Fair Bear Maiden posted:

Knuc If U Buck posted:

He looks like he's having problems moving his bowels.

Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

I'm hoping that shot isn't representative of his face in general, because he went from Generic Guy With Beard to Squinty McClayface. I've loved the FCO work so far, but that one just doesn't sit right.

Man Whore posted:

Is there a mod that allows me to turn on certain aspects of hardcore mode while turning off others? I would like weighted ammo but I do not find meter management simulator 2010 very fun.

radlum posted:

I played this game for a long time in my Xbox 360 and now I want to play it modded. Any suggestions? Are there essential mods that I should have (like the Unofficial Patches, SKSE, SPERG and SkyUI are for Skyrim)?

radlum posted:

I played this game for a long time in my Xbox 360 and now I want to play it modded. Any suggestions? Are there essential mods that I should have (like the Unofficial Patches, SKSE, SPERG and SkyUI are for Skyrim)?

Capn Beeb posted:

Just click that and change it to AmmoList308 I believe.

radlum posted:

I played this game for a long time in my Xbox 360 and now I want to play it modded. Any suggestions? Are there essential mods that I should have (like the Unofficial Patches, SKSE, SPERG and SkyUI are for Skyrim)?

SplitSoul posted:

Mission Mojave can break a lot of poo poo, JSawyer has all the fixes you need.


The first thing is don't go too crazy. Pick and choose carefully or you're in for a major headache, take it from someone who always seems to reach the mod limit and has to spend hours weeding out conflicts and merging stuff. Depending on your rig you can pour all the texture and mesh replacers at it that you want, but mods that alter the game world or add tons of scripts are to prone to causing instability. Use FNVEdit and Wrye Flash to create merged and bashed patches, and ask here if you encounter any problems.

Essential: FNVEdit, Wrye Flash, FOMM, NVSE, DarnUI, CASM (remember to disable all default auto-saving), MCM, NVAC, FNV4GB (Win8 version), NVC

Recommended: NMC, Ojo Bueno, Wasteland Clothing Hi-res, Book of Water, JSawyer, IWS, Nevada Skies or Project Reality, Improved LOD, Improved LOD Noise, Signature Armor, Signature Weapons, WRP, WMM, WAR, FCO, WFO, Tailor Maid, Satchels, WMX, Precision Collision, MG NCR, LPAM, The Armory, EBT

Fixes/Restoration: Outside Bets, Pacer's Gambit, A Thorny Situation, A Van Graff Scorned, A Koch and Bohr Story, Rotface to Riches

There are also a lot of ENB presets. I like Enhanced Shaders myself as it's more subtle than most.

Infinity Gaia posted:

Why do people insist on recommending WMX and not WME? WMX may have melee weapon mods, but it has really dull mods for firearms. I find WME to be almost universally better.

Someguy2000 posted:

All,

I need to come clean with everyone.

A few months ago, I ceased working on this mod due to both professional and personal demands. Since then, I've been out of sight and out of mind in regards to both the community and team members. Considering the amount of promotion I poured into this project, that's unfair to you all. I apologize for misleading everyone, particularly my teammates.

Abruptly disappearing and then recrudescing is nothing new for me - it's actually a staple insofar as modding is concerned. As I've said before, I'm a mercurial maniac who operates in creative sprints, with sporadic fits of isolation to collect my wits. It can lead to interesting creations born from rapid development cycles (New Vegas Bounties, The Inheritance), but also unfinished fiascos (Bloodlines: The Order - a few of you might remember it). For a few days, I've been lurking at the Nexus, surveying recent work, and I'm displeased with it, to say the least. My well-intended but haphazard updates to NVB may end up doing more harm than good, and Russell remains a clusterfuck for some users.

Truth is, I have zero desire to deal with this engine anymore. With the run-up to Fallout 4 (likely out late next year), I might have an epiphany/moment of clarity and clean up some of the wrecks I've left, perhaps over the summer. I just don't know.

Releasing substandard, buggy betas while promoting mods that will never see the light of day (Sinners and Slaves) is just lovely, no way around it. I know, I know - promoting incomplete or proposed content is pretty much a mainstay of the modding community, but I feel I took it further, with interviews, developer diaries (such f***ing bulls*** in retrospect), and glib posts on mere ideas, not substance. I can do better than that.

