[RELz] Mart's Mutant Mod 1.0 RC 4.0 : Fallout 3

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:10 pm

Martigen's Mutant Mod for Fallout 3
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"Let it begin! Let it begin!!" [Rhino, Bolt] Release Candidate

::: DOWNLOAD :::
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::: Fallout 3 Nexus -- http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3211 (118M) [390M uncompressed]

::: Fallout 3 Nexus -- http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3211 (118M) [390M uncompressed]

::::: IMPORTANT!: YOU MUST DO THE FOLLOWING STEPS WHEN UPGRADING ANY PRIOR VERSION TO MMM RC4. :::::

::::: THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL! DO IT! :::::

Yes, I said this for RC3 too but we should be ok now. After RC4 this extended process should no longer be necessary, but you must do it for RC4.

Go inside somewhere with NO creatures or NPCs (Megaton/Tenpenny home works well)
Wait 4 days (or 9 days if you use FWE) to let cells reset
Save and quit
Disable ALL MMM components (MMM .esm, MMM .esp, and all MMM plugins)
Load your game, save your game, quit
Upgrade to MMM RC 4.0
Re-enable MMM .esm, MMM .esp, and your chosen optional MMM plugins

Note: You will lose any MMM specific items in this procedure, for eg Wanamingo Meat, so sell these items first.

::: Install Instructions :::
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0) Make sure you have installed the latest version of http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=944
1) Unzip the mod to your Fallout 3 Data directory -- make sure you have extracted the Meshes and Textures folders as well.
2) Use FOMM to select the following files to load (you MUST select both):

[*] Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
...
... (other mods)
...
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod.esp

3) Optionally, also select your choice of plugins, loading after the .esp:

[*] Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
...
... (other mods)
...
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
[_] Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased increased Spawns.esp
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod - Hunting & Looting.esp
[*] Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp
[_] Mart's Mutant Mod - Wounding Effects.esp

Make sure that:

All MMM modules load *after* Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
All the above MMMF3 .esps are loaded last in your load order.

4) Go inside somewhere without creatures and NPCs, rest for 4 days
5) Save your game, and load your game.
6) Enjoy!

::: Overview :::
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This mod is a port of MMM from Oblivion to Fallout 3. It focuses on adding a huge range of diversity to creatures and NPCs in the Fallout 3 world as well as adding new and unique creatures and NPCs to encounter. The mod is broken down into a core base and a range of optional modules.

The key results the mod achieves are:

Every creature and NPC is unique with its own stats, size, confidence, health, damage and even skin (texture)
Creatures and NPCs suffer improved wounding effects such as visible bleedng and statistic penalties
Creatures and NPCs can loot the corpses of fallen enemies, afterwhich you can find this loot if you kill them
Creatures and NPCs have improved behavioural AI based on class -- in any given group some may be aggressive towards you, some may be ambivalent, and others may avoid you outright.
Configurable increased spawns allow you tailor how many creatures and NPCs spawn in the game at any given spawn point
Improved faction system to better reflect inter-faction relations and ensure the player isn't the center of the universe
New creatures and NPCs to add variety to the wasteland -- all hand-crafted with their own stats, abilities, loot, weapons, textures and in some cases scripted AI behaviour.

Main features include:

:: Stat scaling

All creatures and NPCs have a sliding-scale random modified adjustment to their base values for STR, END, PER, INT, AGI, LUC, Speed and Health.

The adjustments range -3 to 3, with the following percentages: 30% no change, 30% -1/+1, 30% -2/+2, 10% -3/+3.

The exceptions are STR, END and Health values which are based on size (see next), as are loot drops for creatures (see below), where larger creatures are stronger, have more endurance, and more health.

:: Size scaling

Isn't it a little bit odd that all creatues and NPCs are identical in size? Indeed, so size scaling randomly adjusts size based off base value between a factor of +/- 20% for creatures, and +/- 12.5% for NPCs (though it's actually weighted -10% to +15%.). It's not quite a blanket rule -- Ghouls for example follow size scaling closer to NPCs, given they were formerely people.

As above, size is more than just visual variety -- it impacts the strength, endurance, and health. Larger creatures hit harder, and last longer.

:: Size based loot

Larger creatures will drop more meat, smaller ones less (or none at all). This may be expanded in future to include other types of loot.

:: Factions

A new faction system through the optional Natural Selection plugin ensures you're not always the center of the universe -- creatures and NPCs have foes they might consider more dangerous than you, and act accordingly.

Additionally a special No Attack faction protects Scavengers, their pets, and optionally traders (with the Tougher Traders) plugin from being attacked, without the need to mark them Essential (and thus prevent the player from killing them). It's also used for special creatures in the mod, such as the passive Wasteland Scorpion and Corpse Flies being largely ignored in favour of bigger threats.

:: Behaviour AI

Why is it that most creatures and NPCs seem to be hostile, despite the fact that in order to survive a creature or NPC still needs to pick its fights (otherwise, how did it last this long?)

Changes to wildlife on a creature-by-creature basis reflect that not all MoleRats are suicidal, and even a Vicious Dog can have the sense to avoid a fight it's got no chance of winning. NPCs, as well, can have a greater sense of self- preservation but to a lesser degree than creatures and, as with size and stat scaling, the chances are randomised based off their base value -- so Raiders are more likely to turn tail and run than Outcast for example.

:: Diverse Creature Skins

Most creatures in Fallout 3 have only a single texture, making every creature a clone of the next. Diverse Creature Skins provides a range of texture variants for each and every creature, so when you encounter a pack of rabid, yet slightly cute, MoleRats they all look a little different. This is one of those features that sounds simple but makes a huge impact in-game.

These are some of the creatues and the number of variants in the mod:

3 Brahmin
3 Radroach
3 Deathclaw
3 Deathclaw Baby
3 Deathclaw Matriarch
3 Giant Ant
3 Floater
3 Wanamingo
3 Vicious Pup
4 Vicious Dog
4 Mirelurk
4 Yao Guai
4 BloatFly
4 FireFly
5 Molerat
5 Molerat Young
5 Centaur
5 RadScorpion
9 Geckos
84 Feral Ghoul
104 Supermutant

:: Diverse NPCs

Just like Diverse Creature Skins, the NPCs in the game also get some treatment. Mostly, and for the moment, this focuses on Raider diversity and includes 100 Raider variants all with new unique faces, hair, etc. Additionally, there are 12 variable tattoos styles which are mixed and matched across 28 different race variations.

The result is a much wider scope of Raider appearance you will encouter in the game, and greatly fleshes them out as a faction in the Wasteland.

:: New Loot

Geckos, Vicious Dogs, Vicious Pups, Molerats, Mirelurks, Ants, Yao Guai and Radscorpions all now have extra loot apart from their meat -- fur for the dogs, teeth for the Molerats, claws for the Mirelurks, antennae for the Ants, eyes for the Yao Guai and stingers for the Radscorpions.

Fur from the Vicious Dogs and Vicious Pups can be sold, with the Pup fur being lighter and more valuable. Like meat on creatures, fur is size-scaled and larger animals yield more. Likewise for the Geckos, larger creatures yield more skin in addition to meat, and the Fire Gecko skin is the most valuable of all.

For creatures like Mirelurks, Ants, Radocorpions, Molerats, and Yao Guai the number of extra loot you get will range from 0-2 randomly for each creature (i.e 2 claws, or 1 antennae, etc).

