Start Me Up - Alternate Start and Dialogue Overhaul

2022 update

You should be using Start Me Up Redux instead!

It fixes many bugs and issues with this old version.

...if you still want the old version, read on below...

Description

This mod provides a menu at the beginning of the game, after the bathroom scene, with three options:

Alternate start: wake up from this dream as a different person, not the parent of Shaun:

• []You can be a pre-war vault dweller, starting in Vault 111:

  []Follows the alternate plotline, where you are released from the vault by mistake

  []At the terminal, select your own SPECIAL stats and up to 20 traits

  []You can start as a wastelander outside of the vault, and select:

  • []Your own SPECIAL stats

    []Up to 20 Traits

    []One of 38 different occupations, including factions (affects your starting gear)

    []One of 38 different start locations (sorted by difficulty)

    []How much or little starting gear you have (four difficulty levels)

    []Your starting level (so you can pre-level-up your character)

    []Randomize any or all of the above

  Quick start: wake up from your memory, in your pod in Vault 111:

  • []Follows the normal plotline, but you skip all the prewar stuff and get to playing

    []At the terminal, select your own SPECIAL stats and up to 20 traits

    Normal start: nevermind, just play through normally (basically a 'cancel' button)

    []Full version: makes over 800 dialogue edits with voice and lip sync so you don't have to play as the "concerned parent" character, replacing those with voiced and lip-synced lines from the rest of the game (so it's the original voice actors). The dialogue lines vary depending on which start path you choose. There are two choices here - one for if you're using the popular Full Dialogue Interface mod, and another for if you are not.

    [*]Basic version: just provides the alternate, quick, and normal start options. No dialogue edits, no options to start outside the vault. This mod is minimally invasive, and makes only as minor edits as I could get away with. Mainly this is for people who are testing mods or just want the "quick start" as