¶ Version 3.4.1
¶ Version 3.4.1 - Pardon Our Dust
🕗 November 8th, 2024
- Fixed a bug that would cause selecting a Building Class from the Building Plan select menu of a plot to not return the correct list of plans.
- Fixed a bug where Clara could end up in Vault 81.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Finis Victoriarum which could cause the quest to break if the player took a particular path through the base.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Shoulders Of Giants where the speech check near the end would have inconsistent results.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the quest Moving Day to fire objectives out of order and leave the quest in a broken state if the player had left their radio tuned into the frequency used by the quest.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the quests Hostile Takeover and Martial Law to skip past the listen to radio objectives before the player actually tuned in if the player had left their radio tuned into the frequency used by the quest.
- Fixed a bug that would cause soldiers killed during assaults to be permanently persisted.
- Changing a soldier’s role will now check to make sure the soldier is correctly assigned to an Outpost, and if not will reassign them to the player’s Command Post (For players who didn’t set an outpost to Command Post from the War Planner’s Desk, the default is the first Outpost established is the Command Post).
- Fixed a number of floating items in the Mass Bay Medical Center.
- Fixed a bug with the building plan Metal Prefabs that caused it to spawn multiple beds.
- Fixed a bug during the quest End of the Beginning that would allow the player to restart a conversation with Berman.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest Angel of Mercy from advancing if the player failed to press Raphael on the issue and discover the truth.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Sunken Treasure, where if the player was using a certain terminal when Raphael triggered a conversation, the UI could get stuck for some player.
- Fixed a series of bugs where quest characters would not correctly change gear as they had in previous patches.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Thompson family dinner scene from playing correctly.
- Modified the quest Journalistic Ethics to try and avoid a situation where players could interrupt certain scenes and trigger multiple outcomes.
- After a city plan is built or upgraded, SS2 will double-check that settlers are assigned to the animation markers on their plots.
- Fixed the holotape option SPECIAL Stats Rolled For Settlers.
- During the Railroad remnants quest, the player’s companion will now be silently dismissed and then returned. Previously a pop-up could come up behind a fade-to-black that most players wouldn’t see.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the player being able to successfully use the Request Support option during combat.
¶ Version 3.4.0
¶ Version 3.4.0 - Weapons of Mass Destruction
🕗 October 23rd, 2024
- Changed the way Binoculars work to allow them to be useful for more than just the assault system.
--- Using the attack button while the binoculars are equipped will now mark the point the player is looking at with an arrow marker. If that arrow is within an eligible attack location, a notice in the corner will confirm the location is marked as a potential target.
--- Hovering NPCs will still mark them for tracking like a recon scope, but no longer marks the area for attack.
--- Pressing reload after using the attack button will clear all tracked targets, including the potential assault target and placed arrow.
--- The arrow marker is also used as the target when using HQ Radio’s new “Request Support” menu. - [SS2 Extended] Players who rescued Magnusson and installed him in their HQ will now find the following:
--- Mainframe screen can be spoken to, similar to a department head.
--- Magnusson can be called via HQ Radio to also access the department head loop.
--- 24 hours after installing him, or after installing this patch, he will radio the player the next time they teleport starting a new epilogue quest.
--- After completing that quest, a final epilogue quest will trigger some time later in the same way. - [SS2 Extended] During the quest State of War, or after the end of Chapter 3’s main story, players who have defeated one of the major base game factions will find that faction’s remnants are out for revenge - and a new short questline will begin.
--- For players who have already completed Chapter 3, and have previously defeated some of these factions - triggering an assault to capture or hold a location should trigger some of the new content to begin. - [SS2 Extended] Players who managed an alliance with Lamont or Major Issac will now receive a Tech unlock after doing so.
- Lydia’s dialogue is now expanded with additional combat lines, miscellaneous commentary, and alternate scenes for certain points during the NLTC questline depending on the player’s decisions and speech check results.
- Replaced several of Lydia’s audio files with higher quality retakes.
- [Addon Authors] Added Enclave theme tag.
[Addon Authors] Added additional templates for the World Repopulation cells: Bld03FreeSidingARes04, Bld03CornerSidingACom01, Bld03FrontSidingACom01, Bld03CornerBrickACom01, and Bld03FrontBrickACom01 (thank you greenFoxel!). - Fixed the choice explanation message for the Ideology “Guards in Vassals”. Previously it was displaying the opposite of what the player actually selected.
- Envoy meeting objective is now part of Miscellaneous, this will ensure the objective still works even after the quest Under One Banner is completed.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Gunners to continue to be the primary aggressor to attack the player’s held locations even after they completed the main quest.
- Increased the Caps Security numbers provided by Treasury rooms by 10x, and Security staff and base HQ Caps Security numbers by 5x. This will significantly reduce the security requirements for expensive projects at HQ.
- Fixed several beds flagged for Player use so that they will no longer be sandboxed to by NPCs.
- Fixed a bug where speaking to an envoy after agreeing or declining their alliance would cause the conversation to repeat.
- Fixed a bug that would leave a series of ships floating in the sea after the quest Resurgence.
- When changing plot building plan, selecting a building plan class will now filter out plans of that class and display them in a follow up display window.
--- Selecting both a class and the “** Random” option will select a random plan of that class. - [MCM Users] Fixed a bug with the Raid Warnings setting that would set the option opposite to expected.
- Fixed a bug that would cause enemy attacks on Territories to immediately be marked complete, this would prevent Territory attacks from ever appearing to occur and also grant the player a random XP bonus for an undisplayed quest.
- Modified HQ Radio code to reduce the likelihood calls would start during Cinematic Mode or while the player is in combat.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the building plan cache to reset after manually selecting a building plan on a plot that had cached building skins available as well.
- Mark II ASAM Sensors, unlocked during Chapter 3, can now be used to change the ASAM Sensor on a non-interior plot from the plot’s Customize Plot sub-menu by choosing Upgrade ASAM Sensor.
--- Mark II ASAM Sensors allow the plot to build special plans called Architectural Marvels. By default, there are none of these plans unlocked. Players should keep an eye out for opportunities to unlock these plans or acquire them from Addon Packs.
--- Architectural Marvels require considerably more time and resources to construct, but will result in extremely powerful buildings that can unlock new abilities or dramatically impact a settlement’s stats/production. - [SS2 Extended] Added Request Support option to HQ Radio menu. This becomes available during Resurgence and will allow for calling in Artillery Strikes using HQ Radio and the binocular target. Additional options for the Request Support menu will unlock based on things the player does during the game.
- Fixed a bug that could make the HQ Radio system periodically not line up with the player’s camera - this was especially noticeable during a sequence towards the end of the quest “It’s In the Refrigerator”.
- Reduced Food and Water Needs from training class building plans.
--- Players who have these building plans can refresh those plots to update the needs. - Doubled the impact of Sanitation class building plans.
--- Players who have these building plans can refresh those plots to update the impact. - Fixed a bug during the quest Commonwealth Rising that could cause the quest to advance before Remote Management was completed, causing both quests to get locked up.
- Attempted to fix an issue that could sometimes prevent turning in Batter-up Buttercup to Lacey Buckles.
- Darsenia and Darsenia 2 now correctly have the same SPECIAL stats.
- Fixed a bug that could cause many Hospitals from actually treating patients each day.
- Modified the quest State of War after the “Northern” objective, so that the main quest can advance after the player passes between load screens instead of just after an assault is completed. This should reduce the likelihood the quest feels stuck for players who cleared out all Gunner held areas quickly.
- Fixed several spelling errors in the City Manager holotape.
- Project for researching the Medic Loadout will now correctly show up as a Military project once queued, previously it was showing up under Science.
- Soldiers not in the loaded area when a uniform is set will now be queued up to have their uniform equipped the next time the player is near them.
- Modified code that swaps NPC outfits to only do so when the character is loaded, this should make it less likely an equip fails.
- If the player has unlocked faction uniforms before doing No Man Left Behind, Katelyn and the HQ staff will show up in those uniforms to help rescue Jake; or if before doing The Battle for Quincy: Jake, Aiden, Salvador, and Theresa will all be wearing them.
--- In each of these scenarios, the NPCs should revert back to their standard clothing after the quest ends.
¶ Version 3.3.5
¶ Version 3.3.5 - Robots and Regalia
🕗 August 2nd, 2024
- [Addon Authors] Added new HQ Room Configs: Holding Cells for 512Box Entrance Right and Left and Science Offices for Main Hall Quadrant.
- World Repopulation lantern menu now has an additional option “Bypass Door and Enter Cell”, choosing this option will teleport the player into the cell as if they had activated the door. This will allow entry to cells where the building collision blocks the actual door activator.
- Fixed several speech check typos in the NLTC questline.
- Aiden has a new outfit designed by TumbaJamba.
- [Addon Authors] Added a new building class to Commercial: Robotics Store.
--- This new class sells robot parts and full robots that, when purchased, become settlers.
--- The class is unlocked after the player’s managed settlements have at least seven level 2 and three level 3 commercial plots. - [SS2Extended] Added a new building to 2x2 Commercial building plan: Robo Shop.
- [SS2Extended] Fixed archives, so that all textures are correctly in the Textures ba2, instead of split between main and textures.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy that could cause breaking free of the conversation with Reginald to lock the player from continuing the quest.
- [SS2Extended] Added a new HQ project to the Science department after the quest A Faction is Born is complete called Design Faction Uniforms. This will unlock a new uniform for HQ staff that will be themed based on the selected empire flag (assuming the flag supports outfit swaps).
--- Note: By default, this outfit will only be given to non-unique NPCs. - Fixed a bug in HQ where if a department lacked an assignable room space for an NPC they would fail to be assigned the outfit and title for that department.
- [Mod Authors] The base game keyword NoRicochet can be put on workshop objects to prevent the SS2 Info Box UI from displaying when that object is activated.
- Fixed a bug with the SS2 HUD that could prevent the power icon from displaying correctly on some parts of the Info Box section.
- [Customizable Faction Identity] New optional file added to Chapter 3 Nexus page. This is a PC only plugin that enables a new desk called the Faction Leader’s Desk, activate this desk to build a custom flag.
--- This flag will be used as your Empire Flag, which can apply to all of your settlements, territories, and HQ.
--- This flag will set the color scheme of the Faction Uniform if you have unlocked it.
¶ Version 3.3.4
¶ Version 3.3.4 - All the Small Things
🕗 July 5th, 2024
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Vitomatic from working for some players.
- Added short delays between ally envoy meetings to avoid unlock messages popping up while the screen is faded.
- Fixed a bug that could cause plots to fail to correctly update the amount of build limit they are using.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Resurgence where Lupe’s Communications building could fail to construct for some players who chose to allow Lupe to build.
- Fixed several points in the quest It’s in the Refrigerator where the player could accidentally sequence break the quest.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed a bug that would prevent an animation from playing at the start of the quest Laying Foundations.
- Removed an unintentional edit to University Point.
- Modified the navmesh in Robco HQ to prevent an issue where one of the gunners could end up teleported to the floor above.
- Fixed a bug during the quest End of the Beginning that could cause Wes and his allies to all turn hostile on the player before they had an opportunity to hear out the conversation during the encounter.
- The quest State of War now checks to see if all Gunner territories were already captured when it gets to that objective, if so, the next time the player waits, sleeps, fast travels, or travels between an interior/exterior, the quest will recognize those territories as captured and update the objective.
--- Players whose save was stuck in this state will find the objective updates the next time they sleep/wait/fast travel after installing this version. - Binocular “ammo” no longer has a value and should longer be visible in inventory.
- Added a new tool to the City Manager 2078 holotape under Tools > Advanced > Quest Fixes called Permanent Follower Issue. Activating this will clear the follower status of all of the main quest characters. This can be used for players who have found an NPC continuing to follow them after its clear they were meant to go back to their own activities.
¶ Version 3.3.3
¶ Version 3.3.3 - Another Round?
🕗 May 31st, 2024
- Cleaned up a large number of forms causing papyrus log spam.
- Added missing HQ option from the City Manager Holotape: Resource Access Requires Supply Agreements.
- Dynamic flags should no longer show an “Activate” option.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the View Cost option of the task list in HQ to almost always show the department energy as being short, even when there was clearly enough available.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent players changing a room layout in HQ if the Task system is enabled without first changing the room purpose.
--- This was most notable for players trying to switch the Makeshift Infirmary to the Clinical or ER Infirmaries in the main atrium area. Note that projects like these involving multiple departments and large resource costs may struggle to run when Automation is turned on until after most of the automation queue is cleared out, as the various other running projects may be using up some of the resources needed.
--- Projects already in the task list to replace existing rooms should be canceled and scheduled again to allow them to continue. - Fixed a bug that could cause dead actors to remain persisted after an Assault.
--- Players who have experienced this previously should find those actors will be cleaned up after the player visits those settlements at least two separate times.
--- The first visit will trigger persistence to be cleared, and then the next time the settlement unloads, the game should be able to clean up the corpses. - Fixed a bug with the Marketplace system that could prevent selling agreements from actually being applied each day.
- Commonwealth Rising will now correctly detect if a Power Distribution room was already built before the quest started.
- Temporarily disabled the “Force Complete Current Main Quest” cheat, as it can break a large amount of the quest line. This will be re-enabled in a future update when we’ve had time to do a deep-dive on the entire quest skip system.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Black King, White Knight which could prevent the quest from acknowledging the player made it to the raider location.
- Fixed a bug with the MCM Setting “Visitors Max” which could allow it to be set to an illegal value.
- [Addon Authors] Added dozens of additional room configs for HQ that allow different room purposes in a variety of room sizes.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Corporate Espionage that would prevent an objective from updating after Allison distracts Glatton.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Catastrophe Prevention Drive that could cause a turret to respawn that might kill Lena/Simon.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Prodigal that could cause Ellis and Raph to get stuck in the wrong AI package depending on the order the player did things.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Catastrophe Prevention Drive that could cause Simon to be stuck as a follower.
- Fixed a marker in the CPD HQ that could cause NPCs to clip through a chair while using a specific terminal.
- Fixed a bug with the tracking diseased settlers system that could cause curing sick settlers to not actually clear their tracking.
- Fixed several typos in a few pop-ups.
- Attempted to fix a bug in the ship location of the quest Sunken Treasure that could cause the game to show a hazy effect while inside.
- Characters in Quincy should now disperse after the quest Victory Lap is completed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause unique characters to be equipped by the loadout system.
¶ Version 3.3.2
¶ Version 3.3.2 - Community Development
🕗 May 3rd, 2024
- [Addon Authors] Added new script SummonBell, when activated by the player it will fade to black and summon the plot owner(s) or world repopulation cell residents to their plot/cell.
--- This is on an Activator object called SS2_SummonBell, but can be put on other things as well. - Fixed a bug that could prevent NLTC quests from starting.
- Modified a scene during the quest End of the Beginning so that if Jake fails to path to the table lean animation marker, the scene can still continue.
- HQ projects should no longer fail due to lack of resources before Supply Agreements are introduced during the quest How to HQ.
- Added an alternate dialogue the player will speak to force a scene between Circe and Lydia if it fails to start automatically, or terminates prematurely, when the player arrives during the quest New Connections.
- Speaking to Dahlia should now correctly trigger the interview scene during the quest Voice of the Commonwealth, 2nd Edition.
- The How to HQ Population Fix holotape tool now also ensures all NPCs are assigned to the appropriate department.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the HQ Armor Lab from working correctly.
--- Players experiencing this issue should refresh the room from the Room Control object. - Added several missing voice files for Father Edmund, HQ Hangar Staff, and NLTC Clerks.
- Fixed several dialogue options in conversations with Lydia during the quest Venture Capitalism.
- Viewing HQ project costs will now highlight shortages of a resource caused by HQ’s current state. For example, if HQ doesn’t have a big enough Treasury to handle a project’s Caps needs, Caps will highlight gray to show a shortage even if there is technically enough available on the network.
--- This will only affect players with the Daily Spending Limit HQ settings enabled. - Fixed a bug with the virtual resource system that could cause synchronization issues for players using Category level complexity.
- Added Daily Spending HQ options to the MCM menu, previously they were only available in the holotape.
- [Chapter 2 Spoiler Alert!] Added new setting to the Performance section of the MCM menu/City Manager holotape: Allow Concord Defenses.
--- When off, this will disable/prevent Concord defenses from being built. This should help players having performance issues in the Concord area after a certain point in the main quest.
--- Xbox Players - this option will default to off. - Fixed several bugs with the MCM menu that would have prevented some options from setting correctly.
¶ Version 3.3.1
¶ Version 3.3.1 - Big Fat Resource Patch
🕗 April 5th, 2024
- [SS2Extended and WRK] Over 400 new buildable items added to the Wasteland Reconstruction Kit. These new items are housed in SS2Extended so that most PC players will have access to them for City Plan use.
- [SS2Extended] Added new flags for each of the faction names offered during the quest A Faction Is Born, the selected name determines which flag will unlock and appear in the flag selection menu.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Fiona from talking about Gunners Plaza during the quest War is Good For Business.
- Archibald and Treadwells’ intro conversation will now play even if Treadwell is unable to path close to Archibald.
- Fixed a bug that could happen during the Super Duper Mart section of The Battle of Quincy involving Wise, that could prevent the quest from continuing.
- Jeff will now stay close to Alyssa at the start of the quest Voice of the Commonwealth, 2nd Edition. This should resolve an issue where the quest would only continue if Alyssa was on the 1st floor of her house.
- During the quest Venture Capitalism after finishing the conversation with Glatton, speaking to Lydia will now continue the quest. This is in addition to the existing trigger that occurs when the player walked off the dock. This change was due to frequent reports of the quest getting stuck for people who use fast travel and never walked off of the dock.
- Fixed a bug where characters the player met through The Ron’s tracking service could end up showing up in his pool of candidates again.
- Vaccine research projects in HQ are now capped at a max of 8 minutes when override timers are enabled. A change in the previous patch could make them take up to 40 minutes which was significantly longer than intended.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Commonwealth Rising where Jake would continually radio the player repeating a scene about a project.
- Modified plot code to try and fix an issue that prevents players from selecting higher tech building classes unless the currently assigned settler had high enough stats, even when the option to ignore those requirements was disabled.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Venture Capitalism that would prevent a speech check from working correctly.
¶ Version 3.3.0
¶ Version 3.3.0a - Hotfix
🕗 March 18th, 2024
- Updates the outdated MCM files to add the new settings added.
¶ Version 3.3.0 - HQ 3.0
🕗 March 15th, 2024
- Added new setting to HQ that is enabled by default: Commands Use Task List.
--- While this is enabled, all commands can be triggered for free and are added to a task list. After the player exits command mode, and periodically throughout the day, HQ staff will attempt to complete any tasks on the list they have energy and other resources for. - Added new setting HQ that becomes available during the quest How to HQ: Automated Departments.
--- When automation is enabled, each department can be set to Automated. When this mode is on, that department will set up their own Task List, which they will attempt to complete projects on throughout the day.
--- Automation requires the use of a Department Plan. A default set is applied automatically that will result in all of HQ being cleaned, repaired, and fully built up.
--- Support for community made plans will be added in a future update to the Addon Maker’s Toolkit.
--- Most projects will be automated in the default plan with the exception of:
----- Research Projects (other than disease related, which can be automated)
----- Mission type projects that require staff to exit HQ
----- Administration Policies - Added new setting to HQ that is enabled by default: Choose Department On Recruit.
--- When enabled, after recruiting someone to HQ, the player will be prompted to choose a department to send the person to. - Notification settings now have options for HQ Project Completion and HQ Automated Completion, these allow for toggling the appearance of the corner messages related to projects the player or the automation runs.
- The quest How to HQ now has a new scene in the middle that explains automation and offers an opportunity to skip some of the construction projects in the middle of the quest.
- [SS2 Extended] Shortly after the quest Internal Affairs, a courier will arrive the next time the player travels outdoors in the Commonwealth offering a new quest to say goodbye to an old friend.
--- For existing saves that have finished State of War, but have not yet completed the remainder of the Chapter 3 story, this courier will wait until after the quest Victory Lap is finished. - HQ Supply Closets and Storage Area rooms now increase HQ’s max scrap logistics.
--- Existing rooms of this type will need to be refreshed from the Room Control device to gain this new benefit. - Renamed HQ project “Military Department Quarters” to “Salvador’s Private Quarters” and added conditions to prevent it from becoming available before the appropriate quest point.
- Renamed HQ project “Military Department - Head Office“ to “Salvador's Office” and added conditions to prevent it from becoming available before the appropriate quest point.
- Disabled a large number of random conversations for Lupe that haven’t been voiced yet.
- Optimized several pieces of HQ code to reduce pings to the department references.
- Modified HQ code to update department stats after each project is started, stopped, or completed.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent looping backwards through HQ Policies or HQ Active Projects if on the first entry.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Jeff to get stuck in a conversation during the quest Voice of the Commonwealth, 2nd Edition.
- HQ Department desk menus have been rearranged slightly to move most likely needed items to the top.
- HQ HUD will now try and update department energy meters immediately after a project is completed.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Battle Reports alternate activation to show up on the Inboxes at HQ even before the player had experienced the war mechanics.
- Server Room hq design now correctly increases max military staff instead of max workers.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Shotgunner loadout to sometimes cause the NPC to unequip all armor.
- [SS2 Extended] The first quest now has a new animation for the player when they are handed an ASAM Sensor for the first time.
- [SS2 Extended] The 2x2 Residential building for Katelyn and Laura added in 3.2.2 now correctly counts as 2 beds for all levels.
- HQ’s override timer system now uses a multiplier, so that rather than projects taking a number of seconds equal to the number of hours the project lists, it’s 3x that number. For example, if a project lists 1 Day as the completion time, 1 Day = 24 hours x 3 = 72 seconds.
--- Previously, the timer was so short it gave the feeling the tasks were completing almost as quickly as they were selected, ruining the illusion that they were actually being done by the department staff. - Cleaned up a large number of issues that would cause papyrus log spam.
- HQ’s base max scrap logistics value is now 3500, up from 1500.
--- In addition to simplifying the mechanics, this will resolve an issue where players with Daily Limiters turned on would be unable to build the 6-person living quarters during the quest How to HQ. - HQ’s base max supply security value is now 500, up from 25.
--- This value had a placeholder value from when HQ was released that was missed. - Fixed a bug that could prevent Jake from showing up for players who didn’t have HUDFramework installed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause most HQ Exterior projects to give an error about no room being available.
- HQ Hangar Plant Room Storage now provides 2 logistics jobs and 1000 max scrap logistics.
- HQ project Reinforced Checkpoint: Registration Desk now correctly increases Security Jobs instead of Administration Jobs.
- Modified several pop-ups and objectives in the quest How to HQ to accommodate new systems as well as streamline some of the experience.
- HQ resource Supply Logistics is now correctly named Supply Security, as it refers to how many Supplies the Security department can protect at once.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Grizzly to not start a conversation during the quest The Hunt for Grizzly.
- Fixed visual issues with the following HQ room designs: Mansfield’s Private Quarters, Upper Hallways, Lower Hallways, Theresa’s Private Quarters, Service Tunnels - Lower Section, Military Department - Eyebot Workstation, Aiden’s Private Quarters.
--- Players who had previously built these room designs should refresh them to see the improvements. - Fixed a bug that could cause Cassandra to go to HQ before she’d been recruited.
- [SS2 Extended] Sickle, Skout, Pastor Edmund, and Branigan now have custom outfits.
¶ Version 3.2.2
¶ Version 3.2.2 - Claudia's Key
🕗 February 1st, 2024
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Nightingale hospital to upgrade too soon, causing NPCs to be in a different cell than expected.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent unit types from correctly registering. This would result in some unit types not showing up for some players.
- Fixed a bug that would show “Prisoner Options” for Crow Corvus during the quest to rescue him.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Raphael from returning to the hospital if dismissed.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a wall to disappear in the upgraded version of the Nightingale Hospital.
- Fixed a bug in the ship during the quest Sunken Treasure that could cause a weird haze to cover some player’s screens.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where the first scene at the radio tower could fail to trigger.
- Fixed several bugs in the Super Duper Mart portion of the quest The Battle of Quincy for certain paths involving Wise.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy where several Gunners could end up without weapons.
- Fixed the audio and subtitle on one of Ambassador Sullivan’s lines that had previously resulted in her speaking the line for a different character.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the cheat section of the holotape from skipping directly to the quest Flickerin Lights.
- HQ room built workbenches will no longer link to HQ like a normal object, this will prevent an issue where players were able to access the dummy objects HQ uses for resources.
--- This change only affects newly built or refreshed rooms after this patch. - During the quest Vim and Vigor, players will now find a key on Claudia’s body which will open the container described in her holotape for players who manage to hunt it down.
- Fixed a bug with the CPD unit unlock that would fail to display an icon and would show the description for the Super Mutant unlock.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the ally meeting notifications to not use the pipboy radio effect correctly.
- Fixed another bug that could cause two copies of Fiona to appear at HQ under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that could allow HQ to notify the player of a new ally arriving at HQ even while the quest The Battle of Quincy was in progress.
- Fixed a bug where Fiona could be unresponsive at HQ instead of progressing the quest Prodigal.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the miscellaneous HQ Radio objective from updating the name of the person the player should call back.
--- This issue was most noticeable during the quest State of War, where the objective could sometimes get stuck on the wrong character, leaving players to assume the quest was broken, not realizing they were meant to call a different character than what was displayed. - [Xbox and Non-Extended Users] Switched Algernon’s Power Armor to use vanilla textures. This should resolve an issue where the material appeared plastic looking.
- [SS2 Extended] Added new 2x2 Residential building plan unlock for Katelyn and Laura. This unlocks after receiving the ending where Jake mentions they’ll be staying in the Commonwealth.
- Modified the artillery scene during the quest The Battle of Quincy so the dialogue camera is no longer used, making it more likely the player actually gets to see the explosions.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some daily resource production to fail under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that would make player desk donations only look to local storage for space instead of also making use of the network storage.
- Fixed a bug with HQ costs that could cause certain projects to fail as if there weren’t enough staff when either of the Daily Limited spending options was turned on, even when that wasn’t true.
¶ Version 3.2.1
¶ Version 3.2.1 - Repopulation Revisited
🕗 January 12th, 2024
- Fixed conditioning on several lines for Raphael.
- Fixed conditioning on a large number of lines for Salvador.
- [SS2Extended] Fixed a bug with Old Paul’s outfit when used by the player in first person.
- [SS2Extended] Fixed spelling mistakes in the names of several outfits.
- Fixed conditioning on a large number of lines for Jake.
- Fixed conditioning on several lines for Allison.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where after the air support leader contacted the player, the quest would fail to continue.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Journalistic Ethics, where if Jeff ends up shot, the quest get stuck.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Journalistic Ethics, where Carnal fails to complete a dialogue line and the scene breaks.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Angel of Mercy where a scene between Fiona, Raphael, and Ellis could get stuck.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Calling Potential Deputies where the scene can get stuck if the player chooses the “Let her go” option.
- Fixed a bug during the quest War is Good For Business which would prevent speaking to X6-88 from correctly inviting the Institute to assist.
- [Addon Authors] World Repopulation doors will now try to update their locked state and NPC indoor/outdoor state at least every 8 hours after they’ve loaded. This should allow for them to change even while loaded if the player is sleeping/waiting. Previously the updates would only occur once after the cell first loaded.
- [Addon Authors] Added a new field to the AddonQuest script: TestWorldRepopulationDoors, point this to specific teal door references in the game world will force them to register immediately, instead of after they’ve loaded for the first time.
- [Addon Authors] World Repopulation cells can now easily be defined as shops taking advantage of the settlement vendor system. The following additional script properties are available to assist:
--- sVendorID: This can be set to an ID representing the vendor type you’d like the residents to act as. The property description will detail how to fill this out.
--- iShopKeeperLevel: 1, 2, or 3 corresponding to the level of inventory a corresponding settlement vendor would have.
--- bMakeOwnersActAsMerchants: This defaults to true and will ensure the NPC gets the appropriate factions and keywords to trigger vanilla dialogue for shopkeepers.
--- bMakeClinicADoctor: If the sVendorID is 4 (ie. our code for Clinic), this NPC will be given not only clinic inventory, but also doctor services. - [Addon Authors] Added two new fields to World Repopulation Doors: PairedEnableParent and bPairedEnableParentUsedInsteadOfDecorationOverrides.
--- PairedEnableParent allows for setting up a reference that is the enable parent for a number of other items, when the door is paired with a cell, it will enable this reference. This will be a much faster means of setting up the controller lantern, exterior decorations, and animation markers.
--- The bPairedEnableParentUsedInsteadOfDecorationOverrides should be unchecked if DefaultExteriorDoorDecorationOverrides still need to be placed even if PairedEnableParent is set.. - [Addon Authors] Added three new properties to World Repopulation Cells under an Advanced heading: bIgnoreDefaultDoorDecorations, bIgnoreDefaultAnimationMarkers, and bIgnorePairedEnableParent, these will allow the Cell definition to prevent the door it is connected to from spawning/enabling those types of items. This will allow for overriding placement of things like the controller lantern.
- [Addon Authors] Added new keyword SS2_Tag_WorldRepopVendorMarker, this can be used on furniture in World Repopulation cells that are set up as vendors to make the NPCs prefer those markers during day hours, an example furniture using these markers is set up with ID SS2_WorldRepopVendorMarker_StandCounter.
- The quest Picking Up The Pieces will now attempt to reboot the radio station each time the game is loaded until the player has completed the objective to try and resolve an issue where the scene would fail to play for some players.
- Fixed a bug at the end of the quest Runners and Gunners, where Jake could fail to speak a 2nd line after picking up the Gatling Laser which would then fail to set a stage to complete the quest and start the next one.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Memory Lane, where if MALA had wandered too far from the player before the player used the [Science/Robotics Expert] option to repair the generator, nothing would happen and the quest would become unresponsive.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle for Quincy where several NPCs would fail to call the player on HQ Radio if the auto contact setting was turned off, this would make it impossible for certain key moments to play out as the player would have no way to call them back.
- CPD, Nightingales, and NLTC now have units that can be recruited after accepting them as allies.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle for Quincy that would prevent options from showing up in dialogue with Lamont.
- Fixed a bug that could sometimes result in duplicate or leftover flags in some territories.
- Fixed a bug where two versions of Fiona could appear in GNN at the same time during the quest Prodigal if the ally conversation had not been completed when Prodigal started.
--- Some players may still experience this on existing saves as the solution only fires as the ally conversation is queued up. - Fixed a bug in the quest Corporate Espionage which would prevent an objective from clearing.
- Fixed bugs in several dialogue scenes of the NLTC questline to make them flow as intended.
- Fixed a number of issues with Norwood Bank involving objects flickering, z-fighting, and/or not being accessible.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Leverage which could cause the quest to end up in a stuck state.
- Moved some of the radroach and ghoul markers in Norwood Bank to help Allison continue down a particular corridor more reliably.
¶ Version 3.2.0
¶ Version 3.2.0 - Clinicians and Comrades
🕗 December 22nd, 2023
- The Nightingales now have an additional quest after Angel of Mercy. The quest will automatically start about 24 hours after the quest Is There a Doctor In The House is completed.
--- For players who had completed Is There a Doctor In The House before the patch, the new quest will launch immediately after the patch initializes.
[SS2 Extended] Lamont now has many additional combat lines and miscellaneous dialogue that will be enabled for players who reached a particular outcome with her. - Non-human/ghoul prisoner NPCs will no longer attempt to speak the vanilla prisoner lines.
- Conscripting prisoners that were previously enemies should now strip most factions from that NPC to avoid an issue where they could end up hostile to the player due to faction relationships.
- Fixed a bug, when conscripting prisoners, where the conscript wouldn’t correctly end up flagged as a soldier, preventing the Manage Soldier option from becoming available.
- Activating the Operations Board will now show “Injured Warriors” as well as “Available Warriors”.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the “Available Warriors” total to display inaccurately when viewing the Operations Board.
- Removed several debug messages that could occur during HQ quests.
- Fixed an issue during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where members of the defense team could end up following the player for the entirety of the battle, instead of stopping at their respective checkpoints.
- During the quest The Battle of Quincy, Aiden will now correctly stay in the power well room for players who didn’t have Jake available during the quest.
- The power well sequence during the quest The Battle of Quincy has been enhanced with a variety of sounds and visuals.
- Fixed a bug during the power well sequence of the quest The Battle of Quincy that would prevent Aiden from giving hints that the player was doing the correct thing when Jake wasn’t present.
- Activating the speaker during the highway portion of the quest The Battle of Quincy will now resume the last conversation for players who had the conversation stop due to getting too far away or being pulled into combat.
- Modified the air support radio sequence, during the quest The Battle of Quincy, to let the player have control of their camera sooner so they can see whichever event happens to trigger. Previously, it only pointed at one particular event’s location, even though there are several potential that can occur in different spots.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy where Aiden would end up following the player at several points even after stating he’d be staying back the power well.
- Increased the volume of the lines played over the speaker during the highway portion of the quest The Battle of Quincy.
- Fixed a bug for some players, where certain notes could end up displaying fuschia colored - as if they are missing their textures, after visiting HQ.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent mod injected groups from showing up as quest objectives during the quest Victory Lap.
- The final terminal controlled door in the lab at the end of the quest The Battle of Quincy now correctly opens.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Railroad Heavies to appear during the quest The Battle of Quincy when the player assigned no one to the Infiltration role, regardless of the player’s standing with the Railroad.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Ripples in the Water, where several HQ Radio calls could put the player’s camera into third-person.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Led by Example, where Jake could end up restarting a conversation after the player took things to a point it would seem that shouldn’t be possible any longer.
- Fixed a bug that would break many tutorial pop-ups for Chapter 2 and 3 mechanics.
- Fixed a bug with Fiona’s dialogue that would prevent the cap costs for doctor services from showing correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the Nightingales wouldn’t be available as an ally during the quest War is Good For Business unless their entire questline had been completed, now only the first quest is required.
--- Note that players in the middle of one of the other Nightingale quests may have to finish that quest before the dialogue scene for recruitment becomes available again if Fiona is involved heavily in that quest. - Fixed a bug during the quest Led by Example that prevented the “drugged” idle animation to play on the Gunner’s prisoner.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the virtual reality settlement plot icons to appear too far behind the map to interact with them.
- For players who reached the epilogue quest “Where the Heart Is”, they will now have a “Let’s Go” option when speaking to Jake, to take him as a companion.
- Players who have completed the NLTC questline will now be able to take Allison with them as a companion.
- Fixed a bug where players who killed Algernon could end up with the quest End of the Beginning stuck during a particular scene.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Venture Capitalism, where Lydia would react with the wrong lines when the player asked about Payment Options.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Martial Law where if Algernon wasn’t present during the radio scene near the end of the quest, it could become stuck.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where choosing the NLTC as the defense team would result in only two characters showing up, instead of a full squad.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where choosing HQ would sometimes lead to no NPCs showing up for their chosen role.
- Blocked a path through the Chapter 3 version of US Satellite Station Olivia with various clutter. This section was already inaccessible due to invisible collision in the cell.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where a Minuteman soldier could be found guarding HQ, even for players who’d not done anything in the Minutemen questline.
- Modified territory management code to be much more efficient at finding territories eligible for assault. (Thanks cbrgamer!)
- Fixed a bug with the navmesh in the Custom House Tower that could prevent NPCs from exiting/entering normally during the NLTC questline.
¶ Version 3.1.1
¶ Version 3.1.1a - Hotfix
🕗 December 10th, 2023
- Fixed a bug that would cause the wrong version of the Mass Bay Medical Center doors to be enabled by default.
--- Players who experience this may need to use the Door Controller intercom to switch back and forth once after installing this update. - Removed a debug message that was left in the quest Cover of Night for troubleshooting.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Berman from being correctly unflagged essential during the quest End of the Beginning for some players.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy, where a sniper sequence could fail to play, causing the initial march towards Quincy to stall.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle of Quincy that would cause most factions/leaders to perform as if they were given too many roles.
¶ Version 3.1.1 - Free Bird
🕗 December 8th, 2023
- Modified the quest Gunner’s Daughter, so that if Katelyn or other characters meant to be at the top of the tower end up elsewhere due to combat, they will be teleported back up at the appropriate quest stage.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Civilian Conscript to show up twice in the soldier recruitment list.
- Fixed a bug where if Loadout costs were enabled, but Soldier Recruitment costs were disabled some new recruited special units would show up without their starting gear.
- Fixed a bug that could allow special units that were meant to only be accessible under special circumstances to show up as options from the desk recruitment.
- Updated the grenade and mine use animations for the Induction weaponry.
- Updated the stats of a large number SS2 NPCs to better reflect their characters, while not all of them will have an impact on gameplay, the goal was to keep as many as possible consistent.
- Many NPCs that can be part of Advisor meetings will now have a lot of their miscellaneous dialogue disabled to prevent from ruining the tone of the meetings.
- Fixed subtitles for tons of lines to correctly match what was actually spoken, or to fix spelling mistakes.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Prisoner Options alternate activation to show up on more NPCs than it was meant to.
- During the quest Father, I Have Sinned, an objective will appear directly on the note and knife when the player gets close to them.
- Increased max addon support from 256 to 512.
--- If a player ever reaches this limit, a message will pop up telling them to tell kinggath it’s time to double it again! - Fixed an issue where the first NPC (Randy) could fail to enable for some players trying to start the quest Cover of Night.
¶ Version 3.1.0
¶ Version 3.1.0 - Allies and Armaments
🕗 November 22nd, 2023
- Overhauled the Unit Type and Loadouts systems to be more streamlined.
--- Selecting a Loadout now lets players change a soldier into a different Unit Type as if they’d recruited that Unit Type from the desk.
----- Not all unit types can be selected for change, for example some faction units or race specific units (example, a settler can not become an Attack Dog).
--- Loadouts have been converted into Unit Types, meaning they can be directly queued up for recruitment from the desk, not just applied to existing soldiers. Some of these can even be set as the Default Recruit from the Recruitment Radio menu.
--- NPCs that rank up will now automatically be given slightly improved gear as dictated by their Unit Type. It is no longer necessary to manually equip them again or choose loadouts for each rank at the Quartermaster’s Keys. The UnitType alone will define all of this so player’s don’t have to think about it again after using the Loadout menu to choose what type of Unit their soldier should be. - Added a new Soldier Uniform system.
--- Players can now select a Military Uniform from the Quartermaster’s Keys. This establishes an under armor set that is given to all human/ghoul soldiers.
--- Uniforms cost no resources.
--- Uniforms are applied after Loadouts, this means they should generally appear underneath any armor pieces.
--- Some armor sets are flagged to ignore the uniform if it shares a slot, so not all soldiers will receive the uniform. - Captives should now have an alt activation of Prisoner Options. Activating this will present a series of things players can do with the prisoners.
--- Ransom: Sends the captive back to their faction command post, and provides 250 caps to the player’s Command Post.
--- Set Free: Sets the captive loose to run away, they will either go back to their faction’s command post if it exists, or else just disappear once they are unloaded.
--- Scrap: For robot captives, an option to Scrap them will appear, resulting in virtual scrap being sent to the player’s Command Post.
--- Additional options can be unlocked via Military Department research. - Inboxes on War Planner’s Desks and in HQ will now have an alternate activation called “Battle Reports”, this will bring up a menu to cycle through past battles - both player-run Assaults, and Raids against player locations. Viewing a report will show the same details displayed during the Cinematic mode after a battle.
--- Note the recording had not been occurring prior to this patch, so there will be nothing to view until after an attack occurs or the player runs an assault. - Three new Military Intelligence projects added to HQ.
--- Research Interrogation Tactics: Unlocks Prisoner Option “Interrogate for Intel”. This will attempt to locate a location inhabited by the faction that captive is from - if the marker hasn’t been found yet it will be added to the map. The chance of this succeeding is tied to the player’s Strength.
--- Research Coercion Tactics: Unlocks Prisoner Option “Attempt to Conscript”. This will attempt to convert the Captive into a soldier in the player’s army. The chance of this succeeding is tied to the player’s Charisma.
----- For robots this is instead called Attempt to Reprogram, and uses the player’s Intelligence instead. In addition, the Hacker and Robot Expert perks can also increase the chance of success.
--- Research Pacifism Protocols: Robot opponents will now sometimes be captured if the player’s empire has excess Prison space in Outposts near a battle site. - After a Faction is Born, the Ideology terminal will now call an Advisor Meeting when activated. This will fade to black and bring the HQ department heads and various allies to the HQ Meeting room. After everyone is present, activating the terminal again will bring up the Manage Ideology menu as it did before this patch.
