Boss Chests Contain Legendaries

Hot damn, we made Hot Files! Thanks to everyone who downloaded and put up with a bunch of seriously broken versions. Extra special thanks to those who contributed in fixing those seriously broken versions.

Funny thing is that I thought that if any of my mods would ever make Hot Files, it'd be Rechambering Plus, which I put a lot more work into and which I think is much better overall. If you feel like stroking my ego and/or validating my existence, give that one a look-see.

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Lack of decent legendaries got you blue? Miss the days of when your reward for completing a dungeon wasn't just a fistful of bullets and a mediocre weapon? I've got the fix right here!

What Do

Does what it says on the tin: the boss chests (usually called "Steamer Trunk" or sometimes just "Trunk") found at the end of most indoor and outdoor "dungeons" will now have a random legendary item inside.

The item is generated using a vanilla script called QALegendaryContainerScript which is normally used to generate the cheat/debug "Legendary Items" container (normally it defaults to 100 but this mod only generates one). The container script itself calls on the script used to generate legendaries dropped by normal legendary enemies; I believe this means that the items generated by this mod will be scaled to the player's level, but frankly I'm not exactly sure.

Thanks to the eagle eyes of user Old Nick (you should check out his mods; they're probably way less broken) version 1. 1 is live! Previously the script would fire every single time the container was loaded, i.e. generating a legendary pretty much every time you look at a boss chest. It will now only do so once when the container is first loaded and then again only if its cell has reset.

As a result of the careful tutelage of user fireundubh, this mod now has RNG technology! Version 2. 0 forward calls on a shiny new script and a shinier newer global variable, allowing for a chance instead of a guarantee to generate a legendary, and it does it all with only one .esp file!

The chance is determined by a global variable called 'BossChestLegendaryChance' which defaults to 1, i.e. 100% chance to get a legendary. To modify it, simply crack open your console (on U. S. keyboards it's `/~, above the tab key) and type set BossChestLegendaryChance to X where X is whatever value between 0 and 1 that you want it to be, i.e. a 25% chance would be 0. 25.

Compatibility

This mod only alters the records for the boss chest containers themselves; mods that alter the same records will have conflicts.

Simple Intersection and other mods like it alter every vanilla container record in the game, including those that aren't ordinarily builda