[RELz] Mart's Mutant Mod 1.0 RC 4.1 #2 : Fallout 3

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:25 am

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! :::::

This process is necessary if you are upgrading from any version of MMM prior to RC4. It shouldn't be necessary going from RC4 to RC4.1, but it won't hurt.

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!

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:24 am

::: Link to previous threads

:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1034712
:: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1012590
:: 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 4.1 Changelog

Fixed a number of small but important consistency bugs
Fixed CTDs caused by Fearless effect (thanks Kai Hohiro!)
Fixed Creature stats script bug that will fix a range of issues
Fixed Paladin Bael's increased spawns companions not clearing
Boosted Hoss' backup for Increased Spawns
Boosted Reillys Rangers health if Increased Spawns is enabled
Added new spawn system to spread out wilderness spawns
Added Interoperability plugins for FOOK2 (see FOIP)
DLC Broken Steel: Slighty reduced chance of Ablino Radscorps in the Wasteland
Natural Selection: Made Talons neutral to Traders

::: 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

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:56 am

::: 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.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:27 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.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:59 am

::: 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.

:::Where for is RC 4.2?

Coming, life is rather busy atm. I have quite a few good reports for some bug hunting, so expect some more fixes and maybe a new module or two. Updated FWE and FOOK2 plugins will come at the time as well, of course.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:36 am

Creatures with the DISMEMBER suffix don't really need an increased spawn script. LvlSupermutantGunDISMEMBER for example. I have problems with them spawning a bunch of low-health, weaponless clones that screw with the Reilly's Ranger quest.
In my mod for that quest I've replaced them with copies that don't inherit the script, but I think it could be a good idea to remove it directly in MMM.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:22 am

I just want to chime in and thank you for this amazing mod. It has really increased my enjoyment of the game.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:20 am

Hi Martigen, are the upcoming fixes in 4.2 important enough that you'd recommend me to wait for that to be released? I just downloaded the latest 4.1 to put it on a fresh install but if it has any kind of major bugs I wanted to know if maybe it was better to wait for the next version?

Also I wanted to give you my heartfelt thanks for contributing, amongst so many other very talented modders who tirelessly put their efforts to bring mods like this to the community, such a wonderful addition to the game of Fallout 3. By the time I began to use MMM in Oblivion you had already passed on the torch to CorePC who has more than honored the work you began but I also wanted to thank you properlly for that mod as much as this one so I'm taking this opportunity to do it.

Thanks for enhancing our opponents and making our games so much very harder that curses and obscene gestures fly on a a minute by minute basis towards the computer monitor any time I am playing the game! :swear:

Cheers!! :foodndrink:

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:56 pm

I've had Gargantuans spawn inside the mutant infested ruins near the Outcast Outpost (Operation Anchorage). Needless to say, a mutant that is 2 stories tall gets hopelessly stuck inside those ruins and is extremely ineffective. Is there a way to keep Gargantuans and Behemoths from spawning in that area (Bailey's Crossroads)?

I also had a Behemoth spawn at the Jefferson Memorial once, up on the catwalks outside. He was slightly too tall to run under the overhead pipes / steel that crosses over that raised walkway. So he kept getting stuck for a few seconds as he chased me around in circles.

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:51 pm

how long until wounding effects is finished?

I'm looking forward to it greatly

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:11 pm

Creatures with the DISMEMBER suffix don't really need an increased spawn script. LvlSupermutantGunDISMEMBER for example. I have problems with them spawning a bunch of low-health, weaponless clones that screw with the Reilly's Ranger quest.

Thanks, will fix for next release.

I just want to chime in and thank you for this amazing mod. It has really increased my enjoyment of the game.

Thanks

Hi Martigen, are the upcoming fixes in 4.2 important enough that you'd recommend me to wait for that to be released? I just downloaded the latest 4.1 to put it on a fresh install but if it has any kind of major bugs I wanted to know if maybe it was better to wait for the next version?

RC 4.2 is mostly a range of bugfixes at this stage, there's no real need to wait for 4.2 and it may be a week or two away yet.