--- Changing an ideology setting will now trigger all Advisors to comment on the decision based on their own beliefs. The comments will reflect support, neutrality, or opposition to the choice.
----- This is done for flavor only, there is currently no penalty for choosing any particular option - though in the future we’ll be greatly expanding the Ideology system, at which point repercussions to certain choices may be introduced.
--- After a choice is made, if the player speaks to any of the Advisors, that character will state their feelings towards the last changed Ideology option. This is so players can go double-check how a particular character reacted if they forgot, given the reaction scene can end up quite long if the player has all possible allies.
--- The primary goal of these meetings is to add more weight to changing the Faction Ideology. It should feel like a big deal to change the way the player’s faction operates. - The Call to Arms ally selection now uses a barter menu instead of a static message select screen. This will enable injection of allies by mod authors.
- The Battle of Quincy has been significantly overhauled under the hood to allow for injection by mod authors. As part of this overhaul, players may now see several unique NPCs participate in places they hadn’t prior.
- After completing all of the Concord quests (the last one is Cover of Night), Concord will be eligible to show up as an ally, with Father Edmund acting as envoy.
- If allied before Call to Arms, Concord will show up as an option during the Battle of Quincy.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent capturing enemy soldiers prisoner.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Stranger to repeat his initial scene over and over.
--- Players who experienced this issue should be able to speak to him again to resume the quest, only a small animation will have been skipped due to this issue. - If a Soldier ranks up in their home outpost, they will immediately receive a loadout upgrade if auto-equip is enabled and the outpost has enough resources. Previously, loadout upgrades would only occur upon returning home from an assault.
- Reduced XP requirement for soldiers with a higher base game level needed to rank up.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some low level soldiers to immediately rank up on their first combat encounter no matter what the actual difficulty was.
- Fixed a bug where an NPC during the quest Cover of Night could remain disabled, preventing continuation of the quest.
- Fixed a bug during the quest It's in the Refrigerator that would occur for some players where the objective to get past the sealed door would never appear preventing progress.
- Fixed a bug at the start of the quest Me and This Army that would prevent Theresa’s AI package from updating and she would fail to proceed to her markers for the remainder of the quest.
- Settlers conscripted as soldiers now have their health increased by 100 per rank. For example, immediately upon conscription, they will gain 100 max health, at rank 2 the bonus will go to 200, etc.
- Fixed a bug where Power Armor wielding NPCs recruited by the SS2 soldier mechanics would always end up with the armor pieces unequipped.
- Increased damage of all Induction weaponry, including the Stheno to try and bring their damage levels closer inline to the expectation from their technology level.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Outside Assistance where if the second radio call was interrupted, it would be impossible to continue the quest. Now, it will correctly present players with a 2nd objective to call Jake via HQ Radio when this occurs.
--- Players who previously experienced this bug, and didn’t skip the quest, should find they receive the objective shortly after installing this patch. - Fixed a bug with Military Training buildings that would cause them to rank up soldiers immediately upon being assigned.
- Fixed a bug with Military Training buildings that would prevent them from automatically un-assigning people who had reached rank 3 from training.
- Fixed a bug with the Manage Soldier menu that would cause it to display the incorrect rank name.
¶ Version 3.0.4
¶ Version 3.0.4a - Hotfix
🕗 November 8th, 2023
- Fixed a bug that could cause a rare ending to trigger in the middle of Chapter 3.
¶ Version 3.0.4 - A Fistful of Fixes
🕗 November 7th, 2023
- Modified Jake’s starting AI packages to make it less likely he stands outside of the initial settlement he appears at. This should help players who are struggling to find him when building their first beacon in some settlements.
- Further improved lighting of meeting room cell used during the quest leading up to The Battle of Quincy.
- [Addon Authors] Renamed the Watchtower class keyword to remove the “OutpostType” from the EDID as this is not accurate and may have confused new authors. You will need to update your XEdit scripts for this class either via Github or the update to the Addon Maker’s toolkit.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent several tutorial messages from being shown.
- Fixed a bug with the quest A Faction Is Born that could cause several NPCs to become stuck in scenes which could break other quests they are a part of.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Watchful Eye which would cause the Intercom to speak as if Rob Lambair after the quest was complete.
- Modified the start of the quest A Faction is Born Slightly to try and prevent an issue where Cassandra’s first line could be skipped, making the player answer a question they hadn’t heard.
- [SS2 Extended] Hangar Briefing holotapes are now voiced.
- “Change Main Quest Settlement” tool in the City Manager holotape will now work even if the player hadn’t built a beacon, or if SS2 didn’t detect the beacon being built. This should prevent an issue where running the tool never actually shows the location select dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Marketplace Trade Agreements from producing correctly.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent all possible diseases from appearing in the game.
- Made further adjustments to Territory code to ensure settlement mods installed in a former SS2 Territory would correctly convert to a standard settlement.
- Modified Territory workshops to make use of WSFW change that will prevent them from registering as workshops and ending up in the Workshop array.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent workshop mode working in certain Territories.
- The quest When It Rains is now correctly displayed on the Cheat menu for quest skipping.
- Removed test code from quest skip, this should prevent test messages about bypassing vanilla quests and alliances from showing when skipping to Call to Arms.
- Wise will now be correctly unflagged as essential when the player reaches a dialogue point where he ends up in combat with the player.
- Fixed a bug in Major Isaac’s dialogue that would prevent a certain path from ever coming available for players who chose Aiden’s plan during End of the Beginning and also chose not to use Atomic Rain.
- Branigan’s second quest now has a flier that will appear on the Concord bulletin board.
- [PC Players] Fixed path to camera animation that is meant to play during the quest Well, Well Well.
- Restored several missing voice files.
- Modified startup code to only run after Workshop Framework has finished initializing. This should prevent a race condition where SS2 starts running before systems it relies on from WSFW are available.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent additional envoy quests from starting after a certain point.
- Fixed a bug during the NLTC quest Leverage that could cause several characters (most commonly The Ron) to end up stuck in the wrong AI package.
- Most perk checks in dialogue should now correctly be highlighted and award XP when used.
- Fixed conditioning on additional dialogue to make NPCs speak lines at appropriate times.
- Fixed issue with flag pole mesh that caused it to look excessively boxy.
¶ Version 3.0.3
¶ Version 3.0.3 - The New Pattern
🕗 October 17th, 2023
- Fixed a condition issue that could cause Jake to refer to female players as Slick during the quest Belated Returns.
- Eliminated several duplicated rank names.
- Added Trade option to the Manage Soldier menu. This should ensure trading is available, even for NPCs with dialogue pools that don’t directly trigger the trade window.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle for Quincy where if the player told Salvador they needed a minute before starting things, they would be unable to resume the dialogue.
- Additional soldiers brought with Aiden and the others during the quest No Man Left Behind should now correctly wait with them until the player arrives.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the HQ Security NPC who delivered the information about Berman during the quest Gunner's Daughter to become stuck.
- Meeting room during the quest Call to Arms now correctly has the same lighting as the base HQ version.
- Soldiers in the injured animation walking state from base game systems can now be treated with the medical system.
- Fixed a bug that would make treating injuries free from the Medical Treatment menu, even when costs were enabled in the player’s settings.
- Added a one time explanation message if a player declines to complete Medical Treatment, or they can’t afford it, that NPCs will naturally recover over time.
- Kingsley’s office decorations are now correctly attached to the quest so they will not be floating before the quest starts.
- Restored missing audio for the Gunner Escort during the quest Gunner’s Daughter.
- Removed several items from Caleb’s house that would float in the air for player’s using the Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch.
- Added several scene re-entry points to the quest It’s In the Refrigerator to ensure scenes can be rebooted by speaking to Jake if they end up stopping for some reason.
- Modified Power Well valve puzzle slightly to try and make Jake/Aiden’s comments lead the player to the solution.
- Armory sub menu from the Manage Soldier menu will now correctly display the soldier’s current loadout and rank.
- Fixed a bug with the Assign Loadout system where the success message would show up blank in the corner.
- Fixed several dialogue lines during the quest Battle for Quincy that were not correctly sounding like they were coming from the player’s Pipboy.
- Newly unlocked soldier units will now be immediately “Adopted” by the player’s army for use, rather than requiring manual adoption before they appear in the recruitment menu.
- Modified terminal code that controls the last door after the end of the Battle for Quincy to be attached to Victory Lap instead to avoid an issue where the terminal requires the quest be running to correctly control the door.
- Fixed a bug that would cause several features about the player’s empire, such as the units they adopted into their army, to be reset on each game load.
- Activate label for the Quartermaster’s Keys is now Rank and Equipment, this change was made as we prepare an overhaul of the Unit and Loadout system that will be coming with patch 3.1.0.
- Territories now have a visible border when in workshop mode (thanks pra!)
- Many settlement specific idle lines that make no sense to speak while in HQ will no longer occur there. (thanks twolargepep!)
- More HQ leader dialogue has been reconditioned to make it better react to the current events in the player’s save.
- Fixed a bug that would allow players to continue to ask the characters in the quest Who Can ASAM about their leadership qualifications even after selecting someone.
- Upon game load, SS2 will now dismantle any territories that now have a settlement mod installed that uses that location. Any soldiers stationed there will return to their home outpost.
- Upon game load, SS2 will now check for settlements the player controls but that are not correctly linked to their empire.
- Loading the City Manager Holotape in a save for the first time and clicking OK will now check if the primary controller quest failed to start correctly - if so, it will reboot it. This may allow people who find their load order prevents the main SS2 quest from starting to correct the issue.
- Modified startup code to prevent an issue where SS2 would try and start its framework quests multiple times in a row, triggering log spam and for some users a warning about failed startup that was incorrect.
- Changed Power Armor soldier units to use an unremovable Fusion Core, preliminary testing suggests this will prevent them from exiting their power armor and leaving it laying around.
¶ Version 3.0.2
¶ Version 3.0.2 - The Great Recovery
🕗 September 29th, 2023
- HQ power related rooms and objectives now all refer to Power Distribution. Previously some had been labeled Power Distribution while others had been labeled Power Station.
- Fixed problems with the Desertion and Show War Results Screen: Assaults settings in the City Manager holotape.
- Diseases with discovered vaccines will no longer spread.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent new diseases from ever appearing in the world beyond the initial 6.
- Modified recruitment code to try and avoid base game settlers being recruited instead of Nukaworld Raiders for settlements converted to Nukaworld gang outposts.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Laying Foundations, where if the player goes back into the Museum after the raiders are dealt with, but before collecting their reward from Jake - Jake would act as if the raiders were attacking again.
- Fixed a bug in GNN where the entryway would cure rads even before the player built the decontamination arches.
- Added collision to part of the Hangar where the player could clip through a wall.
- SS2 will now check for several corrupted data stores on start-up and repair any if found. This should resolve an issue some users were running into where network connections between settlements or between HQ and settlements weren’t functioning correctly, as well as a number of other oddities that could come up with data displayed to the player via the HUD or various menus.
- Modified several scenes in quests from Chapter 1 to add highlighting for perk check options in dialogue.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Under One Banner envoy notifications from being sent to the player periodically.
- Added several new tools to the holotape under Tools > Advanced.
--- Recalculate NPC Counts: This will analyze all of the NPCs living in your settlements and ensure the internal counters SS2 uses are accurate. This will help with systems such as checking how many warriors your empire has available, or how many NPCs should be recruited each day.
--- Recalculate Resource Networks: This will re-evaluate all plots to ensure settlements are correctly connected with things like Caravan Services, Power Transfer, etc.
--- Reset Network Distances Cache: This will force update data SS2 uses for confirming settlements are within range of one another. This can be useful to run after installing a new settlement mod to an existing game. - [SS2Extended] Gunner boat now has a custom mesh.
- Fixed Ajax and Ambassador Sullivan so the NPCs no longer change faces between their envoy meetings and their appearance during the quest “Call to Arms”.
- Fixed several issues with Algernon’s Power Armor that caused the textures to display incorrectly - including an issue that prevented his unit’s emblem from appearing. (Thank you Tangerine!)
--- This fix came from the “Algernon Power Armor Mesh Fix” mod with permission from the author, so you won't need that mod any longer if you were using it. - Fixed a bug with the Fisherman's Bed mesh. (Thank you pra!)
- [SS2Extended] Trashcan Sink now has animated water when being used. (Thank you pra!)
- The Rusty Generator used in the quest Well Well Well is no longer flagged as destructible.
- Fixed several issues with Gwinnett’s outfit.
- Miscellaneous dialogue for the HQ Department heads has been heavily reconditioned to better react to the player’s game state. (Thank you twolargepepperoni!)
- Fixed the volume on Jake’s dialogue lines at the end of the quest Vim and Vigor.
- Added new event to CityPlanManager called “CityPlanUpgraded”, which will allow mods to react to when a City Plan upgrades.
- Sped up hospital detection code significantly, this should improve overall performance. (Thank you cbrgamer!)
- During the quest Where There’s Smoke the player will be released from AI Control before they have to make a dialogue selection. This should prevent an issue some players have where they end up stuck unable to continue the conversation.
¶ Version 3.0.1
¶ Version 3.0.1 - A Little Q.O.L.
🕗 September 15th, 2023
- Ally envoy system should now check for meetings that were incorrectly removed from the meeting queue each time the player loads their game.
- Modified envoy system code to better prepare it for injection of additional allies by other mods.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the last quest in the CPD questline from starting if a particular vanilla NPC had been killed already or a mod had altered it.
--- Players that had previously experienced this issue should find the questline resumes shortly after loading this patch. - Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest related to the Judge in the CPD questline from starting if certain items had been previously looted or altered by another mod.
--- Players that had previously experienced this issue should find the questline resumes shortly after loading this patch. - Fixed a bug that could prevent the CPD questline from ever starting if a mod had altered the South Boston Police Department heavily.
- Fixed a bug that could cause city plan upgrade costs for manual upgrade to display the incorrect resource names.
- [MCM] Added a Toggle HUD option in the Hotkeys section. When paired with the Never Autohide option of the various panel Autohide Settings, can allow for quickly turning the entire HUD on or off.
--- Note: HUD toggles can be unreliable and may require you to push them several times. This is because HUD communication is only 1 way, we can send messages to it, but if the HUD was busy, the toggle script has no way to know the command failed. In this case the toggle becomes out of sync and can require you push it several more times before the appropriate show or hide command is accepted. - Added a new holotape/MCM setting: Autosave Before Assaults. This is enabled by default, turning it off will disable the autosave that occurs just before an assault.
--- This option will be auto-disabled for Survival players. - Modified the HUD code so that when the player enters workshop mode, if it had not correctly received the event to tell it the player entered a new settlement it will force run that event code. This should resolve an issue some players experience where after fast-traveling the HUD won’t appear in that settlement or it shows details related to the previous settlement they were in.
- Modified Jake’s AI at the start of the quest Casting a Line to try and eliminate an issue where he would sometimes sandbox upstairs before Old Paul came running in.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Supermutants to spawn far more Mutant Hounds than it was supposed to.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Belated Returns where Jake could be teleported mid conversation.
- Fixed a bug that would cause any followers the player had during Cinematic Mode to stop following the player and wait there until the player manually issued them a new follow command (sometimes even requiring the player dismiss and take the companion again).
- Player can now Stimpak their soldiers in battle with alternate activation Apply Stimpak. This includes when the soldier is in bleedout.
--- Stimpaking a soldier before the assault is over can prevent Injury to that soldier, so long as they aren’t downed again. - Fixed a bug where the Receiver Module could end up in Jake’s inventory even when the story choices resulted in him supposedly not taking it.
- Fixed another bug that could prevent the quest Flickerin Lights from starting on a save that completed Chapter 2 quests with Chapter 3 installed already.
--- Players who experienced this should find the quest starts within 48 to 54 in-game hours (the issue was due to a looping timer), sleeping/waiting several days should end this timer loop and trigger a call with Aiden the next time fast travel or exiting an interior in the Commonwealth occurs. - [SS2Extended] Greatly expanded the dialogue pools for the characters Archon, Silas Canary, and Sneake. These particular characters were expanded, as the voice actors and writers were kind enough to create additional content for them.
- Switched a side door into the Robco HQ building to a lower level lock to increase options for players to enter this building if other mods are blocking our main entrance.
- Modified Jake’s AI packages at the beginning of the first quest to make it more likely he approaches the player rather than Sandboxing around the settlement.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the quest Where the Heart Is to start when it didn’t make sense for it to based on previous events.
- Restored missing audio files for the holotape Magnusson Personal Log 5.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Salvador’s dialogue from working in an epilogue quest that would occur for some players.
- Fixed a bug during the quest The Battle for Quincy where the Gunner Lieutenant could fail to drop a keycard he was meant to.
- Fixed a bug that cause a conversation during the quest Internal Affairs to loop to the wrong point when certain dialogue options were chosen.
- Restored missing audio files for the holotape Magnusson Personal Log 5.
- Smoothed the transition between the quests Victory Lap and Calling so that Lupe will almost immediately start the conversation of Calling on her own.
- [SS2Extended] Added wav versions of all music in SS2 which will greatly improve the sound quality for headphone users.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the quest Thanks for the Memories to trigger a radio call from Cassandra after the quest is already complete.
- Switched the code that manages plot production to try and eliminate an issue some players were experiencing where large spikes of production threads would happen all at once.
- Fixed a bug that would cause choosing the default rank loadout for the first rank to show all options instead of just the rank 1 available options.
- Fixed a bug with the loadout interface that would show rank 1 as rank 0.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the rank name Tracker to show up twice, one of them was intended to be listed as “Hunter”.
- Fixed a bug that would cause HQ assignment for the Military Department to show 0 as the rank number instead of 1.
- Playing the quest Open Season in the Nukaworld DLC should no longer dismantle all of the player’s SS2 outposts and vassals.
--- After Open Season removes ownership of the settlements, they will be restored again shortly thereafter. - Player’s who managed to loot Jake’s Gatling Laser Gun after the quest Dark Horizons, usually from auto-loot mods, will no longer be blocked from starting the quest End of the Beginning.
--- Players who had this previously occur will find the quest started shortly after loading this patch. - Sim Settlements raid system will now correctly start for all players within 4 in-game days of establishing a command post. Previously, only players who changed their Command Post would have this trigger correctly fire.
- Updated faces for the new NPCs added as part of the faction envoys, they had been clones of vanilla NPC faces as placeholders prior to this.
- Only 5 assaulting soldiers will be made guards at Territories after capturing them as opposed to the entire assault force. This can be modified with the new Move In Territory Guards setting.
- Added two new settings: Move In Territory Guards and Move In Outpost Soldiers. These settings allow players to control the number of soldiers after an assault that move into a Territory or new Outpost after it is captured from the assault.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Laboratory category from showing up for the HQ Science department. This currently has one action “Staff Physicals”, which greatly reduces chance of diseases in HQ. The category will be fleshed out in a future update.
- Empire Map on the War Planner’s Desk in Salvador’s Office will now show HQ as the settlement type instead of Settlement.
- Changing the flag at HQ from one of the desks that has the option will offer to set the Empire flag, which will set all Settlements, Outposts, and Territory flags the player controls to the same, including any future captured locations.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent most HQ flags from being updated when the desk flag was changed.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Watchtowers from sharing defense correctly.
--- Players who found defense was not sharing correctly should refresh their Watchtowers after this patch. - Added support for Outpost Plans. These are the same as normal City Plans but will by default only be available for Outposts.
--- These require a special setting on the City Plan record the designer can set to tag their plan as an Outpost Plan. - [City Planner Designers] The web tool has been updated with a new check box under Advanced for flagging your plans as an Outpost. You can also update plans in the CK via the script properties on the City Plan’s main record.
- Added a new holotape/MCM setting: Limit Outpost Plans to Outposts. This defaults to ON, and prevents City Plans flagged as Outpost Plans from showing up in the select menu, or being auto-used when a leader is manually assigned except for in Outposts.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Charlotte from pathing to the Custom House Tower at the appropriate point during the NTLC quest line.
- Induction, Institute weapons, and many armor pieces of various types can now correctly be donated as Supplies to settlements.
--- Most DLC and mod-added weapons, armor, ammo, and chems will require a patch to work with the donation system. Mod authors looking to add support before the documentation is prepared can contact kinggath for steps. - Fixed a bug that would cause resources displayed on the Needs report to exclude the values from the current settlement the report was being run in under the network section.
- Shared resource counts between settlements should now update immediately after a network type plot (such as Caravan Services) is constructed or upgrades. Previously these plot events would not cause the counts to be updated.
- Fixed a bug where an off-camera resolved raid could trigger Cinematic Mode if enabled.
- Modified reinforcements code to try and prevent an issue where Assaults/Raids would end immediately after reinforcements were said to be enroute.
- Workshops with no workshop ID will no longer be added to Empires. This should prevent player home locations with player build access from being counted as cities.
- UpdateSharedResources will no longer be called on NPC empires since the processing can take a long time and currently there is no gameplay reaction to non-player settlements having resource needs met. This should reduce script load.
¶ Version 3.0.0
¶ Version 3.0.0o - Hotfix
🕗 August 25th, 2023
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- Assault menu will no longer show non-workshop settlements (such as player homes) that end up in the workshops array.
- Fixed a bug that could cause several scenes in the quest Thanks for the Memories to stop prematurely under some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that could cause War Planner’s Desk assaults to remain permanently disabled during the quest State of War.
- Fixed an issue with holotape positioning that was blocked by floor collision in Vault 111.
- Invading Gunners should now default to enemies with the player.
-- Existing saves won’t see this change for invasions that already occurred before this patch. - Restored missing files for the camera sequence in the quest Well, Well, Well.
- Fixed several scenes during the quest The Battle of Quincy that could break after certain outcomes to previous quests.
- Fixed a bug in the Quincy Super Duper Mart that could cause some of the necessary doors to require high level lock-picking to make it through.
- Modified the placement of several Gunners who have important keys the player needs to progress during the quest The Battle of Quincy to try and ensure they don’t end up beyond those doors.
- Scattered several bobby pin boxes throughout the Quincy Super Duper Mart so players who came without them aren’t forced to leave and return if they failed to bring enough.
- Modified the aggro trigger to require the player shoot the gunner leadership to trigger aggression during the last encounter inside the house during the quest The Battle of Quincy, so that more players will get a chance to have a conversation with them rather than being forced to immediately kill them.
- Fixed a bug with the Vault Tec Dictation Record holotape that would cause it only to play one person’s voice files.
¶ Version 3.0.0n - Hotfix
🕗 August 24th, 2023
- Cassandra’s note in a certain path through the quest Thanks for the Memories now has havok disabled so it won’t be knocked around by physics, potentially being lost.
- The setting Control Vassals should now work as expected, giving control over Vassalized settlements when they are captured, as well as when the setting is turned on.
--- When the patch is first loaded, all existing player vassals will have their ownership set to match this setting. - Modified the reinforcements code to try and prevent an issue where the enemy sends reinforcements and then the player immediately completes the capture without having to defeat those reinforcements.
- Fixed a bug that would make the Custom House Tower elevator button not visible.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a quest called Ripples in the Water to start when it was not supposed to.
--- The consequences of this will be rolled back. Players who already completed the quest when they weren’t supposed to receive it will receive a pop-up explaining the issue. - Fixed a bug during the core dialogue scene in the quest Calling… that would fail to acknowledge an important event that may have occurred for some players.
- HQ Admin Event “Opportunity Prep Training” should now correctly register with the system for players who have unlocked the Military Department and have a Gym.
- State of War will now trigger another capture wave if the player retook all Gunner locations before receiving objectives to do so.
- Vault 75 elevator should now unlock for players returning there during the quest Sympathy for the Devil.
- Removed the custom child face model as it was causing warping during lip sync.
- Added startup code to try and make Jake show up for people who ran into a bug recently introduced with the Unofficial Fallout 4 patch.
--- Players who cannot find him after installing this patch and building a recruitment beacon should use the City Manager Holotape (one can be found in the hardware store near the museum in Concord), then go to Tools > Advanced > Change Main Quest Settlement, select a new settlement for the quests to use. - The Change Main Quest Settlement tool will now immediately teleport Jake to that settlement if he is meant to be there during that particular portion of the main quest.
- Disabled havok on a holotape SS2 adds to Vault 111 to avoid an issue where it falls into an area where it can’t be recovered.
- Chapter 3’s controller will now attempt to start the first quest on game load, checking to confirm Commonwealth Rising, Sea to Glowing Sea, and Remote Management are complete. This should resolve an issue for some saves, where the initial test failed or the timer was somehow terminated that would normally periodically.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the door controllers for USAF Satellite Station Olivia and Custom House Tower to show up before the SS2 versions of the cells were meant to be accessible.
--- This fix will only apply to saves seeing SS2 for the first time, existing saves may still see those controllers prematurely. - Fixed a bug that would cause a set of lines to be spoken over the intercom in the quest The Battle of Quincy that wouldn’t make sense under some conditions.
- The quest Call to Arms will now shut down any pending envoy meetings once the player confirms the message they are ready to continue. Those envoy meetings will be allowed to resume again after the quest The Battle for Quincy is complete.
- [Xbox] Restored the mesh for the Robco boxes so they can once again be looted.
- Fixed a bug with the Infestation disasters in HQ which could cause the corpses to pile up for longer than expected.
- Fixed a bug with the newspaper system that could prevent text replacement working in articles for displaying dynamic information (for example the Player’s name).
¶ Version 3.0.0m - Hotfix
🕗 August 22nd, 2023
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes prevent HQ Radio from displaying the dialogue menu during scenes.
- The Medical Treatment menu should no longer appear for Gunner soldiers that end up with diseases.
- Fixed a bug that would cause assaulting a settlement held by the Gunners to disassociate that settlement with the Gunners - this could lead to the quest State of War not reacting correctly, as well as reinforcements not being connected to other nearby controlled locations.
- Modified the trigger for picking up the Stheno during the quest Outside Assistance to try and resolve an issue some players are experiencing with the quest reacting to the pick-up.
- Modified turret management code during assaults to try and prevent an issue where turrets on plots attack non-plot turrets during an assault.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Led by Example, where the player could end up with the Receiver Module when it didn’t make sense for it to based on previous events.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Led by Example that would prevent the story from acknowledging if the Gunners ended up with the Receiver Module.
- Reduced the full volume range of the Robco jingle to avoid it “talking over” scenes that follow it.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Jake from re-appearing later if the player opted not to rescue him immediately.
- Added fail conditions for Sea to Glowing Sea and Remote Management if the player didn’t complete them before potential events during Chapter 3 that would render them incompletable.
- Computer interactions near the end of the quests The Battle for Quincy and Thanks for the Memories should be more reliable and easier to trigger again if the scene stops prematurely for any reason.
- Disabled Laura’s unvoiced miscellaneous dialogue until the files are located.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Thanks for the Memories where the HQ Radio objective would list “Speak to Pip-boy Radio” instead of “Speak to Cassandra”.
- Added a script to unblock the elevator hatches in Custom House Tower to help players who are finding themselves on top of the elevator between load screens due to script lag.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Black King, White Knight, where the player could restart a conversation with Glatton multiple times if the player chose not to hand over the caps.
- Fixed a number of outfit records related to the NLTC that would cause the NPCs to have no underarmor equipped.
- Fixed a bug where the characters who showed up for No Man Left Behind could be left in a state where they would no longer use sandbox AI packages.
- Fixed a clipping door in the Quincy Super Duper Mart.
- Moved some radroach markers and cars in the NLTC bank cell to try and eliminate AI pathing issues.
- Removed the Mirelurk King from the garage section of the NLTC bank.
- Fixed an issue with the quest Call to Arms where the quest would get stuck if the player failed to accept any allies during Under One Banner.
- Turned off idle dialogue for Salvador and Allison during the quests Call to Arms and The Battle of Quincy. Additional dialogue toggle controls will be added for other characters in future patches, with the aim of eliminating off-topic chatter during scripted quest moments.
- Fiona has been marked as optional during Call to Arms so that players that opted not to ally with the Nightingales can still complete the quest.
--- Note that the quest requires at least one ally faction to complete, and the Nightingales represent the fallback option, so players who decline all allies will find the Nightingales still appear. - Modified Aiden’s dialogue during the power well sequence of the Battle of Quincy to properly reflect Jake’s choices.
- Modified the objective text in the quest The Battle of Quincy so that it makes sense even when the player opts not to assign a team to Tech.
- Fixed a mesh issue with the 3x3 Martial building plan.
- Modified several HQ Hangar SCOLs to try and fix several pathing issues.
¶ Version 3.0.0l - Hotfix
🕗 August 20th, 2023
- Fixed a bug in the quest When It Rains that could prevent a radio conversation from starting correctly.
- Disabled ambient music that triggers at the end of the quests Gunner’s Daughter and Calling X. There will be no ambient music in HQ for a short while after these quests, but it should be restored the next time the player leaves and re-enters HQ.
- Modified recruitment code to try and eliminate a bug where soldiers would be recruited beyond the available beds in some scenarios.
- Rearranged some of the code in the quest State of War to make the objective that follows capturing 3 territories come up much sooner.
- Modified the way the quest State of War handles objectives for capturing territories to try and make it react more quickly.
- Fixed the Assault Range, Planned Assault Soldiers, and Dynamic Assault Soldiers options in the MCM menu, each was inverted showing the incorrect label.
- Modified the text of one of the objectives in the quest State of War to make it clearer the player needs to capture locations from the gunners, not just clear them out.
- Fixed a bug in the quest When It Rains where Jake would speak a line as a Lupe.
- Added a new default location for the Territory controller at Federal Ration Stockpile.
- Flagged the map marker in the church near Federal Ration Stockpile to be ignored when flagging that location as an objective.
--- Note: Existing saves that have already installed SS2 will not see this change. - Improved the positioning of the conversation point with the radio in USAF during the quest When It Rains.
- Fixed a bug in the quest When It Rains where the objective to clear USAF would complete immediately.
- Fixed a bug with the store manager code that could cause production to vendors to never complete.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Led By Example, where the “Trick the Gunners” path, for players who had it, would not work correctly and instead act the same as if Jake had been convinced to do otherwise.
- Fixed a bug in the quest Call to Arms where if Jake wasn’t at the meeting due to choices in previous quests, it would break the dialogue.
- Fixed a bug in the Super Duper Mart scenes during the quest The Battle of Quincy could break if certain actors were dead.
- Fixed several camera and scene sequencing issues in a cut scene type moment during the quest The Battle of Quincy.
- Cleaned up several greetings during the computer scene near the end of the quest The Battle of Quincy to try and allow the conversation to be restarted if it ends prematurely.
- Fixed a bug in the quest The Battle of Quincy, that would cause the objective for the player to retrieve an Engramtape to display even if during the conversation they agreed not to do so.
- Added clean-up code to the end of the quest Victory Lap to try and ensure NPCs end up back at their home locations correctly and that their default dialogue trees are re-enabled.
- Moved the flare markers in the quest The Battle of Quincy a bit closer to the Strike Tent to hopefully make them more visible/noticeable when they go off.
- Tweaked the Institute Faction Support quest script to make the "sky teleport" work better and be more noticeable.
- Added some pauses in the Air Support script to allow the radio scenes to end between scenes; allowing the camera a chance to break free.
¶ Version 3.0.0k - Hotfix
🕗 August 18th, 2023
- Modified several radio dialogue lines to use the correct radio effect so they don’t sound like they are coming from a character standing next to the player.
- Player should now have primary clothing removed during the hospital scene during the quest Resurgence. This should eliminate an issue where some first person clothing models in the base game and mods would warp unpredictably during the dialogue sequences.
- Fixed a bug with Jake’s dialogue at the end of the quest Gunner’s Daughter, instead of commenting on the situation, he was reverting to his default dialogue.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent assault completion from being acknowledged until after a save was reloaded.
- Holotapes found during the quest Outside Assistance should now continue to play correctly after the quest has shut down.
- Fixed several holotapes so they will no longer be lipsynched by the player when listening to them in 3rd person.
- Moved a holotape from Jake to a separate quest so it could be listened to after the quest was shutdown.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Aide Memoire that could prevent it from updating the objective after the player listened to the holotape.
- Moved a holotape found during the quest Battle of Quincy so that it can continue to play correctly after the quest has shut down.
- Added several missing holotapes to locations players would visit during the main quest on a new playthrough.
- Fixed a bug with the marketplace system that would prevent access to the Scrap screens.
- Conditioned several of Jake’s non-main quest scenes to require activation from the player so those conversations won’t auto-start themselves at awkward moments.
- Fixed a bug where Jake’s radio call to start the quest Sea to Glowing Sea could trigger every time the player fast traveled.
- Fixed a vanilla bug with the location Mass Gravel And Sand that caused it to be recognized as a different location.
- Modified the Gunner’s path through the last location in the quest The Battle of Quincy so they won’t get stuck on a door.
- Switched the lock on the door just before the decontamination chamber in the quest The Battle of Quincy to easy so that player’s aren’t required to have the Lock Pick perk to continue.
- Players who finished the vanilla main quest with the Minutemen or Institute should find some additional support during the quest The Battle of Quincy from their respective faction.
- Fixed a bug with the cheat command where skipping to Call to Arms would offer the player an alliance with the Gunners, accepting this would break later conversations in the main quest.
¶ Version 3.0.0j - Hotfix
🕗 August 17th, 2023
- Fixed a bug where Aiden’s radio call could get stuck at the start of the quest Flickerin Lights.
- Fixed a bug where several of the department heads would not mention the radio call with the Gunners after the end of the quest Commonwealth Rising.
- Skipping the quest Runners and Gunners with the cheat system, will now correctly unlock the SS2 hijacked version of Vault 75.
- [Xbox] Restored several missing dialogue lines for Jake during the quest Well Well Well.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Abernathy locket to be spawned inside of the Chapter 3 version of USAF Satellite Station Olivia, instead of the vanilla version of the cell.
--- Players who already had this issue, will find the locket moved back where it belongs shortly after this patch is installed. - Fixed a bug that would allow the player to bypass a portion of the quest Internal Affairs, and in the process break the quest.
- Fixed several issues with the radio conversation during the quest Martial Law that could cause the scene to break at several points and be difficult to know where the player should be looking.
- Removed an old buildable entry called “Remove Me” from the HQ build menu, this was a leftover from alpha testing that was mistakenly left in the mod.
- Fixed a bug with Berman’s dialogue during the quest Gunner’s Daughter that could cause a scene greeting to keep firing throughout the quest, and even after the quest was complete.
- Added an objective to the quest Gunner’s Daughter to make it clear the location must be cleared of raiders before the quest can proceed.
- Modified the quest When It Rains to react to Jake’s state prior to the quest.
--- Players who are in progress on this quest in their save should find it should update shortly after loading this patch to correct any mistakes caused by previous versions. - Modified the quest Resurgence slightly so that Lupe will be teleported and snapped into the Vertibird if the player boards before she gets close to it or if she is unable to path to it.
- Fixed a bug where players with the Cinematic Assault Victories disabled would not receive prompting or objectives after completing the assault on Mass Pike Interchange during the quest Art of War.
- Fixed a bug with several dialogue conditions during the quest Me and This Army which could cause Salvador to react inaccurately about what happened during the assault.
- Fixed several bugs during the quest Led By Example that could cause the AI to get stuck in an invalid state, one of these states could allow the player to gain access to Lamont breaking future quests.
¶ Version 3.0.0i - Hotfix
🕗 August 16th, 2023
- Fixed a bug during the quest State of War that could cause some of the quests triggered during it to fire out of order if the player continued to proceed through State of War without completing the other quests.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the final scene with Jake/Aiden in the main story to loop.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the end credits to start again after a save was loaded that had completed the main quest.
- Fixed a bug that could allow Gunners to recover during an assault.
--- Note that it is normal if your empire has prisons for some Gunners to be downed and stay in bleed out state during assaults. - Fixed a bug where a scene with Lupe, Theresa, and Salvador would start playing too soon, resulting in objectives displaying out of order during the quest Internal Affairs.
- Fixed the label when planning a Liberate assault from the War Planner’s Desk that would show the objective as “Claim Territory” instead.
- Companions living at settlements the player assaults will now join the player’s side, rather than fighting against the player.
- Captives should no longer be marked as enemy to the player during assaults.
- Restored several missing voice files.
- Player should no longer lip sync the holotapes found during the quest Outside Assistance.
- Fixed a bug with Lydia’s dialogue loop.
- The 4 locations around Milton General Hospital (Milton General, Shaw High School, West Roxbury Station, and Fallon’s Department Store) now each have a pre-placed Territory flag so player’s have something they can aim at with Binoculars to guarantee that location is marked.
--- The cells in those locations do not perfectly align with the doors and enemies and so can often lead to different locations being marked than expected.
¶ Version 3.0.0h - Hotfix
🕗 August 15th, 2023
- Cinematic Mode should no longer trigger location change events that are relayed through Workshop Framework, this should dramatically reduce the script load during Cinematic Mode, particularly during the wide angles in the latter half of City Plan construction.
- Modified empire resource code to reduce the likelihood it queues multiple updates in rapid succession, this should improve performance.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent establishing a Command Post or Capital City.
- Fixed a bug where the quest No Man Left Behind could fail to start at the end of the quest Led by Example after the player agreed to assist in a rescue.
--- Players experiencing this issue should find the quest launches shortly after this patch is installed. - Fixed a bug in the quest End of the Beginning that could cause the quest to trigger portions of Aiden’s plan even if Jake’s was chosen if the player went onto the roof during the battle.
¶ Version 3.0.0g - Hotfix
🕗 August 14th, 2023
- Fixed a bug with Lupe’s commentary in the Vertibird sequence that caused her to rapidly repeat lines.
- Modified the code that tests if Berman is dead. The previous test being used could fail as the game engine can apparently resurrect unique NPCs after enough time has passed.
- Fixed a bug in the quest End of the Beginning where if Simon was previously dead, he could still show up to the battle.
- The NLTC questline will no longer start if the player had previously killed Lydia Proudmoore during the Nightingales questline.
- Fixed some of Charlotte’s idle dialogue that was meant to fire in response to changing trade agreements with her, and other dialogue that was meant to trigger when near her in Customs House Tower, and instead would happen while the player was on the floor above her.
- Fixed a bug with quest “Sea to Glowing Sea” that would cause it to block HQ Radio until after it was completed.
--- Players with this quest running already should finish the quest to resolve this as the issue is already in place. - Fixed a bug in the Department head HQ Radio loops that could cause HQ Radio to get stuck permanently which could cause issues with various scenes.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Cassandra’s default HQ radio sequence from looping back.
- Unlocked building plans with stat requirements should once again show up when the Assignment Requirements option is off and the NPC doesn’t meet the requirements.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Scouting reports to always show [...] as the location name.
--- Note that any reports queued up, or scouting runs in progress at the time of this update will still show this incorrectly, but any new Scouting Runs started after this update will correctly generate a useful report. - Fixed a bug with 3.0.0f that would prevent the quest Commonwealth Rising from advancing after the quest Is There a Doctor in the House completed.
- Fixed a bug where settlers could sometimes be sent to HQ when they were captives after the player liberates the settlement directly to an Outpost.
- Credits will attempt to be cleared twice at the end of the last quest to try and prevent an issue some players are experiencing where HUDFramework fails to clear them.
- Fixed a bug where having Prisons could sometimes cause enemy NPCs to end up essential during assaults and continuously regenerate, rather than remain in the downed state until after combat until they could be converted to prisoners.
- Enemy NPCs flagged as essential in assaults that were meant to be killable should be de-flagged essential shortly after this patch is installed.
- “Bird Buster” on south side roof of GNN after the quest Resurgence should no longer be floating for players who did not build up the exterior defenses of HQ.
- Added several re-approach lines during the conversation at Libertalia near the end of the quest Gunner’s Daughter in case the conversation is broken part way through so the player can resume by speaking to the NPCs there.
- Fixed a bug with the custom store management system that could cause odd behavior and log spam.
- Temporarily converted the holotapes found in the HQ Hangar during the quest Flickerin Lights to be text-based instead of audio until we can resolve the missing audio files.
¶ Version 3.0.0f - Hotfix
🕗 August 11th, 2023
- Fixed a bug where combat could interrupt Jake when going through the cache in the quest Scavver’s Delight.
- PA System should now be turned off during the HQ meetings during the quests Resurgence and A Faction is Born.
- HQ room cleaning actions can now complete even if the room does not have a valid purpose.
- Gunners at Federal Supply Cache 84NE should no longer appear before they are meant to in a quest moment.
