Today, we’re focusing on making Fallout: New Vegas (although a lot of these mods work with Fallout 3, too) beautiful, while also keeping it playable on modern computers. High-res textures are. Mods are almost always installed into your Fallout New Vegas Data (e.g., C: Program Files (x86) Steam Steamapps common Fallout New Vegas Data) Some mods come with separate versions for the DLC for New Vegas, so do not use those esp’s or esm’s if you do not have the appropriate DLC.
Fallout 3 was the 2008 reboot of the beloved late-90’s PC role-playing series, Fallout. Now a classic RPG beloved by millions of fans worldwide. The Fallout series went on to spawn two more games, Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas and the massively-popular sequel, Fallout 4.
It’s still a great game even 10 years later. With all the DLC content available at such a cheap price, you can enjoy the DC wasteland in all its glory. The huge array of mods available only make it better and more appealing than ever. There’s never been a better time to experience Fallout 3, whether for the first or 101st time.
Also Check out: 15 Best Fallout 4 Mods for PS4, PC, Xbox One and 16 Best Fallout: New Vegas Mods For PC
Here are the Best Fallout 3 Mods
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch
The base Fallout 3 game is known for having a lot of bugs and glitches that have never officially been addressed by its developer, Bethesda. Luckily, the modding community has done a lot of work in creating the Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch.This definitive package includes a wide range of fixes, updates, and changes including disappearing NPCs, armor textures and dialogue bugs. It all comes in one simple and handy plugin, too. Highly recommended for an improved Fallout 3 experience all-round.
Download Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch.
Fellout
Although Fallout 3 is considered to be a Bethesda classic, it is safe to say its graphics have not aged well. Fellout is a graphical overhaul mod that removes the awful green tinge you’ll find everywhere in vanilla Fallout 3. This mod does this adjustment for both indoors and outdoor environments. Fellout also gives a more harsh feel to the world of Fallout by neutralizing indoor lighting, removing the green fog and changing the look of water. Overall, Fellout is a lighting and weather overhaul that’s highly recommended if you’re looking for a more realistic-looking wasteland.
Download Fellout.
NMC’s Texture Pack
The only texture overhaul pack you’ll need to make your DC wasteland look as sharp as possible. The base game is pretty ugly at this point, let’s be honest. This essential fallout 3 mod, although it won’t make it look as good as Fallout 4, helps to alleviate this problem a considerable amount by replacing terrain, trees, interiors/exteriors, and most vehicles and furniture with high resolution real-life based photographic equivalents. It also changes roads, litter and paper scraps, and other medium-large sized objects such as toolboxes and chairs. This covers most of the in-game visuals and makes it all look much better.
Download NMC’s Texture Pack.
Games For Windows Live Disabler
Anyone who has played Fallout 3 on PC will know how annoying and obnoxious the Games For Windows Live feature can be. A weird and antiquated remnant of PC gaming’s past-life, GFWL probably doesn’t even work. This simple and easy mod removes it completely. What exactly does this mod do? It allows you to stop the Games for Windows Live from running in Fallout 3 and prevent its .dll files from loading. This will drastically help reduce the time that it takes for Fallout 3 to startup. It also removes the “Live” button from the main menu, and unbinds the “Home” key, allowing you to rebind the key to another useful action instead. A very nice QoL mod.
Download Games For Windows Live Disabler.
Fallout 3 Redesigned – Formerly Project Beauty HD
The faces of Fallout 3 are pretty bad, especially in 2019. They all look muddy and bland. This comprehensive graphical mod makes the faces look better, sharper, and less bad. Specifically, this mod re-designs the facial structure of NPCs in Fallout 3 to make them more realistic and to better reflect their personality. In vanilla Fallout 3 there are a lot of awkward skin tones and facial structures included, and this mod completely removes those in favor of the updated ones.
Download Fallout 3 Redesigned – Formerly Project Beauty HD.
Iron Sights Mod
Fallout 3’s minute-to-minute action was never a reason to play it, and it’s only gotten worse with age. Fallout: New Vegas added the ability to aim down sights on all guns, which helps to make the action feel a bit tighter and more responsive. Even if you’re not a fan of FPS games, you can’t deny the convenience of this iron sights mod. What this mod does is it adds centered iron sight animations to most of the vanilla guns in the game for Fallout 3. This mod was supported for a long time by its creator, and many updates were made to improve it over the years. While it is no longer a work in progress, it has certainly improved the user experience for many Fallout players.
