New to New Vegas - What mods?

[WastelandMenace]

Hey. I'm an old Fallout player. Started with Fallout 1 and 2 almost a decade ago and recently made an order for both Fallout New Vegas :Ultimate Edition and Fallout 3: GotY..

Do you guys recommend using any mods on the first play through? And if so what would you recommend?
I know that it is at least now a good idea with the older Fallout games to mod them before playing but I'm not sure about NV..

Of course I'd only want to use mods that only fix bugs / maybe restore cut content for the first play through. I want it as vanilla as possible but with some fixes, basically.

Thanks.

 

[TorontoReign]

I recommend Project Nevada, Sawyers Mod, and Nevada Skies to start with, but I would probably play without mods at least one playthrough to see what you think. Mission Mojave or New Vegas Error Corrections would be your best bet for bug fixes.

 

[Squid]

Here is my load order...

...here is my load order in new vegas recently, I used to have a few various other mods on my previous hdd but I found out they were taken off the site when I first reinstalled NV kinda recently, even a couple that had several thousand unique downloads and such, too bad. I don't like big overhaul mods, also there are several mods I actually installed that aren't described here because they are just loose files and such, like I also have NMCs texture pack and several other texture replacers that aren't described here.

Also the game doesn't crash often either, believe it or not. I had some issues early on but I think they were worked out, if not I can't tell much anyway. The game still crashes sometimes, but I guess what I mean to say is not often for newer Fallouts and also not often for how many plugins I have installed, it's really very stable with a few minor bugs but nothing too serious so far.

Edit again: The only things that really annoy me are, Increased Wasteland Spawns (IWS) I believe, caused crashes and is also glitchy. And also, I had issues with weapons correctly spawning in peoples inventories but I think that was sorted out, I never used the weapon mod management thing you can download on the nexus though.

Edit again: Also, I would very very highly recommend using the New Vegas 4gb utility. It basically stopped 95% of crashes from occurring in my game when I first started using it a while ago. Almost necessary IMHO when using lots of mods; launch the game with the 4gb launcher.

Edit again, sorry: Also, a mod that I would never play the games without either NV or 3, would be no auto aim... it makes long range fighting actually doable and removes the crazy upward point of impact in the guns past 30m or something along those lines. Tested game with and without and I would not play it without it, just saying it made that much difference in the gameplay for me. Also, some people on the mod site said that mod is a cheat, which I have to disagree with. It seems like a required fix to me.

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