World Map HD Get the "World Map HD" main file. Ending and Intro Slides HD AI Upscale of all ending/intro slides in game. Get the full version. Use this mod or the one below. Ending Slides Redone New, hand-crafted HD ending slides. Look at the mod page screenshots first to see if you prefer them to vanilla ones or not. Better Explosives Indicator Does how it's named. Perk Sorter Sorts your perks by categories in the Pipboy interface: regular perks, traits, feats, and challenges - so you can have an easier time navigating what your character can do. Toggleable True Iron Sights "True Iron Sights" setting is now hotkey toggleable. Toggleable Crosshair A hotkey for turning crosshair On/Off. Custom Health and AP Visuals Customisable rework of health visuals and AP visuals. Compatible with ENB. FatigueHUD - Fatigue Indicator Trackі enemy fatigue in real-time with a non-intrusive HUD meter. Faction Map Icon Overhaul Faction Map Icon Overhaul replaces the icons of several locations with Faction appropriate ones. It also updates some of the map icons related to settlements/camps when the faction ownership changes. Placeable Map Markers Yup! MCM-configurable. True Condition A small UI mod that shows the true value of your armor and weapons condition. Now with alternative percentage version - use either "True Condition" or "True Condition Percentage" version. HUD Caps for FNV Adds a bottlecaps counter on the HUD inspired by the F04 mod of the same name. JIP Improved Recipe Menu This mod makes the crafting interface (Recipe Menu) easier, more efficient and less tedious to use. No plugin. HUD Only Explosion Shake Makes it so that only HUD shakes when hit by explosion. Simplified FO4 HUD Simple mashup of iFO4HUD with New Vegas HUD elements, and CPI icons. Simple Health and AP Bars Turns the health and AP ticks into bars for easier readability. Shorter/vanilla-like'ier bars look patch here. Smooth Notifications ==NEW== Alternative corner notifications system featuring multi-notifications support, UI animation options, frame options, color options and more. Configurable through the .ini file. Dynamic Interaction Prompts ==NEW== Offers a totally new activation prompt interface - featuring over 20 unique interaction Icons and tons of configuration options. Habitable Enemy Health ==NEW== Replaces the non-VATs combat Enemy Health UI with a more modern version. Includes damage numbers, different looks/styles, passive markers, and tons of configuration options. HUD Clock ==NEW== Adds an animated clock on the HUD. HUD Hardcore Needs ==NEW== Adds gauges for the hardcore needs (as well as radiations and limbs condition) on the HUD. Ambient Region UI - Region Pop-up Replacer ==NEW== Adds a customizable HUD element that displays your current region, time, and date. Updates in real time and appears after travel, waiting, or loading. Lightweight and fully configurable via the .ini file. Some UI Sounds (SUS) A handful of fresh UI sounds to replace the banilla ones. Clean Vanilla Loading Wheel Minimalistic vector loading wheel. No More Roulette Wheel Or just get rid of it completely. New Monochromatic Main Menu Simple and nice. Fallout New Vegas Trans Ranger Main Menu ==NEW== Changes the main menu background to a custom-painted NRC ranger and the New Vegas title to one one colored with the yransgender colors. Classic Main Background and Title Re-styles main menu of FNV into something closer to the classic games main menus. Blue Moon - Main Menu and Theme Replacer One more stylish main menu background replacer. Less Map Markers Not something most of players would want, most likely. Removes some map markers in an attempt to make exploration more challenging. Clean Companion Wheel An interface overhaul that cleans up all of the smudgy Icons and the textures surrounding the Companion Wheel while retaining the original design as much as possible.

Now a few loading screen mods:

Even Better Loading Screen and Main Menu Replacer Completely replaces loading screen and main menu screens with 1920x1080 high quality, lore friendly, strictly New Vegas related images. New Loading Screen for New Vegas 40 new loading screens replacing vanilla ones. Loading Screens Replacer New Vegas Changes over 40 loading screens to quality, lore friendly, cinematic Fallout screenshots. Women of New Vegas - Billboards - Loading Screens - Posters - Paintings Women of New Vegas is a complete [adult] overhaul of all loading screens, posters, billboards & framed pictures scattered around the Mojave. What makes it different from all the others is that it uses all gameplay Shots taken by the Nexus community. 274 NEW Atomic Loading Screens Amazing loading screen pack. Standalone (doesn't replace vanilla ones). Scum's Stupid Sexy Pinup Load Screens Adds 50 new (doesn't replace vanilla ones) vintage pinup load screens.

Rudy ENB for Fallout New Vegas
One of my favourite ENB presets for NV - as mentioned above, it has great balance between improved visuals and vanilla-friendly look, preserving the desert look on NV worldscape. It also has absolutely amazing interiors look, complete NV/TV/EV support and great performance. If you love the original color scheme of NV and want to keep it but also make much better - Rudy ENB is a great choice. It's also fully up-to-date ENB preset on NV nexus, carrying the latest FNV ENB features.
Dreary ENB
Something like a direct opposite to look of Rudy, this preset is greatly inspited by Metro/Stalker series - it's bleak, dark and gives a deep cinematic look. Most likely the best cinematic/bleak preset for NV and one of my 3 favourite presets. If you love the desaturated visuals - try it for sure.
Note: don't forget to install "Fix for dark regional weathers" file from Update Files section.
Seven Sins ENB - Cinematic Highly Compatible Preset
This is ENB preset I made combining Rudy and Dreary, taking cinematic exteriors look from Dreary and interiors look from Rudy, with my minor edits. It's also fully compatible with all "visions" and has compatibility versions for Realistic Wasteland Lighting, Interior Lighting Overhaul and both of them together.
Note: this preset is also very performance-friendly itself, and I additionally made "ultra-performance" version which may help owners of low-end rigs.
Wanderer's ENB
A great ENB preset that greatly combines cinematic look for exteriors, but still having it close to original look, with beautiful interiors with great color/brightness balannce, and a great performance.
Note: if you want to have a Letterbox ("black bars") effect with it, just copy the "effect.txt" and "effect.txt.ini" files from Rudy ENB \enbseries folder to your game \enbseries folder. This will add Letterbox and allow you to control it directly in game, via ENB GUI.
Onix ENB
Really well-made preset with a touch of "photorealism" - bright and sharp look, at golden middle in terms of saturation.
Nevada ENB - 2017 Edition
Pretty similar to previous preset, but still a bit different at the same time, also with a bit more saturated interiors.
Classic ENB Stands for its name. A nice attempt to give FNV a tone of the classic Fallout games.
DYNAMO ENB
A beautiful, saturated vintage preset.
The ENB of the Apocalypse - New Vegas
"Bleached" and high-contrast one.
ENHANCED SHADERS - ENB
Old but good, balanced preset and pretty much vanilla-friendly.
Viradia ENB - Colors and Lighting enhancement
This preset can be best described as "Vanilla Plus ENB".
Overgrowth ENB
A bleak ENB preset, similar to Dreary in some way, but much more bright and not that much desaturated.
Zenith and Xenith ENB Remastered
Another one "Vanilla Plus" preset, with a bigger saturation level.
Exotic ENB
A really good mix between cold and warm tones at the same time.
DUST ENB
Grim, desaturated and dark ENB preset - another alternative for bleak/cinematic look lovers.
Old World ENB
A preset between vibrance and realism, with a bit of vintage touch.
Forlorn ENB
Pretty original preset - almost without any colors in it at all.
Midhrastic ENB for Fallout 3
Yes, this preset is hosted on Fallout 3 Nexus, but it [does] work for New Vegas without issues. Place only the next files from it's folder: \enbseries folder, enblensmask.png, enbpalette.bmp, enbseries.ini and enbsunsprite.tga into your NV folder, don't grab other files.
This one also will be a good option for owners of low-end rigs.
NOKENBPreset
Performance-friendly ENB preset with mixed realistic/cinematic look and a bit "blue" tint.
Nut ENB 2.0 A well made, bright, realism-focused preset. Viva La Atmos ENB A simple, bleak yet vibrant ENB for the Mojave with ReShade no top. Supreme Weather and ENB A beautiful, photorealistic ENB preset. In addition, author also offers a weather mod which it's specifically tweaked for. COBALT ENB - RUST ENB Cinematic preset in two versions. For the Rust version, there's an optional addon available. Broken Paradise ENB One of my personal top-5 favourite ENB presets atm. Bright and cinematic during the day, dark at night and in interiors. Note: Doesn't properly support NV/EV/TV and minor features like letterbox/vignette, but you can simply inject these by taking respective files from \enbseries folder in my Seven Sins ENB, dropping them in this preset \enbseries folder and approving overwriting. Minimal ENB Stands for its name. Vanilla-like, very performance-friendly.

World textures and flora:
NMCs_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas
Really big and qualitative texture pack for NV and perfect choice to start with.
Go to Files tab: download and install MEDIUM files, namely the "NMCs Textures NV MEDIUM Pack Part 1 of 2 FOR NMM" and "NMCs Textures NV MEDIUM Pack Part 2 of 2 FOR NMM". After that, install all the update files. Note: Do not overwrite the ENB Ceiling Fix mod and whatever main menu replacers you have (if you do).
That's an important detail here - even if you have a monster rig, still install MEDIUM pack - you'll see no visual difference in regular gameplay compared to LARGE version, but save a lot of VRAM.
If your GPU has less than 3GB of VRAM - install the SMALL version, namely the "NMCs Textures NV SMALL Pack SINGLE FILE FOR NMM".
Lastly, now also install the "NMC's Texture Pack compatibility" patch from Asterra's Many Fixes mod.

OJO BUENO Texture Pack
Go to Files tab: download and install HIGH version of the mod. Pretty much the same as with NMC, you'll see no visual difference in regular gameplay compared to ULTRA version, but save a lot of VRAM.
If your GPU has less than 3GB of VRAM - install the PERFORMANCE version.
After you've installed the mod, disable the mod plugin ("NukaCola-Ojo.esp" and only it, not the mod itself) and make sure to install this (2k version).

