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[This is a rewrite of a post that I..well...posted a few days ago but deleted an hour afterwards. Wasn’t pleased with a few small things.]
There have been a lot of posts lately about people wanting a Fallout game outside the US, and an equal amount of replies where they argue that a Fallout outside the US would not feel like Fallout at all. One of the biggest arguments that the opposition gives for that is that the iconography of Fallout–and especially 50’s Americana–is an essential part of the Fallout experience, and without it, Fallout would not work.
Not too long ago I started playing Classic Fallout for the first time and had quite the blast with it. With my memories of Fallout 1 and 2 fresh (and the not so distant memories of my multiple playthroughs of New Vegas), I find the “Fallout needs 50’s Americana to be Fallout” argument to be a tad perplexing. Outside the intro of Fallout 1 and 2 (and the radio of New Vegas), there’s not a lot of 50’s Americana in them. With these 3 games, it seems that the developers choosing to go with this retrofuturism had little to do with the iconography itself, and more to do with the retro-tech that they could use to differentiate Fallout with other Post-Apocalyptic franchises, as the latter tend to use more modern or high technology instead (or, to be more specific, they were trying to differentiate Fallout from Wasteland enough to not be sued). 50’s Americana being an important part of the Fallout experience is only true with the Bethesda games, and even then I do not believe that it is part of the core.
After saying all of this then, I ask myself which is the core of Fallout.
Well, as Tim Cain said, “My idea is to explore more of the world and more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun.”
It is my belief that the two main core of Fallout is the appearance of new civilizations (yes, civilizations, not isolated settlements or small communities) out of the asses of the old ones, and the relationship of this “post-nuclear world” has with the sins of the Old World. As such, Fallout is about Wasteland societies, and not 50’s Americana.
[Warning. I’m going to discuss at length all the main games up to Fallout 4 and a few of the DLC. If you’re not interested in that, jump into the TL;DConclusions]
Fallout is an excellent example of this. Although the residents of the first settlement you find–Shady Sands–are descendants of Vault Dwellers, the small society has little to do with their past History when you find them, being practically a new beginning for mankind, and as such is the most idealistic society in the first game, as it has been clean for the sins of the Old World. Meanwhile, the second settlement–Junktown–is literally a society built from the waste of the Old World, and as such still deals with the problems of the past (is no coincidence that the main bad guy of Junktown is a capitalist “pig”).
The Master is by far the most alien villain of the franchise, but he (they?) is still grounded on the conflict between the New World and the Old one. The FEV is the Old World’s “dream” still surviving in the Post-apocalypse. It is the view that morally questionable (and downright monstrous) means are justified by the results. The Master is drunk with such ideas to the point that he doesn’t realise his mistakes until it is too late. Link to the Master and the FEV we have Captain Maxson and the Brotherhood of Steel, an organization that was explicitly created to stop the horrors of the Old World from happening again. But, without realising it, such ideas made them ever more dogmatic, xenophobic, and isolationist, as such–like the Master–falling into the sins of the Old World without realising it.
With Fallout 2, we found an even better example of these two cores, as it is the story of the Old World trying to impose itself into the New World. The Enclave is the US Remnants, and as such they share with it the problems that lead to the Nuclear War. Meanwhile, the Chosen One is a tribes(wo)men, part of a New World society completely separated from the Old World. As such, the protagonist-Enclave conflict is not just the “good” guy fighting an “evil” regime, but the player fighting the old traditions to preserve the new way of life found in the Wasteland (the exact opposite of the ‘50s Americana’s Red Scare).
We also see this motif with Shady Sands–now the New California Republic–who has grown from an Iron Age village into the capital of a new Post-war civilization. But–by doing so–they have inherited the Old World’s problems, which become more apparent in New Vegas with the passing of time. As such, with the NCR the external conflict between the Old World and the New becomes an internal struggle, revealing that the transition from the former to the latter ain’t a clean one.
But, of course, that’s the old games and Interplay. Fast forwards to Fallout 3 and Bethesda and we see a different song. The story here–oddly enough–is the Water Chip quest from the first Fallout expanded into the whole game. We don’t even see the main antagonist until the last moments of the main quest, and oddly enough they are closer to Fallout 1’s Master Army than to Fallout 2’s Enclave, with President Eden playing a similar role to the Master and Augustus to Lieutenant.