The Deathclaw loot deserves special mention -- as one of the toughest creature fights in the game, Deathclaws drop both new Deathclaw Meat and Deathclaw Blood. The meat is quite toxic, and not terribly valuable. The blood, however, can be consumed to distill the Deathcalw's Rage and provide the following benefits for one minute: +5 strength, +5 AP, -4 intelligence, +1 HP per second. It's also valuable, and can be sold.

As with other creatures, the larger the Deathclaw the more meat and blood you will be able to get. For more on loot see the Creatures & Loot section.

:: New Creatures & NPCs

What's an MMM without new creatures and NPCs? Just to start, the first release of MMM for Fallout 3 has:

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Supermutant Gargantuan

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Firelurk

Firelurk Saliva

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Wasteland Scorpion

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Wild Dog

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Night Ghouls

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Corpse Fly

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Vicious Dog Pups

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Young Mole Rats

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Little Geckos

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Golden Geckos

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Fire Geckos

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Deathclaw Matriach

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Deathclaw Young

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Floaters

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Wanamingos

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Fireflies

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Ramblers

Between size scaling, stat scaling, behaviour and diverse skins every creature you meet is literally unique. See a group of Vicious Dogs? Each one looks different, has its own temperament, has its own size, moves at its own speed, has its own endurance and health, and its own strength and damage. Fighting in the wasteland will never be the same, every encounter is unique!

:: Other features

Night Ghouls that appear only at night, and are faster and stronger than normal Feral Ghouls
Wild Dogs and Wasteland Scorpions may appear at wasteland spawn points, and are generally passive
3% chance of a special Supermutant spawn with muties, which includes 8 variant Behemoths and the Supermutant Gargantuan
A whole range of new ingestible meats and unique loot for all creatures
Slightly reduced chance of Robots and Radscorps for wasteland spawn points
Evergreen Mills Behemoth replaced with Gargantuan (great in tandem with Increased Spawns)
Robots aren't included in stats/size/confidence scaling -- afterall, they are machines, produced identically off the production line
Corpse Flies may appear at corpses after a certain amount of time. They can be VATS targeted and killed, if you feel like some sharpshooting
GMSTs adjusted to extend corpse lifetime, the number of corpses before cleanup, and the number of actors able to be in combat at one time.
Special effects like the Gargantuan's demolishing strike, Glowing Ones and Robots may explode with force on death, Fireflies casting colourful light at night, Skeletons decayed from corpses after a time and much more...

::: Optional plugins :::
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Naturally, MMMF3 comes with a range of plugins to add features or alter the operation of the mod. In this release you will find:

:: Increased Spawns

Both the Increased Spawns and Increased Increased Spawns modules enable the same functionality from the standalone MMMF3 - Increased Spawns mod you're probably already using.

If you currently use the standalone Increased Spawns the MMMF3 installation will overwrite this for you and replace it with the required module for MMMF3.

Increased Spawns adds 1-3 spawns per spawn point, while Increased Increased Spawns adds 2-5 per point. The feature is actually configurable, and you can set whatever range you want by editing either plugin and changing the MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMin and MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax values.

Note: It is highly recommended to use a slower leveling mod while running Increased Spawns.

For more information on how the plugin works, see the README - Increased Spawns.txt file.

:: Zones Respawn

By default most areas, especially interiors, in Fallout 3 are marked as 'Never Resets' such that once you clear an area, it stays cleared. This module enables these areas to respawn, with the exception of areas which shouldn't, such as the Vaults and some areas related to the main quest line.

Note: This mod does not change or provide modules to change the amount of time before a cell 'resets', which defaults to 3 days. There are plenty of other mods to change this for you.

:: Feral Ghoul Rampage

For those zombie movie addicts, Feral Ghoul Rampage multiplies the volume of Feral Ghoul spanws by 5, on top of the result from Increased Spawns. So for example if you are using Increase Spanws instead of 1-3 Feral Ghouls you will see 5-15 at any Feral Ghoul Spawn point. If you load this with Increased Increased spawns, make sure you're packing nukes!

:: [ Wounding Effects ] -- in development

While crippling works quite well in Fallout 3, does it make sense that a SuperMutant near death is able to swing his nailboard as hard as when he first met you?

With wounding, pentalties are applied against certain statistics the more wounded they become -- badly wounded enemies will hit with less damage, aim less accurately, and move slower.

Bleeding effects will add spurting blood to wounded creatures and NPCs which starts midly and increases as they become more wounded.

:: Natural Selection

Author: ACE

While some factions behave as you would expect in Fallout 3, many others don't. Natural Selection ensures creatures and NPCs properly attack or ignore foes logically based on type, as well as ensure the PC isn't the centre of the universe -- tired of a dog thinking you're the most dangerous creature in the universe while a SuperMutant bears down on you both? Not anymore!

Thanks to ACE for working with me on this and creating the plugin.

:: Tougher Traders

By default MMMF3 will automatically protect Scavengers from being beat-up on by the local wildlife, while still enabling them to be killed by the player, and the same is true of Traders if you load this plugin. Traders were made optional for this protection so that you can use mods like Roadwarden where you play quests to protect Traders from attack. If you don't want Traders getting killed off mid-game, load this.

:: Hunting & Looting

The Wasteland is a dangerous place where resources are sparse -- so why do NPCs like Raiders kill a foe and just leave all that good loot lying around? With this plugin creatures & NPCs will loot the corpses of fallen foes, taking what they can. If you then kill them, you will find this loot on their corpse. This can include weapons, ammo, armour, food, and drugs.

This adds much more than a simple dynamic to the game. NPCs for example may pick up extra weapons to use as a backup, or find more stimpacks to heal themselves. When you find an NPC, he could well be using a weapon he looted from the corpse of a foe further down the road.

Note: In the Beta only NPCs are included. Additionally, in Fallout 3 currently (as I may be able to fudge this) NPCs only pickup weapon types they don't currently have. For example if they have a ranged weapon but no melee weapons, they may pickup a baseball bat but ignore a gun. They also can't pickup equipped items on corpses, a limitation carried over from Oblivion. For this reason you'll find grenades, food, drugs, etc looted more often than weapons and armor (maybe this a good thing we don't want to change, leaving you to get them).

:: 'No...' plugins

Various plugins to turn off MMM features. Usually these are provided for some new creatures, and features that may be more taxing (enabling lower-end users to disable them).

:: DLC Plugins

There is now a plugin for each DLC. There are too many changes to list, but the general gist is adding MMM features to the DLCs while providing compatibility where necessary. Note that the plugins for Anchroage and The Pitt are optional, but the plugins for Broken Steel and Point Lookout are required for proper compatibility.

::: Making your own MMMF3 plugins :::
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With the MMMF3 master file Mart's Mutant Mod.esm you can now do the following:

Create new plugins to add or modify content in MMMF3
Create compatibility or integration plugins for other mods, by building them with the MMMF3 master file

To add or change content simply load Mart's Mutant Mod.esm in the GECK, make your changes, and save as a new .esp.

To build a compatibilty or integration plugin, use FO3Edit to determine which records or fields you want to populate across to MMMF3 (or vise versa). You can then use FO3Edit to copy new records into a mod, or a new dependent plugin, and use either FO3Edit or the GECK to populate fields as required.

See me for more help if you're the author of a mod and want to provide MMMF3 integration as a core or optional plugin with your download.

::: Contributor credits :::
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Koldorn is my partner in crime. Most of the variant textures and some of the new creature textures you see, as well as the superb tatoos for the Raiders, were designed by Koldorn. While I built the functionality of the mod, Koldorn is responsible for the look and feel.

