

I've been messing with dogs, too!



To see what I've been doing to make dogs more socially aware in combat,

check out my new dog AI mod, Pack Attack﻿.







And now back to the felines..

MORE REALISTIC CATS (Alt title: "Cats Of The End Time")





What the gaming media is saying! (Seriously. No, I don't get it, either.)



"Most of this is due to the modder putting points into Perception, Agility, and Luck —

in the vanilla game, cats scored zero in all three of these attributes.

Zero! Has anyone at Bethesda ever met a cat?" - PC Gamer, March 26 2017





"What Greslin found was that Bethesda had given cats zero perception, zero agility,

and zero luck. Now, if you know cats you know that's just wrong. Greslin thought so, too."

- Kotaku, March 27 2017



"Cat-Mod takes care of the cats of the end time"

- Gamestar.de (Google translated from German) March 27 2017



--------------by Greslinv1.2 released 2/24/2018So I'm a cat person. I like dogs, too, but at heart I like cats more. And so discovering that Bethesda put cats into FO4 made me smile.Until, at least, my first supermutant assault on Abernathy Farm, when their cat immediately became freaking cannon fodder. So I took a look at the race definition for cats, and found some room for improvement. In vanilla FO4, cats are basically slow moving targets, too stupid to get to cover when the shooting starts, and very likely to get killed right away. This should change that.==============================Note: I am now available for mod support over Discord. Visit me here about this or any other of my mods: https://discord.gg/jMUnXDV This mod changes the Cat race in the following ways:Perception: 8 (Vanilla: 0) - because cats are usually VERY good at picking up on changes to their environmentAgility: 10 (Vanilla: 0) - because cats are basically the very definition of "agile"Luck: 10 (Vanilla: 0) - because, well, they're catsHealth: 50 (Vanilla: 25) - a little insuranceHeal Rate: 10 (Vanilla: 0) - a little more insuranceCats also now cannot open doors (Vanilla: they can?!), will regen health in combat, and they will avoid roads. They will also use "advanced avoidance", whatever the heck that is. I saw the flag and it sounded good.Yeah, I know I could simply give cats a million HP or even set them to essential, but I'd rather make them just act like cats. Cats hate loud noises and, when confronted by a loud, messy scene, will go to ground fast. This should make FO4 cats do that, as well as give them a bit of health boost in case they're not quick enough to skedaddle.NMM or just drop in the ESP.Should work with anything that doesn't edit the cat race records. Cat NPC records are fine. Will break mods that involve cat-led escort missions, such as the vanilla "Here Kitty Kitty" quest (the vanilla quest is fine, however). See below for details.==============================I have tested this firsthand.In versions prior to 1.2, the main issue was the "can't open doors" flag, which turned out not to be just about doors. Actors flagged thusly also have trouble moving in and out of cells, which in turn breaks multicell escort missions. So, by setting that flag, this mod made it impossible for Ashes to leave Vault 81.Yes, I could have simply unset the flag, but I wanted to solve that actual underlying problem. So as of v1.2, there are now two cat races: "CatRace" and "CatRaceClassic". "CatRace" is the new and improved MRC cat, while "CatRaceClassic" is the vanilla game record. The Classic cat race has exactly one member: Ashes. To the best of my knowledge, the only quest-critical Fallout 4 cat is Ashes from Vault 81, in the "Here Kitty Kitty" quest.However, this will also cause issues with any other mods that also involve cat-led escort missions (are there any?). Mods that simply involve cats hanging out and sandboxing (such as Cannibal in Concord) should be unaffected. If you run into this issue with another mod, use FO4Edit to assign the alternate classic cat race to the mod's cat, and all will be well. Or ask me, and I'll do a compatibility patch. Thanks.========================================Always appreciated, never required. I do this stuff because I'm a hopeless Fallout addict, have been for a long time, and like pulling out the wires to see what sparks. Donations via Nexus are awesome and will result in a note of generous thanks.All donations go directly to an important cause: my personal gaming fund. Your donations allow me to play better games, use more of my time to play them, and dedicate more of my energy to making cool mods for them. (And yes, Fallout will always be my first love.)========================= Pack Attack - Mongrel dogs shift attack behavior based on social awareness and threat assessment Stash Those Caps - Makes caps truly portable again, just like in FO3/FNV Insult To Injury - Implements a working FNV-like limb damage/recovery system in Survival mode Companion Heal Thyself - Give companions the power to patch themselves up in Survival mode Passive Aggressive Piper - Add affinity checks to Piper's more annoying, sarcastic and flirtatious comments Ferals After Dark - Makes feral ghouls a bit smarter and more dangerous after the sun goes down More Realistic Cats - Buffs the cat race to make them behave more like, well, cats Atomic Brahmin - When cows turn into mean, aggressive, highly unstable nuclear weapons