Fallout: New Vegas - The Frontiers of bad taste (Modding Thread)

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Chronojam: Feb 20, 2006; This is me on vacation in Amsterdam
Never be afraid of being yourself!

If you want the game harder, don't use the difficulty slider, get mods that dick with pricing, restoration, cripple effects, equipment rarity, enemy spawns, things like that.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 20:05

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# ? May 25, 2024 01:02

Philippe: Aug 9, 2013; (she/her)

And I'm spitballing here, but maybe put points into combat skills?

# ? Jul 4, 2014 21:08

Dr.Cthulhu: Jan 19, 2005; Earache! Earache!
Cthulhu Fatigue!

Ya I put the game on Normal and it seems to be a lot more lenient in what sort of damage I take. I started putting points in 'guns' too. My problem is I try to do everything in one play through which is obviously not possible, heh.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 21:50

Zeron: Oct 23, 2010

Well if you aren't using JSawyer and you have the DLC then unless you set your Intelligence to 1 you most likely can max out every skill in the game. Speaking of which, if you aren't using JSawyer then do NOT do the DLC too early. For some reason the vanilla DLC give absolute shitloads of EXP and will destroy the level/difficulty curve for the regular game.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 22:45

Dr.Cthulhu: Jan 19, 2005; Earache! Earache!
Cthulhu Fatigue!

Zeron posted:

Well if you aren't using JSawyer and you have the DLC then unless you set your Intelligence to 1 you most likely can max out every skill in the game. Speaking of which, if you aren't using JSawyer then do NOT do the DLC too early. For some reason the vanilla DLC give absolute shitloads of EXP and will destroy the level/difficulty curve for the regular game.

I just got jswayer but I haven't initialized it for this play through. I will for the next tho so thanks for the heads up!

# ? Jul 4, 2014 22:57

Lprsti99: Apr 7, 2011; Everything's coming up explodey!; Pillbug

So, I picked up the Ultimate Edition of NV over the summer sale. Any chance there's a goon-approved mod compilation available? Setting up mods in Bethesda-series games is always a pain in the dick.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 02:04

Dr Snofeld: Apr 30, 2009

Lprsti99 posted:

So, I picked up the Ultimate Edition of NV over the summer sale. Any chance there's a goon-approved mod compilation available? Setting up mods in Bethesda-series games is always a pain in the dick.

Personally, I never play the game without the JSawyer mod, which is more about tweaks and such than a full overhaul, but that's down to personal preference. That aside, patched New Vegas doesn't honestly need a lot to make a first playthrough enjoyable, and there's a poo poo-tonne of content in the Ultimate Edition. I'd recommend a UI mod (Darnified UI is my favourite) and maybe Fellout if the orange tint bugs you. Both are in the OP. Give it a go with those and then just add any quality of life mods you feel like you need.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 02:46

rocket_man38: Jan 23, 2006; My life is a barrel o' fun!!

Is anyone familiar with Fallout: Who Vegas? I beat the first quest, got my screwdriver and stuff but have no idea what the hell to do next, or how to start space battles, etc.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 02:57

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Lprsti99 posted:

So, I picked up the Ultimate Edition of NV over the summer sale. Any chance there's a goon-approved mod compilation available? Setting up mods in Bethesda-series games is always a pain in the dick.

First get something like FOMM.

CASM and YUP. CASM saves the game automatically at an interval you can set which helps if you forget to press f5 alot like me, though it needs NVSE. YUP, on the other hand, is a bunch of bug fixes and changes nothing else unlike the other big bug fix mod. It doesn't need NVSE. The game itself is perfectly playable vanilla but Jsawyer was made by the lead developer and changes some aspects to be more how he envisioned the game. It does make the game more difficult though. There's also Project Nevada which adds in alot of new things and features to the game but is easily edited from the main menu.

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jul 5, 2014

# ? Jul 5, 2014 03:06

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

Yeah, I agree that it's best to experience the game in a mostly vanilla state first. Use JSawyer to rebalance and tweak it a bit and MAYBE add Project Nevada, but that's all I suggest. Once you at least beat the main quest and maybe the DLC in that form, start modding.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 04:14

rocket_man38: Jan 23, 2006; My life is a barrel o' fun!!

Nevada skies is good as well, it changes the weather to make it more realistic.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 04:21

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

rocket_man38 posted:

Nevada skies is good as well, it changes the weather to make it more realistic.

I use Western Sky for mine. It's been a bit less glitchy than Nevada Skies and includes the Fellout-style filter removal.

