• Fallout New Vegas Texture Mod

May 23, 2018  1 of 8. Despite being released nearly eight years ago, Fallout: New Vegas still has a thriving modding community, with popular mods being updated and new mods being released. With May 2018 nearly over, we’re almost halfway through the year. Here’s a look at eight mods that keep the Mojave Wasteland a place full of adventure!

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.

Despite being released nearly eight years ago, Fallout: New Vegas still has a thriving modding community, with popular mods being updated and new mods being released.

With May 2018 nearly over, we’re almost halfway through the year. Here’s a look at eight mods that keep the Mojave Wasteland a place full of adventure!

Salt Lake Stories

Salt Lake Stories is a mod that has been in development since 2010. Building off of the stories from the Honest Hearts DLC, Salt Lake Stories adds a large world space centered around the Great Salt Lake, with 38 Quests and 50,000+ pieces of dialogue. The mod features some adult content, and is mostly based on files from Van Buren, the unreleased third Fallout game from Black Isle studios, before the franchise came under Bethesda’s wing.

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One of the developer’s interesting choices involving the mod was the choice to remove quest markers, as well as blatantly obvious quest direction, forcing players to explore the world to solve their problems, which was something the original Fallout games implemented very well, with things such as the final encounter with The Master in Fallout having multiple non-violent solutions. A second large choice is a removal of larger action sequences. For the most part, Bethesda’s Fallout games take a less nuanced approach to interactions, meaning that more often then not you will end up fighting people to get your way. Fallout: New Vegas does a good job of adding some ways to get around more violent encounters with various skill checks, but Nexus user Yossarian22 has taken it a step further. Although the mod maker is not a native English speaker, and the mod takes some interesting design choices, Salt Lake Stories was one of the top rated mods of Feb. 2018 on the Fallout: Vegas Mod Nexus.

Download Salt Lake Stories now.

This post was originally written by Tyler Krasnai.

Have you ever felt like throwing grenades or using a meat cleaver on your enemies should do a little more than just lower their health bar? Then you need Live Dismemberment. This mod, one of the top rated mods for May 2018 on the Fallout: New Vegas Mod Nexus, allows you to dismember your opponents before killing them. This is a concept that appears in Fallout 4 when fighting Feral Ghouls and Robots, when you cripple their limbs, they are removed or visibly destroyed. Live Dismemberment adds distinct effects depending on what limbs are removed. For example, if you manage to cut off or blow off someone’s leg, they would fall to the ground, being forced to crawl.

The developer of Live Dismemberment recommends that anyone who downloads this mod should also consider getting an older mod, BLEED. The mod BLEED, originally released in 2015, but updated most recently in February 2018, completely alters the way damage is dealt by weapons, making them much more life-like in their destructive power. Live Dismemberment is for download here.

The Living Desert

While the Mojave Wasteland is an inhospitable desert full of violent wildlife, murderous raiders, and plenty of other dangers, many people felt the world was too empty when New Vegas released. The Living Desert completely changes that by adding hundreds of NPCs, scripted events, and quest-related events to the game. The entire wasteland feels so much more populated, and the NCR-Legion conflict looms ever closer with the addition of new spawn locations for NCR Troopers and Legionaries, especially at certain locations where their spawns pit them directly into a skirmish.

Not only does this mod flesh out the wasteland with a cast of extra faces, but it also adds many events that are linked to quest outcomes. There are quests now that, if you fail them or resolve them in a way that a certain faction does not like, you will find yourself hunted down by a squad of assassins, determined to put down Courier 6 before they can do any more harm.

Overall, the mod adds incredible depth to the wasteland, and sometimes truly displays the consequences of certain quest outcomes. Doing things for the NCR that directly hurt the Legion can spawn Legion hit squads, or working helping factions regain a foothold in the wasteland can set up checkpoints or prepare ambushes for their enemies. The Living Desert mod is available now on the Fallout: New Vegas Mod Nexus.

Photon Laser Weapon Pack

One of Fallout’s defining features is the idealistic 1950’s vision of the future melded with the post-apocalyptic. In this sci-fi future, energy weapons such as laser rifles and plasma pistols are a powerful commodity. While the Photon Laser Weapons mod may not be the most lore-friendly weapons mod, the weapons added are an absolute delight.

