Fallout: NV - 'Dust' Mod

[HiddenX]

Christopher Gates(GameRant) made a report about the Fallout: New Vegas mod 'Dust':

With rumors about a potential Fallout 4 reveal flying fast and furious in the lead-up to Bethesda’s first-ever E3 press conference, one mod promises to breathe new life into New Vegas’ aging post-apocalyptic landscape. It’s called DUST Survival Simulator, and it replaces New Vegas’ quest-based structure with a single, seemingly insurmountable goal: just stay alive.

According to naugrim04, DUST’s author, “DUST is a Post-Apocalyptic survival simulator” that “completely overhauls nearly every aspect of the game to better represent an apocalyptic survival-horror atmosphere.” In DUST, supplies are limited, and the environment much harsher. Players will starve to death, or die due to dehydration (“Don’t go to bed thirsty,” naugrim warns. “You will die.”), while food and water are hard to find. Ammo is scare, and combat is incredibly punishing. Don’t worry too much, though: if food becomes too hard to come by, cannibalism is an option.

There is a story in DUST, but players “are not the main character,” and the story will unravel primarily via environmental clues, a la Portal or Left 4 Dead. DUST players can “win” by escaping the desert, but the exit is hidden, and reaching it isn’t easy: naugrim himself can’t finish the game without cheating via the Fallout 4 console. Don’t expect previous New Vegas playthroughs to help, either. Naugrim changed the topography, the NPCs, and some of the graphics. Not everything’s brand new in DUST, but much of it is.

In order to install DUST, players need a copy of Fallout: New Vegas, the game’s three story DLC packs, and a handful of supporting mods. Look for more information at DUST’s official NexusMods page.

More information.

 

[HiddenX]

Sounds very interesting - anyone who tried this one yet?

 

[Drithius]

After War Nevada is another mod in the same style.

I tend to stay away from any such overhauls spearheaded by one person. It's very difficult to get proper game balance even when there is a team of people involved, let alone a single person turning the gameplay on its head.

One mod I do recommend, however, is True Wasteland Economy. It is the first mod striving to tackle the game's [gluttonous] economy with scripted, on-the-fly changes not just to worldspace and NPC loot loadouts, but vendor pricing as well.

 

[HiddenX]

I liked the JSawyer mod. The Niner companion mod gets some good reviews.

 

[Archangel]

Nobody dies if they go thirst to sleep, wtf?
A human can go for 3 days without water. Maybe these "realistic" mods should implement this better along with penalties if you don't drink for 24h and then bigger and bigger penalty for each additional 6h

 

[rad_ical]

I have the same problem as Archangel - I dont see a point in mod that makes game more hardcore than real life - i prefer Jsawyer mod

 

[rjshae]

My gaming time is already limited without trying it using the self-flagellation mode. Guess I'll give it a pass.

 

[KaosWarMonk]

Props to the author for the effort. Unfortunately it's probably wasted on me these days. I used to think these sorts of mods would be awesome to play but after installing and running for a while and as others have mentioned with limited time more often they became kind of tedious. I tend to avoid them now.


-kaos