Download Iron Sights Mod.
Fallout 3 Wanderer Edition
This massive gameplay overhaul changes Fallout 3 in some major ways. It brings in over 50 different mods to completely change the Fallout 3 experience. This mod, which we only recommend to people looking to completely overhaul the game, includes a variety of changes, ranging from FPS enhancements, alternative character start options, options to slow the leveling curve, and more. This is one of the most comprehensive mods that Fallout 3 has to offer, and installing this will vastly improve the challenge, immersion, and depth of gameplay while emphasizing balance, choices, role-playing and fun. It is a lot to handle, but if you are ready to take the plunge into a totally reworked version of the game, download this mod today!
Download Fallout 3 Wanderer Edition.
Stutter Remover
Fallout 3’s engine was never the most optimized. Bethesda’s open world RPGs are known for their abundance of technical issues. There are a number of mods to fix some of these issues, but one that you might want if you’re getting performance hitches and FPS stutters is this mod. This plugin makes Fallout 3 not stutter as much, and will make gameplay feel smoother and perform better. It will prevent or reduce the impact of issues relating to stuttering and frame rate and will reduce the amount of crashes you may receive as a result of those stutters. Recommended for a smoother Fallout 3 experience.
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Download Stutter Remover.
EVE – Energy Visuals Enhanced
This mod aims to overhaul the effects of energy and plasma weapons, making them much more deadly-looking and much more flashy. It makes energy weapons more appealing and much more deadly. One of the coolest features of this mod is that it has thirty-two new critical kill deaths! It also has new weapons included, new muzzle flashes, projectiles and more. This is a fantastic mod for energy gun lovers, and if you did not use those types of weapons before, you will now thanks to this mod.
Download EVE – Energy Visuals Enhanced.
Ultimate Perk Pack
There are a nice variety of perks available to you as you progress in vanilla Fallout 3, but if you’ve played it a few times before, you’ll probably find you’ve explored them all and already have your go-to favorites. This mod adds a number of cool new mods to expand your options when you level up. There are over 70 mods included in this high quality pack, and they are all innovative, humorous and fun to use! They also come with their own special icons. With this pack there will be endless combinations for you to go through and experiment with, and it will prove hours of content just by installing this mod. Give it a try today!
Download Ultimate Perk Pack.
Enhanced Camera
If you like to play Fallout in first-person (I know I do), you’ll be well aware how limited the first-person interactions can be. This mod aims to improve the first-person camera, letting you see your feet when you look down (!!), and allowing various scenes that would normally put you into third-person to be viewed in first-person.
Download Enhanced Camera.
Mart’s Mutant Mod
If you play Fallout 3 for a while, or if you’ve already played it before, you’ll start to run into the same wasteland monsters over and over again. It can start to get a little tedious. This mod adds a wide variety of new monsters and creatures to the world of Fallout 3.
Download Mart’s Mutant Mod.
Weapon Mod Kits
One of the coolest things Fallout: New Vegas introduced was weapon mods. The ability to tweak and improve your weapons with various attachments and improvements helped make the combat more engaging and more varied. This mod adds a similar system into Fallout 3, letting you customize your weapons with silencers, scopes, and more.
Download Weapon Mod Kits.
FOOK (Fallout 3 Overhaul Kit)
This massive overhaul mod adds a large number of new items, high-quality re-textures, and many other gameplay changes. Great if you’re looking for a huge overhaul to completely change the Fallout 3 experience.
Download FOOK (Fallout 3 Overhaul Kit).
Enhanced Blood Textures
A simple mod that improves the blood texture to make it sharper, clearer, and less muddy. You’ll be spilling a lot of blood in this game, why not make it look good?
Download Enhanced Blood Textures.
These are 15 must have fallout 3 mods available for Fallout 3 on PC. There are plenty more out there, but these are just some of the best to get you started.
Let us know if you think we missed anything!
Wearing cool armor is badass. But isn’t it even cooler to wear regular clothing in a post-apocalyptic world?
