and make sure Kit is in room with you and librarian

 

return to Symphony Station - Kit disappearing to fast and you only getting single dialogue option (and not hearing what AGNIS says)

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you have to talk to AGNIS but if  you walk up slowly Kit will race off to check parts and come back so fast you will not get to talk to AGNIS

 

make a hard save just after entering Symphony Station with the parts needed

 

when you can see AGNIS (the black radio speaker looking box) run up and click her, after Kit leaves to go check on the parts and you have finished talking with AGNIS talk to Kit in the bathroom again

 

AGNIS store - dialogue issues after answering red phone

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if you want Kat to live later you will need to explore all the dialogue with Kit, but this will also give you what looks like (and is) a dialogue bug where you cannot make choices (or back out through dialogue).  when (not if) you hit this bug you can work around it right here.  just look around (pan camera) until you are out of dialogue with Kit.

 

if the camera will not pan around switch view modes (from 1st person to third and back again as necessary) until camera will pan around again. now that you have done some of the dialogue and hit the problem to contiune exploring dialogue with Kit, or to progress the quest if you are finished exploring Kits information just answer the red phone again.  this will have Kit initiate the dialogue stream again.  

 

when you have finished exploring all Kits information/dialogue or you are just ready to move on there is a point early in the dialogue stream (after Kit starts dialogue after you answer the red phone) where you can tell her just tell me what we have to do, then confirm it.  doing this will progress the quest (and complete the stage of talk to Kit)

 

if you want Kat to live at the end of the mod you MUST explore all of Kits dialogue/information (backstory) during this time.

 

Signal Station - possible issue if you have other followers with you

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if you have other followers with you and Kit when getting near the Signal Station just have them wait a short distance away.

i had them wait when the map marker was between 40 and 50 units short and had no issues

 

Submered lab - problems with Kat appearing to early or the cutscene where Kit and Kat talk not working right

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when you load the Mainframe Backup (you will know it because you literally have to initiate a backup of the mainframe)

you MUST back out of the terminal screen IMMEADATELY (Dixon will be speaking)  if you do not you will hit a bug.

 

if Dixons message plays for a few more seconds after you have fully backed out of the terminal scene the rest of the mod should play out fine

 

 

 

if Kit is still a follower after completing the mod you can send her to a settlement. just start dialogue with Kit and it is available in lets talk about settings.

 

hope the information helps other who play the mod

 

Edited November 8, 2025 by valcon767
fixing typos

[Count Chocula]

42 minutes ago, valcon767 said:

NOTE = Kit is 17 years old according to the creator

Why did you feel the need to explicitly note this? If the author had said she's 32, would you have noted it?

 

On a more substantive note, it's been a while since I played it but if I play it again (unlikely since it's not what I would call highly replayable) your notes will be helpful.

[travelmedic]

Thanks for the review.  This mod was part of my load order for years but I never actually played it through in-game except for one time I went into the station and had the initial introduction conversation.  Never progressed it further than that.

 

I finally, this time around, just took it out of my load order.  There have always been reports of frustrating bugs, but for me I noticed conflicts with other mods.  Previs conflicts seemed fairly common, especially with Jamaica Plains mods, but also along the waterfront near where the station was.  

 

I'd still like to go back and play it at some point because it looks interesting, but would have to be more careful about placing it in my load order.