Fallout: New Vegas - The Frontiers of bad taste (Modding Thread)

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Crazy Joe Wilson: Jul 4, 2007; Justifiably Mad!

Orange Crush Rush posted:

Is Freeside Open alright? I used it back in the day, but I've read everywhere that it hasn't aged well at all (and I remember it being kind of screwy back in the day).
I've never had a problem with Strip Open but from what I understand getting rid of that wall was a pretty easy fix and it doesn't really change much, unlike mashing together the two Freeside cells.

I use Freeside Open. Freeside without it is just too empty and boring. If you want to run other quests that modify it like Saxxon's or Someguy you'll need compatibility mods made by RoyBatterian.

EDIT: I think it still is really good for 10 years old. Makes you actually feel like Freeside is chaotic and dangerous.

Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Feb 24, 2021

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:22

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

Chaotic and dangerous because it might crash at any time :smuggo:

It's actually okay. Chugs a bit along the main concourse towards The Strip's gate, but whatever.

I am still rolling with Freeside Review in this run but I doubt I'll stick with it for a future one unless it vastly improves.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:37

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Walking Intertia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUQEfED6ok4

Brave Sir Loin made a video about his minor grievances with New Vegas, one of which was the lack of acceleration when moving from a dead stop to full running speed. This mod wants to try and fix that.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 04:48

Garrand: Dec 28, 2012; Rhino, you did this to me!

Raygereio posted:

Something neat popped up: A climbing mod https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71445/

Good, I can finally roleplay as Spiderman.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 04:53

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Garrand posted:

Good, I can finally roleplay as Spiderman.

Waiting on an Elsa companion mod.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 07:53

Garrand: Dec 28, 2012; Rhino, you did this to me!

Xarbala posted:

Waiting on an Elsa companion mod.

Already have the pregnancy mod installed, eh?

# ? Feb 24, 2021 13:50

Crazy Joe Wilson: Jul 4, 2007; Justifiably Mad!

Xarbala posted:

Waiting on an Elsa companion mod.

A Benny Companion mod is the best nexus can do. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/44776

Those... images...

Also, a Mr. House Securitron Companion: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/56870

And a Liberty Prime Companion: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/43222

Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Feb 24, 2021

# ? Feb 24, 2021 15:34

Garrand: Dec 28, 2012; Rhino, you did this to me!

Crazy Joe Wilson posted:

And a Liberty Prime Companion: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/43222

quote:

Adds a fully functional

yessss

quote:

miniature Liberty Prime companion to New Vegas

awwww

# ? Feb 24, 2021 15:41

Big Mackson: Sep 26, 2009

FrancisFukyomama posted:

Lol in the union miners quest the union boss is called Dell Castron and the twist is him going �haha you thought I was just here to improve working conditions? I was actually evil commie vanguard Fidel Castro this whole time! Gulags for everyone!�
I know this bc the big frontier unofficial patch removes the twist bc the makers thought it was offensively stupid

wow, i am glad i stopped playing frontier and started playing modded morrowind or moddowind for short.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 17:14

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Garrand posted:

yessss

awwww

drat it if you're gonna do that make it like 2 feet tall, not person-sized.

# ? Feb 24, 2021 19:38

Punkinhead: Apr 2, 2015

Zereth posted:

drat it if you're gonna do that make it like 2 feet tall, not person-sized.

and speed up its dialogue so it's higher pitched

# ? Feb 24, 2021 22:45

LashLightning: Feb 20, 2010; You know you didn't have to go post that, right?
But it's fine, I guess...
You just keep being you!

PinheadSlim posted:

and speed up its dialogue so it's higher pitched

That'd be awful, like a life-sized Ben Shapiro squeaking at you.

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# ? Feb 25, 2021 01:32

MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

LashLightning posted:

That'd be awful, like a life-sized Ben Shapiro squeaking at you.

