Essential mods?

[Frankenfran]

I know this is largely a matter of opinion but generally speaking there are must have mods in every game. For example in Fallout 3 there was the massive texture overhaul mod, EVE, the fallout beautiful people mod, the mutant monster mod or MMM, the companion mod and the weapons overhaul mods like FOOK, etc...

 

So what are some of the best MUST have mods that are WELL done. I see there is an EVE for New Vegas as well as a texture overhaul. Any good slavery mods or weapon overhauls that i should know about? The good ones usually stand out but id like to just hit some of the highlights up so i can start play early. Thanks for any insight you can offer!

[minngarm]

Project Nevada

[billyro]

Project Nevada

This.

 

I'd also recommend Nevada Skies and/or Enhanced Shaders for visual goodness.

[terzho]

A world of pain, IWS, repopulated wasteland, electro city, nevada skies,

[minngarm]

Ive also been trying a increased wasteland spawn mod, did try repopulated wastelands, which was nice, but as I have what youd call a mid range machine, if i over do the population and retexture/mesh itll crash a hell of allot. So atm I use.

 

FalloutNV.esm

CaravanPack.esm

DeadMoney.esm

HonestHearts.esm

OldWorldBlues.esm

Lings.esm

iHUD.esm

aHUD.esm

CFWNV.esm

caliber.esm

reload.esp

rearm.esp

RH_IRONSIGHTS_NV.esm

IWS-Core.esm

Weapon Mod Expansion.esm

WME - Honest Hearts.esm

WME - Dead Money.esm

Project Nevada - Core.esm

Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

IWR.esm

Existence2.0.esp

Holster.esp

better that gun 44mag.esp

Desert Armor.esp

RH_IronSights_NV_Vanilla.esp

IWS-AS-LowSpawns.esp

IWS-Core-Patrols.esp

IWS-Core-Guards.esp

IWS-Core-Civilians.esp

noautoaim.esp

CASM.esp

UnlimitedCompanions.esp

UrgeWasterScarf.esp

ReloadCalX3-1.esp

rebalance.esp

rearmrebalance.esp

WME - that gun 44 mag.esp

WME - Honest Hearts Arenovalis.esp

WME - Honest Hearts.esp

WME - Dead Money Arenovalis Retex.esp

WME - Dead Money.esp

WME - Reload, Rearm, Rebalance.esp

WME - Ironsights.esp

WME - Arenovalis.esp

ELECTRO-CITY - Imaginator.esp

CONELRAD 640-1240.esp

Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp

Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp

Project Nevada - Rebalance Rebalanced.esp

Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp

Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp

Project Nevada - WME.esp

headgearfix.esp

Kobu's Free Wild Wasteland Trait.esp

BetterRepairKits2b.esp

IWR - Rebuilt.esp

Better Burned Man.esp

Veronica0.6.esp

NiceCass - C.esp

 

Total active plugins: 59

Total plugins: 79

 

If nothing else, get CASM, it is KEY, it regularly saves your game to a new save file every 10-15 minutes by default, so you can run through the wasteland with glee and not having to interrupt your immersion with constant "start button" menu saving.

 

Also ive tried Electrocity, fellout, and a number of retexture/mesh mods for general looks, just recently started using imaginator, and personally i find it to be the best so far. Makes it look real by default, and gives you optional effects to change it to fit your style, including different genre and era film looks. would have course recommend free wild wasteland, because simply that shouldnt have been optional, its part of the series feel to have those odd morbid and corky moments.

Edited August 23, 2011 by minngarm

[kevkiev]

Some of the basic stuff too, without repeating stuff like WME/WMX (okay, I repeated it :tongue:) - unlimited companions, companion outfits playable, another 3rd person camera mod (or, if you prefer, the centred 3rd person camera), companion sandbox and it's pal companion unlimited wait time, ephemeral ash and goo piles, some kind of overall retexturing (I like to load NMC then put Poco/Ojo bueno on top of that, with MG's clutter pack, the Hi-Res chems and health and a smattering of Hectrol to top it off), RHK Companion poison cure, neck seam concealer chains... to name some that come to mind right away.