A Smoke Before the Storm Tweaks
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #184 of 212 Animation mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
What this mod adds/changes:
Changes the balancing of the ingestible cigarette to more line up with what makes sense to me and feels right for balancing.
Weight: 0. 020000
-1 Agi for 360 seconds
+1 Per for 360 seconds
+3 H2O for 10 seconds
+3 Hunger for 5 seconds
Adds a script to the vanilla Misc Item Cigarette01 to convert it to the ingestible form when added to the players inventory.
Adds an unpacking script for cigarette packs and cartons that allows you to unpack them via the inventory menu and randomizes the amount you receive (figuring some go bad over time). The script first rolls a 1–10. If the result is less than your Luck stat, a Luck bonus of 1–3 is generated.
Next, the script calculates your Survival bonus (+3 at 50 Survival).
For packs, the script rolls another 1–10 and adds your Luck and Survival bonuses. The result is the number of cigarettes you receive.
For cartons, it re-rolls the Luck check to give you another chance at an additional 1–3 Luck bonus, then multiplies your previously calculated Survival bonus by 3 (+9 at 50 Survival).
Finally, the script rolls a 1–40 and adds the updated bonuses to determine the total number of cigarettes from a carton.
Installation:
Install the original a Smoke before the Storm and all it's dependencies.
Install this mod to overwrite the original.
Compatibility:
This is untested with other mods that let you smoke cigarettes. I don't plan on patching for those mods.
Credits:
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[]Hax0 for the original mod and animations.
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]LunarJoy for the uncolored ySI icons.[]FinalCatalyst for always being willing to check, fix and optimize my garbage scripts.
[]OrgasmicSneeze for coloring Joy's ySI icon as well as the excellent thumbnail and banner.
A Smoke Before the Storm Tweaks is a small animation mod for Fallout: New Vegas that refines the technical aspects of the original 'A Smoke Before the Storm' mod, which adds smoking animations for roleplaying. It has 67 endorsements and was last updated in June 2025.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Tightens up the technical side of an already popular animation mod
- Great for roleplayers who want authentic smoking animations
- Decent download count (93k) shows it's being used
⚠️ Cons
- Only 67 endorsements—small niche, so don't expect a huge community
- Last updated June 2025—might not be compatible with the latest game patches
For Fallout: New Vegas roleplayers who love the original smoking animations but want a more polished experience. Skip if you're looking for new animations—this is a tweak mod, not an expansion.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have the original 'A Smoke Before the Storm' mod installed first—this tweak builds on it.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or FOMM to avoid overwriting files manually.
- Check the mod's load order—place it after the original mod to ensure the tweaks apply.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- Hax0 - DarkSolarLegend - FinalCatalyst
- Version
- 1.02
- Downloads
- 93,470
- Endorsements
- 67
- Category
- Animation
- Created
- 5/12/2025
- Updated
- 6/15/2025
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