🤖 _{_{_{"Communismistheverydefinitionoffailure"}}}

Sound.
https://i.imgur.com/MWNeiC7.mp4

# ? Feb 25, 2021 01:55

Jamie Faith: Jan 13, 2020

This is amazing :vince:

https://adifferenttime.tumblr.com/post/635162336385253376

# ? Feb 25, 2021 11:05

Endymion FRS MK1: Oct 29, 2011; I don't know what this thing is, and I don't care. I'm just tired of seeing your stupid newbie av from 2011.

I've been doing my yearly playthrough of New Vegas, and it made me wonder something. Is there a Viva New Vegas style guide for Fallout 3? There's one for 4 and TTW, and while eventually I'll get around to 4, it's been much longer since I've played 3. I've never messed with TTW, would I just do that?

# ? Mar 2, 2021 17:30

Internet Wizard: Aug 9, 2009; BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

I've been doing my yearly playthrough of New Vegas, and it made me wonder something. Is there a Viva New Vegas style guide for Fallout 3? There's one for 4 and TTW, and while eventually I'll get around to 4, it's been much longer since I've played 3. I've never messed with TTW, would I just do that?

Just do TTW

# ? Mar 2, 2021 18:10

Proletarian Mango: May 21, 2011

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

I've been doing my yearly playthrough of New Vegas, and it made me wonder something. Is there a Viva New Vegas style guide for Fallout 3? There's one for 4 and TTW, and while eventually I'll get around to 4, it's been much longer since I've played 3. I've never messed with TTW, would I just do that?

https://thebestoftimes.github.io/

# ? Mar 3, 2021 02:18

mellonbread: Dec 20, 2017

Finally installed Fallout: New California, after watching one of those "can you beat" videos about it.

Assorted thoughts so far, based on a single mostly-complete playthrough on Path of the Warrior through the NCR questline. I'm late to the party, so I'm sure people have covered some of this ground before:

The environment design is good. The mod has the best looking interior spaces I've ever seen in a Fallout game. Vault 18 is the first Vault in either the 3D or 2D games that actually looks like a self sufficient underground city where people could live for hundreds of years.
Large areas of the map are strung together without loading screens in between. For example, several businesses in Union City are open to the wasteland, you can just walk in without a map transition. While this lets you do cool things like look out the windows while inside the bar and see the rest of the game world, it inflicts a noticeable performance cost.
The performance hit gets worse when the game flings a big scripted battle at you, spitting out an absurd number of NPCs (both allied and enemy) to shoot it out. This has its benefits - the fight on the freeway between the NCR squad and the raider artillery bunker is better than any of the big battles in Fallout NV. But not only does the number of NPCs in play create lag, they also infinitely respawn until you complete an objective. Which is something the mod does in several other places.
At the beginning of the game, your companions are full of life and personality, dangling lots of story hooks in front of the player. Kira wants to find the tribe her parents were from. Johnny is a drug addict who's going to die if he doesn't quit buffout and psycho. The first act has a bunch of scripted sequences where the companions interact with each other and otherwise inject themselves into the story. Then... nothing. Once you get out into the wasteland and start exploring, they just follow you around in a conga line and shoot things. Occasionally you can get unique dialogues reacting to something that happened in the game, but there's not even a generic "tell me about yourself" line where you can get more backstory. I asked Kira if she wanted to do NCR quests, and she said "no, I want to kill everyone at Athens Tec Mine and find my parents". So I went to Athens Tec Mine and killed everyone, and didn't find poo poo. Did I miss a quest flag, is this content that hasn't been added to the mod yet, or is it just a hook the developers dropped?
All the companions follow you around at once. Which means the conga line of chucklefucks behind you immediately deletes anything less than a full squad of enemies in a hail of bullets, lasers and spears.
You may have noticed that I talk about scripting a lot. The mod has a lot of very meticulously built encounters that don't allow the player much wiggle room, other than doing what the authors intended. The whole thing feels like a narrowing funnel, where your choices get more and more restricted as you proceed, until you're undertaking Call of Duty style "RAMIREZ! WIN THE BATTLE" missions with squads of soldiers who are all tagged as essential NPCs.
As heavily scripted as the mod is, the scripting is quite fragile. I'll give an example that happened to me: Guy A tells you to kill Guy B. You go talk to Guy B, and he asks you if you're going to kill him. You say "of course not" and then you kill him. But Guy A and Guy B are part of the same faction, and killing Guy B turns Guy A hostile. Because you SAID you weren't killing Guy B, the game locked you out of the quest to kill him, and just went straight to "you pissed off this faction" when you killed him.
The new monsters are super cool. Giant mutant javelina, giant mutant tarantulas, snakes (whose hitbox is somehow even narrower than their bodies). Even some new robots that look totally badass.
The Raider Alliance is a cool new faction. I haven't tried a playthrough siding with them, but the character designs for all the different gangs are great. The vault vikings wear homemade chainmail, the vultures wear leather jackets and swear at you in Spanish, and the fire worshipers toss incendiary grenades and hack at you with fire axes. I just wish they were mechanically a little more distinct - aside from a few specific troop types they all blend together in an endless mess of guys running at you waving guns and sharp objects.
The setting is great, but the main plot is a rehash of Fallout 1 and 2. Without getting too heavily into spoiler territory, the Super Mutants and the Enclave are back, doing almost exactly the same thing as they did in the previous games.

