Would you guys and gals agree this is the best primer for updating New Vegas for a totally new playthrough? It's been a few years since I've played Vegas, and have never really modded it before. I want to keep things as simple as possible, I'm looking for...
New Vegas Redesigned 3 has come up a few times as recommended, but it has an AO warning. For those that have used it, would you say it's about the level of the Witcher 2?
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BRIAN BLESSEDMaybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHHRegistered Userregular
edited May 2015
AO warnings usually mean straight-up nudity, so it's up to you :P
I think the easiest and most drastic visual changes you can make to the game is an ENB injector and skin texture replacements (not necessarily additions, but replacements). The base lighting engine makes yellow tints horrendously saturated, and thus vanilla Asian characters (or other pale-skinned characters for that matter, really) look like they all have jaundice. A nicely-configured ENB preset can turn even the most basic of New Vegas installations into a much more atmospheric-looking sandbox, and depending on the lighting options you take the difference in visual quality can be night and day (heh).
I cycle between many of them depending on my preference at the time when I pick up Vegas again, but my pet favourite presets are ENB of the Apocalypse and Desert ENB if I'm feeling in a filmic mood.
I also enjoy the rich-colored, more saturated ENBs every now and then but unlike other games with their ENBs I actually feel having a slightly more muted visual palette fits Fallout a little better.
What about redone faces? I'm not expecting everyone to be super models, but I agree that the Fallout 3D engine is not the best at them. Is there a balance between new and old?
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BRIAN BLESSEDMaybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHHRegistered Userregular
edited May 2015
There are certainly face replacers out there (in the height of my modding phase of gaming I used to spend literal hours in FaceGen for player characters, which is a program that translates head morphs directly to Fallout games without very much 3D modelling experience at all).
Unfortunately, the vast majority of face replacement mods are, you guessed it, supermodel fantasies. :P Thus, I don't actually use them all that much, although there's a decent variety of face texture replacements, some of which are even lore-friendly in a sense.
What looks like your safest (and probably one of the only) bets for great face replacements is this mod, which also seems to be the most highly-requested/downloaded, as well as the most comprehensive. A lot of the screencaps look pretty photogenic, but on the upside compared to the scores of mods below it, they don't appear to be in full Hollywood mode.
The funny thing is that the supermodel faces would work fine for androids and be believable. Maybe have a few with their skin falling off and revealing robotics underneath.
But, back to the honest wishing, whatever comes out of E3, I would prefer an engine that makes combat more fun and AI more dangerous beyond being bullet sponges while little else in the engine changes (at the beginning).
the number of people who make mods to turn fallout/elder scrolls into creepy sex simulators is too damn high.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
edited May 2015
Yes, that first mod is exactly what I was looking for.
Also:
This is one of the reasons I usually stay with the vanilla bodies, got that nice look of wear and tear to them, they look human. These look kind of lifeless and doll-like.
Yes, that first mod is exactly what I was looking for.
Also:
This is one of the reasons I usually stay with the vanilla bodies, got that nice look of wear and tear to them, they look human. These look kind of lifeless and doll-like.
Not really a fan.
And the thing that tends to be a pain is that even a lot of the cool lore-friendly stuff (even the outfit I got in the picture above) tends to require a body model replacer of some kind. A lot of them require Type 3 replacement, and often the listed replacement is a bit... excessive :P
The first one there is what I installed. Maybe I did it wrong.
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BRIAN BLESSEDMaybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHHRegistered Userregular
Iirc translucency issues (especially with grass and first person view objects) can be fixed with some .ini rejiggering, but its been ages since I've done it so I can't say for sure
Was making a joke that you'll only have time to play one of them in three years damnit.
Admittedly, it was not a very good joke.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
edited May 2015
Watching a blind lets play of Fallout 1.
Its quite surprising actually. Not only was he playing with low int for the longest time but he actually managed to get the water chip and make it all the way to the brotherhood and get the implant to become smarter without a whole lot of direction. He did pretty well.
Of course now comes the fun part where he just recruited Ian, got super excited about it while I chuckled as his unarmed heavy vault dweller and Dogmeat started to get shot in the back repeatedly.
