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Yeah, really looking to get a decent male companion. Been waiting on Niner for awhile, so maybe Russel will fill that slot. I like Vincent Vincent but he doesn't really fit the style for the character I am playing, and I didn't like Desmond Harper. I played through NVB 1 like almost 2 years ago now and liked it, but didn't care for 2 at the time. I am looking forward to giving it another shot. For one talking about time I prolly won't get to a solid playthrough of either New Vegas or Skyrim until this fall some time. Just picked up Shadowrun Returns while it was cheap, and between learning the modding tools for that Wildstar will be launching at the end of the month and that will eat my time. God its a great time to be a gamer!

Bounties 1 and 2 (along with Russel) have both gotten a number of updates. I know on Russel specifically the author is going after the incompatibilities with Niner.

I would still think that is stressful too. With all the general bs and grading and what not. Would this be the correct time to insert a joke about hot students working for that grade? :P

Good luck! I just moved, but I am still working on getting a new station together. Downloaded like 15gigs of music to go through and it takes a while to collate everything together and get a good theme going on. :)

I tested Diablotherium and liked it, only really had 2 issues, the interiors were just too dark and the sky at the end of Come Fly Away With Me with the scene where the rockets fly off was seriously screwed up. It looked like some seriously bad multi colored strobe effect you see in a ton of the late 80's music videos. Don't know enough about how the shaders work and how that instance is set up to identify the issue. The other thing that may be a problem is it shuts down nightvision/cateye. Night Vision you can work around by tying activacation to the same key set that turns off Enb. Next up for me to try is Enhanced Shaders, and Rudy just got an update and its looking pretty good. I also tried E Enb, and liked the shader effects (except Dof, I hate dof, I use Dusty Distance instead) but I hate the palette. Making everything cold/blue is just meh. Ewi used to maintain 2 different setups, a warm and a cold one, and wanted to try the warm one but it was removed before I got the chance. Also, as a warning I use Vanilla weather. I don't even remember which 2 of the 3 that I have tried for NV but both of them had issues with weather transitions that drove me nuts. I would rather there just be no weather than weather that messes up the game for me.

Gotcha, sorry for the mix up. I know its a common screw up. Have you made note on the wmx page? I don't think I ever picked up the scope for the hunting revolver when I was play testing previously but I didn't notice any other errors so figured I was golden. Hey EssArrBee, new stuffs you should take a look at, I know I am going to: Vault 22 Flora Overhaul Couple videos floating around for it already and they look amazing. Assuming it doesn't break anything (which I haven't seen any reports of) I would consider it an instant include. TitanFallout I haven't tested yet, but a common complaint of needing a better interface (maybe a tie in to the hud project?) and Dragbody has already said he is working on new mech model/s. As soon as I get a guy to 30 I plan on testing it. I am not a fan of console commanding that stuff, had too many bad experiences in Skyrim with it breaking stuffs. Pip-Phone 3000 This is something that is awesome, but also full of potential issues. I can already see a number of things that it could break. I love the idea of having an actual communication system with you though. This also likely needs a lot of work but if for nothing else the companion summon functionality sounds great.

I have done quite a bit of looking on Nexus and several other sites and I haven't come across anything else. Basically all you have for lighting solutions is some form of nightvision (pn, gopher) Flashlight nvse, Pipboy light tweaks, and throwable lighting sources (Glowsticks, Flares). The "best" solution is nightvision, but that is enb dependent (depending on what work arounds you wish to use) and feels rather cheaty. Flashlight nvse is working pretty decent for me now, rarely even get fps drop after going in and tweaking setting in the menu. Dynamic and medium settings I think it was helped a lot. Glowsticks and flares just feel bad design wise to me. They are "realistic" but they are almost too realistic for their own good. Its like playing on hardcore with "realistic" needs turned up. It matches the time scale, but also feels like you have to eat every 20 minutes and its just not worth the hassle. Don't think there is really a whole lot to "fix" on it honestly. The marker sticks work like they should, I just didn't need that use. And the amount/radius of light is going to a personal thing. Much like the various pip boy light enhancers. Doesn't help that I didn't test it vanilla either though, I should have mentioned that. I was testing with Diablotherium ENB, which has pretty absurdly dark interiors anyway. Sounds like you didn't install correctly. You need to install the pistol texture and remove the esp for it also. Same thing with one of the shotguns. Its in the readme.

Its ok, but nowhere near bright enough imo. I needed to go in with fnvedit and change brightness values till I was happy. As it is, its essentially a throwable pipboy light. It would be much more useful if Fnv had both hands implementation like Skyrim. The marker sticks I found to be not very useful, but then I do have a decent memory when it comes to mazes and the like. If I was going to use Awop I may take them, but for normal play not so much.

