Less Infuriating Hip for Anomaly [1.5.X]  

Description

Hip is, arguably, the single most hated character in Anomaly community. Her quest line is horribly balanced, writing is of low quality (props to devs trying to clean it up, though!) and generally speaking her character is made to be as unlikable as possible and brings nothing to the table other than obscene tankiness. This mod addresses that.

Less Infuriating Hip (or LIH) was made as a form of practice in scripting character dialogue, simple quests, as well as writing itself. It completely changes (in simple scope) available interactions with Hip to provide utility to Rookie Village as a whole:

• Hip's name has been changed to Anastasia. Her attitude towards the player has also been completely changed. She will also now spawn with Glock 19 instead of Makarov PM (requires new game).
• Anastasia is no longer available for being a companion outside debug menu. She got to keep her tankiness however.
• Questline she used to have has been scrubbed from her character script and replaced with two simple quests that, upon completion, enable her to heal the player, trade medical supplies* and repair their gear. The reward for the first quest in the chain scales with tier of item delivered.
• Added a side quest to Sidorovich (triggerable after accepting Anastasia's quest) that allows to obtain item requested by Anastasia early. It also pushes the player into interacting with Clear Sky if they haven't already.
• PDA encyclopedia entry has been modified to reflect the changes and new lore.

* - for some reason, during trading she has limited money in her inventory. Possibly fixable by starting new game, but not guaranteed to work. Can be treated as simply buy-only trader in the early game.

Installation and compatibility

Simply drag and drop gamedata into Anomaly root folder. I don't know if it's possible to use mod manager because I simply do not use one.
It's safe to add the mod mid-playthrough provided old Hip's questline hasn't been started at all. Removing it mid-playthrough, however, can lead to serious issues if new Hip is alive.
Russian language is NOT supported, the quests and the entire character section of PDA encyclopedia will display in English. If you can provide Russian translation, please contact me via private message.

Compatible with virtually everything under the sun that doesn't touch Hip's, Cordon's and Great Swamp's files. Will probably work with GAMMA out of the box, but if it doesn't, it's easy to manually patch it in. Created on base of LTTZ DC, MoTZ Unlocker and DLTX'd Artefact Hunters, so it's inherently compatible with them.

Modified files: scripts\escape\devushka.ltx, gameplay\character_desc_escape.xml, gameplay\dialogs_escape.xml and gameplay\character_desc_marsh.xml
For manual patching:
scripts\escape\devushka.ltx - add "trade = items\trade\trade_stalker_devushka.ltx" into [logic@devushka]
gameplay\character_desc_escape.xml - add "<actor_dialog>devushka_fixed_delivery_start</actor_dialog>" into section for Sidorovich
gameplay\dialogs_escape.xml - add "#include "gameplay\dialogs_devushka_fixed.xml"" below <game_dialogs>
gameplay\character_desc_marsh.xml - add "<actor_dialog>devushka_fixed_delivery_finish</actor_dialog>" into section for Cold

I give explicit permission to include LIH in any soups, modpacks, etc etc, as well as modification and expansion of the scope of the mod, provided credit is given.