Fallout: New Vegaswas Obsidian’s grandchild to the Classic Fallout games. The original developers built an incredible world in Fallout & Fallout 2 with a rich story, branching questlines, three-dimensional companions and an atmosphere of a post-nuclear wasteland. Obsidian was able to expand on this incredible world in Fallout: New Vegas.
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Fallout: New Vegas is the closest thing we have to 3D classic Fallout, but here are some mods that you’re able to use to create an even greater feeling of those early Fallout titles.
11Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered By WebbProductionsEntertain
Classic Fallout Weapons Remasteredis an excellent mod that brings all your favourite weapons from the classic Fallout titles into Fallout: New Vegas, and even changes the look of some pre-existing guns to look more like their classic counterparts.
This mod adds the Desert Eagle, YK42B Pulse Rifle, Rockwell CZ53 Minigun, and so many more. See how these classic weapons stand the test of time against modern Fallout guns.
Note: This mod does require you to have every DLC for Fallout: New Vegas, as well as a few other scripting mods.
10Menace Of The New West By Woooombat
What enemies are more iconic in the Fallout series than the super mutants? With this modMenace of the New Westby Woooombat, recreate that fear you had as you stumbled onto a group of Super Mutants wielding Laser Rifles and Gatling Lasers with just one hand, whilst you have only your 14mm Pistol to defend yourself with.
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This mod put the power back in the Super Mutants, allowing them to wield big guns like missile launchers and miniguns with one hand. Super Mutants and Nightkin have that classic Fallout look and give named characters their own unique faces.
Note: This mod requires players to have the Dead Money DLC.
9Titans Of The New West 2.0 By Woooombat
Another mod by Woooombat,Titans of The New West 2.0is a great mod that gives the iconic Fallout power armour a much-needed makeover so that when you finally unlock it you feel rewarded, once again becoming the intimidating the behemoth that you were in the classic Fallout games.
The mod adds lots of new features and content, including animations and sound effects. The aim of this is to make power armour bigger, heavier and more imposing with proper power amour proportions.
Note: There are a few other mods that are required for this mod to work, these can all be found listed on the mod page.
8The Living Desert By ELPascal
The Living Desertis a mod by ELPascal, that recreates the feeling of the world moving with you in Fallout New Vegas. The mod adds hundreds of new NPCs and several scripted events for you to take part in.
Make your choices count. If you clear monsters and raiders from the roads or nuke the NCR or lift the Brotherhood’s lockdown you will see an increase or decrease in travelers on the road making Fallout New Vegas feel more alive and dynamic.
Note: This mod requires a few other mods to run, which can all be found on the mods page.
7Functional Post Game Ending By Kazopert
Functional Post Game Endingby Kazopert, is a great mod to make Fallout New Vegas an even greater RPG. A key aspect of the original Fallout games was how in-depth the roleplaying aspects were, and how you could do basically anything and the game adapted around you.
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This mod allows you to continue playing after the battle of Hoover Dam, but it goes a step further than other mods and actually changes the world depending on the choices you made throughout the game. Whether that be who you sided with at the end of the game to the ghouls at the REPCON facility, you will see all your choices throughout the world.
6Cirosans Classic Overhaul By Cirosan
Cirosans Classic Overhaulby Cirosan is an overhaul mod that makes some much-appreciated changes to Fallout New Vegas. The mod adds classic perks and traits to the game like adrenaline junkie, bruiser, and gifted just to name a few.
It also changes the companion system making it more like classic Fallout where the amount of companions you can have is based on your charisma rather than a flat two, so if you’ve made a silvered-tongued courier you’ll have lots of friends on your journey throughout the Mojave.
5JIP Fast-Travel Anywhere With Random Encounters by Jazzisparis
JIP Fast-Travel Anywhere With Random Encountersby jazzisparis is an excellent mod that recreates the classic Fallout travelling system of the original games. With this mod, you can travel to any point on the world map, and you may be stopped mid-journey as well by some less-than-welcoming enemies. Recreate that anxious feeling you had when travelling across the map in the classic Fallout games, hoping not to run into any high-level enemies that might finish you off.
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The mod allows you to customise the encounter difficulty and applies restrictions to the fast-travelling, such as, the journey will consume time, you cannot fast travel whilst over-encumbered, during combat, from indoors, and so on.
4Drivable Chrysalis Highwayman By Jamar1978
Drivable Chrysalis Highwaymanby Jamar1978 is an incredible mod that implements the iconic Chrysalis Highwayman from Fallout 2. There was nothing like collecting all the parts, finally repairing the Highwayman and speeding your way across the map in Fallout 2, with style no less.
Like Fallout 2 to use this car you will need to find a repair part for it. Relive the glory days with this vehicle that will get you to the strip in no time.
Note: This mod does require you to also haveThe Frontierinstalled as it uses the vehicle system from this mod.
3J3X Flesh Burnificating Plasma By Marz13
J3X Flesh Burnificating Plasmaby Marz13 is an intense mod that puts that classic Fallout gore back into Fallout New Vegas. A major part of the classic Fallout games was the combat effects that could happen, whether that be turning an enemy into a pile of dust or burning them to a crisp you could do some violent things to your enemies which made the turn-based combat much more satisfying.
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This mod implements that feature in Fallout New Vegas, it will turn NPCs into skeletons when you shoot them with plasma weapons and will turn them into burnt toast with any fire weapons.
2JSawyer Ultimate Edition By PushTheWinButton
JSawyer Ultimate Editionby PushTheWinButton is a must-have mod for all Fallout New Vegas Fans. Created by Josh Sawyer who was the lead designer for Fallout New Vegas and a former member of Black Isle Studios, who created Fallout 2. This mod makes Fallout New Vegas more challenging by tweaking character progression, health, damage, loot scarcity, and other aspects found on the mod page.
This mod makes combat and gameplay more satisfying because you have to consider how to approach fights and what kind of character you want to build.