- Fixed a bug with the binoculars that would prevent them from targeting territory flag poles correctly.
- Fixed a bug during the quest State of War where a call to Salvador would become stuck and returning his call on HQ Radio would fail to function.
- Renamed the Disease section of the City Manager holotape’s gameplay settings to Medical and moved it alphabetically.
- Fixed the audio of the HQ Radio notifications that someone was waiting to speak to the player so they correctly sound like they are coming over the radio instead of in-person.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the end credits from displaying after the main story concludes for Chapter 3.
- Fixed several issues with the MCM config that would show options incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Me and This Army that could cause Salvador to wander away from the conversation on the pier.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Glatton to speak his post-quest line conversation almost any time.
- Fixed a bug with the Institute envoy meeting that would prevent it from completing. For players with this issue, leave HQ, traveling to some other location, such as Diamond City, and return to reset the meeting.
- Fixed a bug with the envoy meeting system that could cause it to offer you additional meetings that were no longer available.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest Commonwealth Rising from reacting immediately to the Comm Array Upgrade project being built.
- Added an additional objective to the quest Commonwealth Rising to help Lupe complete her memory lounger project for players who have started, but not yet finished Remote Management - as if that quest is running during Commonwealth Rising, it will prevent the last scene from playing correctly.
- State of War will no longer mark Oberland Station as an objective if the player still controls it.
- Players who are already experiencing this issue can ignore that objective marker and capture the other locations to complete the objective.
- Post-battle report will now clear after a much shorter time if the player has Cinematic Assault Victories disabled.
- Modified The Ron’s AI packages during the bank quest to ensure he doesn’t have any conflicting packages.
- Modified conditions on NLTC character AI packages to avoid conflicts.
- Glatton and Lydia’s AI packages should now properly reflect the way the quest ended for the player.
- Charlotte should no longer interrupt Charlotte and Lydia during the last pair of NLTC quests.
- Added a new debug function to help users familiar with looking up IDs in the CK or Xedit track down an issue some players are experiencing where the quest State of War fails to acknowledge the player’s capture of certain locations. We’ll be able to use this information to permanently solve this issue for everyone.
--- To run this command, enable papyrus logging, and run the console command cqf ss2c3_mq32 dumplamontempire
--- This will output a large amount of data about the gunner war to a log file called Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Logs\Script\User\SS2Empire.0.log, this includes a list of workshops and territories the Gunner’s currently control. If a location is found you already control in this list, please report as much on the simsettlements.com forums.
¶ Version 3.0.0e - Hotfix
🕗 August 9th, 2023
- Help messages have been added to the binoculars during the quest “Me and This Army?”.
- Enemy vertibird during the quest Resurgence should no longer regenerate health if the player doesn’t hit it for a long period of time.
- Capturing Lexington will now correctly clear the objective in the quest State of War.
- Fixed several issues with the cheat quest skip system that could cause problems later in the questline.
- Settlers fleeing from combat should stop doing so if the player is not in combat.
- Companions should no longer flee from combat when they are living at settlements that are being attacked.
- Fleeing settlers from assaults/raids will be tested at game startup to ensure they didn’t get stuck in a fleeing package after the combat was over.
- HQ Command Mode can now correctly use Supplies for players playing at Component level resource complexity.
- Lupe now has an objective marker on her during the quest “Victory Lap” so players know to speak to her as well.
- Fixed several issues during the computer sequence near the end of the quest “The Battle of Quincy”.
- Fixed a bug with Marketplace Trade Agreements where the daily total of supplies and scraps would show inverted for players on Category level resource complexity.
- Fixed a bug with Marketplace Trade Agreements that would prevent production of resources from occurring correctly.
¶ Version 3.0.0d - Hotfix
🕗 August 8th, 2023
- Fixed the research cost for Medic Loadouts and Scouting Run projects in HQ.
- HQ Artillery research project no longer costs Explosive Ammo, since at this point in the story, most players will be unaware of this resource type.
- Removed the hallway barrels near the Hangar entrance in the Lower Hallway design in HQ to prevent it from blocking players from entering/leaving the Hangar during Flickerin Lights.
--- Players who already have this blocking the entrance should refresh the lower hallways from the Room Controls. - Fixed an issue with the computer monitor the player interacts with near the end of the quest “The Battle of Quincy” that would cause it to flicker to black periodically.
- Fixed an issue in the Comm Array room of HQ that would cause some of the scaffolding to not appear correctly.
- Fixed a bug that caused material options from Chapter 3 to show up on all weapons.
- Restored additional missing voice files (more to come still!).
¶ Version 3.0.0c - Hotfix
🕗 August 7th, 2023
- Restored several missing HQ projects that failed to unlock correctly during the quest “Internal Affairs” - one of which was necessary to complete a Preparing for War holotape quest, and makes completing State of War much easier.
--- Military > Intelligence > Scouting Run: This sends a Military Department member out to scout out a new location, with preference towards those controlled by the Gunners.
--- Admin > Policies > Suspended Leave: This allows the Military Department to be overworked.
--- Military > Strategy > Pillaging: This unlocks a new assault goal which involves attacking locations for resources without capturing them.
--- Admin > Events > Opportunity Prep Training: Trains Military staff to increase maximum energy provided by 1 additional point of their Luck score. - Fixed an issue with NPC pathing in several hangar room designs.
- Restored several missing voice files.
- Fixed a bug where Aiden would be still in bleedout during Flickerin Lights after encountering Neil.
- HQ Basement Armory design now increases Max Supplies for HQ by 1000 and has several upgrade levels to increase this amount.
--- Players who had previously built this armory should refresh it from the Room Control to gain this new benefit. - Fixed subtitles for the quests “Gunner’s Daughter” and “Led by Example”.
- Fixed a sequencing issue in the quest “Led by Example” for players who had unlocked and completed the quest “Sympathy for the Devil” beforehand.
- Made some adjustments to the Lamont scene in the quest “The Battle for Quincy”, to try and solve a dead end that could occur if certain dialog options were chosen related to “Sympathy for the Devil”.
¶ Version 3.0.0b - Hotfix
🕗 August 4th, 2023
- War section of the Gameplay options in the holotape is now correctly available.
- Fixed a plugin error that could cause some aliases to not fill correctly for some Chapter 3 quests.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent missiles from working during the quest “Resurgence”.
- During the quest “Art of War”, if the player declined assistance in taking Egret and captured it as a settlement rather than an Outpost, the quest would get stuck. Now the quest will react to the player manually changing it to an Outpost after retaking it.
- The quests “Outside Assistance”, “Gunner’s Daughter”, “Led By Example”, “Call To Arms”, are now correctly flagged as “Run Once” which will prevent them from being accidentally started again.
- Miscellaneous Capture objectives will now correctly include objective markers when marked active.
- Fixed several objects involved in the quest “Sympathy for the Devil” that could appear invisible.
- Inboxes at several places in HQ will now appear correctly after the quest “How to HQ” reaches the end of the tutorial section. These function the same as the Inbox on a War Planner’s Desk, allowing the player to receive scouting reports after running a Scouting Mission from the Military Department and occasionally other flavor notes and quest triggers.
- Marketplace trade agreements have been reset to resolve an error in the calculations. Players who had any established will need to set them up again.
- Marketplace trade agreements now correctly impact the Daily Change column on the Resource Panel when in the appropriate view with that column displayed.
- Fixed a bug with Priority Shipments for players not using Component Complexity that would cause them to not work correctly.
- Fixed several missing or incorrect voice files.
- Fixed a bug where resources would not be stored at all if the current settlement they were produced in had 0 max storage for that resource type.
¶ Version 3.0.0a - Hotfix
🕗 August 2nd, 2023
- Disabled use of bink video during the quest Resurgence until we can find a way for it to play from an archive.
- Fixed a bug during the quest No Man Left Behind where NPCs could get stuck in combat before meeting the player where they are meant to.
- Skipping the quest Art of War from the cheat holotape will now correctly set up Egret Tours Marina as if the player had completed the quest.
- Regenerated Precombine data for HQ cell.
- Removed an override of Lexington Apartments cell.
- Startup code to migrate Chapter 2 saves to Chapter 3 compatible will now run after the trigger for launching the first quest of Chapter 3.
- Updated version checks to ensure users have latest versions of WSFW, SS2, and C2.
¶ Version 3.0.0 - Release
🕗 August 1st, 2023
¶ New Features - Major
¶ New Resource Type: Supplies
- There is now a second resource type called “Supplies”. This is separate from the “Scrap” type that’s been in the mod to date. Supplies represent the material supplies used in war.
- Since this resource is primarily used for new mechanics, the HUD will not display it by default outside of Outpost settlements (See War Mechanics section).
- Players in Category or Component complexity will find Supplies are broken into 4 categories: Ammo, Armor, Chems, and Weapon Parts.
- Players in Component complexity will find each of these is broken down as follows:
- Ammo: Ballistic, Energy, Explosive.
- Armor: Makeshift, Standard, Heavy, Power Armor.
- Chems: Anti-rad, Cures, Enhancements, Stims.
- Weapon Parts: Makeshift, Standard, Heavy.
- Supplies have their own storage type that is provided by default by some Martial plots, or can be increased by building Supply Storage containers in workshop mode.
- Players can donate these types of items to their settlements, selecting the Supplies option from Caravan Services workers at a level 2 or higher Municipal plot, and other means of acquiring these new resources in greater quantities will be introduced via gameplay.
¶ War Mechanics
- Settlements can now be converted to Outposts by building the new War Planner’s Desk at them. This transforms the settlement into an alternate type that is focused on housing soldiers rather than a typical residential settlement.
- The first Outpost established is known as the Command Center. The Command Center acts as other outposts with the following differences:
- Cannot be lost to invasions.
- When another Outpost is captured, and the opposing force does not take prisoners or kill all enemy combatants, they will fell to the Command Post.
- Settlers can be recruited with the Recruitment Clipboard to become soldiers and be sent to an Outpost.
- Outposts can launch Assaults against other targets the player knows about, both settlements and most-non settlement locations.
¶ New Features - Minor
- Resource Storage containers can now be activated to view their capacity in a pop-up.
- Disease Cure alternate activation has been replaced with Medical Treatment option.
- This option allows for spending Chem Supplies to instantly treat a Diseased or Injured patient.
- It will only appear as an option if the settlement has a Medical class building (Hospital, Clinic, Field Medics) or if the player has a high enough level Medic perk (varies by severity of disease/injury)
- Logistics team now has a “Make Contact” mission which allows for convincing a non-hostile settlement with an existing population to join the player’s empire without building a City Plan.
- For players with the Hardcore difficulty set, the Security department is now in charge of max Supplies via the Supplies Security stat, in addition to the Caps Security they were previously in charge of. This new value is provided at a rate of 5 per Security Energy.
- Added new holotape tool to the City Manager holotape under Tools > Advanced: Rerun Addon Registration. This will iterate through all addon packs and expansions and make sure the content is registered.
¶ Improvements
- Changed the under the hood mechanisms that control HQ Radio to make it more responsive, and less likely to drop the scene part way through.
- Visitor NPCs now have a variety of voices. Previously they were all using the same voice type record.
- Security’s “Secure Workshop” mission can now target Spectacle Island if it hasn’t been cleared yet.
- HQ Department heads have had their AI packages changed so that they are more likely to use their personal offices and living quarters if they are built.
- Cinematic mode will now attempt to place all followers on “wait” until it is complete, and then restore them to “follow” afterwards.
- Quest skipping past End of the Beginning now asks if you want to romance Jake.
- The quest Commonwealth Rising’s final scene will no longer fire if the quest
¶ Changes
- Modified several UI sounds for HQ projects.
- Completing Commonwealth Rising while Chapter 3 is installed no longer triggers the camera cut scene, as that was in place to feel like an ending, whereas the story now continues shortly after that moment, so the cutscene no longer fits.
- [Xbox] In order to ensure players would have enough mod space for all three chapters, some assets have been made PC exclusive such as certain sound files, textures, and models. Your existing saves should continue to work, though some things may be switched to different assets.
- Assets include: HQ PA System, Theatre Shows, Random Clutter,
- [Xbox] The following building plans have been made PC Only, any plots using these buildings will need to have a new building plan chosen: Body Armor Technology, Ceramics Kiln, Chemical Plant, Crusher, Crystal Cavern, Fiber Optics Factory, Flare Factory, Glass Blowers, Glue Factory, Metal Mill, Military Salvagers, Munitions Factory, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear Enrichment, Oil Pump Jack, Paper Mill, Plastic Polymers, Remelting Facility, Surface Mining Operation
¶ Bug Fixes
- Fixed a texture bug in the building plan Skyline Apartments.
- Cleared out an override in Old Paul’s outfit record that could cause him to have a different outfit for non-extended players if they didn’t have Chapter 2 installed.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed a bug with Ashley Bishop’s outfit that would cause it to look odd when she sat down.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed a bug with Branigan’s outfit that would cause his scarf to move oddly and clip through his shirt.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed a bug with Hubert’s outfit that would leave a hole in his chest.
- [SS2 Extended] Restored Lily’s previous clothing design.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed a bug with the custom outfit “Yellow Rags” which was part of the expanded settler outfit pool.
- Updated management controllers to better handle terminated scripts. This could potentially fix issues some users have experienced with daily things, like plot production, on saves that ran into high script counts at various points.
- Fixed a bug that could cause item producing building plans to fail to produce items in some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the leader select screen to not work correctly.
- Fixed a bug that could cause frequent pop-ups telling the player they didn’t have enough staff for a project.
- City Planner’s Desks should no longer show the Track Owner option for users with Workshop Plus installed. This will prevent an issue where the Transfer option disappeared.
- Fixed a bug that could cause choosing the “Random” option for a building plan to bypass locked options.
- Fixed a bug that would allow the Recruitment Clipboard dialogue option to appear for some visiting NPCs that weren’t part of the settlement yet.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Commonwealth Rising that would prevent the objective to upgrade HQ’s power capacity from appearing.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the camera animation from playing in Concord near the end of the quest Well, Well Well.
- [SS2 Extended] Fixed several HQ worker outfit issues that could cause odd warping or even VATS crashes.
- Fixed conditioning on Circe’s dialogue so she won’t speak random settler dialogue lines before she is recruited.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the HQ Radio system to stop triggering.
- Jake’s belt will no longer flicker infinitely. This was caused by the Photo equipment capture system trying to perpetually re-equip his gear.
- Please Stand By light behind the Comm Array will no longer flicker.
¶ Addon Feature Expansion
(Note this is not a comprehensive list, additional documentation will be incorporated into the Addon Maker’s Toolkit over time)
- Added iMinEmpirePopulation and iMinEmpireSoldierCount requirements to the Unlockable system as checks that can be done to determine if an unlock is eligible. These will check the populations of all player owned settlements combined.
- Added iMinOwnedOustposts, iMinOwnedVassal, and iMinOwnedNormalSettlements requirements to the Unlockable system as checks that can be done to determine if an unlock is eligible. These will check the number of corresponding settlements matching that type the player has within their empire.
¶ Version 2.3.2
¶ Version 2.3.2b - Hotfix
🕗 March 8th, 2023
- Restored a missing model file that would cause the Sunken Ship cell to crash the game for players not using SS2Extended.
¶ Version 2.3.2a - Emergency Hotfix
🕗 March 6th, 2023
- Resolved the old infinite loop bug that was re-introduced in 2.3.2. It's dangerous for saves and causes issues with vit-o-matic, recruitment clipboard etc. Highly recommended to install the hotfix and rollback to before using 2.3.2.
¶ Version 2.3.2 - Before the Darkness
🕗 March 3rd, 2023
- HQ recruitment will no longer allow recruiting NPCs who live at settlements the player does not yet have control over.
- Fixed several tutorial messages which were lacking a title when viewing the message history.
- Fixed a typo in the MCM config file that would prevent the Disaster: Attacks on HQ from displaying correctly or changing the current setting.
- During certain systems and quest moments, NPCs can be “tied up” by an enemy faction and will be found kneeling near or on their bed. Now when this happens if the bed is flagged with a particular animation set, the NPC will be lifted into the air slightly to make it look like they are on top of the bed instead of clipping through it.
- Diseases without known cures will no longer be introduced before the player unlocks the Hospital building class.
- Disease introduction is now capped so that the highest severity disease that can appear from an Outbreak is equal to 5% of the player’s entire empire population - rounded down. This means that until the population of all settlements combined reaches 40, only severity 1 diseases can show up; only severity 1 or 2 will show up until reaching 60, etc. This should greatly reduce the timeline within a playthrough that more advanced diseases appear in player’s settlements.
--- This new cap is in addition to the previous cap that prevented a settlement from ever skipping severity levels. - [Addon Authors] The Subspawner script will now trigger OnWorkshopObjectDestroyed will be called on spawns just before they are destroyed if bTriggerOnWorkshopObjectPlaced is set to true on the Subspawner.
- Fixed a visual bug with the World Repopulation cell “Huntsman”.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Laying Foundations”, where if player’s adjusted the plot position the scene would be unable to start and the quest would immediately get stuck.
- Agricultural Water Requirement is now on by default for the Hardcore profile.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Cola to stay where she was at the end of the quest “Peace of Mind” instead of returning to the settlement after the player left the area.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent “The Ron’s” dialogue from being re-enabled if the player listened to Jake’s frequency before the objective to do so during “End of the Beginning” appeared.
- [Addon Authors] Updated ForcePlotLevel function to work better when testing various stages.
- The items used in the radiant quest “Knowledge Equals Profit” now correctly have a variety of names.
- HQ will now refresh all of its available actions whenever the player enters HQ or changes floors. This should make it less likely the player runs into a situation where some actions return “No options were sent to be selected from.” and when they do, they’ll be able to trigger an update by simply leaving and returning or going to a different floor.
- The Comm Hub crate should now be correctly disabled during the quest “Hub of the Problem”.
--- This change will only apply to saves starting this quest after this patch.
ASAM Sensors now have appropriate collision to be affected fully by physics. (Thank you WackyWeedus) - Restored a missing voice file for Curie during the quest “Scavver's Delight”.
- Gunner attacks are now capped to 3 simultaneously leading up to the quest “End of the Beginning”.
- The weapon “Margaret” will now correctly have a 50% damage bonus against Synths and includes a barrel.
- Packed City Planner’s Desks can no longer be deployed at unowned settlements.
- Fixed a bug at the start of the quest “From Sea to Glowing Sea” where if the player had already activated all the towers, Jake’s dialogue would get stuck in a loop and the quest would not continue.
- Allegiance Decor for HQ’s Medical Lab is now correctly locally positioned.
- Power Armor frames purchased from the Power Armor store will now spawn right on top of the player if the store did not have a spawn point configured.
- Killing Isaiah after the quest has started will now correctly fail the quest.
- Fixed a bug that would cause settlements claimed from the Nukaworld raiding system to immediately be converted back into normal settlements. This issue would prevent several paths through the quest Home Sweet Home from working, as well as making it impossible to fully engage with the Vassal gameplay loop of Nukaworld.
- The Recruitment Clipboard now has animations while in Power Armor.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Carne Asade’s quest turn-in dialogue to get locked out in some circumstances.
- Removed many items from the Upper Hallways construction that were in the balcony area near the glass dome. That area is meant to be part of the Foyer.
- The Ron’s recruitment system has been modified slightly to reduce the likelihood of him offering recruitment options for stats he has no leads on.
- Hostage markers used during the quest “Casting a Line” are now flagged as “Ignored by Sandbox” so that random NPCs won’t use those markers.
- Updated the AI for the main hostage in the quest “Casting a Line” to prevent the character from staying in the hands up position after the encounter has concluded.
- Crow will now be teleported to Raven as soon as he is out of sight and will stay close to her until the quest is turned in. In addition, Crow will no longer be made a settler until after the quest is turned in, this will prevent an issue where he could be auto-assigned to come plot types and have his dialogue blocked.
- Caravan Services dialogue will now only be available during business hours (8 am to 9pm), this will ensure NPCs with quests to give or turn-in that are assigned to those plots can still have that dialogue be accessible at night without having to reassign them.
- Silas Canary will now accept Fertilizer in any form, not just bags.
- Fixed some issues with Charles Baker’s quest turn-in dialogue.
- Attempted to fix an issue with a strange collision box that could occasionally occur for the level 3 version of the “Wasteland Manor” building plan.
- The Recruitment Clipboard was moved to SS2.esm, this is in preparation for its dual use for an upcoming 3.0.0 mechanic so that it can work even for player’s not using the expansions.
--- Existing clipboards in the player’s inventory will be automatically swapped to this new plugin version. - When a building class or plan unlocks, it will now correctly trigger plot type and size combinations to re-evaluate whether they should be buildable.
- [Addon Authors] Added a new field to HQ Action misc objects: OverrideDepartment. This allows for changing the department for an action to something other than the default one that ones the action group. This is most useful for things like making Upgrade or Construction projects originate from a department other than Engineering or Facilities, respectively.
- Admin Decoration projects will now correctly be attributed to the Administration Department in notifications.
- Changed a dialogue line for the quest “Forgive me Father I have sinned” which didn’t make sense when the player was Nora.
- Fixed a light placement issue with the interior Industrial building plan “Gravel Processing”.
- Players with this building plan will need to refresh the plot to fix the light positioning.
- Changed the HQ Radio notification sound effect to something that should be easier to distinguish over other sound effects.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Shhandy to speak parts of his South Boston Police Department conversation immediately after telling the player to go there, which would then switch the objective to the docks before it was meant to.
- Jake will no longer follow the player outside of the settlement he initially shows up at.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Infestation disaster pests to not be enabled correctly and therefore the player could not assist in dealing with them if they wanted to.
- Infestation corpses will no longer instantly disappear and instead will be cleaned up the next time the player leaves the area as a typical corpse in Fallout 4 would.
- Modified Claudia to attempt and fix a bug for some players where her outfit was being removed.
- Concord residents will give Jake space during the quest “Martial Law” and not interrupt his scene in the church.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Wyatt the Wanderer from saying his default hellos when greeted between shows and would instead just replay a line from his show but without sound.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Cindy Becker’s dialogue from offering the player to do an ad for them a second time if they initially declined or walked away.
- Aiden now has an AI package during the quest “The Disappearance of Jake Evans” so that if he is pulled into combat for some reason, he will return to the hardware store.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Remote Management” that could prevent the Memory Lounger from being set up for some players.
- After the CPD questlines take over a location with an Eddie Winter holotape, the quest tape will be moved to the CPD location, previously these were copies which would not trigger the quest to advance.
- This fix may only work on new saves. Existing saves will want to use the intercom outside the door of the cell they are in to swap back to the vanilla door temporarily while they retrieve the quest-item version of the tape.
- SS2Extended is once again being updated on Bethesda.net as well as Nexus (this had been an oversight that it wasn’t updated, someone at Bethesda pointed it out to us!)
- Theatre performers will now be teleported off stage about 10 seconds after their show if they fail to successfully path off on their own. If the player has line of sight on them, this will be delayed until they are no longer watching the performers.
- When Aiden’s plan is chosen during the quest “End of the Beginning” the quest objective to enter the plaza will now correctly guide the player up to the roof instead of through the front door.
- Updated unlock descriptions for various Industrial Production class buildings to correctly reflect their resource consumptions.
- [SS2Extended] Restored missing waterfall sound effect used by some City Plans.
- During the quest “Who Can? ASAM!”, a trigger will run to try and quickly kill any blood bugs near the location to avoid the encounter becoming disrupted.
- Changed the trigger during the quest “Who Can? ASAM!” when approaching Stodge’s group to try and reduce the likelihood Stodge turns on the player before they get a chance to have the initial conversation. This could occur if the player got close to the building while the NPCs were busy in combat and were unable to fully start the initial conversation scene.
- Bobbleheads in SS2 cloned cells now have a detection script to see if the player already has them, if so, the SS2 copy is hidden.
- Laser Artillery will now attempt to teleport the NPC to them when the player arrives at the settlement instead of waiting for the NPC to path to them. This was done as the pathing is extremely unreliable and the building plan is not effective without the NPC sitting in the artillery.
- Updated Theatre audience member records to use correct leveled list templates.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent an objective during the quest “The Grudge” from clearing until the end of the quest.
- Moved the animation markers for Jeff and Phil during the quest “Voice of the Commonwealth 2nd Edition” to try and prevent an issue where the conversation could become stuck due to problematic camera angles.
- During the quest “Martial Law”, if the scene falls apart due to aggroing the Gunners after they were allowed to leave, the player can now speak to Aiden after combat is over to progress the quest forward.
- [Non-Extended Players] The Dynamic Soundscape and Holiday Decorations have been moved to SS2Extended to make room on Xbox for the upcoming Chapter 3 expansion.
--- To avoid corrupting saves, the holiday decoration forms were replaced with a generic invisible model.
--- [Addon Authors] If you were using any of the holiday items in any SCOLs, those pieces will still be there for Extended users, and will simply be replaced by invisible markers for non-extended users.
--- [Addon Authors] If you used any of the holiday mesh files directly, such as duplicating forms of SS2 holiday items, you will want to point those at a blank mesh, such as Markers\InvisibleGeneric01.nif, you can also make a patch for your addon and SS2Extended that restores the original paths as Extended has those meshes in their original SS2 paths still.
--- [Addon Authors] If you were using any of the material files, they have been repointed at a basic blank metal texture which will look odd on some items, but was preferable to having those items suddenly appear bright pink.
--- [Addon Authors] The code for supporting holiday decorations does NOT require extended, so your injections to the holiday system will continue to work as normal. - Changed the way the radio scene works during the quest “Martial Law” to try and ensure the volume from the radio is consistently loud enough regardless of where the player is standing when the scene starts.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “End of the Beginning”, that could cause Aiden and Lupe, to become unresponsive and stop moving or fighting after the 2nd wave of gunners.
- Fixed a bug where if Sickle and the other supermutants at West Everetts Estate were killed before completing the objective to “Check for ASAM Sensors at West Everett Estates”, the objective would get stuck forever in the player’s log.
- Modified the radio tuning scene in the quest “Where There’s Smoke” to support the mod Extended Dialogue Interface.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Where There’s Smoke”, where if the player exited the chair before completing the tuning, you could not continue the quest.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “The Hunt for Boris” where if the player killed Boris before receiving the objective to do so, the quest would become stuck.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Branigan's Brahmin Breeding”, where the objective would stay on the raider after looting the note from the raider near the Robotics Disposal Ground.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent act 3 of the CPD questline from starting.
- For players who finished the raid on BADTFL and finished Simon’s quests related to the Judge, Act 3 will be force started after the patch is loaded.
- Changed the quest “Where There’s Smoke” so that players using a scoped weapons will be equipped with a temporary 10mm pistol when pointing a gun at Aiden. This will avoid an issue those weapons could cause that would prevent the player from proceeding through the quest.
- Hover option for HUD Infobox should now work more reliably.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Disease Cures to be used long distance while zooming through a scope.
- Added a new setting: Communications Sets Max Settlers. This is on by default and makes it so having a Communications Class building in a settlement changes that settlement to use the max available beds as the recruitment limit instead of it being tied to the player character’s Charisma score.
--- This setting can be changed locally or globally.
¶ Version 2.3.1
¶ Version 2.3.1a - Hotfix
🕗 January 30th, 2023
- Negative storage amounts will now be corrected by the Recalculate Virtual Resources tool in the holotape.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent settlements from producing virtual resources if it had no local storage at all (ie a max Junk Storage of 0) even if there was storage available on the Caravan Services network.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent settlements from producing virtual resources if the available storage on the Caravan Services network was only at settlements that didn’t have any production themselves.
¶ Version 2.3.1 - Undo!!!
🕗 January 13th, 2023
- Virtual resources will now once again be stored locally before being stored in other settlement’s available storage.
--- An optimization in the 2.3.0 production code could make it so that a settlement’s local production could sometimes fill other settlement storage before its own. - Resource Panel reports should now correctly exclude taxes the player is receiving through the Tax Services plot from showing as production.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Plot Construction Costs option from being acknowledged when a City Plan was first built.
- Added pop-ups when the 2.3.0a hotfix code starts and ends for people who load older saves after this patch. This should prevent an issue where players could claim a settlement while the hotfix was running and then lose control of it a few minutes later.
- Modified the upside-down Mr. Handy’s to prevent players from using the hack perk on them.
- Fixed a bug that could cause quests for many NPCs to fail to start. These quests should now start shortly after installing this patch.
--- Known characters that were addressed: Carne Asade, Crow Corvus, Emily Marcus, Isaiah, Mr. Handsy, Archibald and Treadwell, Katherine Drake and The Ron. - Canceling projects in HQ should now correctly reset them so they can be run again in the future.
- Destroy Plot option from the ASAM menu should now correctly return its ASAM Sensor to the workbench.
- Modified destruction handling in SimPlot to prevent an issue where it could potentially double-trigger its clean-up code.
- Plots should now correctly evict extra assigned settlers if the building plan changes to one that supports less people.
- Removed assignable crops from various building plan spawns. These could potentially cause assignment issues as they could be directly assigned to in workshop mode by the player.
- [SS2Extended] Added missing NPC face geometry and textures which should improve performance when the corresponding characters are loaded.
- Colored shack kit textures were moved to SS2Extended, all buildings previously using these materials will now automatically revert to their equivalent vanilla textures for non-Extended users, including Xbox. This will result in about 20 Mb of space recovered for Xbox players.
- Added several generic hello lines for Jake when the player activates him and he’s between quests to avoid the awkward silences.
- HUD log file (SS2HUD) will now output the number of people with jobs/homes/leisure and the number of people that require it when dumping out the percentages used to fill the status meter on the left. This should help users troubleshoot when the meters don’t seem to match their expectations.
- Cleared out a large number of unused messages that were causing building plans to show useless pop-ups after they were selected.
- Fixed a bug where the CPD questline would get stuck if the player told Lena they already cleared out BADTFL.
--- Existing saves with this problem should receive notice that the quest “Conquering Principal Dwelling” is completed shortly after loading this patch. - Changed the transmitter frequency used by Archibald and Treadwell to try and resolve a conflict some players were experiencing with the frequency Jake uses to contact the player.
--- Existing saves with this issue will need to complete the quest the radio broadcast leads to, in order to clear Jake’s frequency again. - Stodge should no longer attempt to restart the conversation after it completes, when the player chooses the “Screw this, get lost” option during the quest “Who can? ASAM!”.
- Fixed a bug that could occur during the quest “Runners and Gunners” where Wise would not be able to complete his conversation if the player attacked him.
- Fixed several issues in the system in Runners and Gunners that handles whether the player gets the option to keep a weapon.
- Fixed the label of the HQ Player Storage container “Clothing”. Previously it was showing “Chems” as the name.
- Fixed dialogue conditions for HQ Department Heads that would cause them to always report the Department was fine when asked, even if it was overworked.
- Dead and/or disabled actors will no longer be summoned by the Town Meeting Gavel or tracked by Vit-o-Matic Tracking.
- [Rise of the Commonwealth] RotC city plans had their large static collections removed to try and eliminate a large number of issues that could be caused with pathing, shadows, flickering, and for some players could even cause crashes.
--- To change settlements using these city plans over to the new version, players should refresh their City Plan from the Manage menu on the City Planner’s Desk. - Network resource updates will now test if the Workshop Framework persistence system is enabled (which it is by default), and if so will trigger a proper recalculation on local settlement resources. This will result in more accurate calculations of things like Food, Water, Defense, etc.
- Added the Partial Form flag and cleared out redundant data from SS2 for many location records SS2 adds things to. This should reduce the likelihood of mod conflicts with other mods that touch these areas.
¶ Version 2.3.0
¶ Version 2.3.0 - The Chapter 2 Rebalance
🕗 December 16th, 2022
- PA system will no longer play Science department messages in HQ before the quest “Is There a Doctor in the House?” is complete - which is the quest that adds that department.
- Modified a large number of screens in the City Manager holotape so they would be more responsive to options changes instead of requiring the player to hit the activate key again.
- Fixed the location of the teleport marker out of Tiny Tim’s shop.
- Overhauled plot production and operating cost code to make it significantly more efficient. In addition, this change will take into account all plot production at the same time when determining whether operating costs can be paid. (thanks cbrgamer!)
--- Previously, individual plots would each handle operating costs and production independently, this could result in some plots being unable to pay their operating costs if they happened to trigger before the production plots had generated their resources. - During the portion of the Chapter 2 questline where gunners are attacking settlements, they are now capped at a max of 20 attackers in a single attack. Previously, the number of attackers would increase over time and there was no cap, so players who didn’t progress the main quest far enough could end up with extremely high enemy counts.
- Incapacitation due to diseases is now disabled by default for most players. The exceptions are Survival players and users who select the Hardcore option set during the options wizard.
--- This change will only affect new saves, or players who run the options wizard after this patch. - Fixed a bug where MCM’s complexity setting would not match the setting in the holotape.
- Added a new setting to HQ: Resource Access Requires Supply Agreements. When this is Off, virtual resources can be spent from settlements without the need for a supply agreement with that settlement, the same is true for power sharing once the player has built a Power Distribution room in HQ.
--- This option will start off by default except for new saves starting in Survival difficulty, or for users who select the Hardcore option set during the options wizard. - HQ Settings are now incorporated into the default difficulty settings, and the options profiles as follows:
--- Supply Agreements Require Leader: On for Hardcore/Survival, Off for others.
--- Daily Spending Limited By HQ: Off for Automated/Easy and Very Easy, On for others.
--- Daily Spending Limited By Workforce: On for Hardcore/Survival, Off for others.
--- Override Timers: Off for Hardcore/Survival, On for others.
--- Room Construction Costs: Off for Automated/Easy and Very Easy, On for others.
--- Resource Access Requires Supply Agreements: On for Hardcore/Survival, Off for others. - Fixed a bug that would only allow crops on plots to be harvested only in very specific circumstances. They will now correctly follow approximate 24 hour harvest cycles like vanilla game crops.
- Changed the model for Style Wagon level 2 to fix a visual bug that could occur for some users.
- StoreManager will now output its debug information to SS2StoreManager.
- Fixed a bug with many SS2 custom NPCs that could prevent their shopkeeper dialogue from playing most of the time.
- Fixed a bug that would cause settlers reassigned to a Commercial plot from another job plot to not work with custom vendors, and to not display Industrial provided additional inventory.
- Unlocks will no longer play a sound if they do not have a pop-up message or item correctly configured. This should eliminate an issue where several unlock sounds play at the start of a new game due to misconfigured unlocks in addon packs.
- Fixed a bug where severing a supply line with a settlement from HQ would not actually disconnect HQ from accessing that settlement’s stored resources.
- Removed several wall pieces from the Lower Hallway HQ construction which were causing pathing issues.
- Ralph Elisher should no longer be a floating head for users without SS2Extended installed.
- Lupe should no longer end up in her underwear during the quest “End of the Beginning”.
- Fixed a bug that would cause NukaWorld Red Rocket city plans to unlock after Covenant questline was completed.
- The Castle city plans should now correctly unlock shortly after the schematics for artillery are picked up during the quest Old Guns.
- Disease Cures will no longer remove Molerat Disease from the player before HQ has researched the cure.
- Mass Bay Medical Center is now excluded from SS2 quests that choose random dungeons to avoid conflicting with the Nightingales.
- SS2 Character quests involving a random dungeon will now be limited to dungeons in the Commonwealth.
- Plots force upgraded by City Plans should no longer play demolition effects.
- [Rise of the Commonwealth] All plans have had their supported settler count fields updated to more closely reflect the number of beds and residential plots available.
- Dynamic Soundscape should now turn on/off within a few seconds of changing the setting. Previously, it would have required leaving and returning to the settlement to notice it was off.
- When assigning a new person to a full multi-person plot, selecting “Yes, Make Them an Occupant”, will now correctly assign them. It will assign them as the 2nd owner, and push everyone else down one priority level, bumping off the last person.
--- This will allow players to replace all secondary assignments by continuing to assign more people. - Existing plots with multiple people assigned before this version will need to be refreshed for this new code to work.
- Draft City Plan Upgrade project from HQ Engineering will no longer offer to upgrade settlements whose City Plans are at max level.
- Fixed an issue where testing if player knew about owned settlements could sometimes return incorrectly. This could result in settlements the player controls not showing up on some menus, such as the Draft City Plan Upgrade project HQ Engineering.
- Dyllan’s camera system will no longer allow him to recreate Power Armor pieces.
- When “Daily Spending Limited By HQ” is off, the objective to increase HQ’s max power capacity will be automatically completed in the quest “Commonwealth Rising”.
- When Daily Spending Limited By Workforceis off, the objective to increase HQ’s Power Engineering rating will be automatically completed in the quest “Commonwealth Rising”.
- Added “Recalculate Virtual Resources” tool to the holotape under Tools > Advanced. This will attempt to resolve any mismatches between resource totals and their parent categories.
- [SS2Extended] Fixed issues with custom outfits for Old Paul, Lily, and Tyrone Rex Samuel.
- [Xbox Players] Old Paul will now use a more generic suit, rather than Sturges’ outfit.
¶ Version 2.2.5
¶ Version 2.2.5 - Prepare for the Future
🕗 November 18th, 2022
- [Addon Authors] Modified several obsolete HQ forms so they won’t appear in the options any longer.
- Gunner attacks during Chapter 2 will no longer queue up for multiple raids on Oberland Station when no other valid targets are found. Oberland Station can still be chosen multiple times, but not simultaneously.
- Gunner attacks during Chapter 2 will disable fast travel to settlements they occupy. This should prevent players from unknowingly fast traveling into the middle of combat.
--- Fast Travel will be restored as soon as the player reaches the settlement again. - Fixed a bug with HQ base surplus resources that would have set base water at 10 instead of 25.
- Modified Communications class calculation for max settlers to try and better detect the number of beds.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Jake to only respond on occasion to hellos in HQ.
- Added additional copies of the NPC fetching quests which are used behind the scenes by many SS2 systems. This should reduce the likelihood of systems failing to account for settlers.
- [DLC Settler Patch Users] The patch has been updated to support these new fetching quests.
- Anton should now be marked Essential during the quest “Grey Matters” to prevent him being killed before making it to the Harbormaster Hotel.
- Fixed a bug in the new HQ happiness formula that was causing it to always evaluate to 0.
- Fixed a bug that would cause The Ron to allow the player to choose a stat option for settler recruitment even when there were no characters available to unlock.
- HQ Room Layouts will no longer rely on Workshop Framework layout import settings. Previously these settings could prevent some item types from being used by designers for HQ Room designs.
- [Addon Authors] Added new Location requirements section to Usage Requirements objects. This will allow checking for features on the location record itself, such as whether it has certain keywords or reftypes.
- [Addon Authors] Fixed a bug with SettlementKeywordRestrictions on UsageRequirements that would have caused the checks to fail if the settlement lacked the keyword, rather than if it had the keyword.
- [Addon Authors] Added new fields to Unlockables: MustControlTerritoryLocations and iMinControlledTerritories. These are tied to the World Repopulation system and will evaluate to true when the player has enough surplus supplies from settlements near a location like Concord to trigger the World Repopulation system.
- Prosnap Camera now correctly has no attached model for the 1x standard lens.
- The Agricultural building plan Tower Farm now correctly has a working lift. Existing plots will need to be refreshed to gain access to the lift.
- Modified Edmund’s sermons to shut down if the player leaves the area. This should prevent them from running at incorrect times.
- [Addon Authors] Added two new trait effects the leader system can take advantage of: VirtualResourceModifier and VirtualResourceStorageModifier. The wiki has been updated with documentation on using these new trait types. https://wiki.simsettlements2.com/en/CreateAddons/Default-Trait-Effects
- Fixed a bug with the Leader Select system that could cause some options to not display correctly.
--- Note that due to this bug previously, the first time you access the leader select system after this patch it may show invalid results which should be fixed the next time you exit and return to a settlement. - Fixed a bug with Leader Traits that would prevent them from being removed if the leader was dismissed or replaced.
--- This fix is not retroactive and will only apply to new saves, or to leader assignments that occur after this patch. If a leader had already been assigned prior to this patch, clearing their assignment will not clear the trait effects. - Added View Modifiers option to City Planner Desk’s Manage City menu. This will display any leader traits impacting the settlement.
--- This option will only show up if the settlement currently has modifiers applied, which will only occur if the selected leader has a leader card available. Leader Cards are available by default for the base game and DLC companions, as well as the SS2 NPCs from the quest “Who Can ASAM”. Additional Leader Cards can be found by installing addon packs that usually label themselves as Leader Packs. - Fixed a bug that would cause Jake to say two sets of the same batch of lines after the quest “Commonwealth Rising”.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the player’s last line in the quest “Commonwealth Rising” from playing.
