Better Brotherhood

Improvements

• [] If Tend To Your Business is completed without allowing the Silver Rush to be destroyed, the Brotherhood will seize the Van Graff stock and make it available for sale to the player from Knight Torres. This provides a little more incentive to back Hardin as elder over McNamara and ensures the player doesn't lose access to the unique Gun Runners items sold there but the seized stock will not respawn once it has been traded.
  • [] The Hidden Valley self-destruct sequence has been expanded to show a more elaborate response from the Brotherhood as they follow their training to take defensive positions and lock down the bunker to prevent anyone from getting in or out. All the while there is an actual timer counting down to when the Bunker explodes which will kill the player if they do not escape in time. Additionally, if activating the self-destruct sequence in view of Veronica she will confront the player with new dialogue featuring multiple different choices and outcomes that account for certain player attributes, perks, faction reputation levels as well as which main quest line has been committed to by that point. These changes make escaping the Bunker before it self-destructs an actual challenge with multiple ways to succeed depending on the player's build.
    • [] During Veronica's companion quest "I Could Make You Care", Veronica will now mark the location of Hidden Valley on the Pip-Boy map even if the player tells Veronica to go back there on her own. Previously, she would only do this if the player aggreed to take her there immediately which seems like an oversight if the player has no idea where she's going. Additionally, her conversation trigger box has been moved further away from the Elder's command room to improve the immersion of the scene where she complains to the player about her frustrations with the Elder when they are literally just a few feet away.
      • [] Implemented an event handler to restore cut content for Brotherhood "Sniffers" (faction members with the special ability to see through player disguises). Previously, they were bugged because the script that is supposed to make them send an alarm to nearby allies goes unused, resulting in them attacking the intruder while nearby allies do not react.

        [] Restored cut content schedule and sandbox packages for various Brotherhood members inside Hidden Valley that were unused in the game, making the Bunker feel just a little more lively now.

        [] The refrigerators in the Hidden Valley Bunker