Either way, with Fallout 3 we see a massive tone shift with the previous Fallouts. Now, we don’t see civilizations existing (and to an extent, thriving) in the Wasteland, but small communities (isolated to some level) surviving against the Wasteland. Now, we are not seeing human conflict in the Post-Apocalypse, but humanity’s conflict with the Post-Apocalypse. Although I said previously that the Enclave Remnants are the main antagonists of Fallout 3, the main villain is the Capital Wasteland itself, as it is the one who has been trying to kill the Wasteland inhabitants since the beginning, with the Enclave being more an obstacle between the protagonist and defeating the Capital Wasteland.
This is also linked with Bethesda not understanding the tragic nature of two of the most “iconic” factions in the franchise: supermutants and the Brotherhood of Steel. With the supermutants, the tragic–a most interesting–aspect of them is that they are the living monuments to a failed attempt to improve humanity, and a sad reminder of the sins of the Old World. Fallout’s 3 Super Mutants–on the other hand–are nothing but brutish orcs, the Capital Wasteland’s hostility towards humanity made anthropomorphic, and as such not part of a human conflict.
Meanwhile, with the Brotherhood of Steel, we see a transition from a tragic society that is disappearing thanks to their own flaws, to the light heroes of the Wasteland fighting for the little people. As such, we lose the nuance of a society created to fight the errors of the Old World while also falling into them for just be replaced by a noble-bright caricature of themselves.
“Well, that’s the new Fallout,” some of you might say. “Now its core is different.”
And I might agree with you...but the problem lies in that the old core of Fallou–the exploration “of the world and more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world”–still lingers and sometimes thrives, and not only in New Vegas. As such, showing that this problem might be more about Bethesda not understanding the core of Fallout rather than them changing the tune. Already with 3, we see human conflicts in the Wasteland become the main theme of the story with “the Pit” DLC, by far the best Fallout 3 expansion in my opinion. In it, we see the workings of a brutal society that has appeared in the ruins of the Old World’s Pittsburg. Here–like Junktown–we see a new civilization live out of the ruins of the old one, their brutal slave culture based directly on harvesting the resources of the old city to sell it for food and caps. The conflict of the DLC is a human one: a slave uprising against their masters, with Pittsburg being the background instead of the main villain. As such, we see the core of the classic Fallouts in this expansion.
New Vegas, on the other hand, is Fallout’s core in the purest sense. We see the NCR of Fallout 2 reach their logical conclusion, becoming the Old World’s US just to fall into the same problems as they did. Meanwhile, Caesar’s Legion is the polar opposite of the NCR, and the low tech cousin of the Brotherhood of Steel. Like them, Caesar opposes the Old World’s ways and tries to build the antithesis of it. But, by doing so, he creates new problems altogether and dooms his new civilization by betting its existence in his survival.
House, on the other hand, opposes the old US like Caesar, but embraces an Old World ideology–objectivism–believing not that the Old World was wrong, but that it didn’t do it right. As such, the House isn’t trying to build a new society according to the Wasteland’s rules, but trying–like the Enclave–to impose the Old World into the new, changing only one Old World ideology for another.
In regards to New Vegas, it's also important to focus on its DLC, as they completely ignore the iconography of the franchise to tell their own Fallout story without being bound by it. We see Sierra Madre Casino being a glimpse to a dark past without being as well a nostalgia trip to the 50’s, and Old World Blues focus on the “Old World” morally questionable experiments without using the tech we all know and love. Meanwhile, with Honest Hearts, we part ways almost completely from the Old World to center instead in the conflict between two tribes without the Old World having anything to do with it (although the creation myth of the “good” tribe is intrinsically linked with it). Finally, with Lonesome Road, we see the ruin of a New World society caused by the Old World returning with force into the Wasteland. The Great Divided is the extreme case of what would have happened if the Enclave had won in Fallout 2: the rotten corpse of humanity slowly decomposing into irradiated waste until only the memories of a terrible past remain. And all of this was caused by you bringing the Old World into a thriving society.
Finally, we reach Fallout 4 (haven’t played 76, so I cannot comment on it–although the Wastelanders DLC seems promising). To be honest, I’m quite confused on where the Fallout 4’s story falls into the Old vs New. Hell, after thinking about it Fallout 4's story reminds me more of cyberpunk fiction than Post-Apocalyptic fiction. You have the oppressed population with the Commonwealth settlers and the megacorporation oppressing the masses with the Institute. With the three non-Institute factions, you have three types of cyberpunk protagonists.
