So, New Vegas Restoration Mod

[Infinitron]

I'm surprised nobody has posted about this yet.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/18/wow-new-vegas-mod-restores-heaps-of-cut-content/

Wow: New Vegas Mod Restores Heaps Of Cut Content

Fallout: New Vegas was a glitch-ridden, unwieldy beast of a game, but it’s a testament to the wonderful (and very Black-Isle) world Obsidian crafted that – in spite of rampant instability and a fiddly engine – it still stands as one of my absolute favorite games. And in spite of the couple-hundred-some-odd hours I’ve put into it, I want more. Semi-recently, I had quite a joyous time with the harder-core-than-thou JSawyer mod, but now I’m getting ready to dig into an official-unofficial project that positively dwarfs it. In short, a modder by the name of “Moburma” went sifting through New Vegas’ code and excavated scrapped bits and bobs of all shapes and sizes. The end result? A restoration project that borders on insane.

Admittedly, no one individual piece of the cut content is game-changing or anything like that. But, taken together, these bits and pieces stand to transform New Vegas into a far more impressive locale. For instance, one mod restores the Vegas Strip to its original vision – as opposed to the cramped, underpopulated consolation prize we got in the original game.

“The Strip Open is an attempt to restore the Vegas Strip worldspace in Fallout: New Vegas to what was the developer’s original intent; namely a large, visually spectacular open area. The Strip as found in the retail game is not the original plan for the area, and the checkpoint gates that make the area so clumsy to navigate are sadly a technical compromise – to quote Obsidian lead designer J.E Sawyer: ‘Memory problems caused crashing in both The Strip and Freeside, so they had to be split up.’”​

Other portions of the project, meanwhile, bring back New Vegas’ original, in-engine opening, add multiple choices and stages to some really interesting quests, and make many scenes and scenarios more consequential. For example, here’s a really cool bit involving the main quest affecting the game world permanently.

“Post attack events. If ‘We Are Legion’ is successfully completed, The Legion storm the camp and kill anyone left, and dump the bodies in a mass grave in the graveyard. After two days it will then be infested by Cazadores. Nelson will now actually be occupied by NCR troops if they take the location back.”​

You can download everything Moburma’s restored so far here, or – if you don’t actually play games, and instead prefer to torture yourself with the amazing time you could be having – there’s a giant forum post to sink your brain into here. Now then, time to leap in and hope Obsidian’s original vision didn’t include my nightmare: a Cazador/Deathclaw hybrid, henceforth known as a Deathdor. And also, it’d make that sound giant ants do when it moves, because ewwwwwww.

 

[Wise Emperor]

With 2 more creatures on screen Gamebryo will explode. Apart from increasing the crowd in some places and minor tweaks, I really don't know what needs to be "restored" in NV. But OK, we will see how it will look in 3-5 years after mod is 100% complete

 

[HumanTotemPole]

Been trying out that series of mods, Outside Bets is a good one. Freeside Open and The Strip Open are also good but tend to be incompatible with any other mods changing the original 'split' worldspaces that comprise those two areas. The other stuff is small print but worth having save for the original in-engine opening which is in a pretty unpolished state and therefore probably only worth seeing once.

It worth noting that Freeside Open already includes the Rotface and Van Graff mods; therefore neither of those two should be used with it. The Betsy one has a Freeside Open compatible version.

 

[Orma]

So anyone downloaded and tried it yet?

Edit: oops, ninja'd.

And by the way, are these compatible with JESawyer patch?

 

[HumanTotemPole]

So anyone downloaded and tried it yet?

Edit: oops, ninja'd.

And by the way, are these compatible with JESawyer patch?

I use it and haven't had any problems. Load it after them and make a merged patch just to be sure.

 

[Average Manatee]

The strip was definitely a huge barren disappointment, so hopefully this is good when it's finished.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

The strip was definitely a huge barren disappointment, so hopefully this is good when it's finished.

Does it mean you expected otherwise? It's GameBryo, after all.

Other than that, its strength is and was supposed to be in interiors.

With 2 more creatures on screen Gamebryo will explode. Apart from increasing the crowd in some places and minor tweaks, I really don't know what needs to be "restored" in NV. But OK, we will see how it will look in 3-5 years after mod is 100% complete

I think this guy is pretty much done, especially since he's busy with polishing that Beyond Boulder Dome turd.

 

[Orma]

I think this guy is pretty much done, especially since he's busy with polishing that Beyond Boulder Dome turd.

Someone needs to tell him that we'd prefer a big restoration patch instead of that crap.

 

[Malpercio]

Well, time to reinstall New Vegas i guess.

 

[crojipjip]

If you assholes can pony up the money I will hack in some better engine resource management and bettter graphics support. shit i could even unite the game world with erosion, better water, rain storms, and deep immersive shadows/lights. plus that combay system i promised for view negas .

 

[Kattze]

Has anyone found a way to combine Sawyer's mod with Project Nevada?

 

[Stinger]

Would Sawyer or the Project Nevada team even allow it?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

With 2 more creatures on screen Gamebryo will explode

I know this is sarcasm because lolgamebryo, but anyway - it can handle a bazillion people on screen without problems. We (I was only watching, actually - my laptop is not good enough) quintuplied the number of legion grunts in a legion camp (Caesar's? Dunno) one day and stormed it with all companions in tow. Much lulz was had. Trivia: Arcade was invariably the first to die, even though he was decked in power armor. Sad.

 

[sea]

I tried the new content. It's cool and nice to have. I don't think it's worth re-playing the game for, but I would definitely install it if you are interested in running through New Vegas again.

I know this is sarcasm because lolgamebryo, but anyway - it can handle a bazillion people on screen without problems. We (I was only watching, actually - my laptop is not good enough) quintuplied the number of legion grunts in a legion camp (Caesar's? Dunno) one day and stormed it with all companions in tow. Much lulz was had. Trivia: Arcade was invariably the first to die, even though he was decked in power armor. Sad.

I think the limitations of the engine have more impact on the console versions of the game. PCs can brute force their way through poor optimization with sheer power, but consoles do not have that luxury.