- Fixed a bug that would cause settlers assigned to multi-person plots that were moved to another settlement, or HQ, to remain assigned to those plots.
--- Shortly after installing this patch, SS2 will attempt to correct any of these assignment issues.
--- In addition, refreshing a plot will cause it to test for invalid assignments and correct them. - Modified HQ code slightly to try and eliminate an issue where available resources were miscalculated in Command Mode.
- Player’s caps will now be placed in storage in HQ when entering Command Mode to prevent them accidentally being spent on projects. They will be returned on exiting Command Mode.
- Fixed a bug that caused plot explosions to occur during City Plan upgrades.
- Modified the AI for several NPCs in the quest “Voice of the Commonwealth, 1st Edition” to try and eliminate a bug that could occur if City Plans had been used in the settlements they were associated with.
- Added Production Report to the City Planner’s Desk terminal under the Reports section. This report shows total production of Virtual and Physical resources produced broken out by plot type and class.
--- This intentionally shows all plot types, even though many types and classes can’t produce these sorts of resources by default. This was done so that addon packs with custom production will still show their information in this report. - Added Operating Costs Report to the City Planner’s Desk terminal under the Reports section. This report shows total Operating Costs produced broken out by plot type and class.
--- This report will only show up if you have Operating Costs enabled. - Fixed a bug with some leader trait descriptions that would cause them to show very large numbers instead of percentage benefits.
- Fixed the rotation for the clutter that appears on the Admin and Security desks throughout HQ.
--- Players experiencing this issue should refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object. - Fixed the rotation of the letters in Jake’s Improved Quarters so players can read the text.
- Settlers should no longer act incapacitated (ie. go lay down somewhere) for players who have Incapacitation disabled.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent plots from automatically upgrading.
- [SS2 Extended Users] Restored Tom Sanford’s missing audio files.
¶ Version 2.2.4
¶ Hotfix 2.2.4a
🕗 October 29th, 2022
- Fixed a bug where selecting building plans manually would not show the cost message pop-up in some scenarios.
- Manually assigning an NPC to a plot should now trigger the cost message pop-up if the building plan has an unpaid cost.
- When autopay plot costs is on, the plot will first be checked that it meets the other eligibility requirements before paying the costs. This would most commonly have caused issues with plots that had building plans chosen paying costs before a settler was assigned to them.
¶ Version 2.2.4 - Data:30
🕗 October 28th, 2022
- Fixed an issue with the Harbormaster Hotel configuration that could cause the name record to display incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue which could cause the level 3 Starlight Drive-in sign’s texture to appear crooked.
- [Addon Makers] Added new HQ Room Configs for Gym, Library, and Lounge in the Semi-Circle room shape. Please continue to request additional configs - they are very quick to add!
- [SS2 Extended Users] Fixed clipping issue with Old Paul’s clothing.
- Branigan and Ralph Elisher should no longer be missing their clothing.
- [Wasteland Reconstruction Kit] Fixed an issue with a couple category names, and added the following buildable items:
--- Brick building kit
--- Nuka World Ferris Wheel (static version)
--- Nuka World UFO
--- Nuka World Coaster Track Pieces
--- Nuka World Game Stands
--- Nuka World Animatronics
--- Handmade Rifles (hi-poly statics)
--- Nuka World Ticket Roll
--- Nuka World Ticket Pile
--- Nuka World Wild West Buildings
--- Far Harbor Drive-in Screen
--- Lever Action Rifle (hi-poly static)
--- Prewar Hedges and Trees
--- Robco Backyard Electronics Magazine (static)
--- Brotherhood Experimental Plant
--- Diamond City Gate (remains open)
--- Secret Shack Wall Door (from Kellog’s House)
--- 13 Harvestable Plants
--- Pre-war Lawn Flamingos
--- ASAM Sensors (statics)
--- 14 Railroad Track models
--- 9 Variations of Seaweed - Fixed a bug with HQ desertion that would tend to cause the same few people to desert each time.
- Added Reports section to the City Manager terminal on the City Planner’s Desk. This section is not available in the holotape version.
--- Needs Report: Displays a series of pages that breakdown all of the numbers involved with Food, Water, Power, and Defense - including the total network amounts; Cleanliness which breaks out hygiene pollution and the disease chance; Happiness which will break down which things are impacting it; and Population which will show an overview of who’s assigned/unassigned and chance of recruitment.
--- Plots Report: Displays a list of all plot types and their counts. Selecting one of these options will display a breakdown of the basic production, workers, and resources the plot type is involved with total. In addition, each plot type section will list any subclass the player has unlocked, which can be activated to view the same resource data about that class.
--- Additional reports expanding on production and operating costs will be added in a future update. - Fixed a bug that would cause SS2 to reset the iOverrideTotalMaxNPCs on settlements if the settlement was not using a City Plan or Communications plot. This would cause mods like Advanced Recruitment Beacon to not function correctly.
- Modified HUD code that checks assignment counts for the meters to improve efficiency on settlers that were known recently to have all 3 assignment types.
- [SS2 Extended Users] Tom Sanford can now be recruited and has a much expanded pool of dialogue, including support for Shopkeeper Barks.
- Settlement patrols, such as those created by Leader traits like Hubert’s, will now dynamically generate patrol routes based on XMarkerHeading objects found in the area around a settlement. This should result in more natural patrol routes, rather than frequently crowding around the settlement workbench.
- Gunners that are part of settlement attacks should now wander around the settlement rather than hanging in clumps near the center.
- Added Sick and Incapactitated to the Vit-o-Matic Tracking options.
- Disease Cures can now be crafted at Cooking Stations.
- Chicken Pox is now flagged as a level 2 disease which will delay it in appearing until later in a new game. This was the only level 1 disease that was incurable from Disease Cures.
- Building Plans without a custom “Confirm” message set will now display one dynamically with the building plan and class name.
- Selecting a building plan will now only prompt the player to agree to the costs if the building is eligible for construction. This was done to make it clearer that setting a building plan on an unoccupied plot worked correctly, since unoccupied plots can’t construct until after they have an owner.
- Removed bobbleheads from static collections in HQ. For users with certain Vault Boy replacer mods these were causing very strange visual glitches.
- [Xbox and Non-Extended Users] Switched several SS2 NPCs to use more generic outfits, rather than re-using vanilla outfits that are extremely unique.
- HQ now factors in available surplus Food, Water, and Power from all settlements for HUD updates. Previously, it was only looking at what the staff could support, which could result in the HUD displaying as if the player had access to more of those resources than they really did.
- HQ’s extra info on the Status Meters portion of the HUD now has an extra column with the Logistics icon which shows the current available surplus of Food, Water, and Power from settlements that have supply agreements with HQ.
--- In addition, the smallest number in this section will now be slightly brighter than the others in the corresponding row so player’s can quickly see which column is the limiting factor. - Modified network recalculation code to use a lock system. This was done to try and eliminate wild fluctuations in numbers when multiple recalculations occur in quick succession.
- Settler commentary on the quality of their current location has been switched to a non-happiness based formula for HQ: once 75% of the rooms are clean, the settlers will switch to their “decent place” commentary and once 75% of the rooms are built, the settlers will switch to their “prosperous place” commentary.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some settlers to not be fetched with certain scripts and tools, for example the Town Meeting Gavel.
- HQ Room production will now be put in the player storage system by default, previously had a project created items, they would have been inaccessible.
- [Addon Authors] There are now a series of keywords that start with SS2_Link_ProductionTarget_HQPlayerStorage that can be used with HQ actions to produce physical items and direct them to the corresponding player storage area. If none of these keywords is used, the physical items will be directed to the player’s Simple Storage.
- [SS2 Extended] Added an additional music track to Cinematic Mode.
- HQ Staff Training courses no longer bypass the timers when the Override Timers setting is on.
- Crafting Labs will now correctly collapse spent resources down to appropriate complexity setting player is using when updating virtual resources remaining.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Crafting Labs from actually finding an NPC to operate the lab.
- HQ should now have a baseline of 10 food, 25 water, and 50 power available before any settlement supply agreements are made.
- Fixed a bug that would cause plots that were assigned a building plan to be marked as having construction costs paid even if there weren’t enough resources available.
--- Any built plots that had already experienced this issue will still have it after the patch and therefore can construct level 1 for free, but further built plots in the save will act correctly in regards to costs. - Fixed a bug that would cause turning off the “Auto Pay Construction Costs” setting for plots to allow them to build for free.
- Fixed a bug with the Quest skipping cheat for “New Plots on the Block” which could prevent the quest from completing, and in some cases prevent it from triggering the unlock of Municipal plots.
- When the incapacitation setting is disabled, settlers will now no longer use the corresponding AI package.
¶ Version 2.2.3
¶ Version 2.2.3 - W.F.H.Q. Radio
🕗 October 7th, 2022
- Modified captive AI package used by several quests and systems in SS2 to fix an issue where the NPCs would sometimes stand up and join the fight, even though they were supposed to be tied up.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest “Peace of Mind” from completing if the quest “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” had not been done prior.
- Fixed a bug caused by the quest “Peace of Mind” that could prevent the player being able to correctly talk to NPCs until they finished the quest.
- Fixed a bug with HQ Resource code that would cause it to create sync issues with the resource categories for players not using Component level complexity.
- HQ should no longer try to reset the resource pool while the player is in Command Mode. This should reduce the likelihood of an issue where the resources available in Command Mode are severely desynced from what is displayed on the HUD.
- Fixed a bug with HQ Command Mode, where if the player had more than 65,536 units of a resource type, it would only show them having a much smaller amount. This was happening due to a limitation of the base game, where adding more than 65,536 units of an item via script to a container causes an error.
- Settler Perception now improves Cleanliness gains from Sanitation plots by 50 per point. To gain this benefit for existing Sanitation plots, players should refresh them.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the screaming man to trigger multiple times.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Runners and Gunners”, where some of the Gunners in the Atrium could fail to become hostile for some players.
- Engineering and Logistics desks in HQ should no longer be activable until after the HQ tutorial quest starts.
- When the player returns from negotiating with Stodge/Hubert for supplies during the quest “How to HQ”, the department heads should now start in the Meeting room to reduce the likelihood the player sees them teleported to it.
- Fixed a bug in the quests “Is There a Doctor in the House?” and “Remote Management” that could cause the corresponding HQ Radio conversations to never end.
- Modified the SS2 “Save Resurrection” system to now only display the warning message if the failure to start up is detected twice. The fix is still attempted, but the message will only be displayed the second time, as we were receiving far too many reports that turned out to be false positives.
- Respect Built Limit is now broken into two settings, one for City Plans, and the other for Plots.
--- The plot version is off by default. - Fixed a bug that could prevent new plots from building if there weren’t enough resources available to construct the first level available unless the player manually refreshed or selected a building plan.
- Improved plot code to reduce traffic to the OptionsManger system.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent City Plan placed plots from building if the City Plan had no level data stored for the plots unless the player manually refreshed them - which was the case for many Rise of the Commonwealth City Plans.
- Improved the efficiency of the code used for City Plans to assign designer’s choice plans to plots.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the radio conversation with Jake to cut off during the quest “Commonwealth Rising” after completing the antenna project and power upgrades.
- Modified HQ Radio behavior to try and eliminate issues some players are having with getting stuck in a strange animation state when HQ Radio calls start.
- Fixed a bug that prevented HQ Radio from turning off in response to the player toggling 1st/3rd person. This is meant to give the player a way to break out if they need to for any reason.
- Added two new options to the HQ section of the holotape/MCM:
--- HQ Radio Auto Contact: Turning this off will stop NPCs from contacting the player directly, and instead will ping the player periodically via a corner notification that an NPC is waiting to speak to them, this will be accompanied by the sound of the pipboy radio being turned on.
--- HQ Radio Disables Some Controls: Turning this off will stop the HQ Radio system from disabling any controls. Since the HQ Radio system uses the player’s position when the conversation starts, they will need to stay very close to where it started in order to complete those conversations. - Fixed a bug in the holotape with the Resource Panel Autohide settings that would prevent other options from being available.
- Fixed the navmesh in the Brewery.
- Fixed a bug with plot operating costs that could cause them to become severely out of sync over time.
- Fixed a bug that would cause resources shared from another settlement to add Operating costs to the settlements they were being shared with.
- Recreated lip sync files for several CPD officers.
- [XBox Players] Removed many outfit files and switched the NPCs to vanilla outfits to reduce the overall filesize of Chapters 1 and 2.
- Fixed a bug with the quest “Conquering Principal Dwelling” that would prevent Lena’s turn-in dialogue from working.
- Fixed various issues in the outfit files, including missing Ballistic Weave Slot, VATS problems, and clipping, for the following NPCs: Aiden, Amara Blackmoon, April Li, Archon, Benni Strong, Carne Asada, Carl Meade, Charles Baker, Cleff, Darsenia 2, Dr. Meztli Jones, Wise, Ed Rocke, RT, Emily Marcus, Hollis Baker, Fishfood, Franklin, Hesper, Hubert, Hauer, Jason Martin, Joe Gallagher, Katherine Drake, Lacey Buckles, Lily, Maggie Green, Old Paul, Paige Hunter, Randy Adams, The Ron, Scribe Monty Phylon, Sneake, Stodge, Theresa, Tiny Box Tim, Thom Thorn, Tyrone Rex Samuel, Ventilator, and Viceroy. (thank you Beebs!)
- [Xbox Players] Rebuilt the texture archives to reduce the overall filesize of Chapter 2’s texture ba2. We used an automated tool for this, so some textures may need to be manually corrected - please report any missing textures to kinggath via nexusmods.com, simsettlements.com, or Twitter @simsettlements.
- Fixed the description in the MCM settings for Construction Costs: City Plans.
- [Addon Makers] Added a new field to both building plans and skins called “RequirementsCannotBeBypassed”. Checking this in will prevent City Plans and Cheat Commands from bypassing the Requirements field on them.
- Fixed a bug with max settler calculation which could cause the number to jump around.
- Fixed an issue with HQ Radio that could cause it to incorrectly detect the player had toggled their camera view - which is meant as a way for the player to force shut down the scenes.
- HQ Radio will now play the sound of the pipboy radio being turned on at the start of scenes. This was added so players have an indicator of what’s about to happen when their controls are suddenly locked while the radio scene is prepared.
- Fixed a bug that would cause HQ Radio scenes to end prematurely for some quests.
- Fixed the z-fighting on the banner mesh used in the dynamic flag system. (thank you pra!)
- Sickness ratings lower than 3 will no longer kill settlers (for players with the death option enabled).
- Released a new patch for all systems called “SS2 DLC Settlers Patch”, this will fix a variety of oddities that could crop up from settlements using Far Harbor settlers or Nuka World raider settlers.
--- Many SS2 systems effectively couldn’t fetch these settler types without those DLC as requirements (which we can’t do for technical reasons) , this would result in things like inaccurate counts, failed auto-assignment, not being called with the Town Meeting Gavel, and more. - Fixed a bug with the resource sharing code that could cause some settlements to act as if they were receiving more food/water/power from the respective resource networks than was actually available.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Jake’s holster to rapidly flicker under some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that was causing generic settlers to be spawned as settlement patrols via the system used by some leader traits.
¶ Version 2.2.2
¶ Version 2.2.2 - Side Quest Triage
🕗 September 9th, 2022
- Fixed an issue where Elias would walk away and Ruby would follow the Player after killing targets during the quest “Thief!”.
- Improved the AI used during the dialogue scenes of the quest “Thief!”.
- Fixed clipping on the level 3 shelving of the building plan “Scrap Heap”.
- The “Battlelog” objective during the quest “Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Wolves?”, will now have a quest marker.
- Adjusted the quest “Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Wolves?” to try and fix an issue where it would require 4 MILAs instead of the objective’s stated 3.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Wolves?” that could prevent Hauer from continuing the conversation after the player read the Battle Log holotape.
- Fixed several bugs during the quest “Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Wolves?”, where Hauer would wander away if he engaged in combat before the appropriate quest stage was reached - which would cause the quest to become incompletable.
- Branigan should no longer sleep under the bed.
- CPD Terminals should now correctly display the player’s name when appropriate.
- “Can I help out?” dialogue option in Simon’s tree will now be replaced with a “How are you doing?” option after all his quests have been completed. This still leads to the same dialogue as before, where he would tell the player what’s been happening, but the “How are you doing?” option will feel more natural and less like the player should expect a quest.
- The quest “Collecting Peeled Devices” will now correctly fail after completing the quest “Catastrophe Prevention Drive”, if the player sides with Simon when deciding how to handle Pete and Patty.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent turning in the CPD bounties to Jerred.
- When assigning a leader via the Leader Card system, it will double-check that the NPC is correctly assigned to the settlement first.
- Caleb will now immediately walk towards his house after speaking to the player and his quest can be triggered as soon as Caleb reaches the animation marker on the second floor.
- The quest “Continued Professional Development” will now show a quest marker on the South Boston Police Department while the player is outside so they don’t forget where the CPD is.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Lena to stand around when the player agreed with her to take down the butcher during the quest “Critical Perpetrator Detention”.
- Adjusted factions of Bounty Hunters used during the quest “The Grudge” to make them remain enemies with the player.
- Fixed a bug with the Hellhounds faction configuration that would cause them to frequently become non-hostile to the player.
- Added a trigger box inside of BADTFL to force the final dialogue scene with Simon or Lena ahead of the Ralph Elisher encounter to trigger before the player reaches the last room. If the player does reach the last room before this scene finishes, due to them moving faster than the trigger forces the dialogue scene, that dialogue scene will be forced to stop so it doesn’t interrupt the encounter.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Communications building class to have a better recruitment bonus at level 1 than at level 3.
- Added a trigger box inside of BADTFL to prevent Shhandy from entering during the quest “Catastrophe Prevention Drive”.
- Changed some of the AI packages in the quest “Journalistic Ethics” to try and resolve an issue where the quest would get stuck towards the end.
- The flyers in the quest “Journalistic Ethics” now act as an alternate trigger to advance the quest in case Randy is unable to path to the player to trigger the necessary scene.
- A flyer from the quest “Journalistic Ethics” has been injected into the Concord bulletin board and will appear at the same time as the others.
- If Precinct 8 was already cleared during the quest “Collecting Publications Detail”, the optional objective will not come up.
- Modified the bounty quests in the CPD Terminal to fix an issue where Aliases were not filling correctly, or the wrong descriptions were showing up.
-- This fix may not be retroactive for all saves. - Fixed a bug that could allow Municipal Power poles/switches to interfere with each other if the player tried to activate one while another was registering.
- Adjusted the Virtual Resource code further to try and eliminate an issue where resources could become desynchronized from the category amounts, this should fix an issue where the Resource Panel could show seemingly impossible numbers.
- City Plan settlements should no longer attempt to upgrade during an attack.
- During the portion of the main quest where gunner attacks are frequently occurring, they will now prefer settlements with settlers and ASAM sensors over those without. This change was made for immersion sake, as the goal of that section was to insinuate they are using the Comm Hub to find targets.
- MCM no longer displays “Simple” twice in the Resource Complexity setting dropdown.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest “Voice of the Commonwealth, 1st Edition” from starting.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “The Hunt for Knifepoint” which would prevent one of the objectives from updating correctly.
- Restored a missing voice file from the quest “Conquering Principal Dwelling”.
- Fixed a bug with the quest “Just Lucky I Guess” that could prevent it from acknowledging the player had looted a quest item.
- Added a trigger box just inside of BADTFL that will disable the scene involving Shhandy. This should prevent an issue where he was running into to talk to the player during that quest.
- Wise will now silently slip out after the player speaks to Jake at the end of the quest “End of the Beginning”, which will better reflect his dialogue for players who had allied with him.
- Craig will now correctly have an objective marker during the quest “Branigan’s Bounty” after the cage door is open. This will occur even if one of the raiders opens the cage door.
- Modified the objectives for the quest “Pure Energy” so that the Institute copy of the plans only shows up while the player is in the Old Robotics section where that copy of the plans are.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the radio signal for the quest “Hostile Takeover” to show up immediately after “Dark Horizons” instead of 72 hours later.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent turning in additional books to Charles Baker.
- Added a dialogue option to Charles Baker after the initial book turn in. The option is titled “Not Giving Anymore Books”. Selecting this option will prevent the book turn in conversation from appearing again.
- Fixed a bug where one of the gunners in GNN would speak Children of Atom lines.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent fire disasters from being cleaned up in some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Engineering project for turning off the radio playing over the HQ from showing up as an option.
- Fixed a bug that would cause choosing the Barter option from Ellis during the quest “Patient Troubles” to result in a loud breathing sound and no actual barter window.
- Simon will now respond with an appropriate line when asked if the player can help and there are no jobs currently available for the CPD.
- All SS2 sidequests now have a shared custom vault boy animation.
- Captive settlers for quests will no longer be summoned by the Town Meeting Gavel effect.
- Fishfood will now be teleported outside when the player leaves after completing his quest. This should prevent an issue where he remains in the cell even after being recruited.
- Added log file “SS2RPGManager”, which will output things related to stat training.
- Adjusted HQ PA System code to try and fix an issue where it would not acknowledge the player’s setting to turn it on or off.
- HQ Radio now works in first person instead of 3rd person. This is a temporary solution until we can re-design the system a bit to prevent issues where the player can get locked in a weird animation state. In addition, we’ll be redesigning it in the future to switch to a notification system where the player decides when the conversations trigger - instead of happening automatically.
¶ Version 2.2.1
¶ Version 2.2.1 - All Systems Go!
🕗 August 12, 2022
- Fixed an issue which could cause the City Plan Details sign to show the previous settlement’s sign details if no City Plan was on the settlement viewed.
- Involvement settings will no longer change the Auto-Upgrade City Plans at the local level.
- Security > Training category in HQ Command mode now correctly has its own icon art.
- Disaster Handling projects in HQ Command mode now show a Fire icon.
- Changed a marker in the Comm Array room that could cause NPCs to get stuck in a frozen animation for a few seconds.
- Modified startup code for SS2 to reduce likelihood of false warning messages about failed startup.
- When chosen randomly, City Plans will now opt for leveled city plans over non-leveled ones by default, except on Xbox, where it will still treat the non-leveled plans with equal priority for performance reasons.
- SS2 will now disable Workshop Framework’s Shelter Mechanic setting. (The Shelter Mechanic is a vanilla game system that causes happiness to suffer if beds are not built under roofs. This mechanic does not work well when beds are built remotely, which is frequently the case with SS2.)
--- This will only occur when SS2 is installed after this patch or when installed on a fresh save, then not again - so if a player wants to enable it again, it will remain enabled. - SS2 will now disable Workshop Framework’s Auto-Show Invisible Objects setting to reduce the number of reports that these items are broken by players who are unfamiliar with the system.
--- This will only occur when SS2 is installed after this patch or when installed on a fresh save, then not again - so if a player wants to enable it again, it will remain enabled. - [City Plan Contest Assistant Users] - This change will be reversed when you answer that you are competing in the contest.
- Gunsmith leader trait should now show the correct description.
- Fixed a few player voice lines that were still using placeholder “robovoice” versions.
- Old Paul will now be correctly cleared as a settler after the quest “Martial Law”. This should resolve issues where he was still counting towards population, and still available to select as a Leader.
--- For players who had this bug prior to this patch, the patch will attempt to correct this shortly after loading into the save. - City Supplies safe has been renamed to “City Resources”. This was done to avoid confusion with an upcoming mechanic where the term “Supplies” will have a specific meaning.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Deserters from HQ to go to unowned settlements.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some Fires to continuously respawn and not be extinguishable.
- Fixed a bug in Mansfield’s Radio Call dialogue options during the quest “Is There a Doctor In the House?”.
- Advanced Farm building plans that come with SS2 now correctly have a variation of Mr. Handy working them, due to a bug in performance settings, they were previously disabled.
- Fixed a bug with the World Repopulation system that was allowing doors to sometimes be connected to cells that didn’t match the size of the building.
- Fixed some spelling mistakes in the holotape.
- [F4SE Users] Added Power City Plans with F4SE option to Advanced section of options so player can turn this feature off.
--- This is an advanced feature for players who are trying to dodge power grid issues. If you turn this feature off, it is highly recommend you turn on “Self-Power City Plan Objects” or else you will have to manually pick up and put down many object types to make them function correctly. - “City Plans Can Set Starting Plot Levels” option will now correctly be acknowledged when Designer’s Choice is turned off.
- City Manager holotape tool “Recalculate Costs and Production” will now show a HUD progress meter.
- When resources would be lost due to storage space being low, SS2 will first attempt to distribute the surplus to other settlements on the network with available storage. (thanks cbrgamer!)
- When resources are lost due to running out of storage space, the losses will now be distributed at an appropriate ratio to each of the different resource types in storage. Previously the losses would tend to hit some resources harder than others.(thanks cbrgamer!)
- As part of daily update code, resources will now be tested to see if there is a discrepancy in the category counts. This should clean up an issue where the category counts do not add up correctly. (thanks cbrgamer!)
- Scrapped objects should no longer be temporarily re-enabled for a quick moment to recalculate maintenance costs. This should help resolve a conflict with other mods that were overriding the Enable/Disable functions of some of their workshop item scripts.
- Rebuilt Precombine and Previs data for the Vault 75 cell used during the quest “Runners and Gunners”, this should improve performance in the area.
- Power Sharing code will now use the newly added “fLastKnownPowerRequired” field from Workshop Framework, which is set up in away to avoid resets due to unloaded locations. This should stabilize power transfer, particularly for uses like HQ.
- You will need to visit each of your settlements with Power Transfer at least once to ensure this change can take effect.
- Lily should now be correctly moveable and able to become a provisioner after the quest “If I Had a Hammer” is complete. This fix may not apply to existing games past this point already.
- Infestation creatures should no longer be impacted by Mess and Fire AI packages.
- Build Limit will now be reset anytime the player enters an HQ cell. This will resolve an issue where eventually you would be unable to start projects/run commands as the build limit could be reached from placing the command markers.
- HQ exterior attacks will now be correctly enabled by default.
- Removed “Courser” class from Crow Corvus, which will fix his excessive SPECIAL stats.
- The quest “Is There a Doctor in the House?” should now complete more quickly after the final objective is completed.
- Trash Trailer level 2 should no longer have two beds.
- Players who have this issue should refresh the plot to remove the extra bed.
- Using a Disease Cure on a settler will now take it immediately from the player and then give it back if the disease is not curable. This way the player will get immediate feedback that their activation registered.
- Renamed the Involvement “Full” option to “Match Global” which better reflects the fact that it changes City Plan settlements to use the player’s global option settings, rather than having local overrides.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the caps cost for Bribing a deserter to show up as "[...]".
- [Xbox Players] - Removed files for the following outfits, which should not be in use anyway: Alyssa, Edmund, Noman Sland, Pete Emins, Patty Emins, Elias Thompson, Ruby Thompson, Caleb Saunders, Judge Bishop, Shhandy, Jerred Lund, Daddy-O, Teddy, Branigan, Dyllan, Commander Yorks, and Alan Walsh. This should shave off about 10 MB from Chapter 2’s size.
¶ Version 2.2.0
¶ Hotfix 2.2.0b
🕗 July 29, 2022
- Fixed a bug that would cause large amounts of script lag if a settler using a stat training plot reached 10 in that stat.
¶ Hotfix 2.2.0a
🕗 July 23, 2022
- Fixed a bug where entering the system during the quest “Remote Management” would cause the player’s companions to disappear.
--- Players who only had vanilla companions affected by this will find them restored when they load this patch.
--- Players who had mod-added companions affected by this will need to roll back their save to before they did that quest.
¶ Version 2.2.0 - HQ 2.0
🕗 July 22, 2022
¶ New Features
- Added a new side quest that Jake will offer if the player speaks to him after completing the quest “Sea to Glowing Sea”. This quest will result in a new system for remotely managing plots from HQ.
- Added Policies section to HQ Admin department. This adds a variety of toggleable policies that change the rules of HQ. Each requires Admin department energy to enforce.
- Added Events section to HQ Admin department. This adds things like training classes or other repeatable events. Most events require a particular room be built to become available - experiment with building different rooms to find new events.
- Added Design section to HQ Engineering department. This adds research projects including some to upgrade settlement network capabilities.
- Added Tinker section to HQ Engineering department which adds repeatable projects the department can do, including the ability to send workers to a settlement to force a City Plan upgrade.
- Added Plan section to HQ Logistics department. This adds research projects for upgrading various things, such as settlement network capabilities.
- Added Execute section to HQ Logistics department. This adds repeatable projects the department can do, including the ability to send workers to establish a City Plan.
- Security Department can now run “Secure Workshop” missions to clear out enemies and take over workshops at settlements infested by enemy creatures the player knows about.
- Facilities Department can now clean off the Gunner Logos outside of GNN.
- Added Mission Worker Selection option to MCM/Holotape. Turning this ON allows the player to manually choose which NPCs are sent on a Mission type project, when OFF (default), the NPCs will be selected automatically. NOTE: Some missions override this setting. This is primarily an immersion feature, as there’s no benefit to sending extra or specific people.
- Added Disaster system.
--- Periodically, things will go wrong, resulting in things like fires or creature infestations.
--- Desertion: Causes staff to retreat to the major cities. Chance reduced by having more Administration Energy.
--- Fires: Fires disable room benefits and spread if ignored. Chance reduced by having more Engineering Energy.
--- Infestation: Infestations disable room benefits. Chance reduced by having more Logistics Energy.
--- Staff Messes: Messes increase the chance of disease outbreaks. Chance reduced by having more Facilities Energy.
--- Attacks: Attacks temporarily disable random HQ room benefits or cause supplies to be stolen. Damage and supply loss from attacks reduced by having more Security Energy.
--- Additional disaster types are planned for future releases.
--- The chance of a Disaster occurring is related to how busy HQ is - which is represented by how built up it is, how much staff are working at it, how many projects are going on, and how many resources are in use. In addition, some actions in HQ can increase or decrease the likelihood of disasters - these will be listed in the description of the project.
--- Disasters impose penalties to HQ, such as removing benefits from HQ rooms, increased chance of disease, energy reduction, or even causing other disasters such as staff members temporarily disserting.
--- HQ Staff will automatically attempt to resolve Disasters on their own, this will use a small amount of energy from the department until all disasters they are responsible for are dealt with. Handling disasters count as missions - meaning staff handling disasters cannot go on other missions until finished.
--- Some disasters, the Player can get involved with to handle themselves and speed up the process. Activating a department desk and choosing the “Help Department” option will bring up options for displaying the Disasters as objectives.
--- Disaster frequency is dramatically reduced when the player is outside of HQ, to avoid it feeling like a constant pressure to need to come back all the time.
--- This system can be disabled completely, or individual disasters can be turned off.
--- In the future, this system may be optionally extended to settlements!
--- [Addon Authors] The Disaster system is fully extendable! - The exterior of HQ can now be constructed in a variety of zones. The unlock triggers after the the quest How to HQ is completed.
--- These exterior rooms do not require cleaning as the outside is part of the game’s precombine which SS2 will not break. Because of this, the rooms will each start with their purpose selected. Addon authors will be able to create additional purposes for these and they will be selectable from the Room Control panels. - Added Player Storage system to HQ which converts all containers in room designs into activators to gain access to shared storage throughout HQ.
--- The first time activating a container that is part of a room design, the player will be prompted to pick which container to link to, after that, the container will be renamed to match their selection, and activating that container will automatically access the shared storage.
--- There are also some special objects that are never linked to any container, but instead present a menu asking the player which they’d like to access. These containers can be found in the Meeting Room near the Security Department desk, in the Player’s Apartment (after being unlocked), and near the main entryway next to the fast travel arrival point.
--- Note this system does not apply to default containers that are in HQ before any rooms are cleaned. - Added new option to the Manage section of Command mode in HQ: View Active Projects. This will present a list of currently running projects. After exiting this menu, an option to cycle through and cancel any of them will be presented.
- HQ Management desk menu now has a Manage Projects option which will show the projects that department is responsible for that are currently running. After exiting this menu, an option to cycle through and cancel any of them will be presented.
- Using the terminal on the Comm Array in HQ will now connect to settlements and allow for running the Optimize Assignments tool, which will calculate all plots and settlers and try to pair each to the best plots for optimal production and training.
--- This tool can only be run on one settlement at a time, at which point a progress bar will be shown and a pop-up notifying the player will come up when it is complete.
After the quest “How to HQ”, GNN will have a Caravan Hitching Post on the east side near the Pulowski preservation shelters, which will attract caravans such as Trashcan Carla.
¶ HQ QoL Changes
- HQ Project complete messages for construction/upgrade projects should now be delayed until after most of the item placement is placed.
- Quickly building several of the same HQ project will now prevent any after the first from running. Exiting and re-entering workshop mode a few moments later will restore the spent resources from the extra copies of the project.
- “Clear Office Level” Security Department mission available during the quest “Is There a Doctor In the House” now costs 30 energy, down from 60.
- HQ Settler Missions will no longer acknowledge the Override Timers setting as one of the primary purposes of those is for players to actually witness their staff in the world doing things, and the Override Timers setting makes that impossible.
- HQ Recruitment now correctly only works with NPCs that are assignable in workshop mode.
- The Administration Department desk in the HQ meeting room now has a flag controller for setting the flag type for HQ. This works the same as the dynamic flag system in settlements.
- HQ now has a Security Department desk in the meeting room. It will appear during the quest “How to HQ” near the Administration Department desk.
- Replaced most of the lights with Lens Flares from the HQ designs (these were mostly used by mistake). Players can refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object to see the change.
- HQ Decorate projects will now correctly show up under the Admin menus instead of Engineering.
- HQ will now skip building most clutter if that performance setting is turned off.
- Added Recalculate HQ Stats to the City Manager holotape under Tools > Advanced. This will attempt to recalculate the data for the current HQ location the player is standing in.
- Track Owned Items alternate activation from Workshop Plus should no longer show up for HQ workers as their assignments are kept out of bounds in the level so the feature is not useful there.
- Semi Circle Office East on the Office Level of HQ now has higher ceilings to match the similar room on the Main Floor of HQ. This will make room designs available to both appear more consistent.
- Updated Fitness Center room design for HQ so the lighting will now correctly connect to the higher ceilings of that room shape.
- Players with this design in place should refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object.
- Selecting a Department Head now shows all current department staff on the right, and whomever is moved to the left will be made the Department Head.
- Room Config selection will no longer occur during the tutorial quest or when skipping past any of the HQ quests with the cheat commands.
- Repairing the Upper Balcony in HQ will now also repair the railings.
- Added repair projects for several more broken walls in HQ.
- After choosing a new option from Change Room Purpose, the construction selection menu will appear.
- Office Level construction projects should now correctly show construction markers near the Room Controls device.
- Total Facilities Energy will now naturally reduce the chance of disease outbreaks, similar to the Cleanliness rating in a settlement.
- Bars and Lounges now count as “Party Spaces”, having one of these enables the Admin Department’s “Office Party” event.
- Players with one of these room types already built should refresh the room from the Room Controls object to gain the new effect.
- During the quest Commonwealth Rising, power progress will now be checked anytime the player exits workshop mode. This should ensure it updates more quickly if the player built more power generators in a settlement with Power Transfer available.
- The objectives in the quest “How to HQ” will now suggest recruiting rather than building living space as the first post-tutorial objective. Technically, HQ allows up to 10 workers before any additional living space is needed, and having more workers will make it easier to have the energy needed to get HQ up and running.
- When the player arrives at HQ, if a department is found to be lacking a department head, but has workers, one will be randomly put in charge of the department. This will fix an issue where the department’s energy would go to 0, even though the department had workers assigned.
- Added Room Construction Costs option to the HQ section of MCM and the City Manager Holotape.
--- Note: For technical reasons, Room Construction Costs being disabled only impacts selections made from the Room Control devices at a room. Projects started in Command Mode will still cost resources unless the player is in god mode, or uses something like the Free Build mode feature of Workshop Plus. - Removed notification messages for several auto-run projects in HQ that occur during the main quest.
- Cassandra will now be auto-assigned as Science Department head during the quest “Is There a Doctor in the House?”.
- Added Departments Equip Workers option to the HQ section of MCM/holotape. This will allow for disabling the auto-equip of non-unique department workers for players who want to equip everyone themselves.
- Refreshing an HQ Room will now force clear out all previous items. This will help users who had bugged interactions in the past eliminate excess items.
--- If the refresh does not remove an item, it is very likely this item is actually from another room, and players experiencing this may need to try refreshing other rooms of similar size. - HQ Room Purposes should no longer appear in the menu if designs don’t exist for that purpose and room size combination.
- There is now a Recruitment Clipboard available on top of the terminal in the Meeting Room. This must be equipped as a weapon to enable HQ recruitment dialogue.
--- This clipboard will show up in an objective during the quest “How to HQ” and will then be craftablea after it is looted. - Finishing the quest “Is there a Doctor in the house?” should now trigger an unlock pop-up explaining the alternate building options for the infirmary so the player can replace the makeshift version that Cassandra puts up while the player is dealing with the basement.
- HQ Room options used during the tutorial will now be made available after the tutorial is complete for use in other locations - or for rebuilding if the player changes away from those designs after the tutorial and changes their mind.
- Adjusted the navmesh near the center fountain in GNN HQ to try to eliminate an issue where NPCs constantly try to walk through it.
¶ HQ Bug Fixes
- HQ Workers should no longer stack in the assignment menu.
- Fixed a bug in the Resource Panel HUD’s full HQ report that would always show Days Remaining column as either infinite or 0, and never the actual days remaining.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing HQ from refunding failed projects.
- After installing this patch, HQ will attempt to resolve an issue for some players where the basement or office level rooms would never allow construction.
- HQ operating costs will now be correctly included in the resource panel numbers.
- Fixed several visual and AI pathing bugs with the HQ room design “Staff Training Room”, refreshing this room should resolve the issues.
- Vit-o-Matic scanning will now correctly display department job title for HQ workers.
- HQ HUD will attempt to display department data several times after entering. This should fix an issue where the HUD could occasionally drop a call and the player would be left without the department data displayed on the HUD.
- Fixed rotation of the door for the HQ upgrade “Treasury Vault - Upgrade 2”. Players with this issue should refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object to see the change.
- Fixed a bug with the HQ room design “Medium Cafeteria” that would prevent the furniture from appearing. Players with this issue should refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object to see the change.
- Using the HQ design “Locker Room” should no longer cause the adjoining wall to be removed.
- HQ Room design “Barracks for Four” now correctly only can be assigned to the Upper West Office room. If a player assigned this room design to other rooms, they can use the HQ Room Controls object to change the room to a different option.
- Removed some floating items from the HQ cell.
- Science related rooms in HQ are now correctly locked until after the Science department is available.
- Fixed the spawn point in several HQ Rooms. This should eliminate an issue where NPCs were being teleported on top of rooms.
- Fixed a UI bug that could cause the HQ meters to show backwards meters.
- HQ Worker food and water usage will now correctly show on the HQ Meters.
- Fixed a bug with the HQ resource system that could result in values displayed on the HUD being much lower than what was being provided by the total room provided values.
- Shortly after loading this patch, HQ’s stats will be fully regenerated in the background to reflect this fix.
- Fixed an issue with the HQ rooms “Square Barracks” and “Barracks For Four”. The designs for these rooms had been mixed together, building either of them would create items in multiple rooms.
- Players with this issue should refresh the room from the HQ Room Controls object just outside the door of these rooms - which are upstairs at the end of the hall from the main atrium.
- Repaired dome and skylight in GNN HQ will now correctly block rain.
- Eliminated flickering in the repaired skylight mesh.
- Autoassignment code should no longer run in HQ, this should prevent an issue where department heads could be replaced without the player’s input.
- Fixed a bug where choosing View HQ Layout and then exiting the menu would temporarily deposit all of the room selector objects into the player’s inventory.
- Eliminated a duplicate entry for HQ Security Office design.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Theresa’s personal quarters from being upgraded.
- Fixed a bug with the Room Control menu where choosing the Room Construction, Upgrade Options, Replace Upgrades, or Change Layout options could sometimes cause the menu to fail to load at all, or immediately post “Failed to select an action” before the player even had time to make a selection.
--- Note: Receiving an empty menu from one of these screens means there are no alternatives currently available. - Fixed a bug with Replace Upgrades and Change Layout options on HQ Rooms that could cause the selection to fail with the message “No rooms found for this project.”.
