New Vegas Uncut - Freeside Open

New Vegas Uncut: Freeside Open

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Overview Freeside Open is an attempt to overhaul and restore the Freeside worldspace in Fallout: New Vegas to what was the developer\'s original intent; a sprawling, densely populated area full of danger and unexpected events. It\'s clear from even a cursory look at the game\'s files that the Freeside worldspace(s) in the shipped game is nowhere near as interesting as the original plan for the area, with huge amounts of content culled, and numerous bugs and oversights meaning large parts of content that did ship and were enabled simply don\'t work. The reason for the drastic downsizing of Freeside and the curbing of ambition of what would occur there is simple - technical difficulties. A fully populated Freeside will cause even mid range PCs to struggle at times, and the extra strain on the notoriously unstable Gamebryo engine increases the likelihood of crashes. Couple this with having to work on increasingly dated game console hardware, and there was no way what was planned was going to be feasible. This mod, heavily based on Razorwire\'s excellent modders resource Open Freeside (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/45030) merges the two different worldspaces back into one single worldspace, and also makes the Mormon fort part of the same persistant area as was originally intended. It also extensively overhauls the area, readding the significant cut content, fixing many of the glaring bugs in the area, and adding new original elements to make the town more interesting. These enhancements come at a cost - this mod is vastly more demanding than the neutered vanilla version of the area, but I feel the possible instability is more than balanced out by a hugely more interesting and invigorated area. Mod Features Include: - Freeside is now one coherent world space. NPCs can now go everywhere in the city with obvious dramatic improvements to gameplay/immersion. - Restored: Gamblers will now constantly stream into Freeside on their way to the Strip and its casinos (some will also stop off at the Atomic Wrangler) as they were always meant to. They are of course easy picking for thugs or even the player, so some have hired bodyguards to protect them. - More bodyguards. Now the Gamblers are restored these characters actually make sense again. They will hawk their services to passing Gamblers and the player. With the increased danger of thugs in this mod they may also be a viable option for low level players. - Restored around 100 lines of dialogue. All the lines of dialogue for locals were broken due to missing faction conditions. These are restored, along with dialogue for drunks, squatters, gossipers, and pickpockets. These characters were either removed, or had their dialogue conditions completely botched. - New kinds of NPCs.