Fallout: New Vegas

Pighardia · 19 Jan 2012 at 19:18

I'm glad they have sorted the issues Project Reality had, it really is essential imo, best weather effects by a mile.

The idea was to simplify it, but of course I have gone OTT

Admiral Huddy · 20 Jan 2012 at 09:37

Just completed "Lonesome Road".. Quite a challenge and the boss was quite hard too but easy when you know how

Daveman23 · 20 Jan 2012 at 12:52

Right, so what are the best mods to try at the moment? And do they conflict with any of the DLC?

Pighardia · 20 Jan 2012 at 12:57

Daveman23 said:
Right, so what are the best mods to try at the moment? And do they conflict with any of the DLC?

It is not as easy as that, there are thousands. What are you looking to change?

Pighardia · 20 Jan 2012 at 14:52

I think I have my game pretty much how I want it now. Looking forward to playing it, as I haven't played any of the dlc's yet. It was always my plan to hold off until they had all been released. Here are some screenies of my game just running around Goodspring-

The visual mods that I am using are:

NMC's texture pack lite
Project Reality mk1
Enhanced shaders
Weapon texture replacer
Project Nevad(changes the HUD a bit)
Primary Needs HUD
DarnifiedUI
Beware of Girl type 3 Hi rez(female body replacer
Breezes New Vegas Males(male body replacer)
Wasteland Flora Overhaul

Getting good performance so far. I probably should have downloaded an extra perks mod, but i forgot so i'll have to get one.

uk_unbeliever · 20 Jan 2012 at 14:54

Which version of NMC's is that- looks good

Pighardia · 20 Jan 2012 at 14:57

Medium. I need all the frames i can get tbh so I went with that, though I often find with Fallout/ES games that it is never textures which impact performance.

Edrof · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:27

My game still crashes like a teenager in a rudeboy Clio.

Pighardia · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:35

I haven't had a crash yet, though I have done all of the fixes possible!

I was getting one really weird bug where the game would start wigging out and freeze and then wouldn't start up if I restarted it, but it seems to be something to do with AF, once I turned it down it was fine.

Edrof · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:42

I think I'll thin down the mods I'm running, then have a look at some of the fixes you can download from the nexus. When I eventually get 100% happy with FNV I'll post my modlist.

Pighardia · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:44

You probably know about mods etc, but do you use BOSS? If not it can really help with load order.

Edrof · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:53

I'm just about to try it

Pighardia · 21 Jan 2012 at 20:15

The readius is much improved since FO3! It was a little too buggy then, but it seems to have been sorted now.

Game looks great!

Indy500 · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:47

Did anyone pick up the All Roads comic written by Chris Avellone? It's a short prequel to NV and adds some more depth to characters like Benny.

DutchSchaeffer · 24 Jan 2012 at 18:42

Wow, the game looks great in some of those screenies!

My laptop isn't quite up to the task unfortunately, although I am replacing it this summer.

Might have to revisit this game, I only played through it on the 360.

Pighardia · 24 Jan 2012 at 19:26

My game runs much smoother now since I did a master update, though I do still get the occasional ctd. I am going to properly look through FNVEdit tonight to try and get to the bottom of it.

Pighardia · 26 Jan 2012 at 17:45

Ultimate Edition

I see the inevitable Ultimate Edition has been announced now, due on Feb 10th

I forgot how brilliant this game is! Still not done any of the dlc's yet though.

Edrof · 26 Jan 2012 at 18:10

I love it too. Buggy, but worth the CTDs

Working through Dead Money now. It's great, although the first section wasn't to my taste. There is some really great characterisation in it and the atmosphere reminds me of Bioshock, so can't be bad!

Honest Hearts was a nice change of scenery and there's a well-written little story in there (I won't spoil it).

I don't have Old World Blues yet.

arc@css · 26 Jan 2012 at 18:23

I really want to mod this, but looking at the choice it really puts me off. On one hand I like the idea of having a great selection, but on the other I don't want to spend ages modding and tweaking.

Pighardia · 26 Jan 2012 at 18:58

arc@css said:
I really want to mod this, but looking at the choice it really puts me off. On one hand I like the idea of having a great selection, but on the other I don't want to spend ages modding and tweaking.

This game needs far fewer mods than FO3 or Oblivion to get it right imo. Also more stable as well, the authors work much harder than they used to to make sure things are compatible.