A laser bullpup PDW, a laser bolt action rifle, and a laser pump-action shotgun allow you to take on the dangers of the Mojave with a new, energetic gusto. Blast your way through Legionaries with the powerful shotgun, or pick off enemies with the bolt action rifle, or fight your way through hordes of feral ghouls with the Laser PDW.

If you’re interested in the Photon Laser Weapon Pack, check it out here.

Mojave Wildlife

In a similar vein to The Living Desert, Mojave Wildlife adds many spawns into the world for various animals. With over 100 new spawns for vanilla wildlife based on cut content, the world becomes full of life. A lot of very dangerous, angry life that will attempt to kill you on sight. This, combined with mods like The Living Desert take what many considered to be a scarcely populated region and turn it into something full of humanity and rich, varied wildlife. If only it were that simple; however, because nearly everything in the wasteland will at least attempt to kill you.

Mojave Wildlife also utilizes unused leveled lists from the game, which introduces varying levels of difficulty to what you face depending on the area, rather than your level. It not only has options to change how the spawns work, choosing between the system used in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, but also allows you to choose between random spawning events, called Chanced Spawns. These, the mod creator believe, are a reason that the game often feels sparse. Most of the creature spawn locations in the base F:NV game have a chance of spawning a creature, rather than simply spawning them when you arrive in that location. This mod allows you to toggle these spawns, meaning that if something can spawn, it will.

Mojave Wildlife is available now, download it here.

GECK Extender

The GECK Extender isn’t a mod for players as much as a mod for other modders. The GECK, known in the Fallout Universe as the Garden of Eden Creation Kit, is software provided by Bethesda that allows modders to have more direct access to the assets in the Fallout games, and makes it much easier for them to develop, test, and fix mods.

The GECK Extender fixes several bugs that appear in the GECK provided for Fallout: New Vegas, as well as enables various functionalities within the system, such as Level 2 LOD generation while building large world spaces.

If you’re a modder, this mod is one to watch, as it is updated to provide more content and fix more issues involving the GECK. You can get your hands on it now on the Fallout: New Vegas Mod Nexus.

Simple Hotkeyed Weapon Scrolling

Sometimes, you encounter a mod with a vague name, something that intrigues you into clicking on it. Simple Hotkeyed Weapon Scrolling is not that kind of mod. This is a basic, single script which adds something into the game that should have been in the game from the beginning.

If you have weapons selected in you favorite sl0ts, which are connected to hotkeys, this mod allows you to simply scroll through them, rapidly changing your weapons much like you can in games like Half-Life 2 or Fortnite.

You can download Simple Hotkeyed Weapon Scrolling now.

Well Rested Overhaul

Similarly to the Simple Hotkeyed Weapon Scrolling mod, the Well Rested Overhaul is something that just makes sense for the game, although it was much more complex to introduce. The mod completely alters the way that the Well Rested buff, a buff you traditionally earn for sleeping in beds you own or have rented. The overhaul changes how long the buff lasts, where it can be applied, and what effects it adds.

Traditionally, the buff always lasts for 12 in-game hours, regardless of how long you rest. On top of this, the buff normally only adds a 10 percent increase to earned experience, which is a great buff until you reach the maximum level and experience has no meaning. This overhaul mod changes all of this. Not only does the buff’s duration depend on how long you’ve slept (at least, up to a solid eight hours), but it also adds bonuses such as a 10% increase to your weapon accuracy, attack speed, and AP regeneration rate. Lastly, the mod takes advantage of the games several sex scenes. Traditionally, the game simply fades to black and advances the clock a few hours. With this overhaul, these now apply the status of sleeping (something very important for Hardcore Players who need to focus on things like Sleep Deprivation and Dehydration), as well as apply well rested for shorter periods due to the shortened periods of the scenes.

You can download the Well Rested Overhaul here.

Are there any mods that you think need to be on here? Alternatively, any mods that you think shouldn’t have been listed? Talk about it in the comments below!