At its best, Fallout New California is equal to the best of New Vegas' DLCs. At its worst, it combines the jank of NV and the linearity of FO3. There's a lot of annoying stuff, but so far nothing truly atrocious that turned me off it. It's worth a look if you have a craving for more New Vegas and can tolerate a little nonsense.

# ? Mar 3, 2021 20:11

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

The Living Desert is great but it spawns Tunnelers after you finish The Lonesome Road. I get that they're meant to be making their way into the Mojave but not immediately fuckin after.

Found the script that spawns them, gonna patch it out and see if it breaks anything. Would anyone be interested in said patch?

# ? Mar 4, 2021 01:10

Bogart: Apr 12, 2010; by VideoGames

Always be posting patches.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 02:25

cheeseboy58: Dec 14, 2020

I just assumed they were part of the natural Mojave environs, after playing randomizer for 20 hours

# ? Mar 4, 2021 02:34

mellonbread: Dec 20, 2017

Tunnelers are finally returning to Mojave. Nature is healing.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 02:51

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

https://eyearesee.warhaggis.com/uploads/7ee00d1b8253adb0/FuckTunnelers.esp

I have no idea if it actually works. I've basically replaced the content of the scripts with

code:

PrintC "gently caress Tunnelers"

Figured it was safer than removing them outright, since I have no idea how to deal with the triggers.

I haven't seen any Tunnelers since I installed it so :shrug:

Nobody Interesting fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Mar 4, 2021

# ? Mar 4, 2021 16:53

Paul Revere 3000: Dec 8, 2007; So like a pimp I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in
Nothing wrong with my leg
I'm just B-boy limpin'

"FuckTunnelers.esp"

Sounds like it belongs on Lovers Lab.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 17:09

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

sorry for being horny on main

# ? Mar 4, 2021 17:31

Light Gun Man: Oct 17, 2009; toEjaM iS oN
vaCatioN; Lipstick Apathy

Tunnel Fucks rule!

# ? Mar 4, 2021 18:23

marshmallow creep: Dec 10, 2008; I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Light Gun Man posted:

Tunnel Fucks rule!

Amen.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 19:31

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

I have no idea if anyone actually cares, but it turns out I didn't actually recompile the scripts in that patch, so it did literally nothing. https://eyearesee.warhaggis.com/uploads/047044a62f8afa2b/FuckTunnelers.esp is a fixed version. It'll spew "gently caress Tunnelers" into the console instead of spawning anything. loving without spawning!

I've also addressed a couple of pet peeves because I'm unemployed and bored! https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71545 Here is a patch for JSUE that correctly changes the Varmint Rifle to 5.56mm and also updates any scripted references to .22LR in place of 5.56mm, in case anyone wants to play with JSUE but also suck up to rope kid as they do so.

The other pet peeve I've addressed is that the companion dismissal terminals don't have an option to send everyone back to the Lucky 38. There was an old busted mod that contained 2000 recompiled scripts; I've cleaned that up and refactored the dismissal script to match how YUP handles it. As I'm writing this I'm realising that it may be possible to perform the dismissal to L38 even if you haven't been there yet! I will probably fix that some day!

