Bulk mods

[MadMann135]

I have a question how many of you use weapon focused bulk mods? I have tried a few and have mixed results.

I am not talking about mods that have a dozen variants of one or two weapons I am talking about mods that have dozens of different weapons.

Mission oriented mods that add new weapons are not included in this.

 

The poll is intended to satisfy my own curiosity.

 

 

 

 

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The New Vegas and Fallout 3 on PC have an excellent modding community. I will admit there are a lot of good mods out there but when it comes to bulk mods all of my experiences are negative. I tried three weapon bulk mods and I have deleted three bulk mods in half the time it took to download them. I can understand if some people want to expand on the experience but when a mod-builder adds too many new features that completely change the game experience then the game experience is ruined. In addition if a mod-builder does not balance their mod to the game then their mod is poorly balanced IE having the .308 performing as a 5mm or having the same .308 out performing the .50 BMG. The game developers did their best to set a stage, coming at said stage with a sledgehammer is not the way to go, expanding on the stage is. A mod is suppose to expand on the game experience, it should take what is there and make it better, in addition a mod is not suppose to be a vacuum where everything in it is exclusive to the mod.

I will say that I have tried a few mission mods (War Never Changes and New Vegas Bounties I) and those I have had my best experiences with bulk mods. The weapons are balanced, the characters are interesting and the story fits well with the Fallout experience. The bulk weapon mods I have tried (I will not name names) either are too imbalanced to be of any use, change the entire game experience or are a complete vacuum that does not fit into the fallout experience. What I find bad is that the mods get rave reviews even if they are buggy.

What is worse is that half the time they do not tell you that they made dramatic changes that can/will conflict with other modifications, in addition this is dangerous with the delicate Gamebryo engine (namely the three C's: conflicts, crashes, corruption).

 

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