Adding on to what I said, I would suggest (if you don't care about experience the low-quality vanilla textures) you get the NMC Texture Pack and Weapon Retexture Project, as well as Millenia's other weapon textures. It's more resource intensive than the base game, but it can make it seriously pretty if combined with Western Sky or Nevada Skies and/or Fellout.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 04:48

SpookyLizard: Feb 17, 2009

Is Western Sky animated yet? That always used to bother me somewhat.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 05:10

DMorbid: Jan 6, 2011; With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

I love gibbing, but I will tweak PN so that the odds of people getting limbs severed/gibbed is greatly reduced. I feel like the default value is crazy-high, and it sort of turns it into a mundane happening when it should really be an awesome experience every time.

I just reinstalled Fallout 3 the other day, and the very first Vault 101 guard I killed had his head fly off from a single pistol shot. At least that made my character's first kill properly :stare:

-inducing, I guess.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 16:21

Beeb: Jun 29, 2003; Can't post for 29 days!

Did Fallout Character Overhaul ever get smoothed out? Cause this popped up on the Nexus today:

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/56312/

Sounds kinda interesting, and piggybacks off FCO.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 20:52

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

That mod gets a little weird with the corpse nudity but otherwise it's pretty alright. It makes black characters actually look brown instead of like this weird burnt red color so points on them for that.

edit: Do note though that upon installing it, I believe it'll ask you if you want the nudity and stuff, which you can say 'no' to.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Jul 5, 2014

# ? Jul 5, 2014 21:15

Brainamp: Sep 4, 2011; More Zen than Zenyatta

I like some of it, but others just confuse the hell out of me. Like changing people's skin colors to match their voice actors? But my favorite is this one.

"I wanted him to look evil, so I gave him a tattoo and a goatee."

# ? Jul 5, 2014 21:42

rocket_man38: Jan 23, 2006; My life is a barrel o' fun!!

Brainamp posted:

I like some of it, but others just confuse the hell out of me. Like changing people's skin colors to match their voice actors? But my favorite is this one.

"I wanted him to look evil, so I gave him a tattoo and a goatee."

"These characters just DON'T FIT, so I added some stereotypes and caricatures to fix it."

# ? Jul 5, 2014 23:49

Beeb: Jun 29, 2003; Can't post for 29 days!

Yeah, some of the changes are kinda dumb, but overall it doesn't look half bad.

And drat that ghoul race :stare:

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:22

Paul Revere 3000: Dec 8, 2007; So like a pimp I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in
Nothing wrong with my leg
I'm just B-boy limpin'

Making Legate Lanius look like Tim Buckley is also an odd choice.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 04:08

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Paul Revere 3000 posted:

Making Legate Lanius look like Tim Buckley is also an odd choice.

The two definitely ramble on about bullshit for similar lengths of time though.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 04:10

Fewd: Mar 22, 2007; #vmp #opsec #kolmiloikka #happoo

Capn Beeb posted:

Yeah, some of the changes are kinda dumb, but overall it doesn't look half bad.

And drat that ghoul race

I'm not even out of Goodsprings in my new game but FCO was one of the mods I got and I'm pretty impressed with it. It tends to have more problems with neck seams than vanilla but the faces are drat good. And yes, that ghoul race :stare:

# ? Jul 6, 2014 06:16

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

still cannot get over changing characters to "fit" their voice actor

# ? Jul 6, 2014 06:50

Fewd: Mar 22, 2007; #vmp #opsec #kolmiloikka #happoo

My biggest annoyance were those two pre-requisite body mods. Installing them was a very :nexus:

experience. At least there were underwear options.

e: woah :nexus:

has its own smiley now, lacks floppy dongs tho

e2: derp, it was Spice of Life I was thinking of regarding body mods, not FCO. Still, FCO is pretty great. Spice of Life is good too. Very nice looking outfits and they aren't balanced in a retarded way, aka here's a cotton shirt that gives you 20 DT.

Fewd fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 08:44

fronz: Apr 7, 2009; Lipstick Apathy

Last time I played this game I got about 6 hours in before it started crashing constantly (like, load a save -> 1-2 minutes later crash). Maybe it was 10, I dunno, I just remember I couldn't reasonably keep going about the time I got to the tops (and I hosed around a lot before that). I didn't have any weird mods or whatever.

Any ideas why this happened and how I can have it, like, not happen if I start again?

From memory: for a bit before I got to the tops, it would crash a ways into playing; sometimes, say, half an hour in, sometimes sooner. The way I found around that was to make a new save and load from that, which for whatever reason worked, until later when doing so didn't help at all and I was doomed to crash. I remember this happening in the previous run, too, but it was as soon as like 2 hours in when I was at the NCRCF talking to Eddie; crashing consistently some number of seconds after I loaded the save, and if I made a new save and loaded from that it would just crash even sooner.