I've had Gargantuans spawn inside the mutant infested ruins near the Outcast Outpost (Operation Anchorage). Needless to say, a mutant that is 2 stories tall gets hopelessly stuck inside those ruins and is extremely ineffective. Is there a way to keep Gargantuans and Behemoths from spawning in that area (Bailey's Crossroads)?

Not easily, and possibly not at all. I'll investigate. They currently spawn only outside, but of course outside can include ruined 'buildings'.

how long until wounding effects is finished?

I'm looking forward to it greatly

Heh, the final 'plugin'

A lot of the groundwork is done, but as it's quite complex I've never got around to just working on it. The last few versions have been spent tracking down obscure bugs. I expect after RC 4.2 I'll get onto it again, and it may be a while away still as life is hella busy atm.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:18 pm

While you're here, Mart, the "important question"

-- will the current FOIP MMM/FOOK CP (which was originally intended for FOOK 1.3b) still work with FOOK 1.0, or do I have to wait for MMM 4.2/stick with 1.3b to use them together?

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:56 am

While you're here, Mart, the "important question"

-- will the current FOIP MMM/FOOK CP (which was originally intended for FOOK 1.3b) still work with FOOK 1.0, or do I have to wait for MMM 4.2/stick with 1.3b to use them together?

Going by the 1.0 release description there will be records that need to be updated. I don't know what impact there will be by not updating them until I take a look, it's likely more costmetic changes that you'll miss for now. I'll make a new FOOK2 CP for MMM 4.2 once it's up.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:30 am

I've had Gargantuans spawn inside the mutant infested ruins near the Outcast Outpost (Operation Anchorage). Needless to say, a mutant that is 2 stories tall gets hopelessly stuck inside those ruins and is extremely ineffective. Is there a way to keep Gargantuans and Behemoths from spawning in that area (Bailey's Crossroads)?

Ok I've done this for RC 4.2 but, ideally, I'd like to use a system that runs checks against a range of cells where Behemoths and Gargantuans shouldn't spawn.

To that end -- and this is for everybody -- are there any areas where you think Behemoths and Gargantuans shouldn't spawn? I'll need exact cell names, so please don't give a vague description of an area, look up the cell name and post it here.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:03 am

shouldn't spawn.
[...]
should spawn

Do you want cells where they should or shouldn't spawn?

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:39 am

Ok I've done this for RC 4.2 but, ideally, I'd like to use a system that runs checks against a range of cells where Behemoths and Gargantuans shouldn't spawn.

To that end -- and this is for everybody -- are there any areas where you think Behemoths and Gargantuans should spawn? I'll need exact cell names, so please don't give a vague description of an area, look up the cell name and post it here.

Do you mean "are there any areas where Behemoths and Gargantuans SHOULDN'T spawn"?

If that's what you meant, I exited Marigold Station into Falls Church (Falls Church Metro) last night, and there was a Gargantuan stuck inside the station area (under the glass canopy). It took all my Bottlecap Mines (about 12... I think), and about 500 rounds of ammo to take him down, and some help from a couple Brotherhood of Steel Hoss's (who ended up as scattered giblets), but it was pretty easy for me to avoid him due to the fact he was stuck in a specific area of the station. It was a pretty spectacular four minutes of auto fire weapon hailstorms and land mine explosions... but my level 5 character took him down.

Location info: World Space: DCworld17, WestFallsChurchStation (4, -14).

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:21 am

Do you mean "are there any areas where Behemoths and Gargantuans SHOULDN'T spawn"?

Er, yeah, shouldn't spawn

Edited above.

If that's what you meant, I exited Marigold Station into Falls Church (Falls Church Metro) last night, and there was a Gargantuan stuck inside the station area (under the glass canopy). It took all my Bottlecap Mines (about 12... I think), and about 500 rounds of ammo to take him down, and some help from a couple Brotherhood of Steel Hoss's (who ended up as scattered giblets), but it was pretty easy for me to avoid him due to the fact he was stuck in a specific area of the station. It was a pretty spectacular four minutes of auto fire weapon hailstorms and land mine explosions... but my level 5 character took him down.

Location info: World Space: DCworld17, WestFallsChurchStation (4, -14).

Perfect, thanks.

