#weathur plays the frontier

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this is the funniest loading screen tip i’ve ever seen

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so i finally finished The Frontier. here’s my final thoughts:

new vegas runs so much faster and smoother since uninstalling the frontier and all related hotfixes

i will say one positive thing about this mod and it’s the sheer variety of different items in the world. not just the guns, but the consumables, workbench & campfire recipes, combining consumables to make healing items that are on par with the wasteland omelette or fiend stew.

i know this mod was being developed before fallout 4 was released but this would have been so much better, from a technical standpoint and from a story standpoint, if this were a fallout 4 mod. if this was essentially a Where Are They Now mod that explored what the ncr/legion/bos did following the second battle of hoover dam, this would have been a better story. for example, legate valerius becoming the next Caesar after the deaths of Edward Sallow and Legate Lanius and how the changes he implemented made the legion almost unrecognizable

speaking of legion, i played the legion quest line and most of the crusaders quest line so these are all opinions from that perspective

the de-fanging of the legion was disappointing. i wanted to play with the villain faction, or at least a morally gray faction who is no better than the other choices. the legion could still be evil even with the “liberal” valerius in charge. the ending where the northern legion abolished slavery, gave women equal rights and power, and allowed modern technology was disappointing because they were clearly trying to remove a lot of what made the legion evil in the first place. a “liberal” legion that, for example, uses slavery as a punishment for crimes that you’re freed from when your sentence is up, is still evil and still villainous

or a legion that allowed women to have limited roles as priestesses, doctors and frumentaria (which i hc that the mainland legion is already doing but wtvr). that could have been what the “liberal” new caesar has done while still maintaining the legion’s misogyny

SPEAKING OF WHICH. legate valerius had an epiphany and supported women’s equality when his daughters were born which is unintentionally hilarious because that’s how a lot of real life men start caring about women’s issues

the mission where you have to kill a slaver and when you get to her you find she’s already been captured by other slavers. and how that was the end of the quest. and you lost karma for killing her or setting her free. there’s a lot to unpack here but let’s just set the whole suitcase on fire

also the indigenous coded tribe that was wiped out by an STD. yeah. not over that

and the Followers doctor who knowingly gave the courier a blood transfusion from someone with syphilis

the other followers doctor, Welick, who blamed all of his problems in life on arcade gannon

(from subtext we can gather that Arcade exposed illegal/unethical things Welick was doing and the reason everyone “had arcade fever” was just them acknowledging that Welick was wrong. and the reason he “left” the followers is that he was actually kicked out. welick is an unreliable narrator but i’m willing to bet 35 bottle caps and a wrinkly $5 NCR bill that most of the players did not pick up on that)

scrapz my beloved ❤️

seriously scrapz was the highlight of this mod. you know that post that’s like “when you know you can do a canon character better so you just steal them and make them your oc”? that’s what i wanna do with scrapz. he deserved a better mod

also… the fact that we can flirt with scrapz with a black widow check (and i think confirmed bachelor too but i am not replaying this mod in order to see) and he openly admits to being horny on main for humans (paraphrased, but honestly tell me that doesn’t sound like a real line from this mod) and yet we can’t have sex with him!??

he clearly has advanced enough AI to give him the ability to consent, since he leaves the player if you get too far in the crusaders quest line (and i assume ncr too but once again. not replaying to check). we can fuck the chem-obsessed Argonian queen. we can fuck a deathclaw. but we can’t fuck a robot despite being able to have sex with FISTO in the base game

the entire Dr Voss quest. i’m still not sure what that was. it’s just a blur of blood sewers, finding keys, and increasingly incomprehensible notes

when callidus revealed AJ was his sister and he didn’t want you to kill her but capture her and reunite them. and then i killed her anyway because it’s what she would have wanted, between death and the legion

“you prevented silus from being interrogated” x103

the weird romance-but-not between legate valerius and the courier. like he lets you sleep in his bed for a well rested bonus, his personal quest is called I Was Made For Loving You, his weird protectiveness of the courier, and of course that unintentionally erotic interrogation scene. and near the beginning i swear there was dialogue with him that was like “you were out cold for days, but I never left your side. it looked like you weren’t going to pull through, but I ordered my men to spare no expense to ensure you recovered. i tended to most of your wounds myself, working late into the night to set your broken bones and repair your torn ligaments” etc etc you get the point

the NCR commander named Tiberius Rancor who no one suspected was a legion plant

the radioactive super mutants that had a melee weapon called Kitchen Sink and it literally was a whole entire kitchen sink ripped from a building. and the courier couldn’t use it

the repair tool for the cars in the game but when you used it, it kept giving you the achievement for knocking down enemies so it was basically a source of infinite xp

the fucking space enclave. the enclave, in space. they never were defeated by the chosen one or the lone wanderer, they just fled to outer fucking space for some reason

the cannibal ice ghouls with 3500 hit points. you know what i mean. the fact that this mod was set way too far south to be seeing them, and basically did nothing accurate to the mythology at all except that they were cannibals, and didn’t even pluralize the word correctly. i understand this was probably inspired by fallout 76 but 76 should not have had those creatures either

in conclusion: i was determined to finish this mod and i’m glad i can say i did, but was it worth it? was it really worth it? no

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the frontier + @screenshotsofdespair

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here’s how the frontier is going so far

i’m in the northern legion now, who are way different than the mojave legion. they have scribes and a robot that i named Nick Valentine II

legion quests are going way more smoothly than ncr quests were. i can actually play for more than ten minutes without the game crashing and i get more than 2 frames per second

because the ncr considers me missing in action and not a deserter i can still wander near camp phoenix without them turning hostile

met a guy in a library who really hated father elijah and was happy when i said i killed him

encountered Those Enemies, you know the ones, the ice ghouls, outside the library. they were huge, super slow moving and had more hit points than an armored tank (3500 vs 3000)

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i hate being attracted to men

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you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated.

you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you prevented silus from being interrogated. you pr—

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THE BLEEDERS WERE WIPED OUT BY AN STD IM NOT EVEN FUCKING KIDDING WHO WROTE THIS

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absolutely no one:

legate valerius:

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how do i explain to callidus that i am absolutely not rescuing his sister without sounding like a cold heartless bitch?

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listen i know i say all the time that predictable doesn’t always equal bad. but. when a character named Tiberius Rancor is revealed to be a double agent working for the legion there was no satisfaction in knowing my hunch was right. like in the base game when captain curtis is revealed to be the mole, that was predictable but it was still fun to find out it was him. cause there was the possibility it wasn’t and i had to use clues hidden in the world to support my theory. tiberius just falls totally flat. at least captain curtis took a profligate name and could mimic the mannerisms of an NCR officer pretty seamlessly. tiberius sticks out from the beginning as a legion plant.

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anybody have any clue where tf trapper johnson is? i’ve found all the keys and opened all the doors but it seems like it just goes in one big loop? there’s also an elevator that doesn’t work

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legate valerius “doesn’t trust (me) with (his) past” even tho we learned all we need to know from welick. and yet he lets the player sleep in his bed for a Well Rested bonus. i forgot where i was going with this