- Fixed a bug with Replace Upgrades and Change Layout options on HQ Rooms that could cause multiple layouts to stack on top of one another.
- HQ Room Upgrades that were dependent on another upgrade to that room will now correctly be removed if that dependent upgrade was removed.
- HQ’s precombine and previs data has been regenerated, which should eliminate some of the geometry disappearing graphical glitches.
- Fixed several pieces of flickering geometry on the ceiling of the HQ Office Level.
- Changing a room’s purpose will now correctly clear out previous construction immediately and reduce the count of that room type in HQ.
- Fixed a bug with Aiden’s Office design that would block players from exiting the elevator on the 2nd floor of HQ.
- Fixed the HUD Meters in HQ to correctly reflect maximum usage percentage.
- Fixed the basement HQ Central Bathroom so that it will actually be cleaned and will not have a duplicate door when built.
- Central Security Offices design no longer has two doors stacked on top of one another and will now correctly work in the Office Level as well as the Main Level of HQ.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the alternate designs for the Infirmary from becoming available.
- Fixed a bug with Power Transfer that was causing HQ to gain access to all power from all settlements with Power Transfer, rather than just the surplus from settlements with Power Transfer and a Supply Agreement with HQ.
- Fixed glitches with the following HQ room designs: Security Offices, Admin Offices, Communal Kitchen, and Upper Hallways. Players who had experienced issues with these designs should refresh them using the Room Control devices.
- Fixed a bug with the HQ soundscape emitters that would prevent them from working for most players.
- Fixed a bug with the HUD HQ Meters where they would sometimes display all food icons with empty bars.
- Fixed Food/Water/Power sharing with HQ. Note that only surplus resources produced by settlements with Supply Agreements with HQ will be available.
- Fixed several cracks in the geometry of the Office Level of HQ.
- Fixed issues with the following HQ room designs: Large Dining Hall, Midsize Living Quarters For Two (variation 2), and Midsize Living Quarters for Two (variation 4).
- Power Armor the player exits inside of some HQ rooms should no longer remain invisible.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent some of the HQ labs from providing the corresponding perk bypasses that had been researched.
- Fixed a bug with the HQ labs that could sometimes cause the player to retain the perk bypasses after exiting the lab.
¶ QoL Changes
- Caravan Services buildings will no longer shut down if lacking power. This should prevent an issue where a corrupt power grid also ends up breaking caravan networks.
- HQ Radio scenes should now force the player out of workshop mode. This will avoid an issue where the player could get stuck in a strange animation state.
- Caravan network code for Caravan Services plots has been overhauled. The new code should be much faster, and should create a minimal number of connections on the pipboy map. (Thank you pra!)
- SS2 will now disable Workshop Framework’s auto-assignment. This should fix an issue where the two auto-assignment systems were occasionally conflicting.
--- This will only occur when SS2 is installed after this patch or when installed on a fresh save, then not again - so if a player wants to enable it again, it will remain enabled. - Plots will now show an incapacitated icon if the owner being sick is what’s preventing construction or opeartion.
- Plot status message will be listed as “Owner Incapacitated” if the owner being sick is preventing construction or operation.
- Curing a settler with a Disease Cure will now immediately trigger any plots owned by that settler to re-evaluate their status.
¶ Other Changes
- Pete and Patty Emins will now avenge one another if aggroed.
- Some unique outfits for SS2 characters have been switched to vanilla models/textures to reduce the overall file size of SS2.
--- SS2 Extended users are excluded from this change and will continue to have access to all unique models and textures.
--- Xbox users - to avoid crashing issues, we'll be removing the assets over several patches. So expect slight size reductions over the next few patches. This is part of our effort to ensure you have enough space to play Chapter 3 when it releases! - City Plans will now attempt to level up plots if the City Plans Can Change Plots setting is on, but Designers Choice is off. Previously this would only happen if Designers Choice was on as well.
- If the player uses the holotape quest skipping when not near an exterior Commonwealth settlement, Sanctuary will be chosen as the “base settlement” used for setting up quest moments, for example, the appearance of Old Paul. This should resolve a number of bugs that can arise from the “base settlement” being in an interior, or outside of the Commonwealth.
- Removed Physical Damage resistance buffs from armor player could loot from Berman and Captain Wes which were far too powerful - outpacing every other armor in the game by a significant amount.
- Changed slots on some of the Hellhounds under armors to allow leg armor to be equipped.
- Adjusted minor keywords in the mod association/attachment fields in the AO record of a few outfits to ensure they work correctly with crafting and leveled lists.
¶ Quest Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug with quest skipping where skipping past “Casting a Line” would cause Jake to continue using dialogue and AI from that quest until after the player next fast traveled or went to a new worldspace.
- Lupe will now correctly give the reward she mentions during the quest “Moving Day”.
--- Players who already experienced this dialogue but did not receive the reward should receive it shortly after installing this version. - Skipping the quest “Vim and Vigor” with the cheat holotape will now cause the vault door, and corresponding vanilla quest to automatically open/complete when the player first arrives there.
- Adjusted some of the triggers for the HQ radio scenes in the quest “Commonwealth Rising” to make it less likely they come up multiple times in a row after the player has already received the updated objectives.
- Fixed a bug at the end of the quest “Dark Horizons” where the dialogue camera would get stuck as the quest completed.
- Fixed a bug with the quest “Dark Horizons”, where if the player had previously used the skip commands to get past “Well, Well, Well”, the shortcut door back towards the entrance to the cell would be stuck “chained” with no visible chain.
- Circe can now be correctly recruited if the player used the cheat commands to skip past the Nightingale’s quests, or if they initially declined her.
- Fixed a bug with the holotape quest skip system, where skipping past quest “End of the Beginning” would result in Jake disappearing.
- Fixed a bug for some players where the Administration and Logistics departments would show 0 max workers and not allow Theresa and Lupe, respectively, to be assigned during the quest “How to HQ”.
- Fixed a bug for some player when using the cheat command to skip past the quest “How to HQ”, where some of the rooms during the tutorial would fail to actually construct.
- Modified the quest “Is There a Doctor in the House?” to try and eliminate an issue where the Science department would have no space to assign Cassandra.
¶ Other Bug Fixes
- Fixed several bugs with the resource system that could cause the component, category, and top level to become desynchronized over time.
- Fixed a bug that could cause odd behavior in Caravan Network connections after the player established HQ.
- Building plans and HQ departments will no longer try to equip outfits on actors in power armor.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent SS2 from recording locations that had already been salvaged with a Mark 1 Beacon.
- Updated the primary stat records for unlockable settlers. This will fix an issue where The Ron would frequently point the player at settlers’ whose stats did not match the requested type.
- Fixed the stats of SS2’s recruitable ghoul settlers, which each had significantly higher intelligence than they were meant to due to base game configuration for ghouls.
- Fixed the model paths for several warehouse statics. These likely would have caused problems with some building plans completing previously.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Realistic Build Times from working as expected. (Thank you cbrgamer2!)
- Adjusted plot code to attempt to resolve an issue some users are having where crops are never harvestable.
- Fixed a bug that would allow City Plan settlements to upgrade to Level 4, even though there is no level 4. Existing settlements this already occurred in will be left as is, as there is no downside to having it listed as level 4.
- Fixed the collision on the 1x1 and 3x3 terraformers. (thanks XV!)
- Added HQ Recruitment Timeout to MCM config. Previously this had only been available via holotape.
- Fixed a bug that was causing settlements to double-count shared resources on networks. This would result in amounts of food, water, and power to juggle rapidly multiple times whenever network calculations were done, and for the surplus available to be mis-reported to other systems.
--- Note it will take at least two cycles of updates for the numbers to be reflected correctly in the logs, as the first time around it will be correcting previous miscalculations. - Fixed a bug where refreshing an unbuilt plot would display the level 1 items as if it had been build - leaving it in a confusing state where it visually appeared to be built, but was still considered level 0 from the systems standpoint.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent NPCs from being unassigned from the appropriate training plot when reaching max in that stat.
- Updated Unlock messages for Settler Discoveries to match the actual production types, they had still been displaying the old production information, rather than the changes made after the 1.1.0 rebalance.
- Fixed an issue where CPD officers could sometimes end up with invisible pants.
- Fixed clipping issues on several CPD armors.
- Reshaped some of the CPD logos on CPD armors to reduce clipping and stretching.
- Fixed clipping issues on several Hellhound faction outfits.
- Replaced a missing texture in one of the Hellhounds outfits (called "Rustic UA").
- Fixed some visual issues with Old Paul’s outfit.
- [SS2 Extended Users] Fixed an issue with HQ employee pants on Security outfit 2 "Security Yellow Rags", which would cause their legs to be mostly invisible.
- [SS2 Extended Users] Fixed Settler outfit 37 (Mac Coat B) "Long Coat Duds” which would cause some of the outfit to stretch oddly.
¶ Technical Changes
- SS2 Recruitment related debug logging will now be routed to SS2Recruitment.0.log.
- [Addon Makers] Added field to Subspawner script called bRequiresWorkshop, this defaults to false. If your subspawned item(s) need to be interactive in workshop mode, for example scrappable or assignable, you should set this to true.
- [Addon Makers] TheatreShowManager quest will now queue specific requested shows. This will allow for a specific show to be played at a specific theatre stage plot when it is next free.
- [Addon Makers] Duplicated the GNN HQ Build cells to provide you with a playground for designing your own versions of HQ rooms. These will all start with “SS2C2GNNHQAddonBuildCell”. Documentation for injecting HQ room designs into the system will be coming to the Addon Maker’s Toolkit soon.
- [Addon Makers] Added new script “SimSettlementsV2:TopicInfo:SettlerRecruit”, this can be added to a dialogue line in a quest to make the NPC recruitable to a settlement with no extra scripting required.
¶ Version 2.1.3
¶ Version 2.1.3 - The Brain Trust
🕗 May 13, 2022
- Fixed a bug with the building plan cache system that could prevent building plans from showing up for some plot types, depending on the available combination of building plans the player had installed.
- Resetting Building Plan caches should now correctly reset the Building Skin caches as well.
- Changed several radio frequencies to fix an issue where “Radio Signal detected.” was coming up for the player immediately.
- [Rise of the Commonwealth] Fixed a bug that would cause leveling up the Longfellow’s Cabin or Sunshine Tidings Co-Op city plans to scrap the build area.
- Basic Agricultural class will no longer show up tracked with Track Unpowered since the class does not require power at any level.
- Scanning with the Vitomatic will now update an NPCs given functionality from their assigned plots to ensure it is up-to-date.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent turning in Overdue Books to Charles Baker.
- Tax Services building class construction and operating costs now correctly match the rebalance numbers documented with patch 1.1.0.
- Updated the navmesh for the following building plans: Munitions Factory, Body Armor Technology, Ceramics Kiln, Fiber Optics Factory, Flare Factory, Furniture Workshop, Glass Blowers, Glue Factory, Iron Mine, Lumber Yard, Magazine Press, Metal Mill, Military Salvagers, Nuclear Arms Production, Nuclear Enrichment Facility, Oil Well, Paper Mill, Plastic & Polymers, Remelting Facility, Scrap Heap, [Plant Name] Plantation, SS2 Settler Custom Skins, Li’s Shipping Stack, Distillery, Little Corner Bookstore, Reclamation Depot, Nuclear Plant, Ichor Extraction Room, Woodworks, Gravel Processing, BoatShack, and Caravaneer Post.
- Fixed the collision on the hospital sign.
- Reduced the Facilities Energy cost of all living quarter room construction for 2 people to 15 instead of 20.
- Plot related debug information will now be output to SS2PlotLog instead of the main SS2 log file.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the AR Icons over a plot to overlap each other in some circumstances.
-- Any of this issue that occurred before this patch can be resolved by Refreshing the plot from the ASAM Sensor menu. - Conquering Principal Dwelling will no longer silently fail if the player doesn’t immediately follow Lena to BADTFL. Though failing to follow her in and help after she enters can still result in failure.
- Toggling GNN back to vanilla and then back to SS2’s version again will now correctly change the map marker/fast travel points as well.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the cheat commands from correctly completing the quest War is Good For Business.
- Traveling medics from the Nightingales now correctly have an inventory to barter. This inventory is bolstered by any investments made during the quest “New Connections”.
- Updated AI package for a copied Vault 81 resident so they remain in our copy of the cell.
- Fixed a bug that caused the “View Missing Plugins” option to show [...] for the missing plugins instead of their actual names.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “The Grudge” which would prevent an objective from updating until the quest was finished.
- Resource costs will now be refunded if the player attempts to build or upgrade a room in HQ and exits the room select screen without actually choosing a room.
- Settlers that reach 10 in the stat their assigned recreational plot trains will be automatically unassigned from it to allow a new settler to take their place.
- Added keyword to many special door type records from SS2 to prevent Workshop Framework’s door management system from opening/closing them.
- If the player declined to become the lead of HQ during the quest “Moving Day”, they will be able to return to Jake later and have the conversation correctly (Aiden will be teleported behind the player to ensure the appropriate conversation can run).
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Caravan Services from connecting settlements.
- Sick settlers will no longer get out of bed as the player approaches them at night.
- Fixed a bug with Toupee Shack level 2 that would prevent its bed from spawning.
- Fixed a bug with Li’s Shipping Stack that would prevent it from building completely.
- Fixed a bug that could cause items to become damaged, even when all maintenance costs were paid.
¶ Hotfix 2.1.3a
🕗 May 14, 2022
- Fixed a bug that could cause the HQ cell to crash if certain rooms had been built.
¶ Hotfix 2.1.3b
🕗 May 16, 2022
- Fixed a bug that could prevent HQ from working if the quest How to HQ was started after patch 2.1.3. This hotfix will attempt to restore HQ to working order.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the establish supply agreement HQ menu from presenting any options.
¶ Version 2.1.2
¶ Version 2.1.2 - Unlimited Power
🕗 April 29, 2022
- Fixed a bug that could result in multiple Municipal Power Switches/Pylons providing the full municipal power output at each (effectively doubling the power available).
- [Addon Authors] The function ShowFanfareMessage will now return the selected option from Message01. This will allow the fanfare message system to be used with menus. When ShowFanfare is unable to show the requested message, it will return -1.
- Fixed a bug where a plot could get stuck in a busy state forever.
- Fixed a bug where some of the lights in Concord remain lit at the start of the game, rather than after the power is turned on during the main quest.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the player to receive the message “Added 65535” when looting the Vit-o-Matic.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Algernon to bring up Jake’s kidnapping at the incorrect moment in the quest.
- Advanced and Hi-Tech classes for Water, Power, and Defense have had their production increased to ensure that they always produce at least as much as the previous class level 3 building. Players should refresh any plots using these classes to update their resources.
- Restored several missing player voice files.
- Cemetery unlock will now delay its trigger if player doesn’t have access to Municipal plot yet.
- Updated several animation markers used during the quest Grey Matters to ensure companions won’t use them.
- Updated the wording for the setting Destroyed ASAM Sensors to better clarify that when the setting is off - players can simply refresh the plot to repair the ASAM Sensor - whereas when the setting is On they must repair it by spending another sensor.
- [SS2 Extended] Lucky Bucky Benton’s helmet has been restored.
- Laser Artillery Cannon building plan’s structure has been rotated 180 degrees to help NPC pathing. Players with existing plots using this building plan should refresh them.
- Updated the navmesh for the following building plans: Brahmin Farm, Tower Farm, Lacey's Buckles, Pet Shop, Securistop, Fresh Supplies, Outdoorsman, Trash Trailer, Single Window, Max Shack, Metal Prefabs, Toupee Shack, Raised Shack, Tin Can, Corrugated Yurt, Chemical Plant, Crusher, Shack Post, New Bugle, Communication Shack, Wasteland Manor, Building Materials Shed, Organics Hoarder, Machine Parts Salvage Yard, Laser Artillery Cannon, and Hazmat Recycling.
-- Another pass will be made in a future patch to many other buildings to try and resolve pathing issues. - Fixed the collision in the Distillery building.
- Fixed a bug that caused Carnal’s health to be set to 0. This but would kill Carnal and prevent the quest Say Cheese from working.
- This patch will attempt to resurrect Carnal and restore access to that quest.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the “View Missing Plugins” option to show up when choosing a City Plan.
- Fixed a bug where selecting “No, Go Back” during the profile wizard that comes up from the holotape would simply close the menu instead of going back to the previous screen.
- Attempted to fix a bug that would cause installing the Catwalks upgrade in HQ to uninstall the Central Plan Room upgrade.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some building plan skins to have their items permanently attached to a building plan. Unfortunately, this issue cannot be fixed in existing saves that already had it occur.
¶ Version 2.1.1
¶ Version 2.1.1 - Gather Your Allies
🕗 April 15, 2022
- Added “script” lines to the MCM config files. This change should ensure all expected code runs consistently when options are changed.
- Fixed the Object Tracking “Clear All” option in MCM.
- Updated in-game description of the Crusher building plan to correctly reflect what it produces.
- Distillery will now correctly create additional wares for Bars for players not using Category Complexity. Players with these buildings should refresh the plots to update the production.
- Distillery now correctly generates Antiseptic at the expected amount. Players with these buildings should refresh the plots to update the production.
- Body Armor Technology will now correctly create additional wares for Armor Stores for players not using Category Complexity. Players with these buildings should refresh the plots to update the production.
- Body Armor Technology, Remelting Facility, and Distillery should now show the correct amount of resources being produced in the Info Box portion of the HUD. Players with these buildings should refresh the plots to update the data SS2 presents.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent changing the “AutoPay City Plan Costs” option in the City Manager holotape.
- Fixed bugs with several of the Local Settings in the holotape that appears to have been caused by script files being renamed during the merge.
- Fixed a bug with Sneake’s quest that could cause his dialogue to get stuck in a loop.
- Fixed a bug with Sneake’s quest that would cause him to not fight back.
- Redesigned the way the quest “War is Good For Business” is handled so that it will be clearer which allies are available, and give the player a confirmation before they proceed past the point they are unable to continue recruiting.
- Adjusted Mansfield’s outfit changes to better match the writer’s intention. He will now wear the Vault Tec security armor during the quest “Martial Law”, and switch to the custom wasteland outfit after being in HQ for a while.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Jake’s Private Frequency to become available too soon during the quest “End of the Beginning”.
- Fixed a bug with the quest “End of the Beginning” that could result in some recruited allies from not showing up.
- Changed the log file name for the City Plan Manager quest to SS2CityPlanManager.
- Removing a City Plan without scrapping it will now correctly clean up all the necessary records.
- Many vanilla settlements with quests involved will now warn the player if they attempt to apply a City Plan before City Plans are marked as “unlocked”. Players can expect Unlock pop-ups for each of these settlements letting them know when it’s safe to use City Plans in them.
- Robco Schematics handed to the player by The Ron now correctly display as a Featured Item.
- Added additional objective to talk to Jake after the basement encounter in the quest “End of the Beginning”. Without speaking to Jake, the next part of the quest could not continue, and this wasn’t clear.
- Fixed a bug where Cassandra would reference the books, even if they weren’t brought back from the ship.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Fiona to speak her doctor services lines when she wasn’t supposed to.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Judge Bishop to end up in the vanilla BADTFL cell, instead of the CPD’s cleaned up version.
- Edmund will now be force teleported to his podium at the start of sermons.
- Adjusted the quest “Martial Law” slightly to try and prevent an issue where Mansfield gets stuck and doesn’t follow the player.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a radio conversation during the quest “Martial Law” to frequently get stuck.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent finishing the quest Peace of Mind.
- Adjusted the quest “New Plots on the Block” to try and prevent Jake from wandering upstairs after he hands the player the holotape.
- Added several sanity checks to prevent some common log spam from SS2.
- Municipal Power will now be checked for data corruption preventing it from functioning when a save is loaded.
- Building a Municipal Power Pole or Switchbox will now set that newly built as the one to receive power - effectively replacing the other (each settlement should only have one). Previously, if an existing Municipal Power Pole or Switchbox existed in a settlement, the newly built one would be ignored.
- Added Autohide Settings, and Nudge/Scale support to MCM and holotape for the Settlement Info section of the HUD that was added in patch 2.1.0.
- Fixed the Laws and Local Involvement settings in the holotape.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Fiona to respond to the wrong prompt during the quest “War is Good for Business”.
- If an HQ Department lacks a Department Head, reassigning the existing staff will automatically put one of them in charge.
- Added Partial Form flag to many cells SS2 was adding content to to ensure other mods could make changes to those cells without conflict.
¶ Hotfix 2.1.1a
🕗 April 16, 2022
- Fixed a bug that would cause new games started with patch 2.1.1 to have trouble with the Caravan Services network, and Jake would not show up when a beacon was built. Installing this hotfix should retroactively resolve these issues.
¶ Version 2.1.0
¶ Version 2.1.0 - Better City Planning
🕗 April 1, 2022
- Fixed a bug in the quest skip cheat for “How to HQ” that could leave Aiden disabled and unassigned from the Security Department.
- Lupe now correctly walks out from the concord maintenance area instead of being teleported immediately at the of the quest “Dark Horizons”.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “Forgive me Father, I Have Sinned” which would result in the character Abigail following too close to the player and for too long.
- Refresh Plot option should now detect if the level and plan records don’t match, and force the plot to pick a matching set. Players can identify when this occurs as the building model won’t match what they selected (this most commonly occurs due to script lag with City Plans).
- Junk Storage has been renamed Scrap Storage.
- Scrap Storage items now have a description when attempting to construct them explaining what they provide.
- Fixed a bug in Daddy-O’s outfit.
- [SS2 Extended] Several NPCs in Chapter 2 now have custom outfits that were previously using vanilla.
- [SS2 Extended] Added several new building plans that will unlock after completing the major quests for the CPD. For players who had previously completed these quests, the building plans should unlock immediately after updating.
- Completing the CPD quest line will now unlock the Advanced Defenses building class if it had not been previously unlocked.
- Added a new panel to the HUD: City Progress. This will automatically appear in settlements with a City Plan, and will display: population information, current level of the city plan, and the current status towards the next upgrade.
-- Upgrade status will show one of the following:
--- Scrap Icon: Settlement is ready to upgrade but doesn’t have enough materials.
--- Unhappy Icon: Settlement needs a higher happiness rating to upgrade.
--- Timer Icon: Percentage time towards the next level.
--- Population Icon: Percentage population towards the next level.
--- Warning Icon: The settlement is at the build limit, which is preventing an upgrade.
--- Up Arrow Icon: The settlement is ready to be upgraded or is in the process of completing an upgrade. - Fixed a bug that could allow city plans to immediately upgrade to level 1 if the settlement met the other requirements.
- Silas Canary’s quest now correctly requires either 3 Bags of Fertilizer or 12 Fertilizer scrap, in addition, the objective will now have a quest marker on Silas.
- Fixed a bug with Fiona’s dialogue tree that could allow the quest Sunken Treasure to start before the quest Dark Horizons was completed.
- Removed floating items from the HQ room designs “Midsize Living Quarters for Two (variation 4)”, “Midsize Living Quarters for Two (variation 3)”, and “Cubicle Apartments”. Players can refresh the rooms from the Room Controls objects if they have this issue in existing saves.
- Fixed a bug that would allow players to access an invisible New Fallon’s entrance before Dyllan arrived in Concord.
- Carl Meade’s tranquilizer darts can now be crafted at a chem workbench after that quest has started. They will continue to function after the quest is complete as well.
- Adjusted a scene in the quest “Peace of Mind”, to ensure the conversation can commence, even if involved characters aren’t all extremely close to the player.
- Removed the helmet from the world model of Berman’s outfit - which should never have had it.
- [Addon Authors] Added field “SettlementVirtualResourceRequirements” to UsageRequirements. This will allow a test that a settlement has access to a certain amount of virtual resources, or if using one of the Daily versions as the ActorValue entry, can check if there is a certain daily production level available.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent CPD terminals from correctly displaying the player’s name and other dynamic information.
- Simon and Lena’s dialogue options of “Can I Help Out?” will now highlight when a new response is available to make it clearer to player’s there are new options available.
- The City Building > Involvement setting now defaults to None for all difficulty levels. This setting determines which rules settlements with City Plans have to follow, the None setting will better reflect the player expectation that since they put someone in charge of the settlement, the settlers should be handling things on their own.
- Players who would prefer to maintain the previous settings can restore their setting in the holotape or MCM settings under City Building > Involvement. Prior to this patch, the default for all difficulties was “Low”.
- Recruitment beacons built by City Plans after this patch will automatically self-power, regardless of the Faux Power setting. This will prevent an issue where City Plans would sometimes not get additional settlers if the beacon became unpowered or was not wired correctly.
- UnlockManager’s debug output will now log to SS2UnlockManager instead of the main SS2 log.
- OptionManager’s debug output will now log to SS2OptionManager instead of the main SS2 log.
- [Addon Authors] Unlock checks will now log why they failed in SS2UnlockManager, which should make it easier to confirm your unlocks are configured correctly.
- [F4SE Users] Fixed a bug with City Plans that failed to mark objects with the necessary keywords, this would have caused problems with the automatic wiring code.
- Local Settings added to Gameplay Options section of the terminal on the City Planner’s Desk. This will allow changing some settings for the current settlement only, rather than for the entire save file.
- Renamed setting “Junk Storage Requires Defense” to “Resource Storage Requires Defense”.
- Fixed the Tax rate controls in the holotape.
- Fixed the “AutoPay City Plan Costs” setting which was pointing at the wrong global.
- Fixed a bug with the quest “Is There a Doctor in the House?” where it could skip ahead if the player assigned Cassandra before the objective to do so was given.
- Removed the empty “Advanced” menu from the holotape. This was a placeholder that never ended up being used.
- World Repopulation System option should now correctly be accessible via the City Manager holotape.
- [F4SE Users] Added a 10 second delay after City Plans build up upgrade before wiring is run. This should resolve an issue where some wires could be skipped if items meant to be in the grid were still loading in.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Newspaper articles from being able to display the Player’s name.
- Fixed several voice files from Chapter 2 for Fiona, Patty Emins, and the Player.
¶ Version 2.0.3
¶ Version 2.0.3 - More, More, More
🕗 March 11, 2022
- Fixed a bug that was preventing one of the quests/characters in Concord from appearing.
-- Players who have previously completed the following quests: “Voice of the Commonwealth, 2nd Edition”, “The Hunt for Grizzly”, “Say, Cheese”, and “Branigan’s Brahmin Breeding”, as well as visited the Thompson family for dinner, and completed the introduction conversation with Pastor Edmund will find that the character Randy in Concord triggers a new quest. - Replaced some code in the HUD management script that may have caused oddities for non-F4SE users.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing many of the disease research projects from unlocking in HQ.
- Simplified the unlockable settler Jason Martin’s trigger, as his previous one could be missed if player’s didn’t choose specific dialogue options during various vanilla quests.
- Fixed bugs with several of the hijack controls.
- All doors from SS2* now have intercoms that will spawn next to them. These can be activated to toggle the door on or off so that content the door is blocking can be accessed. *Excludes doors from the World Repopulation System which have their own controls via the Lanterns.
- All World Repopulation doors can now be disabled via a menu that will come up when activating the lanterns near them.
-- Note: Due to engine limitations, the Designer/Cell Name may appear as [...] in existing saves that had SS2 installed before this patch. - Fixed a bug in the quest “Journalistic Ethics” that could cause Alyssa to skip ahead to another scene before it was ready.
- Reworked the confrontation scene with Jeff and Alyssa at the start of “Journalistic Ethics” to ensure it doesn’t play out in the church.
- Restored missing “Voice of the Commonwealth” materials and textures for PC players.
- Added a new side quest that unlocks during HQ gameplay called “From Sea to Glowing Sea”. It becomes available 24 hours after completing the quest “Water Under the Bridge” and can be started by talking to Jake, or if the player is out in the world when the timer has completed, it will trigger via automatic HQ Radio contact.
- Fixed a bug with World Repopulation doors that could prevent them from spawning their controller lanterns.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the custom dynamic soundscape from working that was made for HQ. The next time a player exits and returns to HQ, it should refresh the emitters and turn on the soundscape.
- Cleaning rooms in HQ will now show the “What should this room be used for?” prompt even when only one option exists so the player still gets the opportunity to cancel if the room can’t be used for what they are looking for.
- Tweaked a setting that should eliminate the random splashing effects happening around parts of HQ.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the plot upgrade cost pop-up from displaying when choosing “Upgrade Available!” from the ASAM Sensor menu when Manual Upgrades was enabled.
- If a settlement has a plot with the Communications class building plan, it will now increase the chance of settler recruitment by 10%/20%/30%, depending on the level of the plot. This is a per-settlement benefit, so multiple Communications building plans will not stack this benefit.
- Fixed a bug that caused Leader Traits that modify max settlers to not work correctly.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the pop-ups explaining Pollution and Cleanliness from occurring.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Communications building plans from allowing the plot to act as a settlement radio beacon.
-- Existing plots in a player’s game from before this patch will need to be refreshed to update the functionality. - Workshop Framework 2.0.21 changes fixed a bug that could sometimes result in Caravan Services settlers becoming unassigned after picking up a beacon.
- CPD dialogue events will now only play while in their headquarters.
- Manage City menu from the City Planner’s Desk now has a different title at the top identifying the type of settlement (Settlement, Outpost, Vassal) in addition to its name. For example, “Manage Settlement: Sanctuary Hills” or “Manage Outpost: Oberland Station”, etc.
- CPD and Concord questlines now each have a shared custom quest icon.
- Disease Cures should correctly work when traded to settlers with diseases that the cure is known for.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Fiona to immediately re-greet the player after they accepted the quest “Sunken Treasure”.
- Changed the Confidence rating on several NPCs so they won’t run away during combat encounters.
- Fixed a bug where HQ departments could show zero energy unless the player manually found a desk for the department and reassigned the leader.
-- Players with this bug should simply unassign the department’s staff and then reassign it. Note that the first NPC assigned will become the department head, so to control the Department Head, either use the department desk if available -or- assign a single person first who will become the Department Head, and then a second assignment call should be made for the rest of the staff.
¶ Version 2.0.2
¶ Version 2.0.2 - Get Extended
🕗 February 25, 2022
- SS2Extended now requires the Chapter 2 esm. This will allow us to continue to expand on the content of both chapters in a way that does not increase the file size on XBox. If you do not want to use Chapter 2, you can continue to use version 2.0.0 of SS2Extended.
- [Nexus Users] SS2Extended is now included as part of the base download. If you do not want to use SS2Extended, SS2 without extended is now available as an optional file.
-- This change was made to ensure more players actually know about SS2Extended, which will have increasingly large amounts of content as we progress towards Chapter 3. - Fixed a bug that would prevent Gwen McNamara and Cedric Mansfield from responding to the player at the end of the quest “Martial Law”. This dialogue was not necessary for the quest to complete. This fix will only apply to new saves.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Nightingale traveling medics from actually curing the player.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some players from being able to build Mansfield’s office in the quest “How to HQ”.
- Fixed a bug that could cause doors from the World Repopulation System to be rotated 90 degrees.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quest “Hostile Takeover” from correctly acknowledging the player had listened to the radio signal.
- Kat Kettle is now marked as protected to prevent her from being accidentally killed by random encounters before the appropriate scene plays out during the quest “Calling Potential Deputies”.
- Modified startup code for the ResourceManager quest, which handles daily plot production, to ensure save files that ended up in a stuck state could resume production again. This issue could occur if the game dropped a DailyUpdate call due to extreme load, or if a player used something like Fallrim Tools to force terminate a DailyUpdate call.
- The InjectionManager for addons to inject leveled list content will now correctly check that an injection hasn’t already been done, to avoid duplicating entries.
- [Addon Makers] Added new fields to the AddonQuest called SS2ListInjections and WSFWListInjections. These will allow for easily setting up injections into a handful of SS2 and Vanilla systems, such as visitors, store inventories, and HQ outfits.
- Players can now fast travel out of HQ.
- The name of the Rise of the Commonwealth objective for the Network Installation now correctly matches the actual name of the project “Computer Network”.
- Fixed an issue with Jerred Lund’s outfit.
- Fixed a bug that would have prevented the random conversations between CPD characters from firing.
- Fixed a bug that would have prevented the random conversations between Nightingale characters from firing.
- Modified Jerred’s AI package when players first meet him, so that he can’t spontaneously jump up to join combat.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent many Industrial buildings from producing anything if the player had their resource complexity set to Simple. (Thanks for the solution cbrgamer2!)
-- Players using simple complexity should revisit each of their settlements with Industrial plots, on doing so, this patch will recalculate their daily production to ensure the fix takes. - Water Radiation will now be cleared from settlers upon arriving at a settlement, it is also cleared when an NPC is scanned with the Vit-o-Matic. Water Radiation is meant to auto clear when an NPC leaves the water, but if an NPC was in water when the area unloaded, they can become permanently infected. This is a base game problem that was more pronounced with SS2 installed, since many plot buildings have radiated water on them.
- Fixed a bug that would cause “Addon pack registration failed.” messages to display if a player loaded the game without F4SE after using it previously on that save file.
- Added “Force Stop Combat Music” to the City Manager holotape under Tools > Advanced, which will stop any music that SS2 had added for a quest moment.
-- This was added for players who found the music failed to stop after the quest was finished. Note that this will only clear SS2 added combat music. Any combat music the base game or a mod has triggered will not be affected by this. - SS2 can now recover a settlement from a corrupt data store (these are used by SS2 to store information on settlement mechanics). This will happen automatically without the player needing to do anything.
-- Players finding that all virtual resources or city plan progress in a settlement being suddenly gone likely experienced such corruption.
-- These corruptions most likely occur when players remove mods from their load order mid-playthough. (Though may also occur due to save file corruption.) - Fixed a bug that would have prevented the Robot Scanning Bay in HQ from animating.
- Fixed a bug with item placement in the Robot Scanning Bay in HQ, refresh the room from the Room Controls to see this change.
- Added pop-up help message explaining the HQ recruitment system when the player first speaks to a recruitable NPC.
- Added a new Tutorial Message History option at the top of the holotape and MCM menus to redisplay tutorial messages. These messages are stored in the order player’s received them and be cycled through forward and backwards. When entering this menu, the first tutorial pop-up ever received will show up first, to get to the most recent one, player’s should press the Previous button immediately.
- Fixed a clipping issue with Simon Forseti’s vest.
- [SS2 Extended] Added 26 new outfits to the pool used to auto-equip generic settlers that are recruited as HQ workers to help visually distinguish which department they are in.
- [SS2 Extended] Added 41 new purchasable outfits spread across the settlement clothing store levels.
-- Note it will take a few days in-game and the settlement cell will need to unload once before the shop inventory is updated. - Fixed a bug that would cause the plot construction cost pop-up messages to sometimes show there were enough resources when there actually weren’t.
- Fixed a bug that caused Edmund to always speak the same sermon.
- Lena will no longer appear bald while wearing her helmet.
- Fixed a bug with the disease research terminal that was causing all diseases to all show the same numeric data.
- Fixed issue with Lena not continuing the scene after killing "the Butcher".
- Moved a marker to clean up some pathing with the CPD captains running across the bridge near Tenpines Bluff.
- Fixed issue with Lena freezing during the CPD final quest before the last confrontation.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Lena to aggro the player if Simon died in battle fighting other NPCs.
- Changed the chair records in BADTFL allowing Shhandy to sit in them.
- Made adjustments to plot code to prevent plot-spawned items after this patch from being added into a power grid. This should ensure building plans that have included radial powered items can’t cause a corrupt power grid.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “The Hunt for Bombface” that could prevent Caleb from entering the final conversation.
- Fixed a bug with objectives during the quest “Commonwealth Rising”, which could cause them to display [...] instead of the current amount available in HQ.
- For players who have Disease Death turned on, unique NPCs will no longer be eligible to be killed by the system.
- HQ Recruitment dialogue will now correctly work with companions.
- NPCs recruited to HQ will now be force teleported there the next time they are unloaded. Previously, the code had been relying on the default AI system to get them there, which was unreliable.
- [SS2 Extended] There is now an optional file called SS2Extended Outfit Injection Patch, that will inject the new purchasable outfits into the Wastelander outfit leveled list, which is what settlers use.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Courier during the quest “The Old Man and the Gun” to spawn underground.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Courier during the quest “The Old Man and the Gun” to never leave the area he approached the player.
- Cassandra mentioning explosives during the quest “Commonwealth Rising” now correctly unlocks new grenade recipes.
- Increased the volume of Gwinnett and Cindy Becker when doing on-stage performances so they can be better heard over the music.
- Fixed the Wasteland Theatre navmesh.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the theatre shows to often duplicate the characters “Fan Boy” and “Fan Girl”.
- Changed the way HQ calculates its resource spending so that the updates to the HUD will happen immediately after a project is started in Command Mode. Previously, the resources were set to sync after exiting command mode, but this method was extremely unreliable.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Martial Law” where if the player killed the gunners after they placed the radio on the table the quest would get stuck.
- Edmund can now self-start his intro conversation after the quest “Well, Well, Well” is completed. Previously, if a player had walked into the church and left without speaking to Edmund, the running scene would have shut itself down, locking the player out of the conversation and following content.
- HQ Radio will now wait until the player exits their pipboy before triggering the code, this will prevent an issue where running it from the pipboy could get the player stuck in a weird animation state.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Circe from curing rads.
¶ Hotfix 2.0.2a
🕗 February 25, 2022
- Fixed a bug that would cause some quests in HQ to not work correctly due to AI conflicts with the fix added to allow companions in HQ.
¶ Hotfix 2.0.2b
🕗 February 25, 2022
- Fixed a bug that would cause projects in HQ to claim they were finished but the actual changes from them completing would not occur.
¶ Hotfix 2.0.2c
🕗 February 26, 2022
- Fixed a crashing issue for some players that was caused by a material file being corrupted by the archive process.
- Removed a debug message left in one of the theatre shows by mistake.
¶ Version 2.0.1
¶ Version 2.0.1 - The Other Side
🕗 February 11, 2022
- Concord characters that are helping MALA acquire items during Picking Up the Pieces until after the quest Dark Horizons will now have notes in their residences to remind players of their absences and hint that they’ll return after Jake does.
- Added some new dialogue for Jake that should acknowledge more of the player’s progress in the main questline. Most notably, the player’s interaction with the Institute. Note that these will only occur if the player has finished up through the quest Casting a Line before completing the corresponding Institute related quests.
- Fixed a visual bug with Julie Foreman’s clothing.
- Fixed a visual bug with Old Paul’s clothing.
- Adjusted volume output distance of many idle dialogue lines to make it less likely NPCs are chatting to the player from extremely far away.
- Added an additional stage show to the rotation for the Wasteland Theatre- Cindy Becker Promo Singer.
- Added notification messages in the corner when HQ projects are completed.
-- These can be disabled in MCM/Holotape options. - Added two new HQ resource options: Daily Resource Spending Limited by HQ and Daily Resource Spending Limited by Workforce, both of which are enabled by default. These are the systems explained during the quest Commonwealth Rising via pop-ups (See this section of the wiki for explanation of the Daily Resource Spending Limits).
-- Daily Resource Spending Limited by HQ: Certain rooms must be built/upgraded to expand the amount of resources that can be spent each day in HQ.
-- Daily Resource Spending Limited by Workforce: Departments must have more staff added to increase the amount of resources that can be spent each day in HQ. - If the player doesn’t have what Branigan is waiting for during the quest “Branigan's Brahmin Breeding”, there will now correctly be a “Not Yet” option in the bottom wheel slot instead of a blank entry.
- Relocated the ASAM Sensor on the Municipal Interior building plan “Watershed Interior” to make it easier to reach.
- Modified plot icon code to attempt to prevent the level number from overlapping the building class icon. For plots this had already occurred to, this can be fixed by refreshing them via the ASAM Sensor menu.
- Fixed a bug in the navmesh in the cell where the Powell family lives that would cause Alex to get stuck on the wall during a scene.
- Fixed a bug with the UnlockLevel console command that would cause the plot to fail to proceed to the correct visual stage.
- Restored several missing voice files for Bobby the Ranch Hand that had been accidentally replaced with robovoice files.
- Removed several alias targets that were breaking precombines in various locations.
- Fixed a bug with one of Alyssa’s AI packages in Concord.
- During the “How to HQ” tutorial quest, workers will be temporarily cured of all diseases and will not be infectable until after it is complete. This should resolve an issue where available department energy was not matching the expected amounts for the tutorial projects.
- Fixed a bug that was causing Randy to show up before he was meant to.
