Fallout 3 (and New vegas i suppose).

[old.Tohtori]

Hmm. Can't think of anything else, marts mutant mod adds spawns and tougher traders etc, xp inhibitor is in place(less exp all around).

Think that'll be enough to enjoy the game as it's meant to be

 

[old.Tohtori]

Hope they add this form of night in New Vegas, if not, bring on the mods;

Streetlighting and weather mod (it's raining, dark and i'm all alone )

There's an addition to pipboy in a mod too, makes the range of the light a bit larger and removes the indoor glow(aka eyekiller).

Some help into it.

Also storm increases your stealth, as well as darkness.

Also a great mod for replay value; roleplay mod.

Basically starts you out in a shack(that you then own), you choose some roleplay elements(like starting out as an outcast with appropriate power armor, or a raider). It skips the vault 101 birth malarky, the downside is that you start near girdershade which means that with very hard(etc), i ran into a big bloody deathclaw on level 1

 

[Chosen]

Just downloaded the Animated Prostitution mod Quite funny seeing how all the b***** inn the game get f***ed

 

[Huntingtons]

hmm i should find a good mod to play, any suggestions?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Depends what you want, i've been basically searching and running mods for the past weekend

 

[old.Tohtori]

Here's a list of some of the mods i found fun(and not game breaking, rather immersion building);

Mart's mutant mod - Adds encounter, new loot, new monsters(like deathclaw pups ). Modifier ingame to adjust encounter frequency. Also has a zombie mayhem style addition, hunter&gatherer add(which makes AI pickup stuff into inventory) and alo modifies AI to run away, bleed, have deductions to accuracy etc if hit and plenty more.

Ammo weight mod (plenty around). Adds ammo weight, as said on tin. Makes it a lot more realistic when a missile weighs 1 and a minii-nuke 3 for example. Also has medweight optional (as well as cap weight).

Alternate start - roleplay mod where you can skip the vault thing, start as an outcast etc.

KTs centercamera - centers 3rd person camera.

Slower leveling - It's way too fast in FO3.

Karma revamp - makes it slower to gain/lose karma. Also adds higher karma caps for highest/lowest karma.

Owned! - If you kill someone, you get their house. Simple as that. Also can buy houses from a book inside the house and tax it.

megalight and streetlights - Adds lighting especially good with;

Fellout + enhanced weather - adds pitchblack nights, storms, rain and snowfall and an optional radiated rain option (and more).

DWCredux - new graphics.

EVE - energy weapon revamp. Lots of stuff.

Arwen vision - Adds effects and an effect to sunglasses (makes glow less etc) (works rather poorly without HDR).

Sydney follower - On the tin.

Nightvisiongoggles - costs to buy(around 500), when equipped makes screen all green and nightvisiony VERY nice with the pitch black thing. Uses energy so not unbalanced.

Black Wolf Backpack - Adds backpacks to stores, very nice and about time.

Sunglassescollection - adds a series of sunglasses, goggles etc.

more where that came from - adds 100 tracks to playlist on galaxy radio.

Also more added graphics, clothes, equipment etc. Classic weapons mod is nice(brings Fallout 1/2 into the world more).

With very hard, xp limiter, MMM, pitchblack etc it becomes real fun and more realistic too.

All mods from; Fallout 3 Nexus - Fallout 3 mods and community
Also VERY important to get FOMM, makes adding mods easy as 1...2...unzip. File not pants.

Also thinking about starting modding myself, bit of a big start, but since i'm a game dev by heart and exp, should be able to produce some nice mods out there. Probably gonna start with FO3 modding sometime.

 

[Huntingtons]

can i run em all at once?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeap, you can run most mods together without issues if A; you use the FOOM(fallout mod managaer) to launch and have the launch order in check B; don't use GFWL(games for windows live) since it messes with the launch order.

You might get sudden crashes, but that's modding for ya

 

[pikeh]

Yeap, you can run most mods together without issues if A; you use the FOOM(fallout mod managaer) to launch and have the launch order in check B; don't use GFWL(games for windows live) since it messes with the launch order.

You might get sudden crashes, but that's modding for ya

If you've got access to a newsgroup (the torrents usually take waaaaaaay too long to DL) This Panhcrd guy has done a Fallout3 Overhaul using all the best mods, like he did with Oblivion (which was very very good).

I think if the system is the same to the Oblivion one, sign up to that forum and ask him politely for a password.

He spends literally hundreds of hours doing these overhauls, so the work is very good.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah it would be easier

I'm loading one by one and checking things simply due to future stuff, need to see on a simple level how these things evolve etc.

Just getting the full pack of NMCs textures, have to let peeps know if it's good.

Well..."let know" i mean screenshot it

Already got a couple of things in mind for mods, small tweaks really, annoyances, missing features and bugs. For example flyover vertibirds(high) would add a nice atmosphere.

 

[pikeh]

The texture pack was amazing, really made a difference. Its funny, you think a games graphics are good until some modder comes along.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah the medium pack already changed a lot, now going for the full one as well as the nifty stutter remover.

 

[Raven]

They are designed for consoles though so its the minimum specs. Just look at the Grand Theft Auto 4 mods, some lovely textures in there.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Aye, but still works nice enough

Also fiddled with my ini file (dirrrrty) to get a bit mroe oompf.