With the Minutemen, you have the common folk revolting against their oppressors like in Snowpiercer. The Railroad is the rag-tag group of freedom fighters akin to a ton of American cyberpunk like Total Recall, the Running Man, Brazil, or Equilibrium. Meanwhile, with the Brotherhood of Steel, you have a type of cyberpunk more common outside the US and in Post-cyberpunk where the evil megacorporation is opposed by the Police or other Law enforcing agency like in Ghost in the Shell or Patlabor.
As such, I cannot help to think that Fallout 4 is a cyberpunk story implanted into a Post-apocalyptic setting. Hell, the story conflict–the Institute is implanting synths into the population to control them–sounds more like something out of Blade Runner (and it is exactly what was happening in the book, funny enough) than Fallout. Fallout 4 is a weird instalment in the franchise if you think about it…
I cannot say the same with Far Harbor, which follows the Fallout core to the T–although it inverts it. As such, we see the original community of the island–who still maintain part of the Old World’s life still going–clash with the newly arrived Children of the Atom–who are intrinsically a New World culture. Meanwhile, Dema and the other synths are a community formed by a species that hadn’t existed until the Post-apocalyptic world and hopes to leave at peace far from the Old vs New dynamic. This makes for quite the irony, as Dema tries to do so by directly entering this conflict, dooming (if the player doesn’t do the right thing) its own community in the process.
Nuka World–on the other hand–centres on the Old vs New conflict. Like in the Pit, we see a raider group living in the ruins of the Old World and hoping to make a profit out of it. The difference is that slavery ain’t the main conflict of the story like in the Pit, instead of being the ideological differences between the three raider clans and how this affects and was affected by the world around them. In a way, it is a study on why raiders appear in the post-apocalyptic world, and how they can also be the beginning of a true civilization instead of a permanent force of chaos (if that was well done or not, that’s for the player to decide).
TL;DR [don’t blame you for that. This is too fucking long]
Basically, outside 3 (and it’s DLC besides the Pit) and 4 main story, you can find what I believe what’s the core of Fallout in all of them. 50’s Americana in Fallout for me is nothing but window dressing, with the main attraction of the series being the societies that exist in the Wasteland.
As such, a Fallout game based outside the US can work perfectly fine in my opinion. Hell. You just need to play the Fallout inspired games/fan games to see that they can be set in another country and still feel like Fallout. Atom RPG is based on Post-war Soviet Union, but it still follows what I think it is the core of Fallout, as such feeling like if it was a Fallout game in all but name.
You also have the example of Underrail. This one setting has little to do with the US or any other place whatsoever (although it is a Serbian game, so I might as well say that it is based on a Yugoslavian Peninsula-wide Metro-system/s), but it still feels like Fallout because–although it is about post-apocalyptic societies in an underworld–it's still about post-apocalyptic societies and the conflict between them.
“But OP. Almost every Post-Apocalyptic game is about that!” a strawman of you might say. But are they really? Let’s return to Fallout 3. As I said, although we have a human antagonist with the Enclave, the real villain of the story is the Wasteland itself. As such, this is not a story of Society vs Society, but of Man vs Nature (a heavy irradiated Nature, but Nature nevertheless). Another “mainstream” Post-Apocalyptic series–Metro–also has human conflict as part of it’s story, but the main core of Metro is still the survival of humanity against a hostile world, and how they have stopped being the apex species in it, being supplanted by the Dark Ones (and their esoteric ways). The human conflict, then, is less about the conflict itself, and more how it is a meaningless endeavour that only helps to accelerate human’s extinction.
You also have the RAGE series, that–just like Fallout 4–is more a Cyberpunk game in a Post-Apocalyptic world than a Post-Apocalyptic story per se, as the main focus of the story is the struggle against a dystopian government.
Finally, you have the Mad Max, where the main struggle is an individual (Mad Max) going against a tyrannical/dystopian Post-Apocalyptic civilization, Immortan Joe’s regime (Gastown is part of Immortan Joe civilization alongside Joe’s Citadel and the Bullet Farm).
