Saving the captive Part 1

Saving the captive Part 2

After being freed for the first time (pic 1), the captive ran straight to the Jefferson Memorial where he gained attention of super mutants so SX4 had to intervene again (pic 2).

Coming to Rivet City

Meeting a friendly scientist

More what they talked about can be read in the updates thread.

To the broken bow of Rivet City

Main doors were closed so SX4 had to "knock" on the side door

Is there anyone else on the broken bow except mirelurks?

Turns out there is - a scientist called Pinkerton, known to help androids

SX4 agreed to the surgery and while he's lying sedated on Pinkerton's operating table, inside his head distorted memories from distant past emerge, when he wasn't an android but a soldier in the US Army named Nick Volodymyr, sent on a mission to Anchorage...

This post has been edited by Lopov: Apr 25 2016, 04:08 PM

I use the OpenTeammateContainer 1 command to give the captives weapons and ammo. That way when they run into the next batch of mutants down the road they pull out an assault rifle or flamer and lay the smack down.

SX4 also met a hot scientist...

Crispy blue mirelurks!

It is great seeing Nick with his buzz cut and winterized combat armor!

Do the 'captives' have a deathwish upon release like their counterparts in Skyrim?

Still love to see foes get turned into pretty blue sparkly bits!

Nick looks great! How very clever the way you are doing Anchorage as a 'flashback'.

@SubRosa - Janice is hot indeed, even the android can feel it. Clever to give captives some weapon and ammo, I might do that as well, equip them with a FatMan for instance.

@Acadian - yes, their deathwish consists of attracting attention of every enemy in the area. To make Nick look younger, I changed his silvery blue eyes with normal blue eyes, made his skin tone slightly lighter and reduced intensity of eye sockets and eyeliner.

Let's see what happened when Nick Volodymyr continued his mission in Anchorage (version S-Florens):

Even in Alaska scorpions are abundant

Shrine to Mini Nuke (I assume that's SubRosa's work)

Now you look better!

"Don't bother me, soldier. Can't you see I'm working?" (I assume that's SubRosa's work too)

Battle on the bridge

Stingerless Scorpion

This one at least kept his head

Cells vs Cells

Scorpion Mom attacks

Scorpion Mom dies

Ice scorpions! Ha, loved the skellie who had been working at his ‘puter for too long without eating. Wow, a stingerless scorpion looks like a chaurus. Cells vs Cells – is that more SubRosa cleverness?

Great shots of Nick taking on SubRosa’s Anchorage. Thanks for sharing.

Nick has met the Snow Scorpions. I made a new - white - skin for them, but they always became cowardly and fled the player. So I had to revert to the original look.

The mini-nuke is all mine. Though I didn't think of it as a shrine. Originally I put a Fat Man there along with some mini nukes. But I later changed my mind and put the gauss rifle there instead. I wanted it to be available early in the mod, and the only other one is toward the end. I decided to leave one mini-nuke for dressing.

I am pretty sure that skeleton in the chair was all my idea. I wanted signs of the pre-war life all around.

I put my money on the microfusion cells to win!

Hey, this must have taken a long time to get her up there, huh?



Ha ha I KNEW this was coming

This post has been edited by Renee: May 1 2016, 06:16 PM

@Acadian - for that skeleton the work never ends.

@SubRosa - looks like the white texture worked for Yao Guai, though. Nick encountered one before descending to trenches. Unfortunately no pic of that encounter exist.

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Singing the Gauss song

The Gauss chorus

The Gauss singer

Billie Bones disarmed

Billie Bones killed with Cpt. Flint coming to rock the house

Face to face with Flint

Flint is gone

Chimera explodes

Chillin' with Hawkins

What needs to be done...

Yes, the white texture worked fine on the Polar Yao Guai. There are two of them in Anchorage Aftermath, and they are always hostile. But the three different varieties of Snow Scorpions I created always turned cowardly. No matter how many times I deleted and re-created them.

Very cool pic of the gauss projectile in flight!

If you are going to be using the gauss, I highly recommend Gauss DX. It fixes some of the bugs it has, and adds some really neat fx.

It looks like Nick was fighting Flint and the Snowman!

Nick, that toilet's out of order!

Looks like Nick is tearing up Anchorage! That is a neat gun he has. Uh-oh, gotta go make yellow snow.

Anchorage looks very pretty. And lots of fun too.

What is he doing in that last ?-- OHhhh.

@SubRosa - Nick encountered one Yao Guai just before entering the trenches but haven't run into second one. He used the Gauss Rifle in Anchorage but back in the wasteland he sticks to his Atomic Pulverizer.

@Acadian - Nick didn't consider the fact that yellow snow might make Chinese invaders even harder to spot.

@Renee - he nipped to the loo, that's what he's doing. In fact the pose used in the last pic is meant to be a mourning one but seen from behind it can be interpreted as something else too.

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Here's the last batch of screenies from Nick Volodymyr's "flashback" of Anchorage:

No head, no problem

Pinned to the wall

Storming the Chinese HQ

Cistern shootout

I loved this place, SubRosa, especially because it was possible to see legs of hostile soldiers if crouched.

