I'd say the unofficial patch, the unofficial patch plus, and uncut wasteland. They won't change anything besides bug fixes and restoring cut content, so the experience will still be vanilla if that's what you're going for.
I've been doing a playthrough with a melee-focused character, started with 1 charisma and pumped strength to 10, endurance to 9, with the broad machete that the special edition (or whatever they call it, the full version with all the dlc) starts the player off with, it was a very powerful build from the get-go.
Stealth + sniping based builds have never failed me personally. Usually a good pistol and long range rifle are all I really use unless I'm deliberately trying to build differently. Then it's all about always picking off enemies from as far away as possible, or as isolated from others as possible.
Been a while since I played but I think the main way to keep up with scaling is just to be diligent with choosing perks that give straight damage boosts to certain weapon classes and stick to those types. And with stealth builds, also building up whatever the main sneak perk that reduces detection is, until enemies finding you before you kill them stops being a problem that ever happens.
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I'd say the unofficial patch, the unofficial patch plus, and uncut wasteland. They won't change anything besides bug fixes and restoring cut content, so the experience will still be vanilla if that's what you're going for.
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/51664/ Unofficial Patch
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62953/ Unofficial Patch +
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/56625/ Uncut Wasteland
If you haven't modded the game before you'll also need:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54991/ Fallout Mod Manager
http://nvse.silverlock.org/ New Vegas Script Extender
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58277/ JIP NVSE Plugin
What do you feel held you up? Did you just sort of lose interest?
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I've been doing a playthrough with a melee-focused character, started with 1 charisma and pumped strength to 10, endurance to 9, with the broad machete that the special edition (or whatever they call it, the full version with all the dlc) starts the player off with, it was a very powerful build from the get-go.
Stealth + sniping based builds have never failed me personally. Usually a good pistol and long range rifle are all I really use unless I'm deliberately trying to build differently. Then it's all about always picking off enemies from as far away as possible, or as isolated from others as possible.
Been a while since I played but I think the main way to keep up with scaling is just to be diligent with choosing perks that give straight damage boosts to certain weapon classes and stick to those types. And with stealth builds, also building up whatever the main sneak perk that reduces detection is, until enemies finding you before you kill them stops being a problem that ever happens.
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IGNORE THESE FOOLS!
Use this: https://vivanewvegas.github.io/index.html
step by step guide of every mod you'd ever need to make the game not buggy af.
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I hope you enjoy. If you find the game difficult try turning off the fallout 4 survival mode style damage mod.
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