Pretty sure Eve makes robots explode. At least mine do and I don't include that one. I am on the fence with Destructive Ordinance. I think a lot of it comes down to how you like to play. With that included I rarely use grenades for example because it kinda wrecks everything. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who wants to use heavy weapons. I agree that its great for immersion, but its almost more trouble than its worth.

What is the policy here in terms of licensing? Cause right now the radio station selection kinda sucks. Conelrad is ok, and is something that isn't leaving my load order, but its not enough. And really, nothing offered on Nexus is particularly amazing. MCB is ok, but is far too Elvis heavy for my taste, and Old World Radio is too talky and not enough music, and what music there is really isn't game friendly. I have found Secret Stash from Reddit to be rather great (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1gj9bf/) but personally I would like more. I have been thinking of doing some research into stuff that doesn't sound out of place (both from the time and feeling of the game) and putting together one or two stations. Something country-esque using some Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, etc, and a Rock station around some 60's/70's rock, All Along the Watchtower, Born to be Wild, etc. Would anyone be interested in a "Step" station so to speak?

You can see the difference clearly in Hodiltons newest video. The side by side he does is pretty drastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETr51ivIfLQ

See, my NMM invalidation has been perfect thus far. :)

I didn't have that issue when I tested Fco+Roberts/type3 (Exeter). I just didn't like Fco. It makes everyone look off, except Delilah. I settled on New Vegas Redesigned 2 with the Hall of Face Nvr version and have been rather pleased. I haven't ran into any doofy looking characters, just a couple of issues between hair and Enb (like Ranger Ghost). I am also using a Better Cass and A Better Veronica, and while I like Cass I don't like Veronica at all. The face just does not fit the voice at all. I think I am just going to use the base NVR one since its not too bad. The only Veronica I have found that I like is Veronica Santiago, but its reliant on Lings, and I don't want to install that just for a single companion that fairly quickly will be in power armor anyway (I use Daejones XV Sharl to set her apart yet still fit in with the Brotherhood since I also use Daejones Brotherhood Armor Replacer). I know I know, when said like that its sounds incredibly hypocritical, but it makes sense in my own head!

I have reservations about Nvec after the bashing its taken on the ttw forums.

According to Hairylegs222 Bounties has some issues. Here is his updated Bounties 2 patch: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/47984/? with the Bounties 1 being conveniently lost and only included in Nvec. Personally, I didn't care for Tales. I played through the first one and part of the 2nd before the third part was released on a prior play through and I just fount it annoying and rather uninteresting. I haven't played with it yet, but this is next on my list for testing:Med-Tek Trauma Kit https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54895/? That along with Realistic Weapon Damages (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35335/? + https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54936/?) makes for rather interesting firefights, at least judging by Gophers Lets Play. I haven't shoved them together personally, but I see lots of "oh sh*t" moments in the future. Its originally why I was so keen on using Delilah, but I really can't stand her and I can't quite put my finger on why.

Thats pretty awesome as I just about have my final mod list lined out. As for the fade to black stuff, its any time you visit the doctor basically, all of the special stuff like hugs/kisses from Willow for completing quests etc. I am not sure on reproducibility. I think I had the normal face to black before I installed this last batch of mods, but there is nothing in it that I can point to as a mod incompatibility. I installed Willow, couple radio stations, After School Special and Underground hideout, CASM, and the texture only TFH Better Authority Glasses, rest were a couple of updates, Weapons of the New Milenia, Ragdoll Overhaul, YUP. Only thing I would think that could possibly conflict is Ragdoll Overhaul, unless YUP did something dumb. Even then I don't see anything that would have that sort of effect in FNVEdit, and I doubt its a mesh thing. Could it be the script misfiring? I seem to have that under control at this point, or at least my Flashlight NVSE is acting better. It works pretty much all of the time now, and only once has stopped working from start to up through Novac headed to Helios One. Hence my question of if you have ever experienced it. :)

Hey EssArrBee, Mr. Testing Bro Deluxe, have you ran into your fade to black not working? Mine has completely stopped and I cannot figure out why. It plays the sound, but I get rooted in place and nothing happens until it sorta pops you back into your body and you can go about your business.

I like direction you are headed for the implants. Though I feel that 4 dt for the first level is likely a little op. I would start lower at 2 and gain one each time you level it. Maybe spread the cost out over each level? I for one welcome as many cap dumps as possible since its not uncommon to have 20-30k caps by the time I first get to Vegas, and I am not one for the gambling mini games, they annoy me. Out of curiosity, any reason why you aren't including Jsawyer? It has the integrated pre order packs and a whole slew of other things. I have been eying it but just not sure if I want to rebuild my patches to include it. Also, Realistic Weapon Names (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41859/?) was just updated, and may be worthy of inclusion. If for no other reason than the removal of GRA tags.