- City plan created power, water, food, and defense generating objects that are destroyed should now be repairable.
-- If you find any unrepairable objects, please report them to kinggath on the simsettlements.com forums. - Fixed an issue with the volume of several holotapes related to the recruitable settler Noman Sland that should appear on various gunner’s throughout the game.
- Removed an unintentional landscape edit from Concord.
- Plot demolition fx should no longer occur during a City Plan or Workshop Framework Layout teardown. This change was made to help improve performance during those activities.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the settlement leader from correctly getting the Mayor title.
- Assigning a settlement leader to another job should now correctly unassign them as leader.
- Modified part of Edmund’s dialogue conditions to attempt to fix an issue that was preventing his introduction conversation for working for some players.
- Fixed a visual bug with one of the world repopulation interiors.
- Fixed bugs with several of the door offsets for some of the world repopulation interiors.
- Fixed a bug with the Prosnap Cam that caused it to behave oddly in the weapon workbench menu.
¶ Hotfix 2.0.1a
🕗 February 12, 2022
- Correctly adds new HQ Daily Resource Spending options to the holotape.
¶ Version 2.0.0
¶ Version 2.0.0 - Gunner Outbreak
🕗 December 10, 2021
- Added World Repopulation System.
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As settlements produce large amounts of excess Food, Water, and Power - they will cause doors to appear on buildings outside of the settlement bounds and people will move into those buildings. -
This system is primarily focused on Concord currently, but will be expanded to cover the entire gameworld in future patches. -
This system can be turned off in the Holotape/MCM Options. - Added Disease system.
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Settlers can now become ill, reducing one or more of their SPECIAL stats. -
The combined drop in SPECIAL stats is the Sickness rating, if a settler’s Sickness rating is higher than their Endurance, they are incapacitated and cannot work until they recover. -
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Clinics and Hospitals (a new Municipal class) can greatly increase recovery speed. -
This system can be turned off or adjusted in the Holotape/MCM Options. - Disease Cures can be purchased from most doctor’s and clinics, and will cure settlers of very basic diseases. (Disease Research can be done via the HQ system in the main quest to enhance these Disease Cure items)
- Added Pollution vs Hygiene system which measures overall Cleanliness of a settlement.
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The more settlers in a settlement, the more pollution. Pollution is also added by certain building classes. - Added new Municipal building class: Sanitation - which greatly increases the Hygiene score in a settlement, counteracting pollution. Approximately 1 Sanitation plot will cover the needs of 20 settlers, unless an excessive amount of building based pollution is also present.
- Pet Stores now produce 50/75/100 pollution.
- Level 3 residential buildings now improve hygiene by 25 points.
- Industrial Conversion class now produces 25/50/75 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Industrial Production class now produces 50/75/100 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Caravan Services now produce 25/50/75 pollution. This represents the influx of potential disease from contact made by caravaneers (or from all the brahmin poo…).
- Added new Municipal building class: Cemetery. Improves hygiene by 50/100/150, cleans up bodies and places their belongings in the workbench, and reduces the chance of disease outbreak due to death.
- Advanced Power Plant class now produces 25/50/75 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Hi-Tech Power Plant class now produces 50/75/100 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Advanced Water Plant class now produces 25/50/75 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Hi-Tech Water Plant class now produces 50/75/100 pollution, this replaces the happiness penalty they previously had.
- Recreational icon will now only show up on the HUD after that plot type is unlocked.
- HUD now supports colors in a limited capacity (due to engine limitations, the colors will come and go when certain things occur in the HUD).
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Currently red is used for warnings and costs. Note that if your default HUD color is red, it will be difficult to view these (we will likely add dynamic calculations of a warning color for people using a red HUD, or for those with color blindness who have trouble viewing this new variation). - Fixed a bug that would cause the HUD Resource Panel to show “Caravan Network” as the default even before one had been established.
- Rebalanced the SPECIAL stats of most of the SS2 recruitable NPCs to better reflect their backgrounds and personalities.
- Fixed bugs in Sneake and Randy Adams’ outfits that could cause crashes in some circumstances. (Thank you Tinuvia!)
- Warning about the lack of a Desk for the settlement leader should only show up once per visit of a settlement.
- ASAM Sensor boxes in the Hardware store can now be looted.
- Restored missing audio for player and NPC’s.
- Uncut lines found and fixed for player, NPCs, and Companions that would result in them saying more of a vanilla line than they were meant to.
- Fixed several dialogue trees for various NPCs that could result in them giving incorrect responses.
- Several NPCs given correct outfits and equipment.
- Added missing lore! New terminal entries and notes to find.
- No more floating Claudia Mansfield! Now spawns on ground, like all good corpses should.
- [F4SE Users] Municipal Power switch boxes will now make use of WSFW’s power grid repair tool before attempting to update the grid - this should avoid them triggering a crash if the local grid is corrupt as that grid will now be repaired beforehand.
- Fixed a bug with the mesh for Theresa’s outfit.
- Skipping quest Who Can ASAM with the cheat command should no longer require those NPCs to naturally walk to the settlement before they function normally.
- Most unlock cheats have been reset so players can run them again to gain access to Chapter 2 features immediately if they are not interested in playing through story content to unlock them.
- Small dogs will now bark when the player speaks to them.
- Old Paul and Cola now have several scenes that will play out when the player returns to visit them.
- Fixed clinic dialogue for several unique settlers so they will no longer tell the the player they don’t have enough caps.
- Ventilator’s quest will now correctly remove the Mr. Handy box from player’s inventory when turning it in.
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If you already had this issue, it should be removed shortly after installing this patch. - Fixed a bug that could cause the quest Scavver’s Delight to start again after completing it.
- Fixed positioning of the 2x2 Nuclear Plant level 3 building plan.
- Refresh any plots using this plan to get the updated positioning.
- Nadine and Silas Canary will now correctly fight during settlement attacks.
¶ Version 2.0.0a - Hotfix
🕗 December 12, 2021
- Fixed the "door to the Plutonium Well" being open and/or unlocked during the quest Dark Horizons. Should be inaccessible during the quest and opens after the scene with Lupe.
- Fixed the Gunners not running away in front of the Hardware Store if one of the non-hostile approaches was taken.
- Smoothed Jake's AI during the scene inside the Hardware Store in the quest Dark Horizons to get him inside faster and not to put away the Gatling during the scene.
- Added candles and a light around the map for the “War Room/Battle Plan” scene; to add some aesthetics but mostly to help account for various lighting mods that can make night really dark.
- Added "easter egg" holotapes that appear during the Noman Sland quest and one in the Gunner 34825 inventory that reference story moments of the main quest.
- Fixed a bug with one of the CPD uniforms that could cause problems with VATS.
¶ Version 2.0.0b - Hotfix
🕗 December 13, 2021
- Hardware store roof items will no longer start the game enabled, these were meant to appear much later
- NPCs should be much less likely to sleep in mid-air when incapacitated while not owning a bed.
- Generic dialogue will now be disabled during the quest How to HQ to avoid the NPCs interrupting quest conversations with random quips.
- Fixed some flickering near the ceiling of the Thompsons’ home.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Theresa from showing up at HQ which broken several conversations during the quests Moving Day and How to HQ.
- Rebreather should now correctly allow underwater breathing and rad resistance has been increased from 15 to 100.
- Note with Rebreather is no longer blank.
- Fixed a bug in How to HQ, where if Stodge was recruited during the quest Who Can ASAM the conversation with him could become stuck in a loop.
- Fixed an issue where Jake’s radio frequency was not working correctly at the start of the quest Hostile Takeover.
- Jake’s Private Frequency will now be correctly disabled at the end of Picking Up The Pieces.
- Added a check to the start up of Picking Up The Pieces to try and force itself to shut down when appropriate, as it seems for many players this quest is stuck running in the background.
- Fixed a bug with several gurneys in HQ that were set to havok settle, which could cause very odd placement issues.
- Adjusted the volume on several sounds.
- Fixed an issue with radio static from the PA in Vault 81.
¶ Version 2.0.0c - Hotfix
🕗 December 14, 2021
- Fixed an issue where a second door was appearing in the Plutonium Well during the quest Well, Well, Well, that would prevent quickly exiting the area.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Tools > Hijack menu from appearing in the holotape, which is used to control which SS2 doors are enabled at any given time, for the sake of accessing vanilla or mod-added areas that share a door location with SS2.
- SS2 will now attempt to force boot up the Chapter 2 controller quest if it failed to start on its own. This issue would have resulted in many oddities during quests, most noteably doors would lead to vanilla versions of cells, instead of the version with the SS2 story content.
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If you experienced this issue, you’ll want to roll back your save to before you received such a quest objective to go into a location. - Fixed a bug at the start of the first SS2 quest, where any NPC would speak Jake’s line before you placed the first ASAM sensor.
- Jake’s terminal in the hardware store is no longer flagged as owned. This should prevent it from appearing as crime when accessing it.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent entering a settlement from running the correct updates to a variety of SS2’s system quests.
- Fixed a bug that could cause MALA’s stats to be reset after she arrived at HQ, which could then cause problems in the available energy amounts during the HQ tutorial.
- Jake, Aiden, Lupe, and Theresa will now be correctly returned to their normal outfits after the quest Moving Day starts.
- Temporarily disabled a requirement for non-facilities workers to have living quarters. This feature may be restored in the future after more controls are added to handle distributing NPCs to living quarters directly.
- Sever Supply Agreements action in HQ now correctly costs a “Command” instead of a Bottlecap.
- Fixed an issue that would cause factions to not send the help they promised during the quest End of the Beginning. Note that this fix is not retroactive, and will only work when asking for assistance after this patch.
- Max Scrap Logistics HQ can support is now correctly increased by 500 per supply agreement. Previously it was set to a flat 500 regardless of supply agreement count.
- Increased Scrap Logistics capacity to 100 per Endurance of logistics workers, which better reflects the expected numbers. This will also ensure that in the early part of HQ, Lupe can handle the needs of logistics for a few basic construction projects to increase the number of living quarters so HQ’s staff can get big enough to afford more NPCs working in the Logistics department.
- After starting a cleaning project, canceling during the “What should * be used for?” will cancel the cleaning project as well. This should allow players to explore through different options without committing Facilities energy if the room didn’t have an option they are looking for.
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Once the add-on maker’s toolkit is updated, creators will be able to release add-on packs with more options to ensure nearly every room can be used for any purpose. - Fixed Simon’s quest regarding the library.
- Players who had previously spoken to him about the job, should find the quest starting shortly after loading this patch.
- Fixed several objects appearing incorrectly at Mass Bay and thus overlapping other items.
¶ Version 2.0.0d - Hotfix
🕗 December 15, 2021
- Combat music added by the quests Hostile Takeover and End of the Beginning will be force shut down on save load, as some players have reported the music never shutting down correctly prior.
- End of the Beginning battle management quest will now be force shutdown on startup of this patch if the quest itself is already finished.
- Lupe will now actually use the terminal she mentions during End of the Beginning.
- Fixed a bug during End of the Beginning where convincing Berman to leave would result in the quest getting stuck.
- If Berman leaves during End of the Beginning, his guards will now follow him.
- Wise’s disguise during End of the Beginning will no longer result in him lacking pants.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Wise to shoot indefinitely at the Assaultron during End of the Beginning.
- GNN Front door and roof elevator will now correctly remain locked until the first two waves of Gunners are dealt with during End of the Beginning.
- Fixed several bugs with Jake’s dialogue.
- Changed several CPD quests to Run Once, so they won’t be restarted later if certain dialogue options are chosen.
- Aiden, Algernon, Jake, Lupe, and Theresa now correctly have things to say while in the atrium after the quest End of the Beginning.
- Patient Troubles and Angel of Mercy should now correctly account for all options related to how the player handled the crate in Sunken Treasure.
- Fixed an issue with Cassandra’s dialogue during Angel of Mercy that prevented her from responding.
- Fixed an issue with Fiona’s intro scene.
- Fixed an issue with Angel of Mercy that would cause an objective to update after talking to Ellis that wasn’t meant to update until after the final scene of the quest.
- The quest If I Had a Hammer is now flagged as “Run Once” which should prevent an issue where the quest was restarting itself under some circumstances.
- Sever Supply Agreement confirmation now correctly uses the label “Sever Supply Agreement?”.
- Municipal power switches will now acknowledge the power grid Auto-Repair/Auto-Destroy options from Workshop Framework. Previously these were attempting to repair the grid whenever SS2’s power system triggered these for an update.
- Most of Theresa’s settlement dialogue should now be disabled while she’s outside of settlements.
¶ Version 2.0.0e - Hotfix
🕗 December 17, 2021
- Upon startup of this patch, if the player is in the middle of quest How to HQ, SS2 will attempt to reassign all NPCs to HQ, in case any of them failed to be assigned to HQ due to script lag or other bugs, which could result in some of the quest objectives being impossible to complete.
- If the player has turned off the disease system, when arriving at a settlement, any settlers who were previously infected will now be cured of all diseases.
- Migrated many of the MCM hotkeys to use a new central management quest to relay the commands to the HUD. This should eliminate a quirk with MCM, where it is unreliable when working with quests that have multiple scripts, and should help the SS2 hotkeys work more consistently.
- Identified and attempted to fix a bug where in HQ, some references were ending up deleted, which could cause many features to quit working. This was most notable in that the max number of workers each department could handle wouldn’t match what the player would expect based on what is built.
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After booting a save with this patch, the deleted references will be recreated and set to a protected state which should prevent anything other than the engine itself being able to delete them again. -
If you ever arrive at HQ and find tons of items missing, you can refresh the Rooms from the Room Control panels to restore the items, but if mechanically HQ feels like something broke - such as assignment issues, supply agreement issues, resource issues, energy issues, etc - please send me your .fos save file so I can further investigate into why this is happening for some players. - The quest Hostile Takeover will no longer choose interior settlements, which can cause the quest to be non-completable.
- The quest Hostile Takeover now has a fallback system to simply spawn gunners near the workbench if the assault system fails to queue up a proper raid.
- Fixed a bug where HQ could become disconnected from the settlements it had Supply Agreements with.
- Fixed a bug in HQ where scrap resources couldn’t be spent from Command Mode if resource complexity was set to Simple.
- Restored Alan Walsh’s missing outfit files.
- Changed several markers used during the quest War is Good for Business to try and ensure Jake is close to Lupe, which is required for some of the conversations to play correctly.
- Adjusted the setup during Martial Law to fix an issue where Jake would sometimes wander around the Hardware store instead of sitting in the church as Lupe says he is.
- Peace of Mind should now be completable by activating the area near Old Paul, even for players who had not previously done the quest Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.
- Fixed several dialogue problems in the quest Martial Law that could occur if Algernon was killed or told to leave during Runners and Gunners.
- Manfield's radiant quests will now be auto-completed if the player had any active after the quest Moving Day.
¶ Version 2.0.0f - Hotfix
🕗 December 20, 2021
- Altered the controller quest for Branigan to avoid an issue where when another mod altered certain vanilla objects in Concord, it would prevent the quest from starting. Shortly after installing this patch, the quest will attempt to start itself again for those it failed to launch for.
- Made some adjustments to the quest New Connections to try and make it less likely that the conversation between Circe and Lydia gets stuck.
- Changed the Activator you must interact with at the end of the quest Peace of Mind to make it easier to trigger.
- Bribing the gunner near the lab access card will now correctly take caps from the player.
- Began flagging the perk dialogue options as “Always Succeeds” speech checks so they will show up highlighted a different color in dialogue and will grant a small amount of XP. Will continue to flag more of these as we update various quests.
- Fixed a bug with Lupe’s dialogue after the quest Dark Horizons, where she would start a conversation and immediately end it unless Jake was close by. She should now be able to have the conversation without him, and his commentary will simply be skipped.
- Added a new section to the holotape: Tools > Advanced > Quest Fixes. As fixes are discovered that can rescue a save from common script failures or mod conflicts, they will be added here so players can run them on demand.
- Added quest fix to holotape: “How to HQ: Population Issue”, running this will fix an issue where at the start of the quest How to HQ, a player has less than 10 people at HQ - which would cause a series of other issues during the quest.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Runners and Gunners which could cause interacting with the gear stash at the start of the Vault multiple times could cause the quest to immediately complete.
- Modified the Runners and Gunners copy of Vault 75 slightly to try and fix an issue where NPCs were shooting through a pair of wall panels.
- Regenerated precombine data for the Runners and Gunners copy of Vault 75 to try and improve performance.
- Tweaked the scene in End of the Beginning with Captain Wes to try and fix a bug that would occur if using the Robotics Expert perk during a particular dialogue choice.
- Altered the perk involved in allowing the player to collect Gunner tattoos for the CPD quest, to try and account for more Gunner spawns.
- New saves using version 2.0.18 or higher of Workshop Framework should find Disease Cures are now correctly available through settlement and plot Clinics.
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There had been a bug in the Workshop Framework shop injection system preventing it from working prior. Unfortunately, fixing it retroactively was impractical. - Restored some missing dialogue lines from the quest End of the Beginning for an Assaultron character.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Is There a Doctor in the House, which could prevent the Influenza research project from becoming available.
¶ Version 2.0.0g - Hotfix
🕗 December 23, 2021
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the quests Peace of Mind and How to HQ from starting if the player had killed Stodge during the quest Who Can ASAM. Each of these quests will attempt to launch after the patch for those players.
- Tweaked the quest The Hunt for Knifepoint to try and fix an issue where quest objectives were not updating for some players.
- Fixed a bug that could have prevented Edmund from fixing up the church and starting his sermons. This patch will check for this issue and if found, will correct it shortly after booting up.
- The quest New Connections will try and force itself forward after loading this patch for players that found themselves stuck in the Warehouse meeting with Lydia.
- The Power Armor Lab in HQ should now allow modifying power armor. Currently, the player will animate as if they are the one doing the work, but the scrap/cap costs will still come from HQ’s available resources.
- Fixed a bug with Jerred Lund’s outfit that resulted in accessories floating.
- Fixed a bug in the quest If I Had a Hammer that required the player have 6 settlers, instead of 5, before they could complete the first objectives.
- Settler Death to disease will no longer enable itself by default for players in Survival Mode. It can be activated from the MCM or Holotape options menu under Gameplay > Disease.
- Fixed a bug where equipping and then unequipping the disguise while still in the pipboy menu, even if re-equipping it before leaving the pipboy menu, during the quest Runners and Gunners would prevent certain conversations from occurring and the player would be forced to attack all the gunners to proceed.
- An Objective marker should now appear on the gunner with the key after he is dead in the Concord Civic Maintenance area during the quest Dark Horizons.
- Fixed one of the dialogue options during a conversation with Mansfield in the How to HQ quest.
- Changed the objective marker for the Power Distribution Room in the quest Commonwealth Rising to make it clearer which room it’s referring to.
- Fixed a bug with Lupe’s outfit.
- Some of the Hellhound outfits should now correctly display a decal with their squad logo.
- Unique NPC comments about the quality of the place they are at, will now use the percentage of rooms constructed in HQ to determine which statements to make, rather than always referring to the place as a dump. Ie. As HQ is built up, their comments should become more positive.
¶ Version 2.0.0h - Hotfix
🕗 December 28, 2021
- Camera and film should now be craftable after receiving the objective to take a picture of someone during the quest “Say Cheese”.
- Fixed a bug with the entry door of the ship in the quest Sunken Treasure.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the quest “Moving Day” to start immediately after “End of the Beginning”, rather than a day later.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Berman to be non-responsive when reaching the basement during the quest “End of the Beginning”.
- Made further adjustments to the Robot Expert perk action in the dialogue scene with Captain Wes to try and make it more reliable.
- Attempted to fix a bug at the beginning of the quest “Voice of the Commonwealth, 2nd Edition” which could cause Alyssa to say her greeting and then nothing else afterward.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “End of the Beginning” where if Simon Forseti was present, he’d be in the placeholder clothing from our internal testing phase instead of his release outfit.
- Fixed a bug in the Visitor system outfit records that could cause some of them to end up with missing pants or shirts.
- Altered the quest “Vim and Vigor” slightly to try and fix an issue where there is no activation prompt on the Vit-o-matic, making it unclear how you are supposed to take it.
- Fixed a number of low level errors XEdit reported on SS2.esm.
- Fixed a bug that was causing many of the theatre NPCs to act as settlers.
- Grizzly should now start out hostile in the quest “The Hunt for Grizzly”.
- The key to free Craig for the quest “Branigan’s Bounty” will now appear on the body of one of the raiders instead of the ammo box. This will resolve an issue where if another mod removed or blocked the ammo box, player’s will still be able to get the key.
- Modified the stage triggers and objectives on the quest “Branigan’s Bounty” to try and fix several issues some players were experiencing where it refused to continue at various points while attempting to rescue or after rescuing Craig.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an objective to come up at the wrong time during the quest “The Hunt for Knifepoint”.
- Added a check on game start to try force rebooting the radio scenes the player is told to listen to for the quests “Hostile Takeover” and “End of the Beginning”.
¶ Version 2.0.0i - Hotfix
🕗 January 1, 2022
- Altered the starting code of “How to HQ” to reset MALA’s stats. This should help resolve a conflict out there that causes her stats to be reduced to 1 - which then causes Energy amounts to not match costs during the quest.
- Fixed a bug that could allow female player characters to start the quest Martial Law too soon.
- Algernon now has the appropriate keyword to prevent his Power Armor from being destroyed.
- GNN minefield kill zone will now play sounds, trigger the vanilla mine HUD marker, and post a warning in the corner so the player knows what happened and has several seconds to try and turn around and exit the blast area.
- Jake should now remain on the first floor of the hardware store during the quest Hostile Takeover, this should prevent an issue some players were experiencing with his dialogue scene at the end of the quest.
- Altered the names of several script files to get them under the max character budget that the CK warns about when attempting to compile them.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “Casting a Line” that could cause the quest to get stuck if the player killed the raider leader without speaking to him first.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the daily change data on the Resource Panel to exclude operating costs from plots. (thanks for the heads up cbrgamer2!)
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the camera sequence from playing near the end of the quest “Well Well Well”.
- Attempted to fix a bug that would prevent petting Cola again after the quest “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie”.
- Arriving in a settlement will now queue up code to update all current Plot assignments and ensure settlers are correctly configured with correct assignment keywords and titles.
- Fixed previs breaks in Vault 81 and Satellite Station Olivia - which may have caused wall flickering at some points in the cell when viewing at certain angles.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent The Ron’s default dialogue tree from working after the quest “Runners and Gunners” started, until the quest “End of the Beginning” started. It should now correctly function again after the player meets Aiden at the first objective of “Runners and Gunners”.
¶ Version 2.0.0j - Hotfix
🕗 January 7, 2022
- Ellis should now correctly barter when asked after first meeting him.
- Modified spotlight script used on the GNN spotlights to try and resolve an issue where many saves are showing the scripts continuing to run after they are no longer needed.
- Addon registrations that become corrupt due to save file issues will now be scrubbed from SS2’s memory so they can re-register. This should fix an issue where some addon packs would fail to register their new content after an update.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a number of Jake’s AI packages to fail. This was the source of the issue where Jake was not sitting in the church when Lupe claims he is.
- Fixed an issue where Aiden could repeat his conversation twice after the first keycard is found during the quest “Runners and Gunner”.
- Made additional adjustments to the quest “Branigan’s Bounty” to try and fix issues that come up when attempting to rescue Craig.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Aiden, Cassandra, Mansfield, and Theresa from commenting on the situation correctly after the quest “Commonwealth Rising” was completed.
- Fixed an issue with taking the Vit-o-Matic during the quest “Vim and Vigor”.
- Added flag to try and prevent a plot from upgrading twice instantly, which could occur during certain tutorial quest moments for some players.
- New saves created after 2.0.0j will have the Robco Schematics item correctly flagged as a Quest Item from the quests “The Coolest Cat” and “Vim and Vigor”.
- The Vertibird during “End of the Beginning” will now have significantly more health, but will leave once reaching half health. It was always supposed to flee the battle, but often the vanilla Vertibird system to trigger a crash landing was kicking in before it could.
- Restored several missing voice files.
- Tweaked position of Branigan’s bed to try and fix an issue where he would sleep under it.
- Fixed a bug where the first photo of Jake would not correctly get turned in to Dyllan, during the quest “Say Cheese”.
- Fixed a bug where turning in the photo in the quest “Say Cheese” would fail if Carnal had sandboxed too far away from Dyllan.
- Fixed a bug with Pete Emins outfit.
¶ Version 2.0.0k - Hotfix
🕗 January 13, 2022
- Added a warning box that will pop-up for PC players who experience the HQ Reset issue. The goal of this is to determine if the issue is an engine level problem or something we can deal with via scripted solutions.
- Adjusted Caleb’s quest “The Hunt for Bombface” so that if he is killed before talking scenes play out, the quest can still continue.
- Restored the Voice of the Commonwealth newspaper meshes to the archive.
- Gunner’s Dossier holotape should no longer show “<Alias=Player>” in the text.
- Tweaked a scene in the quest “Runners and Gunners” to avoid an issue where it could get stuck if Aiden failed to path correctly.
- Fixed a dialogue option regarding recruitment for the quest “End of the Beginning” with Fiona so it has a label instead of just “Positive”.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “End of the Beginning”, where looting the keycard wasn’t always unlocking the 2nd floor access of the elevator.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “End of the Beginning”, where Berman wouldn’t speak for some players.
- Fixed a bug during the quest “End of the Beginning”, where if Berman was convinced to leave he would get stuck on the roof.
- Fixed a bug with the ForcePlotLevel command that could cause the level to fail to actually advance correctly.
- Gunner Tattoos for CPD now have a model.
- Fixed a bug with the Bulletin Board in Concord which could cause some papyrus log spam.
- Fixed a bug where Theresa was teleporting outside of GNN as soon as the player exits GNN at the end of the quest “End of the Beginning”. She should still be there later, after the quest “Moving Day” starts.
- Fixed a bug where floating lights were left behind in the hardware store after the quest “Moving Day” starts.
- Fixed a bug where the game could end up in a weird state if you used the Vault 81 elevator instead of exiting the vault after recruiting Mansfield during the quest “Moving Day”.
- Fixed a bug that could cause factions the player had destroyed to still show up as valid optional objectives for recruitment during the quest “War is Good for Business”.
- For players who allied with the Institute, X6-88 should now be flagged with an objective marker if Shaun is dead during the quest “War is Good for Business”.
- Tweaked the script that handles Jake’s holster swapping to try and eliminate it triggering frequently when he does not have his pistol in inventory.
- Fixed a bug where using the Robotic Expert perk during the Wes encounter would cause the conversation to stop. It should now correctly cause Wes to speak a line and start combat.
- [XBox] Restored missing audio files for Jake at the start of the quest “Well, Well, Well” when he’s speaking to Edmund.
- Fix a bug in the quest “Branigan’s Bounty” that could prevent Craig from acknowledging the cage is open. If Craig has been unresponsive in a player’s save, they can close and re-open the cage door to force the quest to advance after this patch.
- Fixed a bug near the start of the quest “Dark Horizons”, where if the Gunners ended up in combat with random other enemies, it would make the option to talk to them not work correctly.
- Fixed a bug where if the Cheat commands were used to skip past the quest “Well, Well, Well”, the camera sequence triggers would still be active which could cause the quest to start up again.
- CPD main cast should now switch to “office uniforms” when at their main location, and then back to the “field uniforms” they had prior to this office when outside for quests and other moments. This is purely an immersive change, and should have no gameplay impact.
- Changed the faction records for the CPD characters to make it less likely they will attack the player if hit by cross fire or explosive damage.
¶ Version 2.0.0L - Hotfix
🕗 January 22, 2022
- Fixed a data corruption in the Vault75Location override in SS2.esm.
- Fixed a bug for some players where Captain Wes would be missing during the encounter during “End of the Beginning”.
- Fixed a bug during the meeting dialogue with the recruitable character “Fishfood” that would cause the conversation to appear stuck.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “Knowledge Equals Profit” where players could reuse the same item over and over to turn in the quest multiple times.
- Fixed a bug where if the player completed the quest “Casting a Line” peacefully, the raiders would be left behind indefinitely. They should now be cleaned up the next time the player teleports to an interior. This fix is not retroactive, so existing saves may still have the raiders present.
- Fixed a bug where attacking synths would respawn regularly near the scavver camp from the quest “Red Handed” even after the quest was completed. This fix is not retroactive, so existing saves may still have the synths present.
- Berman and Captain Wes now correctly have PC Level Multiplier flag set, which should give them enough health to feel more like boss fights.
- Fixed a bug during “Moving Day” where the player’s companion could speak some of Jake’s lines.
- Modified the scripts for the quest “How to HQ” to try and eliminate an issue where some number of NPCs fail to be counted as part of HQ.
- Fixed clipping issues with the outfits for Stodge, Joe Gallagher, and Fishfood.
- Added several missing lines from Craig while trapped in the cage during the quest “Branigan’s Bounty”.
- Fixed a bug that could eventually cause the HQ Cell to reset.
-- Unfortunately, this fix is not retroactive - though we have some potential means we are investigating to prevent and recover this on existing saves created before this fix. - [XBox] Regenerated the HQ “Room Control” ASAM Sensor texture to try and fix an issue where it was displaying as missing.
- Fixed a bug where Lena and Simon would stop responding as expected between when the quest "War is Good for Business" is started and the quest "End of the Beginning" is finished.
¶ Version 2.0.0m - Hotfix
🕗 February 01, 2022
- Added a fix to address the HQ Cell reset bug that will prevent it from occurring to saves started before the 2.0.0L patch. Previous patch notes had listed that the fix would not work on existing saves, this new fix addresses that.
- Added a new tool to the holotape under Tools > Advanced > Quest Fixes > Chapter 2: HQ Reset Issue. Running this while inside of the HQ’s main floor will attempt to recover the save from the HQ Cell reset bug if it had occurred previously.
- Fixed a number of script property issues that would have resulted in papyrus log spam.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “Martial Law” where Mansfield would talk about putting the radio on the table himself after the Gunners already had done so.
- Added Reset Leader Card Cache and Reset Settlement Flag Cache options to Tools > Advanced in the holotape. These will reset the corresponding cache for players who find they are missing options they expect to be available.
- Fixed a bug with the HUD meters that would show shortage of beds and recreation for robot settlers.
- Fixed a bug with the HUD meters that would show shortage of power for plots that were recently scrapped but hadn’t been cleaned up by the game engine yet.
- Fixed a bug where if the quest “The Disappearance of Jake Evans” was played through in Chapter 2, and then the following quest was skipped by console commands or the holotape cheats, The Ron could end up stuck in a weird state, potentially breaking his dialogue in future quests.
- Fixed a bug with the traveling Nightingale medics that prevented them from speaking and offering medical services.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “How to HQ” that would prevent a conversation from completing if Stodge had been killed in the save.
- Fixed a bug part way through the quest “How to HQ”, where the resource values could show negative values.
-- Existing saves should have these negative values removed after starting this patch, which may correct other issues with HQ resources. - Fixed a bug during the quest “New Connections”, where if the player wasn’t close enough to Circe and Lydia, the conversation could fail to start and the quest would appear stuck.
- Made a change that in theory will greatly reduce the likelihood of a “long save” occurring.
- Fixed several voice files for the CPD.
¶ Version 1.1.0
¶ Version 1.1.0 - The Rebalancing
🕗 August 07, 2021
- Fixed a bug that was breaking the Previs for the Forest Marsh cell.
- Improved the code used to manage max storage so it’s less likely to cause resource loss due to temporary reductions in storage, such as when refreshing a plot, or changing who is assigned to an Industrial plot.
- Resource Complexity options have been slightly renamed to: Simple, Category, and Component. (previous names were Scrap, Scrap Categories, and Scrap Components).
- Tracking Industrial, Commercial, and Martial plots should now work correctly.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Beacon runs to get stuck. If any were stuck in an existing save, they should begin processing again shortly after this patch is loaded.
- Fixed a bug in the quest “Heart and Soul” that would cause an objective to display “Failed” after it was successfully completed.
- Fixed Charles Baker’s aggression level so he will correctly join fights during settlement attacks.
- Recruitable characters that are part of factions the player has become enemies with, should now correctly be hostile to the player immediately.
- Modified Patrol/Guard code slightly to try and fix an issue with Hubert’s Leader Trait that would cause Children of Atom guards to attack NPCs friendly to the player.
- Fixed a bug that would cause max scrap storage benefit from Industrial plots to be lost if operating costs were unpaid or power was lost. Lost max storage benefit should only happen if the settler working the plot is unassigned, the plot is destroyed, or is changed to a different building plan that doesn’t provide the same storage benefit.
- Fixed a bug where choosing the Pay Operating Costs option on the ASAM Sensor menu would reactivate the plot but would not actually consume any resources.
- Restored several missing voice files for Stodge. Additional missing lines were identified that were never recorded, the VA is going to make time to record them at a future time.
- Excess production beyond storage will now be logged each day, and cleared at the beginning of the next day’s production cycle. Excess production can be spent for transactions, such as plot operating costs.
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This was a compromise made to maintain the spirit of storage limits, but prevent the fact that “storage is shared” from becoming a problem. For an example of the problem, imagine if a settlement was producing 10 Nuclear Material per day, but had 0 in storage because the storage was full from steel, anything that required Nuclear Material could never be paid until storage space was cleared - this problem would require never ending construction of new storage space as it would always fill up fastest with materials being spent the slowest over time. With this new change, that 10 nuclear material will be logged as “overproduction” and be available for spending that day, but will not stockpile to greater numbers. -
A solution to allow for clearing out less valuable resources to make room for greater value ones will be brought in a future update. - Theresa’s clinic dialogue should now correctly result in doctor services being performed.
- Industrial Conversion and Production building plans now list the type of resource they consume for operating costs in their description.
- Players starting a new game after this patch will find that Jake has a new reward at the end of the quest Well, Well, Well. This is meant to help bridge the long gap between that quest’s end and the unlocking of the remaining plot types.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause objects with maintenance costs to continue applying those costs even after scrapping the object. (Thank you msabala and cbrgamer2 for doing the research on this!)
- The quest Well, Well, Well no longer attempts to make the player use an animation marker when “kicking”.
- Fixed a bug that was causing maintenance costs to double on items when they were powered up.
- Activating a Municipal Power Switch should now force it to refresh. IMPORTANT: Settlements should only ever have one Municipal Power Switch (either the wall mounted or freestanding - not both). If you have multiple in a settlement, you should scrap down to one and then activate just that one.
- The raider during the quest Casting a Line has a new voice actor. While the original voice actor was good, his recording space was causing reverb issues in the sound files we couldn’t eliminate.
- Restored a small section of dialogue for The Ron that we had lacked the audio files for previously due to actor availability.
- Updated Lily’s audio files to try and eliminate sound quality issues.
¶ Rebalance Details
The following changes have been made to create a path through Sim Settlements 2 where different buildings are better suited for different stages of a settlements’ life. The overall goal is to give the 4 resource tiers a distinct purpose and value, and ensure that the costs encourage using buildings in a way that simulates the natural survival needs and technological evolution of a civilization.
Individually, these changes may seem odd, bad, or counterintuitive. To help visualize the goal, we have two resources:
A tech tree to show the anticipated progression:
https://wiki.simsettlements2.com/infographics/ss2_tech_tree_v2_fullsize.png
For you fellow data nerds, a spreadsheet with all of the numbers laid out for study: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ry5NPaNXpu57HYIc-pacdafPqOtDYNljStAly5ItIEU/edit#gid=664833885
After installing this patch, a refresh of resources will be queued, up, so it will be a good idea to visit all your settlements and hang out for a few minutes while all of these changes are applied. You may even wish to use the holotape tool in each settlement to force a recalculation. It can be found under Tools > Advanced > Recalculate Costs and Production.
- Conversion class formulas have all been adjusted to allow greater production of the target resources.
- All Conversion class plots now consume at a rate approximately 3x the rate a corresponding production plot creates, this will make it easier to plan around, as well as greatly increase the net output of these plots which are driven by the total resources consumed.
- Industrial gathering was increased by approximately 8% and the distribution was adjusted so the rates are approximately: Building Materials are twice as common as Organic Materials, which are twice as common as Machine Parts, which are twice as common as Rare Materials. All resources have had their internal values adjusted accordingly.
- Industrial production adjusted so the ratios of resources more closely match the ratios found in the vanilla game. Since our costs have been adjusted with these changes in mind, the costs should better line up with what players find in the wild, which will make donations more effective.
- SPECIAL stat bonuses to plot production have been adjusted as following:
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Agility now grants an additional 3 points of defense to Martial Basic, Advanced, and Hi-Tech Defense classes. Up from 1. -
Charisma now grants an additional 2.5 caps to Commercial virtual cap production. Up from 2.0. -
Strength now grants a 5% boost to Industrial production. Previously the boosts were different for each resource type. -
Intelligence now grants an additional 5 power to Municipal Basic, Advanced, and Hi-Tech Power Plant classes. Up from 1. -
Perception now grants an additional 2 water to Municipal Basic, Advanced, and Hi-Tech Water Plant classes. Up from 1. -
Endurance continues to grant an additional 1 food to Agricultural Basic, Advanced, and Hi-Tech Farm classes. - Advanced Farm class now only requires 1/2/3 power, for levels 1/2/3 respectively. Down from 2/4/6.
- Hi-Tech Farm class now only requires 5/8/10 power, for level 1/2/3 respectively. Down from 7/10/13.
- Commercial classes now produce different levels of caps and require different construction costs and operating costs. The overall result is significantly more caps produced by Commercial overall.
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The later the class becomes unlocked the more caps it produces and the higher its costs. The order is currently: Bar, Clothing Store, Clinic, General Store, Weapon Store, Armor Store, Power Armor Store, Book Store, Furniture Store, Barber, Pet Store. - Residential cap production changed to 6/11/15, for levels 1/2/3 respectively. Down from 6/12/20. This reduction was more than made up for via the increases in Commercial cap production (Commercial are meant to be the primary income provider for settlements, with Residential only providing an early game source of caps).
- Building Materials Gathering class now requires 2/3/4 additional defense, up from 1/2/3; and requires 1/1/2 power, down from 1/2/3.
- Junk Gathering class now requires 0/1/2 additional defense, down from 1/2/3; and requires 1/1/2 power, down from 1/2/3.
- Machine Parts Gathering class now requires 8/10/12 additional defense, up from 4/5/6; and requires 1/3/4 power, up from 1/2/3.
- Rare Materials Gathering class now requires 12/14/16 additional defense, up from 7/8/9; and requires 3/4/5 power, up from 1/2/3.
- Organic Materials Gathering class has the same defense and power requirements as before the rebalance.
- Industrial Conversion class now requires 6/10/15 additional defense, down from 6/12/22.
- Industrial Production class now requires 9/15/25 additional defense, down from 15/25/35.
- Advanced Defenses class now produces 50/80/105 defense, but due to the increased Agility benefit, this ends up being a net increase of 0/10/10 for a settler with the minimum required 5 Agility, and even higher for those with more.
- Basic Defenses class now produces 13/31/61 defense, but due to the increased Agility benefit, this only results in a net reduction of 1/1/1.
- Hi-Tech Defenses class now produces 101/136/176 defense, but due to the increased Agility benefit, this ends up being a net increase of 10/20/20 for a settler with the minimum required 8 Agility, and even higher for those with more.
- No building classes negatively affect happiness any longer (a new system is replacing negative happiness modifiers in Chapter 2).
- Advanced Power Plant class now produces 55/75/105 power, due to the increased Intelligence benefit, this ends up being a net break-even for a settler with the minimum required 5 Intelligence, and a boost for those with more.
- Basic Power Plant class now produces 20/40/70 power, but due to the increased Intelligence benefit this will be a net gain for any settler with higher than 1 Intelligence.
- Hi-Tech Power Plant class now produces 100/140/210 power, due to the increased Intelligence benefit, this ends up being a net break-even for a settler with the minimum required 8 Intelligence, and a boost for those with more.
- Advanced Water Plant class now produces 38/50/84 water, but due to the increased Perception benefit this ends up being a net break-even for a settler with the minimum required 5 Perception, and a boost for those with more.
- Basic Water Plant class now produces 8/23/43 water, but due to the increase Perception benefit this ends up being an increase for any settler with a Perception greater than 1; power requirement reduced to 1/1/2 from 1/2/3.
- Hi-Tech Water Plant class now produces 62/84/109 water, but due to the increased Perception benefit this ends up being a net break-even for a settler with the minimum required 8 Perception, and a boost for those with more.
