
Thankfully, there are mods that update visuals significantly.
Alternate start - Lets you skip the opening ‘vault’ section of the game and customize your starting location, karma and character history.įallout 3 was never an example of extreme graphical fidelity. FWE combat - An overhaul of the games combat mechanics. FOIP - What you need to get the above mods, and some later ones, to behave properly together. WMK - Adds weapon customization to the game. RH_ironsights - Adds iron sight aiming to the game. FWE - A collection of gameplay tweaks and added features that many see as a necessary install. While purists will not want to touch the gameplay, a few mods have been released that add a new spin to the games mechanics. Darnified ui - Replaces the UI text with smaller, higher resolution and overall cleaner fonts (requires editing an. Ihud - Automatically hides your UI elements and allows you to customize when they appear. The HUD for fallout 3 was designed to function on a console as well as PC, this meant low res and stupidly large ui elements constantly obscuring the screen. Calibr - Makes ammunition and weapons added by modders compatible with the vanilla games counterparts. Craft - Allows for modders to customize and add features to workbenches. These 2 are necessary installs for a fair amount of the later suggestions. Some larger mods rely on assets and tweaks from other mods to function properly. It also allows for multiple quick save profiles which is something that should have been a necessary feature of CRPGs from day one. CASM presents an alternate method of quicksaving that works around these issues. Casm - Fallout 3 has a lot of bugs related to the quicksave system. Unofficial patch - This patch will fix the majority of the recurring bugs in the game. FSR - Maybe not a ‘requirement’ but the stutter in Fallout 3 can completely spoil the experience, FSR, while not removing it completely, did help minimize it to a bearable degree.
The fose_loader.exe is what you’ll be using to launch Fallout 3 from now on. This is a requirement for the majority of mods.
Fose - Fallout Script extender does exactly what it says on the tin, it ‘extends the scripting capabilities of Fallout 3’. (select the 'Download manually' option in the files tab.) Archive invalidation inalidated! A program that allows you to override the base games textures and meshes. You can use this to instal the majority of mods. Most mods on the Nexus have a ‘download with manager’ option in the ‘files’ tab. There are other options but this is my mod organizer of choice. NMM - First and foremost, this is what you’ll be using to instal the majority of your mods.