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The M4-78 Unofficial Patch mod is a mod that players will install after M4-78EP 1.5 to fix all of the bugs found within M4-78EP 1.5, thus allowing you to play the mod from start to finish without getting soft locked due to bugs and/or broken content. As this mod will essentially make the M4-78EP mod viable to play again I am making this thread here in the M4-78 section as this mod is essentially a spiritual 1.6 update. However, as this thread will act as a WIP/Development Thread for a mod which is an addon for M4-78EP I welcome the Admins to move this thread to the WIP section should they deem it necessary to do so. When it comes to cut content, there are a few things we the players yearn for - Sleheyron, Bao-Dur's Sacrifice, Disciple's Holocrons. We yearn for these things because we currently cannot experience these things today as no one has made the mods to restore them yet. Two decades ago, the legendary Droid Planet of M4-78 was part of this list of cut content we once yearned for as it too wasn't made available to us back then. First came the mid 2000s knock-off restorations such as Darth Shan's Droid Planet mod in 2006, followed by Stoney's M4-78 in 2008, followed by the M4-78 Enhancement Project in 2012. When version 1.2 of M4-78EP was released in 2015, it can be seen by many of us today as being the "last" stable version of the mod. You could play it from start to finish, though it had two massive problems: horrible droid VO and agonizing lag in the Industrial Zone. Update 1.3 fixed the droid VO (though it was a Steam Workshop exclusive until 1.5 was released) and update 1.5 fixed the lag in the Industrial Zone (update 1.4 was skipped as the devs forgot which version the mod was on at the time). If you played M4-78EP 1.2 followed by M4-78EP 1.5 today you would appreciate the new VO and the fixed Industrial Zone lag but you'll quickly realize that efforts to fix the mod has made the even more choppier to play than it was before. * The new dialogue on the landing pad's intro cutscene, whilst not being spliced, can be strange at times (as a horribly spliced HK-47 line is still present). * Teleportation during the radiation side quest is ridiculed for being jarring. * Dividing the Industrial Zone into 3 modules is ridiculed as the area transitions are badly done. * The new Kaah Ohtok dialogue in the Environmental Archon chamber is of lesser writing quality than the old 1.2 dialogue. * Objects containing quest items were removed by accident thus breaking side quests. * Vash is now killed by Sith Assassins instead of Archon M4-78, whilst on paper this may seem like an improvement the scene is actually of lower quality when compared to the highly cinematic M4-78 kills Vash cutscene from version 1.2. When you install the M4-78EP Unofficial Patch mod on top of M4-78EP 1.5, all of the above problems and problems you've never noticed will be fixed. * More new dialogue has been added to the landing pad's intro cutscene to make it flow more naturally. No new splices have been used and the old splices have been removed. Not only this, but the dialogue added in 1.5 has been preserved and has been rearranged to feel more natural in-game. * The teleportation added during the radiation side quest has been removed, however, the Security Droid cutscene that was removed in version 1.5 has been restored. Plans for restoring the bonus side quest in a future update is also being considered. * The Industrial Zone is now divided into 2 modules instead of three, and in the laggy module in particular a lot of the droids which were removed to fix the lag have been restored though the lag is still not present. * The old Kaah Ohtok dialogue in the Environmental Archon chamber has been brought back, however, the new dialogue has been mixed in with the old dialogue so that nothing has been removed. * Objects containing quest items which were removed by accident have been restored thus fixing the previously broken side quests. * The old ending from version 1.2 has been restored, Vash will now be killed by Archon M4-78 once again. Overall, this mod currently fixes around 150 problems from the original mod. Now, you might be thinking to yourself - "If the mod is finished, why is there a WIP thread for it?" The reason is simple, even though the bulk of the mod is finished I do intend to add optional install components to further fix the M4-78EP mod to make the mod more enjoyable. Below in this spoiler box are some of the plans I have for hypothetical future content updates: Of course, some of those plans may not come to fruition and some might even be added to the main mod, but those are just an idea for some of the things I have planned. I would like to dedicate this last bit of this WIP thread to my fellow modder, @Thor110, for his extensive collaboration with the project. We worked extensively together before he went on hiatus, many of the bug fixes found within this mod were not only done by him but couldn't have been done without him. Things like the extensive model fixes and corrections and the work done to re-merge the Industrial Zone from 3 to 2 modules can be attributed solely to him and, without him kickstarting the project with these difficult fixes, this completed mod would never have seen the light of day. Thor110's early work can be found in the M478EP Level Fixes mod but, as he points out, that mod is broken. The M4-78 Unofficial Patch contains the core fixes from that mod, alongside a boat load of new fixes. The full changelog can be found here in this spoiler box: And some screenshots: Do I feel this mod will make M4-78EP the best mod ever made, one that will make you go from hating M4-78 to loving it? No, I do not. However, I hope that this mod will give M4-78 a fair chance for new players who may be experiencing the planet for the first time. People will inevitably hate the idea of playing 3 hours worth of fan made content with little reward to show at the end of it, however, instead of experiencing a bug filled mess future players will now be able to judge M4-78 for exactly what it offers and what it tries to accomplish. The download link, when it is approved, shall be found here. Feel free to let me know your comments and your valuable suggestions on the mod here in the comment section down below: