After 12 years, Fallout: New Vegas is still brimming with both content and fans. With co-op mods growing ever the more popular, games like New Vegas have received a resurgence of fans, with many desiring to return to the Mojave wasteland with a friend. Players will certainly not be wishing for a nuclear winter when they can experience all the game has to offer in a pair.
There’s a lot to offer from this Fallout title, and plenty of mods to enhance the already brilliant experience. Thanks to the loyalty of the modding community, there’s fun to be added to the game to fit every type of player.
8 FNV 4GB Patcher
Considering it has been over 12 years since Fallout: New Vegas was first released, it’s no surprise that the game may be inferior for newer PCs and consoles. The game uses a lot less RAM than is available to modern players. The FNV 4GB Patcher allows the game to use more RAM, which means a smoother experience for the base games and great DLCs.
Games take up RAM and can run into some disasters when not given enough. By having a co-op partner, the game will more than likely need that extra boost of RAM, which is why this mod should be an essential selection.
7 New Vegas Anti Crash
On newer, more modern PCs, New Vegas tends to crash. The modding community has a plethora of mods to choose from to ensure that these crashes are minimal if any occur at all. New Vegas Anti Crash does its best to ensure a smooth journey through the Mojave, with almost 5,000,000 downloads for the mod.
This should be an essential selection for co-op players, as frequent crashes will be sure to ruin the flow of gameplay, and the fun to be experienced with a friend, considering both players may be waiting at the start screen each time.
6 Essential Visual Enhancements
With more modern games testing the boundaries of graphic content and detail, it’s only natural that modders would want the same immersion for New Vegas. This mod increases the detail in the game when it comes to combat, such as weapon projectiles and impacts.
Essential Visual Enhancements provides the player with new kill animations, HD blood, fire, explosions, and more. These are great for co-op because it builds upon immersion in all new ways. Combat will feel more real, and a lot more bloody with a friend.
5 Nevada Skies
Weather mods are no stranger to open-world games. They add even more immersion than the developers originally intended. With Nevada Skies, players will experience over 400 weather types, all customizable by the player. The skies of New Vegas are stable and dry, just like the desert should be.
However, Nevada Skies mixes things up, with toxic clouds, mystical chills, and even a terrifying fog that mists the desert. This mod can be fun in co-op, as players won’t know what to expect with each new day. It’s not like the post-apocalyptic world can predict the weather.
4 New Vegas Bounties
Everyone adores cowboys and bounty hunters. With a game as open as New Vegas, it’s surprising that there aren’t an abundance of missions to hunt other characters for bottlecaps. New Vegas Bounties adds high-risk bounties across the Mojave wasteland and features fully-voiced characters in this adventure mod.
Targets can range from rogue rangers, fiends, raiders, drug smugglers, cannibals, and more unsavory types. What makes this mod essential is not only the additional content to a brimming game but the idea of having bounty hunter partners with a friend in co-op.
3 Brave New World
Games with a great modding community are often home to ambitious teams that invest their time in bringing players new, exciting experiences. Brave New World is a project for New Vegas that gathers professional voice actors to revoice the base game. Covering over 145 NPCs, and with 7,000 lines, there’s more distinction in character identity.
There’s nothing particularly wrong with the voices in the vanilla version of New Vegas, but there are only a select few voices for the hundreds of characters in the game. This mod helps to freshen out New Vegas, and adds new immersion to co-op players, as every character will be unique.
2 The Living Desert
The Living Desert seeks to add hundreds of NPCs and scripted events to New Vegas. The mod increases the population of New Vegas and makes the desert of the Mojave feel well and truly alive. People will patrol the roads, and travel between towns and other locations.
Characters will react dynamically to the actions and choices the player takes throughout the game. What makes the mod even more interesting, is that through co-op, players need to decide how they will treat the inhabitants of the Mojave.
1 Project Nevada
With new gameplay to a classic game, Project Nevada seeks to add a challenge and provide players with a fun experience. The mod is respectful to both the player, and the developers of the game, and gives players the choice of what they want to change when it comes to New Vegas.
There are modules to Project Nevada. Ones worth exploring and discussing with co-op partners. Players can decide if they want a sprint option, an array of new weapons, or even a rebalance to the game itself. There’s a lot to offer in this mod.
Fallout: New Vegas is available now for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.