Fallout New Vegas is Obsidian’s 2010 interpretation of the vast nuclear wasteland of the Fallout universe. This time set in Las Vegas, in the Mojave desert, it’s a bleak and gripping game with plenty of memorable characters, locations, enemies, and weapons. For some, New Vegas is their favourite Fallout game and even their favourite RPG. Check out some of these Fallout New Vegas Nexus mods that have helped cement it as a role-playing great.
Over the years, the hard-working and dedicated modding community have created hundreds of cool, weird and wonderful fallout new vegas best mods to make an already great game awesome.
How to Install Fallout New Vegas Mods
Before you start, here are a few things you’ll want to download to ensure that you can install as many mods as possible with minimal issues.
Step 1: Mod Manager
The Nexus Mod Manager is a great modding tool that allows you to handily store all your mods in one place, and also ensure that your mods are loaded in the correct order.
Step 2: Script Extender
You’ll want to download the New Vegas Script Extender, which will expand the game’s script, allowing you to install far more mods.
Step 3: New Vegas Anti-Crash
Unfortunately, Fallout New Vegas is a game that suffers from frequent crashes, especially if you heavily mod it. NVAC is a simple mod that reduces the chance that your game will crash. Very nice!
Step 4: Mission Mojave
Similarly, New Vegas is a very buggy game, even eight years later. This monumental bug-squashing mod aims to alleviate this as best as it can. With more than 27,000 fixes for a huge variety of bugs, Mission Mojave is an essential mod for a smoother experience.
16 Essential Fallout New Vegas Mods
1. NMC’s Texture Pack for New Vegas
Fallout New Vegas is an old game at this point. It was never the best-looking game, but eight years later it’s cracks really start to show. This comprehensive texture pack is the only texture improvement mod you’ll need to make New Vegas look as sharp as possible. Download here.
2. Nevada Skies
You spend a lot of time in New Vegas roaming around the vast, empty desert with nothing but the sky above you. You might as well make sure it looks as good as possible and does some more interesting stuff. This mod allows a huge number of cloud variations, weather effects, sandstorms, Radiation storms, and even some snow. Download here.
3. TitanFallout
You know what’s an awesome game? Titanfall. You know what’s cool? Titans. So why not add a little Titanfall to your Fallout New Vegas? This mod lets you summon Titans that will drop from the sky. You can pilot them and wreak havoc on your enemies. It’s a ton of fun, trust me. Download here.
4. IMPACT
Fallout New Vegas is an excellent RPG, but it’s somewhat lacking as a shooter. Primarily, it lacks substantial hit effects when you shoot an enemy. This mod seeks to alleviate that problem and make the gunplay more satisfying and visceral. Bullet holes are more substantial and reflect the caliber of the bullet, hitting objects will cause a spark of particle effects, and more. A nice mod if you’re to make the guns more impactful. Download here.
5. Weapons of the New Millennia
This mod adds a large number of new guns to the world of Fallout New Vegas. These include an AK-47, a Colt M1911, an M4A1, and many more. You can even choose how you obtain these guns, whether that be from a cheat sheet or a level list where you must defeat enemies to get your hands on them or simply purchase them. Download here.
6. Five Nights at Vault 5
Inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy’s horror games, this mod drops you in a vault with no equipment and no weapons and sets murderous robots on you. You have nothing but your wits to survive the hunt. The arena will also periodically fill with a deadly gas. Can you survive this cruel gauntlet? Download here.
7. New Vegas Bounties
What is the desert without a little bounty hunting? This mod adds a series of quests that allow you to take on the role of a bounty hunter. Take contracts, seek out your targets, and take them out without mercy. Download here. There’s even a second instalment if you’re looking for more.
Note that these mods require this mod to work.
8. MTUI
Fallout New Vegas is a game that was clearly designed for consoles. The text is too big and seems to be designed for players who are sitting across the room from their TVs. It doesn’t make the best use of the real estate of a monitor and isn’t as optimized for PC as it could be. Drifting cowboys fish tail. This UI overhaul fixes that, making the fonts smaller and less bulky, and giving the text more room to breathe. Download here.
9. Populated Casinos
Fallout New Vegas Weapon Overhaul
The casinos in Fallout New Vegas are uncharacteristically dead. The game builds New Vegas up into some kind of paradise full of life and energy, but when you get there the casinos are empty and devoid of life. Pretty disappointing. This mod fixes that problem and brings life back to the casinos. It makes the heart of the Mojave wasteland actually feel like a bustling centre. Download here.
