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Viva New Vegas - A Fallout New Vegas Modding Guide

"If you want to see the fate of democracies, just look out the window"

So, it has come to this. I've been debating doing a guide like this for a while now, and I guess im just gonna take it on. Fallout New Vegas is a wonderful game limited by a garbage engine and consoles. Luckily, we have these things called mods that can fix all of our problems, while causing many, many more. This guide aims to fix vanilla bugs, enhance the vanilla game, and add content that fits right in with the base game. This is a rather advanced guide, so do not use this if it is your first time modding a Bethesda game.

Any questions/problems with the guide can be directed to my Nexus page here.

Pre-installation Checklist

1. A fresh installed, legal copy of Fallout New Vegas, with all of the DLC
2. Launch the 'Fallout New Vegas Launcher' and have it pick a preset for you. This is just to set your .ini files, the actual settings will be tweaked later

Prerequisites

1. Mod Organizer 2 - By far the best mod manager for Fallout New Vegas, 3, 4, Skyrim, and SSE. For an explanation of its advantages and a basic tutorial, watch Gopher's video here.
2. FNVEdit - Will be used to create merged patches, clean plugins, and add bash tags to mods later in the guide.
3. Wrye Flash NV - Creates a bash patch to help increase compatibility between mods and merge compatible plugins to reduce load order. Download the standalone executible file and extract the 'Data' and 'Mopy' folder to the New Vegas main directory.
4. LOOT - Helps sort load order and detect which mods need cleaning.
5. Merge Plugins - Merges plugins to reduce load order. We'll go into detailed install instructions towards the end of the guide.