Yeah I am next to useless with scripting. Of the 3 alternatives of the Nexus it seemed to be the best alternative, since the vanilla one is pretty much garbage, even as a cap dump. I would love to see it as an upgrade system though! That would be fantastic. Have it gain additional abilities as its upgraded rather than just get stronger. That is something I would have liked to have seen in the Project Nevada set too. Much of the time you already have high skills for example by the time you get the ability to upgrade them fully anyhow. Or at least that has been my experience. I don't agree with the slowing of degradation. I actually have my menu turn up the degradation a bit so there is a reason for regular maintenance. Especially since you have more than enough parts floating around. I personally do not like the universal kits so much. The gun replacement parts offered in Alternative repairing is fairly ok, but armor and the like kinda bothers me. I like its updated cross repair lists though! I don't know how I feel about only being able to make repairs at a bench. Maybe only able to fully repair at a bench? Cause field repairs are certainly a thing, both for weapons and armor. Not sure how you would make that happen without scripting though. Heck, I don't even know how you would do that with scripting! :)

Thanks for the updated patch, I was willing to do it myself just couldn't figure out the mesh assignments! For the Monocyte Breeder improvement I think this one is better: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/36049/? I haven't had a chance to test it either, but I like the idea of the healing not bringing you back to full so quick. Also, I assume you have looked at it, but Alternative Repairing (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/52510/?) is pretty amazing.

You said there was a wrong assignment in the Adam plug in but I can't find the fix. I searched the thread for Prototype and skimmed the results and all I got out of it is its not compatable with Holster. Mind pointing out what record needs to be changed to what?

Out of curiosity, is there a good reason to even install the pre order packs? I am not planning/want to use anything from them and cutting them seems like a good way to save 4 esp slots.

Gotcha. Yeah I don't like MO all that much. I should probably give it another go since I have learned quite a bit since I last tried it, but I have yet to have any issues with NMM. I have been using it and only it since I started modding a little over a year ago, and outside of the issues with the Nexus servers themselves it has never given me the crash/bad install/no uninstall etc that so many others complain about. Perhaps if I switched off between characters, or did more mod testing I would have more uses for MO but that is not how I like to play. I much prefer the "perfect install" and play till its done route. I did a previous play through with Gophers night vision, and honestly it feels too cheaty to me. I even turn off the vision modes offered by Project Nevada. Right now I tweaked Glowsticks (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37541/?) so they have a little larger radius and the marking ones are a little brighter, made the Pipboy light a little larger, and using Flashlight NVSE as my lighting solution. It adds a lot more atmosphere, even though sometimes it feels like I am playing Doom 3. Yeah I generally stay away from making any tweaks unless its something a mod says is required for it to work. Most of the reason why I started looking into enb's in the first place was I got tired of tweaking shadows to look decent in Skyrim.

Yeah I am having a similar issue with Flashlight Nvse after adding Willow and a couple of armor mods. To me it seems like extreme script lag since at first the Flashlight itself became spotty, not wanting to turn on when the hotkey was hit and finally just stopped working altogether. I am also seeing the Pipboy-2500 taking forever to pop up. Kind of odd that you found it tied to Willow though. I was about to try pulling some mods to figure out where the issue lies. As for the guide, are you going to recommend the "fixing" of Lt. Carrie Boyd as the comment section of NCR Trooper Overhaul - Distributed suggests to fix a crashing issue there? Or have you not gotten that far? @redirishlord Thanks for the tip on enblocal.ini. It drastically reduced my stuttering problem. I have seen so much conflicting information on what/how to tweak memory that I don't even know what to follow anymore.

Doesn't the NVSE memory patch and the New Vegas Stutter Remover do essentially the same thing? Both messing with how the memory heap works? I ask because I am getting some nasty stutters when turning, both in doors and outdoors. I have a more than capable machine (i5-3570k oc to 4.2ghz, gtx680 2gig, 16gigs 1600mhz ram) and I copied the ini's directly from the guide. I was hoping Enboost would help, but Diablotherum enb with what appeared to be correctly setup enblocal for my setup (reserve 512, memory size 2048) hasn't helped. According to the fps meter even when I am stuttering I am still getting ~20fps. It doesn't drop to anything. I don't know where else the problem could be at this point. There also seems to be some mouse acceleration. Like mouse movement is about half a second out of sync.