Gameplay:
Natural Seclection factions -- ACE
Night Vision for Ghoul Eyes -- Lost Cosmonaut
Supermutant weapon animations -- Talkie Toaster

Variant textures:
Ant & Molerat -- FalloutRaven
Behemoth -- FalloutRaven
Radscorpions -- Koldorn and FalloutRaven
Brahmin variants -- Sektor
Vicious Dog, Bloatfly, Mirelurk, Vicious Pups, Gecko variants -- Martigen
Raider tatoos -- Koldorn (inspired by YutGurt)
Radroach, Deathclaw, Yao Guai, Centaur, Supermutants and Feral Ghouls -- Koldorn
Night Ghouls -- Koldorn and Tyana Rie

Creature textures:
Firelurk texture -- Sektor
Firelurk rigging -- SaidenStorm
Gargantuan skeleton - Lord Nincompoop
Corpse Fly, Wasteland Scorpion, Gargantuan, Night Ghoul -- Koldorn
Glowy creature variants -- Tyana Rie

Loot textures:
Models and Pipboy icons -- Drag0ntamer

New creatures:
Gargantuan, Glowing One and Corpse Fly skeletons -- Lord Nincompoop
Vicious Pups -- Zenl
Geckos -- Zenl and thedammed
Gecko Skin model and icon -- Zenl
CorpseFly skeleton - Lord Nincompoop
Firefly skeleton - Zenl
Armless Ghouls -- Lord Nincompoop and Zenl
Deathclaw Matriarch & Young - Zenl
Waninmingo and Floaters - Zenl
Waninmingo and Floater sounds - Killerbee

FOMOD installer:
FOMOD installation script -- [i]L0ki

Thanks also go to ElminsterEU for FO3Edit and Timeslip for FOMM.

::: Contributing to MMMF3 :::
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There's always room for more new creatures, skin variants, and features. As above you can make your own compatible plugins, and I'm happy to help you creatre them. Indeed, like Natural Selection, they can even be included as part of the core mod.

As always, credit is given for any work so if you want to be involved let me know!

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:10 pm

::: Link to previous threads

:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1004374
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=992440
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=984810
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=980609
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=965236
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=964511
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=958148
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=955019
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=950783
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=949792
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=944983
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=943479
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=933839
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=929548
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=938690
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=932382

::: RC New Screenshots

::: New Features
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Skeletons.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Fireflies2.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-GhoulArms.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-FeralGhoulArmless.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-NightGhoulEyes1.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-NightGhoulEyes2.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-GargStrike1.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-GargStrike2.jpg

::: New Creatures
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Rambler.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-DeathclawMatriarch.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-DeathclawYoung.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Wanamingo.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Floater.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.net.au/~amills/MMMF3-Fireflies.jpg

::: RC 4.0 Changelog

New Increased Spawns engine
Fixed random CTDs caused by nested templates
Fixed a range of minor bugs that may affect creature spawns
Fixed Super Mutants replaced by Radscorps (testing bug)
Fixed passive Scavenger's Yao Guai
Added greatly increased skins diversity across the game
Added passive Wasteland Scorpions no longer show on radar
Added explosive Robot deaths to all generic robots
Added backup for Palandin Hoss while Increased Spawns is enabled
Added new diffculuty option for hardcoe players (see MMMzPlayerScaling global)
New plugin: DLC Anchorage
New plugin: DLC The Pitt
New plugin: DLC Broken Steel
New plugin: DLC Point Lookout

::: New Features

::: DLC Plugins

There is now a plugin for each DLC. There are too many changes to list, but the general gist is adding MMM features to the DLCs while providing compatibility where necessary:

:: DLC Anchorage

Optional, not required to use Anchorage with MMM. Adds most MMM features except Diverse Skins, Increased Spawns, Corpse Flies and Looting (this was pre-Fallout, Corpse Flies are mutations and soldiers don't tend to be short of weapons to loot).

:: DLC The Pitt

Optional, not required to use The Pitt with MMM. Adds most MMM features except Diverse Skins for new creatures and Increased Spawns.

:: DLC Broken Steel

Required to use Broken Steel with MMM for compatibility. Also adds most MMM features, including Diverse Skins and Increased Spawns where inherited. Also fixes a potential savegame bloat bug from Bethesda.

:: DLC Point Lookout

Required to use Point Lookout with MMM for compatibility. Also adds most MMM features, including Diverse Skins where inherited. Adds Tobar and Catherine to the No Attack faction.
NOTE: Do not use the 'Point Lookout crash fix' on Nexus if you have it. This is no longer required and will remove content from your game if you do.

::: Dynamic Player Scaling

A new global MMMzPlayerScaling allows you to increase the difficulty of the game as you level up. Currently, this only affects Increased Spawns and the chance for Behemoths and Gargantuans, but may include other changes in future (feedback welcome).

The global currently defaults to 0, disabled. Use FO3Edit to set a value in the MMM .esp or make a new .esp to enable the feature.

It works by using the global value as a divider against the player level to add a modifier to both MMMzBehemothChance and MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax, if Increased Spawns is enabled. The idea is the higher the level you become, the higher the chance of encountering Behemoths/Gargantuans, and the more creatures that will spawn. I'd suggest starting with a value of 5 or 6. To give you an idea, a value of 5 would do the following:

Base values -- MMMzBehemothChance [2], MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax [3]
Player level 2 -- 2%, 1-3
Player level 5 -- 3%, 1-4
Player level 10 -- 4%, 1-5
Player level 20 -- 6%, 1-7

And so on. Use a divider of 6, and you'll get an extra 1% and 1 to IS at levels 6, 12, 18 etc instead of 5, 10, 15. It's in addition to the base value (if you altered MMMzBehemothChance elsewhere, or use Increased Increased Spawns).

::: RC 3.1 Changelog

Fixed hyper speed crippled NPCs bug
Fixed Increased Spawn actors multiplying after multiple cell visits
Fixed Increased Spawn Enclave near Jefferson spawning after MQ complete
Fixed Protoype Medic Armor disappearing from corpse with Skeletal Decay active
Fixed some CorpseFly and Fire Fly light sources not disappearing
Fixed No Floaters not preventing list-spawned Floaters
Fixed flying DeathClaws and Geckos (vanilla bug)
Fixed Raised Feral Ghouls using the wrong sound template
Fixed Brahmin spawns not using Increased Spawns Brahmin script
Restored previous Ant fix to reduce non-hittable Ants issue
Added XP reward for defeating Gargantuan
Added Slavers as a chance to enounter in Wasteland spawns
Added new doubled number of Slaver variants
Added new Rambler Finger loot drop for Ramblers
Added configurable value for Skeleton Decay (default 15% no skeleton)
Added Robot death explosions to cover wasteland spawned robots
Added increased chance of robots exploding on death
Added minimum level 4 before Wanamingos appear
Added fleeing wounded Wanamingos will now retaliate if pursued
Added Talkie's Mutant Animations for mutants to wield more weapon types
Updated robot demolish sequence to include more parts
Updated Bethesda Feral Ghouls to use correct scripts
Updated Gecko and Wanamingo models and textures from Zenl
Updated Special Encounters for better distribution of Geckos and Wanamingos
Updated Pipboy icons and world models for all new MMMF3 loot from Drag0ntamer
Boosted base scales for SuperMutant ranks: higher levels larger, melee larger still
Boosted speed and size of Centaur
Boosted speed of Little Geckos
Broken Steel: Added new Broken Steel compatibiltiy plugin
Zones Respawn: Removed Paradise Falls from resetting
Natural Selection: Removed Ghoul from BoS to prevent Cross wailing on Ghouls
Increased Spawns: Added the Talon at The Mall
Increased Spawns: Added one of two new Increased Spawns engine methods