Wasteland Flora Overhaul
Note: Use this or one of two others below - not all together. Does how it's called - a great HD overhaul of vanilla flora + new trees and plants placed here and there without breaking the original look of Mojave.
Now, about the mod versions. There are 3 of them that you may be interested in - default one (we can call it fertile one), the "Vanilla tree replacer" version. and the "dead" one. The "dead" version is in the Old Files (file version 3.1), but it works just fine - it almost completely preserves the original look of the original game flora. The default version has the biggest coverage - it gives improved models and textures to all trees and many plants in the game, as well as adds more flora with more beautiful trees and plants models, but there are more trees and many of those trees are more "green/alive"-looking which somewhat changes the overall atmosphere of the game world. The vanilla tree replacer version only improves models and textures of a few most common trees without changing others or adding new ones. This and "Dead" versions are also more FPS-friendly, so can be a good call for weaker rigs. For Honest Hearts DLC coverage, also install the "Honest Hearts Trees and Plants and Rocks Overhaul" optional file.

Animated Foliage for Fallout New vegas Animates the leaves of 18 previously static trees to produce more life like foliage, the Animation is subtle and almost follows that of the grass (the leaves just move back and forth) - one step closer to a much needed immersion. The "disadvantage" this mod has is it's not compatible with the Wasteland Flora Overhaul mod above - so you'll need to choose one or another. The only animated plant you can use from this mod without WFO incompatibility is "Animated Pansy Plant" file.

Bouncing Natural Botany(BnB) Even more noticeable and wind-movable animations for all vanilla trees. Basically a better version of the mod above from the same author - just test if your performance will be ok with it first. Use either this mod, the one above or WFO. Note: some of this mod meshes are highly unoptimized which can cause notable FPS drops even on modern rigs. Not recommended for mid/low-end rigs at all.

Now, let's go for weapons, armors, creatures and effects:
HD Hi-Res World View Weapon Textures
A base weapon retexture pack which we'll overwrite with others listed below - it's still needed as it covers some textures not covered by other mods.
Weapon Mods Expanded - WMX
This mod is actually mostly a gameplay one, bot for proper work with other mods together, we need to install it now.
WMX is absolutely essential mod that adds modifications to each and every weapon in the game (which was not possible in vanilla and many weapons simply didn't have any modifications at all) [including] melee weapons as well.
Important: after you installed it, download DLC patch, YUP patch, EVE patches (install DLC patches now choosing the DLC merged option, YUP patch now too and EVE patch after EVE installation below), also download Weapon Retexture Project (WRP) patch, but we'll install it AFTER both WMX and WRP, there are special instruction for this, provided later.
IMPACT + Compatibility Edition patch
As it's named - covers impact fx and fixes tons of illogical impact visuals. Install the mod itself first, then overwrite with Compatibility Edition file.
EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements
A mod from the same author that covers huge amount of various effects - fire, shooting effects, weapons, explosions etc. Also make sure to grab this neat patch for it.
Note: after you've installed this mod, install WMX EVE patch (you've already downloaded it from WMX page, choose "WMX-EVE-AllDLCMerged" option in installer). You can also optionally install laser rifle recolor.
Enhanced Blood Textures
Amazing mod retexturing all blood visuals. You may also want to look at the two similar/inspired mods here and here (this one has several standalone files and can be used on top of the original mod, overwriting some of its textures).
EXE - Effect teXtures Enhanced
Badass mod from author of Impact and EVE - all 3 mods from this author are "crossing" in coverage of some textures, and installed in this exact order will give you the best result.
Note: after installation, check water surfaces in game and if you'll have pixelated water textures - DELETE files in data/textures/water folder
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP
Great mod that retextures most of weapons with a stunning quality.
Important moment: install "Weapon Retexture Project" version 1.95 from Old Files section. Using the "old" version doesn't mean it's bad - it simply covers a bit less than latest version, [BUT] - the main point here and in exact installation order of mods starting from WMX till this one is simple - one can have either not all mods listed here and so, much lesser coverage, or follow certain installation order and few more simple instructions to have the biggest retexturing coverage and everything compatible. In the end, you'll have the biggest coverage and the best quality.
Now, the special instructions (nothing hard, don't worry): go to this page and follow the instructions (showed on screenshot here just in case). Basically, you need to install 4 separate retexture mods, then delete 357retex.esp and singleshot_retex.esp files from your \Data folder and install WMX-WRP patch. Lastly, make sure that "WMX-ArenovalisTextures.esp" plugin is loaded in the very end of your load order (after Bashed and Merged patches as well, when you'll be building them). That's it!
IHWT - Improved Heavy Weapons Textures
Overwrite everything EXCEPT WMX and WRP, also install EVE and WMX patches after, namely the "IHWT - GatlingLaser for EVE" and "IHWT - Tesla WMX Patch" files. Note: If you want red color of missile launcher targeting mod, get this patch.
Creatures HD The base mod for creatures retexture, which will be mostly overwritten, but still cover a few creatures not covered by other packs.
Critters Retexture Pack
Second base retexture mod for creatures with good attention to details.
Hall Of Equipment
Base retexture mod for clothing and armors. Also install all DLC addons from Optional Files.
Reinforced Leather Armor Female Mesh Fix
Tiny but great fix for vanilla armor.
aMidianBorn NV Book Of Water
Amazing armors and creatures retexture mod from Cabal, whom you surely now if you've modded Skyrim as well.
Install both "BOA NV The Book Of Flesh" and "nov 2011 book of steel" files.
Now, attention: install this mod (also install Lonesome Road file). Now, DELETE the next 2 .esp files - "boa ncrpahelmet.esp" and "Boacombat2glove.esp" from your \data folder - after you deleted them, install this mod - it has plenty of fixes/improvements to AmidianBorn mod its 2 .esp plugins in own one. Also install this little addon.
MGs Neat Clutter Retextures
A big mod of great quality that's aimed on clutter retextures - meaning various smaller objects in game world.
Install "MGs NCR Pack Ojo friendly 7" mod version and all separate files: BB Cigs, Beige Pack, Common globe, Duct Tape, Flat mop_mop bucket.
Important note: do not overwrite Wasteland Flora Overhaul ("No to mod" option regarding WFO in NMM, for MO users - hide this mod file conflicting with WFO).
Honest Hearts Armors HD Retexture Bullet Casings Redone New high quality bullet casings. Also install "Impact Patch". George's Landscape Retextured Optional yet really well-made landscapes texture pack fitting the Mojave wasteland greatly. Try it yourself and see if you need it or not.

