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Hey guys. Been a while since I played New Vegas or touched this guide. My approach has been every few months to start playing New Vegas again, update the existing mods, add new ones, then update the relevant Collections. I've started by updating the Essentials Collection. I've also removed the numbering system from the Collection title to not scare newcomers into thinking every single Collection is needed for it to work. I've also renamed it to Essential Bug Fixes to make its use clearer. Essential Bug Fixes should nicely accompany Gopher's Stable New Vegas. It adds many additional small bug fixes for further stability alongside UI upscales. Expect the other Collections to be updated soon.

Hey guys! I've been lurking here for a while. It's time to (partially) reveal something I've been quietly working on for about 2-3 years now. Here's the opening for it: I heard Fallout: New Vegas was pretty good. My first playthrough stopped at 50 hours with half of the map unexplored, 3/4ths of the DLCs unfinished and tons of quests still to do. It floored me. It's one of the best RPG video games ever made. New Vegas has a remarkably crafted world full of memorable characters, complex factions and fantastically written, interwoven quests offering dramatically different outcomes. It’s baffling how much content Obsidian Entertainment made in just 18 months. But its infamously creaky game engine and console requirements held its vision back. I knew this when I decided to play it for the first time in 2019. I wanted to give myself the best possible first experience of the game, so I took a few days installing as many mods as I could to fix bugs, optimise performance and revitalise the visuals without touching the gameplay design. During subsequent playthroughs I found mods that restored the strongest cut content and added others enhancing specific gameplay systems without drastically changing the original feel. New merge mods made several others redundant, more content was restored and new gameplay changes emerged. Now my mod list sits at 400ish reworking practically every imaginable aspect of the game in complementary ways. I think the mod list I’ve come up with really makes New Vegas shine as a masterful RPG experience with a busier world, more immersive UI and harder but more fun gameplay. I thought I could thoroughly note my modding journey as a guide for complete beginners to read through using Vortex as the recommended mod manager. I'll be calling my guide New Vegas Rebuilt. Whilst I was working on the guide, Collections became an incredibly useful feature for Vortex users. I'd already written the guide for it and it was already split into categorised sections focusing on different aspects of New Vegas, so I thought it'd make sense to make a Collection for each relevant section of the guide. They're designed in such a way that you should be able to mix and match the Collections to your liking without requiring any content from one another apart from compatibility patches. There's 11 in total. The guide is now on the home stretch. It's currently a 35 page GDrive document with most of the content explaining in detail what each mod does for complete beginners. It also provides individual download links to every mod for people who don't want to use Vortex. The next step is to do some more guide testing with new users, then if all is stable I think I'll be converting the guide into a website. However, before I do that I thought I'd release the Collections early. That way you guys, the NV players already familiar with the game, can give the Collections a test for me if you want to. You should also install Gopher's Stable New Vegas and Gopher's Darnified UI as I built my mod list/Collections on top of the mods already incldued there. NV Rebuilt: Essential Bug FixesNV Rebuilt [3/10] - Restored ContentNV Rebuilt [4/10] - Gameplay HDNV Rebuilt [5/10] - Gameplay+NV Rebuilt [6/10] - NPC ExpansionNV Rebuilt [7/10] - LightingNV Rebuilt [8a/10] - GraphicsNV Rebuilt [8b/10] - Graphics ExtrasFNV Rebuilt [9/10] - World OverhaulNV Rebuilt [10a/10] - Patches & FPGENV Rebuilt [10b/10] - LOD Files Feel free to add a comment to any Collections you check out via the comments rather than this thread to let me know if they work as expected, if you have any mod suggestions or if there's any mods you think could be updated/are redundant. Having you guys post your Collection-specific feedback via the Collection comments will make it easier to manage. I've been refining this for years and adding/removing mods as they were made redundant by better mods or included in compilation mods, but some things may have slipped through the net. Enjoy. :smile: Update: You may receive a warning about my game version being different to yours. You can ignore this because it was caused by me accidentally generating LOD to the wrong folder which made Vortex recognise my NV install as a new game version. I haven't gotten around to fixing this yet since I'm still working on the guide and don't want to risk breaking my New Vegas install by wiping the LOD folder.