Open the FWE esm in FO3Edit, right click whatever you want to change and hit 'Copy as override' and select or create a new plugin you want to copy the entry too.
Then you make your modifications in that file, instead of FWE's files.

Uh. Okay. Maybe you want to elaborate on why you don't care for them?

Uh. Okay. Maybe you want to elaborate on why you don't care for them?

Well in a way thats whats intended, bringing the enemies to you I mean. I understand that it may not be optimal in all cases.

Because RKR's long range detection has nothing to do with the default detection AI, as it uses a custom formula for detection, once the enemies move towards you, they still havent really detected you yet. The goal is to steer them in your direction so eventually the "real" detection kicks in, and they switch to more sophisticated combat behaviour (that is, more sophisticated than simply running towards you with their weapon drawn ). If you set reaction mode to 3, enemies will addtionally fire their weapons at you while engaging, again, without having actually detected you yet.

Outdoors this is supposed to solve the problem that there's a safe distance, which is still close enough for easy headshots, but too far away for the enemy AI to detect you, so you can basically jump around in plain sight without any negative consequences. Long range in this case means up to 5000 game units away. From my experience, you cannot get good detection results at this distance by simply adjusting game variables without breaking it for all closer ranges.

So if you're playing sniper-style I'd really recommend using detection mode 3, because otherwise there's little challenge. It will require you to pick a good spot for your first shot, avoid detection as long as possible, and quickly change positions after. For mid to close range on the other hand, it might suffice to rely on the default detection. So if you're mainly using assault rifles or pistols, I'd recommend detection mode 2, or if thats still too much for you, 1 with a very low event volume. Of course you could also disable it, but then it will be like before so that instant-kills are completely ignored by any actors.

Ah.

I work slow. They'll all get done, eventually. And if NV has the same problem you can bet on a port/continuation if they share a lot of misc items.

Seems like the RKR might be able to use an "indoor/outdoor" settings differentiator. Outside where they can see you from a distance and charge at you firing would be one setting. Indoors there would be more of a "hunker down" and stay alert set-up, with only the closest actors starting to hunt you down.

Yes, I think this is a good suggestion . . . i.e., have the system dynamically change detection modes depending on your environment. We can look into implementing this, shouldn't be too difficult.

Let us know in testing what settings seem to work well in interiors and we can set it up to use those.

Thanks,

Can you tell us what weapons still seem too loud? Are they loud when you fire them or NPC's fire them, or both?

I always get the feeling that Obsidian looked at the top 100 on the nexus and said, "Ok, those are the features and content we should be sure to include in NV". then again what do i know, they had a pretty small window of time to get the game written (script/plot) mapped and released.

That's not a bad thing at all IMO

Lucas Simms, Sheriff of Megaton, was found dead today of a heart attack on the ramp leading up to Craterside Supply. Simms is survived by his son Hardin, who has been taken under the guardianship of the Lone Wander from Vault 101. Services will be held at the Church of the Atom tomorrow, at 1PM, presided over by Father Cromwell of the same church. Simm's leadership will be sorely missed by the town of Megaton. Bullets and canned food may be sent to the Simms' residence in lieu of flowers (whatever those are).

Speaking of weapons, I was going through testing last night and ran across a few issues. I'm working on compiling a list of all the issues I can find, but here's the few I came across.

• MP38 - Bullets fire from behind the player when used in VATS
  
• Sten M3 - The reload animation does not remove the clip. The reload sound is that of an energy weapon. In 3rd person the clip (I'm assuming that's the bar sticking out of the side) clips through the middle of the player's arm. The firing sound is a bit loud as well
  
• Sawed Off Shotgun - sound is too soft, sounds far away. The sound level was lower than that of even my 10mm pistol, shotguns should be kinda loud I think.
  
• Widowmaker - gun would not fire. Reload had my fingers sticking through non-moving parts of the gun.
  
• Grenade Pistol - kills a super mutant in 2 hits, but took over 30 to blow up a bus. Is this intentional/side effect of the gun?

I'm running FWE 6.02 with WMK Foip patch installed but not active, as I didn't have WMK running for my test.

An additional note, when in the Super Duper Mart, there seemed to be an excess of automatic weapons (too many SMGs to pistols). Also, in the Georgetown district, killing 4 Super Mutants netted me 3 combat shotguns in +50% repair. All of this was with a level 2 character.

MP38 . . . you mean you see the "tracer" kind of behind the gun? Ugh . . . I think the xCalibr projectile tracers are not so good. Maybe we need to revert all things back to 5.0 projectile meshes.