Fallout 3: Van Buren (Spoilers!)

Great that it is clarified now. Bethesda was always friendly to mod developers and it would be a very strange turn if this would change with the classics.

 

If i may give you a suggestion. After i read an other thread on your project, i noticed some advices to change its name.
IMO it would be a bad idea as it would prevent a lot of people for trying it, mainly people like myself, who don't play mods much, but would consider a van buren project as something as important as the canon material (like restoration project/FIXT), and play it anyway. If you hide the fact it is Van Buren, only mods player would try it.

On an unrelated note, i hope a fonline single player mod won't require to start a server, but i bet your team will try to answer the question far before me...

 

Just to clear things up a bit. Gstaff (the community manager at Bethesda) sent an answer after I asked about the problem:

Which was what I thought in the begining. Also there is no need to fear that Bethesda would watch over a specific modding project. That would be simply not doable by the amount of projects that are happening for their games. A simple visit on Nexus (www.nexusmods.com) would show why .

Still I can see the logic to use FOnline for your mod. It's always better to have full access to the source code of the engine that I am using for the work I do.

 

You should check out this thread and perhaps PM one of those guys.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?180962

I mean, the thread started in 2008 and the last entry was in 2011, but trying won't hurt.

 

Jesterka, maybe. But Continuum was just recently on site. I don't know if they are tired of making that mod or whether they have the old files they're willing to share, though.
Also, what is your strengths at modding? I just knew someone who might help you with critters/scenery.

 

Since you went to FOnline engine do we need FO2 or FOT to play the mod?

 

All fonline clients/servers need Master.dat & critter.dat from Fallout 2. Some specific servers also need additionnal files from Fo1, Fo2 & FoT.

 

You can also use fallout.dat instead of master & critter. What are additional files from Fallout 2? When you use master/critter dats you have everything from Fallout 2...

 

Well, that's an excuse to me to install FOT after all this time.

 

Aw man, do I have to buy this now?

EDIT: Got it! Ordered from Amazon, should be on the way soon.

 

Some people missed the chance. The site was pretty much saturated those days.
Also, if I understand correctly, he's getting the boxed version, which has its own charm.

 

Yes that's right. Back in December I wasn't thinking about Tactics, and I already had CDs for F1 and F2. A friend bought the boxed games 15 years ago, threw out the boxes, threw out the unread manuals and anything else besides the CDs, played around with the games for a while, passed the CDs on to me. He's like that. A couple of years ago I bought a backup CD for F2, no manual of course. The copy of Tactics from Amazon is 20+ dollars, I would be thrilled if it included a manual. But besides that, I don't like to buy something and not have it on a CD or DVD.