Settler and Companion Dialogue Overhaul

Load Order and Compatibility

There are various mods that add or edit Fallout 4 dialogue. If you run one of those mods, here's where they go in load order relative to this mod (SCDO) so that it all plays nice together and you receive the benefits of both mods. "Below" means "After", and "Above" means "Before".

Below SCDO in load order

Deeper Thoughts Curie - Adds some additional dialogue to Curie. Mostly redundant with SCDO installed, but will add a little extra variety to idle comments.

Icebreaker Piper - Companion Dialogue Overhaul - Adds more dialogue to Piper. Largely redundant with SCDO unless you would like more Piper responses to specific player actions (e.g. loot junk, swim, eat corpse, pick lock, etc), and some additional greetings.

Nick Valentine Romance - Allows you to romance Nick Valentine. Load order shouldn't matter, but put it below SCDO to be safe.

No companion junk comments - Companions never comment on looting junk at all (versus in SCDO they'll say it once). Load order shouldn't matter, but place below SCDO just in case.

Above SCDO in load order

Flirty Commonwealth - Edits and adds some flirty some companion idle comments. The Raider taunts it adds play really well with this mod (no overlap).

Immersive Generic Dialogues - Edits some settler idle comments and companion idle comments.

Player Comments and Head Tracking - Edits some companion idle lines by adding player responses to them. If you place this, or its patch, below SCDO in load order, the repetition that SCDO removes from certain companion comments (e.g. Loot junk, pick lock, eat corpse, walk around naked) and idle comments (e.g. Cait's "we'd move faster if you kept your eyes on the road and off me arse"), will be reintroduced.

Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch - Fixes typos on companion idle lines, and these fixes have been incorporated into SCDO, without requiring UF4P to be installed (although really, you should have it installed for a plethora of other reasons).

Icebreaker Settlements - Settler Dialogue Overhaul - Adds more dialogue to settlers via the 'DialogueFarmGeneric' quest. Largely redundant with SCDO. Load order shouldn't matter, but as SCDO has more variety in settler dialogue, place SCDO lower in load order to be safe.

Also conflicts with:

Visible Companion Affinity

Cleaning info

Version 1.0

  - name: 'PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp'
    clean:
      - crc: 0xFFB62EF7
        util: 'FO4Edit v4.0.3'

Testing Notes

[x] Deeper Thoughts Curie
[x] Icebreaker Piper - Companion Dialogue Overhaul
[x] Nick Valentine Romance
[x] No companion junk comments
[x] Flirty Commonwealth
[x] Immersive Generic Dialogues
[x] Player Comments and Head Tracking
[x] Icebreaker Settlements - Settler Dialogue Overhaul
[x] Visible Companion Affinity

Deeper Thoughts Curie

Conflicts with Deeper Thoughts - Curie.esp and Deeper Thoughts - Expressive Curie.esp, but not Deeper Thoughts (Curie).esp.

Default sorting places Deeper Thoughts after SCDO.

Icebreaker Piper - Companion Dialogue Overhaul

Default sorting places Icebreaker Piper - Companion Dialogue Overhaul after SCDO.

IcebreakerCDO-Piper.esp reverts twenty four quest changes made in PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp.

Say once in PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp, block further responses from No IcebreakerCDO-Piper.esp.

Nick Valentine Romance

Default sorting places Nick Valentine Romance after SCDO.

PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp reverts one change made in NickValentineRomance.esp.

No SCDO changes reverted by NickValentineRomance.esp.

No companion junk comments

Default sorting places No companion junk comments after SCDO.

No Junk Comments.esp reverts one quest script change from PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp.

PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp reverts 148 keyword assigments from No Junk Comments.esp.

Flirty Commonwealth

Default sorting places Flirty Commonwealth after SCDO.

FlirtyCommonwealth.esp reverts twelve dialogue changes made in PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp.

No changes reverted by PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp if the order is reversed.

Immersive Generic Dialogues

Default sorting places Immersive Generic Dialogues after SCDO.

ImmersiveGenericDialogues.esp reverts six quest changes made in PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp.

PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp reverts one change made in ImmersiveGenericDialogues.esp.

Player Comments and Head Tracking

Default sorting places PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp after PlayerComments.esp.

Roughly 1322 record conflicts.

PlayerComments_PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul_Patch.esp cannot be loaded before PiperCaitCurieDialogueOverhaul.esp as it's a master for the patch. The patch does revert response flags from SCDO, but it's not without a reason.

Taken from Player Comments and Head Tracking sticky post.

With this patch the say once entries added to the vanilla follower dialogue by the SCDO mod will be removed on any entry containing a player response edit. This now includes all edits including the new follower CA_Event entries in PCHT as many of them and others have multiple respones which will not be heard if the say once entry remains.