HD Miscellaneous War Objects HD Memorials and Monuments HD Miscellaneous Utility Objects HD Miscellaneous Musical Objects HD Ravens and Vultures Note: Do not overwrite NMC, OJO and EXE with these ones. Atompunk Vault Suits - HD Retexture Best retexture of vault suits you could ever have. Darker retexture file is recommended too (overwrite the main file). Lore-Friendly Joshua Graham Armor Replacer Dpillari Stealth Boy Laser RCW and Big Meltdown
Install only first 2 files - "Laser RCW 3rd Person Textures" and "Laser RCW Retexture".
Metal Armors Metalized - 2K Metal Armor Re-textures
I personally recommend Black Edition.
Shifting Shadows - 2k Assassin and Stealth Suit Retextures
Chinese Stealth Armor Retexture
Improved Robots Textures
Install all 3 main files. Do NOT approve overwriting ("No to all" option in NMM) to only get lacking retextures (for MO users - hide all conflicting textures from this mod).
Money Higher Quality Retex 1_2
Do NOT approve overwriting ("No to all" option in NMM) to only get lacking retextures (for MO users - hide all conflicting textures from this mod).
Hi-Res Typewriter
Magazine Redux
HI-RES Chems and Health Re-Texture
Do NOT approve overwriting to only get lacking retextures.
PM's Med-Textures - HD Chems and Venoms
Install Med-X Texture and Sebastjin's Normals files as well.
ENB Friendlier HD Dust Storms
Note: Get Non-ENB (yes, despite having ENB) version and then ingame, tweak the Particle Brightness Night value in the ENB GUI (SHIFT+ENTER). For instance, when using my Seven Sins ENB, values between 0.2 and 0.25 are good.
Hectrol Tumbleweed Deluxe HighRes Retex
Fallout Food Package Retexture Compilation 
Do NOT approve overwriting (NMM) / hide this mod textures (MO) to only get lacking retextures. It's also recommended to compress the mod textures with Ordenador (works just fine for FNV textures as well).
Audleys Misc Textures
Do NOT approve overwriting (NMM) / hide this mod textures (MO) to only get lacking retextures.
HiRes Skill Books Retexture
A Quoter1 Texture Pack
Do NOT approve overwriting (NMM) / hide this mod textures (MO) to only get lacking retextures.
Semi-transparent Door Glass
Also, now install the Asterra's Many Fixes patch for this mod.
Its a Dogs World - Dog Texture Overhaul
Improved Cyberdogs Textures
Optionally install camouflage addon from files section.
HD Mist
Brahmin Variant Redux
Neglected Clutter and Other Things - Retex
Use only "Neglected Clutters" file - when overwriting, overwrite all mods mods [except] OJO and MG's.
"Neglected Architecture and Furniture"s file is [not needed].
PM's HD Ammo Boxes
Super Mutants HD - 4k Retextures
Use "Super Mutants HD - 2k Low" version.
Cherry Bomb HD retexture and remodel
Install only texture file, don't install the model.
The Molerat Extravaganza - Molerat Retexture
Securitrons in CRT
Old Vegas_Billboards Posters and Loading Screens
Take a look on images section. If you don't like its loading screens or if that's your first run (and so you most likely would like to have vanilla loading screens), get separate packs from files section - namely the "Old Vegas billboards" and "Old_Vegas_posters_paintings".
High Res Vanilla Posters and Graffiti
If you like Old Vegas more "sinful" look of posters - do NOT overwrite it to have new look of posters, if you didn't like - overwrite to stick to retextures vanilla ones.
Various Signs HD Casino Posters and Signs HD Casino Rugs HD New Vegas Graffiti Redone - AIO One more great, vanilla+ alternative to improve graffitis look around the game, hand-made in a great quality. Reworked and improved version of the original mod from the same author. Get the NV version and 2k textures resolution is recommended. Elegant Sunglare Retexture with 2K and 1K (HD) with mipmap A replacement for the sun and sun-glare in 2K or 1K. Acoraito HD Textures Pack
Note: Do not overwrite other mods to only get lacking retextures.
2K HD Cloud Retextures
Mojave Nights - a moon and stars replacer
HD One Hand Melee by Insanity Sorrow
Also install "Gun Runner Box" HD from Files section.
FalloutMG's profile
Choose his New Vegas mods. Grab all mods and install WMX patches from Files sections (for BB gun it's a standalone mod released after the main one).
High Resolution Bloom NVSE Helps vanilla bloom to be less eye-bleaching. Simply Upscaled Grass Get the 2k version. Use this mod or the one below. Grass Remesh New higher-poly, more 3D-looking meshes for all the basic grass types in the game, with improved textures too. Use this mod or the one above. Note that this mod, depending on your PC specs and how heavy your mod setup already is, can chew a few FPS. Nut Water Overhaul A beautiful water replacer FNV deserves. Note: If you're on NMM - download the mod archive manually, unzip it, and in the mod folder, delete "fomod" folder as well as the mod plugin, so only "nvse" and "textures" folders are there. Zip these 2 folders back, add the archive to NMM and install. Higher Poly Rocks Physically Based Wood Crates Physically Based Collection When installing this mod, do not overwrite the mod above, 4k Nuka Cola Vending Machine, OJO and MG's clutter mods. Exactly in this way. Micro Clutter Note: Do not overwrite whatever tree mod you have. Physically Based Kitchenware Physically Based Parkware Conor's Cool Doctor's Bag
Conor's Coffee Mug Replacer
Glowing Ghosts - Happy Little Holograms Emit Light Irradiant Muck Simple as that - radioactive liquid pools now glow. This is an optional mod, as while it looks fancy visually, some players may see as this has no sense considering the FNV timeline. Prime Tapes - HD Holotape Replacer Get the 2k version. Pool Table and Items - Redone Gnomed Makes the slighly cursed looking gnome texture more HD. Dinky the Deluxe Dinosaur Better textures for both Dinky statue and toy. Glowing Cazadors and Retexture A retexture of the Cazadors, with an optional ESP to add in a new variant, Glowing Cazadors. Decaying Ferals A tastefully bloody feral ghoul retexture and higher-poly model. Earthblighted Tunnelers And same for tunnelers. Make sure to compress textures for all 3 mods above (tunnelers, ferals, cazadors) with Ordenador as, while looking incredible, some of the files are unoptimized for no reason (for instance, nearly 90 MB feral tunneler normalmap). Fractal Crystals A less cartoonish, realistic retexture for the OWB DLC crystals. Wasted Pines New Vegas Palm Trees Enhanced Better models and beautiful textures for pines in higher quality that WFO provides. Tweaked Tundra - Plants and trees retextured Small consistency edits to plants and grasses to blend better with the games colours and in some cases fix seams. Get the 1k version. Assorted Leather Armor Retexture Assorted NCR Armor Retexture Get the 2k version for both. Architecture Retexture Pack Get the 2k version and do not overwrite anything to only get lacking retextures for vanilla files. Acoustic Guitar Retexture Recommended to compress textures from 4k to 2k with Ordenador before installation. Survivalist Rifle Replacer 4k Also get this and overwrite the original mod. Decayed Ghost People Weathered, 2k texture for Ghost People. NCR Flag Retex Comes with an installer. Torn and dirty version recommended. Motorcycles Remastered High-poly models and HD textures for motorcycles. Optional retexture here - but if you won't be using it, it's strongly recommended to install 2k retexture from the main mod itself. F4NV Repconn Souvenir Rocket Also install 1k texture because 4k for such a small object is an overkill. 4k Notes Retexture Install the main fiel adn then overwrite with optional one to get 1k textures instead the 4k definitely not needed for a paper note. Rectified Water Towers Note: If using "vanilla-like" version, it's strongly recommended to compress texture via Ordenator as texture files have unnecessary bloated size (unpacked, mod is around 500MB in size which is ridiculous - while after compression, size will go down to 50MB, ten times less size without a quality loss). Quality Carts Same here - compress textures with Ordenador. Dead Money Radio Can go with 4k version here - but it's recommended to run textures through Ordenador (the basic compression options, not resizing the texture down from 4k to 2k). Sandbags Chessboard BH Army Binoculars - FO4 Port Wood Wall Shelves Gomorrah Vase Get the 2k versions for 5 mods above. For Gomorrah vase, it's recommended to compress textures same as for the Dead Money Radio above. Parking Blocks Get the 1k version. Repconn HQ Planet Textures Classic Combat Armor Replacer Redux Classic Leather Armor Replacer for Leather Armor Classic Metal Armor Replacer for Metal Armor Fallout Tactics Brotherhood Metal Armor Integration Classic Super Mutant Style Armor Classic Centaur Replacer Classic Robobrain Replacer Classic Mr Handy and Mr Gutsy Replacer Concept Art 1 Mr.Handy and Mr.Gutsy Replacer Classic Creature Style Retexture Pack All these "classic" mods above are optional. Plenty of mods changing models and textures for some armors and creatures in the game to look much more like in classic Fallout games. TPOl7uHKA profile For some high-quality, classic Fallout inspired heavy armor replacers. Also has optional plugins to make these armors standalone, without replacing the original ones.
Black Sierra Madre Armors Retexture Brand New Aliens
Yes, it's NV mod - you can meet them in NV if you have Wild Wasteland trait.
High-Resolution Bobby Pin Box
High-Res Hula Girl Retex and Resource
High Resolution Iguana on a Stick
Higher-Resolution Westside Craftsman Window
Caravan Lunch - Fixed UV Map
Harmonica retexture
AmmoBox-Grenade-Mine Re-Textures
Overwrite YUP and do [not] overwrite any other mods.
Better Gas Leak Effect + fix
Y-17 Trauma Override Harness GLOVES
New Lunchbox Model
New Food Sanitizer Model
Bighorner Model Variants
Install standard version
Bighorner Ultra High Resolution Texture
Recommended to compress textures from 4k down to 2k via Ordenador.
MFC Grenade Texture Fix
Misc and Food Stuff Re-texture
Do [not] everwrite anything to have only lacking retextures.
High Resolution Buffalo Gourd Seed
HQ Legion Slave Ledger and Karls Journal 
RadRoach Coloring Retexture
BB Can Re Texture
Engine Block OverHaul
Worn Rebreather Retexture
Festus Rebuild Re-Tex
Brahmin Steak Retexture
Repconn Sign Retexture
Bighorn Saloon Sign Retexture
Shiny Platinum Chip 2k
4K Pre War Dress 2018
Use the 2k version.
Dufflebag Retexture Redux
Choose any version you like from Files section.
Seed Package Retexture
Ralphie Poster Retexture
Dark Sentry Turret Retexture
Improved Eyebot Texture for NV
HD Steam Gauge Assembly Retexture
Rex 2k HD Retexture
Industrial Hand Retexture
Lottery Ticket
Hectrol ED-E Deluxe HR Retex EVOLUTION PACK
[or]
Improved ED-E Textures
[or]
ED-E_Retexture [or]
Fallout Texture Overhaul - ED-E
Ultra-Luxe Interior Re-texture
Download the file manually. Unpack, open folder and go inside "Default - Replace all curtain textures" folder. Right-click on "textures" folder and archive it. Add this archive to your mod manager and install as usual.
Louisville Slugger
Nail Gun Retexture
Install WMX version.
4k Kitchen Knife Re-Texture 
Fork Redone
Spoon Redone 
Make sure to compress textures with Ordenador.
Hectrol MiniNuke Deluxe HighRes Retex
Hectrol Vegas Sewer Deluxe HighRes Retex
Hectrol Lockinterface Deluxe HighRes Retex
Pre-War Money Retexture
I'm personally using the 50 Dollar Bill version.
Healthier Yao Guai 
Install the "Real Bears" version. Look on mod page screenshots, decide which look you like more, and keep only one mod .esp file, deleting the other one.
Bullet Impact Increased LOD
Tiny but immersive mod that will let you see actual bullet impacts on much bigger distances. Enhanced Bullet Impacts Note: This mod is optional - how much visuals it adds to shooting is not realistic by any means, but at the same time some players may find it immersive. See yourself. Also install this fix for it. Grenade Launcher Redux - FO4 HQ Replacer Get the WMX version. McCarran main terminal transparent glass Get the NMC version. Vintage Globe Heaviin's Desperado Cowboyhat Retextured Because style deserves quality. Colorized Mr. House and Yes Man - HD Textures Note: Mr. House monitor textures are already handled by "Securitrons in CRT" mod - but you may like one of this options specifically for Mr. House more. Upscaled textures with both color and original vanilla green options. Use this mod or the one below. Realistic Mr House Another approach for Mr. House look on the monitor, with younger and older age versions. Also improves textures of security camera feeds and "Connection Lost..." screen. Use this mod or the one above (though, you can remove Mr. House textures from this mod if you don't like them, keep only camera/connection lost improved textures, and use them with other mods affecting Mr. House look). 5iv profile For a few high-poly model and HD texture replacers for a common objects like jukebox, cash register etc. Note: Imo, Connor's coffee mug mod is better - but if you like this author's mug more, make sure to compress textures with Ordenador as for this mod, textures are not optimized and will eat extra VRAM for nothing. Also, "Absinthe No Longer Glows" mod is not needed as there's a mod that does a complete visual overhaul of FNV's alcohol a bit below in this section. Chilloucik profile ==NEW== For many crisp retextures, mostly (but not exclusively) for most different clothes and small world objects like signs. Heaven's Maria Retextured An beautiful HD retexture of Maria. Compatible with WMX. Heaven's Battle Rifle and This Machine Retextured Stylis battle rifle/This Machine retexture. Compatible with WMX. Better Cigarettes Ascended Telephone Ascended TV Set Ascended Hotel Lamp Ascended Tables Sophisticated Spine - Mesh Replacer Handsome Heart - Mesh Replacer Beautiful Brains - Mesh Replacer High poly mesh and 2k texture replacers for the Courier's spine, heart and brain during OWB walkthrough. NillaPlus Vault Doors Novac Sign Animated Snuffles Redesigned Snuffles has a big slash wound and gets a medical dressing when you fix him up. Daniel's Hat Refitted Ambassador's New Drip (Crocker's Suit Retexture) Lower-sitting Ranger Hat Modifies the Ranger Hat (of the New California Republic Rangers) so it sits slightly lower on the head. Optional mod. Adjusted Gambler Hats Similar mod for gambler hats. Optional mod. 'She's-Got-Hers' Optional mod. Retexture of the Prospectors' outfit01 used for female PCs. Starlet Overhaul - Vera Keyes Improved New vera Hologram and Starlet dress retexture. Pick one main file version per your preference. HD Nuts Playing Cards HD Retexture - Plus Casino Tables Gomorrah Card Deck Retexture
Alternate Laser Scope Reticle Optional mod. Replaces the reticle texture used on the Laser Rifle Scope, the Holorifle, the Red Glare, and the Codac R9000. Nebula Night Sky and Stars Optional mod. An alternative night sky texture. More rusty cars in Mojave Optional mod. More rusty cars and appliances. Snowglobe Retexture A high resolution retexture of all the snowglobes in New Vegas, including DLC ones. Switchblade Retexture - With Optional Rusty Variant Pick one mod version - I'd recommend the rusty one. HQ Metal Barrels Compress texture with Ordenador. Suburban Chair Redux (Couch Chair) VWR - Vanilla Weapons Redone - Explosives Incredibly detailed new models and HD texture for explosives (grenades, dynamite etc). Also grab the EVE patch after installing the mod itself. Gun Runners Kiosk Glass Fix More Subtle Hidden Valley Dust Storm Reduces the opacity of the dust storm at night in Hidden Valley by the Brotherhood of Steel Bunker to be less blinding and more pleasing to the eye. 3 versions available - choose one you like the most (I'm personally using version 2). HD Hoover Dam Memorial The True Blade of the East The True Blade of the West Dinky the T-Rex Souvenir Remastered Note: Compress textures with Ordenador. Tall Billboard Mesh Fix Forgotten Desk Texture Pack Note: from this mod, you actually only need mesh and textures for one desk, namely the files with "lowerbar" in their names - other files not needed. Lucky 38 Lights Redone Strip Lighting Overhaul Adds lights to the strip where lights existed but where not producing lights. Compatible with all Strip overhauls. Properly Illuminated Strip Courtyards - PISC Restore the lighting brilliance to The Tops and Gomorrah courtyards. Afterglow - Neon illumination Overhauls many meshes to illuminate the neon signs around the Mojave. Adds ambient colour and atmosphere to the game. Now you can bask in neon glow. Powder Ganger Overhaul Optional mod. Changes the Powder Ganger outfits. Old World Blues - Unique Think Tank Members Old World Blues - Roboscorpion Retextures Old World Blues - Toaster Of Doom Old World Blues - Seedy Research Station Old World Blues - Sweet Switches General Atomics Hand Dryer - Replacer ==NEW== Rattan Cowboy Hat Improved ==NEW== Sensor Module - Rewired ==NEW== Pristine Powder Gangers ==NEW== Higher poly, high resolution texture redesigns of the Powder Ganger outfits, with a faithful style and more realistic design. Revamped Fiend Headgear - Vanilla Style ==NEW== Redesign of the Fiend signature helmets, making them look more distinct and intimidating while maintaining their vanilla aesthetic. Veronica Outfit Replacer ==NEW== Changes Veronica's armor while attempting to stay true to her original design. This outfit is more practical looking than her standard druid robes and gives her more of a scavenger appearance. Choose either of the main files. Milk Bottle Retexture ==NEW== Realistic Father Elijah ==NEW== Retexture of Father Elijah's face on the projector and computer screen. Also includes a high-resolution retexture of the Sierra Madre seal. Atomic Valence Tri Radii Oscillator Redesign ==NEW== Gloomy Graves - Mesh and Texture Replacers ==NEW== Replaces all grave markers with higher quality versions, including unique meshes for all the named Goodsprings graves. Available with 2k or 1k versions. Ultra-Luxe Details ==NEW== Improvement of some overlooked poster and clutter texture details in Ultra-Luxe Casino. Classic Vault Doors ==NEW== Ascended Lantern ==NEW== Chain Link Fences ==NEW== Animated Barges Improved Rugs - HD Khan Rugs Fix Mr House Painting Redone Recommended to compress the normalmap file via Ordenador. Higher Poly Shrooms Higher Poly Chair Higher Poly Steak Improved Pickaxe Unique Books New models and textures for the 3 unique books in New Vegas. Unique Journals New models and textures for 4 unique journals in New Vegas. Mariposa Mutants Optional mod. New faces for super mutants and nightkins inspired by the classic Fallout games. Cleansing Flame Colour Fix Fixes the Cleansing Flame to use blue fire for its damage-over-time, critical kill, and impact visuals. Nuka World Imports a Nuka Cola Overhaul Get the main file. Nuka Cola World - Drinks and alcohol overhaul by zzjay Replaces Nuka cola, bottlecaps and all alcohol models with higher quality ones. Note: Install the Nuka World Imports version and overwrite that mod assets with this mod ones if asked. Alcohol Bottles Overhaul - by zzjay Also get a merged patch version from the Files tab for Nuka World Imports version. You can then delete the original NukaColaOverhaul.esp plugin, as all its records are forwarded into the merged plugin. georgem1010 profile For a top-notch quality texture replacers for both popular and "forgotten" objects. 2k versions recommended to get, but make sure to compress textures with Ordenador, as even 2k textures for most of the mods are uncompressed and will use extra VRAM for no real reason. MadMonkey119 profile For incredible model and texture improvements for some small objects - mostly food, but also some clutter like fire hydrant. Make sure this mods files overwrite everything else. Note: For the "Remarkable Rocks" mod, it's recommended to compress textures via Ordenador. Ashens2014 profile For the vast amount of most various objects which lacked animation - now animated, bring extra life to the Mojave. AmaccurzerO profile ==NEW== For the vast amount of beautiful little mods which animate previously static objects - terminals, coffee and microfilm machines and many others - but sometimes even much more epic animated projects, like monorail or zeppelin. You can download an all-on-one mod or only those you like. Author released several new mods in the last year, thus the "new" marking to hint you may want to revisit his profile ;) Animated Coffee Brewers patch to be able to use HH coffee beans here . Also, as for the coffee brewers, you can install BOS version of the mod if you want [all] brewers in the game to be animated. Postman6 profile ==NEW== To provide new models, textures and even animation for some of the forgotten weapons, such as detonators or flare guns, and various misc clutter items. Gore overhaul Optional mod. It gives super realistic gore retex for Fallout New Vegas, but atm textures are too unoptimized for actual gameplay. If you like it and want to use it, it's strongly recommended to compress big textures (those that are ~16MB in size per file) to twice as smaller resolution via Ordenador, or use this 1k version.