# ? Mar 4, 2021 23:33

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71538

Smooth Sky to try and fix the gradient sky lighting.

# ? Mar 6, 2021 22:59

Proletarian Mango: May 21, 2011

Arcsquad12 posted:

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71538

Smooth Sky to try and fix the gradient sky lighting.

wow this is something ive noticed forever but never found a fix for

# ? Mar 6, 2021 23:15

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71577

Finally something to get rid of the rabies plaguing the Mojave

# ? Mar 7, 2021 08:13

2house2fly: Nov 14, 2012; You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!

Omg omg can I finally play as a black character without having to fiddle around for ages trying to minimise, not even get rid of but minimise, an annoying green shade in the corners of the face

# ? Mar 7, 2021 16:03

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

Fixed another pet peeve, inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUQEfED6ok4. I dunno if anyone else has ever done it. Basically if you use Follower Formula Redone (recommended in VNV) or any other mod that increases the number of companions, some of them will follow you into Mr House's penthouse.

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71619 Fixed that by adjusting the script a little bit. I'd like to see it incorporated in a bugfix or FFR itself, though, since it's just one record.

God I hope I can get a job soon.

Nobody Interesting fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Mar 8, 2021

# ? Mar 8, 2021 05:38

Bogart: Apr 12, 2010; by VideoGames

You are doing God's work, Nobody Interesting.

# ? Mar 8, 2021 07:36

BurritoJustice: Oct 9, 2012

That is actually incredibly useful, good fix!

# ? Mar 8, 2021 07:43

Nobody Interesting: Mar 29, 2013; One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.

Glad to be of service.

Still aggressively unemployed, so the above fix has been updated to be based upon YUP and correctly applies the fix to the "Victor" version of the elevator script. I also cleaned it up a bit by moving the follower auto-dismissal timer to its own block, no need to run it 80 times.

New change makes it depend on YUP since the YUP version of the Victor script ensures that Victor gets upgraded to MkII if you've delivered the platinum chip. I dunno why this has to happen in the elevator script but it's an old rear end game with a whack scripting engine :shrug:

# ? Mar 8, 2021 23:59

MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Didn't realize till after I took these shots that Bone Harvester armor updated with a female version.
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/69728

;e Hoping it isnt just a bone bikini.

The helm and weapon are from Barbarian Armor set.
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/65936

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Mar 10, 2021

# ? Mar 10, 2021 13:05

Proletarian Mango: May 21, 2011

Hi. There's this mod called "Classic Fallout Supermutants" and apparently this mod isn't allowed on the Nexus because the author isn't active anymore and doesn't have it on their own profile anymore ergo the mod isn't allowed to be shared any longer.

Well, here's the mod, plus an .esp that translates the names from French to English, because gently caress the Nexus and it's draconian rules. Use only one .esp. "Expanded Coverage" is the French to English translation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hMsN1Hsdv4KdyxB3l959vHXWw-4UtAuz/view?usp=sharing

# ? Mar 11, 2021 02:15

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Proletarian Mango posted:

Hi. There's this mod called "Classic Fallout Supermutants" and apparently this mod isn't allowed on the Nexus because the author isn't active anymore and doesn't have it on their own profile anymore ergo the mod isn't allowed to be shared any longer.

Well, here's the mod, plus an .esp that translates the names from French to English, because gently caress the Nexus and it's draconian rules. Use only one .esp. "Expanded Coverage" is the French to English translation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hMsN1Hsdv4KdyxB3l959vHXWw-4UtAuz/view?usp=sharing

What's the mod do?

# ? Mar 11, 2021 02:25

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:22

LashLightning: Feb 20, 2010; You know you didn't have to go post that, right?
But it's fine, I guess...
You just keep being you!

Skwirl posted:

What's the mod do?

Reskins some Super Mutants to look like how they looked in the original game's - 5:20 in, phone posting so can't set the link to start at the time.

# ? Mar 11, 2021 02:33

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