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HOVERBOARD
v1.5
README

by
Nekhanimal
Killerbees
Scorpio9
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Your fellow wastelanders stand back in awe as you zoom on by. The anti-grav boosters underneath your Corvega Trailblazer fill the air with the smell of ozone and success. You've acquired one of the Old World's greatest treasures, and will use it to conquer the new one. The Hoverboard is yours.

This mod adds a hoverboard vehicle to the game. With it, you can move much faster and easier than just by running, and hover across bodies of water and annoying invisible walls. The board is obtained through a quest, and there is more than one way to get it. The quest can be found inside the small shack near the big cross near Goodsprings. (Yangtze Memorial)

The Hoverboard is a weapon item, so you can hotkey it. When you wield the item (press R), you will begin hovering. To steer, move the mouse in the direction you want to go. To stop hovering, holster the weapon (press R again). You cannot use the Hoverboard indoors, and you cannot use any other weapons or the PipBoy while hovering.

Try to stick to surfaces like water, roads and railway tracks, and avoid driving into rocks. Driving into buildings and on top of rocks should be safe, and the rollercoaster in Primm works like a charm.

The Hoverboard runs on Fission Batteries. Each battery will give you around 20 real-time minutes of hovering. You will receive warnings as the board starts to run out of power.

Taking damage while on the board may throw you off it. The damage you can take is based on your Agility and Perception, and the chance to get thrown off is affected by your Luck.

Installation:
Extract the .zip archive to your Data folder. This is normally "Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\Data". Activate Hoverboard.esp with the "Data Files" option in the Fallout: New Vegas launcher.

This mod does NOT require NVSE.


Caveats:
DO NOT OPEN DOORS WHILE ON THE BOARD! This may get you permanently stuck, or even crash the game.

This mod alters the GSAbandonedShack cell.

Avoid hovering into large rocks with the board, you may get stuck inside them. If you do get stuck: Get off the board, type tcl in console, move out of the rock, and tcl again. Things like buildings, bridges and trees should be safe.

Driving near water may occasionally disable the propulsion trail. Quickloading fixes this.

If one of your followers gets a kill and it triggers a VATS cinematic sequence, you will keep hovering while it plays, which might not always be good.


Coming in future versions:
The ability to find and install upgrades to acceleration, different types of fuel, stealth mode, etc.
Abilities like Jump, nitrous boost, etc.


Credits:
Killerbees did the board model, initial texturing and importing it into .nif format.
Scorpio9 did the cool inventory image.
Nekhanimal did the scripting, dialogue and further texturing.