For the first separated chunk of mods listed, choose only ONE of them. Using more then one from those 6 can and will cause random visual issues. For the rest of mods below - you can use any or all of them on top. Also, you don't need any kind of "dark night" mods, as both day and night brightness can be adjusted in ENB GUI (usually SHIFT+ENTER in game to open it).
FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting
Use it if you want to give some fresh look to Mojave weathers/lighting. Pretty simple but at the same time with great coverage, "photorealistic" weather/lighting mod. It almost doesn't changes anything in terms of technical work of weather, but makes lighting itself and vanilla weather more photorealistic and fresh. Really great implementation and no performance impact. It also has several really great ENB presets made for it in mind, listed above in the ENB presets section.
Note: If you have "landscape texture in sky" bug (looking more or less similar to this this) - make sure that 1) the mod files were downloaded fully and correctly without corruption - reDOWNLOAD and reinstall the mod 2) the mod is loaded close to the very end of your load order 3) you're using my ini files for ENB. Lastly, if you're sure about all three, try to install optional "RWL - Alternative Sun - Lens Flare" file from mod's Files section. It's a very rarely happening bug, but it should fix it. Thanks to PrinceMinusA for pointing on this :)
47 Weathers Mod My favourite weather mod atm. Simple, non-intrusive, yet giving a really fresh touch to Mojave weathers, including even rainstorms. To get the mod: download "Oxide ENB 1.0" archive somewhere manually, unpack it, navigate the "Data" folder in it, zip this folder, add resulted archive to your mod manager and install as any other mod. Bingo!
Supreme Weather A beautiful (especially for FNV engine capabilities), photorealistic weather mod with charming volumetric clouds. In addition, author also offers a qualitative ENB preset tweaked especially for this weather mod - but, you can practically use it with any other ENB preset (though by default lighting and brightness level may look not as intended sometimes, so you'll have to tinker with ENB GUI of your preset a bit to reach the plausible result). Note: Make sure to use the "Non TTW Version" of the mod.
URWLNV Ultimate Edition v2.1
Consider this as complex weather mod which is more stability-wise version of Nevada Skies. It still has great variety of weathers. It can affect your fps a bit, but won't affect your game performance or stability in long terms. Mod is hosted on ModDB, not on Nexus, but there's nothing bad in it - don't be afraid of downloading from there.
How to install the mod: unpack the archive and add "URWLNV Ultimate Edition v2.1" archive from it to your mod manager. Then proceed with FOMOD installer.
Note #1: if you'll be using Interior Lighting Overhaul mod - do not use this mod interior plugin.
Note #2: in second archive inside the main mod folder, there's an ENB preset - you don't have to use it, but ofc you can try it :)
Note #3: make sure to read the mod's readme and manual text files for better usage of the mod.
M0rk's Lighting - Better Wasteland Lighting
Simple mod with no performance impact that makes Mojave "tone" more vibrant. May give or not give weird lighting together with ENB presets.
New Vegas - Blade Runner 2049 Weather Apocaliptic, orange-toned, close-fog weather in style of Bladerunner 2049. Clearly not very suitable for regular gameplay, but may be clearly interesting for those who would love to roleplay the apocaliptic Mojave on 200%. Not required, but will go pretty well with this texture overhaul.


