EVE - Essential Audiovisual Enhancements (EAE)
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.2% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #68 of 68 Patches mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
EVE > Essential Audiovisual Enhancements (EAE)
Feature Summary
This mod provides the following changes to EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements v1. 19 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp by weijiesen:
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[]Re-introduces sound effects for critical hit kills with energy weapons, which were absent in FNV EVE since forever (v1. 11 in 2011)
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]Fixes a small oversight in EVEs critkill scripts where killing NPCs wearing power armor had no sound-related triggers attached to it[]Adjusted the scripts to distinguish between laser and plasma critkills (Presumably there was more universal sounding SFX planned for EVE)
[]Allows for the customization of both the current as well as additional, user-picked critkill sound effects by simple drag & drop
Description
I was quite surprised to find out that EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements for New Vegas, while providing beautiful critical kill animations for both laser and plasma weaponry, was actually completely missing the vanilla disintegration and gooification sound effects that are supposed to play, when you - well - disintegrate or gooify an enemy by killing him with a critical hit. And while EVEs animations itself absolutely look bombastic, I felt that the complete lack of acoustic feedback was really undermining the overall experience.
While many of EVEs critical kill scripts provide working death screams for both male and female actors, only 4 out of 13 variations in each case of laser and plasma weaponry had an actual working sound effect attached to it. Although even this sound effect wasn't meant to replace the absent disintegration/gooification SFX, but it's rather designed as an additional effect which gets triggered due an scripted explosion occurring during the critical kill presentation. All of the other critkill scripts have no working audio attached to them at all.
So how did I remedy this issue, summarized in a simple way? This mod, which comes in the form of an .esp patch, fixes the aforementioned audio issues by implementing a few new sound-related entries into EVEs record structure, and by placing this entries into the 68 available critkill scripts of EVE whereever there was an appropriate stage/if-statement. The changes to the critkill scripts are simple overrides, and don't lead to any conflicts with the base ESP, which is provided by EVE.
Getting Started
Required base mod EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements v1. 19 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp (Uploaded 2021, most recent version as of 17 Apr 2025)
Installation Standard procedure, so either install through a mod
EVE - Essential Audiovisual Enhancements (EAE) is a patch that fixes the absence of disintegration/gooification sound effects for critical hit kills with laser/plasma weapons, and allows customization of these new SFX. With 108 endorsements and 63,167 downloads, it's a niche but popular fix for EVE users.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Fixes a glaring audio gap for laser/plasma kills—immersion restored.
- Customizable SFX means you can tweak the sounds to your liking.
- Solid download-to-endorsement ratio (63k downloads) shows it's widely used.
⚠️ Cons
- Only 108 endorsements—small but dedicated user base.
- Last updated April 2025—may not be compatible with future game patches.
- No detailed documentation provided—you'll have to figure out customization on your own.
For EVE users who are bothered by silent disintegration kills and want that satisfying audio feedback. Also for modders who enjoy tweaking sound effects to their preference. Skip if you don't use EVE or don't care about kill sounds.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have EVE installed first, as this patch relies on it.
- If you're using a mod manager, just drop the file in and activate—no load order fuss.
- Test the new sounds on a few kills to see if you want to customize them further.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- Nefiji
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Downloads
- 63,167
- Endorsements
- 108
- Category
- Patches
- Created
- 4/2/2024
- Updated
- 4/14/2025
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