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20 Best Fallout New Vegas Mods

20 Best Fallout New Vegas Mods

Fallout New Vegas Mods

Fallout New Vegas is Obsidian’s 2010 interpretation of the vast nuclear wasteland of the Fallout universe. This time set in Las Vegas, in the Mojave desert, it’s a bleak and gripping game with plenty of memorable characters, locations, enemies, and weapons. For some, New Vegas is their favorite Fallout game and even their favorite RPG. Check out some of these Fallout New Vegas Nexus mods that have helped cement it as a role-playing great. If you are a fan of such games, you could also try playing in the casino sites no wagering requirements to spend some time with other activities. 

Over the years, the hard-working and dedicated modding community have created hundreds of cool, weird and wonderful fallout new vegas best mods to make an already great game awesome.

How to Install Fallout New Vegas Mods

Before you start, here are a few things you’ll want to download to ensure that you can install as many mods as possible with minimal issues.

Step 1: Mod Manager

The Nexus Mod Manager is a great modding tool that allows you to handily store all your mods in one place, and also ensure that your mods are loaded in the correct order.

Step 2: Script Extender

You’ll want to download the New Vegas Script Extender, which will expand the game’s script, allowing you to install far more mods.

Step 3: New Vegas Anti-Crash

Unfortunately, Fallout New Vegas is a game that suffers from frequent crashes, especially if you heavily mod it. NVAC is a simple mod that reduces the chance that your game will crash. Very nice!

Step 4: Mission Mojave

Similarly, New Vegas is a very buggy game, even eight years later. This monumental bug-squashing mod aims to alleviate this as best as it can. With more than 27,000 fixes for a huge variety of bugs, Mission Mojave is an essential mod for a smoother experience.

Fallout New Vegas Mods


NMC NV Texture Pack

NMC NV Texture Pack

Fallout New Vegas is an old game at this point. It was never the best-looking game, but eight years later it’s cracks really start to show. This comprehensive texture pack is the only texture improvement mod you’ll need to make New Vegas look as sharp as possible. This mod changes most of the in-game graphics in Fallout New Vegas. This texture pack includes all of the roads, landscapes, trees (trunks/branches), vehicles, buildings, interiors and all medium to large sized objects (toolboxes, chairs, cupboards). It has a detailed description on how to install and use this mod, making that process quick and easy. Your playthrough of Fallout New Vegas will look beautiful in no time!

Download NMC NV Texture Pack.


Nevada Skies

weather mod

You spend a lot of time in New Vegas roaming around the vast, empty desert with nothing but the sky above you. You might as well make sure it looks as good as possible and does some more interesting stuff. This mod allows a huge number of cloud variations, weather effects, sandstorms, Radiation storms, and even some snow. This mod has a ton of different weather effects to Fallout New Vegas. This includes sandstorms, rain, rainstorms, thunderstorms (with/without rain) and snow. In total, there are over 320 different weather changes into the game. There is more diversity within the different weather themes, each one feeling unique and special. It makes things more realistic and creates an awesome environment for your playthrough.

Download Nevada Skies.


TitanFallout

titanfallout

Do you know what’s an awesome game? Titanfall. Do you know what’s cool? Titans. So why not add a little Titanfall to your Fallout New Vegas? This mod lets you summon Titans that will drop from the sky. You can pilot them and wreak havoc on your enemies. It even allows you different ways to get your Titan. When the game loads with this mod installed, you are given three options. You can be given the Titan right away (if you are at a max level already or just want it asap), you can get it at level 30 (default setting) or you can go retrieve the Titan yourself at a marked location. Once your Titan is summoned, you can immediately start using it and destroying any enemies around you. Don’t worry if your Titan breaks, you can always get another after a production period (35 minutes). It’s a ton of fun, trust me.

Download TitanFallout.


IMPACT

IMPACT

Fallout New Vegas is an excellent RPG, but it’s somewhat lacking as a shooter. Primarily, it lacks substantial hit effects when you shoot an enemy. This mod seeks to alleviate that problem and make the gunplay more satisfying and visceral. IMPACT is a mod that completely makes your guns feel more dangerous and powerful with completely new visual effects and details. So what does it do? Bullet holes are more substantial and reflect the caliber of the bullet, hitting objects will cause a spark of particle effects, and more. Overhauled custom particle effects that affect most surfaces in the game, including wood, metal, stone/concrete. Fallout New Vegas can feel like a pea-shooter game at times, but not anymore. IMPACT is a nice mod if you’re to make the guns more impactful and more powerful.

Download IMPACT.


Weapons of the New Millennia

weapons of the millenium

Weapons of the New Millenia is a quite self-explanatory mod. This mod provides a large number of new guns to the world of Fallout New Vegas. These include an AK-47, a Colt M1911, an M4A1, and many more. You can even choose how you obtain these guns, whether that be from a cheat sheet or a level list where you must defeat enemies to get your hands on them or simply purchase them.

