Mods for Fallout 3 and New Vegas Options

[mirocu]

Suggestions, recommendations, comments, discussions... Anything as long as it involves mods for the Fallout games.

{Moderator note: With the addition of a FO4 mods thread, let's now limit this one to FO3 and NV mods.}

These are the mods I use for Fallout 3:

*Gunny (companion)
*The Vulcan minigun (and an additional mod that changes the rate of fire)
*Lucy as companion (though she has disappeared from the game now, should I take a hint...? )
*Rideable subway trains (love this one!!)
*Immortal travelling merchants
*Custom icons for some miscellaneous items in the Pip-Boy
*Auto Aim Fix
*FOMM
*New crosshair
*No Goo piles
*More damage from the sawed-off shotgun
*Merchant selling goods from Point Lookout
*Scopeless .44 Magnums

I must have more but these are the ones I can remember. I'll add the rest when I get home and can check the list.

Out of these I enjoy the icon mod and the Gunny mod the most. The subway train mod is awesome and I love it, but since I mostly run around in the wasteland I don't get around to using it so much. It definitely adds to the atmosphere though and I strongly recommend it, and for the best effect it should be played in a pitch black room at night

Edit: After reading Rosa's post I have added a couple to the list. Can't believe I forgot about Auto Aim Fix!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Aug 11 2019, 03:04 PM

[SubRosa]

I have been using Vandr's HD Creatures for a little while now. It is a simple texture replacer that adds HD textures for most of the monsters in the wasteland. I have not seen any real performance impact, but your mileage may vary depending on your system.

One thing I really like is that it does not truly change the appearance of the monsters. It just improves the quality. I have recently tried out a few other HD texture replacers like NMC's Texture pack, which dramatically altered how some things looked, changing their colors, the materials they are made of (like desks going from being metal to wood), and so on. I didn't like that one bit, so I deleted them.

The one other high def texture replacer I did keep is UHQ Terrain Overhaul. It replaces the ground textures and meshes, improving things like rocks, streets, and so on, as well as the dirt itself. So far I am liking it, though I am not completely sold yet.

It comes one different levels of quality, so you can use a lower definition version if you have a slower system. I have not seen any reduction in framerate using the highest version on my machine. However, the load times when I change from indoor to outdoor cells, or when I fast travel, are about three times longer. But that is not a deal-breaker for me.

Finally, I have also been using Traits Project, which has been outstanding. It brings back the old traits from the earlier Fallout games, and New Vegas. You can pick two of them during the tutorial, just like the other games. What I really like is that if you have an already established character long out of the vault, the first time you start them you will get the prompt to add the traits. So it works for brand new characters and for old, pre-existing ones. That was very thoughtful.

I have seen some other Trait mods that simply add the traits as regular perks you pick when you level up. But I don't like those. It does not make much sense taking them, since the traits are balanced so that while they give you one bonus, you also receive a penalty to make up for it. This is because they are meant to be freebies you can take when you make your character, not rewards for experience. For example, why take Four Eyes as a regular perk, when you could just take the Intense Training perk and get a +1 to Perception with no drawbacks?

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 13 2015, 02:37 AM

[mALX]

I have been using Vandr's HD Creatures for a little while now. It is a simple texture replacer that adds HD textures for most of the monsters in the wasteland. I have not seen any real performance impact, but your mileage may vary depending on your system.

One thing I really like is that it does not truly change the appearance of the monsters. It just improves the quality. I have recently tried out a few other HD texture replacers like NMC's Texture pack, which dramatically altered how some things looked, changing their colors, the materials they are made of (like desks going from being metal to wood), and so on. I didn't like that one bit, so I deleted them.

The one other high def texture replacer I did keep is UHQ Terrain Overhaul. It replaces the ground textures and meshes, improving things like rocks, streets, and so on, as well as the dirt itself. So far I am liking it, though I am not completely sold yet.

It comes one different levels of quality, so you can use a lower definition version if you have a slower system. I have not seen any reduction in framerate using the highest version on my machine. However, the load times when I change from indoor to outdoor cells, or when I fast travel, are about three times longer. But that is not a deal-breaker for me.

Finally, I have also been using Traits Project, which has been outstanding. It brings back the old traits from the earlier Fallout games, and New Vegas. You can pick two of them during the tutorial, just like the other games. What I really like is that if you have an already established character long out of the vault, the first time you start them you will get the prompt to add the traits. So it works for brand new characters and for old, pre-existing ones. That was very thoughtful.

I have seen some other Trait mods that simply add the traits as perks you pick when you level up. But I don't like those. It does not make much sense taking them, since the traits are balanced so that while they give you one bonus, you also receive a penalty to make up for it. This is because they are meant to be freebies you can take when you make your character, not rewards for experience. For example, why take the Four Eyes Trait that way, when you could just take the Intense Training perk and get a +1 to Perception with no drawbacks?

I like the land textures very much, and some of the creature ones looked great, but a couple of them seemed better in the vanilla (imho). That Traits perk sounded Awesome! Didn't we already have to choose our character trait at the beginning of NV?

[SubRosa]

I like the land textures very much, and some of the creature ones looked great, but a couple of them seemed better in the vanilla (imho). That Traits perk sounded Awesome! Didn't we already have to choose our character trait at the beginning of NV?

The Traits are in New Vegas. It was only Fallout 3 that they were cut from. This mod only brings them back to FO3.