::: RC 2 Changelog

Placed sounds in the correct directory!
Fixed Deathclaw Matriarch never dropping her horns
Fixed player Robots not attacking or being attacked
Fixed some 'No...' plugins not working as intended
Fixed Feral Ghouls with legs or heads missing still raising
Fixed Disintegrated or Gooified Feral Ghouls still raising
Fixed Disintegrated or Gooified Glowing One and Robots exploding
Fixed EvergreenMills switch not triggering Gargantuan (vanilla bug)
Fixed Bethesda Ghouls not using Rampage and other Feral Ghoul features
Added new Feral Ghoul mini boss -- the Rambler
Added Feral Ghouls can now raise in realtime in front of you!
Added environmental lights to Firefies and Corpse Flies
Added Slavers to backup Grouse while Increased Spawns is enabled
Added Girdershade residents to No Attack for protection from wildlife
Added chance for Robots to explode on death in dozens of different ways
Added explosive force and damage to Glowing One and Robot deaths
Added Pipboy icons and world models for all new MMMF3 loot (thanks Drag0ntamer!)
Added Corpse Flies given no collision and prevented showing up on radar
Added FireFlies given no collision and prevented showing up on radar
Added Ragdoll data to Geckos, Wanamingos and Floaters
Added L0Ki's FOMOD install script for a FOMOD version
Reduced Giant Radscorpion chance by one third
Reduced Behemoth/Matriarch knockback effect to 50% chance for Player
Slightly boosted Floater health
Slightly boosted speed for cripple legged fleeing Wanamingos
Slightly reduced Feral Ghoul loot
Slightly reduced Radscorpion increased spawns
Updated fix for launching Geckos
Updated Night Ghoul vision effect on player checks for current effect first
Natural Selection: Updated Feral Ghoul related faction relationships to animals

:: New Creatures

:: The Rambler -- The Rambler is a bigger, stronger, beefier and more dangerous Feral Ghoul. His claws are also toxic, and will poison you on contact. Dangerous as he is, he's called a Rambler for a reason and limps slowly along, lunging towards you -- don't let him get close!

:: New Features

:: Feral Ghoul Raise -- There is now a chance for Feral Ghouls to raise in front of you, where you see them get up right as you approach, sometimes right when you least expect it...

Raising Feral Ghouls, without or without limbs missing, will have a 50% chance to raise while you're away to encounter them later as you trawl back through a dungeon, or instead to raise only as you get in range of them. These dead Feral Ghouls, prior to raising, also don't show up on your radar so you don't know which ones they are...

...as usual, however, to prevent Feral Ghoul raising you need to shoot of its legs or head.

:: Environmental Lights -- Corpse Flies and Fireflies now cast light on their environment. See the eerie effect of Corpse Flies lighting up the dead, while the wilderness Fireflies look stunning in the night time air.

:: Robots Explode -- Robots now have a chance of exploding with force a few seconds after they die. If they do explode, there are dozens of different dismemberment combinations, and the explosion can both push back nearby actors as well as deal a small amount of damage.

:: New models and icons -- Thanks to Dragontamer all the new MMMF3 loot creatures drop will now have unique Pipboy icons and world models. Dragontamer is still working on the models at the moment, but I can tell you the icons are superb

:: Skeleton Decay -- Corpses will now decay to skeletons after a time. To keep it simple and efficient the effect works at cell resets -- bodies will become skeletons after one reset, and then the skeletons themselves will disappear at the next. This means in zones that respawn after one reset you will fight fresh enemies among the skeletal bodies of their former comrades. Additionally, skeletons aren't always complete -- they have a randomised engine to create full body skeletons, part body skeletons, or combinations of body and limbs -- perhaps animals or Feral Ghouls took a chunk out of them while their bodies lay and rot... waste not want not afterall!

::: RC 1 Changelog

Fixed 1HP enemies issue (vanilla bug)
Fixed hard to target Ants issue (vanilla bug)
Fixed alpha on Ghoul variation shorts (vanilla bug)
Fixed Glowing Ones not always glowing (vanilla bug)
Fixed Glowing Ones fleeing (vanilla issue with idles)
Fixed Deathclaw meat acting as a poison for weapons
Fixed Night Ghoul glowing shorts (thanks MadCat221!)
Fixed some creatures not getting their size-scaled loot
Updated Corpse Fly skeleton to prevent Corpse Flies pushing objects around
Updated Gargantuan skeleton to better balance proportions
Updated Gargantuan knockback effect -- can now send gibs flying or obliterate a foe
Updated RadScorpions and Geckos to add to AnimalFriends (thanks OnlyToast!)
Updated Glowing One variant normal maps and textures in the meshes
Added new Feral Ghouls can raise from dead, unless you properly dismember them!
Added new Feral Ghoul Flesh as loot to Feral Ghouls
Added new Night Ghoul Eyes as loot to Night Ghouls -- grants night vision!
Added new Deathclaw Matriach (backward horns) and variants, an even deadlier Deathclaw with knockback!
Added new Deathclaw Matriach horns as loot for Deathclaw Matriach
Added new Deathclaw Young, a new type of baby Deathclaw
Added new Wanamingo and variants
Added new Wanamingo Meat as loot for Wanamingos
Added new Wanamingo Tooth as loot for Wanamingos
Added new Floaters and variants
Added new Floater Meat as loot for Floaters
Added new Floater Bulbs as loot for Floaters
Added new Fireflies and variants, passive multi-hued tiny flies that can appear at night
Added new knockback to Behemoth special attack, a weaker version of the Gargantuan's
Added new Glowing Ones now dismember or explode a short time after death
Added new world model and Pipboy icon for Gecko Skin
Added new loot items to Bemehoth and Gargantuan loot
Added new sounds for Wanamingos and Floaters (thanks Killerbee!)
Added new plugins: No Ghoul Raise, No Wanamingos, No Floaters
Added No Attack faction to Player faction robots
Added proper idles for all new creatures
Added test fix for flying Geckos (vanilla bug)
Greatly improved Behemoth and Gargantuan loot diversity
Greatly improved Feral Ghoul diversity
Slightly reduced chance of animals and some NPCs to flee
Optimised Corpse Fly mesh to improve performance
Optimised Firefly mesh to improve performance
Adjusted weights of all new loot items
Adjusted glow emittance on Glowing Ones meshes
Adjusted all new loot ingestible benefits to be time based
Adjusted Fire Gecko confidence to make them more fearless
Adjusted Golden Geckos to make them more aggressive
Increased Spawns: Adjusted Increased Spawns balance equations
Hunting & Looting: Fixed looting enemies not responding, properly this time
Hunting & Looting: Added chance for NPCs to not loot, more realistic in groups
Zones Respawn: Removed Fort Independence and RaiderNoSpawn

:: New Features

:: Feral Ghoul Raise -- Mutations from radiation have made Feral Ghouls extremely resiliant -- when you kill some ghouls, unless they're physically dismembered, may actually enter a comatose state for a while and, unfliching from pain, can get back up and attack you again -- perhaps in the heat of battle, perhaps hours later as you traverse back through a dungeon... either way giving you the fright of your life as they attack you, even with their limbs missing!

Notes: Only ghouls with arms missing can do this -- if they have no legs, they obviously can't move, and if they have no head you've pretty much killed them for sure. Therefore, for extra challenge, if you want to ensure Feral Ghouls stay down, blow off their legs or head.

