Party Banter 2.0 Mod

Description:

Party Banter 2.0 (or Companion Talking) is an evolution of the foundations laid by Craftian in the original "Party Banter" mod. It enables vanilla companions to converse naturally over the course of their travels with you - because apparently walking in dead silence through an irradiated hellscape for hundreds of hours is awkward even for hardened wastelanders.

What's Going On Here:

Nearly 240 conversations between all vanilla companion combinations. That's right, every companion (Which includes Rex and ED-E) can now annoy every other companion with their personal opinions, tragic backstories, and hot takes on brahmin tipping.

Some conversations will repeat , some are one-offs that'll make you wonder if you hallucinated them, and some are tied to quests - so your companions can finally gossip about that thing you did at REPCONN like the nosy bastards they are.

Behind the Curtain:

The mod uses a sophisticated conversation system that knows when to shut up (during combat, because nobody discusses philosophy while being shot at and when to pipe up.)

First meetings get special priority because even post-nuclear companions understand basic social etiquette. After that, the system randomly selects from appropriate conversations based on what you've done, where you are, and how much the game wants to remind you that Boone is sad.

No AI was used in the making of this mod. All lines are spliced from vanilla, and some cut dialogues.

What You're Getting Into:

1. Banters:

- Boone actually speaks more than three words (sometimes even four!)

- Cass and Arcade debate politics.

- Veronica and Lily discuss fashion.

- Raul makes jokes that nobody laughs at (but you'll exhale through your nose)

- ED-E beeps judgmentally at everyone

- Rex... is still a good boy.

The meat of the mod. Conversations respect each character's vanilla personality - Boone's still a downer, Arcade's still pretentious, and Cass still drinks her feelings. But now they do it AT each other instead of just in your general direction.

2. Environmental Reactions:

Companions now have reaction barks (apart from ED-E and Rex, actually)

1. Player getting bad karma (Theft, murder of good people, quests).
2. A random dead body.
3. Player knocking items over.
4. Player sleeping with a prostitute, Red Lucy, Joanna, Fisto etc...
5. Player using a stealth boy.
6. Player waiting.

3. Quest Reactions:

Ever felt weird how Boone doesn't react to the Westside Slavers? Or Veronica not caring that the Brotherhood has opened up? Or Arcade doesn't even care that you are helping out the people of Freeside and small communities (even though that is literally the condition he set when he joined you)? Companions now react to most of the vanilla quests in the game like in Fallout 4. They can react when the quest is given, during the quest, or after the quest ends—all while keeping their personality in mind, and they should react appropriately to quests that fit their personality.

1. Boone now reacts to most NCR quests (amongst other quests).
2. Arcade now reacts when you help out the Followers, Freeside and other smaller communities (amongst other quests).
3. Veronica now reacts to the brotherhood questline (amongst other quests).
4. Cass now reacts to NCR quests, opposes to whatever drug related quests (amongst other quests).
5. Lily now reacts to super mutant, ghoul, children related quests (amongst other quests).
6. Raul now reacts to whatever BS you get into (amongst other quests).
7. Rex will bark/growl/howl to certain quests (amongst other quests).
8. Good luck finding out what quest ED-E doesn't react to.

Credits:

n2Jay for the idea, voice splicing, animations and testing

IntoTheRough for coding and design

ok lumberjack (@felixdicter) for providing the videos

natmaac for testing

cmyk_avenger ( https://cmykavenger.com/) for the mod images

Craftian for the og mod!