- Recreational training classes had their resource requirements adjusted to push physical training closer to the early game, and the others closer to the late game.
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Agility Training class no longer requires additional Food, and now requires 1/3/5 additional Water, up from 1/2/3. -
Strength Training class no longer requires additional Water, and now requires 1/3/5 additional Food, up from 1/2/3. -
Endurance Training class no longer requires additional Food, and now requires 1/3/5 additional Water, up from 1/2/3. -
Intelligence and Perception Training classes now require 1/3/5 additional food and water, up from 1/2/3; and 2/3/4 Power, up from 1/2/3. -
Charisma and Luck Training classes now require 2/4/6 additional food and water, up from 1/2/3; and 2/4/6 Power, up from 1/2/3. - Caps operating costs have been added to Martial and Municipal classes, and removed from all other classes.
- Industrial Gathering plots no longer have Operating Costs.
- Building Material operating costs have been removed from most classes and items.
- Production class industrial buildings will now consume substantially more resources and therefore produce far more products each day. This allows them to have a more noticeable impact on the economy, and also makes them useful for clearing out excessive junk from storage in particular components.
- For players using simple complexity, production will now be similar for Building Materials Gathering, Organic Materials Gathering, Machine Parts Gathering, Rare Materials Gathering, and Conversion classes since the resource types are not important. There will still be some inequities between the classes due to different power usage and defense requirements, but the assumption is most people playing at simple complexity are not going to be struggling to reach any of those costs anyways.
- Operating costs have been heavily redistributed so the costs match the tech or societal level the building is in. Those at the lower end will have most costs in Caps or Organic Materials, while the higher end will have most costs in Machine Parts and Rare Materials, making them more difficult to maintain since the latter 2 are produced at much lower rates.
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The goals of these changes was to prevent operating costs from becoming overwhelming in the early game, and ensuring there is a challenge throughout the progression of the player’s settlement empire to find the perfect balance and make sure that resource production is perpetually an important part of planning. The net result should be slower progression through the tech tree, but each step being clearer as to what resource production is needed to be able to comfortably move to the next stage. -
For Component level complexity players, the Conversion class has been overhauled and now generates significantly more specific resources, read below notes about the Conversion class changes for more details. -
As much as possible, we attempted to follow real world uses for items, but on occasion had to stretch a bit to ensure that all resources were represented in the system, so several of the obvious missed opportunities and bizarre combinations were sacrifices to ensure good mechanical gameplay. -
Several buildings have changed their operating costs and output types to ensure there are both consumers and producers of all resource types available to ensure players can finetune their input and output in the late game. (Note some consumers are only available in the Production class, but all resource types can be produced by Conversion buildings included with SS2, addon packs or buildings in future SS2 expansions may expand upon the available Conversion combinations). - Steel Mill has been renamed Metal Mill and now produces Aluminum as well as Steel.
- Distillery is now a Conversion class building that still produces a small amount of liquor for bars, but its primary purpose is now to generate Antiseptic.
- Body Armor Technology is now a Conversion class building that still produces a small amount of gear for Armor Stores, but its primary purpose is now to generate Ballistic Fiber.
- Conversion plots have been overhauled to better match what they were originally intended to do: convert unneeded resources from one type to another at increasing efficiency with each level.
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These building now consume approximately the equivalent of 3 gathering buildings, of the same level as the Conversion building, worth of one or more resources and then produce an equivalent value of one or more other type of resources. For example, the Asbestos Reclamation L3 building consumes 288 wood (Building Materials Gathering L3 building produces 96 wood per day * 3 = 288), and produces 351 Asbestos. -
The efficiency of these buildings is 85% at L1, 100% at L2, 115% at L3. In other words, at level 1, these will produce slightly less value than a gathering plot, an equivalent value at level 2, and then 15% more value than an equivalent gathering plot at level 3. When calculating value, we included the relative cost of the items consumed, as well as the full relative value of all production from the corresponding gathering plot that settler could be working as an alternative. Which means the conversion plots will output a substantial amount of their target resources - making them ideal for late game in large settlement empires where large amounts of specific resources may be required for operating costs. - For players using Moderate Complexity, Conversion buildings were changed so they would result in similar late-game use-cases as with Component Complexity, but adjusted so the numbers end up the same between buildings that do the same class conversion.
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Buildings that converted from one Building Material type to another will simply create more Building Materials than consumed at level 3. -
All other types will convert from the preceding type into the expected type, so Building Materials will be used as the operating cost for any building that created an Organic Material, Organic Materials will be used as the operating cost for any building that created a Machine Part, and Machine Parts will be used as the operating cost for any building that created a Rare Material. -
Any that produce multiple classes of resource for Component complexity will be classified with the one they produce the most categories of, or if tied, then with the lowest tier producer. For example Surface Mining Operations produces both Concrete and Bone, since Concrete is in Building Materials and Bone is in Organic Materials, the Building Materials category is used as its target while in Moderate complexity. - Maintenance costs for many items have been significantly reduced and all have been balanced relative to the amount and value of the resource they produce.
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The resource types required use a similar pattern to our plot cost philosophy, which is assigning them a sort of technological tree and the lower tech items requiring cheaper resources than the higher tech items. The goal in the changes was to allow them to be useable, without making plots pointless. -
When multiple items shared attributes, for example, the Heavy Machinegun Turret, Shotgun Turret, and Laser Turret, we aimed to offer slight variations in the operating cost combinations so players can learn which for the early game and plan around their limited resources in a way that fits best with their settlement’s resource production. -
One of the problems Generator, Water Pumps, and Turrets create is that they can be spammed with almost no consequence - the maintenance system had attempted to solve this by taxing them at a similar rate of plots, but this ended up frustrating many players with the excessive costs and frequent downtime in the early and mid game when they couldn’t possibly generate enough to cover the costs.. -
The new maintenance balance is now mathematically value balanced so all of the vanilla items can be used alongside plots at various stages of the game. We want them to have a home filling in gaps in production between when new settlers arrive, plot upgrades occur, or just making up those tiny amounts when plots don’t quite meet all the needs but aren’t missing them by so much to demand another settler be put on that job type yet. -
Non-vanilla, Non-DLC items that add Defense/Power/Water use Caps as their maintenance costs in an amount based on a formula of 1 cap per point of power, 2.6 caps per point of defense, and 2.5 caps per point of water. -
A new system is being added with Chapter 2 to ensure plots that share resource types with these items have additional benefits so that spamming vanilla items isn’t always the optimal (min/max) choice.
¶ Version 1.0.17
¶ Version 1.0.17 - Harbinger of Balance
🕗 July 09, 2021
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Organic Materials building class to produce tiny amounts of Rare Materials.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Salvage Beacon runs from working correctly.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Caravan Services buildings with multiple workers from each being able to make an independent run.
- Crystal Cavern can now correctly upgrade to level 3. (Note this building only has one art design, but increased levels do provide higher production).
- Fixed a bug that would prevent turning in the note to Mansfield found during the quest Vim and Vigor. This would not have prevented proceeding through the quest, merely would have made the player miss out on some extra backstory dialogue.
- Mansfield’s extra work quests involving patrols should now correctly reward various weapons and armor if the player protects the patrol from being killed.
- Mansfield’s extra work quests should now correctly start a new instance each time instead of occasionally using a completed instance of the quest to show objectives.
- Mansfield’s Courier quest should now correctly show the settlement location in the objective instead of [...].
- Fixed a bug with The Ron’s recruitment service that could result in him not knowing about all eligible people.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Rob Lambair from correctly being marked as recruited. This could cause The Ron to offer him up as a recruitable character again.
- Fixed a bug that would allow resources to produce beyond the storage max.
- The following building classes are now Player Select Only by default, meaning they will not be selected unless the player explicitly chooses them: Advanced Water Plant, Hi-Tech Water Plant, Advanced Defenses, Hi-Tech Defenses, Advanced Power Plant, Hi-Tech Power Plant, Industrial Conversion, and Power Transfer.
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The first 6 require settlers with specific stats to be assigned, and therefore would often go unbuilt. Industrial Conversion is not a useful class for people playing at Scrap or Category level complexity, and Power Transfer requires a power surplus and existence in multiple settlements to be of any use. -
This behavior can be overridden, allowing all classes to be randomly selected again, in the holotape/MCM menu under Gameplay > Usability > Settlers Choose From All Classes. - Added tool to holotape to force the current settlement to recalculate its daily costs and production. It can be found under Tools > Advanced > Recalculate Costs and Production.
- MCM Report View toggle hotkey should now correctly restore the default position when pressed again.
- Slightly reduced the volume of the building class unlock music.
- Adjusted the volume of several sounds in the Dynamic Soundscape.
- Added unique Job Titles to several of the Production and Conversion industrial building plans included in SS2.
- Fixed a bug that would cause changing resource complexity to cause the resource numbers to become out of sync with the parent category.
- Fixed a bug that was causing Tax Collectors to break the virtual storage daily output of non-taxed caps.
¶ Version 1.0.17a - Hotfix
🕗 July 11, 2021
- Fixed a bug that would prevent donations from being accepted by settlements.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Resource Panel to go back to the default complexity setting it was when SS2 was first loaded on that save.
- Activating a container used with a Salvage Beacon or a pack animal brought to pick up a Salvage Beacon load will now silently correct problems that may have occurred due to an old bug in the system previously.
¶ Version 1.0.17b - Hotfix
🕗 July 11, 2021
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the View Details on ASAM Sensors option from doing anything.
¶ Version 1.0.16
¶ Version 1.0.16 - Hoardability
🕗 June 25, 2021
- Fixed Organic Materials and Charisma Training unlock graphics.
- Autoassignment should no longer attempt to assign NPCs to City Planner’s Desk, which could sometimes cause the leader to become unassigned from the role.
- If quest Picking up the Pieces was skipped with cheat commands, it will now correctly reveal the protectron’s name, previously that would only occur if you completed the quest normally.
- Robco Schematics should now be correctly removed from inventory after showing them to Mansfield.
- Made additional tweaks to Claudia to try and prevent her from being spawned under the world for some players.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Info Box hud to double count many resources, this could cause a plot to appear to produce significantly more than it actually was.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Resource Panel to frequently change itself to the wrong frame, often displaying the more detailed complexity of resources than the player was actually using.
- If Hub of the Problem is skipped, Jake will now correctly be restored to his outfit sans armor piece.
- Plots that change types during a City Plan upgrade will no longer play the detonation animation/sfx.
- Renamed the log SimSettlementsV2Log to SS2, and SimSettlementsV2Resources to SS2Resources. This was done to standardize the naming and make it easier to find log files as they will now be alphabetical.
- Added functions for helping to troubleshoot ongoing reported issues with resource counts in SS2.
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Cqf ss2_resourcemanager DumpSettlementVirtualResources_DailyProduction which will output to the SS2Resource log the local daily production SS2 currently has recorded in it’s central storage for that settlement’s production values, these numbers will be before any operating/maintenance costs. -
Cqf ss2_resourcemanager DumpSettlementVirtualResources_DailyCosts which will output to the SS2Resource log the local daily costs SS2 currently has recorded in it’s central storage for that settlement. -
Cqf ss2_resourcemanager RecalculateSettlementVirtualResourceData which will analyze the current settlement and try and reset the daily production/cost numbers to match the current state of the settlement. - Caravan Services will now correctly generate Fertilizer to the virtual resource pool.
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If you had an existing plot of this type, refresh it to ensure it’s production is updated. - Fixed a bug that would cause plots to record their operating costs to the settlement in a way that would result in incorrect HUD reporting.
- Fixed a bug that could cause production of virtual resources to count double on the hud at the category level, and quadruple at the scrap level (which would have resulted in filling the storage capacity at 4x the speed it should have).
- Changed a condition on The Ron’s post-quest dialogue tree. This should make it so he functions correctly with mods that had created some sort of conflicting state in his dialogue previously, such as Depravity.
- [Addon Pack Author] Setting the fExtraDataFlag to -1 on a StageItem’s misc object SpawnDetails property will force that item to be linked to the Workbench on WorkshopItemKeyword. Generally SS2 will automatically figure out which items should be linked, but for advanced users, there may be use-cases where it’s desirable to have an item linked that would otherwise not be.
- Made fixes to the following building plans: Li's Shipping Stack, Art Studio, Lacey’s Buckles, Scrap Heap, Style Wagon, and Trash Trailer.
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If you have any of these buildings in your settlement, refresh those plots to get the updates. - Rebuilt animation data again to try and resolve an issue causing NPCs to “T-Pose” when using certain custom SS2 furniture markers.
- Tweaked the resource code around maintenance costs for vanilla items to try and resolve an issue where the categories and scrap count would become out of sync with the component resources.
- Fixed a bug in the quest Papa Was a Rollin Stone that would allow players to turn it in immediately without doing the requested objective.
- Plots can now correctly remove Operating Costs if that system was disabled after the plot had them applied, or if the plot changed to a building plan that didn’t have any.
- Caravan Fast Travel uses a new method to calculate the time passing, which should result in far less negative impact from survival mode systems.
- Caravan Fast Travel will now bring followers as well without relying on Bethesda’s default system to teleport them over which would not always work.
- Fixed a bug with the beacon system that could result in the pack animal being left behind forever.
- Production Report from ASAM Sensor menu should now correctly factor in settler stat bonuses that increase production.
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If the InfoBox hud element numbers are smaller than this report, it likely means the settler has improved their stats since the plot last updated its resource numbers. You can force this to update by refreshing the plot.
¶ Version 1.0.16a - Hotfix
🕗 June 28, 2021
- Fixed two magazine textures and The Ron’s billboard in SS2 that could cause crashing on some systems.
- Fixed a problem that was causing maintenance costs to apply to the invisible objects Plot’s use to apply their benefits to settlements.
- Maintenance costs should now correctly display their category level resources on the Resource Panel and Info Box.
- Scrap Heap level 3 should no longer have a large white box around it.
¶ Version 1.0.15
¶ Version 1.0.15 - Back to the Holotape
🕗 June 11, 2021
- Maintenance costs will no longer be imposed on vanilla items if that option is turned off. Previously, the maintenance system was being enabled no matter what.
- Changing the holotape or MCM setting for Non-plot maintenance costs will now correctly queue those up to be recalculated. Since loading all workshop items remotely isn’t possible, each settlement will fully update its costs the next time it loads into memory by the player visiting.
- HOLO icons in the power row can now show power generated amount.
- HOLO icons in the power row will now update correctly after a power required amount greater than 10 was met. Previously the last digits would remain until the plot was refreshed.
- Updated several MCM options to make the descriptions and option names more clear.
- The Ornate Locket for the quest Bitter Reclamation should no longer appear before receiving the quest. Note that any save where the character Isaiah is already wandering the Commonwealth prior to this patch will still have this issue, but any future new saves should not.
- Added new holotape tool, under Tools > Advanced, called Change Main Quest Settlement. This will allow you to change the settlement Jake’s quests use as their base.
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This was added to help people using existing saves to start SS2 who can’t find where Jake is, or who want to change their decision about which settlement they built a beacon in to attract Jake. - The HUD will more reliably restore previously configured positions/scales for the various widgets.
- Added new option to the holotape, under Options > HUD, called Reload Positions/Scale. This will attempt to reload the last known configuration the player had set for the various widget positions and scale.
- Using the console command to skip quest 13 should no longer cause Old Paul to become a broken settler.
- “Box of ASAM Sensors for Hubert” should no longer get stuck in inventory when completing “Who Can? ASAM?”.
- Added new Quest Skipping section to the holotape, under Tools > Cheats. These allow for forcing the current main quest complete, or to skip ahead to specific quests in the main questline. When using these, players should wait for all quest completion animations to finish before attempting to proceed in the questline.
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Using these options will grant XP and items as if the player completed the quest(s) manually. - Attempted a fix to a bug introduced in the previous patch that would prevent some of the custom animations for SS2 furniture objects.
¶ Version 1.0.14
¶ Version 1.0.14 - Clean-up Phase
🕗 May 28, 2021
- Vit-o-matic scanning will now clean-up assignments for NPCs, this will fix an issue where NPCs occasionally own certain animation markers inside of plots they are no longer assigned to.
- Charles Baker’s quest objective will now show up as its own quest correctly, instead of a miscellaneous objective.
- Recruiting Hollis Baker will no longer start and complete a quest granting XP. This had been setup incorrectly.
- Doubled the amount of time before SS2’s save resurrection system kicks in. This will help alleviate false positives that can occur in new saves for some players.
- Improved the skiptoquest console command to better handle various scenarios the player may have used it in. This should generally only ever be used after taking over at least one settlement and standing in it.
- [Addon Authors] Improved the output of the console command cqf ss2_optionsmanager DebugAvailableLeaderCards which can help troubleshoot why certain leader cards aren’t showing up as available options.
- [PC Players] The magazine rack in the Magazine Press building will now correctly create magazines. The magazines are currently unavailable on Xbox due to file size restraints.
- Magazine and Newspaper systems will now generate new issues periodically, regardless of whether the player enters the settlement. This will ensure that Bookstores will get an increasing variety, even if the player doesn’t visit their settlement for a long time.
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Previously, new ones weren’t generated unless an appropriate dispenser was loaded into memory from entering a settlement. - Fixed a bug in the magazine system that would cause a keyword to end up in the production list, preventing it from always returning a valid magazine.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent industrial production from correctly spreading to commercial in other settlements on the caravan network.
- On patch load, SS2 will search the save for duplicate vendor containers. These duplicates will have been created for some players due to a bug in an older build of the mod.
- Fixed an issue with the newspaper and magazine leveled lists that would cause the production buildings to produce large quantities of the exact same issue for Bookstores, instead of a variety of the unlocked ones.
- Fixed a bug with SS2 Commercial vendors that could cause them to not display all available inventory. This would be especially apparent for people who turned the Auto Restock option to “OFF”.
- All building plans included with SS2 now have [SS2] at the start of the name. Previously some of these had [SS], [IR], or [RC] to indicate they came from one of the SS1 expansions, but this made it confusing to tell which plugin these building plans actually existed in.
- Updated Ore Mine description to reflect what is actually produced.
- Fixed a bug that would make the Magazine printer more likely to repeat issues more frequently than it should. (For reference, each issue should be print for about 2 weeks in-game before it starts adding another to its leveled list).
- Tweaked donation code to try and track down a crash some users are reporting when donating items to a settlement.
- The quest Turncoat Turnout will no longer select unclearable locations. Note this fix will only impact new saves.
- Updated several quests requiring a location to be cleared to confirm the selected locations actually have a boss NPC to clear.
- Mark 1 Beacons should now work in more locations, as the requirement for the locations to be “cleared” has been corrected to also work for clearable locations that don’t actually have a boss NPC that would flag them as cleared.
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A new explanation: “Salvage teams can't operate here.” will pop-up for locations that still fail these checks, which should generally only include exterior locations and settled areas like Diamond City. If you find a location that shows this message, and you think it shouldn’t, please report it on the forums and we can look into additional methods to expand the detection.
¶ Version 1.0.13
¶ Version 1.0.13 - A Bit of Tinkering
🕗 May 14, 2021
- Securistop level 3 and Dead End Weapons level 3 should no longer end up with an animated and static sign simultaneously.
-- If this issue occurred in your game, refresh those plots to resolve this. - Fixed several dirty edits that may have been breaking precombines in some cells in the Commonwealth.
- Changed Benni Strong’s character trigger slightly to avoid certain dialogue choices with Rufus from preventing her from ever showing up.
- When accessing the ASAM Sensor, if it warns that the plot is busy, it will no longer just immediately show the menu anyway.
- AnimatedObjectSpawner script will now run a sanity check before updating position/rotation to ensure the building plan designer entered enough data.
- [City Plan Designers] Fixed a bug with the server scrap profiles for all 4 Far Harbor settlements. If you previously created a City Plan for one of those, you will want to regenerate your plugin from the web tool once again.
- Marked several of Jake’s quest scene markers to be ignored by the sandbox packages so that companions or other NPCs don’t accidentally block his scenes from continuing.
- Fixed a pair of dirty edits that for some users would have caused problems with wall clipping in USAF Olivia and Vault 81.
- Altered several settings on the radio scene after the quest Well, Well, Well that leads into the quest Hub of the Problem. For some users, this scene would only have static, these changes are an attempt to resolve this for them.
- Magazine Press paper now animates correctly. (thank you pra, I had long given up on it!)
- Improved code used by “Back to Work” tool, to make it more reliably place actors at their expected plots.
- When a settlement has no particular need of anything, auto-assignment will now prioritize plots in the following order: Residential, Industrial, Agricultural, Martial, Municipal, Commercial, Recreational. Previously it was just choosing at random which ones to assign first after all needs were met.
- Fixed an issue with the Baker’s Library building plan.
- Fixed an issue with the Skyline Apartments building plan.
- Made further adjustments to door teleport script to help ensure followers are correctly moved with the player.
- During Hub of the Problem’s final section, Jake will now use a terminal while waiting for the player to search for things, rather than just standing still, so it looks like he is actually trying to assist in the search for information.
- Jake should now correctly have a piece of armor at the start of Hub of the Problem, making the “question option” the player has about armor make more sense. This was in the mod at some point and removed temporarily due to clipping issues, which should be mostly resolved now.
¶ Version 1.0.12
¶ Version 1.0.12 - Manufacturing Operation
🕗 April 30, 2021
- Fixed a bug with plot reports that could cause them to show Caps as the produced item or operating cost instead of the actual item name.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Conversion class buildings to frequently just produce the same items they were consuming.
-- Existing plots with these building plans will need to have their power toggled, or be refreshed to update their production tables. - Fixed production for the Munitions Factory.
- Distillery will no longer produce Nuka Cola and quest item liquors.
- Furniture Workshop will now correctly produce additional furniture in Furniture Stores.
- Switching a plot to a building plan with no settlement resources defined from one that did will now correctly clear out the previous resources.
- Fixed display bugs in the Infobox that would prevent operating costs from showing up correctly.
- Production class building plans will now correctly display what they are producing when activating the ASAM Sensor and choosing View Reports > Production.
- Filled a large number of properties missing on various quests. None of these were important to current functionality, but were causing lots of Papyrus warnings.
- Hauer’s quest will no longer start before the prerequisite quest.
- Hauer will now correctly wait where his objective tells you to meet him.
- Battle Log holotape during Hauer’s quest now has default content for people who managed to get it before completing OM0R’s quest.
- [SS2Extended] Most buildings from SS2.esm now have custom explosions for when the plot is scrapped or the building plan is changed to make the actual building explode into its parts instead of just generic debris.
- The quest Turncoat Turnover will now only select clearable locations. Previously it could select locations that could never be marked cleared, and thus the quest could not complete.
- Produced resources will now correctly show up on the Info Box HUD element for Industrial plots.
- Info Box HUD element now correctly displays resources to match the player’s complexity setting, rather than always showing component level.
¶ Version 1.0.11
¶ Version 1.0.11 - The Performance Menu
🕗 April 16, 2021
- Disabled player character comments when activating City Planner’s desk for crafting.
- Fixed the Magazine Press building plan.
- Fixed the Body Armor Technology building plan.
- Expanded Performance Settings section of the holotape/MCM to provide controls over the types of objects that Plots/City Plans will place.
- Turning these settings off will slow down the placement code, but will reduce the number of items needed to render which can result in improved FPS for some players.
- Not all items in the game are tagged in a way that these settings can be acknowledged, so will not impact every matching item.
- City Plans will now acknowledge the build limit, meaning they will not be eligible to upgrade if the settlement is at max, unless the Respect Build Limit setting is turned off.
- Updated all building plans in SS2 to support the performance settings. (Thank you Rudy!)
- Fixed z-fighting on Chemical Plant, Lumber Yard, New Bugle, Munitions Factory, Oil Well, Paper Mill, and Nuclear Arms building plans.
- Fixed a bug that caused resources spent from the Caravan network to actually increase the resource counts instead of spend them.
- [Addon Authors] Random clutter formlists for weapons have had their Editor IDs updated to match the corresponding statics. This should make it easier to update the stage item spreadsheets when using one of the statics as a placeholder in your design in the CK.
- If you have any spreadsheets you keep archived, you will want to update them. The previous editor IDs started with “kgSIM_RandomClutter_Misc_Stored_Weapons”, and now start with “kgSIM_RandomClutter_Misc_Weapons_Stored”.
- Fixed a large number of subtitles in the main quest line to match what the actors are saying.
- Jake’s gun now has a custom reload sound (this is something we have had for a while but only recently solved the technical requirement to use it without overwriting the default laser pistol reload sound).
- Fixed an issue with some of the item placement in the interior Gravel Processing building plan.
- Plots will now clear out stage items before triggering an explosion. This will delay the explosion in some cases, but will reduce the feel that items were “left behind” by scrapping of plots or changing plans.
- Remastered Tom Thorn’s audio which had some issues in the initial release.
- Odette will no longer start her introduction conversation if the player is in Workshop Mode or using a workbench.
- Custom IconOffsetPositions for HOLO Icons on building plans and skins should now continue to work correctly under all circumstances. Previously, these could be ignored under some scenarios.
- Killing Skout or Sickle will now fail the quest Suburban Disturbance.
- Cleared the Obstacle flag on many of the default SS2 building plans; this was part of a system from SS1 that helped with pathing, but in SS2 actually causes them to be unpathable.
- Fixed missing model for Tear-Down Yard building plan unlock.
- Crystal Cavern ladder will now correctly teleport the player to an underground cell. (Refresh any existing plots using this building plan to gain this functionality.)
- Ore Mine can now correctly be entered by the player. (Refresh any existing plots using this building plan to gain this functionality.)
- Restored several missing items to Hazmat Recycling level 3 building plan. (Refresh any existing plots using this building plan to gain the missing items.)
- Modified the script used to teleport companions into and out of custom cells to prevent it from leaving them behind if the game is under heavy script lag.
¶ Version 1.0.10
¶ Version 1.0.10 - Rise of the Hotkeys
🕗 March 19, 2021
- Refresh Plot can now recover a plot that ends up with a mismatched level and building plan.
- Added Apply Themes to Manual Selection under the Usability section of the options.
- When ON, any settlement theme configuration will apply to manually changing the building plan on a plot as well. This can help reduce the number of options players are presented with to just those that match the intended theme.
- The Pack Animal traveling with a salvage beacon team can now be activated after the pick-up to access the items. This is primarily an immersion enhancement.
- Scanning a settler with the Vit-o-Matic will now fix any issues from beacon runs that failed to clean up properly. This could be used to fix an issue where a settler went to pick up a beacon and their AI package stopped updating, leaving them standing outside of the settlement indefinitely.
- Fixed an issue with the salvage beacon code that could result in the container’s activate text always saying “Open Cache,” even after the pick up was completed.
- Added MCM hotkey options to trigger the Town Meeting Gavel and to Toggle the HOLO Icons.
- Added Gather Unemployed, Gather Homeless, and Gather Bored options to the Town Meeting Gavel menu, which will summon people lacking those corresponding assignments to the player’s location.
- Fixed several bad characters in the Museum plaques for the Longfellow’s Cabin Museum provided by the Rise of the Commonwealth City Plan.
- Fixed the navmesh for level 1 of Hazmat Recycling building plan.
- Fixed a bug that could cause City Plans to be eligible to upgrade immediately instead of after a certain amount of time passed.
- Settler gear or buffs that increase their SPECIAL stats will no longer prevent training their base stats beyond 10.
- For example, if a settler has 8 agility and a piece of gear with +2 agility, they can still continue to train until their base is 10 agility - at which point the +2 would still count, granting them 12 agility total.
- Fixed a bug during the quest Vim and Vigor that would prevent the player from speaking to Katlin or Old Rusty if while they had the objective to speak to either of them, they happened to complete the quest Hole in the Wall.
- Tom Thorn’s appearance trigger is now correctly tied to the quest Where There’s Smoke being completed.
- Fixed a bug that would cause plots to not count resources provided by other settlements through the caravan network when calculating if the plot could upgrade.
- Added a new craftable item at the City Planner’s Desk called City Manager Tools. This is an aid item that will bring up a menu of many of the tools and menus SS2 offers.
- This is designed to be a quick access tool for users who don’t have access to MCM hotkeys so they can avoid having to commit so many slots on their favorites bar.
- Currently offers access to Town Meeting Gavel, ASAM HOLO Icon Toggler (requires unlock), ASAM Tracking (requires unlock), Vit-o-Matic Tracking (requires unlock), Resource Panel Report View, and HUD Position Controls.
- Fixed the scale of the multi-person residential unlock icon.
- [RotC] Updated all City Plans to provide better navmesh capabilities. This requires Workshop Framework 2.0.11.
- This fix is not retroactive to settlements already using these City Plans. Those will require refreshing the City Plan to fix, which can be a time-consuming process. After doing so you will need to save and reload your game to see if it had an impact.
- Eliminated the Missing Plugin warnings on some of the plans.
- Removed a large number of items flagged as PC ONLY to avoid them showing up as red exclamation missing model icons for Xbox players.
¶ Version 1.0.9
¶ Version 1.0.9a - Hotfix
🕗 March 6, 2021
- Addon packs should more reliably register their data when loaded immediately. Previously, the forms could fail to register until after the player saved and loaded the game again.
- Updated the Workshop Framework version check.
¶ Version 1.0.9 - Where There's Smoke
🕗 March 5, 2021
- Added a new field that can be set manually in City Plan sub-layouts through the CK called ‘bDoNotUseCinematicMode’ which allows for bypassing that layout from forcing the player into cinematic mode.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Jake to run back to the hardware store during Where There’s Smoke if the previous quest was skipped or the player declined the explanation of those plot types.
- During New Plots on the Block the camera should no longer clip into Jake’s face when working on the Comm Hub.
- If you know of particular quest moments where this occurs for other quests, please let me know as I now have a solution, but don’t have notes on all of the moments this happens to apply the fix.
- During New Plots on the Block Jake will now snap into working on the Comm Hub if he gets stuck pathing for more than 2 seconds.
- During Where There’s Smoke adjusted the location Jake runs back into the room from, to try and eliminate a silly looking moment after the radio conversation.
- Odette should now correctly greet the player again if they declined her initial offer, or if they accidentally walked away from the conversation before answering.
- If Breakhart Banks was already cleared before the quest A Kiss Before You Leave Me, the molerats should now correctly attack the player.
- Fixed a dialogue condition with Dr. Meztli Jones that would result in her quest not functioning if the player had Overdue Books in their inventory before completing it.
- Fixed a bug where the player could end up with the “If I Had a Hammer” objectives before Old Paul gave them the quest.
- Added collision to model kgSIM_PBP_InsLightFixture01.
- Fixed issues with two light models that could cause crashing under certain circumstances: SS2_Ohnno_kgSIM_PoweredLightFancy_yellow and SS2_NoPower_Light_Lantern.
- MALA should now correctly return to Concord and resume patrolling shortly after the end of Chapter 1.
- Added a larger hitbox to the wall-mounted ASAM sensor so there are more places it can be interacted with than just the screen.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent City Plans from actually being removed correctly.
- Fixed several bugs with the Laser Cannon that could result in strange character animation issues or duplicate models.
- The raider leader, during the quest Casting a Line, will no longer start the game spawned where he could be killed accidentally and will instead be spawned during the quest.
- Most SS2 controllers will no longer react to the player entering or exiting the settlement if in Cinematic Mode. This should reduce some of the script backup that can occur during City Plan placement.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Audra, Knox, and Anton from speaking any of their settler dialogue.
- Fixed placement issues with several building plan items.
- Made improvements to the beacon system to reduce the likelihood of SS2 failing to find an available caravan worker to come pick up items.
- Talking ASAM Sensors during Jake’s demonstrations will now correctly be attached to the plots in case the player moves the plot after initial placement.
- Protectron cure option for Clinic should now work as expected instead of saying Token not found.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent “100% chance” discoveries from the beacon system from being made 100% of the time as designed.
- Brewery, New Bugle, and Magazine Press are now unlocked automatically with the [Production] class of Industrial. This change was made to ensure more players get a chance to experience all of the content those building plans provide, which was especially important for add-on pack authors looking to inject content into the systems those plans are in charge of.
- Crystal Cavern building plan will now build the correct building instead of the Ceramics Kiln.
- If you had previously built this building plan and received the Ceramics Kiln, change the building plan to something else, let it start building, then change it back to the Crystal Cavern.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Power Transfer building class from unlocking correctly through natural progression.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Munitions Factory name and graphic to be displayed for both its own Discovery and the Discovery of the Ore Mine building plan.
- Modified Gremlin’s Agility so she can now use Advanced and Hi-Tech Defenses immediately.
- Fixed a bug that could cause job title applications to fail for the last person assigned to a multi-person building plan if that plan also had defined custom job titles.
- Scanning a settler with the Vit-o-Matic (by alternate Scan activation or by shooting them) will now automatically refresh their Job Title and Assignment Keywords to ensure they show accurate data. This will also help more accurate autoassignment for that NPC after the scan.
- Added Miscellaneous subcategory to SS2’s Decorations menu for addon pack authors to use.
- Renamed several unused forms in the CK to add KG_ReuseMe or OBSOLETE. These are forms that were migrated from SS1 but are not currently being used. This was done to help eliminate confusion for addon authors as we cannot delete forms in a live mod without risking save corruption for players.
¶ Version 1.0.8
¶ Version 1.0.8 - The Cure For Madness
🕗 February 19, 2021
- Fixed a bug that would prevent City Plans from changing plot types/building plans and the level as well. Now they can do all three at the same time if the designer wishes.
- Fixed a bug with the HUD that would cause it to get stuck when entering a new settlement.
- The HUD should now start hidden on game load until triggered to appear based on player’s settings (by default this would be on entering workshop mode).
- HUD should reappear much faster after the first initialization on save load.
- City Plan upgrades are now better threaded which will result in dramatically improved performance.
- City Plan remote upgrades will now correctly clean up duplicate items and handle plot upgrades when the player returns to the settlement next. This can take a fair amount of time, but will run silently in the background.
- Updated Sickle and Skout’s audio so the volume is more closely balanced to vanilla super mutant voices.
- During the quest Memory Lane, when Jake reacts to a power outage, a sound effect indicating the power outage will now play correctly.
- During the quest Memory Lane, if the protectron fails to speak in time, a sound of something breaking will play for Jake to react to before walking downstairs to find Paul and Hubert.
- Updated generator power sounds used in Concord.
- On patch load, the Protectron settler voice quest should reboot itself to fix an issue with global variable display during the clinic scene.
- Assignment Requirements will now default to off for all but High Involvement settings when a City Plan is used. This will allow City Plan designers to use the higher tiered buildings in their designs without players having to worry about whether the settlers have appropriate stats to use them.
- Tutorial pop-ups from plots should no longer appear if the player is not in the settlement at the moment they would normally occur.
- When Maintenance Costs are enabled, items with the NoCripple keyword will not be given maintenance costs. This vanilla keyword was chosen intentionally so other mod authors can easily flag items that don’t make sense to have maintenance costs.
- Municipal Power pole and Municipal Power Switch will no longer require Maintenance Costs as they simply represent the total power produced by power plots which already have their own operating costs.
- Modified Claudia’s placement to attempt to prevent her from spawning under the world in some mod combinations.
- Restored additional missing Protectron settler voice files.
- [Experimental] Added a new global to adjust the update frequency of cinematic mode which will theoretically make it much smoother. This is flagged as experimental as it might cause script lag or other problematic behaviors, and so it is only available via console command.
- The global is called SS2_Settings_CameraMode_UpdateFrequency and can be changed by running: set SS2_Settings_CameraMode_UpdateFrequency to X, where X is a number. The default value is 1.0, lowering this number to something like 0.25 or 0.1 will substantially smooth out the camera movement.
- Fixed a bug with the SPECIAL training plots that prevented anyone but the primary owner from actually receiving the training benefits.
- Fixed a bug that was causing tons of assignment issues with people assigned to multi-settler supporting building plans.
- After Jake returns to the hardware store from the settlement in Where There’s Smoke, Memory Lane will automatically start and post an objective.
- Synths during the quest Red Handed will now correctly attack the player, even if they had sided with the Institute. While unimmersive, it at least will guarantee the player can complete the quest at that point.
- [Addon Authors] Per request, added framework level support for Valentine’s Day (just in time…), which is set to operate during the in-game month of February. This does not include any decorations, but ensures all addon pack authors can register to the same event.
- Other holidays can be added in the future if you’d like to see them centrally available for multiple mods to easily contribute to.
- Building Stage Models for plots built after this patch should be correctly tagged with SS2_Tag_PlotSpawned, which some scripts may use to distinguish them from other objects.
- Added several new behind the scenes scripts to help with City Plan design for the upcoming return of the City Plan Contest.
¶ Version 1.0.7
¶ Version 1.0.7 - City Plans Level Up!
🕗 February 5, 2021
- Restored missing protectron clinic voice files.
- Fixed a bug in the City Plan creation web tool that would result in the City Plans generated from it sometimes creating duplicate plots after level 1 of the City Plan.
- Added Involvement setting under Gameplay Options > City Building. This option controls the rules that City Plan run settlements use.
- None: This settlement will be fully automated, it will ignore all gameplay mechanics and simply build itself as defined by the City Plan designer over time. Note that happiness is always a concern; if it ever drops to 0, you will lose control of the settlement as the player.
- Low: Only the Junk needed to construct the plots and City Plan levels will be acknowledged.
- Moderate: Junk needed and settler needs, such as food/water/defense will be acknowledged.
- Full: The City Plan run settlement will follow all settings you have enabled (for example, if you have maintenance or operating costs turned on, those systems will function in City Plan settlements as well).
- Added Junk Storage Requires Defense setting under Gameplay Options > Difficulty. When ON, the default option, the special Junk Storage containers you build in workshop mode will require extra defense in that settlement.
- This mechanic has always been in place, but this option simply gives you the ability to turn it off.
- Due to the way this system is built, SS2 cannot retroactively remove the defense needs, so this setting will only apply to Junk Storage objects built after this setting is changed.
- This option will default to off for City Plans unless the player has the new Involvement setting on Full. This should make it much easier for City Plan designers to balance their settlements as they won’t be forced to spam defenses to make up for Junk Storage space they’ve added.
- Added Remove City Plan option to the Manage City Plan menu. This will allow for clearing the City Plan record and optionally scrapping all items from that plan.
- City Plan construction will now trigger Cinematic Mode slightly sooner. This will be especially noticeable in leveled City Plans which could have a lengthy delay before this occurred.
- Fixed a bug at the start of Where There’s Smoke where if the player had previously skipped the explanation from New Plots on the Block, Jake would wander away and cause the camera to get stuck.
- Fixed a bug that would cause City Plan upgrades to ignore Designer’s Choice after level 0.
- Plots that upgrade in an unloaded settlement will now delay updating their items until the next time the player is in the area. This should greatly reduce leftover items from previous levels.
- Skout is now marked protected so he can’t be killed by Sickle’s crossfire in Suburban Disturbance.
- Manual plot upgrade confirmation message will now correctly show the plot level being upgraded to.
- SS2Extended now has an improved model for the dissected ASAM sensors that are used in a few places around the gameworld.
- Fixed the strange yellow glowing texture on some of the window models.
- Tiny Box Tim’s “loot boxes” will now contain actual scrap objects instead of the corresponding components.
- Fixed several building plan issues with Wasteland Manor and Skyline Apartments.
- Refresh any plots using these plans to see the updates.
- HUDFramework elements should now be shut down during Cinematic Mode. This will reduce unnecessary script traffic during City Plan building and reduce likelihood of HUD lockup occurring.
- Fixed a bug where Cinematic Mode would still be used during City Plan upgrades even if the player had disabled it.
- Cinematic Mode will no longer fire in Interior settlements.
- Cinematic Mode will now continue running until the settlement construction/upgrade is completed. Previously it would stop shortly after the song finished playing once.
- This can take a significant amount of time due to all of the background code that must run. Cinematic mode can be exited safely at any time by opening/closing the pipboy and the code will continue to run in the background.
- Sirens will now be shut off after the power up sequence is complete during City Plan construction.
- Plots will now update their Active status any time they are refreshed, power changes, or assignment changes.
- Previously this was only occurring on level up or at the beginning of each in-game day when the core code would loop through and test all plots.
- This change should result in plots being much more responsive to restore their functionality after the player fixes any status problems.
- Fixed material file on 3x3 Wood Foundations.
- Fixed navmesh on 3x3 Wood and Concrete Foundations.
¶ Version 1.0.6
¶ Version 1.0.6 - Kinggath's Day Off
🕗 January 22, 2021
- Cedric Mansfield now has a series of radiant quests to earn XP and caps.
