LogFAQs > #941426065

argonautweakend posted...
You can revert back to vanilla dialog if you want.

This is 100% not true and something I need to address. I had an open offer to the community that anyone who actually wanted to re-translate BNW would have any help they needed from me and that we'd offer their "vanilla" patch as an optional translation. It was, quite simply, a bluff I never expected to be called on given that anyone who ever expressed interest in it saw the amount of work that would be involved and nope'd right the fuck out.

You can't just slap vanilla's script onto BNW and call it a day - it would break a lot of things and there'd me a lot more that would just be factually incorrect with what's changed in Brave New World. The "vanilla" patch is literally just Brave New World with a personality-ectomy - a dude went through the script, looked for any line that could possibly be considered interesting, and reverted it to the "style" of vanilla by making it as bland as possible.

I hate the vanilla patch with every fiber of my being. It was made for a vocal minority of people who will bitch about a mod for having the audacity to be different at all - a group of people I had no interest in ever appealing to in the first place. It bothers me not because it exists, but because it's widely misrepresented as something it's not: Brave New World but with the game's original (and, let's face it, completely garbage) script. And that's not what it is at all. It's an attempt to make Brave New World look like something it very much is not.

tl;dr please don't use the vanilla patch.

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