BSO - A Brightweight Strip Overhaul and Brightweight Open

“No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.” – HAL ROTHMAN

"Damn slots are robbery." - Some Gambler Dude in the Tops

 > > HISTORY

The New Vegas Strip has always, always been a sore spot for me when engaging in any far-reaching discussion about this lovely gem of a game.

This damn place, in vanilla, is for me, hands-down, the most underwhelming location in the full experience. At least a quarter of the idle dialogue you get from everyone on your way to it is practically hyping up how easy it is to get lost in the sights and sounds and whatever debauchery comes to mind. Its the main center-point, the place you need to get a credit check for to even enter. And it all just feels... dead. Not, like, the >Fallout kind of broken world where it still has character in its ruins and rebuilding contrast< dead, but the >obviously was running into memory issues and the bare minimum had to be placed under time constraints< dead. Besides the casino buildings themselves, the Strip was nothing but a crummy street. No can do, buckaroo.

I've lived in Vegas for a substantial part of my life, have visited it recently, even, and the first thing you feel when you're there is this sensory overload of everything trying to get your attention at once. Light shows, music, flashing neon, chimes and jingles and water fountain music synchronizations, there's so much going on all the time just to get you into that headspace of 'letting loose' and getting your gamble on. The contrast in atmosphere is so... stark. Perhaps its time more was done about that.

 > > CONTENT

- A complete reworking of the exterior Strip, featuring new casino and various entertainment building models

- Revamped volumetric lighting setups, decorative signs and flavor, with a healthy pinch of color

- New audio sources for better world-building, including the clink and rings of slot machines, the humdrum of crowds and hollers of lucky gamblers, NCR military broadcasts, monorail station adverts and PA with custom voice acting with the creaking groans and distorted music playback of old casinos

- Cleaned roads, garbage moved, overall better presentation of the existing Strip (courtesy of the Lightweight Strip Overhaul base + alterations)

- Cleaned the mod itself of ITMs, dirty edits, and requiring nothing else but Simple Open Strip as the new base, New Vegas itself, and Lonesome Road

- 2. 0+ EXCLUSIVE: The entire mod has been remade from scratch, now built with Simple Open Strip in mind!