The important thing is they raise as you left them -- if you killed a ghoul and his left arm dismembered, he will raise with his left arm missing and attack you only with his right. There are four types of raised Feral Ghoul -- fully limbed (no limbs missing), left arm missing, right arm missing, and both arms missing -- these last guys, while still alive, can't attack you and will attempt to flee, even while crippled.

Due to the way the raising works (or rather how vanilla spawn points work), it will only work if Increased Spawns is enabled. Additionally, you can of course disable it with a new No Ghoul Raise plugin or tailor the percentage chance of a ghoul raising with the new MMMzFeralGhoulRaise global. Finally, limbless Feral Ghouls will occasionally spawn on their own, too, as if they had been in past fights and survived.

:: Night Ghoul Eyes -- New loot for the Night Ghouls includes the chance to drop Nigh Ghoul eyes, which if you ingest will not only briefly grant higher perception, but also night vision for a while -- use the Night Ghoul's own sight against them!

:: Gargantuan Demolish -- Gargantuans can now send bodies flying with their powerful fist attack and, additionally, should a strike kill an actor they have a high chance of being dismembered in dozens of different ways and will even do so in-flight while being knocked back. Finally, with a powerful enough strike, there's also a chance of an actor being completely obliterated into a gibbed mess by the killing blow of the Gargantuan. Evergreen Mills is a complete battleground now as the Gargantuan decimates the Raiders, sending bodies and gibs and limbs flying in all directions!

:: Behemoth Knockback -- As with the Gargantuan, Behemoths can now cause a knockback effect too, but with a much reduced effect and without the chance to dismember on death. Think of the Behemoth attacks as a taste of what's to come for when you meet a Gargantuan...

:: Glowing Ones Dismember -- Glowing Ones now lose their glow when they die and, a short time after, will explode in one of two different dismemberment deaths.

:: New Creatures

:: Deathclaw Matriach -- You think the Deathclaw is mean? Wait till you see his female partners -- bigger, stronger, faster and with the chance to send enemies flying with a knockback effect. If you know what's good for you, avoid her at all costs.
:: Deathclaw Young -- Although rare as they are often protected in lairs, Deathclaw Young can be found out in the open. Naturally they're aren't as strong as an advlt, and don't drop the valuable Deathclaw Blood. For that reward, you need the tougher fight of a mature Deathclaw.
:: Floaters -- Just like their Fallout 2 counterparts, floaters are odd and creepy looking creatures that don't move fast but can hit for a punch. They spawn with their Supermutant masters and their meat is particuarly restorative.
:: Wanamingos -- Another classic creature, Wanamingos are fast and furious and will happily tear you a new hole. They can be found in the wasteland and, as in Fallout 2, the best defence against the is to cripple their legs causing them to flee.
:: Fireflies -- Fireflies are completely passive creatures that appear at night and disapppear by the morning. They can sometimes be seen far away flickering in the moonlight, and if you get close you'll see them in a rainbow of colors.

:: New Loot

Feral Ghoul Flesh, Wanamingo Meat, Floater Meat, and the Night Ghoul Eye are all ingestible, with the Floater Meat being particularly good for healing while the Night Ghoul Eye can temporarily grant night vision. The Deathclaw Matriarch Horn, Wanamingo Tooth, and Floater Bulb all add new items of varying values to sell as well.

As always, meat from creatures is depdent on size with larger creatures dropping more meat. For items like teeth, anetannae, eyes, and horns the number dropped is a random function dependent on type.

::: Beta 4 Changelog

Added new skeleton for the Gargantuan
Added new skeleton for the Corpse Fly
Added new skeleton for the Glowing One
Added new Vicious Dog Pups and variants
Added new Little Geckos and variants
Added new Golden Geckos and variants
Added new Fire Geckos and variants
Added new Mole Rat Young and variants
Added Vicious Dog Fur as loot for Vicious Dogs
Added Vicious Pup Fur as loot Vicious Pups
Added Gecko Meat and Gecko Skin as loot for Geckos
Added Ant Antennae as loot for Ants
Added Radscorp Stinger as loot for Radscorpions
Added Molerat Teeth as loot for Molerats
Added Baby Mole Rat Teeth as loot for Mole Rat Young
Added Mirelurk Claw as loot for Mirelurks
Added Yao Guai Eyes as loot for Yao Guai
Added Deathclaw Meat as loot for the Deathclaw
Added Deathclaw Blood as loot for the Deathclaw
Added knockback effect to the Gargantuan's right-armed strike
Added minimum spawn level of 6 before random Behemoth and Gargantuan spawn
Slightly reduced chance of wasteland Behemoths and Gargantuans to spawn
Boosted Behemoth and Gargantuan health
Boosted SuperMutant, Brute, and Master health
Fixed some female raiders with wrong voice type (vanilla bug)
Fixed Glowing Ones not always glowing (vanilla bug)
Fixed some raiders getting stuck in AI loops
Improved Evergreen Mills Raider diversity further
Improved Glowing Ones making them more fearless
Reduced chance of Roamers and Glowing Ones in ghoul packs by 25%
Reduced timeframe for looting NPCs to loot by 25%
NPCs looting in combat that get hit will now retaliate
Zones Respawn: Set Arlington Library to not respawn
Natural Selection: Removed some factions that may cause issues
New plugin: No Geckos

:: New Loot

Geckos, Vicious Dogs, Vicious Pups, Molerats, Mirelurks, Ants, Yao Guai and Radscorpions all now have extra loot apart from their meat -- fur for the dogs, teeth for the Molerats, claws for the Mirelurks, antennae for the Ants, eyes for the Yao Guai and stingers for the Radscorpions.

Fur from the Vicious Dogs and Vicious Pups can be sold, with the Pup fur being lighter and more valuable. Like meat on creatures, fur is size-scaled and larger animals yield more. Likewise for the Geckos, larger creatures yield more skin in addition to meat, and the Fire Gecko skin is the most valuable of all.

For creatures like Mirelurks, Ants, Radocorpions, Molerats, and Yao Guai the number of extra loot you get will range from 0-2 randomly for each creature (i.e 2 claws, or 1 antennae, etc).

The Deathclaw loot deserves special mention -- as one of the toughest creature fights in the game, Deathclaws drop both new Deathclaw Meat and Deathclaw Blood. The meat is quite toxic, and not terribly valuable. The blood, however, can be consumed to distill the Deathcalw's Rage and provide the following benefits for one minute: +5 strength, +5 AP, -4 intelligence, +1 HP per second. It's also valuable, and can be sold.

As with other creatures, the larger the Deathclaw the more meat and blood you will be able to get.

:: New Creatures

:: Vicious Dog Pups -- small, hungry, and seeing you as a threat. They're weaker and do less damage of course, but they drop a unique soft fur that you can sell. They'll also try and follow their parents when they're around.
:: Young Mole Rats -- Mole Rats tend to keep their young safe in burrows so you won't see these often, but if you happen to catch them out in the open you'll find them fast but easy prey. Because they are rare, their teeth fetch a higher price than that of their parents.
:: Little Geckos -- Little Geckos are the smallest of the Geckos and generally passive, and as such are ignored by most wildlife. They are will fight back if attacked, but don't post a large threat. Their skin can can be collected and sold.
:: Golden Geckos -- Golden Geckos are mutated by feeding near radiated waste, and as a result are immune to radiation adn slightly larger in size, more likely to be aggressive, and can swipe with poisonous claws. Being more dangerous, their skin is more valuable to sell.
:: Fire Geckos -- Fire Geckos are the largest of this breed and extremely dangerous -- they attack on sight and can ignite flames on their foes on impact. Naturally, they are immune to fire as well. Their hide is the most valued of all, and can fetch a good price.