Rainy Days
Simple and great mod - it adds rainy weather to Mojave. Rainy weather has own chance to appear or you can trigger it anytime via your pip-boy. Also, don't forget to install YUP patch for it.
Colorado River Weather Tweaked
Changes the weather in Colorado River area, making it less grim. Load after other weather mods if using them.
High Noon Restored Restores the intended High Noon imagespace, which means the middle of the day won't have the orange tint, which seems to have actually been unintentional. Lucky 38 Climate Cut Content Restoration/fux of Lucky 38 climate. Note: Get the .esp version (not the .esm one), and after installation, delete the image files if you want to save a few MB of disc space - you only need the plugin. Note: Not needed if you'll be using "The Mogul Mausoleum - A Lucky 38 Overhaul" mod (below in settlement overhauls section). Dusty Distance Redone A reworked, plugin-free version of and old mod that allows to change the "fog" distsance to your likings. Now - compatible with any other weather and lighting mods. Apocalyptic Storms ==NEW== Deadly new weather events inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and newer Fallout games. Fully compatible with other weather mods. MoonlightNVSE Fixes moonlight, making the moon the light caster instead of the sun.

Lighting and lights in direct meaning:

Interior Lighting Overhaul
This mod is real masterpiece. It overhauls lighting in each and every interior of the game, making lighting more logical and game in interiors look much more ambient. Vaults, caves, buildings - all this now will fell much more immersive, and places that should have been scary will be such now. Besides that, it fixes tons of vanilla lighting bugs, adds new features like light switches in hotels and safe houses, and covers all DLCs as well.
Imprortant note: due to some details, we'll install this mod later, in the end. Don't worry, I'll remind you. For now, you can just install it to test (visit different interior locations/cells in game) and decide if you want it or not. Uninstall after testing. If you'll like what you see, install the mod when it will be mentioned again in the guide. My Seven Sins ENB preset also has version tweaked for it.
Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks More simple, less ambient alternative, but also nice interior lighting mod with a slight blue tint. Choose one or another.

Between the next few mods, namely the Fallout Character Overhaul, Fallout New Vegas Redesigned 3, Brave New World and Dragbody NPC overhauls (this is not a single mod, but rather a collection of similar mods for different factions and NPC groups from a same author) - it's recommeneded to use only one. While purely technically you can combine them, it will require a decent amounf of manual work in FNVEdit to make them work together properly, and one will still majorly overwrite each other, so the effectiveness of such a procedure will be pretty minimal.

Fallout Character Overhaul
Amazing overhaul for characters making them look significantly better and still immersive and keeping the original style. It also has great support in terms of compatibility with other mods, having patches for almost every well known mod (listed below). Also install this  and this  fixes for it to eleminate minor glitches here and there.
Note - for some reasons, mod installer often installs patch for Russel even if you didn't choose it - just delete it manually if that's the case.
Additionally, take a look on the next 3 patch pages to make it better compatible with some other mods you may be using:
Patches collection 1 
Patches collection 3 
Some improvements Some other patches/addons Some other patches/addons 2

Fallout New Vegas Redesigned 3
Similar mod that you can use as an alternative to FCO if you want pretty simple, vanilla-like upscale for NPC faces.


zzjay NPCs Well-made, lore-friendly visual improvements to Cass, Vernica, Caesar, Boone and Arcade. Can use this mod together with other massive overhauls above - just make sure to overwrite the files and give this mod a load order priority.

Now, a few more other mods that can come in handy (you can use them with any of previous mods above):
Distributed Necklaces and Chains
The thing is, even with NPC overhauls, characters will still have visible neck seams on them. This mod plays in team, removing neck seams in immersive way by wearing necklaces, chains and dogtags to each NV character to hide them. The only case when usage of this mod is arguable is if you're using all/most of Dragbody NPC overhauls together - those mods have a brand different level of quality and so, this mod's solution is not needed for them - moreover, necklaces on some of NPCs will clip due to Dragbody mods having new head/body meshes. At the same time though, this mod will be still useful for some common NPCs not covered by Dragbody mods - so it's up to you.
Menace of The New West Complete character overhaul in classic Fallout style for all New Vegas super mutants.
Authentic Burned Man
Because Joshua deserves that. Updated version of the original mod.
APOLLO Androids - Playable Android race (BodySlide-BP-BB)
This mod doesn't change anything. It adds completely new playable android race, with own unique trairs, classes and unique looks with animated mechanical body effects. You can also see my showcase video of it here.
Immersive Mouth and Teeth - FNV Version
A popular mod is now available for NV.
Natural eyes by zzjay
Beautiful eyes mod by well-known and talented mod author. Just test if eyes look fine on all NPCs when using together with big NPC overhauls like FCO or NV Redesigned.
EYES Quality standalone eye textures from FCO author (and ofc, not needed if you already have FCO). Real Eyes A nice vanilla+ eyes retexture. Mojave Styles - Hair Replacement Suite The very first of it's kind, this mod replaces most of the vanilla hairstyles with new ones courtesy of KS Hairdos. High Resolution Male Body Textures Crisp and manly. Works fine for both vanilla and breeze bodies. Xenius Character Enhancement XCE is a compilation of all work of the talented Xenius on the visual improvement of the characters in Fallout NV, both playable and non-playable. Skins, hair, brows, eyelashes - everything in one pack. Note that mod as distributed as is, so if you'll meet some compatibility issues with other mods, it's no use to trying to report them to author. You can also manually pick only retexture for some parts you like/need. You're the King in Disguise - Pomp and Tunnel Snake Hairstyles for Female PCs Simply allows you to use 2 Kings haircuts previously unavailable for female character. Father Elijah Accurate Face - Dead Money A small mod that changes Father Elijah's face from Dead Money to be more accurate to the hologram version. Dean Domino Hair Cut Content Restored - Dead Money Restores Dean Domino's hair like in the concept art.

PipBoy 3000 HD Retexture
Keeps vanilla look with better textures. For those who prefer pure vanilla look, but want better quality.
Vanilla Style Pip-Boy 3000 ==NEW== Another one well-made, true to vanilla, 4k retexture. Nuka-Cola Pipboy 3000Vanilla pip boi in nuka cola color.
Pip-Boy 2000 Mk VI
Has both standalone and replacer versions. You can also optionally install a more "dirty/gritty" retexture of it from here, and on top of that, a cracked screen texture from here.
Pip-Boy 2000 Similar mod, but with look inspired by classic Fallout/Fallout 2 pipboy looks. Vanilla UI+ patch here, patch to make it standalone instead of the vanilla pipboy replacers (so you can find it in the game world) here and hardcore counters addon here.
Official Pipboy Readius - New Vegas Edition
A NV port of popular Pipboy Readius mod from FO3 and probably the most popular handheld pipboy mod ever. Don't forget to install a fix for it, as well as this one (fixes a little twitching of the hand animation). You may also be interested in retextures for it here and here.
A Familiar Friend - Pip-Boy 2500 - Handheld Pipboy One more great handheld pipboy mod. Also install the HD retexture and optionally, glowing letters patch. Improved textures with glowing options here.
Nuka Pipboy
Colorful and original pipboy mod. Also has a retexture version for Pip-Boy 2500 mod - so be attentive and choose only one to install.
HoloPipBoy 4000
Parkerized Pip-Boy
Black Pipboy Variants
Camo Pipboy Variants
Pimpboy
Note: a simple tweak needs to be made for this mod to work properly: go to \data\meshes\pimpboy3billion and change the pimpboyarm.nif name to pipboyarmfemale_fixed.nif.
Classic Stealth Boy 3001 This mod adds a few examples of the classic Stealth Boy from Fallout 1/2. This means the Stealth Boy is instead worn on the hand as a glove and uses the same effect as the Chinese Stealth Suit.

Now, a few other pip-boy related mods:
Universal Pip-Boy Customization
Фllows a wide customization of your pip-boy. Hide it completely when you don't need it, disable pip-boy glove, make customized skins and even swap between different pip-boy mods straight in game! Besides that, it already supports plenty of popular pip-boy mods and will support more in future.
Pip-Boy Selection Menu Allows to switch between default pipboy and pipmboy from Mick via option in the pipboy's interface. Also supports Pip-Boy 2000 and Pip-Boy 2000 Mk VI mods. Pip-Boy Shading Fix NVSE Fixes Pip-Boy's shading, making it not ignore lights around it. Handheld Pip-Boy Weapon Clipping Fix Fixes issues with weapon animation mods sometimes causing clipping with handheld Pip-Boys and certain weapons. High Resolution Screens Increases the render resolution of in-game screens (not only pip-boy, but also terminals and character creation menu) to match game's screen resolution.
SmoothLight - Pip-Boy light enhancer
Changes the Pip-Boy light: Increases magnitude (distance) from 15 to 45 to illuminate a greater area. - Decreases fade (brightness) from 1.2 to 0.55 to reduce HDR dampening effects. Changes color from subtle green to subtle halogen amber for a warmer, more natural lighting effect.
Quicker PipBoy Light
Simple as that.
Pip-Boy Counters For Rads And Hardcore Needs Adds visible counters of rads and hardcore needs to the side of your Pip-Boy.Supports Pip-Boy 3000, 2500, 2500A, Readius, and Pimp-Boy 3 Billion. Pipboy Screen Cracked A cracked glass for your Pip Boiii - in a few versions. Note: Will properly work only with vanilla model of it.

Fallout Classic Font With Accents Changes your ingame font to a classic Fallout looking one. Open Dyslexic Fonts Replaces game font with open dyslexic fonts for better readability for dyslexic people.

