Fallout Character Overhaul
⚪ Last updated 2015⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.9% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #1 of 76 Overhauls mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
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What does Fallout Character Overhaul do?
FCO is a high-resolution overhaul of characters in Fallout New Vegas changing nearly everything possible that there is to change, it makes it a lot easier to make a nicer looking character as well as making all characters in Fallout look a lot more believable and realistic. It is also a comprehensive race mod. It adds races for certain NPC's to make them more unique as well as adding a lot more races for you to choose from when creating a character.
Features
- Over 130 unique races that take advantage of Fallout Character Overhaul's range of high quality textures and new meshes.
- Different races have their own unique headmeshes adding more diversity to the facial shape of characters.
- All races have their own high-resolution texture maps with unique properly sculpted normal maps. This can make huge changes to what a face looks like as it gives it the illusion of being a higher polycount than it actually is adding lots more depth to faces.
- Ghoul’s have also been re-imagined. You will find a variety of different looking Ghouls including Half-Ghouls.
- Raiders/fiends have also been remade with a different style that affects both male and females.
- Nearly all NPC faces have been remade and adapted to the new meshes as well as being distributed among multiple different age groups. This adds much more variety to the game. These different age groups have also been added as playable races along with some additional alternate races for some age groups to make people in fallout even more diverse.
- FCO works great with any ENB. Because FCO adds new normal maps that improve the way faces react to lighting and ENB improves lighting in Fallout they are a great match.
- New high-quality eye textures have been made and are useable via the race menu. There is also a greater variety of eye colours available along with the opportunity to have mismatching eyes!
- Hair textures have been remade and are now more high resolution, this includes beards and brows.
- When you start the
Fallout Character Overhaul by Drumber is a comprehensive visual overhaul for Fallout 3, replacing head meshes and adding high-resolution texture maps to improve character appearance. With over 99,000 endorsements and 5.3 million downloads, it's a highly popular mod for players seeking better-looking NPCs. Last updated in 2015, it remains a staple for many.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Massive community trust with 99,122 endorsements and 5.3M downloads.
- Improves character visuals with new head meshes and high-res textures.
- Simple install—just drop files into your Data folder.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in 2015—may have compatibility issues with newer mods or game versions.
- Only affects head meshes and textures, not other aspects of character models.
For Fallout 3 players who want to enhance the look of NPCs without overhauling the entire game. If you're tired of the vanilla character faces and want a quick visual upgrade, this is for you. Skip if you're looking for gameplay changes or full body overhauls.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure to back up your original meshes and textures folders before installing, in case you want to revert.
- If you use a mod manager like FOMM or Vortex, you can install this mod with a single click, but manual installation is just as simple.
- Check for compatibility with other character mods you might have, as they could conflict.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- Drumber
- Version
- 3.01
- Downloads
- 5,330,432
- Endorsements
- 99,122
- Category
- Overhauls
- Created
- 12/9/2013
- Updated
- 10/30/2015
🔗 Required By 9 Mods
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