“Fallout: New Vegas” is Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks’ action role-playing game in the southwestern United States’ Mojave Desert 204 years following a devastating nuclear war.
Such a setting is among the features that make “Fallout: New Vegas” still popular nowadays. However, this game was first introduced in 2010, so that’s already over a decade now today. You can’t expect players to keep themselves in the game, especially if they’ve already completed the levels.
But, believe it or not, several others are still engrossed in “Fallout: New Vegas” like it’s always the first time. They keep enjoying it with mods. Here are some of the game’s mods that can make your experience always brand-new.
Fallout: New California
Enable this mod, and you will see magic. Actually, this is not just a mod but a whole new campaign throughout. You can quickly turn it on from the New Game option on the main menu. It features a cinematic opening that launches its every wonder.
Here, you assume the role of an orphan from California’s Secretive Vault and hop into a quest involving a war between the Survivalist Raiders, Super Mutants, and the New California Republic. Don’t bother to search for what they are. Simply start the game, enable the mod, and be surprised.
You’ll be joined by six new companions, and the new areas in the Black Bear Mountain National Forest are yours to explore.
Dust
Simple, with no jibber-jabber, Dust is what you need for a radical shift in your “Fallout: New Vegas” experience. This mod turns New Vegas into a survival horror game where your sole mission is to get away from the Mojave.
But, make no mistake, as this mod is filled with new mechanics – we’ll drop their name as hallucinations – which can make your gameplay challenging. Plus, a persistent dust storm and environmental changes can help devise a new tone for New Vegas that you won’t experience in the main game.
Tale Of Two Wastelands
Talk about polishing your “Fallout: New Vegas” experience, making it brand-new yet again, use the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. This combines the power of “New Vegas” with “Fallout 3.” That’s already impressive at that, but wait ‘til you hear the specifics.
Systems from “New Vegas,” such as ammo types and the Survival skill, are here, while “Fallout 3” contributes to the choice of items and locations, such as enabling you to start either at Vault 101 or Doc Mitchell’s house. However, before you can enjoy the Taste of Two Wastelands, you must first have a copy of both those games with the corresponding DLCs. Remember that.
Project Nevada
Then, we have Project Nevada, of course. This mod is intended to make the game more challenging yet fun through the presence of modules. It’s as if the previous mods don’t make your gameplay a challenge, right? However, you can still determine the degree to which you want to control your “New Vegas” experience.
Speaking of the modules, they cover Core systems such as vision, health, and bullet time. There’s also Cyberware, Rebalance, and Equipment, which implants you with various bionic enhancements, overhauls the game’s RPG systems, and adds an expansive selection of new usable gear to the game, respectively.
A World Of Pain
This mod is for every “New Vegas” gamer who wants the challenge but anchored on locations. It adds 114 new locations to the game, perfect for the adventurer at heart. Alongside smaller outposts, there’s a vast underground complex that becomes a battlefield for challenging encounters with monsters and even some exciting questlines. You’ll also be able to loot plenty with this mod, such as MkII weapons, to help you overcome the new difficult areas. A must-try.
New Vegas Uncut
This mod basically restores everything that the game’s developers have missed. In other words, their unused ideas. Some promising features of this mod include implementing RobCo security model 2060-B Securitron Victor into the main narrative, reintroducing first-time gamers to the Van Graffs so they can better establish their backstories, and even rehauling Freeside to be a singular, continuous space. Whether you agree or not, these enhance the experience, implementing radical changes to the feeling of this major city.
JSawyer’s Ultimate Edition
Okay, it’s not just JSawyer, but JSawyer’s Ultimate Edition. What do you have here? Well, named after the game’s project lead and head designer, Joshua Sawyer, this is the altered and re-released version of the JSawyer mod, where the game has undergone a balanced overhaul, changing almost everything from item balance to core systems like perk acquisition rates, making “New Vegas” even more challenging.
New Vegas Bounties
Another mod dragging the name of “New Vegas” but focusing on bounties. Okay, allow PVP Live to be clear that this mod is actually the first of a series of questline mods that task you to hunt down and eradicate Mojave Wasteland’s Most Wanted. Who are they? Well, a class of fiends, rogue rangers, substance smugglers, raiders, Pistoleros, and even cannibals. Hunt them down, turn them in, and you can collect bounties. But hunting them down won’t be as easy as A-B-C.
Asurah Reanimation Pack
One of the last mods on this list is relatively light. Instead of focusing on the action, it focuses on overhauling and improving the animation. This mod overhauls almost every animation of the in-game weapons, from firing animations to reloads. These are among the best on the Nexus and can make this RPG game feel closer to a proper shooter like never before. You can even enjoy this as a weapon mod, provided you have the compatibility patches.
There’s no time to waste. Enable these mods today in “Fallout: New Vegas” playable on PlayStation, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows.