So, in my eyes, Fallout and it’s spiritual successors (and its sister series Wasteland) are the only Post-Apocalyptic video game series where Society vs Society is the main core of the story. The only other game that has a similar focus and isn’t linked with Fallout in an in-game way might be the upcoming Dying Light 2, and even then it is still linked with the Fallout franchise as its lead writer is motherfucking Chris Avellone.
Either way, as much as Fallout 3 and 4 were such deviations from the rest of Fallout, I still like them. Is just that I love Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas, and I cannot deny that this is a big bias on my part (although not from a Nostalgic point of view, as Fallout 3 was my first Fallout). Any story that it’s about societies and their conflicts are waaaay more interesting to me than a story about Man vs Nature, or Man vs Man on an individualistic level.
So, concluding this long as fuck post, do I believe that We will see the game’s old themes become the focus of the story one more? Yes. With Far Harbor, Nuka World, and Wastelanders it seems that Bethesda is finally discovering what the classic series was all about. I can only hope that they use what they have learned in Fallout 5.

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User Interafaces Fallout 4 Quickloot for New Vegas - F4Quickloot 1.06 User Interafaces 5/23/2016 3:50:27 PM 5/23/2016 3:43:35 PM 1.06 Xilandro Axeuora
MTUI - MTUI User Interafaces 5/20/2016 11:17:56 AM 5/20/2016 11:10:40 AM 1.0 Max Tael The Mod Configuration Menu - The Mod Configuration Menu User Interafaces 5/20/2016 1:48:10 AM 6/2/2012 7:18:12 PM 1.5 Pelinor
The Weapon Mod Menu User Interafaces 5/20/2016 1:47:47 AM 3/3/2013 12:48:39 AM 1.2 Pelinor
UIO - User Interface Organizer User Interafaces 5/23/2016 8:18:11 PM 5/20/2016 11:55:11 AM 1.31 jazzisparis
Utilities Better Game Performance V5 - Better Game Performance V5 Utilities 5/20/2016 12:40:51 PM 5/20/2016 12:39:13 PM V5 Falloutperson416
Fallout New Vegas ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated - Fallout New Vegas ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated Utilities 5/20/2016 12:05:02 PM 5/20/2016 12:04:55 PM beta Mouse0270 and Quarn
JIP NVSE Plugin Utilities 5/23/2016 3:44:18 PM 5/20/2016 11:40:30 AM 29.00 jazzisparis
Rooses Performance pack for New Vegas - Rooses performance pack for new vegas Utilities 5/23/2016 6:11:42 PM 5/24/2016 10:36:34 AM 1.0 Rooseisback
Zan AutoPurge Crash Protector - New Vegas Edition - Zan AutoPurge Crash Protector - New Vegas Edition Utilities 5/24/2016 10:41:30 AM 5/24/2016 10:41:20 AM 1.2 ZanGS and Luke Gevaerts
Weapons Beretta 87 Target - Beretta 87T v. 1.0 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:24:37 PM 5/20/2016 12:18:03 PM 1.0 Millenia - RedRogueXIII - Naky
Browning P35 - Browning P35 v 1.1 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:30:24 PM 5/20/2016 12:17:58 PM 1.1 Millenia - Mr Rifleman - RedRogueXIII - Naky
Classic Fallout Weapons - New Vegas - All DLC in one Weapons 5/20/2016 11:19:54 AM 5/20/2016 1:19:39 AM 1a Linerunner
Classic Fallout Weapons - New Vegas - CFWNV 3dot3b FINAL Weapons 5/20/2016 11:19:54 AM 5/20/2016 1:26:49 AM 3.3b Linerunner
