I have modded New Vegas right up the wazoo: Part 2

Yep, the continuing adventures of "How many mods I can add to a game before it explodes and takes half the street with it". This time around, I've mostly focused on adding extra clothing, armour, quests, building interiors and a stack of extra people. There doesn't appear to be any real impact on the game as yet, and there are only two things I simply cannot get working (only head retextures so no big deal really).

In no particular order, here's a bunch more mods I'm running. I'll cover some of the others mentioned above (like additional people and buildings) next time, as I haven't actually come across all of the content I've added yet.

1) Wasteland Seeker Armour.

Not gonna lie - this might be my favourite armour in the entire game, modded or not. You do a little quest to grab it (there's two versions, actually - the other comes with a rebreather but it's surrounded by about a million high level enemies so I don't have that one yet). It's the kind of thing I expected to be in the game from the start, but the closest I could find was the hideous ghoul brotherhood robes.

And nobody is going to wear that.

Combine with some form of eyewear and the "face hidden" mode from pimp my scarf and you're going to look pretty badass.

2) Nevada RV house.

I really like this one, because it gives you a base of operations East of the Mojave Outpost, somewhat South of Nipton.

You get a shack with a ton of storage, an RV you can sleep in, a chemistry table to rid yourself of addictions and a dog.

Word of warning - you're not far from a place where Viper gang members spawn, and I was not entirely impressed when my dog exploded due to a sudden raid. Alas poor Yappy, I knew him not at all.

3) Portable Campsite. Another one for the "how was this not in the game" pile. You buy the bed and the campfire from random shops:

Then you throw them on the ground and activate both items. You can now sleep anywhere and cook some food whenever you feel like it.

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Nice, simple and immersive mod. Sometimes the bed gets stuck in the ground or hovers ten feet in the air just like real life.

4) The Books for Bullets Program. Trading in books in Fallout 3 was great fun (no really, it was) and it blew my mind the first time I saw a ton of pre-war books in Vegas, thinking "I'm gonna make a fortune out of these" before realising they didn't carry the same worth that their DC cousins did. No matter, I'm sure you'll get to do something cool with all these books lying about the place. Right?

Wrong. You didn't do a damn thing with books, and I was somewhat let down by this. I also thought the whole crafting bullets skill was a nonsense due to never being able to find the parts I needed.

WOULDN'T IT BE AWESOME IF SOMEONE WHO CAN CODE THINGS HAD A SIMILAR IDEA AND FIXED MY PROBLEM.

Step right up, person who made this mod. It adds a "books for bullets" machine to a police station, and gives you the crafting components you need depending on what type of pre-war book you feed it (yes, the mod changes pre-war books into things like Fiction, Spiritual, History etc).

The machine:

The books:

My face: :D

Fantastic mod.

5) Homeless in Goodsprings.

This is genius - a smart way to give your character a home (of sorts) in Goodsprings at the start of the game in a way that doesn't break the story with an unrealistic "Five minutes into the game and now you live in a mansion" mod. You know the alleyway at the side of the saloon and the store? Yep, you're going to set up there.

It's pretty simple, and you get some XP for each part of the alley that you sort out.

I was worried that me dicking around out in the open might attract a passing Deathclaw and cause a massacre but it hasn't gone horribly wrong so far.

6) Black Leather Armoured Duster.

No two ways about it: this coat looks badass.

Nice hat, too.

7) Oven cooking.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could cook with ovens? Well, now you can.

Depending on your Luck stat, you may find lots of working ovens or you might have to fix them before using. And then it might be out of fuel, so you finally have a use for flamer fuel (admit it, you never bothered to pick it up because you never bothered with flamethrowers). Great mod.

8) New Vegas Bobbleheads.

This one adds 21 bobbleheads to the wasteland, and you can configure the mod to give you skill bonuses or just money for every one you find.

9) Buildable Bots.

Science. Everybody loves science, especially when it involves insane death robots. And you'd love to build your very own insane death robot, wouldn't you?

Of course you would.

Well, GET READY FOR THE SHACK ATTACK, BY WHICH I MEAN THE WOODEN SHACK BELOW.

Inside, you'll find one of the most interesting and fun mods around. Behold the metal things!

Finally, there's a reason to collect all those bits of junk and scrap lying about the place. Fire up the machine at the end of the room and you can pick your weapon of choice:

This is what I ended up with:

They'll follow you around like a regular companion, and you can repair your robot if they get too messed up. My robot died horribly, so I ransacked him for parts. Easy come, easy go.

