The last few days, I've been taking a close look at the Starfield bots and how their AI works and is configured. I've learned a lot that will prove very useful when it comes time to build PAST.
Now that I have a firmer grasp on how the Model A bot works, I was able to go back and review Vasco's brain in more detail. This version of Vasco i...
2023-11-02 21:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostProgress is being made on the Starfield combat AI. The deeper I dig into it, the more obvious it becomes about why the vanilla setup is as broken as it is. Good news is, it's fixable.
First, more Unaggressive flags have been set to Aggressive. As I did more investigation, I discovered that UC, Freestar, and NA Security wer...
2023-11-01 19:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't made any secret of my disappointment in Starfield's NPC AI. The ship combat is okay, but the NPC combat AI is terrible, and one of its worst crimes is leaving enemies just standing there, staring at the wall, while you enter the room and headshot them at your leisure.
Now that XEdit is in an editable state, I've been taking...
2023-10-29 19:47:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis will probably be my last Starfield entry here until modding tools become available, so if you're already tired of hearing about it, bear with me one last time and then we'll get back to taking down raiders in the Commonwealth.
Yesterday I finished Starfield's main quest and I've been thinking since about what exactly to say about it. ...
2023-09-20 16:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostFirst: my intention is to get some progress made on PACE dev this weekend. I've been buried under Starfield for the last week, so please just be patient with me. Being immersed in vanilla Bethesda AI again has been a bit of cold water shock, and I'll need some PANPC/PACE therapy to deal with it.
I'm now at about the 20 hour mark of Starfie...
2023-09-08 18:10:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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I don't do hype. I learned that lesson in 2004 with Half Life 2, and you really only have to learn it once. Games can be good, bad, or just okay until time p...
2023-09-02 21:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all. Hope everyone had a good summer.
Still keeping busy, myself. Starfield hits early access on Friday, and my hope is to get a first impression video together for you then. I'm also working on new updates to PANPC and PACE - just because we'll have a new game to play, that doesn't mean I'm walking away from the Wasteland anytim...
2023-08-29 23:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm about to head out for a long overdue vacation for a few weeks, so expect things to be a bit quiet in the land of mod updates until I get back. Good news is, I plan to jump back into PANPC and PACE when I do, so stay tuned there.
For now, I have a new APC Home Update for you. I'm gradually running out of things to do wi...
2023-06-23 02:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostSigh. You win some, you lose some.
v1.06 had some broken linkages on the doors for the new Valenti and Nakano stops. This release fixes those, as well as fixing a minor glitch in the water boiler script.
v1.071 adds a couple of things as well. First, there's a new stop at the Natick Banks Red Rocket. (Since it turns out that there IS...
2023-06-11 19:25:07 +0000 UTC View Post
So I got new versions done this week for two of my Fallout 4 mods, and they're both available now for download on the GreslinGames Discord.
The first is a new version of 2023-06-09 18:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
So over the last couple of weekends I've released several new updates to Tunable Radios, adding a bunch of new station supports as well as a few new features.
This will probably be the last update for a while, as I'm starting to run out of decent radio stations to add.
Currently supported stations:
By popular request, I took my tunable radio script from APC Home Update and made a standalone mod version. (Please note that this does NOT replace the APC radio, which now is missing a couple of the more recent station additions. You can either patch the TR standalone into APC or wait until I update APC.)
Basically, this m...
2023-05-17 18:37:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Setting out to make anything is always like trying to cross a wild river on foot. You lightly step from one tenuous idea to the next, one briefly stable moment after another, trying really hard to quickly get to the far shore before an inevitable misstep chucks you hard into the water. It's not a job for people who can't handle getting ...
2023-04-14 17:30:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, Tuckered Out. I just can't quit you.
I'm working over the next handful of months to get all my Fallout 4 mods to a relatively final state before Starfield hits, or at least states that allow at least for the possibility of porting. And right now I'm working on Tuckered Out.
Tuckered Out was my first significant m...
2023-04-02 18:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I released a new version of APC Home Update. Relax: it's not super exciting, but it does make the radio tunable.
As always, you can get 1.05 in the #apc-home-update channel of the GreslinGames Discord. (Citizen role required.) In case you're new to my APC Home Up...
2023-03-23 16:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post
PANPC 2.0.12 has been released and is now available to Citizen role users on the GreslinGames Discord. (Thanks to Cryss for his videos, above - please go like and subscribe.)
Changelog:
[NEW] Near-i...
“The answer seems to be that we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools—to dismantle themselves.”
- Stephen King, "Danse Macabre" (1981)
So lately I've had the pleasure of getting to know James over on We Who Survived. He does these great dramatic and well edited Fallout playthrough videos and you should definitely check out his work. We have been talking and I offered to let him into ...
2023-03-14 16:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We're getting there. My original intent was to wrap up 2.0.12 by this weekend, but it has evolved from an update to an overhaul, and a few more issues have emerged in testing. I also had some serious personal life events happen this week that have significantly rearranged my priorities.
The thing about coding is, even when you're not in th...
2023-03-11 23:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The way things work in PANPC development is, I get some harebrained idea, start chucking code at it, come to the conclusion that either it was really stupid (and so, back it out and pretend it never happened), or else it creates a cascade of complications and consequences that drag the whole thing forward a few yards. Or miles.
At th...
2023-03-05 18:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post
One of PANPC's shortcomings has always been the lack of ability to immediately respond to combat events. There's almost always a delay of some kind.
This is mostly due to script lagging: in the Bethesda system, the game slows down script processing on a variable basis in order to keep FPS fairly solid. As script overhead increases, and mor...
2023-02-27 19:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostIn recent weeks I've been doing a lot of PANPC compatibility patches!
The following patches are now available in the GreslinGames Compatibility Patch Repo:
Project Zeta by...
2023-02-25 01:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo recently I decided that it was time to write down all the compatibility patch tips and tricks that I know about PANPC. Some of it was already in the Manual, a lot of it was buried in Discord threads, and a few bits were still only in my own notes.
If you are trying to figure out how to make PANPC work with an unsupported mod, you can no...
2023-02-23 03:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostNew version of Squawk Boxes released. For those who didn't see this when I first released it, it turns all the radios in Fallout 4 into little snitch machines, screaming out detection events if turned on while the player is too near.
This update includes PANPC integration. If turned on or off, the radio is flagged as an ob...
2023-02-21 16:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostRandom Doors 1.01 has been released and is now available on the GreslinGames Discord in the #random-doors channel.
This version fixes what is hopefully the last significant issue of Random Doors.
Random Doors does its...
2023-02-21 04:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostPANPC 2.0.11 has been released and is now available to Citizen role users on the GreslinGames Discord.
Changelog:
[NEW] Out-of-ammo behaviors on non-infinite-ammo enemies (Base)
[CHANGED] Melee vs...
Random Doors 1.0 has been released and is now available on the GreslinGames Discord in the #random-doors channel.
After a week of banging out code and running all sorts of tests (and with the help of streamer Sellineth, who...
2023-01-21 17:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostRandom Doors 0.8 has been released and is now available on the GreslinGames Discord in the #random-doors channel.
The last few versions of Random Doors have pretty well stabilized everything. New features, better ways of do...
2023-01-19 21:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostSo the other day, a GreslinGames user asked about a mod that would randomize the door teleports, sending the player to a new completely unpredictable place every time they changed cells. There are mods that do similar things in Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas, but ...
2023-01-16 21:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostAPC Home Update 1.04 has been released and is now available on the GreslinGames Discord in the #apc-home-update channel.
Requires: Fallout 4 with DLCs, 2023-01-14 03:08:02 +0000 UTC View Post