He's Not My Dad

He's Not My Dad  v0. 1

(aka 'No Main Quest')

"Vault Dweller? I'm just a wastelander."

FO3 Wanderers Edition is one of the definitive mods for Fallout 3. Among other great options, it allows for an Alternate Start option in which you can choose from one of many different backgrounds. No longer do you need to be a Vault Dweller escaped from Vault 101. Unfortunately, the rest of the game doesn't know anything about your life as a wastelander. You'll always be called a Vault Dweller and you'll still be looking for your Dad. This is a dissapointing situtation if you wanted to play as the meanest Raider in the Capital Wasteland, or an escaped slave just trying to survive.

"He's Not My Dad" attempts to fix this situation. It makes large changes to NPC dialogue and quests in order to remove the player's identity as Vault Dweller looking for his escaped father. NPCs will not think you are from a Vault, quests do not have you helping your father, and you're free to play or not play as you desire. In this alternate reality, James the scientist has escaped from Vault 101 to resume his work on Project Purity. His son or daughter did not, and remains inside Vault 101. The player is just some wastelander. If or when you find James, you can help him as before, or you can bail out at any point.

This mod is intended for experienced players of Fallout 3 - which should be  most of you 14 years after release. A few additional changes were also made to quests to offer more options for evil players, or to increase the difficulty of quests there were previously absurdly easily (e.g. defusing the Megaton bomb).

A long list of changes is found in the Changelog below.

A note on dialogue and voiced lines: In order to make dialogue flow "smoothly", some lines were removed entirely, leaving only fully voiced dialogue. When this wasn't possible, unvoiced lines were put in with close to the same words, but no voice acting. Sometimes it would have been nice to reuse dialogue from the base game, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this with GECK or FOEdit. If anyone knows how to re-use voice assets - without having to repackage Bethesda assets into a mod, which would be illegal - then please let me know.

Requirements:

You must have the complete FO3 Wanderers Edition installed, including all DLC plugins.

You must use the 'Alternate Start' option. Not using it will likely crash the game.

You must make "He's Not My Dad" the last plugin in your load order.

If you merge plugins, you are responsible for correct outcomes; complaints about merged plugins will be ignored.

Bugs and Bug Reporting:

Almost certaintly there are