10) Existence Robot Radio.

The ambient music in this mod could easily have wandered into town on the back of an official game soundtrack. It really is that good.

Bizarrely, the video only gives tiny snippets of music which seems a little pointless but don't let that put you off. Well worth the download.

I think that's everything for now. Next time I'll go over the rest of the 73 or so mods I've stuffed into my copy of New Vegas...

 

I have modded New Vegas right up the wazoo

Playing NV on PC instead of the console is quite an eye opener - might as well be a different game, given how much extra content you can jam in there at no added cost. This is the best of what I'm rolling with so far, with no horrible crashes or explosions in sight. I'll be looking to throw in some gameworld expansions, but I at least want to play through the official DLC before I inevitably murder the coding with deathbricks.

1) Black Wolf Backpacks. How this game didn't come ready rolled with backpacks I'll never know, but this mod adds a collection of nifty carryspace onto your frame. You can double up the large backpacks with the small bumbag thing too. (Note: giving your companion a backpack increases their carry capacity forever, but this is hardly something you're going to complain about).

I'm still waiting to see the heaviest weight for sale, so I'm having to make do with the next size down for now. You can pimp out your bags here, though why anyone would wander the wastes of Nevada with a bright white "shoot me now" target on their back is beyond me.

2) Another "what were they thinking" fixer, the Sunny Smiles companion mod does what you'd expect it to.

As you can see, I have Cass, ED-E, Sunny and her dog tagging along too. Sunny doesn't impact on follower limits, so you can have a furious fivesome wandering the wastes (until someone is horribly murdered, anyway). I'm pretty sure you'd have to whack the difficulty up to the highest level if you're going to do this.

If you want to leave Sunny somewhere, you can tell her that location x is "your new home" and she'll wait there until you come back. You can also choose to leave the dog behind if annoying Fallout dogs aren't your thing (and nobody will ever replace Dogmeat anyway, not even his puppies).

3) New Vegas Bounties. This is a fun one, giving you twenty something "go forth and shoot that asshole" type missions to play around with. You go see some guy in a shack who tells you about the target and a general idea of where to go next, then off you go to slaughter what appears to be Robin Williams from his spot in Night at the Museum. The humanity.

The missions take you to lots of locations that originally screamed "horribly underused". Like this one.

The loot is pretty interesting too, with custom guns and off the beaten track clothing. You're not just stomping around shooting people, either - the structure resembles typical NV quests, talking to various characters to pick up more info as you go. The voicework seems pretty solid, with only one character so far sounding like he was voiced by a 14 year old squeaking into a microphone.

There's a second mission pack once you get through the first lot, available here.

4) Nordic Gear. I missed the old "find this awesome armour loot" missions from FO3 (did NV even have any of these? Can't remember) so this one fills the spot nicely. The loot is found in various locations across the map, with some of the best bits hidden in a certain location which I've yet to find.

I bought this for Cass.

It's really quite badass.

Flee! Flee from Darkseid!

Yeah, I'm pretty taken by this coat in case you hadn't noticed.

..uh...anyway. Coats.

5) FO3 has a better radio than NV. Mr New Vegas is nowhere near as interesting as Three Dog, and I now have a pathological aversion to Johnny motherfucking Guitar like you wouldn't believe. This mod here is a port from FO3, complete with scripted radio presenter and a whole bunch of public service announcement warnings from, uh, people.

Unfortunately, the search for a decent NV station continues. 2 hours 20 minutes of classic music is only a good thing if it isn't 2 hours 20 minutes of the same four songs over and over again. You may fare better with it than I did, so good luck.

6) 100 outfits. If you're bored with everybody dressing the same, then this is a good mod to have. It seems adding this causes characters to change their own clothing, but I haven't seen this happen yet. When installed, some of the shops will start trying to flog you different kinds of outfits, all of which come with modifiers to things like perception, agility etc. I kinda like this one:

You also end up with some old dude in the Goodsprings store. He doesn't say much, but he does sell combat jackets that give you bonuses to shooting and survival.

Remember how much you liked the roving trader outfit but hated having to remove it due to it not having any damage resistance at all?

Yeah, this will fix that little problem.

There's helmets too, and of course it all comes in different colours. Thanks, weird old man!

7) Pimp my scarf. This one lets you pick up a snazzy face wrap / scarf and, uh, wrap your face with it. They come in "face hidden" and "face not hidden" varieties.

Of course, the smart cookie will ensure they optimise for all out stealth and combine the right scarf with the right set of custom clothing.

I am going to die swiftly and horribly.