More of these please, for anyone else, if you want them included in 4.2.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:33 pm

Tentative changelog for RC 4.2 so far:

::: RC 4.2

Fixed excessively large or small NPCs and Super Mutants
Fixed Big Town Robots not attacking in Super Mutant assault
Fixed some original Super Mutant corpses spawning Increased Spawns
Fixed Enclave appearing near Purity after final quest (vanilla bug)
Fixed Temple of The Union slaves' loaded Brahmin not showing Statue pack
Fixed (hopefully) Night Ghoul eye vision triggering when it shouldn't
Slightly reduced chance of Wanamingos appearing
Slightly reduced volume of Enclave fodder in final quest
Slightly reduced chance of Sentry Bots and Deathclaws in Wasteland
Slightly reduced excess body count and combat globals for stability
Added Republic of Dave NPCs to No Attack faction
Added NPCs now lose Perception while outside at night+
Added new higher resolution armor textures for Super Mutants++
DLC Anchorage: Prevented Behemoths and Gargantuans spawning at Baileys Crossing
DLC Broken Steel: Resolved minor conflict between UF3P Broken Steel and MMM Broken Steel
New Plugin: Reduced Wasteland Spawns
New Plugin: No Size Scaling

+ This is dynamic. If an NPC outside at night walks inside, their perception is restored. Should make sneaking around at night easier. Creatures aren't affected, tend to think most have adapted to the night.

++ These are a huge improvement over vanilla (damn sixy even, as far as Super Mutants go).

Reduced Wasteland Spawns -- adds a 12% chance for nothing to spawn at outside Wasteland spawn points only. For those who feel the Wasteland gets a little too busy sometimes.

No Size Scaling -- disables NPC and creature dynamic size scaling. The effect has been toned down in RC 4.2, but if you prefer not to have any at all use this plugin. Note: Scaling will return to normal as cells reset and new spawns are spawned.

I'm tossing up adding Increased Spawns for all the DLCs for this release. It's a lot of work (some more than others) and given how short I am on time may delay 4.2 by weeks if I decide to do it.

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:40 pm

IMO increased spawns is less important for the DLC's, since you generally can't take followers anyway.

Fixed excessively large or small NPCs and Super Mutants

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Tubal/F3/ScreenShot71.jpg?

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:04 am

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Tubal/F3/ScreenShot71.jpg?

:lmao:

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:09 am

Excellent change on Baileys XRoad, it's one of those areas that all of the mutants spawn inside of ruined buildings... which is not conducive to Gargantuans. It was the worst of all of the outdoor spots where I've encountered Super Mutants.

The only other spots that come to mind:

- Falls Church: I've had a behemoth spawn here, which immediately crushed Paladin Hoss, making it impossible to do the Lost Initiate quest. It feels unbalanced as there's very little chance of keeping Hoss alive against the Behemoth, especially for a small arms / sneak character who can't tank it.

- Vernon Square: It's a very tight area between Freedom Street station and the western Metro Junction. From what I've seen, this is one of the tighter Metro DC districts.

On a related note, should the mutants outside of GNR in Chevy Chase respawn if I'm using the MMM Zones Respawn file? Seems like that area should be on the no-respawn list. (I've goofed and dragged mutants inside of GNR, which immediately killed the BoS inside, including a named NPC that I think is used later in the main quest.)

I'm tossing up adding Increased Spawns for all the DLCs for this release. It's a lot of work (some more than others) and given how short I am on time may delay 4.2 by weeks if I decide to do it.

Mmm...

Point Lookout - maybe not, things are hard/crazy enough there already (IMO)

MZeta - maybe, although the aliens are moderately thick already. Increased would make sense, but increased+increased might be chaos. But could be fun...

Pitt - maybe. Things are somewhat thick there already in the steelyard and small gun ammo is a bit thin at the start.

Anchorage - yes. Although more stealthed dragoons would be an absolute PITA.

Broken Steel - the more enclave the better *grin*, especially in Who Dares Win.

(I've decided lately that I like Increased Spawns a lot... so I've bumped up to Increased Increased Spawns this time around.)

...

Are gargantuans supposed to have one normal sized (if they were a Super Mutant) and one oversized arm? The one arm was 3x larger then the other. At first, I thought the thing had been wounded before I got to it and was missing part of an arm. This thing was big, red, and scary... but funny lookin' due to the tiny arm.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:00 am

First off, I love the mod, it's a great addition to the game, thanks Mart.