- Fixed a bed mesh that had some texture flickering.
- Fixed a bug in the resource production calculations for the Conversion building class.
- Added debug log output for the visitor/unique system to make it easier for people to test for issues with the new design.
- Sibling Shack building plan will now correctly have NPC beds instead of a player bed. Refresh any plots using this building plan to get the update.
- Fixed visual bugs in the following building plans: Baker’s Library, Building Materials Shed, and Scrapheap Skyrise.
- Refresh any plots using these to see the changes.
- Fixed visual bugs in the following building plan skins: Dr. Meztli Jone’s Raised Shack, Charles Baker’s Raised Shack, Odette’s Single Window, and Randy Adam’s Raised Shack.
- Refresh any plots using these to see the changes.
- Fixed a bug where Interior Plots with multiple people assigned could no longer be activated to view the ASAM Sensor menu.
- Fixed a large number of mispointed script properties from obsolete items. This should reduce some of the Papyrus log chatter on game start.
- Restored several missing model files.
- Fixed a speech check with the character Carne Asada.
- Added a new voice type for Protectrons called SS2_VT_ProtectronSettler, which allows protectrons using it to function as settlers, including barter and clinic lines.
- Doc Shock switched to use the new voice type for Protectron settler lines.
- Plot doors can now work with the Door Management system in Workshop Framework. All future built, upgraded, and refreshed plots will gain this ability. (The Door Management system can be turned on in the Workshop Framework options to have doors automatically open upon entering workshop mode).
- Caravan Services fast travel will now correctly work with Level 2 and Level 3 Caravan Services plots. Previously this only worked with Level 2 due to a mistake in the dialogue configuration.
- Unlockables now support the UsageRequirements fields: SettlementAVRequirements, SettlementKeywordRequirements, SettlementKeywordRestrictions, SettlementWorkshopRequirements, and SettlementDataRequirements. When any of these are set, they will evaluate to true if any settlement the player owns matches all of the settings.
- Unique settler Scribe Monty Phylon should now correctly be eligible to appear at settlements with a Brewery, so long as the Prydwen has arrived and is not destroyed.
- Fixed a bug that would have caused Scribe Monty Phylon’s questline to get stuck under certain circumstances.
- Added MakeUniqueVisitor function to the quest SS2_NPC_RecruitmentManager to make it easy for people to inject unique NPCs into the wandering visitor system without having to use the unlock character system. The function accepts an actor, a starting workshop (optional - uses a random player owned settlement if blank), and an array of potential workshops (optional - uses all player owned settlements if blank)
- NPCs added via this system will randomly travel between up to 3 settlements the player controls. (In the future, the 3 may be expanded to more)
- Added new console command for City Plan designers: cqf ss2_cityPlanManager CalculateJunkStorageNeedsForCityPlan X
- Replace X with the level you are working on for your City Plan. This will return the minimum Junk Storage your previous level design should have in order for settlers to be able to eventually upgrade to it without the player needing to contribute anything.
- Reduced Upgrade Costs of City Plans by approximately 50%. Due to us not being focused on leveled city plans for launch, the initial costs were far too high. These values may be adjusted further as we gather more information on how they play out in an actual game now that we’re doing work on leveled city plans internally.
¶ Version 1.0.5
¶ Version 1.0.5 - End of the Conga Line
🕗 January 8, 2021
- Removed several duplicated outfit meshes from the BA2 file.
- There will now be a quest objective after loading the ASAM tape in the quest New Plots on the Block directing players to speak to Jake in case he wanders off.
- Fixed a bug where the Speech Check when Jake was wounded during Scavver’s Delight would not correctly advance the conversation.
- Tweaked the scene in It Came From Planet X where Katie speaks to you outside to try and prevent an issue some players were experiencing where an AI package would take her back inside, interrupting the conversation.
- Fixed several MCM dropdown menus under the HUD section.
- Fixed a bug that could allow skipping ahead to the Grey Matters quest by activating a terminal even before speaking to Anton.
- O-M-0R, Treadwell, and Mister Handsy now all have the WorkshopRatingPopulation actor value so they will correctly update population in the settlement.
- Amara Blackmoon and April Li now correctly display quest credits in their objectives after completing their quests.
- Carl Meade should now correctly give the player more darts when asking him during the quest.
- Brotherhood of Steel, Institute, and Railroad faction NPCs will no longer show up if the player has destroyed their factions.
- Fixed a bug that was causing unique settlers to show up far too quickly. In general they are supposed to be lured by a settlement’s success as a reward over time, but were instead showing up almost immediately.
- Note that this change will only impact future playthroughs.
- Finishing the 2 side quests The Ron gives the player during The Coolest Cat will now correctly trigger unique NPCs to begin showing up at settlements if the player hadn’t naturally had any show up through the Visitor system.
- Visitors can now appear even without Commercial/Recreational plots at a settlement, though at a very small rate, and only after at least 20 levels worth of plots exist in the settlement. (So 20 level 1 plots, or 10 level 2 plots, or 7 level 3 plots, or some combination thereof, where the total levels is >= 20).
- Commercial and Recreational plots continue to provide a substantial increase to the number and likelihood of visitors appearing.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Unique NPCs to just stand in one spot. The AI package for these visitors should now correctly make them hang around a settlement for a few days before moving on to another settlement (assuming it meets the requirements of that visitor’s interests - for example, Joe Gallagher only visits settlements with level 3 agricultural plots).
- Robco Backyard Robotics Issue #1 will now only give items one time. (If you already looted this, it will happen once more for you if you attempt the exploit and then should not occur again.)
- Activating the West Everetts Basement door will now mark the West Everetts map marker as discovered. (Ideal solution would have been to extend the range at which the map marker is explored, but that’s not something we can do without vanilla edits.)
- Terminals inside of the Lucky Scavver building plan should no longer have a partially missing texture.
- Changing a plot type will now cause the current plot to cancel its construction. This will refund some of the construction costs and prevent scaffolding from being left behind.
- Building Classes now have a custom 3D icon in both the building plan select menu and during the unlock screen. This icon matches the icon that displays over the plot once built.
- Building Class unlocks now have a custom sound.
- The Ron’s recruitment menu will now only show SPECIAL stats of people he knows are available.
- Fixed a bug that could cause The Ron’s recruitment loop to get stuck if the player chose Cancel.
- Fixed a bug that could cause The Ron’s recruitment service to track a character, or an object related to that character (For example, the Intercom near Rob Lambair’s bunker), the player had already unlocked.
- The Ron’s recruitment system will clear out any already recruited characters that previously failed to clear each time the game is loaded. This will prevent things like misconfigured unlock records from causing the recruitment system to ever become stuck for good.
- Fixed several ASAM Sensor records which were incorrectly flagged as “Unscrappable.”
- Interior Plots now accept special Power Poles being injected from addons as an option for players to place.
- Characters unlocked by The Ron’s system that don’t end up becoming settlers will now correctly be cleared from tracking when talking to them.
- Tweaked Aiden’s outfit slightly to try and prevent his shoulders from appearing so inflated during certain scenes.
¶ Version 1.0.4
¶ Version 1.0.4 - Post Launch Micro-Content
🕗 December 28, 2020
- Fixed a bug where some vendors would have no inventory. This would most commonly impact custom shop types.
- The quest Ain’t Nothin But a Hound Dog has been restored. This quest is not meant to occur until after you have completed the vanilla quest Taking Independence and restored Radio Freedom. If you had it come up before then prior to this patch, the character mentioned in the objectives will show up at the Castle sometime after you complete Taking Independence and someone is working the Radio Freedom receiver at the Castle. Note that unique recruitable NPCs are tied to the visitor system, so you must have your settlement in a state that it would normally receive visitors, such as having recreational and commercial plots set up.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent turning in books to Dr. Meztli Jones.
- Amara Blackmoon will no longer chase the player down to start her quest.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent turning in the Batter-up Buttercup to Lacey Buckles.
- Ventilator now correctly starts with Gifted Perception so he can operate Advanced and Hi-Tech Water Plants.
- Leveled City Plans now correctly have happiness and settler requirement checks. Previously, a City Plan with levels would be eligible to upgrade immediately if the settlement had the appropriate resources available.
- Far Harbor city plans built after this patch will no longer break workshop mode in those settlements. The issue had to do with the build zone markers being disabled due to an incorrect scrap profile. This profile has been updated on our servers as well so that additional City Plans generated for those settlements will not cause this problem.
- Mansfield will now correctly acknowledge your previous help with the Vault residents, and no longer make you do the first round of tasks if you previously helped with Austin when asking him about the schematics. Instead he will skip right to his personal request to check on someone.
- The unlockable building plan “Sibling Shack” now correctly supports 2 occupants.
- Fixed a problem with the collision for the default 2x2 furniture store models.
- Fixed placement issues with the following building plans: Communication Shack, Watershed, Tato Mud Farm, Wasteland Manor, Tin Can, House Boat, Scrapheap Skyrise, Laser Cannon Platform, Tear-down Yard, Tax Office, Organics Hoarder, Tosser Training, and Sensory Lab.
- Interior settlements with Communications buildings will now use their map markers to determine worldspace so that beacons correctly detect them.
- Interior settlements now use map markers for detecting distance between settlements for things like Caravans and beacon runs.
- Laser Cannon Platform laser will no longer be left behind when refreshing, upgrading or moving the plot.
- Doc Shock now has the WorkshopRatingPopulation stat so that he’ll increase the settler count.
¶ Version 1.0.3
¶ Version 1.0.3 - Side Questing
🕗 December 11, 2020
- Fixed a bug that would cause Flag and Leader selection to eventually stop working.
- Fixed a bug with the Makeshift Armorer leader trait.
- Fixed a bug that would cause one of the dialogue choices with Stodge during Who Can? ASAM! to cause the scene to end until you spoke to him again.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the dialogue scene led by Theresa during Who Can? ASAM!, under certain scenarios, to get stuck.
- Fixed a bug in Who Can? ASAM! where after Theresa suggests people step forward, the scene stalls out and can’t continue.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Dog from Let Sleeping Dogs Lie from being interacted with. This was a bug that had previously been fixed and was reintroduced with 1.0.2.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Not All Artists Starve where the player would try and turn in the quest to every NPC.
- The characters Archibald and Treadwell will now correctly trigger a second quest about 24 hours after Not All Artists Starve. Anyone who had previously completed the first quest will find a new quest starting a day or two in-game after loading this patch.
- Fixed a player line from Foggy Winters’ introduction that would play the male player voice for both male and female player characters.
- Fixed grammar and spelling mistakes across nearly every quest and NPC dialogue pool. (Thanks Lively!)
- Fixed a bug with Odette’s quest that would make her initial greeting behave very oddly.
- Level 3 Pet Stores will now sell versions of all base game dog-equippable items, but these versions are resized specifically for the small dog breeds.
- Fixed Sneake’s quest which was meant to be a traditional fist-fight brawl, but would typically end in him dying or killing the player instead.
- Fixed a number of player voice files from interacting with The Ron that were meant to be edited down to a portion of the line.
- Tweaked one of our model files that may have been the source of the mystery collision many users were reporting.
- Fixed the Commercial Requirement setting in MCM.
- Fixed a bug with one of the sculptures from Archibald that could crash the game for some users.
- Made a large number of behind the scenes changes in preparation for the upcoming City Planner’s tools release.
- Tweaked Old Paul’s face settings slightly to attempt to eliminate the spiked ear bug that occurs for some players.
- Restored the Decorations menu to the Sim Settlements Workshop menu. This includes settlement controlled flags and banners, and is also used for some rewards that can be unlocked.
- Fixed Lacey Buckle’s quest again. This was broken due to a merge. (If you notice a pattern here with things rebreaking and me citing the issue as due to a merge, we unfortunately lack proper version control tools for the CK across our global team - so this occasionally occurs).
- All SS2 character idle dialogue (lines the NPCs speak unprompted when you are in their vicinity) is now on a 1 hour timeout so they won’t spam the lines while standing near the player. Exception is the shopkeeper barks on certain NPCs that were introduced with patch 1.0.2.
- Fixed a position bug with one of the holiday decorations.
- Fixed preview texture for Gravel Terraformer.
- Disabled havok on several oil lamp forms in SS2 that are used by building plans.
- Fixed a bug where talking to any NPC after receiving an objective to return to the quest giver would cause the quest “Red Handed” to advance.
- Purchased pets should no longer leave the purchased item in your inventory.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent plot stores that are configured to display some of their actual inventory (such as the Pet Store and Furniture Store) from actually doing so. Refresh those plots to apply this fix.
- Any pets purchased after this patch will now have a Pet Options alternate activation. Previously this would only show up for the current pet. This menu allows renaming, changing inventory, changing home settlement, and changing which pet is active to follow the player like a companion.
- Unlock All Building Plans cheat should now correctly unlock any building plans or skins that are locked behind various quests and gameplay elements as well.
- Small dog sounds have been expanded to react similarly to other dogs in the base game.
- Fixed the Resource Complexity setting in the MCM menu.
- Fixed a few player dialogue lines that were too long.
- Added a missing dialogue line for The Ron.
¶ Version 1.0.2
¶ Version 1.0.2 - Commercial Paradise
🕗 November 27, 2020
- Fixed a bug that would cause Jake to walk outside of the building during Hub of the Problem causing the quest to get locked up. - If you experienced this issue, return to the lobby shortly after this save loads, Jake should be teleported to the lobby and the scene will resume.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the “New Power Pole” screen to crash for some users.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Amara Blackmoon’s quest from being able to be turned in.
- Fixed a large number of grammar, spelling, and mismatched subtitle issues in the first 4 quests of the main quest line and several side character quests. (Thank you Lively!) - Many more subtitle issue fixes to come!
- Fixed a bug where Jake would not travel with the player during Where There’s Smoke if the player agreed to help, and instead would only show up when the player reached the final location.
- The quest objective in Piper’s office triggered by one of The Ron’s settler recruitments will now correctly point to a note instead of nothing.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the item for the quest Buckle Up, Buttercup to not appear correctly.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent turning in Lacey Buckles’ quest.
- Fixed a bug in the quest Not All Artists Starve which could cause the player to attempt to start the turn-in scene to every NPC due to a condition problem.
- Fixed a bug in the quest Hub of the Problem where if you activated the inaccessible hatch without unlocking it, Jake could start his sub-basement scene before teleporting and he would fail to correctly go into the cell.
- Fixed a bug in Hesper’s dialogue that would make some of the dialogue options not make any sense.
- Fixed one of the production report messages to display the correct name.
- Fixed another bug that was causing the “Ain’t Nothing But a Hounddog” quest to start for players automatically. This quest was not supposed to be released yet and will be re-enabled in a future update.
- Added several additional templates to make it easier for add-on makers to generate content for SS2.
- The New Bugle Newspaper and Magazine Printer buildings should now correctly inject newspaper articles and magazines, respectively, into the Bookstore class shopkeeper inventory of Commercial buildings.
- Added new setting: "Allow Stat Cards To Reduce Stats" under Gameplay > NPCs. This was previously rolled into another option regarding Uniques being allowed to have their stats adjusted. This allows the Character Stat card system, which allows SS2 to rebalance unique NPCs SPECIAL stats to reduce stats. If this is disabled, SS2 will only ever improve stats when applying rebalancing. (Which is ironic, but will at least prevent unwanted changes to a player’s game.)
- Added colored bars to Vit-o-Matic screen SPECIAL stats to make them more visually interesting.
- Aiden’s Outfit should now correctly work with VATS.
- Fixed visual bugs in outfits for Andrew Docker, Franklin, Crow and Raven Corvus, Dee Harris, and Dr. Meztli Jones.
- Fixed a few holiday posters which were incorrectly repeating the same texture too many times.
- Fixed the meshes for several buildings so they now correctly have collision again.
- Fixed several issues with various building plans.
- Added custom barter dialogue and shopkeeper idle barks to the following characters: Old Paul, Lily, Anton, Audra, Knox, Franklin, Katie Powell, Julia Powell, Alex Powell, Hubert, Stodge, and Theresa.
- Removed several unused models from the archive files.
- Unlocks will no longer trigger while using crafting workbenches. This was done to prevent a scenario where the game would not let you exit the Unlock screen or the workbench.
- Fixed conditioning on several of Katlin’s lines that were meant to comment on things the player had done to help Vault 81.
¶ Version 1.0.1
¶ Version 1.0.1 - The Resurrection
🕗 November 13, 2020
- Fixed a bug with Carne Asade not accepting quest turn-in. Generally side quest bugs I’m going to be holding off on until we get past hotfixes, but this one turned out to just be a quick dialogue issue.
- Grey Matters should now try and reboot any scenes that became stuck in previous builds, simply return to the hotel, or if you’ve already made your decision during the quest, return to the room you found the terminal.
- Added a “save resurrection” system. This is a background system that monitors for failures in SS2 to start up due to things like Fallout 4 dropping quest startups. 60 seconds after the game is started, this controller will attempt to force boot up the SS2 quests that failed to start previously. If a failure was detected a warning message will pop-up telling you this process is going to run, followed by another pop-up after it completes.
- Reduced Sickle’s heath dramatically - he had been duplicated from a boss NPC originally and had unreasonably high stats.
- Reduced small dog damage to half that of Dogmeat.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent addon packs from registering additional building plans from updates after they had been installed if the player had already made a manual selection for that plot type.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Stranger to repeat all of his dialogue for the quest Plotting the Future after the first Agricultural plot was complete.
- Fixed a bug with the Power Armor store model that was causing the game to crash. For those of you crashing when approaching/fast traveling to some settlements, this could have been the cause.
- Boosted volume of radio chatter during Where There’s Smoke.
- Added a new system for troubleshooting and bypassing stuck quests to help us bug hunt, and players to get past mod conflicts. To use this, run the console command: Cqf ss2_mqmaster skipToQuest X Where X is the editor ID or form ID of the quest, the quests can be found in the creation kit by filtering for SS2*MQ. Note that this can take a few minutes to run as it cycles through many quest stages to ensure all rewards are unlocked and dynamic world changes are made in order (for example all the changes to the hardware store that occur throughout the questline). If after you've waited several minutes you appear to have no quest objective - you will likely need to talk to Jake next.
- Plotting the Future and New Plots on the Block demonstrations should now be a bit more responsive between when Jake works on the plot and the ASAM follow-up scene starts.
- In the intro scene of Hub of the Problem, fixed a dialogue issue where failing the speech check would cause the dialogue scene to exit instead of continuing.
- Hub of the Problem initial sequence will now only triggers when entering through the main lobby. Using the back entrance will no longer trigger Jake’s scenes to start which results in him getting stuck in the basement.
- In the lobby scene of Hub of the Problem, added several protections against the scene getting stuck due to combat causing the ghouls to trigger before their intended moments.
- Fixed a bug in the dialogue for quest Memory Lane where asking Jake for the short version of his story causes the dialogue to not continue. If you previously experienced this issue, you should be able to talk to Jake to resume the dialogue tree.
- Fixed a dialogue file at the end of Memory Lane that was cut incorrectly, causing Jake to repeat his dialogue 3 times in a row.
- Updated several objectives in Memory Lane which incorrectly labeled the robot with its name before that event occurred in the questline.
- Fixed a bug during Memory Lane where after turning the power back on, Jake’s dialogue would become interrupted and the quest would not continue normally. If you experienced this bug, you should receive an objective to help Jake’s robot shortly after loading your save with this patch.
- Fixed the objective during “Who Can? ASAM!” which incorrectly tells you to talk to Theresa under certain circumstances instead of being told to talk to Hubert.
- Fixed a bug during “Who Can? ASAM!” where if Stodge was killed, you could no longer choose a leader at all. If you experienced this bug, returning to the scene should now correctly allow you to choose one by talking to one of the candidates and selecting Pick a Leader.
- Fixed a bug during “Who Can? ASAM!” where the City Plan would not automatically trigger correctly, under some circumstances, when meeting up with the settlers at the chosen settlement, causing the quest to get stuck.
- Gunner spawns from Where There’s Smoke will now be disabled after the quest shuts down to avoid them respawning when the zone resets.
- In New Plots on the Block, Jake will now be teleported to Old Paul if the player asks to see the demonstrations once the player loses line of sight with Jake. This will resolve an issue where Jake appeared to become non-responsive before Old Paul pathed his way to Jake.
- [XBox Only] Removed a handful of model files from the XB1 archive to make additional space for future updates. None of these models were used by SS2 content, but may have been used by addon packs. All addon authors have been notified so they can include those models in their packs, if necessary.
- [XBox Only] Reduced the painted wood textures to 1K for XB1 to make additional space for future updates.
- [Xbox Only] Restored the dynamic soundscape sound files and feature.
- [Xbox Only] Restored a number of character combat voice lines which had been cut to make space in the archives at release.
- Custom charge-up sound for Vito-matic now works correctly (previously it had been using the gauss rifle sound).
- The tutorials section of the City Manager holotape should now function correctly.
- Fixed a bug with the Street Lamp power pole from Sim Settlements so that it can be placed without Place Everywhere.
- Improved the models of the Street Lamp and Ornate Street Lamp power poles to restore the smoothing from the original models they were based on.
- Aiden will now correctly stay close to the player during the combat portion of Where There’s Smoke. This should make it easier to find all of the enemies as they are set to use him as their waypoint.
- Fixed a bug that was causing normally uncommandable NPCs to be auto-assigned to plots and some other workshop items.
- Attempted to fix issues with many of the MCM options that have been reported.
- Upgrade Available option on ASAM Sensor menu, which shows up when a plot is eligible for upgrades but hasn’t started its upgrade yet, will now trigger a manual construction attempt which will show resource costs to the player if they haven’t been paid yet.
- Old Paul will now correctly take Dog Food or meat when the player agrees to do so and Cola will then react to it afterwards.
- Fixed a bug with The Ron’s work quest to fetch items that prevented them from updating the objectives or being turned in.
- Restored a missing model that was causing level 2 of the Laser Cannon Platform building crash the game.
- Adjusted several scenes in the quest Grey Matters to match the writer's intentions.
- In the quest Scavver’s Delight, if the raiders outside Satellite Station Olivia were already killed before you arrived, the quest can now continue as normal when entering the station (the objective to clear the raiders outside will simply be hidden when you enter).
- Added several new forms in the SS2.esm plugin to prepare for the launch of the new Builder’s Toolkit which will be coming soon.
- Fixed holiday object registration of default holiday objects to ensure add-on makers have proper examples to follow.
- Fixed a bug with custom vendor registration from addon packs.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Pet Store to also sell Furniture Store items instead of all of the expected Pet Store items. To resolve this with existing vendors, re-assign the pet store owner to something else and then back to the Pet Store which will reset their shop inventory attachment.
- Fixed a bug with L3 Pet Store inventory not registering correctly. If you had been after a Frenchie or other small dog you will find them available for sale at your L3 Pet Stores shortly after this patch loads. If for some reason you don’t, assign your shopkeeper to a different job and then back to the Pet Store to force them to update their vendor status.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Rename feature from working with pets.
- Additional pet names can now be injected by addon packs.
- Fixed a bug that caused pets to continue following the player after being dismissed, unless a new pet was taken along.
- Fixed a bug that could cause selecting a building skin to prevent selecting a building plan from that plot type in the future.
- In the City Manager holotape, selecting Tools > Advanced Tools now displays an option called “Reset Building Plan Caches.” This can sometimes help if you are finding building plans missing for a particular plot type.
- [PC Only] SS2 Extended now includes 5 new dog types: Beagle, Boston Terrier, Chihuahua, Corgi, and Pug - all of which can be purchased from level 3 pet stores.
- Cleaned SS2.esm plugin eliminating a number of dirty edits.
- If you see location edits that appear to be eliminating large swathes of data, look at the Record Flags and you’ll see an unknown flag 14. This is something added by the CK merge process and appears in the Partial Form flag for this record type but Xedit doesn’t seem to have it coded, hence the unknown. The Partial Form flag means the game will use the default values for any part not found in the plugin.
¶ Version 1.0.0
¶ Version 1.0.0M - Public Beta
🕗 November 12, 2020
- In the quest Scavver’s Delight, if the raiders outside Satellite Station Olivia were already killed before you arrived, the quest can now continue as normal when entering the station (the objective to clear the raiders outside will simply be hidden when you enter).
- Added several new forms in the SS2.esm plugin to prepare for the launch of the new Builder’s Toolkit which will be coming soon.
- Fixed holiday object registration of default holiday objects to ensure add-on makers have proper examples to follow.
- Fixed a bug with custom vendor registration from addon packs.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Pet Store to also sell Furniture Store items instead of all of the expected Pet Store items. To resolve this with existing vendors, re-assign the pet store owner to something else and then back to the Pet Store which will reset their shop inventory attachment.
- Fixed a bug with L3 Pet Store inventory not registering correctly. If you had been after a Frenchie or other small dog, you will find them available for sale at your L3 Pet Stores shortly after this patch loads. If for some reason you don’t, assign your shopkeeper to a different job and then back to the Pet Store to force them to update their vendor status.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Rename feature from working with pets.
- Additional pet names can now be injected by addon packs.
- Fixed a bug that caused pets to continue following the player after being dismissed, unless a new pet was taken along.
- Fixed a bug that could cause selecting a building skin to prevent selecting a building plan from that plot type in the future.
- In the City Manager holotape, selecting Tools > Advanced Tools now displays an option called “Reset Building Plan Caches.” This can sometimes help if you are finding building plans missing for a particular plot type.
WSFW Changes:
- Fixed a bug where NPCs removed from the workshop system could end up with the workshop factions still applied.
- Custom Vendor data will now be updated if re-registered with the same ID.
- Improved dynamic barter select system code.
¶ Version 1.0.0L - Public Beta
🕗 November 9, 2020
- Gunner spawns from Where There’s Smoke will now be disabled after the quest shuts down to avoid them respawning when the zone resets.
- In New Plots on the Block, Jake will now be teleported to Old Paul if the player asks to see the demonstrations once the player loses line of sight with Jake. This will resolve an issue where Jake appeared to become non-responsive before Old Paul pathed his way to Jake.
- [XBox Only] Removed a handful of model files from the XB1 archive to make additional space for future updates. None of these models were used by SS2 content, but may have been used by addon packs. All addon authors have been notified so they can include those models in their packs if necessary.
- [XBox Only] Reduced the painted wood textures to 1K for XB1 to make additional space for future updates.
- [Xbox Only] Restored the dynamic soundscape sound files and feature.
- [Xbox Only] Restored a number of character combat voice lines which had been cut to make space in the archives at release.
- Custom charge-up sound for Vito-matic now works correctly (previously it had been using the gauss rifle sound).
- The Tutorials section of the City Manager holotape should now function correctly.
- Fixed a bug with the Street Lamp power pole from Sim Settlements so that it can be placed without Place Everywhere.
- Improved the models of the Street Lamp and Ornate Street Lamp power poles to restore the smoothing from the original models they were based on.
- Aiden will now correctly stay close to the player during the combat portion of Where There’s Smoke. This should make it easier to find all of the enemies as they are set to use him as their waypoint.
- Fixed a bug that was causing normally uncommandable NPCs to be auto-assigned to plots and some other workshop items.
- Attempted to fix issues with many of the MCM options that have been reported.
- Upgrade Available option on ASAM Sensor menu, which shows up when a plot is eligible for upgrades but hasn’t started its upgrade yet, will now trigger a manual construction attempt which will show resource costs to the player if they haven’t been paid yet.
- Old Paul will now correctly take Dog Food or meat when the player agrees to do so and Cola will then react to it afterwards.
- Fixed a bug with The Ron’s work quest to fetch items that prevented them from updating the objectives or being turned in.
- Restored a missing model that was causing level 2 of the Laser Cannon Platform building to crash the game.
- Adjusted several scenes in the quest Grey Matters to match the writer's intentions.
¶ Version 1.0.0k - Public Beta
🕗 November 6, 2020
- In the intro scene of Hub of the Problem, fixed a dialogue issue where failing the speech check would cause the dialogue scene to exit instead of continuing.
- Hub of the Problem initial sequence will now only trigger when entering through the main lobby. Using the back entrance will no longer trigger Jake’s scenes to start which results in him getting stuck in the basement.
- In the lobby scene of Hub of the Problem, added several protections against the scene getting stuck due to combat causing the ghouls to trigger before their intended moments.
- Fixed a bug in the dialogue for the quest Memory Lane where asking Jake for the short version of his story causes the dialogue to not continue. If you previously experienced this issue, you should be able to talk to Jake to resume the dialogue tree.
- Fixed a dialogue file at the end of Memory Lane that was cut incorrectly, causing Jake to repeat his dialogue 3 times in a row.
- Updated several objectives in Memory Lane which incorrectly labeled the robot with its name before that event occurred in the questline.
- Fixed a bug during Memory Lane where after turning the power back on, Jake’s dialogue would become interrupted and the quest would not continue normally. If you experienced this bug you should receive an objective to help Jake’s robot shortly after loading your save with this patch.
- Fixed the objective during “Who Can? ASAM!” which incorrectly tells you to talk to Theresa under certain circumstances instead of being told to talk to Hubert.
- Fixed a bug during “Who Can? ASAM!” where if Stodge was killed you could no longer choose a leader at all. If you experienced this bug, returning to the scene should now correctly allow you to choose one by talking to one of the candidates and selecting Pick a Leader.
- Fixed a bug during “Who Can? ASAM!” where the City Plan would not automatically trigger correctly under some circumstances when meeting up with the settlers at the chosen settlement, causing the quest to get stuck.
¶ Version 1.0.0j - Public Beta
🕗 November 3, 2020
- Plotting the Future and New Plots on the Block demonstrations should now be a bit more responsive between when Jake works on the plot and the ASAM follow-up scene starts.
¶ Version 1.0.0i - Public Beta
🕗 November 2, 2020
In addition to the 1.0.0h changes, this also does the following:
- Fixed a bug with the Power Armor store model that was causing the game to crash. For those of you crashing when approaching/fast traveling to some settlements, this could have been the cause.
- Boosted volume of radio chatter during Where There’s Smoke.
- Added a new system for troubleshooting and bypassing stuck quests to help us bug hunt, and players to get past mod conflicts. To use this, run the console command: Cqf ss2_mqmaster skipToQuest X Where X is the editor ID or form ID of the quest. The quests can be found in the creation kit by filtering for SS2*MQ. Note that this can take a few minutes to run as it cycles through many quest stages to ensure all rewards are unlocked, and dynamic world changes are made in order (for example all the changes to the hardware store that occur throughout the questline). If after you've waited several minutes you appear to have no quest objective - it's likely you need to talk to Jake next.
¶ Version 1.0.0h - Public Beta
🕗 November 1, 2020
Potential hotfix for the following issues:
- Aims to try and solve the Fallout 4 problem of "too many quests at startup"
- Try and fix some of the strange issues people had with saves using 1.0.0e
Plus:
- Fixed a bug with Carne Asade not accepting quest turn-in. Generally side quest bugs I’m going to be holding off on until we get past hotfixes, but this one turned out to just be a quick dialogue issue.
- Grey Matters should now try and reboot any scenes that became stuck in previous builds, simply return to the hotel, or if you’ve already made your decision during the quest, return to the room you found the terminal.
- Added a “save resurrection” system. This is a background system that monitors for failures in SS2 to start up due to things like Fallout 4 dropping quest startups. 60 seconds after the game is started this controller will attempt to force boot up the SS2 quests that failed to start previously. If a failure was detected, a warning message will pop-up telling you this process is going to run, followed by another pop-up after it completes.
- Reduced Sickle’s heath dramatically - he had been duplicated from a boss NPC originally and had unreasonably high stats.
- Reduced small dog damage to half that of Dogmeat.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent addon packs from registering additional building plans from updating after they had been installed if the player had already made a manual selection for that plot type.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Stranger to repeat all of his dialogue for the quest Plotting the Future after the first Agricultural plot was complete.
¶ Version 1.0.0g - Hotfix
🕗 October 31, 2020
- Attempted to fix an issue some players were having with Cedric Mansfield not acknowledging the player had the Robco Schematics in their inventory. I have been unable to replicate this, so will probably need a save with the issue if this patch does not resolve it.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Boston Public Library from being considered a valid location during Picking up the Pieces.
- In Who Can? ASAM!, if choosing the leader didn’t work previously, talking to one of the choices should now trigger the choice code to run again and prompt you with the settlement select menu.
- In Who Can? ASAM! you should no longer be warned about the person you chose as leader needing to be assigned to a desk.
- Fixed a bug in Casting a Line where selecting the Awareness perk path would then continue on to the bribery scene.
- Fixed a bug with the Assign City Leader function at the City Planner’s Desk.
- Fixed a bug where Cola would follow the player forever under some circumstances.
- Made a change to the quest Scavver’s Delight to try and make it more reliably detect when all raiders are dead inside the station.
¶ Version 1.0.0f - Public Beta
🕗 October 29, 2020
Potential hotfix for the following issues:
- Plot menus not showing up in workshop mode
- Jake not appearing in response to the beacon
Plus:
- Fixed the model files for a number of the holiday decoration items.
- Fixed an issue with Hollis Baker’s clothing that could cause the game to crash when she was hit.
- Disabled the quest Ain’t Nothin But a Hound Dog. This quest was not ready yet but was incorrectly flagged as start game enabled. It will be added back in with a future patch when content is complete.
- Plots will now construct even when using mods that hack the build limit by setting them to -1. These mods are not recommended. If you click Manage on the workbench, choose Configure Build Limits and see -0%, it means you have used such a mod on your save. To fix this, choose Restore Default, then you can increase it from that same menu whenever you need.
- Picking Up The Pieces will now re-register for the player to drop the ASAM Scanner after each quest objective whenever the game is re-loaded while the game is running. This should resolve an issue where the dropped sensor appeared to hang in mid air and not do anything. If you had this issue, wait several minutes after loading this patch to ensure it has a chance to run this fix. If that still does not resolve your issue, it is recommended you roll back and try the quest again, as something deeper has gone wrong that we’re currently unaware of.
- Added Canary support to SS2 to monitor for script data loss.
- Added WSFW Version check to SS2 which will warn if your version of Workshop Framework does not match the version SS2 is expecting. This version requires Workshop Framework 2.0.5. This version mismatch would have likely been responsible for a lot of random issues being reported lately.
- ASAM Sensors are now injected into many vendor leveled lists.
¶ Version 1.0.0e - Hotfix
🕗 October 29, 2020
- Fixed a bug where certain dialogue choices would lead to Alex Powell getting stuck in a loop where he continues to repeat the conversation that starts with “Hold it right there, stranger!”
- Sickle will now have ASAM sensors on his body if killed before completing Suburban Disturbance to help players who went in trigger happy to not get stuck waiting for the main quest to proceed. (This is not a retroactive change, so will only affect new games.) If you haven’t found this already, Sickle’s post-quest dialogue allows you to trade pieces of chalk for additional ASAM Sensors, so there is value in keeping him alive.
- Mansfield will now have a quest objective for players who had already completed the Vault 81 introduction by the time they receive the quest to ask about the schematics.
- Anton will now be correctly sitting on a barstool when first meeting him.
- Fixed a bug in the quest Grey Matters where if you went outside before going down the elevator the lobby scene would become unresponsive. If you had this bug before, return to the Harbormaster Hotel and the appropriate scene should pick up (though actors will probably teleport in front of you since that is normally handled while you are on the elevator).
- Restored missing material file for the Vit-o-Matic screen. This had been causing the screen to show up pink when used.
- Restored several missing voice files from the NPC on the radio during Where There’s Smoke.
- Added a patch specific update to trigger the Industrial scene in Plotting the Future to complete after this patch is loaded if it was detected to be stuck. The issue should no longer occur as of patch 1.0.0c, but for players who already had experienced it, they would be stuck.
- Dynamic Soundscape should now work correctly in all settlements. Previously it would only have fired correctly in City Plan built settlements, and then only if the sequencing happened correctly.
- [XBOX ONLY] Reduced size of ASAM Sensor textures dramatically to start making room for other cut content which will be restored in a future patch after we complete our file size reduction.
- Vit-o-Matic Tracking device can now correctly be crafted once unlocked.
- Vit-o-Matic weapon can now be crafted when the Story or Tools cheat has been used.
¶ Version 1.0.0d - Hotfix
🕗 October 28, 2020
- Unique NPCs will no longer be equipped by plots. This may be added as an alternate option in the future, but for now it will prevent things like NPCs with custom, non-player useable equipment from effectively becoming lost.
- Restored 2 missing dialogue lines from MALA in Picking up the Pieces.
- Fixed a bug that would cause plot upgrade eligibility times to be significantly longer than they were supposed to be.
- Tweaked the last portion of Who Can? ASAM! to better wait for the player to arrive.
- Fixed an issue with Who Can? ASAM! where if the player declines to let the settlers tear down the settlement, they would be unable to complete the quest. If this had happened in a save previously, the objective will be updated upon loading the game with this patch.
- Fixed a bug in The Ron’s dialogue during The Coolest Cat.
- Tweaked Plotting the Future demonstration scenes to better recover from the random occurrences of an open world game.
- Tweaked Hub of the Problem to attempt and prevent an issue that was happening for some players where a scene started before the player made it to the sub-basement, which would cause the quest to get stuck.
¶ Version 1.0.0c - Hotfix
🕗 October 27, 2020
- Fixed a bug where, under certain conditions, the Industrial plot construction would not be detected by Plotting the Future, resulting in the quest failing to continue.
- Tweaked the quest Suburban Distburbance so it can conclude even if Nail falls through the world due to a mod conflict. If you had an issue where the objective marker seemed to move a lot, it should theoretically be stable now for you to reach. Though we were unable to replicate this issue - so the cause and fix are speculative right now.
- Tweaked the scene in Casting a Line where Old Paul warns of raiders. The tweak is an attempt to prevent a corner-case where he repeats the line and then becomes unresponsive.
- The Unlock All Tools cheat now functions correctly. This unlocks all the craftable items at the City Planner’s Desk that are normally unlocked throughout the main quest.
- [PC Only] Restored a number of missing dialogue lines from Sickle and Old Paul. These are non-quest related lines used for making the character feel more lively. XBox Players - these will be restored for you as well once we solve some of our space issues.
- Added cooldown to Lily and Old Paul’s idle dialogue to make them repeat the same lines less frequently.
- Updated objectives for “Picking Up the Pieces” to make it clearer what you’re supposed to do.
¶ Version 1.0.0b - Hotfix
🕗 October 26, 2020
- Lily will now always show up with 2 settlers. Previously the number was meant to fluctuate between 1 and 3, depending on settler count, but the functionality was buggy and would sometimes result in her showing up with 7 people incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug where Stranger would repeat his agricultural building scene over and over every time you exited workshop mode before you built the Industrial plot for that quest.
- Fixed issue with many holotapes and radio transmissions that weren’t playing due to us mistakenly including the fuz files instead of xwm files for those lines.
- Restored missing texture for the Vit-o-Matic screen.
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to interact with the dog in the quest Let Sleeping Dogs Lie; this had been caused by a Creation Kit merge failure.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the demonstration scenes in New Plots on the Block to become stuck. If you previously finished the first 3, and Jake is still in the settlement, talking to him should resume the quest. If he is no longer there, you’ll want to role back to repeat the quest.
- (Xbox Only) Disabled the dynamic soundscape, magazine system, and sound loops from several Industrial plots to make enough space in the archives to fix several audio issues and restore important missing model files. We are looking for additional ways to reduce the overall file size so that we can restore these features in a future patch for Xbox players. We are currently right at the limit so we're going to have to make some tough choices with each patch (in addition to your 2 GB reserve limit, each mod is limited to 1 GB of space).
¶ Version 1.0.0a - Hotfix
🕗 October 24, 2020
- Fixed a bug that would cause building most plots to crash the game on Xbox. This was due to a nif file that was lost during final compacting for Xbox upload.
- Fixed many of the sound files included in the BA2.
- Regenerated voice files for ASAM sensor and holotape tutorials.
- Fixed MCM Icon.
- Fixed several quest dialogue scenes that would either fail to start or break early if the player did not have a companion.
- Unlocks will now attempt to detect if the player is in workshop mode, and if so, suspend themselves until after exiting. This was done as some player found they could not exit workshop mode while an unlock was on screen, nor dismiss the unlock screen. This was not universally repeatable - so if the issue continues, or the detection is not reliable, we’ll need additional information from folks who have this issue.
¶ Version 1.0.0 - Initial Release
🕗 October 23, 2020
Sim Settlements 2 Release