10. Roleplayer’s Alternative Start
If you’ve played Fallout New Vegas a few times, the opening can get pretty samey. Sit on Doc Mitchell’s couch and answer the same old questions, go out to Goodsprings and do the same old stuff. It can get old after a couple of times. The Alternative Start mod gives you the chance to get a fresh start in the Mojave desert, placing you in a randomized location and setting you free into the world. Download here.
11. Project Mojave
Project Mojave is a massive overhaul fallout new vegas weapon mod split into multiple parts so that you don’t have to incorporate them all if you don’t want to. The core of the mod focuses on tweaking and improving the shooter elements of the game, adding bullet time, a grenade hotkey, variable zooms for scopes, and more.
Another part of the mod lets you surgically upgrade your character, adding improvements to speed, durability, strength, vision, and more. The third module adds a number of rebalancing changes that aim to make the combat more frantic and the survival more challenging, whilst a fourth module adds new weapons and gear, including stuff brought in from other popular modders. Download here.
12. Oxide ENB
Oxide ENB is a collection of mods that aim to overhaul the visual design of New Vegas’ world. Instead of the drab and colorless browns and greys, this mod brings the wasteland to life with a vibrant and varied color scheme. It also includes it’s own weather mods and other things so you don’t need to mix and match them. Download here.
13. Essential Visual Enhancements
This mod improves a number of visuals elements in New Vegas, from animations to particle effects from guns and other weapons. Critical hits, explosions, impact wounds, and more are re-done to look much more impressive and violent. Download here.
14. Monster Mod
There are a variety of vicious and nasty creatures in the Mojave wasteland out for your head, but if you play the game long enough you’ll probably get bored fighting the same old monsters. This mod adds a number of new monsters for you to fight in the wasteland, some of which are more challenging than anything you’ll find in the original game. Download here.
15. Coloured Map and Icons
The Pipboy is your most reliable tool, and you’ll certainly be using it a lot in the adventures. So why not make it a bit more appealing to look at? This mod adds colored icons, lets you change the resolution of the Pipboy, add custom icons, and more. Download here.
16. Improved Throwing
Throwing weapons in New Vegas are undeniably pretty lame. Weak, awkward, underwhelming and just not very viable. This mod improves throwing weapons by letting you pick them up after throwing them, craft spears and knives to throw, turn your weapons into projectiles, and even throw random debris at your enemies if you get desperate enough. Download here.
These are just some Fallout New Vegas mods available right now. The modding community for this game is dedicated, talented and always busy, so there’s sure to always be more to check out in the future.
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Overview
This is a list containing all mods that are useful or good or both, so that you can enjoy it without having to search through ten thousand mods.
This is still WIP, and will always remain so, because I'll keep updating it with new good mods.Actually, i just named it WIP because its pretty. Seriously.I think i covered a lot of mods, but I'm just one person (or am i?), and if you think i skipped a good mod, let me know.
Non-Player Character Modifications
NCR Doggy Buddies - Changes the NCR Dogs to normal dogs, and adds a NCR Helmet.
TYPE 3 Body and Armor Replacer - Transforms the Feminine armors into a more 'Feminine' type.Adult only content.
Alsatian Rex - Transforms Rex into a Real Dog
Essential plus Tweaks - All Companions are now essential, and can level up to level 25. Also fixes Veronica.
Fallout New Vegas Weapon Mods Nexus
Improved Faces- Improves some broken NPC Faces.
Tools
4GB Enabler - Load Fallout New Vegas with the 4GB enabling Large Address Aware bit set
NVSE,BOSS - NVSE extends New Vegas scripting capabilities, and BOSS re-orders your load order.
FOMM - A collection of utilities related to both creating and using mods.
FNVEdit - FNVEdit is an advanced graphical module viewer/editor and conflict detector.
Major Additions and Bug Fixes
Community Bug Fix Compilation Patch - A Patch Compilation, that fixes a lot of bugs and placement issues.
Bullet Time - Alternative to VATS. Slows down time so you can Aim.
Save Key - Adds a hotkey to save the game. ( It is not the Quicksave, it is the long save)
Fade That Faction Armor - You can now fade the faction script from a faction armor, so you can use it like a normal armor. An alternative to this is IFF Faction Disguises Reworked.
Save Cass - <spoiler> Adds a third option to the Silver Rush quest.
BlackWolf Backpacks - Adds wearable backpacks to the game.
Dragonskin Tactical Outfit - Adds a selection of the titular outfits - in different colours and camo patterns - to the Wasteland
Conelrad Radio Station - Adds a new Radio Station
AG's Supplementary Uniques - Adds nearly 100 new and unique weapons to the wasteland, Lore friendly.
Overhaul
Darnified UI - Improves the User Interface in a number of ways.