For previous Changelog entries see the README file in the archive.

::: Screenshots

Increased Spawns
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-IS1.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-IS2.jpg

New Creatures
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/MMMF3-Firelurk.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-NightGhouls.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Gargantuan.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-WastelandScorpion.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-CorpseFlies2.jpg (shot courtesy of Arks4)

Diverse Creatures
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Ghouls2.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Ghouls3.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Molerats.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-ViciousDogs.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Bloatfly.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Diverse1.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Mirelurk.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-Supermutants.jpg

Diverse NPCs
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-DiverseNPC1.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-DiverseNPC2.jpg
:: http://members.iinet.com.au/~amills/zMMMF3-DiverseNPC3.jpg

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:34 pm

::: How to update

Whether installing the mod for the first time, or updating from one version to the next, always do the following:

:: Follow the Installation Instructions steps 1-5.

Easy!

::: Mini-FAQ

:: What's the suggested load order?

This is actually covered in the Installation Instructions, but here's a visual guide made by arcana75:

--- Start of mod list ---
Fallout3.esm
Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
...
--- all kinds of other mods here ---
...
Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Hunting & Looting.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp
--- End of mod list ---

:: I'm getting invisible/purple/exclamation mark creatures and NPCs

The Meshes and Textures haven't been extracted and installed
The latest version of http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=944 hasn't been installed

:: There are mismatching skin tones on some Raiders/NPCs

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=944 hasn't been installed -- the latest version, which adds bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles=1 to the ini
Add bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles=1 to your Fallout3.ini, or re-install the latest http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=944

:: Does the Evergreen Gargantuan count towards the achievement?

Yes, all Behemoths and Gargantuans count towards the achievement. I made sure of it

:: The molerat repellant stick isn't exploding the molerat heads!

This is not MMM. You are using a mod that alters weapons that incorrectly modifies the stick.

:: After installing Broken Steel, Bael and his pals are missing.

This is not MMM. This is a bug with Broken Steel. Grab the 'Bring Back Bael' mod -- http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6545

:: In the Project Purity mission to kill 14 Super Mutants and Centaurs, I've killed everthing I can find but there's still 2 missing?

This is MMM, kinda. It only affects some people and appears to be related to old savegame data and these particular spawn points. For now, the easiest solution is to disable MMM while completing this quest, then re-enable it afterwards.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:39 am

::: Making use of the globals

MMMF3 is designed to be modularised from the ground up, and you may notice most (but not all, for functional reasons) of the optional plugins actually just toggle global variables in the main mod.

Here's an explanation of the global variables so you can further tailor the mod if the values used in the plugins aren't to your liking. Either edit these in the optional MMMF3 .esps, or create a new .esp by editing the globals from the MMMF3 master:

MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMin [1]
MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax [0]
These control the minimum and maximum spawns to appear at spawn points. MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMin shouldn't be set to less than 1. Setting MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax to 0 will disable Increased Spawns (the default). The plugins Increased Spawns.esp and Increased Increased Spawns.esp set these values to 1-3 and 2-5 respectively. For more information how the spawns percentages are distributed, see the README - Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.txt file included in the mod.
MMMzBehemothChance [2]
Sets the chance for Behemoths and Gargantuans to appear randomly in the wasteland with Supermutant spawns. When this occurs there is a 1 in 5 chance of the spawn being a Gargantuan, otherwise it will be one of 8 different Behemoth variants. Note this setting is distinct from Increased Spawns, and works even if it isn't enabled.
MMMzSpecialEncounterChanceDay [15]
MMMzSpecialEncounterChanceNight [20]
Controls the chance for a special wasteland spawn. During the day this includes the passive Wild Dog and Wasteland Scorpion, at night this will spawn Fireflies and the far from passive Night Ghouls...
MMMzCorpseFlies [15]
This controls whether Corpse Flies can spawn around corpses after six hours, and then chances of this occuring. If set to -1, Corpse Flies will be disabled. The default is a 15 percent chance.
MMMzLooting [0]
Controls whether creatures & NPCs will loot corpses during and after a fight. Any value larger than 1 enables looting behaviour.
MMMzWounding [0]
Controls whether creatures & NPCs will suffer wounding penalties and visibly bleed the more damaged they become. Currently doesn't do anything, the Wounding Effects plugin is in development.
MMMzFeralGhoulMult [5]
Sets the multiplier value for the Feral Ghoul Rampage.esp plugin, which defaults to 5. Keep in mind this multiplier is applied against the result of the Increased Spawns value, so you'll see 5-15 Feral Ghouls when using Increased Spawns (1-3) and a crazy 15-25 when using Increased Increased Spawns (3-5). Set this higher if you're crazy!
MMMzFeralGhoulRaiseChance [50]
Sets the chance for Feral Ghouls to raise again if not properly killed (to prevent Feral Ghouls raising, ensure head or legs are dismembered). Note this applies only to increased spawns, so if 3 Feral Ghouls spawn from a point and you kill them, 2 of them have a 50% chance of raising. Raised Feral Ghouls have a fraction of their health left, have stats and abilities reflecting their wounds, and will not raise again when killed.
MMMzSkeletonDecay [85]
Sets whether corpses decay to skeletons. To keep it simple and efficient the effect works at cell resets -- bodies will become skeletons after one reset, and then the skeletons themselves will disappear at the next. A randomisation engine creates full body skeletons, part body skeletons, or combinations of body and limbs. Note: Requires the Zones Respawn plugin to be loaded as most cells don't reset in vanilla, and so you won't see skeletons appear.
MMMzPlayerScaling [0]
Controls a dynamic difficulty scaler based on player level affecting maximum Increased Spawns and the chance for Behemoth and Gargantuan to appear. Disabled by default for now, enable by making a new .esp from the MMM .esm master file. The value works as a divider against the player level to add a modifier to both MMMzBehemothChance and MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax, if Increased Spawns is enabled. Suggest a value of 5 or 6, unless you're a real bad-ass in which case go with 4.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:19 pm

::: Some stats as at RC4:

Over 2100 new or changed records
Over 1000 files in meshes, textures, sounds etc
Around 206 new scripts
Total NPC entries -- 465
Most NPC variants -- 177 Raiders
Total Creature entries -- 583
Most creature variants -- 120 Super Mutants
19 new configurable globals
More hours of work than I care to remember. Mostly fun, when the engine isn't a POS.

::: FOIP Compatibility Plugins

FOOK, FWE and other users -- an updated FOIP package is available at the http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4968

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:07 am

::: Some quick notes:

Because it tends to get lost in the deluge above, the RC4 changelog is below again.

It appears small, but it represents a ton of tweaks and changes under the hood to fix the random CTD issues. It's complicated, but the issue was around nested templates which neither the documentation or the GECK reports errors for. It was a slow and tiring try-and-see process to find the cause of the conflicts, but stability should be back to pre-RC1 levels.

What this means is that any CTDs from here on are more than likely just Fallout 3 on its own (I get a CTD every now and then in testing with *NO* mods loaded), or the effect of simply having too much happening in your game (running lots of mods, using Increased Increased Spawns etc).

So, although the changelog is short, it's quite a considerable update. These fixes are, also, populated across all the DLCs via the new DLC plugins.