Uncut Wasteland
Absolutely essential mod that restores huge amount of cut scenery details all over the game world. Also get the Strip Lights Region Fix patch here.
Note #1: It's recommended to use the main version which doesn't add NPCs, for better compatibility with many other mods.
Prerelease Restored
Similar mod of smaller size that's fully compatible with Uncut Wasteland and all mods in this section. Highly recommended.
Enhanced Landscapes
Updated and improved (twice) version of the popular "New Vegas Landscape Overhaul" mod. If you'll be using it, uninstall the Landscape Disposition Fix mod - it's included in this one. Note: This mod may (and most likely will) result in some clipping if you have a heavy-modded game, especially with lots of settlement mods - so test your game with it installed first to see if it's fitting your personal setup. GeraldMods profile For dozens of tiny, but immersively cut things restored in the game world, or small location improvements. All-in-one pack is also available. The High Road - Building Density Increases building density for the High Road area from the Lonesome Road DLC. Makes the area feel more like a city that was lost by the Divide. Hoover Dam Bridge Overhaul Clutters the empty and ramshackle "bridge" to the Hoover Dam to be worth the NCR. Minor Prerelease Objects Uncut Restoring a couple of minor details in Novac and Crimson Caravan place that were seen in pre-release. Zion Landscape Enhanced More rocks and less weird floating objects for Zion mountain sceneries.
Mojave Sandy Desert
This mod installation is optional. It truly lives for its name - making FNV worldspace to look even less diverse and even more barren. It also gives the same "sandy" look to most of landscapes textures that previously were different. It also removes some of Wasteland trees and flora to achieve that. It's really a matter of taste, but if you ever wanted to give the game even more deserted look - it may be a great choice for you.
Note #1: Install "Main File 2.10 - No LOD" version as we'll generate our own terrain LODs later.
Note #2: If using this mod, make sure to use "no esp" version of Wasteland Flora Overhaul.

ADAM Reborn
A must-have, definitive ranger armor mod. Choose Complete Version in installer and choose YES in "NCR Tropper Module". You may also be interested in some optional files for it:
Desert Ranger armor retexture for ADAM Reborn
Electrified Gear Retexture Note: If you you want fully balanced version of the mod, choose custom installation in installer and do not tick the Nemesis options - the armor set itself is amazing same as all others, but, it's almost top-tier (close to Elite Riot Gear) defence values (plus stat bonuses), and you can get them pretty early in the game, which may ruin the difficulty balance. As another option, you can still install it as part of the default complete installation, but modify the defence/bonuses values in FNVEdit.
Gas Masks of the World
Why vanilla game never had them? This mod is an immersion icon! Also install all 3 update files, as well as improved integration and balance patch .
Wasteland Engineer Armor 
One of my personally favourite armor mods for NV.
T45d Power Armor Replacement
Has both replacer and standalone versions plugins (if using standalone plugin, delete the original replacer plugin). Also for both replacer/standalone versions, after the mod is installed, delete the plugin with "-PN" in is name, it's not needed either.
Nuka-Cola T-45 Power Armor Adds a full set of Nuka-Cola T-45 Power Armor with high-quality models and textures. Can be found in the game world. Get the (NV) main file. Armor has same stats as regular 45D one, just with a new look. VK's Halo Reach Noble 6 Armor ==NEW== New heavy armor set featured in Halo: Reach. For both male and female couriers. Lone Ranger Armor Pack ==NEW== A pack that contains 3 color variations for a custom Ranger Armor. Male Couriers only. Some extra mashups here. VaultTec Power Armor 
Recommended to lower armor and helmet DT stats down as the are quite OP.
Gloves Galore + 4k Pair of Gloves
For the qualitative, simple gloves. Mechanix Gloves MW2019 Technician Gloves Many more stylish gloves with HD textures.
Black Leather Armored Duster
I really love this one. Simple and stylish.
TFH 1st Recon Helmet 
Badass helmet for your needs. You may be also interested in "no-faction" and/or tweaked version of it (original mod is still needed).
Dragonskin Tactical Outfit 
Ranger Power Armor 
MK117 Prototype Combat Power Armor 
Make sure to use correct version of the mod (vanilla one).
Drags New Armor Pack 
Note: not all armors are lore-friendly.
Courier Duster with Elite Riot Gear combo 
You can also install optional "craft" file on top to be able to make it yourself - delete the original mod plugin in this case.
Headgear Is Important - Headgear Pack 
Really original and neat mod that's adding tons of different stylish headgears.
PreWar Clothing 
New Vegas clothes by zzjay 
Aradia Kato armor for Fallout 
T6M Courier's Stash 
JaySuS Rogue Ranger Coats 
Note: choose only one .esp and delete the other one.
An Armor With Hood 
Note: the orignal version of the mod is not designed for vanilla bodies - so if you're not using any body mods, don't forget to install the vanilla body patch. Optional dark retexture available.
Tough Traveller Armour 
Note: base version of the mod requires Robert's body. Install vanilla and/or Breeze patches for respective cases.
Colossus t49xv 
Note: read the mod's installation instruction carefully.
XV Sharl Armour 
Colossus Enclave - Lienas Squad Armour 
Note: you need [BOTH] main files.
georgem1010 profile For a few badass armor mods, ported from modern shooters. Fallout 4 Power Armors for New Vegas Simple as that - amazing, high-poly FO4 power armor models for New Vegas, made by talented Dragbody, in updated version - with fixes, rebalance and proper ingame distribution. You need to be registered on the forum to download - just save the archive manually somewhere, add to your mod manager and install as usual. Mod has two versions - read about differences on the mod page. Power To The Bull (4 Legion Power Armors) Four unique-looking Legion-themed power armors. Don't let the medicore-looking screenshots confuse you - their actual quality ingame will be much better than on the screenshots, as the materials of the armor are affected by your retexture mods (for instance, Book of Water). If you want all 4 armours to be immersively integrated in the game (worn by most notable Legion officers) - also install this patch. Legion Conquest Armour With Modular Parts A new set of Armour For legion players with optional leveled lists integration. Choose one of the main files. NIGHTMARE FIENDS - A Junkie Overhaul This mod adds a lot of fun armor for Fiends. Vanilla body only. SLCPD Police Armour Adds 2 Salt Lake City Police armours for male and female, they can be found at Northern Passage, in a duffle bag. Road Warrior Raider Armor Deathclaw Hunter Armor External Frame Backpack Pink Princess Outfit 
NV Experimental Glasses (Animated) 
NV Combat Helmet MK Animated 
Road Fighter Armor 
Dirty brown recolour here.
Courier's Road Armor Amazing armor based on the armor above, with unique bonuses and Enhanced Vision support. Combat Armors Replacer Replaces all combat armor, and adds new ones to the Mojave. A Fresh Start (New Courier Stash Armors) Adds sets of armors and helmets based on Courier Stash armors, neary Doc's house. Doesn't replace the original ones - so you can have those as alternatives if you'll be using a mod that provides immersive distribution of original Courier Stash items. Note: Items stats are same as the ones in vanilla CS items, so if you're using a mod that rebalances them, you may want to lower their stats in xEdit. Banshee Armor MW2019 Roze Virago Patriot's Fatigues Modern Gunslinger Armor 
Make sure to use proper mod version - for vanilla, breeze or robert's bodies.
Kerberos Panzer Police Jin Roh armor 
Note: delete the "ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated!.bsa" file after you've installed the mod.
Ghosts - Cross Explorer Outfit Adds the outfit worn by Samantha Cross in the Extinction game mode of Call of Duty: Ghosts, using assets from the game. Female only. Coats of Fallout New Vegas A collection of various coats. The Courier Armor fit for a post-apocalyptic wasteland Courier. Bone Harvester - Tribal Cannibal Apocalyptic Plague - Project 049 Both mod above have somewhat OP armors rating stats, so if you're aimed for a well-balanced game, it's recommended to tweak those down in FNVEdit. Canvas Backpacks Several new backpacks with different look. Weathered textures patch here. Better Balanced Backpacks Adds balanced vanilla-style backpacks and an expandable scripted framework that allows backpacks to take damage from combat. Waster Gear 3 brand new clothing accessories to customize your character with. Courier Head Bandage Cover up that fresh headshot wound. Fallout Revelation Blues Mega Armor Pack 23 new armors, mostly looking vanilla+ in style. My Version of Warhammer 40k Chaos Armors Updated version of a great, but pretty outdated mod that brings multiple Warhammer 40k armors into FNV. Corrected models, upscaled textures and new armor set. NCR Commando Adds a brand new NCR themed armor to the Mojave that can be found at the NCR Safehouse. Dune Stillsuit Lisan al Gaib! Stealth Suit Helmet A new helmet to match the stealth suit from old world blues. Weathered retexture here. Cindy Aurum's Outfit Adds 3 pieces of clothing to the game based on the clothes worn by Cindy Aurum from Final Fantasy XV: a cap (with or without hair), an outfit and gloves. Lucky Star Necklace This mod brings the Lucky Star Necklace to life, transforming it from a passing mention in the unmarked quest "The Star Showdown" into a fully obtainable trophy item. Now, players can claim this unique piece for their collection—or break it down into its seven lucky star caps. Petal Gasmask Obviously not much lore-friendly, but just so beautiful it would be a sin to not add it here. Adds a beautiful cyberpunk flower gasmask to your game. CyberPunk Suit Because why not if you like it? Mojave Express Messenger Bag Drags Casual Courier 
Courier Vests 
Wasteland Hoods 
Tactical Clothing 
Nightstalker Set 
Really badass-looking armor made purely from vanilla mashup.
The Road Warrior Armor
Sweater and Skirt 
Install both main files. Also install the update file if you're [not] using "New Vegas clothes by zzjay V3" mod.
Vanilla Outfit Tweaks
Sinbloods Venomous Armor 
Signus - Armor Pack 1 
Glacier Glasses Wacky Wild-Wasteland Glasses Adds a unique pair of eyeglasses that gives the player the Wild-Wasteland trait whilst they are equipped.
I Got Spurs 

A note about weapon mods and how you may want to choose between them. There are 3 general criterias for those: Style (quality of model, textures and animations); Balance (the correlation between weapon dps, skill requirement and some other aspects); Integration (whether or not the weapon can be found immersively in the game world - on enemies, in containers, or bought from merchants, and whether or not this weapon is included in correspondent perk effects for its weapon type).