Along with the guns, it even adds a quest line type of element to your game. So not only can you get these new weapons, but you can test them out in their own special questline. This mod was developed with an emphasis on compatibility and modding capabilities, so the community can continue to expand on this work. This mod has had a lot of work put into it, and it would be a shame if you didn’t give this one a try, it is truly unique!

Download Weapons of the New Millennia.


Five Nights at Vault 5

five nights at vault 5

Inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy’s horror games, this mod drops you in a vault with no equipment and no weapons and sets murderous robots on you. You have nothing but your wits to survive the hunt. The arena will also periodically fill with deadly gas.

This mod is fully equipped with a new voice pack specifically designed for this mod. Like your typical Five Nights at Freddy’s game, it requires you to play that hide and seek style game to close doors on the impending doom. The one main way this mod differs from Five Nights at Freddy’s is that it requires the player to move from room to room to evade enemies and continue forward rather than stay in a single room. Overall, this mod provides hours of unique gameplay that is vastly different from a normal Fallout New Vegas gameplay, but it certainly is fun and unique.

Can you survive this cruel gauntlet? Download Five Nights at Vault 5.


New Vegas Bounties

new vegas bounties

What is the desert without a little bounty hunting? The series of quests that allow you to take on the role of a bounty hunter. Take contracts, seek out your targets, and take them out without mercy. You will have all different types of enemies as targets, including rangers, fiends, raiders, smugglers, cannibals, and pistoleros. All of these enemies will be a challenge, as they are all set in the same difficulty as regular bosses are, and they become harder and tougher as you progress through the storyline. Featuring over 436 lines of new dialogue, you can truly immerse yourself in brand new experience in Fallout New Vegas with this mod.

Download New Vegas Bounties. There’s even a second installment if you’re looking for more.

Note: that these mods require this mod to work.


MTUI

MTUI

Fallout New Vegas is a game that was clearly designed for consoles. The text is too big and seems to be designed for players who are sitting across the room from their TVs. It doesn’t make the best use of the real estate of a monitor and isn’t as optimized for PC as it could be. This UI overhaul fixes that, by doing many essential adjustments that PC players need, including smaller font sizes, larger item selection areas, improved conversation menus, etc. These menus and adjustments are made with the desktop player in mind, built for PC screen resolutions. However, if you do not like this mod, do not worry. You can always uninstall the mod and restore the original textures if that is your preference.

Download MTUI.


Populated Casinos

populated casinos

The casinos in Fallout New Vegas are uncharacteristically dead. The game builds New Vegas up into some kind of paradise full of life and energy, but when you get there the casinos are empty and devoid of life (unlike a contemporary Irish online casino). Pretty disappointing. This mod fixes that problem and brings life back to the casinos. It makes the heart of the Mojave wasteland actually feel like a bustling center.

You will find a lot of NPCs, a lot of them look the same, but in the grand scheme of things the goal is to liven up the casinos, and that is what this mod accomplishes. This mod can be very performance intensive. Since it is spawning in a lot of NPCs, it tends to use a lot of resources. If you have a decent PC, that should not be an issue, and this mod will simply just make your game better.

Download Populated Casinos.


Roleplayer’s Alternative Start

Roleplayer's Alternative Start

If you’ve played Fallout New Vegas a few times, the opening can get pretty samey. Sit on Doc Mitchell’s couch and answer the same old questions, go out to Goodsprings and do the same old stuff. It can get old after a couple of times. The Alternative Start mod gives you the chance to get a fresh start in the Mojave desert, placing you in a randomized location and setting you free into the world.

This mod will make Fallout New Vegas into a much better role-playing game.

Other features include: fixing starting quests, over 95 starting locations across the world, faction specific starting points and everything is fully randomized. There are also different forms of history for you, and all these factors will affect what kind of weapons, gear, and skills you may have. What this means for the player is, that no matter what, every game you start will have a different gear and item set, meaning a fresh new experience every time.

Download Roleplayer’s Alternative Start.


Project Mojave

project mojave

Project Mojave is a massive overhaul fallout new vegas weapon mod split into multiple parts so that you don’t have to incorporate them all if you don’t want to. The core of the mod focuses on tweaking and improving the shooter elements of the game, adding bullet time, a grenade hotkey, variable zooms for scopes, and more.

Another part of the mod lets you surgically upgrade your character, adding improvements to speed, durability, strength, vision, and more. The third module adds a number of rebalancing changes that aim to make the combat more frantic and the survival more challenging, whilst a fourth module adds new weapons and gear, including stuff brought in from other popular modders.

Download Project Mojave.