::: RC 4.0 Changelog

New Increased Spawns engine
Fixed random CTDs caused by nested templates
Fixed a range of minor bugs that may affect creature spawns
Fixed Super Mutants replaced by Radscorps (testing bug)
Fixed passive Scavenger's Yao Guai
Added greatly increased skins diversity across the game
Added passive Wasteland Scorpions no longer show on radar
Added explosive Robot deaths to all generic robots
Added backup for Palandin Hoss while Increased Spawns is enabled
Added new diffculuty option for hardcoe players (see MMMzPlayerScaling global)
New plugin: DLC Anchorage
New plugin: DLC The Pitt
New plugin: DLC Broken Steel
New plugin: DLC Point Lookout

::: New Features

::: DLC Plugins

There is now a plugin for each DLC. There are too many changes to list, but the general gist is adding MMM features to the DLCs while providing compatibility where necessary:

:: DLC Anchorage

Optional, not required to use Anchorage with MMM. Adds most MMM features except Diverse Skins, Increased Spawns, Corpse Flies and Looting (this was pre-Fallout, Corpse Flies are mutations and soldiers don't tend to be short of weapons to loot).

:: DLC The Pitt

Optional, not required to use The Pitt with MMM. Adds most MMM features except Diverse Skins for new creatures and Increased Spawns.

:: DLC Broken Steel

Required to use Broken Steel with MMM for compatibility. Also adds most MMM features, including Diverse Skins and Increased Spawns where inherited. Also fixes a potential savegame bloat bug from Bethesda.

:: DLC Point Lookout

Required to use Point Lookout with MMM for compatibility. Also adds most MMM features, including Diverse Skins where inherited. Adds Tobar and Catherine to the No Attack faction.
NOTE: Do not use the 'Point Lookout crash fix' on Nexus if you have it. This is no longer required and will remove content from your game if you do.

::: Dynamic Player Scaling

A new global MMMzPlayerScaling allows you to increase the difficulty of the game as you level up. Currently, this only affects Increased Spawns and the chance for Behemoths and Gargantuans, but may include other changes in future (feedback welcome).

The global currently defaults to 0, disabled. Use FO3Edit to set a value in the MMM .esp or make a new .esp to enable the feature.

It works by using the global value as a divider against the player level to add a modifier to both MMMzBehemothChance and MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax, if Increased Spawns is enabled. The idea is the higher the level you become, the higher the chance of encountering Behemoths/Gargantuans, and the more creatures that will spawn. I'd suggest starting with a value of 5 or 6. To give you an idea, a value of 5 would do the following:

Base values -- MMMzBehemothChance [2], MMMzIncreasedSpawnsMax [3]
Player level 2 -- 2%, 1-3
Player level 5 -- 3%, 1-4
Player level 10 -- 4%, 1-5
Player level 20 -- 6%, 1-7

And so on. Use a divider of 6, and you'll get an extra 1% and 1 to IS at levels 6, 12, 18 etc instead of 5, 10, 15. It's in addition to the base value (if you altered MMMzBehemothChance elsewhere, or use Increased Increased Spawns).

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:56 am

Your like a mad genius or something Mart. Those fireflies ARE a site to behold...I was very impressed.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:02 am

Will there be any compatibility problems with this version and FOOK?

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:36 am

yay, it's killing time!

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:14 am

Haha AWESOME!! I don't half love those gargs with the 1 MASSIVE arm

.

And...OMG! No arm and it's still alive? NICE!

Hey...I don't suppose it's possible for you to that with every creature/npc? Have one arm blown off...still alive! Have both arms blown off...omfg still alive (same for both legs, maybe it could crawl some how??) have 2 arms and a leg blown off...(or 2 legs and an arm) OMFGWTFBBQNUTS!!! IT STILL LIVES!??!

That would be SOO cool for the ghouls or other "mutants", would add a real "scare" factor too, having thought "I've blown both its arms off and a leg...it ain't getting back up" but then finding out its right behind you again gnawing at your face "oh shi-!!!! X_X". Would be so cool...

Will give this a try straight away!

Brilliant work as always Mart

.

EDIT

Also yeah...won't all mods that use MMM patches/fixes need updating? I assume it's only FOIP that needs attention...?

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:10 am

Downloading now. Thanks very much, just in time for my new game with updated mods, perfik!

When will the FOIP patches be available? In particular MMM + XFO + FOOK.esp, or is this not really required?

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:36 am

Awesome! MMM is a permanent fixture in my mod list. Thanks for the update.

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind:

1. If you load the save created at the vault 101 door do you still have to rest indoors for four days?

2. Does MMM add an Enclave spawn at the farmhouse between the Super Duper Mart and Megaton? I've got Enclave soldiers spawning there right from the start of a new game.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:48 am

Will there be any compatibility problems with this version and FOOK?

No, there hasn't been for a long time. There however known bugs with FOOK 1.6.

Also yeah...won't all mods that use MMM patches/fixes need updating? I assume it's only FOIP that needs attention...?

Downloading now. Thanks very much, just in time for my new game with updated mods, perfik!

When will the FOIP patches be available? In particular MMM + XFO + FOOK.esp, or is this not really required?

Already done. Read above, my friends, post #5

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:37 am

Awesome! MMM is a permanent fixture in my mod list. Thanks for the update.

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind:

1. If you load the save created at the vault 101 door do you still have to rest indoors for four days?

2. Does MMM add an Enclave spawn at the farmhouse between the Super Duper Mart and Megaton? I've got Enclave soldiers spawning there right from the start of a new game.

1. No that's fine. But just to be sure -- if you had MMM loaded whilst doing Vault 101, follow the clean-savegame procedure outlined at the top of this thread. If you're enabling MMM now for the first time before you leave vault 101, you don't need to do this.

2. No, MMM doesn't add any extra spawnpoints. There are no world edits in MMM. That sounds like an issue with Broken Steel -- don't enable BS until you're ready to play it.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:57 pm

Okay... If I recall correctly, previous versions of MMM had the "true zero" of the Behemoth Spawn chance require a value of -1 in the field. I was still getting behemoth spawns when I had the global set to 0 and I had a look at the math in the script and saw why (don't remember the details now). Has that been fixed, and if not, how will setting Behemoth Spawn Chance to -1 affect the new dynamic leveling dealie?

Also, could you make a Broken Steel plugin that makes Albino Radscorps a little less in number? Because they're in so many LC lists, they are a virulent plague! Why did BGS put them in the Wasteland Dog list? The Bloatfly list? The Mole Rat list? No wonder... I can do it myself with FO3Edit, but others apprehensive about touching modding tools may not.

EDIT: I just looked at the script again, and it's this line that causes the problem:

		if GetRandomPercent <= MMMzBehemothChance && player.GetLevel > 5			placeatme VarSpecialSuperMutantzMMM 1		endif

Because it's less than or equal to, GetRandomPercent occasionally spits out a 0, which satisfies that condition by being equal to the 0 in MMMzBehemothChance, thus requiring the global to have a -1 to truly remove random behemoth spawns.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:05 am

No, there hasn't been for a long time. There however known bugs with FOOK 1.6.

What are these known bugs? Major/Minor?

Glad to see compatibility patch for the DLC. I assume when you say don't use the PL fix on the nexus that you have fixed it yourself within your PL CP?

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:52 pm

What are these known bugs? Major/Minor?

Glad to see compatibility patch for the DLC. I assume when you say don't use the PL fix on the nexus that you have fixed it yourself within your PL CP?