Some pics with new grapchis, weather mods etc;

Comparison of the Arwen mod (sunglasses on and off).
Super duper mart redux.
Capital river(stood there for a bit to aww-ooh
megaton at night.

(Running it on high/hdr and 2/2 setting so not BEST best )

 

[old.Tohtori]

Also fiddled witht he ini file a bit more, excellent source for ini tweaking. New purple pip-ui and cyan hud. Lovely

Just a warning; if you play with lower exp+MMM+very hard+ammmo weight+etc, you will be annoyed so if you don't like things being hard(i'd say realistic to a -waste-land), don't go that route, you'll pull your hair out.

To put it in perspective;

It took me a better half of 4 hours to clear out grayditch and at the end i had -no- ammo or stimpacks(with 3 addictions brwing in my veins).

 

[fettoken]

I see you are slowly but surely working your way up the ranks Toht. Thats the way to do it!

 

[old.Tohtori]

We might actually be alive to see this;

"Fallout is set several decades after a worldwide conflict brought on by global petroleum shortage. Several nations begin warring with one another for the last stores of nonrenewable resources, namely oil and uranium. Known as the Resource Wars, fighting begins in April 2052 and continues until October 23, 2077. China invades Alaska in the winter of 2066, causing the United States to go to war with China and using Canadian resources to supply their war efforts, despite Canadian complaints. Eventually the US annexes Canada in February 2076 and reclaims Alaska eleven months later. After years of conflict, on October 23, 2077, a global nuclear attack occurs. Nobody knows who strikes first, but in less than two hours most major cities are destroyed. The effects of the attack will not fade for the next 100 years. As a consequence, humanity lives in underground Vaults though some people affected by the radiation live topside."



Oh and here's a shot of my first ever change to a game, doesn't show it all, but hey.

The outfit is from a mod also hair, and piercings(if you can see 'em) and the overall body texture and model. The tats are my handywork...or rather "ripped off from various googlepics and modified to fit my needs).

Need to change the hairstyle as it really doesn't fit that outlook. Well does, but not my cup of tea.

 

[fettoken]

Really nice looking character you got i must say I would also like to have a specific character modded into the game, and with specific clothes etc. How hard would it be?

Looking to get this into the game somehow. Somehow...

 

[old.Tohtori]

I doubt it's that hard. kikai mod has a shop that has a pimp outfit, it's purple.

There's also a mod for gloves(haven't tested it yet), which should have white gloves.

Hair mod(some of them) should have that hair and eyes(also a mod).

Rest is justmodifying the head with the ingame sliders.

Oh and yeah, it's very nice to hit vats and see that beaut take out a supermutant with an M60

 

[Laddey]

new vegas is fan-fucking-tastic.

My dick is wedged so far into this game i even started an hour early this morning to play it.

I came home on my dinner to re-wedge my dick back into it.

 

[Fafnir]

new vegas is fan-fucking-tastic.

My dick is wedged so far into this game i even started an hour early this morning to play it.

I came home on my dinner to re-wedge my dick back into it.

I love it, but starting to get tired of all the bloody crashes i get pretty much everytime i pick up a quest with more than 1 objective at start.

 

[Raven]

The first one was plagued with crashes early on too. What platform are you playing it on? Thanks to GT5 being delayed New Vegas is on my birthday list. Would rather get it on the PC though but may wait if they have released it un-ready like fallout 3.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Going to wait for new vegas until next year, for two reasons really;

- Bug fixes, patches and mod community headstart.

- New GFX card.

Heard good things about new vegas all along, but trying to keep my eyes away from it incase i get ze spoilers.

 

[Fafnir]

the first one was plagued with crashes early on too. What platform are you playing it on? Thanks to gt5 being delayed new vegas is on my birthday list. Would rather get it on the pc though but may wait if they have released it un-ready like fallout 3.

pc...

 

[old.Tohtori]

Fallout 3 bugs - The Vault, the Fallout wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and more

Might find that useful.

Also twiddling with the ini file could work. This site seems to have some inclusions for new vegas, i think the same principles apply;

TweakGuides.com - Fallout 3 Tweak Guide

 

[Turamber]

Can't say I've had any gamebreaking bugs yet but I am finding it a bit more frustrating that the previous game. Much more difficult, less energy weapons thus far and I keep running out of ammo and stimpacks. Just as enthralled as ever, although I wish the Legion's assassins would leave me the feck alone...

 

[Huntingtons]

havnt had a crash, i have however tried something cool. I doped myself the hell up to melee down a deathclaw with a super sledge. i mean everything. Super stims, stims, every liquid in the game, slasher, jet, turbo, buffout, psycho. Basically unkillable - and fucking addicted. I tabbed into my pip-boy to see what else i could beef myself with and it was all red and the pipboy wasnt in focus at all. half of it missing as if my hero was too cooked to focus on the pip. I hope it wasnt a bug but a feature.

Ow, and i 3 shotted that deathclaw at lvl 10.

 

[Moriath]

you can get anti addiction stuff from the ncf prision if you got lck pick 50

 

[Turamber]

I finished the main story in New Vegas and I'm really disappointed in it. Nowhere near the emotional resonance that Fallout 3 had. I also felt forced to go down a path I didn't want to, one very much out of context for the actions I'd taken up to that point.

Spoiler

Having to wipe out the Brotherhood made me feel rather sick, after spending hours helping them. All those karma losses too. Bleh.