Fallout New Vegas Modding

Hi All, not music related but I've been playing this game for a little while and thought it'd be cool to post about an awesome website that you can get mods from.
New Vegas Nexus - sign yourself up for an account, it's well worth it and doesn't cost anything, although if you do pay for a subscription which is bloody cheap it'll let you download files much, much faster :)

*** Sorry about some weird formatting issues below.. not sure what happened there, all links have a black background and white writing to make them easier to see :)


A Few Mods I highly recommend:


ACF Darker Nights and Brighter Days V5
This makes night pretty much pitch black and days look a bit cooler.

Hi Res World View Weapon Textures
As the name implies this makes guns lying on the ground etc look better, by using the textures from when you're holding them, a very small mod because of the way it's implemented.

VG0 Preorder Alternative
For those of us who missed out on the DLC for pre-ordering the game this is very cool, there is nothing illegal about this file, the creator has come up with his own stuff, essentially it's the same idea as the special stuff you get at the beginning of the game for buying the pre-order release of Fallout New Vegas.

New Vegas Explosive Knockdown Mod
This one is really cool, now Explosives like mines, grenades (you get the idea) will knock you over. Can be a godsend at winning a difficult fight, on the other hand it gives the Powder Gangers an upperhand too...

zzz- LOC - Lootable Old Cars
This one kinda ties in with the previous Mod, basically you can loot cars now, but you can also blow them up too!, great for freeway fights though watch where you're standing or you're likely to get blown to hell.

No Auto Aim
As the name implies this mod gets rid of auto aim, making the game more like a first person shooter... however, getting shot in the head can be an unpleasant experience.

Repairable With Scrap
This makes weapons repairable with scrap metal, something which makes sense really :)

No Companion Limit
Another obvious one, removes the companion limit :)

IIWR - Intrusive Invisible Wall Remover
This one is important! Removes those annoying invisible walls, careful you don't get stuck on a rock though.

R.A.C.E or Radio Active Channel Extender
This gives you more songs, and a new radio station when you get sick of the stuff that came with the game, I've been using it almost since I played and it fits really well.

Fallout New Vegas HD Texture Installer
This one can be a little complex, basically alot of the textures in Fallout 3 were re-used in Fallout New Vegas, this provides an installer for a Texture Mod to transfer some very high quality Textures into Fallout New Vegas, if you follow the readme carefully and download all the right files it's very easy, you don't actually need fallout 3 installed, and there's a simple edit to one file to point to where you copied your downloaded textures to (if that wasn't clear leave me a comment and I'll help you out)

Nevada Skies - Sandstorms BETA
This mod is awesome, it creates very thick sandstorms in the game, you'll be hard pressed to see more than 15 metres around you while one is going on - Despite it being a beta I haven't had any issues with it yet.

Portable Campsite
As the name implies, this gives you a portable "Camp Site" from what I remember, A fire and a bed etc. Check the readme to get details.

ZZZ-Original FO3 Weapon Pack-
Feeling like there's not enough weapons in FNV? how about all the ones from Fallout 3? I'm sure that'll keep you happy for a while :)

The Load Order Sorting Tool
This one will do as the name implies, for those not in the know depending on the order you load your mods some might cancel each other out, basically this will "sort" them into an order that stops that from happening, or at least makes them compliment each other so the game doesn't crash.

Archive Invalidation Invalidated
This one is a godsend, automating all the Archive Invalidated bull that you normally have to go through, the latest update (1.1.1) on steam broke it so I'll supply a fix for you here, though the modder may have already updated it.
SArchiveList=Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Voices1.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa, Fallout - Misc.bsa, AII-FNV!.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Textures2.bsa <- ok that might look a bit messy but basically move your archiveinvalidationinvalidated!.bsa to the position that is in your fallout_default.ini (Use find in notepad and search for SArchiveList - it'll all make sense when you find it), in the example above the user has renamed the file but apparently that is not necessary.

Drugs are bad Mkay
This mod gives drugs a visual aspect or side effect if you will, very cool and will make the game interesting...

Populated Wasteland
As the name implies it adds more NPC's to the game to make the world feel a little less empty.

** For some reason the two mods above will not turn white**

Military Expansion Program
This mod does the same as populated wasteland but makes the military bases feel a little less empty, I did notice the extra NPC's seem to clutter together though.

Goacbcs Freeplay after MQ
This lets you keep playing after you've finished the game, handy if you don't wanna start again to find all those quests you missed. - I'm not sure how that will work at the moment, but it's still cool to be able to cruise around destroying stuff, or at least tackling Death Claws and Cazadores.

Companion Sandbox Mode
Tired of your Companions standing still all the time? this will make them wander around a little bit, sit in chairs and other cool stuff, check the readme on it, apparently they used to raid the fridge too!

That should keep you busy for a while at least, while you're there at least check out the Gameplay/effects section of the index at newvegasnexus.com - you won't be disappointed.