Yes. Old fix no more needed.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:52 am

Okay... If I recall correctly, previous versions of MMM had the "true zero" of the Behemoth Spawn chance require a value of -1 in the field. I was still getting behemoth spawns when I had the global set to 0 and I had a look at the math in the script and saw why (don't remember the details now). Has that been fixed, and if not, how will setting Behemoth Spawn Chance to -1 affect the new dynamic leveling dealie?

Yeah, and even with 'true zero' they were still rarely appearing. Who knows quite how the engine is doing its comparative math, but it's off sometimes. This is now forcibly fixed -- the percent change conditions are preceded by a static variable check. If the relevant global isn't changed, it won't go further.

This means you need to not set them to -1

They need to be 0. Trust in the plugins

Copy all plugins across with each update, sometimes I make changes in them even if they 'look' the same (for eg, Zones Respawn saw some updates in RC4, even though it's not excplicitly listed in the changelog, as part of fixing random CTDs by correctly assigning non-respawning corpses the correct templates).

What are these known bugs? Major/Minor?

That's a loaded question

There are lots of minor bugs and probably one or two major. See the FOOK threads. The .esps have been cleaned up by a new member on the FOOK team to fix the bugs, but I don't know if they were made public.

Glad to see compatibility patch for the DLC. I assume when you say don't use the PL fix on the nexus that you have fixed it yourself within your PL CP?

There was nothing to fix -- the problem was one of the nested template CTDs that came about from how MMM was using templates for diverse skins on vanilla creature entries. Once I found this previously undocumented bug and worked around it, there was no more need for the fix on Nexus -- which works, btw, by removing all spawn points from the swamp. With the DLC Point Lookout plugin you can have the Mirelurks in the swamp.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:19 pm

Already done. Read above, my friends, post #5

Oops, my bad rushing ahead in excitement.

Few more questions:

1) When you say "don't enable BS until your ready to use it" is that just to avoid bugs? Or does it effect the default game world making it NIGHTMARISHLY more difficult starting a new game at level 1?

2) About your new "difficulty scaling" plugin thingy...if I'm already playing with something like XFO tweaks...and using the game setting of "very hard" AND using that tweak, what sort of variable should I use? Should ignore the games difficulty setting completely (+ what does it even do...just make you take more damage or something?) or am I going to end up making my game brutally insane or brutal push over? I assume it doesnt effect damage values, just spawns and stuff?

3) Not encountered any of you "big boy gargs" yet...but just a question about scale. How do you "slow down" really BIG creatures so they don't look as if their moving really quickly, or their turn animations are really quick for there size? How do you get them to just, move correctly for how big they are? Same applying to scaling down I guess.

4) When you said "empty cell no npc/creatures" you mentioned megaton and tempenny...eh? Their full of people, did you mean inside an empty room/house? or are there any "blank cells" you can teleport to to do the update?

That's all for now

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» Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:48 am

Yeah, and even with 'true zero' they were still rarely appearing. Who knows quite how the engine is doing its comparative math, but it's off sometimes. This is now forcibly fixed -- the percent change conditions are preceded by a static variable check. If the relevant global isn't changed, it won't go further.

This means you need to not set them to -1

They need to be 0. Trust in the plugins

Copy all plugins across with each update, sometimes I make changes in them even if they 'look' the same (for eg, Zones Respawn saw some updates in RC4, even though it's not excplicitly listed in the changelog, as part of fixing random CTDs by correctly assigning non-respawning corpses the correct templates).

Having a look at the actual scripts where the Behemoth spawning occurs, I don't see any safeguard. It's as is in my previous post with the edit, where GetRandomPercent can still spit out a 0 and satisfy the condition.

If there was another condition that those three lines were embedded in that first checks to make sure that it's nonzero...

		if MMMzBehemothChance != 0			if GetRandomPercent <= MMMzBehemothChance && player.GetLevel > 5				placeatme VarSpecialSuperMutantzMMM 1			endif		endif

... it would truly make certain that the behemoths never spawn if that global is 0. The condition of not equalling 0 fails and the script never gets to the problem of GetRandomPercent equalling the 0 in the global.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:10 pm

There was nothing to fix -- the problem was one of the nested template CTDs that came about from how MMM was using templates for diverse skins on vanilla creature entries. Once I found this previously undocumented bug and worked around it, there was no more need for the fix on Nexus -- which works, btw, by removing all spawn points from the swamp. With the DLC Point Lookout plugin you can have the Mirelurks in the swamp.

Good to hear. Everything seems to be coming together now!

You mention that you should use a slower levelling mod. Which one do you personally use since BS seems to have broken several of the slower levelling mods?

I did use the XFO one, but that seems to have the same issues as with others, probably to do with iXPBumpBase. So I have tried using the LessXP mod which seems to be ok, but it would be nice to hear which one you use, thats if you ever get chance to play the game longer than a few hours for testing!

Also I assume you are meant to put the DLC CP .esps after all other MMM .esps? i.e. generally the last .esps bar FOIP CPs.

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:22 am

Having a look at the actual scripts where the Behemoth spawning occurs, I don't see any safeguard. It's as is in my previous post with the edit, where GetRandomPercent can still spit out a 0 and satisfy the condition.

I thought you were talking about the No... plugins for Wanamingos, Geckos, and Floaters. These are all statically checked now. But no the Behemoth chance check hasn't been forced.

Good to hear. Everything seems to be coming together now!

You mention that you should use a slower levelling mod. Which one do you personally use since BS seems to have broken several of the slower levelling mods?

Haven't had time to play in ages, so don't know about slower level mods and BS. I use, however, Koldorn's.

Also I assume you are meant to put the DLC CP .esps after all other MMM .esps? i.e. generally the last .esps bar FOIP CPs.

All MMM plugins can be loaded in any order after the main MMM .esp.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:15 pm

Few more questions:

1) When you say "don't enable BS until your ready to use it" is that just to avoid bugs? Or does it effect the default game world making it NIGHTMARISHLY more difficult starting a new game at level 1?

2) About your new "difficulty scaling" plugin thingy...if I'm already playing with something like XFO tweaks...and using the game setting of "very hard" AND using that tweak, what sort of variable should I use? Should ignore the games difficulty setting completely (+ what does it even do...just make you take more damage or something?) or am I going to end up making my game brutally insane or brutal push over? I assume it doesnt effect damage values, just spawns and stuff?

3) Not encountered any of you "big boy gargs" yet...but just a question about scale. How do you "slow down" really BIG creatures so they don't look as if their moving really quickly, or their turn animations are really quick for there size? How do you get them to just, move correctly for how big they are? Same applying to scaling down I guess.

4) When you said "empty cell no npc/creatures" you mentioned megaton and tempenny...eh? Their full of people, did you mean inside an empty room/house? or are there any "blank cells" you can teleport to to do the update?

1. Apparently, so I've heard. Broken Steel adds Enclave to the Wasteland from the moment you install it.
3. They use the Behemoth as a base, and speed works well as is.
2. + 4. Read slower

Both these questions are already answered in the posts at the start of this thread.

» Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:45 pm

Okay... did anyone else get a giant barf of enemies right outside Megaton when they first fired up RC4? I did the plugin purge rigimaroll in my Megaton home and when I exited, there was a Deathclaw matriarch, several yao guais, several deathclaw young, several mole rats, several giant radscorps, and several bots of various types waiting outside. The vast majority of them had FF load order sigs.

EDIT: Was it because I missed the "wait 4 days" step...? :embarrass:

» Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:03 am

Thanks.

My bad, thought that was in reference to the plugins + oh I see then...I'll use a toilet then xD!!