Earlier this month, modder Stentorious on the New Vegas Nexus graced us with a type of “oh my god, why hadn’t any individual finished this already” high quality of life tweaks for Obsidian’s open world traditional: Trendy Minimap, a useful, legible minimap for navigating the Mojave’s twistiest interiors.
New Vegas’ floating quest markers are adequate for navigating more often than not, however should you’re searching for one thing outdoors the bounds of quest aims, a few of the sport’s areas could be a little bit of a bear to orient your self in. The Bison Steve Resort’s higher flooring, with their samey rooms and collapsed passageways, instantly spring to thoughts for me. Freeside and its neighbors are fairly dangerous offenders as properly, break up up as they’re into a number of separate, nested loading zones.
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And New Vegas’ native map on the Pip Boy pause display screen, inherited from Fallout 3, is virtually no assist. The faint outlines of navigable paths and obstacles mix along with a confounding quantity of litter and visible noise on the monochrome display screen, making the slight delay of citing the Pip Boy to orient your self all the time really feel like wasted time.
The Trendy Minimap mod fortunately works with the Native Map Overhaul to assist with all of these issues, presenting a far cleaner, extra legible output than New Vegas’ default whereas nonetheless becoming the retro-futurist Pip Boy aesthetic, and all with out having to pause your sport. Trendy Minimap has two variations, with minimalist and maximalist approaches to icons and different options. I might most likely follow the “Lite” model, however I am a little bit of a purist stickler in terms of mods. Trendy Minimap has a good variety of dependencies that you’re going to additionally should obtain, however a few of them, like NVSE and Johnny Guitar, are important addons it is best to all the time simply seize by default when reinstalling New Vegas.
It is unclear if we’ll ever see the Mojave once more in one other Fallout sport, however New Vegas followers have loads to take pleasure in proper now. The Fallout present’s subsequent season appears to be like to have the town of New Vegas and callbacks to its titular sport entrance and middle, whereas Obsidian’s newest sport, Avowed, actually carries plenty of that previous New Vegas magic for me.