Oxide ENB

oxide enb

Oxide ENB is a collection of mods that aim to overhaul the visual design of New Vegas’ world. Instead of the drab and colorless browns and greys, this mod brings the wasteland to life with a vibrant and varied color scheme. It also includes it’s own weather mods and other things so you don’t need to mix and match them.

Download Oxide ENB.


Essential Visual Enhancements

essential visual enhancements

This mod improves a number of visuals elements in New Vegas, from animations to particle effects from guns and other weapons. Critical hits, explosions, impact wounds, and more are re-done to look much more impressive and violent.

Download Essential Visual Enhancements.


Monster Mod

monster mod

There are a variety of vicious and nasty creatures in the Mojave wasteland out for your head, but if you play the game long enough you’ll probably get bored fighting the same old monsters. This mod has a number of new monsters for you to fight in the wasteland, some of which are more challenging than anything you’ll find in the original game.

Download Monster Mod.


Coloured Map and Icons

coloured map and icons

The Pipboy is your most reliable tool, and you’ll certainly be using it a lot in the adventures. So why not make it a bit more appealing to look at? This mod adds colored icons, lets you change the resolution of the Pipboy, add custom icons, and more.

Download Coloured Map and Icons.


Improved Throwing

improved throwing

Throwing weapons in New Vegas are undeniably pretty lame. Weak, awkward, underwhelming and just not very viable. This mod improves throwing weapons by letting you pick them up after throwing them, craft spears and knives to throw, turn your weapons into projectiles, and even throw random debris at your enemies if you get desperate enough.

Download Improved Throwing.


Project Nevada

Project Nevada

Project Nevada is a mod that seeks to make your Fallout New Vegas experience more interesting and unique, as well as more difficult and challenging – all while remaining fun and interactive. This is a very large project that has a lot of different features including Dynamic crosshair, bullet time, sprint, grenade hotkey, slower backpedaling,  immersive health visuals, immersive primary needs, explosive entry, control panel, inventory sorter, chargeable weapons and more. 

Being one of the largest and most detailed projects for Fallout New Vegas, it completely changes the game and makes it a lot better than before. It may take some time to try out all the new features, but I assure you it is worth it. Try it out today!

Download Project Nevada.


New Vegas Script Extender

The New Vegas Script Extender is a resource for the modding community that increases the capabilities of different resources and scripts. It does all this without changing any of the actual executable files that are in the disk, meaning no permanent side effects. It is a necessary and essential tool for any and all modders.

Download New Vegas Script Extender.

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Neck Seam Concealer

One of the strangest things about the character design in Fallout: New Vegas is the neck seam. There’s a visible line between the neck and body of the character. And while we wish there was a mod that magically erased this line to show a flawless neck and body joined together, but this mod does something much simpler. 

This mod adds six necklaces and a pair of dog tags that are wearable by the characters and perfectly conceals the annoying seam. The necklaces look good as well, so you can forget about the line and enjoy a much more immersive and bejewelled gaming experience. 


Wasteland Hoods

If we all have to wear masks due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, you can be sure this post apocalyptic world requires it as well. This mod provides hoods and masks for your characters to wear. It looks really cool, especially if you get the matching hood and mask. With limited options for players to make their character customized to minute details, this mod is a welcome addition. 

Once you install this mod and have access to the four items: 2 hoods and 2 masks, you’ll get so used to the look that you’ll wonder why the creators of the game didn’t think to include it in the vanilla version. 

The only caveat is that sometimes the hood can clip, depending on the weapon you’re using. 

Download Wasteland Hoods


Clint Eastwood – Man with No Name

Clint Eastwood fans – if you dream about strutting around in the entire costume of Man with No Name in the world of Fallout: New Vegas, dream no further. This mod gives you exactly that. You can find all the clothing in Abandoned Shack next to the Yangtze Memorial (the giant cross visible from Goodsprings)

And if just a poncho isn’t enough to convince you, you’re armed with the gun as well. Now you can be a real cigar-smoking, eye squinting, gunslinger in New Vegas. 

Download Clint Eastwood – Man with No Name


Type3M Clothing 

After getting the Type 3 Mod that changes the body type of most female characters in Fallout: New Vegas, there’s not much point if they go on wearing the vanilla game’s character clothes. 

This mod is an overhaul for female character clothing to make it much better fitting and flattering for the new character design. It takes all the original outfits and revamps them for the new requirements of the Type 3 body type. The clothing also generally looks better, with better colors, textures and lighting. 

Keep in mind that, of course, this only affects the female characters in Fallout: New Vegas, since it’s an add-on mod for the Type 3 body type mod. 

Download Type3M Clothing


These are just some Fallout New Vegas mods available right now. The modding community for this game is dedicated, talented, and always busy, so there’s sure to always be more to check out in the future.

Let us know if you think we missed something!

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