I can’t decide what kind of character I want so any ideas would be welcome for stats and gear.

Also gimme some good lore friendly mods, stuff that fixes bugs and adds commie stuff would be nice.

Also I dunno if this kind of mod exists, but something that lets you choose enby as a gender would be cool.

Thanks nerds

Also what ending should I go for?

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    Jesus Christ I forgot how lame modders for Bethesda games are. Looking for some lore friendly hair mods and all of its like “GET RID OF THE UGLY HAIR AND GIVE ALL FEMALE NPCS PRETTIER HAIR. NO MORE MOHAWKS FOR FEMALE NPCS”

    fuck you I like punk hair, and it makes no sense for all the women to look like Barbie in AN IRRADIATED WASTELAND

    • Cowbee [he/him]English
      16·
      7 months ago

      Scrolling the “top of all time” on the nexus for FNV is a trap, all of the best mods came out in the last 3 or so years, and older mods (except texture mods) can usually be ignored unless they were maintained.

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Modding Fallout is kinda disappointing, especially once you get hooked on the Elder Scrolls. Morrowind has some incredible mods and the game’s old graphics make horny mods way less appealing, so less are made. Skyrim otoh has a fuckton of shitty mods, but also a lot of really good ones, well written, lore-friendly, professionally voice acted etc.

      Fallout meanwhile gets… some fancy guns? Gameplay fixes? Texture packs?

      It’s a damn shame.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      I love the part that you can bypass a finding a password section by just blurting out “ICE CREAM”, which is the password, at low intelligence.

  • Cowbee [he/him]English
    23·
    7 months ago

    Ah, my specialty. (Definitely not a hyperfixation, oh no)

    Viva New Vegas is the best modding guide to modernize your game. If you want graphics mods, Salamand3r’s Texture Guide is also great.

    There isn’t much opportunity to be a full commie, but the Followers of the Apocalypse are deliberately Anarcho-Communists.

    As for endings, both major sides are invasive and the people of the Mojave don’t want them. House promises rapid development and industrialization but is a bourgeois dictator. You can go for Independence if you want, but that comes with it’s own drawbacks as well.

    ATMOS is a cool new mod to improve the soundscape, same with Hymn of the New West.

    For builds, the classic Cowboy/girl build always slaps, but tribal builds are also great fun, with high survival, sneak, and melee.

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      House promises rapid development and industrialization but is a bourgeois dictator.

      He’s basically a more charismatic Elon Musk lol, including the space colonization fixation. I wouldn’t even trust the rapid development and industrialization he promises.

      • Cowbee [he/him]English
        3·
        7 months ago

        Elon Musk literally envisions himself as House, that’s why he likes FNV. Either way, the point of House is that even as the absolute most competent and brilliant billionaire possible, he still becomes a fallible dictator with a messaiah complex and a mountain of bodies in his wake.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    7 months ago

    The melee and unarmed options in NV are so much fun, and it feels like you’re playing a completely different game. Also, using crafting to get most things instead of buying is a lot of fun, and adds immersion to the game.

    All this to say, anarcho-primitivist anprim-pat build is a ton of fun.

  • BakedBeanEnjoyer@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    Do a melee or unarmed build. So many cool weapons with unique mechanics are locked behind unarmed and melee which most people don’t use. You can get special movies, so it actually feels like combat is a bit more involved then “point and shoot.”

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I still need to run an Unarmed build. On some straight-up Arnold Shpitz shit; “I’m no one in particular but I’ll still run your fuckin pockets with two jabs and a right hook”

  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    I tried a shotgun surgeon build for my last run and it was great fun. Just knocking down cazadors, slavers, robotic cops, soldiers and anyone else who got in the way of my drug-fueled anarcho communist revenge RAMPAGE.

    Luck based builds are also great fun.

    I tend to go stealth-archer so when I wanna try something new I work against my instinct to make a glass cannon. High constitution, high strength, low agility (who needs vats?) low perception, scores of grenades and a big stick. Good times.

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    My last playthrough was a 10-luck character, which I somehow never did before.

    I started the game, collected some explosives from the prisoners, then at level 2 ran my ass dodging and weaving around cazadors and death claws, slowing picking off some marauders with my dynamite sticks from on top of a hill. I continued sprinting all the way to new vegas at lvl3, collected as much garbage as I could to buy my way into the strip. Using the 10 luck, I cleared out every single casino at the blackjack tables until they kicked me out. Did a couple missions and at lvl 5 or 6 I Jumped into dead money and carefully threaded myself through the combat with my lucky crits, leveling up like 6 times, and then cleared out the Sierra Madre at the blackjack tables.

    I exited, now the richest man in all of New Vegas, unwanted at every venue, and coming out of a luck driven fugue state, I needed to find something. I went to the cannibals and tormented them picking them off one at a time, glitched the quest, and left. I then executed Mr House to feel something and began wandering the wastes.

    The greatest thrill of all was throwing myself far underleveled and under geared at harder and harder challenges.

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    Viva new Vegas stopped mine crashing every few minutes, but it will make the game more difficult if you’re doing JSawyer. Still a good time, loving my science playthru rn

  • SSJ2Marx@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    I last played with the Viva New Vegas mod pack, worked great had a good time. I also added the People’s Radio of China mod and imagined that my character was the Fallout equivalent of lt-dbyf-dubois turning into a communist after a head injury. He was max luck, high perception and charisma, low everything else. I got really into energy weapons, grabbed every social perk first and any perk that triggered randomly or on a critical hit second.