A mod I'm personally wondering about it child killing. I see a lot of ideas here that will never see the light of day because of skill needed to make it happen and or limits of the F:CS. Killable kids however could range anywhere from very easy to do to hard but very possible and because many people want it, its got enough backing to be a worthwhile endeavor for anyone with the skill if its needed.
For those here that have played around with the TES4:CS you probably know that in Oblivion some NPC's were made un-killable by having an option called "essential" checked off in the CS in the NPC section. If making kids killable is a simple matter of just unchecking their essential tag in the CS then this mod could be done in 20 mins.
I'm thinking it will be harder then that though. If anyone remembers oblivion was released as a Teen rated game until someone found a nude skin in the gamedata and released it for the creation of nude mods. After this the game was re-rated as Mature. If Beth felt that a Child Killing fix could end up getting this game re-rated from M to AO, then they might have gone to greater lengths to keep that from happening.
Things aren't all bad however. I remember posting in a child killing topic on the official forums many many months ago and I said that I didn't care if kids are killable in this game as long as they are in the game. Modeling, animated, texturing, voice acting, the kids is 90% of the work and by far the hardest part. Now that we know the assest are there it should be very possible to find a workaround to turn these kids into regular old killable NPC's.
One thing I have to wonder though is how did they go about making kids kids un-killable?
We probably wont know the answer to this until we can look at them in the CS. I don't have the game yet...picking it up tomorrow but I doubt just playing it will tell me much.
Any thoughts?
For those here that have played around with the TES4:CS you probably know that in Oblivion some NPC's were made un-killable by having an option called "essential" checked off in the CS in the NPC section. If making kids killable is a simple matter of just unchecking their essential tag in the CS then this mod could be done in 20 mins.
I'm thinking it will be harder then that though. If anyone remembers oblivion was released as a Teen rated game until someone found a nude skin in the gamedata and released it for the creation of nude mods. After this the game was re-rated as Mature. If Beth felt that a Child Killing fix could end up getting this game re-rated from M to AO, then they might have gone to greater lengths to keep that from happening.
Things aren't all bad however. I remember posting in a child killing topic on the official forums many many months ago and I said that I didn't care if kids are killable in this game as long as they are in the game. Modeling, animated, texturing, voice acting, the kids is 90% of the work and by far the hardest part. Now that we know the assest are there it should be very possible to find a workaround to turn these kids into regular old killable NPC's.
One thing I have to wonder though is how did they go about making kids kids un-killable?
We probably wont know the answer to this until we can look at them in the CS. I don't have the game yet...picking it up tomorrow but I doubt just playing it will tell me much.
Any thoughts?