Chinese Colonel:"Here comes meat for my chop suey!"

Nick:"Back off, commie!"

Let's cripple that hand

Finish in style

The Colonel was very tough and the battle didn't just consist of shooting but also of running around the Colonel's quarters to find some precious time for healing. When he managed to cripple her hand, though, things got a bit easier. And so...having relived the battle of Anchorage and finished what he couldn't finish two hundred years ago Nick Volodymyr could leave Alaska in peace.

Back to reality - SX4 waking up. Notice the subtle scar on the left part of his head, a souvenir of the surgery.

But was Anchorage really just a dream? Because if it was, how is it possible that SX4 found the Colonel's Venomblade in his trenchoat?

But maybe it's better if some questions remain unanswered.

A lot of beheading and disarming going on there! Very cool how, even though Nick originally failed so long ago, this time he finished the job and survived. To wonder whether it really happened or was just a dream seems like a natural question for NickSX4 to have, so it was another brilliant touch having him find a piece of evidence that he really was there! Yay Nick!

Looks like Nick has gotten ahead of the Commies! Except of course when he is giving them a hand..

I loved that area of the Chinese HQ with all the oil tanks. I was hoping for some hide and seek shootouts in there, where you could sneak up on commies, and be sneaked up on by them in turn.

I am glad the Colonel turned out to be a challenge. I wanted her to be a big, final boss after all. Have fun with her poison sword!

Back to Hecate and her big gurl gun!

Wow, you can really see the Skyriim influence on the mojavie Legion - men in skirts and red shirts.

Hecate in action. *happy sigh* What a wonderful shot of Hecate the Gungirl.

Skeeters? I think I saw a mosquito out here in the desert once. . . but that was years ago. I figured it must have stowed away on a plane full of tourists from back east.

Looks like she found some Shogun influence there in the last shot?

ha you stole my joke hon, although I was going to say "lend them a hand".

Hectate looking cavalier as always. Mmm hmm.


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This post has been edited by Renee: May 8 2016, 04:50 PM

Acadian: At least the Legion skirts make more sense in the desert. At least during the day. I imagine at night it must get awful cold out there in the Mojave.

No skeeters in the Mojave? I suppose you folks have flies instead. Not to mention radscorpions.

I hadn't even thought of the crosslegged sitting as looking Japanese! But you are so right! Hecate is a Samurai Sniper.



Renee: I guess Nick is pretty handy in a fight...

Its too bad there is no M110 Sniper System mod for Skyrim. It might be fun to play Hecate there...




Blast Off

Brassy

Angry Deathclaw

Too close for comfort

Much too close for comfort

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 8 2016, 09:14 PM

@Acadian - Nick's mission in the past is now complete but plenty more lie ahead. I'm glad you liked the fact that it's not clearly known whether it was just a sim or something more.

@SubRosa - the Colonel was indeed a challenge, even for enhanced Nick, her damage resistance was very high. She was way above every other enemy in the AA with Captain Flint being the 2nd toughest.

@ SubRosa & Renee - wait until Nick gets you in his hands.

Hecate wakes up early to be the first to snipe.

It's more like "Go back to sleep" for the Legion.

Uh oh Cazadores! Hecate, watch out, they're difficult to bring down even at high levels. Not even Blondie who is both high-leveled and wields a powerful weapon, feels comfortable when they get too close though TBH that hasn't happened in a while.

Young Lady Gibson is in town.

Great capture of bleeding deathclaw's face.

I assume that Hecate learned that deathclaw to keep his claws off her.

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SX4 decided to help another rogue android and the best thing he could do, was to "remove" his hunter.

The next thing he did, was to disarm the hunter's bodyguard which is in fact an android but an evil one.

But the bodyguard didn't give up - he attacked SX4 with his bare fists.

Nick said "Why not?" and returned the favor.

But when the hunter's bodyguard resorted to cheating...

...the match was over!

Mess happens

SubRosa - No skeeters and no flies here. The lack of skeeters makes complete sense in the desert. Not sure on the flies though. I spent lots of time in the deserts of the middle east and it is swarming with flies. Just lucky out here in the Mojave I guess. Well, we do have rattlesnakes (not the blue-eyed blonde kind), mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes and bark scorpions. The bark scorpions are small but among the most dangerous scorpions there are (not counting the megaradiated giant ones on FONV of course.)

Blast Off – You know I love it when you show us screenies of those old billboards.

Brassy – Wow, that brings back memories of having to ‘police up our brass’.

Deathclaw. . . oh my. I can’t even imagine how terrifying it must be for Hecate to be seeing that magnified in her scope!

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Lopov –

Oooh, pretty blue sparkly ash pile!

I see the problem right away with that other android. When SX4 disarmed him, he simply removed his weapon as opposed to the more literal Persephonic definition of ‘disarm’ that quite ably removes fistfighting as an option.

Oh, in the disarm shot, who’s the pretty labcoat in the background?