Classic Fallout Weapons - New Vegas - Project Nevada Patch Weapons 5/20/2016 11:19:55 AM 5/20/2016 1:19:41 AM 1.0 Linerunner
Closer to Classics - Stronger Bozar - Stronger Bozar v1dot3 Weapons 5/23/2016 4:11:38 PM 5/23/2016 4:09:47 PM 1.3 rulla
Codename RU-556 - Codename RU-556 v. 1.0 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:30:45 PM 5/20/2016 12:24:05 PM 1.0 Millenia - ImBrokeRu - Naky
Couriers Weapons - CouriersWeaponsv2-2 Weapons 5/23/2016 6:18:44 PM 5/23/2016 6:16:15 PM V.2.2 scottmack
Dragunov SVU - OTs-03 - Dragunov SVU v 1.0 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:37:06 PM 5/20/2016 12:32:57 PM 1.0 Millenia - Sarvs - Naky
Homemade Chechen rebel SMG - Borz - millenias_homemade_SMG Weapons 5/23/2016 4:41:11 PM 5/23/2016 4:40:36 PM 1.0 Millenia and Naky
K9000_Jnr Weapons 5/23/2016 5:21:14 PM 5/23/2016 5:20:03 PM 1.0 micalov
Kriss Vector - Kriss Vector main file Weapons 5/23/2016 5:22:21 PM 5/23/2016 5:21:10 PM v1.0 Eprdox
M41A Pulse Rifle NV - M41A Pulse Rifle NV Weapons 5/23/2016 5:37:05 PM 5/23/2016 5:31:20 PM 3.0 mamelukturbo MrRadioactiv
M41A Pulse Rifle NV - M41A Pulse Rifle NV 3.1 Update ESP only Weapons 5/23/2016 5:37:11 PM 5/23/2016 5:31:07 PM 3.1 mamelukturbo MrRadioactiv
OTs-33 Pernach - OTs-33 Pernach v. 1.0 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:23:33 PM 5/20/2016 12:18:00 PM 1.0 Millenia - RedRogueXIII - Naky
Ranger Hunting Carbine Weapons 5/23/2016 4:00:37 PM 4/12/2016 6:36:38 AM 1.0.2 AnsaarTGB - MrBJBlazkowicz
Ruger SR-556 - BuLL5H1T Alternate Textures Weapons 5/23/2016 4:23:59 PM 5/23/2016 4:22:10 PM 1.1 ImBrokeRU - Antivirus_404 - Naky
Ruger SR-556 - Ruger SR-556 Weapons 5/23/2016 4:21:17 PM 5/23/2016 4:20:05 PM 1.2 ImBrokeRU - Antivirus_404 - Naky
Serbu Super Shorty - Serbu Super Shorty 1.0 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:32:09 PM 5/20/2016 12:25:34 PM 1.0 Millenia - Naky
This Machine retextured - arenovalis_thismachine_retexture Weapons 5/23/2016 4:44:40 PM 5/23/2016 4:44:12 PM 1.0 Arenovalis
USP Match - 45 ACP variant Weapons 5/21/2016 2:24:28 PM 5/21/2016 2:21:29 PM 1.0 Millenia - Kimono - Thanez - Naky - MG
USP Match - USP_Match_v_1_dot_0 Weapons 5/21/2016 2:24:27 PM 5/21/2016 2:23:46 PM 1.0 Millenia - Kimono - Thanez - Naky - MG
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP - ChristineCOSRifle Weapons 5/20/2016 12:31:46 PM 5/20/2016 12:24:35 PM 1.0 Millenia
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP - New 12_7mm SMG Weapons 5/20/2016 12:31:53 PM 5/20/2016 12:24:30 PM 1.0 Millenia
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP - weapon_retexture_project_1dot95 Weapons 5/20/2016 12:31:44 PM 5/20/2016 12:27:39 PM 1.95 Millenia
Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia Weapons 5/24/2016 7:40:53 PM 5/20/2016 12:20:16 PM 1.1 Millenia & Naky

I am not sure what is causing this issue, I recently downloaded New Vegas Redesigned 3 along with New Vegas Outside bets and a few gun mods. But every time I play the game, my character ends up pulling a gun with a giant exclamation mark on it. Or sometimes The walls of a town would change wherever I look around and some times have an exclamation, what is going on? And how can I fix this?
