Escape Redux

UPDATE (04/05/2016): Version 2. 2 is very close to done and will bring a lot of new and improved features to the mod, but I need some outside assistance - the game needs some voice acting for Ted and art assets for a new item.

If you're willing and able to help with either of these please contact me.

Description

Broadly speaking, when playing Fallout 3 you have two options regarding how to start the game. Either play through the vanilla, probably far too familiar opening or opt for an often immersion-breaking quick start mod of some description.

Now you can take the third option!

"Escape! Redux" alters and expands on elements of the opening quest that see your character escaping from Vault 101 while generally remaining balanced and lore-friendly. The changes aren't necessarily huge, but they should be enough to make things interesting again.

-MORE TO EXPLORE

Vault 101 remains familiar and existing areas are largely unchanged, however it has been significantly expanded with both suitably modified versions of areas of the vault accessed at different points of the game and a number of entirely new areas, all navmeshed.

For the most part, changes to the existing architecture of Vault 101 have been kept to an absolute minimum (with one minor and one major exception), and for the sake of consistency and immersion, these changes have been carried through to other applicable instances of Vault 101 within the main game.

-MORE TO DO

The original 'Escape!' made things quite easy on the player. Now you should find it more challenging, and consequently more rewarding. This time around you'll have to search the Vault and apply a little skill in order to acquire useful gear and supplies that were previously made very easy to acquire or even handed straight to you.

Ammo is initially in short supply, and the gun Amata gives you is substantially weaker. Partly to compensate and partly to help balance the game a little, the guards also have weaker firearms, but greater health to offset this.

There is now a non-combat (but not non-lethal...) option to overcome one obstacle in the game - and if you're fast enough, you might save lives other than yours. Alternative approaches to existing problems exist at certain points, with more to come.

-MORE TO MEET

"Escape! Redux" contains a few new NPCs in addition to the new security guards, and they both need some assistance. Whether you provide it is entirely up