Mod Announcement: Your Choices Matter Mod (Status: WIP)

Nice.

I fear I can't offer anything in the way of help, but for what it's worth, I hope this mod reaches completion very soon.

A question I do have is, are you planning on making it compatible with the EGM mod?

Here's snippets of my latest progress. As we speak I've rid the game of rollercoaster autodialogue between Earth:Vancouver and Priority: Palaven. I'd say I've covered 15% of the game already (2.5 months of sporadic work!)

First video showcases an extended dialogue with more choice at the beginning if you import and didn't romance Ashley. The decisions and options available depend on what the plot-state is, naturally.


And here's a footage video of a lot of scattered work, just so I won't give all of it away!

I'm sorry I didn't see this thread earlier. Would love to give feedback and help in any way I can. A couple of questions:

Will this be compatible with Backoff? I'm guessing that would be very hard if not impossible. I never hated the amount of conversations the base game has with Liara, but, iirc backoff fixes some non dialogue related bugs other mods don't.

Will the mod have any impact on the paragon/renegade system? The game could do with more chances to increase renegade score while still making paragon major choices and visa versa. Base game makes it hard to be a true paragrade or renegon.

Compatibility is secondary to me right now. I've been developing it solely from Vanilla and DLC files without overlap from other mods. When I'm done I will get the support I can from other modders to make compatibility work.

So far we're talking maybe 15% done? I have Earth until the beginning of Sur'Kesh and all main dialogues between those levels reworked with more dialogue options, and a bunch of additional side things, and 30% of Normandy's characters overhauled to have cutscene-conversations with choices instead of ambients. There will still be ambients but only when it seems like it isn't taking away a potential personal player-to-crew moment. You will be able to hit the investigate dialogue any time they run out of other things to say.

As for Paragon and Renegade, YES. I've been editing the Paragon and Renegade rewards a few areas. Sometimes I cheat a bit with a Paragon or renegade choice leading to the same spoken line (and I try not to overdo this!) But I've done it in a way in which you actually get +2 to either morality depending on that choice.

There are times that now have opportunities such as getting +5 to Paragon, +5 to renegade OR +2 to reputation and such. As we know some of the final Illusive Man persuades require a high default rep and Paragon or renegade total, so I try to make sure I don't over-reward or undermine the base game balance too much. I'll need a lot of time when the new content is done to actually test all this. Overall the solution to paragade/renegon is that the game will be full of neutrals, which means you can get across dialogues without feeling forced to have a moral alignment about an issue, take paragons where you feel like it and renegade when you're in the mood.

This.
THIS.
I will play through the whole trilogy again when this releases forever more.

'Yeehaaa' might be better fitting for casual difficulty than for insanity.

But a great Idea, even If I probably won't see many variations then...

Ah,

I felt the higher the difficulty, the more intense and/or serious the situation becomes.
In which case something that loco would be weird.

But I guess you are right w.r.t. the difficulty relation to replaying cause.
(Though I guess I would have phrased that exactly the other way around, the lower the difficulty the less likely someone plays for the combat.)

Link"Guess"ski

You still working on this?