If all 3 points are present and all are of a good quality - that's a theoretical perfect weapon mod (your personal taste always comes in on top). But, while many mods in this section possess all 3 criterias, some are not. This doesn't instantly makes the mod bad - because heck, if you absolutely love that one exact weapon look and fire shooting sound - you will most likely still get it if, let's say, it's not very balanced or not integrated into the game. But still, these points are good to keep in mind in general when looking for your personal tastiest weapons.

Millenia weapons, for instance, which are still, in most of cases, are maintaining unrivaled aesthetics with HQ models, textures, custom sounds, often lack needed perks complete integration (for instance, weapon being not affected by Grunt perk from HH DLC) or certain weapons damage could be obviously higher/lower. Some of the newest weapon mods may have better even better look and new unique animations added, but are not balanced at all, and so on. If you care about balance and immersive integration, every time you open the next weapon mod page, just CTRL+F "perk" and "list" - and pick only mods that you both like aesthetically and if they have proper levelled lists & perks integration. If you're familiar with basic concept of scripting, you can also add those yourself by modifying mod scripts in GECK (you can also hop in our Discord and we'll help where needed). But once again, it's all up to you in the end. Also, in the ultimate module, New Vegas Legend, I'm providing the utmost detailed list of weapon mods I'm personally using to build the most badass yet immersive weapon assortment for the walkthrough.

Weapons of the New Millenia
Biggest, most widely known (and that's 100% deserved) New Vegas weapon mod ever made. Stylish. Badass-looking. Variative. Ingegrated into leveled lists (meaning enemies can use the new weapons, you can find them in containers, buy from traders and so on). Also, install the next addons/fixes for it:
Craftable Weapon Mods addon
Millenia L96 Fix 

Now, take a look on separate weapon mods by Millenia that are not included in his all-in-one pack. All of them can be easily merge together into one weapons-related .esp. When installing these standalone mods, do NOT overwrite anything when asked (choose "No To All" when asked about overwriting if using NMM or hide the conflicting files in these mods if using MO). These weapons are:
IMI Desert Eagle 
Also install this fix. It has 2 version - for vanilla animations and for Asurah Reanimation Pack, use only one.
SGO now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically.
Winchester M1897 
Codename RU-556 
Colt M16A2 
PKM 
CZ805 BREN 
FAMAS F1 
Dragunov SVU - OTs-03 
IMI Galil 
TOZ-66 
Steyr Scout 
Walther WA2000 
Serbu Super Shorty 
Suomi M-31 
Browning P35 
Beretta 87 Target 
OTs-33 Pernach 

Nice, now some other great weapon packs and standalone weapon mods:

Tesla Weapons Pack
My favourite energy weapons pack. Make super-sure to install a bugfixing patch for it. Also, open the mod's plugin in xEdit and for the Tesla Caster, change the weapon requirement skill from Guns to Energy Weapons.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - all weapons are affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically.
Photon Laser Weapon Pack 
Badass laser weapons from the same author. Also install kNVSE animations addon for it from here. Note: Make sure to implement a lil fix the plugin settings in xEdit, using the instruction in "NPC's cant use Photon Shotgun or Photon Sniper Rifle" bug report on the mod page.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapons are affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically.
Camon Pack Complete Great medium-sized pack of lore-friendly firearms of all kind: shotguns, automatic rifles, pistols, SMGs and even a grenade launcher. Note: Two plugins will be installed. Keep only the "CamonPack - Blachnick - Scottmack" one, and delete the other. You can also use all packs plus few other standalone guns from this author together, with a major improvement. Read further. Couriers Weapons Dozen plus more weapons from the same author. Scottmacks Forgotten Weapons And 8 more. Homemade PPSh Kar 98k and Type 99 Lee Enfield Mk 1 Rifle Lee Enfield No 4 Scottmacks Metro Btard Gun Camon and Scottmack Weapons - Compatibility Edition Now, the plot twist! The Camon/Scottmack weapon packs and standalone weapons above (8 mods in total) are one of the best on the stage in terms of how lore-friendly they are and how well they blend in with vanilla weapons. The downside of them was that sadly, they were never fully integrated into the game world, a few weapons were bugged and some other minor issues. This mod combines all the weapons from these 8 mods together, resulting in a glorious pack of 55!! new weapons which are fully and seamlessly integrated into the game (enemies can wear many of them and you can buy them from merchants), fixed/corrected where needed and fully affected by all corresponding perks. All you need to do is to download all 8 mods together, install them and [delete] their plugins. Now, install this mod and you're all set!
Note: From all of 55 weapons, there's only 1 bugged - namely Looped, the grenade launcher. You can either just delete it from the mod's plugin in xEdit, or, if you will to spare 5 seconds more of time, just forward the mesh record for the "Looped" weapon from the "Blunderbuss" weapon inside the same plugin. That's it, it's fixed.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - all weapons from all weapon packs included in it are affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically. CarlZee's Weapon Pack - Energy Guns and Melee Weapons Adds 20 (mostly) energy and (some) melee weapons to the game. Great quality of models and textures, weapon mods, vanilla-friendly look & damage balance, and affected by corresponding perks.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - all weapons are affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically. Casino Heist Pack Heist-themed weapons and suits. Note: After installation, delete the "CasinoBankMoney.esp" plugin.
Ruger SR-556 
Also try various retexture files for it. I'm personally using "4Echo Alternate Textures". If you'll be using Arurah Reanimation Pack, install a compatibility patch for it (after both mods installed).
Tactical Laser Rifle 
Super-useful mod for those who wanna focus on energy weapons but be able to snipe. Note: I'd personally recommend to set lock level to 100 (Lock Data for the container in Wolrdspace records section after you'll open mod's plugin in xEdit) for a more balanced access.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically.
Scoped Mag-Accelerated BB Gun of Doom Allows you to craft much stronger, modified version of BB Gun, suitable for Science character, as well as to craft scope for it. Take into account that you'll have to first download the assets from original mod (delete the plugin, you only need the plugin from modified version).
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically.
Remington 700 
Make sure to check out author's profile  for more badass weapons!
MNK-RHINO Gauss Revolver 
The XM4 RAW - A Gauss Rail Assisted Hybrid Weapon 
Heavy Plasma Repeater 
I strongly recommend to check other mods  from this author, his works are really nice.
Forge Beyond
SA80 - L85A2 
Walther WA 2000 
Kriss Vector
Levelled lists and improvements (weapon ID added to correspondent perk, for instance) distribution patch is available. Overwrite the original plugin. Check out author profile for more great weapon mods.
Glock 17 Gen 4 
Tactaghoul's profile 
Note: if you're loving the author's mods, you can grab a combined pack of his weapons here.
H-K G36c 
M60 - M60E3 FNV 
Barrett 95 Anti Materiel Rifle 
Franchi SPAS-12 
M24E1 
Kar 98k and Type 99 
Cynthia 50.Cal 
Mossberg 590 Special Purpose Shotgun 
nickheggo profile For multiple badass standalone weapon mods, ported from popular shooters. Lewis Light Machine Gun Adds the classic Lewis Gun to the Mojave, complete with custom meshes, 3 sets of 4K textures, sounds, and icons. A gun sure to put the Hun on the Run! Weapons Of The New Millenia And MTindle COMPLETE Pack Probably the biggest weapon pack ever made for NV, consiting of weapon from mentioned authors. Grenade Machineguns Reborn - Weapon Overhaul Replaces the grenade machinegun's models and textures, for both the standard and unique versions. Overhauls the gameplay experience with a better firing arc and toned down screen shake effect. 2k (older rigs) or 4k (modern rigs) version recommended. Plasma Gauss Rifle A new endgame energy weapon integrated into the leveled lists. Classic Fallout Flamer pack A recreation of the iconic 'Flamer' weapons found in Classic Fallout 1 and 2 bringing them to the Mojave Wasteland. Improved kNVSE animations here. Tactical Flamer Revamp A compact flamer rifle? Why not! The Right to Bear Arms - NCR Weapon Expansion More weapons to NCR, seamlessly added to leveled lists so you can obtain them too. Laser Musket Adds a new weapon to the Mojave Wasteland, the Laser Musket from Fallout 4. The Bowcaster Plasma grenade launcher with a large AOE and long projectile arc? Yup. MD1 Molecular Disruptor - The Little Doctor A multi-purpose, powerful energy rifle that alters itself in various ways with different ammo types, complete with a quest to obtain and immerse it. Optional Fallout New California support. WJS's Super Sledge Ported Complete model and texture replacement for Super Sledge & Super Sledge Unique (Oh, Baby!) with full animated blade. 7 optional variants. CheyTac M200 Intervention Mod features popular CheyTac M200 Intervention Sniper Rifle to New Vegas.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically. Shoulder Mounted Machine Gun - Rat Runners Arsenal Upgrades the SMMG with new high quality visuals for weapon attachments and adds several more unique variants to the world. RPK Smith and Wesson M-P9 NV Experimental Dual Minigun Turret This mods adds two portable experimental dual minigun turret with its own animations. Explosive Mini-Turret This mod adds a schematics for two new weapons: a mini-turret that can be thrown as a grenade and a mini turret that can be placed as a mine. AR-10 This mods adds an American ArmaLite 10 with hiqh quality textures and model. x01x010 profile For a few badass rifles mostly ported from FO4. Type II's Western Rifles Type II's Colt Revolvers Type II's Smith and Wesson Revolvers A few quality weapon mods from the same author. Also, kNVSE ipmroved animations addon available here. Arsenal Weapon Overhaul - Light Machine Gun Replaces the Light Machine Gun with new models and textures from Insurgency Sandstorm and comes with three attachments, extended magazine, scope and synthetic furniture. Chinese Assault Rifle Adds a fully moddable Chinese Assault rifle to the game with full leveled lists integration. Optional model replacer here. Note: Not needed if you have/plan to have Camon and Scottmack Weapons pack. Chinese Scout Rifle Cowboy and Western Outfit pack Adds a plethora of western-themed outfit for males. Weapons of The Heroes Mod adds numerous unique firearms, zappy-guns and melee with the vanilla look and feel in mind. Rotary Grenade Launcher A semi-automatic 40mm grenade launcher.
Gyrojet Carbine
M1903A3 Springfield 
kNVSE animations addon here and weapons mods addon here.
PTRD-41 
PA3 Hybrid Shotgun 
M2281A1 TAR 
Ruger Mini-14 
Remington 870 Wingmaster Shotgun (Re-release) 
Bioshock Rapture Pistol 
Plasma Boomstick 
PlasmaSMG 
FO1 Alien Blaster 
Choose between replacer and standalone version.
Maschinenpistole model of 1940
BayK's Weapon Pack
Also install fix patch  for it.
Gun Runners Arsenal Expanded 
ZL Armaments Remastered An improved version of original weapon pack, it features over a dozens of weapons, both guns and energy ones - SMGs, assault and sniper rifles, pistol and even a railgun. All weapons are affected by corresponding perks. EHDQKF profile For a few pistols and rifles from COD games. The Raging Bull Beautiful Legion-themed sawed-off shotgun. Can be looted from certain high-ranked Legion member. Special Gauss Revolver Love gauss rifle, but dream of gauss pistol? There you go. Rainier AK - Remastered Plasma.. AK? With a custom scope and animations? Yup! Note: While the weapon is integrated in the levelled lists, the integration via loot is done in the way you can basically get it at level 1 even, sometimes - and so, getting VERY strong weapon super early in the game. Similar is with merchant integration - you can buy weapon and mods super early in the game, and often, not even from energy weapon merchants. If you also think that's disbalanced, it's recommended to (using GECK), correct the mod script, removing additions to low-tier energy LLs and guns LLs and keeping, let's say, only higher tiers energy weapons merchants and Gun Runners stocks integration. Only remove the unneeded LLs lines though - not the lines that are adding weapon to much needed perk and repair form lists. Sig Sauer P320C Small and deadly 9mm pistol. NVRA - Uzi Vanilla+ looking uzi with HD model and texture, custom kNVSE animation, scripted levelled list and perk intergration.
SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically. MWRWP CQ300 Lynx SGO overhaul now supports this mod - weapon is affected by new, weapon-specialization perks automatically. Colt 2k33 Unique pistol that looks like a colt gun (and uses standard .45 ammo), but is actually a gauss pistol. Colt 6520 Reimagined Aadds a new 10mm pistol to the Mojave, loosely based on the OG Fallouts design. Lil' Bomber Ever wanted to blow someone up with an RC plane? Van Buren Weapons This mod adds two weapons to the game from the unreleased Fallout 3 from Black Isle Studios. Autumn's Arsenal
High Frequency Murasama Blade MWRWP Katana Shadowstrike Katana Badass katana with HD textures - or a same HD replacer for vanilla GRA katana. If using the standalone version, improved acquisition quest patch is recommended (the original mod's .esp plugin won't be needed after you'll install the improved one - remove it).
Kurikara Blue-flame-engulfed katana.
Machete True Killer 
Sabre Weapon 
Balisong Butterfly Knives 
AE-86 Seiryuu Beam Katana 
Ka-bar knive by Eprdox 
Happy Widow Powerfist Set
Improvement patch here .
Wannabe Book of Eli Machete Knife Sword Blade Thingy 
KA-BAR - melee and throwable Combat knife (+ throwable version) from Millenia. Chinese Officer's Sword and Weapon Mods Adds previously unused Chinse OFficer's Sword to the game, alongside with 3 mods. Chose "New Vegas + GRA" option in the installer. Vaker - Sci-fi Melee Weapon What it says. Cyberpunk-looking high-tech sword with multiple appearance options. Dragon Slayer Sword Because why not. Be ready: it's being guarded.

