I bought three or so new games during the sale (most of my purchases were DLC for games I already own cough cough ATS), and then promptly went back to modded New Vegas. That isn’t a statement of their quality, it was just a sudden itch they wouldn’t scratch, and I found it funny it happened right after buying new products. That said, Workers and Resources’s tutorials are, in fact, bad, and the learning cliff is harsh on my little pea brain.
The alternate start mod plus the permadeath mod makes for great fun. For the sake of roleplay, it gives you more reason to side with or against factions than what’s presented in game, and oh boy are there a lot of starts to pick from. Enclave survivor, still-practicing desert ranger, NCRCF convict, stealth-boy’d in the middle of quarry junction, BoS, drug junkie, quick starts for all of the DLCs, and many more. For the sake of gameplay, it’s pretty obvious. After the third or fourth run, Goodsprings becomes a stale start.
Permadeath isn’t a mod I thought I’d enjoy, but I was wrong. Worrying about whether I have the gear to survive real or imagined possible encounters is surprisingly immersive. Not only that, but it’s encouraged me to use tactics I never bothered with before. The sheer panic and adrenaline rush of hearing the unexpected beep of a landmine activating next to you is hard to beat too.
side note, I’m not sure which mod in the current VNV modlist allows you to choose whether or not to activate the disguise feature when putting on faction armor, but good god is it a great feature. At least for the NCRCF start, powder ganger guard armor and NCR trooper armor were pretty much my only options for quite a while. Leather armor has been too difficult to keep repaired this run.
I’m also excited to try out some of the legion expansion mods. Not Project Arizona or Nova Arizona because they don’t appear to have much in the way of actual content as of yet, though I am following them. I really hope they don’t get frontier’d. Dry Wells seems like the most content-packed mod right now, so I’m eager to try that out once I figure out how to get there. Imperium Radio is also a nice touch, lore friendly or not, though I feel the music needs some kind of worn vinyl record filter for the sake of sounding like the vanilla radios.