Its quite surprising actually. Not only was he playing with low int for the longest time but he actually managed to get the water chip and make it all the way to the brotherhood and get the implant to become smarter without a whole of direction. He did pretty well.
Of course now comes the fun part where he just recruited Ian, got super excited about it while I chuckled as his unarmed heavy vault dweller and Dogmeat started to get shot in the back repeatedly.
Man, the first time I started I basically walked into a random encounter with a shack, faced off against a radscorpion and promptly died within about half an hour of starting the game.
I sad, so I repost this I make in old fallout thread. Missing something without the text formatting, but until the archives are fixed, have at thee.
You enter a bar made out of the blasted husk of a tractor trailer. You see:
Bartender (100%) Dave (100%) Joe (100%) Bob (100% DRUNK) A bloatfly with a lease that says Mitzy (100%) Guard A (100%)
Guard B (100%) Guard C (100%) A Scavenger (100%)
:
Scavenger: "Doot doo doo, drinking nuku kola"
:sneak
You are sneaking,
:pickpock A Scanvenger
Come again?
:pickpoket A Scanvenger
You don't see an A here.
:pickpocket Scanvenger
There are no Scanvengers here, look again dumbass.
:pickpocket Scavenger
You pickpocket the scavenger
you see,
500 caps, a shotgun, 20 shells, a faded and worn picture of a vagina, a brush
:plant grenade
You plant a LIVE grenade in the scavenger's pocket
You have stopped picking the scavenger's pocket
Scavenger notices a live grenade in his pocket.
Scavenger: "OHSHIT! OHSHIT! OHSHIT!"
Scavenger makes an agility check
Scavenger removes the grenade
Scavenger equips grenade
Mitzy buzzes
Scavenger throws grenade TARGET: window
window is hit for 5 damage
Brahmin is hit by grenade for 100points of damage
Brahmin dies
Scavenger equips shotgun
Scavenger: "Who the fuck did that?!?!"
:Blame Mitzy
You make a speech check
You won the speech check
SCAVENGER BLAMED MITZY
Scavenger: "You filthy whore, you tried to kill me"
Scavenger equips shotgun
Scavenger shoots Mitzy with shotgun
Scavenger has quick shot.
Mitzy is hit for 20 damage
Mitzy is hit for 20 damage
Mitzy dies
Bob, "MITZY, NOOO! YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED MY WIFE!"
Bob equips bazooka
Bob shoots bazooka @ Scavenger
Bob critically fails
Oh yes, the good old days where a single errant bullet from you or ANYONE allied with you could turn an entire town against you.
Well, thems the breaks. Guess the world is even smaller now.
Fuu, I'm in it now with mod management. The pool is wide and deep, and I must swim, swim forever!
Edit: Damn, at 28 mods nows! Okay guys, review time. Any more recommendations? I'm trying not to get too crazy to start things off. Any other moderate world tweaks? Such as NPC world zones, challenge packs, etc. Also got some anti-crash mods and performance stuff.
4GB Ram extender
ADAM ranger armor
AEVegas heavy weapons
Better game performance v5
Book of flesh and steel
Electro city
Enchanced camera
EVE visual effects
Fallout Character overhaul
Interior lighting overhaul
Nevada skies
NMC textures
NVAC
NVBI version 1 dot
Pipboy 3000 retexture
Reflex power armor
Shogo heavy industries pack
New Vegas Bounties 1 + 2
Open strip
Oxide ENB
Millenia's weapons and weapon retexture project.
Popular HD clothes repack (can't recall the name)
I'm looking for a radio station editor/good stations, maybe some NPC warzones, and a moderately conservative enemy pack (not 500+ poorly textures zombies and dragons).
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BRIAN BLESSEDMaybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHHRegistered Userregular
There's an absolutely fantabulous, extensive and lore-friendly (in a sense) People's Radio of China station mod, but I only have that loaded because my last playthrough was roleplaying a generational ex-Commie :P
Also because apparently installing things in the wrong order will shatter the space time continuum, is there a general rule of what to install first? I'm assuming structual stuff first, then textures and lighting, then additional stuff like weapons and NPCs.