As strange as it may sound, I sometimes hate NVBI. A hasty, three-week production culminated in a small mod that continues to eclipse all my other releases. The design was linear, the dialogue sometimes clumsy, the references obvious, and the voice acting... abysmal (Randall notwithstanding). In focusing on these flaws, I suppose I lost sight of its strengths: stability, simplicity, and a tight, easily digestible narrative. The timing of its release was also a key factor. I only bring this up because recent introspection has spurred me to re-evaluate how I mod from here on out.

Here's what I'll say about future work:
- No more diaries, interviews, or teasers.
- Finished releases only. No alphas, betas, or "It's all done except voice acting"
- I won't work on a mod that I can't get to beta in under three months. Every mod I've worked on beyond that scope has failed.
- I'll work alone (excepting voice actors or occasional art work). This is not a dig at teammates - far from it. I feel that my changeable, hyper-introverted personality undermines communication and cooperation. If you're talented, get with a team where you can flourish. Working with me is more often than not a dead end.

I've been going over some of the probable questions relating to this mod, as well as other projects, so here is an attempt at FAQ's:
Q: So, is The Siege of Firebase Zulu dead?
A: Yes, at least for the foreseeable future.

Q: Are you really finished modding for Fallout: New Vegas?
A: Yes.

Q: What about New Vegas Bounties III?
A: The characters and narrative from NVBIII will be adapated for FO4, or possibly FO:NV 2 (if it gets made). Depending on the time period (all signs point to 2299 now). If not, I'll conclude it in other means (holotapes, notes, etc.) in later mods. All my Fallout mods will remain interconnected on some level.

Q: Does this mean you'll work on Skyrim now?
A: Maybe. Maybe not. I will make familiarization with Papyrus a priority until FO4 ships. Whether or not anything comes to fruition out of it remains to be seen. I'm sitting on a half-finished vampire-hunting questline, but it's absolute s***. The player runs around with a self-loathing, skooma-addled dhampir killing a**hole bloodsuckers in each town. It's an on-rails, fedex killing spree. No deeper themes or moral ambiguity, just slaying faceless asshats. In other words, s***.

Q: Will you patch up NVBII and Russell?
A: I have zero interest in it right now. Maybe later.

Q: Will you ever answer PM's again? At the least, why not delete some old PM's so your mailbox isn't full?
A: I don't know.

Q: Are you drunk?
A: When I wrote this on word last night, yes. I decided to post it (unedited) while sober.

I had half a mind to just vanish without any explanation, but that was just too chickenshit for me. I will be gone for a bit, so please refrain from excessive groaning or gnashing of teeth if I fail to respond. This is my hobby, and I can't fake it when the motivation isn't there. The next time you hear from me, I'll have something real. Perhaps another mindless orgy of violence set amidst the high fantasy bullshittery of Skyrim. Whatever it is, it will be bloody, and it will have balls. If that goes against the grain of immersive bodices or whatever, so be it. That's just how express myself, and I can't fake it.

Lastly, I appreciate the ongoing support from the community. Even when I f*** up or go in hiding from the modding world, the encouragement never ceases. It has a funny way of inducing both guilt and renewed passion in the inactive modder. Remorse usually stems from the fact that players continue to rally around a mod that is effectively dead as disco, often encouraged by the modder's past predictions of grandiose content and exciting features. However, it can also pump life into the creative sinews, reminding modders that some people still enjoy their work, and thus future projects will have an audience. With that in mind, thank you. It's been a phenomenal run in Fallout: New Vegas, and I look forward to future work in the Nexus... eventually.

Man Whore posted:

EDIT- drat it IWS I want to like you but you made my game so unstable. I never had to deal with a crash every hour and it scares me.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

Don't know how much it might help, but one thing I've noticed is that IWS base doesn't hurt my stability all that much, but start adding the add-ons that add patrol, guards to the cities, etc. and suddenly my game has serious memory problems.

The Iron Rose posted:

Raygereio posted:

Try grabbing Wrye Python 08 from the optional files here and installing that.

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The Iron Rose posted:

This is gonna sound demanding of me but is there any way to play NV in Borderless Windows?

McTimmy posted:

Are there any mods that cut down on the drudgery of ammo breakdown and creation? Breaking and making thousands of rounds capped at a hundred a transaction is growing intolerable.