Load order, taken from FoMM

# ? Jul 6, 2014 10:38

Raygereio: Nov 12, 2012

fronz posted:

Load order, taken from FoMM

Read the readmes and description pages of mods! :siren:

Don't use Rotface to Riches, A Van Graff Scorned, Pacers Gambit in combination with Freeside Open.
NewVegasStripOverhaul needs to be lower in your loadorder then StripOpenMain
All you need from Clean-Deluxe is:

code:

Clean-Deluxe FNV.esm (with the bsa)
Clean-Deluxe FNV.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV Merge - All DLC.esp

Get rid of the other seperate DLC ones. Also try a new game without this mod. This might be a source of crashing.

Disable autosave in your settings and get CASM to replace quicksave. The vanilla quicksave and autosave work fine on a vanilla setup, but can cause problems like corrupt saves on a heavily modded game.
Get NVAC. This is a plugin for NVSE that can prevent crashing and freezing.

Raygereio fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:07

fronz: Apr 7, 2009; Lipstick Apathy

Thanks. I can definitely survive Clean-Deluxe. I hope that's the issue.

I'm not sure why I have the new vegas uncut stuff in there, I stopped using it after I did a single run with all that stuff. I guess I screwed with my loads for whatever reason when I was trying to fix it.

I'll grab NVAC and the other stuff you mentioned.

e: load order's probably not to the cause, this is again probably after I screwed with it endlessly.

ee: and thanks again for the help!

fronz fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:17

MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Anyone here tried Shogo Heavy Industries? Looks cool but I'd like a testimonial or two.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:24

Fair Bear Maiden: Jun 17, 2013

Dracomies posted:

These changes are absolutely not for children and as I improve upon this project, I will separate the content as it would probably be banned from the Nexus.

Content that WOULD BE BANNED ON THE NEXUS. :stare:

# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:30

Smol: Jun 1, 2011; Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

Capn Beeb posted:

Did Fallout Character Overhaul ever get smoothed out? Cause this popped up on the Nexus today:

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/56312/

Sounds kinda interesting, and piggybacks off FCO.

"I put some scars/wounds/dirt to the character's face (unless it's a woman of course)"

# ? Jul 6, 2014 12:38

FronzelNeekburm: Jun 1, 2001; STOP, MORTTIME

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

Content that WOULD BE BANNED ON THE NEXUS.

So, textures from another game?

# ? Jul 6, 2014 14:22

Crimson Harvest: Jul 14, 2004; I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy!

FronzelNeekburm posted:

So, textures from another game?

Harvest-able uteri craftable into sandwiches.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 14:33

CroatianAlzheimers: Jun 15, 2009; I can't remember why I'm mad at you...

Crimson Harvest posted:

Harvest-able uteri craftable into sandwiches.

Nah, that sounds right up Nexus' alley.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 15:30

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Smol posted:

"I put some scars/wounds/dirt to the character's face (unless it's a woman of course)"

No he did that a few times too. Some might say a few too many times.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 16:28

SplitSoul: Dec 31, 2000

CJacobs posted:

No he did that a few times too. Some might say a few too many times.

I sometimes download larger mods like this one to see if there are any textures or (parts of) models I can crib for personal use. Going through the folders, I have concluded that this dude is clearly obsessed with crying, beaten up, raped and mutilated women who usually have their bruised tits out for no reason. All the prostitutes have their tits out as well for ~~masturbation~~ immersion purposes. It also includes erect and flaccid penises and a raider armour with some sort of boner cage. A+ for effort, though, that poo poo takes dedication.

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Nah, that sounds right up Nexus' alley.

He is referencing a mod that exists and has been covered in the awful mod thread, BTW.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:13

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

SplitSoul posted:

He is referencing a mod that exists and has been covered in the awful mod thread, BTW.

Oh, this sounds like a wonderful thread that I need to find.

Edit: Got it.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:01

SpookyLizard: Feb 17, 2009

I actually wanna use it for this: http://i.imgur.com/QtTERiE.jpg (linked for the sake of tables) so I can help the wastes in the name of the Greater Good.

E: also, Fronz, That list you posted doesn't indicate if every one of those plugins are enabled. IIRC, there's a way to make FOMM print out ALL available .esp's/.esm's, and one to make it release that list with a series of check boxes to indicate which are actually enabled and which you have ditched.

SpookyLizard fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:03

rocket_man38: Jan 23, 2006; My life is a barrel o' fun!!

Well I guess it's a good thing FCO caused my game to crash and I removed it.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:04

Beeb: Jun 29, 2003; Can't post for 29 days!

God dammit, Nexus.

E:

So is there any decent mod that overhauls NPCs without making them look like plastic kawaii waifu-chans/extras in a snuff film or whatever the gently caress?

Beeb fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:52

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# ? May 25, 2024 01:02

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

No.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:34

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