Also because apparently installing things in the wrong order will shatter the space time continuum, is there a general rule of what to install first? I'm assuming structual stuff first, then textures and lighting, then additional stuff like weapons and NPCs.
Before you install anything, start a game and run through the intro till you leave the house. Choose a basic character you like. This is your base save that you will come back to. Make new save games from here on out.
Skim gopher's series for titles of what to pop in next, it saves a lot of headaches and the only tutorials you should really, REALLY, I mean seriously listen to what I'm saying and watch them, are the ones about mod managers and bashed patches.
Your order is sound because a lot of that stuff is loaded in the base game while others are only spawned when you get in range or meet certain conditions.
Adding NPCs and enemies are best added last because you run into the situation of spawns and cells not resetting.
BRIAN BLESSEDMaybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHHRegistered Userregular
Logic is definitely sound. Base games and expansions always, always at the top. Simple replacements of things less likely to break the game first, then larger, more game-changing things like conversions and stuff towards the back.
Most modders worth their salt should have suggestions as to your loading order too.
Oh goodie, ready to start modding in some goggles and scuba gear, and it turns out I do not have python installed on this desktop since the last upgrade.
Then there's PyFFFIT or some shit, and then teh Blender expansion.....I'm almost ready to quit, then I remember I have a vision, and that vision says people in wetsuits and speedos trying to kill me on an oil tanker in a game within a game with communist sympathies coded throughout.
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Graphic updates,
Engine updates,
Cool stuff,
Mostly sticking with Fallout canon.
He's done extensive videos about modding New Vegas and mods in Mod Clinic and he's also a popular modder in his own right.
I think the easiest and most drastic visual changes you can make to the game is an ENB injector and skin texture replacements (not necessarily additions, but replacements). The base lighting engine makes yellow tints horrendously saturated, and thus vanilla Asian characters (or other pale-skinned characters for that matter, really) look like they all have jaundice. A nicely-configured ENB preset can turn even the most basic of New Vegas installations into a much more atmospheric-looking sandbox, and depending on the lighting options you take the difference in visual quality can be night and day (heh).
I cycle between many of them depending on my preference at the time when I pick up Vegas again, but my pet favourite presets are ENB of the Apocalypse and Desert ENB if I'm feeling in a filmic mood.
I also enjoy the rich-colored, more saturated ENBs every now and then but unlike other games with their ENBs I actually feel having a slightly more muted visual palette fits Fallout a little better.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of face replacement mods are, you guessed it, supermodel fantasies. :P Thus, I don't actually use them all that much, although there's a decent variety of face texture replacements, some of which are even lore-friendly in a sense.
What looks like your safest (and probably one of the only) bets for great face replacements is this mod, which also seems to be the most highly-requested/downloaded, as well as the most comprehensive. A lot of the screencaps look pretty photogenic, but on the upside compared to the scores of mods below it, they don't appear to be in full Hollywood mode.
edit: But seriously, oh my god look at this shit.
Also:
HA!
I don't personally mind having an attractive player character (I wouldn't have wasted away hours in FaceGen otherwise) but I like to keep it somewhat within the Fallout aesthetic. (Don't ask about the weird hand seams).
And don't get me started on the Poses and Animations section. Just... avoid that hive of scum and villainy.
But, back to the honest wishing, whatever comes out of E3, I would prefer an engine that makes combat more fun and AI more dangerous beyond being bullet sponges while little else in the engine changes (at the beginning).
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I think I've seen this porn.
Not really a fan.
And the thing that tends to be a pain is that even a lot of the cool lore-friendly stuff (even the outfit I got in the picture above) tends to require a body model replacer of some kind. A lot of them require Type 3 replacement, and often the listed replacement is a bit... excessive :P
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
Recommended by what?
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
I'll see you in three years.
Wow, how did you decide which one to play?
I prefer quality over quantity, only other must play game for me this year is MGS5.
Admittedly, it was not a very good joke.
Its quite surprising actually. Not only was he playing with low int for the longest time but he actually managed to get the water chip and make it all the way to the brotherhood and get the implant to become smarter without a whole lot of direction. He did pretty well.
Of course now comes the fun part where he just recruited Ian, got super excited about it while I chuckled as his unarmed heavy vault dweller and Dogmeat started to get shot in the back repeatedly.