I love the increased amount of creatures, but is there any possible way to reduce the number of raiders I find, and keep the amount of creatures?
I always wanted a more desolate wasteland because the vanilla game, as it stood, always felt more like a populated desert than a post-apocalyptic city, but it didn't bother me too much.
Now, on the other hand, after installing MMM I realize that I'm running into mobs of raiders around 20 in number every 10 minutes, and the world seems much too populated.

Thanks for any help,
CsK

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:20 am

IMO increased spawns is less important for the DLC's, since you generally can't take followers anyway.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Tubal/F3/ScreenShot71.jpg?

Yes

Should be greatly reduced in RC 4.2!

- Falls Church: I've had a behemoth spawn here, which immediately crushed Paladin Hoss, making it impossible to do the Lost Initiate quest. It feels unbalanced as there's very little chance of keeping Hoss alive against the Behemoth, especially for a small arms / sneak character who can't tank it.

- Vernon Square: It's a very tight area between Freedom Street station and the western Metro Junction. From what I've seen, this is one of the tighter Metro DC districts.

Great, thanks. Any others let me know.

On a related note, should the mutants outside of GNR in Chevy Chase respawn if I'm using the MMM Zones Respawn file? Seems like that area should be on the no-respawn list. (I've goofed and dragged mutants inside of GNR, which immediately killed the BoS inside, including a named NPC that I think is used later in the main quest.)

Taking a look at it there's not much that can be done -- all the encounters around there don't belong to an Encounter Zone.

Point Lookout - maybe not, things are hard/crazy enough there already (IMO)

MZeta - maybe, although the aliens are moderately thick already. Increased would make sense, but increased+increased might be chaos. But could be fun...

Pitt - maybe. Things are somewhat thick there already in the steelyard and small gun ammo is a bit thin at the start.

Anchorage - yes. Although more stealthed dragoons would be an absolute PITA.

Broken Steel - the more enclave the better *grin*, especially in Who Dares Win.

Great thanks for the summary. I haven't got around to playing the DLCs yet so I'll rely on this

If anyone has anything else to add let me know.

Are gargantuans supposed to have one normal sized (if they were a Super Mutant) and one oversized arm? The one arm was 3x larger then the other. At first, I thought the thing had been wounded before I got to it and was missing part of an arm. This thing was big, red, and scary... but funny lookin' due to the tiny arm.

Yeah they are

You'll notice they only hit with that arm and that, if anyone is silly enough to get caught by it, the offending NPCs and creatures can be torn apart as they fly through the air from the force of the blow. Evergreen Mills is a blast now

First off, I love the mod, it's a great addition to the game, thanks Mart.

I love the increased amount of creatures, but is there any possible way to reduce the number of raiders I find, and keep the amount of creatures?
I always wanted a more desolate wasteland because the vanilla game, as it stood, always felt more like a populated desert than a post-apocalyptic city, but it didn't bother me too much.
Now, on the other hand, after installing MMM I realize that I'm running into mobs of raiders around 20 in number every 10 minutes, and the world seems much too populated.

Not at the moment but it's not hard to change. PM me and I'll tell you how.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:33 pm

I have run into 2 Behemoths at GNR, the normal one outside GNR and another before entering the school, although the one outside the school seemed rather easy to take down.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:22 am

I have MMM installed with no other mods. One issue.

On molerats and ghouls (so far), the textures are completely borked. They change randomly as my viewpoint changes (I move the mouse around). It's funny to see them change from molerate skin, to raider armour skin, to billboard skin...etc as I move the mouse around. Sometimes the ghoul textures don't even appear at all, which makes them look like floating heads. It's starting to get annoying.

My guess is that the program is getting some texture calls confused, but I don't really know how to begin to going about fixing it.

Any experience with this before or know what it might be?

I've used MMM before, but this problem only appeared in the latest version.

Thanks

ASUS M4A78 Plus Mobo
ATI Phenom II X2 545
2Ghz RAM
ATI 4850 (with latest drivers)
Windows XP SP3

PS. Yes, I've read the FAQ, and yes I have extracted the textures and activated ArchiveInvalidation thingy.