Oliver Swanick Companion

INTRODUCTION

What if we took the worst meme chracter in Fallout: New Vegas and made it into the best modded companion available? Wouldn't that be like winning the lottery?

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WHAT IN THE GODDAMN?

A fully-voiced companion mod for Oliver Swanick. The Swan takes flight, bitch!

Oliver has to survive your first meeting in Nipton to become a companion afterwards. He has all of the features you'd expect, so read on for more details.

If you let him live, he'll end up in the Prospector's Saloon staying safe from the radscorpions. Note: if he ends up in the Wrangler then you probably use a mod that restores cut content - it was originally planned by the devs for him to go there, but never implemented in-game.

WHY?

Swanick is the encapsulation of the New Vegas experience. A minor character with just 1-minute of recorded audio, by a recurring VA clearly having fun. He survives a lottery only to get blasted to bits by most players. If he doesn't get blasted, the scorpions get him as he runs off.

This mod uses this meagre start, this dramatic irony, this pathos, and creates an epic adventure.

HOW?

As shown in the video below, simply go to Nipton as usual and exhaust Oliver's dialogue. Don't shoot him, not yet anyway.

If things have worked, he will run off and a popup message will show. Then he will magically be in the Prospector Saloon waiting for you.

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DETAILS

First off, as a companion he's marked essential. I know this sounds weak, but I followed the lead of other awesome mods like Molerat on this.

HOWEVER: it is possible to kill Oliver in a sort-of Disco Elysium style interaction, see for yoursef!

UPDATE: you can kill him in several ways. Including being baptised in irradiated waters.

Oliver uses a never-ending bag of dynamite at range, and a combat knife up close. His throwing isn't that great, as that's just a limitation of the game in general. Hopefully his garrulous immaturity makes up for it somewhat.

You can train Oliver in various perks to become better at throwing, of course.

Oliver will comment on story events, much like vanilla followers including House, Caesar, Benny etc as well. He also will comment as you visit locations not just generically on them but also certain people he likes or dislikes (Chet, Sunny, Fantastic, Red Lucy etc.)

Oliver's Perk is The Luck of the Swan which will grant the player +1 luck. That's it, there's no more. He's lucky, so he mak