Tammer's Customizable Companion - P.A.L. 8000

DESCRIPTION

The fourth in my series of followers built using my Customizable Companion Framework, P. A. L. 8000 is a Survivor-tier character (moderate starting stats, weapons and equipment) that the player can recruit and specialize. This is my first creature companion, meaning that the game actually considers P. A. L. to be a robot, not an NPC wearing robot-looking armor.

P. A. L. is a prototype bipedal military android, designed concurrently with (and intended to be a competitor to) RobCo's Assaultron, but was beaten to market. P. A. L. was left offline and half-completed when the bombs fell, so you will need to finish construction if you want to recruit him.

The robot mesh was made using the pants and boots from the Combat Armor, the "pelvis" of the Robobrain (inverted to make the torso), the thighs, forearms and hands from Liberty Prime (cobbled together to make the arms), the Mesmetron (to make the head), the antennas from the Enclave Eyebot, and some pistons from the Enclave Tesla Armor (to make the neck).

STARTING STATS

Strength: 6

Perception: 6

Endurance: 6

Charisma: 2

Intelligence: 5

Tag Skills: Guns, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Melee Weapons, Unarmed

DETAILS

For the most up-to-date list of features, please check the description of my Customizable Companion Framework modder's resource.

P. A. L. differs from the standard Framework by starting the game in a disabled state. Once you find him, you will need either the correct skills or sufficient materials to make repairs before he can be activated and recruited. Also, if he dies, you can retrieve his Processor Core, return to the factory where you first found him, and rebuild him to bring him back to life. Each time he is rebuilt, his version number will increment by one, but his stats are reset.

Also included are two optional plugins for handling New Vegas DLC and/or Tale of Two Wastelands DLC. The plugins can be configured by changing the aaaGLOBKeepCompanion global variable using FNVEdit or the console (i.e. set aaaGLOBKeepCompanion to 1) By default, the companion will be sent home whenever you start a DLC. Setting the global to 1 will allow the companion to join you for certain DLCs:

Dead Money

• Companion will have their inventory confiscated and replaced with a Dead Money jumpsuit and bomb collar.