Here is my load order:
FalloutNV.esm
DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
CaravanPack.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
Decrucifixion.esm
Inventory Access.esm
Run the Lucky 38.esm
Bonds Mojave Grande Hotel Casino.esp
BoulderCityFaceliftProject.esm
Project Nevada - Core.esm
More Perks.esm
Project Nevada - Equipment.esm
CFWNV.esm
Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.esm
More Perks for Dead Money.esm
Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp
SaxxonsQuestPack.esm
RedRockRanch.esm
Niner.esm
REZBajaIslandHome.esp
NVWillow.esp
PhoenixPoint.esp
Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp
More Perks for Honest Hearts.esm
Bonds Skyrim Lodge.esm
More Traits.esm
NevadaSkies.esm
FNVD_Ritas_Cafe.esm
More Perks for Old World Blues.esm
More Perks for Companions.esm
Project Nevada - Extra Options.esm
SomeguySeries.esm
SCAV.esm
Gomorrah Redesigned.esp
New Vegas Redesigned 3.esm
NevadaSkies - Darker Nights.esp
MaxFollowers12.esp
ADAM - HH.esp
PerkEveryLevel.esp
More Perks for Old World Blues Update.esp
7DanceFnV.esp
More Perks for Dead Money Update.esp
SnowGlobePerks.esp
Jump Fall Fixer.esp More Perks for Companions Update.esp
Zan_AutoPurge_SmartAgro_NV.esp
Joana cured version.esp
The Lucky 38 Empire.esp
MoreChems.esp
populatedcasino-medium.esp
The Weapon Mod Menu.esp
outsidebets.esp
Lucky38Suite_Reloaded.esp
More Perks Update.esp
00 red cross.esp
delilah.esp
WeaponModsExpanded.esp
31 New Food Items.esp
WMX-DLCMerged.esp
Project Nevada - Cyberware Additions.esp
Project Nevada - Rebalance Complete.esp
Project Nevada - All DLC.esp
ADAM - LR.esp
RefinedCasinoPeople&Suits.esp
SuitFixes+Factions.esp
Unique Items & Collectables.esp
GoodspringsFarmhouse_v1.2.esp
Russell.esp
MCL_Weapon_Pack.esp
More Traits Update.esp
More Perks for Honest Hearts Update.esp
TheLozza's_Gasmasks.esp
ADAM - NCR Patrol Armour.esp
Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Leveled.Lists.esp
Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Store.esp
NEVADA SKIES COMPATABLE Novac Hotel Suite Upgrade.esp
CourierCacheWSE.esp
CFW-PN-DLC.esp
CFW-PN.esp
CFW-DLC.esp
Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Honest.Hearts.Grunt.Patch.esp
Project Nevada - WMX.esp
BoulderCityApartments.esp
EMR-StealthSuitMkII.esp
Companion Sandbox Mode3.esp
Cass alternate version.esp
Veronica NVR 2 version.esp
NevadaSkies - Ultimate DLC Edition.esp
ADAM - Rangers on Patrol.esp
50sFFCeruleanRoboticsBuilding.esp
50sFF Atomic Wrangler Westerny.esp
Nuka Cola Enhanced.esp
Bon_Vivant_Suite.esp
lucky38 penthouse ver 5.esp
ADAM - Nemesis Armours.esp
Powered Power Armor.esp
SunnyCompanion.esp
Follower Home Marker.esp
NewVegasBounties.esp
50sFFSilverRushExtendedBase.esp
Freeside Fine Living.esp
More Fiends.esp
UnlimitedCompanions.esp
Vinyl Collection Bonus Pack.esp
MoreNiner.esp
NCRTrooperOverhaul.esp
BCFollowersClinic.esp
ADAM - Trooper Gloves.esp
Free the Slaves.esp
Decrucifixion.esp
Masada S New Vegas.esp
CAM-DLC Patch.esp
50sFFNewMickRalphsModel.esp
50sFFFreesideEastNeonSigns.esp
FNVD_Ritas_Cafe_ESM_Helper.esp
50sFFRuinedStore.esp
Scarface Suit.esp
CasinoBankMoney.esp
WildBillsPawnArmory.esp
FreesideStudio.esp
50sFFKingsschoolofimpersonation.esp
50sFFVegasVicNeonSign.esp
Decrucifixion - More Victims.esp
ADAM - MAIN.esp
SadiesSundries.esp
TGsArmorCollectionVegas.esp
ADAM - Outcast Ranger Armour.esp
ADAM - Project Nevada Patch.esp
Jmod Bullpup Pack.esp
WMX-POPMerged.esp
Remington870SO.esp
SR556.esp
B92FS.esp
LR300.esp
XFO - 4bb - Perks - Two per level.esp
w44Satchels - Lite.esp
w44Satchels - Full.esp
SignatureWeapons.esp
SignatureArmor.esp Coffee Brewer.esp
Bonds Mojave Grande Hotel HDR Patch.esp
New Vegas Redesigned 3.esp
Total active plugins: 148 Total plugins: 165 I would really appreciate any help given!!! EDIT: made my load order easier to see