SAZ you are the best! I'm lobbing hard to get you a "Hero of the Soviet Union Medal" Take your time, I still refuse to play this game without your MOD...So thanks!
I'm in the same boat. The mod just improved too much across the board for me to go back to vanilla.
Super-excited to see that there was an update, but am also hesitant to get my hopes up too much because I've also grappled with clinical depression my whole life and I know how sporadic it can be. Coming out of a bad episode can either last for months, or just a couple of days. You can feel like you're on top of the world, and then relapse to where you're practically comatose, for no apparent reason. Obviously I hope he stays feeling better though, and wish him the best.
Random question: Are either, or both, of saddog and SAZ native English speakers? It's been a while since I played vanilla, but back when I played the mod for the first time I seem to remember thinking that the text was more readable. Less typos, grammatical errors, etc. and am just curious. It's just one of the things that make me feel like the mod is mandatory to me. Not to mention all of the QOL improvements for less grinding, repeatable scenes, added scenes, and the new optional dialogue for a lot of scenes is so good imo.