New Vegas Script Extender
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A number of mods, especially ones that overhaul entire game systems, rely on the New Vegas Script Extender in order to work. While the script extender won’t directly have an impact on your gameplay, the possibilities it opens up for other mods make it well worth the effort of installing.
4GB Fallout New Vegas Updated
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New Vegas, by default, caps the amount of your system’s RAM it can use at just 2GB. Modern gaming computers have much more than that however, and with 4GB Fallout New Vegas Updated players can allocate up to 4GB of RAM to the game. This will increase the amount of your computer’s resources the game can access, increasing stability. The increased stability becomes more and more important as you add mods to the game, many of which increase the amount of resources the game needs to run.
Yukichigai Unofficial Patch
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An unofficial patch that includes a number of bug fixes that the developers never got to themselves. YUP patches not just the vanilla game, but fixes problems found in the DLC as well.
Things fixed in this mod include changing Fixer so it cures addiction only temporarily, stopping NPCs who begin the game dead from automatically resurrecting, preventing the Brotherhood of Steel Explosive Collar from detonating when removed from your character’s neck, and much, much more.
If there’s only one mod you get it should be this one.
Mod Configuration Menu
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Another mod for your mods, the Mod Configuration Menu brings a button to the pause menu which, you guessed it, allows you to configure your mods. Not every mod will be in the menu, but the MCM has become a standard for New Vegas mod creators who need an in-game options menu for their mods.
Project Nevada
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Project Nevada is a highly customizable set of modules for the game. This allows users to pick and choose precisely which features of the mod they want to use. The core part of the mod adds features from other first-person shooters, such as sprint, bullet time, a grenade hotkey, and an inventory sorter.
Other modules in the Project Nevada mod add things to the game such as a variety of cybernetic implants, a slew of new weapons, and a rebalance to make the game more challenging by making combat deadlier and changing the timescale for your character’s primary needs.
Wasteland Flora Overhaul
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The wasteland is a desolate place, but that doesn’t mean it all needs to look the same. The Wasteland Flora Overhaul mod adds more than 100 new trees and plants to the wasteland. Set your eyes on new desert plants such as cacti, desert sunflowers, junipers, desert candle flowers, and more.
The mod has a few versions available depending on your tastes. The Fertile Wasteland version adds some “foresty areas” near water and mountains, includes every new plant and tree model created for the mod, and populates the desert with more flowers, shrubs, cacti, and trees. The Dead Wasteland version of the mod makes fewer changes to the game and primarily uses the dead trees and cacti models with more withered grass and shrubs. Finally, the ESP-less version of the mod simply replaces the game’s original trees with more detailed versions.
Weapon Mods Expanded
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Modding weapons in Fallout New Vegas is an enjoyable way to customize your character’s equipment to your liking, but Weapon Mods Expanded takes it to a whole new level. Giving each weapon in the game, including uniques, three slots with which to work for mods. This gives even low-tech melee weapons the ability to become more useful in the game with the addition of mods such as a silicone grip for your cattle prod or nails for your baseball bat.
Weapon Mods Expanded also allows you to find weapon mods in containers throughout the world and adds new crafting parts for use in creating some of the new mods yourself.
Fallout 4 Quickloot for New Vegas
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Tired of opening a clunky menu each time you want to pick up some loot? Well there’s no need for that anymore thanks to Fallout 4 Quickloot for New Vegas. If you’ve played Fallout 4 then you know what you’re in for with this mod, which brings the newer game’s non-intrusive looting menu to the Mojave Desert.
The mod is even customizable, allowing you to choose exactly where on your screen the menu appears, and it matches the color of your HUD automatically.
CONELRAD 640-1240
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If you’re getting tired of the music played on the radio stations around New Vegas, CONELRAD 640-1240 is the mod for you. Adding a whole new radio station to the game, 55 new songs are introduced to the wasteland alongside 29 new public service announcements.
The songs are themed well with the Fallout universe, and some will be familiar to fans of Fallout 4, such as Uranium Fever by Elton Britt and Crawl Out Through the Fallout by Sheldon Allman. What’s more impressive is these songs were added to New Vegas through this mod before they were in Fallout 4.
NMC’s Texture Pack
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Changing many of the game’s textures, NMC’s Texture Pack comes in three flavors, one for high-end computers, one for mid-range systems, and another for those running New Vegas on less powerful hardware. The textures in each version are the same, it’s just the size of them that changes for each version.
While this pack includes changes for graphics throughout the game, it doesn’t touch the sky, water, clothing, NPCs, foliage, and weapons, so any mods you want to use that change those graphical features should be compatible with NMC’s Texture Pack.
Useful Misc Items
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There’s a lot of clutter in the Fallout universe, and not much to do with it in the vanilla game. Useful Misc Items looks to change that by giving every item a purpose. Junk found throughout the game can be turned into useful goods such as scrap metal, scrap electronics, and sensor modules at any workbench. Stop skipping over the trash in the wasteland and start recycling it with Useful Misc Items.
More Perks
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Fairly self-explanatory, More Perks of course adds more perks and traits to the game. The number of these that have been added is impressive, however, at more than 120. The perks do a good job of retaining the Fallout feeling and don’t break the game by allowing your character to become too powerful.
The clever Drink to Last! perk lets you fill up a water container from any toilet, for example, and the Jump to Conclusions perk helps you get out of tough situations by making your hits critical for 10 seconds after failing to convince someone in conversation. Be sure to check out the mod’s description for every perk included with it.
Extended Map Markers
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This mod makes your life easier by putting more locations on your map once you’ve explored the world. Extended Map Markers will make it less difficult to refind locations throughout the world, and perhaps more helpful, will let you quick travel directly to them.
If you’ve already explored the Mojave Desert, the mod will even go ahead and retroactively add the markers to your world map for you. If you don’t want that to happen there’s an optional version to download that won’t add them automatically. There’s also a version without markers added to the Strip in order to avoid overly cluttering your map.
Combined Community Sound Pack
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This compilation of user-made sounds from across the internet changes nearly every weapon in the game, including DLC weapons, to make the sounds more realistic. It also changes the sounds many weapons make when they’re fired a long distance from the player, so it’s easier to tell when combat is close by or far away. The game’s unique weapons that didn’t have their own sound effects are also given unique sounds as a part of this mod.
Four Legged Friends
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What game couldn’t be improved with the inclusion of dog companions? Okay, I know there are probably some, but Fallout New Vegas isn’t one of them. Four Legged Friends adds four unique dog companions to the game as well as mole-rat and gecko companions. Each is very powerful in combat, with 10,000 HP each, so if it’s a challenge you’re after maybe stay away from this mod. If it’s pure entertainment and joy you’re after, Four Legged Friends can certainly help with that.
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