Attribute Perks Bonuses - APB - Gives players bonuses for high attributes.
Powered Power Armor - Power Armor now has a lot of enhancements, it carries itself, it can be recharged, among other cool stuff.
Passive Animals & Critters - Alters the default Animal Behavior.
WME - Weapon Mod Expansion - Expands on Vanilla Weapon Mod Expansion
IMCNNV - More Complex Needs- A ridiculously detailed, immersion oriented overhaul of the Hardcore mode hunger/thirst/sleep system.
More Perks - Adds over 75 Perks to the game.
Arwen Realism Tweaks - A gameplay overhaul, changes a lot of settings such as fall damage, weapons damage, etc.
FOOK - An overhaul mod which adds hundreds of new items, high quality retextures and many new gameplay features to the base game.
Places and Quests
Goodsprings Home - Adds a Player Home to the Goodsprings Area.Adults Only.
Markers for the Strip - Adds Fast Travel Markers for the Strip Exium nucleoid (jonas kopp remix zippy album.
New Vegas Bounties - New Quest, on which you assume the role of a Bounty Hunter.
RTS Real Time Settler - Find a strategic location, start your village, establish trade routes and alliances, and fight for your freedom!
Bobblehunt - Adds a bobblehead hunt quest.
Wasteland Defense - An Alternative to RTS Realtime Settler
Underground Hideout - Adds a vault that the player can use as his home.
Tweaks
Less Intrusive Kill Cam - Decreases the Kill Cam duration and frequency.
Trading Post Sells NCR Armor - A way to get NCR Ranger Armor without killing a Ranger Vet.
Improved Implant Regeneration - Improves the Regeneration Implant, by recovering more HP.
Jump Fall Fixer - This mod removes the 'invisible ledge' that crops up when the player's jump height is increased too much by a mod.
KTs SpeedSquad - Changes the Companions following distance.
No Neos - Enemys can't dodge bullets anymore.
Sniper Perk Enhanced - Enhances the Sniper Perk, by reducing spread, among other things.
Charisma Based Follower Limit - Self Explanatory
HUD Extended - Extends the HUD to see time, among other things.
Level 60 Cap - Increases level cap to 60.
Alternate Loading Screens and Extras - Self Explanatory
Tweaks #2
Lucky Lighter - Gives the Lucky Lighter a +1 Luck effect.
IWS Increased Spawn - Self Explanatory
Service Rifle Burst Fire - Changes Service rifle from Semi-Automatic to Burst Fire.
NCR Enhancement - Adds new npcs, vendors and fortifications (lore friendly).
1ASS RPG - Changes to quest, Perk/Trait, Stat, Skill and message descriptions to reflect 1st person, among other things.
Realistic Weapons Damage - RWD - Increases BodyPart Damage, headshots are now Fatal and combat is much more dangerous. Also increases explosion effect.
The Walking Dead - Makes ghouls walk, among other things.
Mysterious Increase - Increases the chance of Mysterious Stranger helping you.
Fallout New Vegas Re-Animated - Improves game animation, like aiming, running, etc.
Experience Level Adjust - Adjust Experience Level to your liking.
New Vegas Replayability - Makes changes to ensure maximum replayability like respawning everywhere, raised level cap and more!
Ambient Temperature - Lets you check the air temperature, dew point, heat index, and relative humidity.
Visual Enhancements
DOF Depth of Field - Adds a Depth of Field effect on New Vegas ( FNV Enhanced Shaders already adds a Dynamic DOF, but if you want to use Anti-Aliasing, disable the FNV Enhanced Shaders DOF, and use this one.
Rusty Highway - Adds damaged cars throughout the Highway.
Detailed Normals - Bumps up the New Vegas Landscape textures and makes them more crisp and detailed.
Parkerized Pip Boy - Improves the Pip-Boy general look.
Arenovalis Weapon Retexture Project - This is a pack release containing all of Arenovalis's New Vegas weapon retextures
FNV Enhanced Shaders - My Personal Favorite, Adds some visual pizazz and styling to the graphics of Fallout New Vegas
Fellout NV Adds realistic lighting to the game, and makes nights darker. Now you´ll really need that Pip-boy light to travel during nighttime.
Weather
Nevada Skies - This mod adds more versatile Weather Effects to the Mojave.
Lighten Up New Vegas - Adds more diversion to the soundtrack.
Clean Up
Clean Up New Vegas - Cleans up New Vegas, removing useless clutter from the ground
New Vegas Restoration - Cleans up New Vegas, removes Trash , etc.
Cleaned Novac - Cleans up Novac, removes all the trash and fixes the street.
Clean Goodsprings - Cleans up Goodsprings, removing all the trash.
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