I mean, being armored makes things easy. But having people clothes makes you look even more intimidating…. I’m doing my best to avoid any of the mods that add “lighter” clothing to the game, if you know what I mean. To keep my list as SFW as possible.
If you’re interested in the appearance of your characters as me, then the best New Vegas clothing mods are exactly what you need.
Just be sure to install them properly and you’re all set to discover a whole new world of fantastic new looks for you and your character.
Roam the wasteland with style, my friend. These are troubling times, after all, but a sense of fashion is not something to be lost.
10. Neck Seam Concealer
One of the worst graphical issues with New Vegas is that weird seam between the neck and the body of your character.
It doesn’t always appear but it makes it look as if the head isn’t really part of the body (which might be the case on a programming level, but it looks awful in terms of realism).
This mod adds a few collars and dog tags that you can put in your characters to make the seams “disappear”, as they will disguise them from showing.
A simple, effective, and rewarding mod.
9. Wasteland Hoods
For a post-apocalyptical world, there is a surprising lack of hoodies and masks in the game.
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I mean, you often correlate the end of the world with some shady dudes wearing masks or covering their faces, right?
I do. And that’s why Wasteland Hoods seems like such an appropriate mod for Fallout: New Vegas.
It adds four new clothing items to the game: a couple of masks and two hoods.
It’s time to get dressed for the end of the world(or whatever’s going on here).
8. Tactical Clothing
Once you’ve gotten your hands on the Type3 bodies that I mentioned earlier in this list, you should take a look at this set of women tactical clothes.
They look really cool as they seem to fit the apocalyptical theme of the game by providing a set of “regular” clothes that come equipped with things that a survivor would use.
You can find the clothing in Doc Mitchell’s House once you’ve installed the mod.
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The clothing has some nice cleavage, so those of you who like that will enjoy this mod quite a bit. I’m sure of it.
7. Clint Eastwood – Man with No Name
Install this and visit the Abandoned Shack next to the Yangtze Memorial to get your hands on the set of clothes worn by The Man with No Name himself.
You would never picture Clint Eastwood in the world of Fallout unless you came across this mod before, but it’s crazy how good the clothing seems to fit.
You would basically walk around dressed like a cowboy gunslinger in the times where it would feel perfectly normal to do so.
This mod comes with the weapon as well, so you’ll be able to truly replicate Clint’s famous look.
6. Gunslinger Outfit
Alright, maybe you want to look like a gunslinger from the Wild West.
But you don’t want to look exactly like Clint Eastwood.
I’ve got your back as this Gunslinger Outfit mod adds a set of clothing to the game which can be worn by all types of characters.
Keep that western style flowing and let’s have some fun.
5. Military Backpack
Looking to carry a backpack with you?
Why not use a military backpack like the ones that were being used in the army before the war started?
The Military Backpack mod is an updated version of mod #2 on this list (scroll a bit to find it).
I really like the look of this update, though, and considering that it was made by another modder it deserves its own spot here.
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4. Wasters Scarfs
Masks and hoods look pretty cool on your character.
But you know what looks even better? Scarfs!
Travel the wasteland with some soft materials to cover your neck and protect it from the insufferable sun of the desert.
This will make you look pretty cool as well, so that’s a fantastic bonus here.
3. Dead Money Type 3 Outfits
All of the outfits that come with the Dead Money DLC will be converted into Type 3 compatible clothes.
Which means those of you who are running this mod will be able to use all types of clothing without it clipping through your female characters.
This is more of a graphic change than anything else, but it serves the fantastic purpose of allowing all characters to run one of the best body-changing mods in New Vegas.
2. Black Wolf Backpacks New Vegas
These are the backpacks I was writing about before.
The Black Wolf Backpacks are the best ones you can get in the game. Hands down.
They look stunning, both in terms of their design and in terms of their textures.
They’re really easy to install and they serve as one of the best aesthetic additions that you can make to your character.
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1. Type3M Clothing
Now this mod converts all of the vanilla clothes into Type 3 clothes, making them fully compatible with the popular body mod.
If you want to use that mod in the game, then this one is a must. It basically converts all of the vanilla clothes and makes them compatible with the new bodies that the mod adds to the game.
This only works in female characters, of course, as that’s the main purpose of the Type 3 mod.
But still easily one of the biggest changes you can make clothing-wise for all your adventures in New Vegas.
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