Armour Repair Kits

In Fallout New Vegas, Weapon Repair Kits allow you to repair your currently equipped weapon by a certain percentage (based on your Repair skill). Armour Repair Kits do the same thing, but for all your currently equipped armour; simple as that.


Planned Features

Each Armour Repair Kit is used from the Aid section of the Pip-Boy - same as a Weapon Repair Kit - and repairs your equipped clothes/armour and headgear by the following percentages based on your Repair skill (these values are the same as for the Weapon Repair Kit):

00-24 Repair - 10%
25-49 Repair - 15%
50-74 Repair - 20%
75-99 Repair - 25%
>=100 Repair - 30%


Crafting Armour Repair Kits is similar to crafting Weapon Repair Kits; it is done at a workbench, and requires a Repair skill of at least 50. The components are as follows:

Duct tape (1)
Leather Belt (1)
Scrap Metal (3)
Wonderglue (2)
Wrench (2)

(In other words, the same components as a Weapon Repair Kit, except for a leather belt instead of scrap electronics.)


I'm also considering adding workbench recipes to disassemble both Armour and Weapon Repair Kits into their base components, perhaps requiring a Repair skill of at least 60. Not sure yet, but it seems like it would be helpful; if you have a lot of one kit type, but need the other...


Progress

This mod will require NVSE, and that's the main thing I'm waiting on; I've actually already written the script and tested it in Fallout 3 using FOSE. Seems to work just fine. Barring any unforeseen problems, I should be able to release this as soon as NVSE is available. It should be fine though; I don't foresee any problems (if you see what I did there).

One thing I'm wondering about; at the moment I only have the script checking for items in the Hat, Head and UpperBody slots, as I think that armour pieces (outfits, helmets, hats, etc) can only take damage if they're in these slots. If anyone knows better, please illuminate me; it's easy enough for me to add other http://fose.silverlock.org/fose_command_doc.html#Equipment_Slot_IDs to the script if needed.

I am VERY MUCH looking forward to this. Good luck, hope it's all going well. Your WMK was superb as well, great mod for vanilla weapons.

I am very much looking forward to this. It seemed strange to me that vanilla, while adding a WRK, didn't add one for armor, especially considering how hard/expensive it is to repair Mk II reinforced combat armor.

Might make more sense to have 1 hammer and 1 wrench instead of 2 wrenches, since a hammer would be useful for things like beating dents out of metal, riveting armour pieces together, etc.

This is something I was considering. At first though I was concerned that since hammers are not used in any existing recipes (as far as I know at this point), there might not be enough of them found in the game world to make it a viable component. (Belts are used to make Super Stimpaks, so that's fine.) In playing the game some more since then, I've found that hammers are... everywhere, really, so I may do exactly as you suggest.

(Incidentally, another component I considered and then decided against was scissors; pretty sure there aren't enough of those to be found.)

I think that power armor could only be affected slightly because you need alot of materials to keep it in working condition.

Ah! Cool - I was hoping that someone might tackle this as a mod. It's kinda fitting that it would be you, Antistar.

With any luck the first version of NVSE will be out very soon.

P.S. Every time I add a mod to a weapon in Fallout NV I quietly thank you for laying the groundwork/idea of WMKs in Fallout 3 (and Obsidian for taking note of the F3 modding community!) .

The first NVSE beta was just http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1137220-beta-new-vegas-script-extender-nvse-v1/ (wheeee!), so I plugged the script into the FNV plugin I prepared earlier, and tried it out.

At first it didn't work - but then suddenly it did, and I'm not sure what changed. :huh: So I'm going to be doing some more testing before I release anything (and this is definitely not just an excuse to spend the rest of the night playing the game rather than modding).


Edit: And now it's not working again. I've asked for help over in the NVSE beta thread; there's something weird going on. (Alternatively I'm being stupid and am missing something obvious.)

Sounds awesome overall, and big kudos for getting this going.

A couple of thoughts/comments:

hammers vs. wrenches: Yes, there are a lot of hammers as placement in the game world. One thing to consider however: unless I'm mistaken, I don't recall seeing hammers very often, if ever, on a vendor - whereas wrenches are there all of the time. For folks playing with extremely slow leveling / lots of additional content / going through all side quests etc, this could eventually lead to a bit of a shortage. (I'm not sure about that, just throwing it out there)

recipe in general: I don't think I really agree with the 3 scrap metal to be honest. Sure for some armors that might make sense, but the same kit is being used on the light armors as well... *shrug*

taking kits apart into component parts: Excellent idea, though I don't really see why it would take more skill to take the bits apart than it would to assemble them in the first place - seems to me that leaving it at 50 would be appropriate.


Just a few thoughts off the top of my head...

Hammers appear on a couple (actually several) leveled loot lists, but I did notice that wrenches appear on "VendorCraftingSuppliesAll", "VendorCraftingSuppliesRepair", and "VendorRepairKit" while hammers don't. Could use "AddItemToLeveledList" in a quest script that adds hammers to those lists.

Cool! Any plans to make a mod to allow weapon kits to be made?

I seem to have it working again now, after getting some help in the NVSE beta thread. Definitely doing some more testing first though...




On using scrap metal: it's one of those 'abstracted for gameplay reasons' things. For the sake of comparison, there are a number of weapons in the game that don't contain any electronics - or even any metal - that nevertheless can be repaired with Weapon Repair Kits like any other weapon.

I think I agree with you on reducing the Repair skill required to break down the kits to 50, though. After a quick look at the ammo crafting recipes, it seems like breaking down ammo mostly has the same skill requirement for crafting that ammo type, if not a lesser skill requirement. Of course, with breaking down ammo, there's the drawback of not getting as much lead/powder out as you need to put in. Hmm....




That sounds like a good idea. I had had a look to see what leveled lists the hammer was in, but not what lists it wasn't in - if you follow me.




Not for this mod specifically. Something to think about though...

Yeah, I loved your weapon mod kits mod for FO3, and NV is greatly lacking when it comes to be able to craft weapon mod kits.

I've tested the mod a bit more - it's still working fine, so hopefully I'll get time to release it as a beta tomorrow at some point.

Here's the http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1138192-betarel-armour-repair-kits/.