Your avatar/message combo, is sublime.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Man, the first time I started I basically walked into a random encounter with a shack, faced off against a radscorpion and promptly died within about half an hour of starting the game.
That killed the mood pretty hard for me, I think
Thought about making a mod like this.....
there's no scuba gear mods?!?!?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
That Tycho face has served me well over the years.
Bartender (100%) Dave (100%) Joe (100%) Bob (100% DRUNK) A bloatfly with a lease that says Mitzy (100%) Guard A (100%)
Guard B (100%) Guard C (100%) A Scavenger (100%)
:
Scavenger: "Doot doo doo, drinking nuku kola"
:sneak
You are sneaking,
:pickpock A Scanvenger
Come again?
:pickpoket A Scanvenger
You don't see an A here.
:pickpocket Scanvenger
There are no Scanvengers here, look again dumbass.
:pickpocket Scavenger
You pickpocket the scavenger
you see,
500 caps, a shotgun, 20 shells, a faded and worn picture of a vagina, a brush
:plant grenade
You plant a LIVE grenade in the scavenger's pocket
You have stopped picking the scavenger's pocket
Scavenger notices a live grenade in his pocket.
Scavenger: "OHSHIT! OHSHIT! OHSHIT!"
Scavenger makes an agility check
Scavenger removes the grenade
Scavenger equips grenade
Mitzy buzzes
Scavenger throws grenade TARGET: window
window is hit for 5 damage
Brahmin is hit by grenade for 100points of damage
Brahmin dies
Scavenger equips shotgun
Scavenger: "Who the fuck did that?!?!"
:Blame Mitzy
You make a speech check
You won the speech check
SCAVENGER BLAMED MITZY
Scavenger: "You filthy whore, you tried to kill me"
Scavenger equips shotgun
Scavenger shoots Mitzy with shotgun
Scavenger has quick shot.
Mitzy is hit for 20 damage
Mitzy is hit for 20 damage
Mitzy dies
Bob, "MITZY, NOOO! YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED MY WIFE!"
Bob equips bazooka
Bob shoots bazooka @ Scavenger
Bob critically fails
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Well, thems the breaks. Guess the world is even smaller now.
Fuu, I'm in it now with mod management. The pool is wide and deep, and I must swim, swim forever!
Edit: Damn, at 28 mods nows! Okay guys, review time. Any more recommendations? I'm trying not to get too crazy to start things off. Any other moderate world tweaks? Such as NPC world zones, challenge packs, etc. Also got some anti-crash mods and performance stuff.
ADAM ranger armor
AEVegas heavy weapons
Better game performance v5
Book of flesh and steel
Electro city
Enchanced camera
EVE visual effects
Fallout Character overhaul
Interior lighting overhaul
Nevada skies
NMC textures
NVAC
NVBI version 1 dot
Pipboy 3000 retexture
Reflex power armor
Shogo heavy industries pack
New Vegas Bounties 1 + 2
Open strip
Oxide ENB
Millenia's weapons and weapon retexture project.
Popular HD clothes repack (can't recall the name)
I'm looking for a radio station editor/good stations, maybe some NPC warzones, and a moderately conservative enemy pack (not 500+ poorly textures zombies and dragons).
Before you install anything, start a game and run through the intro till you leave the house. Choose a basic character you like. This is your base save that you will come back to. Make new save games from here on out.
Skim gopher's series for titles of what to pop in next, it saves a lot of headaches and the only tutorials you should really, REALLY, I mean seriously listen to what I'm saying and watch them, are the ones about mod managers and bashed patches.
Your order is sound because a lot of that stuff is loaded in the base game while others are only spawned when you get in range or meet certain conditions.
Adding NPCs and enemies are best added last because you run into the situation of spawns and cells not resetting.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Most modders worth their salt should have suggestions as to your loading order too.
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
Then there's PyFFFIT or some shit, and then teh Blender expansion.....I'm almost ready to quit, then I remember I have a vision, and that vision says people in wetsuits and speedos trying to kill me on an oil tanker in a game within a game with communist sympathies coded throughout.
edit: Python 2? Python 3? WTF IS THIS SHIT?!?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534