RangerBoo Tortures Herself Playing The Frontier

Speaking as a guy who has made a living for a few years as a writer, when borrowing someone else's toys to play with, don't pretend you've made them better.

 

If the allegations are true about Frontier devs hounding off other modders, I gotta say I'd be pretty fucking pissed. Because they'd go from being a source of fascination for me to being a real fucking problem. They would no longer have ANY position to be complaining about how they were bullied by 4chan and stuff. And if true, more people need to know.

That'd be TGSPY probably. lol. He was project lead. I had a minor argument about that with him once. I kept arguing in favor in NV and he repeated snapped back "BUT IT'S EMPTY".

This is legitimately bonkers to me. There are two factions that are often labeled as fascist in Fallout: Enclave and Legion. And between the two of them, Legion is by far, way more fascist... and he's "improving them". So he doesn't think the Enclave can be redeemed because it's fascist, but his main contribution to Frontier is redeeming fascists who are also rapists. Well, that and snake sex.

 

Great, another those that perpetuate the meme that New Vegas is somehow empty. Forgetting that can be easily disproven by just walking around for like two minutes and notice how many locations you can see in the distance from where you're standing.

 

That was actually rikkurikku, the reptile sex connoisseur.


I think he also did the deathclaw sex cave, as his previous mod allows you to fuck a deathclaw and a human-deathclaw hybrid that eats people that make her insecure.

 

Nazo did the snake people. Or at least the quests around them. Rikkurikku did the deathclaws. Rikku was probably just fond of them enough to make one his avatar because he's Rikkurikku.

Nazo: Legion and snake sluts

Rikku: Horny deathclaw and big spooky tower.

Just checked to make sure. A mod on the Frontier discord confirms those things were by Nazo. The mod also said that they fit in with the lore and that they are well written. Classic Frontier crew.

 

Wow, what are the odds of 2 people with such specific tastes ending on the same project and both of them making almost the same thing.

Anyway, do you have any info what other smaller contributors did or only the big cheese? I checked the Frontier wikia, but it seems dead.

 

Right? It's like they met on a Scaley board first. And I only know about the big ones that were super talkative and or had big roles. They were real open for a while, even livestreaming and stuff. Now some of them like Phobos have backed off a bit since the January raid.

 

2021 might be the death of new vegas modding. the double blow of the frontier drama and the nexxus bullshit making modders quit in the span of months is shocking.

 

Eh the game had a good run. What can you do about it? Look back at the time you enjoyed. A good game, decent DLCs, great mods. The game definetly was around for quite some time. Sucks that some weirdos and perverts used it as their own little playground. It is what it is I guess.

 

New Vegas modding is still going strong. lol. Although, it may take a hit after Nexus' bullshit. But that will apply to EVERY moddable game on Nexus. New Vegas will not be disproportionately effected. In the meantime you got all the stuff that comes out daily.

I initially included Fallout: London and Fallout: Miami like a goof. But then I remembered that those are Fallout 4 mods.

 

The Enclave are meant to be Americano Nazis. So, yes, I have no problem with the people who just want to use them as irredeemable bad guys and just HYDRA in Fallout. Yes, they were a joke in Fallout 2 with the "great empire" consisting of a single oil derrick and after it's blown up, it should have been over but I'm not averse to some "comic book-ification" of Fallout's universe and spreading them out as a larger faction.

But Caesar's Legion is just low-tech Nazism with a focus on misogyny over race (and it doesn't seem like there's many brown people in their army either). I don't get how people can say, "Oh the Legion is better." It practices not just slavery but specifically chattle slavery and mass rape.

It's much more in your front that, "DIE MUTANT."

 

More like low tech fascism. It's about nation, not race. Outsiders are considered degenerate, liberalization is degenerate, democracy is a failure, they're almost a complete nationalized autarky with the exception of a caravanner here and there. Fascist ideology predates nazi ideology. And yet, Nazo ignores this and tries to make them progressive.

Enclave is less overtly fascist or nazi and more like extreme warhawk neocons with a genocidal edge. And you're right. I don't see how they're inherently worse. If anything, only 1 out of 3 times that they have been portrayed in the main games have they been genocidal anyway.

 

This is actually why F2's interpretation is still my favorite. The Enclave is just this irredeamable if effective villain faction until you reach Navarro. Once there, you find people who are uncomfortable with some of the actions, a scientist/soldier couple with cutesy names, a guard who refers to a nagging officer as "what a brown noser" and a rather kindly chef. Now I admit, I've lost track of what was vanilla and what was Killap's Restoration project, but regardless, there was an effort to paint the enclave as a top to bottom command structure where not everyone even knew what was fully going on or agreed. That was mostly missing in 3 and it wasn't even entertained in The Frontier.

 

Eh, my read on Caesar is that he's actually got no reason for 90% of the stuff he does. This is all a power fantasy that he's living out that he's a living god and covering himself in the veneer of saving civilization. It's all an ego trip with the man that he has a bunch of justifications for that don't actually make a lot of sense. Then again, I'm a guy who thinks that anti-technologism is automatically something to put it in the bad guy book before we get to the slavery and misogyny.

But that's me.

As for the Enclave, my view of them is divorced from the satire of Republicans. I actually prefer to view them through the apolitical (kinda?) lens of the fact that they are just another bunch of tribals with an ultra-American theme. Which is to say that I think they're more interesting with the fact that they're a deeply deluded about their own importance and pretty similar to the Brotherhood of Steel in that they think they're bigger shit than they are when, again, they're just a bunch of loonies on an oil derrick.

Mind you, this may be due to the fact I grew up in Kentucky surrounded by a bunch of militia compounds of ACTUAL Nazis (in the sense of the swastikas, stated goals of white supremacy, and preparing for the apocalypse). You don't need to talk about Right versus Left when there's the actual fascists about to use as templates.

You dilute the baddies by trying to make them parodies of things rather than just being as awful as they are in their fictional but consistent in-universe politics.

 

The fact that we can even have this debate about Legion shows how well done they were, even without their half of the map. Caesar and his Legion still feel like a faction that, at the very least, could feasibly exist, and there’s an entire spectrum of opinion on them.

But people want their black and white hero-villain stories I suppose.