Renmiri1 wrote...
New forum is down at the moment Cosmochyck
Yeah. If it's still down by the end of this afternoon, I'll starting thinking about creating a social group here on BSN or check into other alternatives. I really, really don't want to do this. At all. But at the same time, it's been over 2 days now, and we don't have an ETA on when it will be back up. We all have different schedules and while a project is in active development like the ThaneMod, it's important that lines of communication remain open 100% of the time. Having the forum down for days puts us in a bind since all of our resources are linked up over there, and we can't post links to certain content types of in a public thread like this -- unless we want everyone to be able to see it. And, therefore, troll.
But, we can absolutely still exchange ideas in this thread, and I'll go ahead and compile them onto the new forum when it opens back up. This way, nobody misses anything.
ThaneMod FYI --
1. I had just posted the first LI-specific Thane email, on Tuesday/Wednesday, before the forums were taken down. I was hoping to gather input during the rest of this week from folks as we started to work on the others. Unfortunately, I can't put the link to the document on this thread, as I don't want everyone on BSN to be able to see it. For now, if anyone wants links to view the 2 friendShep and 1st romancedShep emails, you'll need to
toss me a PM. I will happily send you the GoogleDocs link.
2. There is a discussion going on about replacing the music in the Huerta dialogue scene, so scroll up a bit to check that out. I have some other thoughts on that, but I'm going to wait and hope the forum opens back up sometime today.
3. The remainder of the Thane-romance emails will probably be ready to go early next week.
4. We're looking at creating a reskin of Shepard's black leather dress. Something Thane-themed. I posted some ideas for Emerald over on the new forum earlier this week.
5. We are modifying the Huerta dialogue. That's right. No more out of character "happy to die" romanced Thane. It also avoids any impression that LI-Shep is at the hospital to see the VS. Instead, she is there to see Thane, as it should have been presented in the first place. We still have to work within the constraints of the game for this conversation, but many lines, as well was the dialogue wheel will be altered. Thane will be much more similar to his end-game ME2 romanced self. This ties into the next point below.
6. We had some questions from folks as to how the mod was going to interact with Citadel DLC. Right now it looks like all Thane/Kolyat content will be cut in totality. Some of it will be worked into the emails. Most of it won't. I don't like removing content that some players like, but this is the price of having Thane alive. The content from Citadel just won't make sense in the context of the new mod. This mod attempts to make a romanced Thane's character align much more with how he existed at the end of ME2. It's for this reason that we aren't keeping the vids, as they contain information from what Thane did during the 6 months pre-ME3, but it's still presented in the context of his OOC behavior in ME3.
This was BW trying to explain their poor writing of Thane in the vanilla game. It is a retcon.I know we are all starved for Thane content, and I don't disparage those who appreciated this content, but ThaneMod will flat out make these videos
unnecessary. And, here's the important part: we are doing this in a way to still allow players to retain their own head-cannons.
There is
maybe a small chance we could keep these vids in for a friendShep using the mod. But, they would have to be delivered in some other manner. No guarantees. I will have to look into this more. And, this means a reduction in wiggle room for player head-cannon.
HOWEVER, we are looking into ways to give romanced FemShep's something else Thane-related in the DLC. For example, adding some Thane-related items to the apartment (coffee mug from Life Support, sniper rifles, maybe a copy of his prayer book, etc). More thoughts on this to come in the forum thread. I know Emerald has pulled the meshes/textures for the coffee mug.
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There's more I could update folks on, but again, I'm goign to keep my fingers crosses the forum gets up and running today. If it does, I'll post the full weekly update over there.
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) and the different control systems are what worries me the most. I'm not even sure if I know how to use a mouse anymore because I'm so used to my laptop's touchpad, lol.