Now, a few mods dedicated to throwing weapons - not only new weapons themselves, but also fixes and other improvements. Grouped in this lil paragraph because throwing weapons is probably the least used in FNV, but some players may be still a fans of this type - so get all you can have in one swoop.

Throwable Weapon Fixes Fixes some throwing weapons meshes + some other corrections. Do not overwrite "Vanilla Weapons Redone - Explosives" mod if you have it installed. Skirmisher - Throwing Weapons Expansion Skirmisher adds a bunch of new recipes that will allow you to make and improve throwing weapons, and three new perks that will help your character specialize in throwing weapons, and unlock even better recipes. Improvement patch here. FNV Clean Animations - Throwing Weapons Pack Throwing weapons animation overhaul based on kNVSE. More Throwing Weapons Another drawback of throwing weapons gameplay was that there were simply not enough such weapons to find in the game to have enough to play mostly with them. This mod increases the number of throwing weapons you can find as loot and in merchant stocks. Note: If (and only if) you're on NMM, make sure to repack this mod as per mentioned note in stability section related to NVSE .txt mods.

Let's fix and upgrade everything related to weapon animations. There are a few choices for that - use [only one]:

Weapon Animation Replacer
This mod can be considered a "vanilla weapon animations plus". It fixes bugs in vanilla animations and slightly improves them here and there. If you want the vanilla animations without glitches - this mod is an option for you. Though, the mod folder structure is not suitable for mod manager installation, and for instructions of how to make the mod mod-manager compatible, proceed to this page (instructions and files needed are in Files section - download the "NMM Version" and "NMM Version USER MANUAL" and read the User manual.rtf, it gives step-by-step instructions. Note: Ignore the mentioned "Quick Patch" therem and the "NMM version" works just fine for MO as well).
Note: when installing and asking about overwriting, overwrite everything besides Weapons of New Millenia mod.

Asurah Reanimation Pack
Simply the most stylish animation mod for FNV. While it's no longer updated, it's functional and absolutely great. Animations are beautiful and super-smooth. The main advantage of Asurah mod over any other similar mods is the exactly how smooth the animations are. This is done by huge amount of efforts put into each animations. How to explain that in simple? Each animation is a complex movement that consists of several smaller movements, an iterations. And if vanilla animations have let's say X amoutn of those iterations per animation, Asurah mods has like 3X of them - and that's animations are looking that good. The downside is that as all animation mods released before kNVSE (which was released in 2021), this mod directly replaces vanilla animations, so it needs compatibility patches for other weapon-related mods, and has couple of inconsistencies (solutions for which are listed here though). If you're not sure if you want to spend some time installing it properly and adjusting the mentioned inconsistencies, you may want to look on one more alternative below which uses kNVSE - but, most certainly, it still provides the best animation quality compared to every other animation mod existing on the stage.
Installation instructions:
- Install "Asurah Reanimation Pack 0.2.3.2" (or the newer latest main file version if it'll be updated) first. Overwrite everything if asked. Note: If you want to try a mix between old and new animations, you can install the "Asurah Reanimation Pack main" first and then overwrite it with the newest main file, but take into account this is up to you as more compatibility questions may emerge in this case. Disable the mod's plugin.
- Then, install all files from Main Files section. Overwrite when asked
- Then, install all files from Update files section. Overwrite when asked
- From the Optional File section install the EVE patch. Install patches for separate Millenia weapons mods only if you have those mods ofc.

- From Asurah mod page, download "WMX Patch by Wuestenranger" archive. Unpack it. Now, here's the way of properly installing it:

Great! Now, install patches for other weapon mods (if you have them ofc):
AK Reload Patches SMG Patches Pistol Patches Revolver Patches Each of these mod pages has lots of separate patches for most different weapon mods from respective categories.
Ruger SR-556 Patched for Asurah Reanimation Pack mod
Fitz's .45 Machine Pistol patch for Asurah's Reanimation Pack

NOTE: Asurah mod is increasing attack speed for some weapon types - it's not technically a bug, but rather an author's vision. You shoot much faster from these weapons, but enemies are shooting much faster too. But, if you don't like these changes - you can revert attack speed to original values easily. You will need NIFSkope for that. Now, go to Data\meshes\characters\_male\. You need to find 4 meshes there, namely the: 1hpAttackRight.kf, 1hpAttackRightIS.kf, sneak1hpAttackRight and sneak1hpAttackRightIS. Then, change the values in for "a:R" and "Blendin" parameters (as shown on this screenshot) to the values showed on screenshot. Only these 2 values for each of 4 meshes, nothing else. Change and save, repeat for all mentioned 4 meshes. Done! Attack speed for affected weapons is reverted back to vanilla values.
Lastly, if you will experience issues with laser rifle and SMGs aims being too big in first person, apply the solution described by the user mobbyrob which you can find in comments thread (should be around 20+ comments page, specifically this one).
Awesome! You may also look for a tutorial how to patch any weapon mod for Asurah animations here to make Asurah mod compatible with close to literally everything.

Butcher Pete Complete - A Melee Animation Overhaul Great kNVSE based one-handed melee animations pack. Wasteland Warrior - A Melee Animation Overhaul Similar pack from the same author, for two-handed melee weapons. Also install the fix from update files. Unarmed Animations And here - for unarmed weapons.
Unarmed Rearmed Replaces unarmed weapon animations in third person with kNVSE bsed martial arts style kicks animations. Awesome Staggering Improved staggering animation for human NPCs. Vanilla animations replacer. Use this mod or the one below. Modern Stagger animations Simple as that. More fluid stagger animations without affecting the combat balance. Use this mod or the one above. FNV Clean Animations - Grenades Pack Animation overhaul for all thrown explosives. Also install the update file. FNV Clean Animations - Explosive Mines Pack And mines.

Now let's proceed to other animation-related mods.
Diagonal Movement
Yeah, you can actually see proper diagonal movement animations now. Note: do [NOT] overwrite NV Compatibility Skeleton mod.
New Vegas - Enhanced Camera
This is an amazing mod if you want your first-person experience more realistic and alive. This said, mod has decent amount of glitches and may look weird if you're using some weapon animation mods or playing on FOV different from vanilla one (75). Still, you can add or remove it anytime, in midgame as well - the benefit is it's a pure NVSE plugin - and so uninstalling it won't cause any issues to your save.
360 Movement Adds 360 degrees movements with procedural leaning, and auto vanity mode to make the game feel more like later Bethesda games. Animated Player Interactions Plays animations when interacting with objects, opening/closing doors and picking up items. Download the plugin version. FPS Leaning Proper leaning mechanic with ability to shoot\reload etc while doing it. FPS Dashing Cyberpunk 2077 style dashing mod. Now you can dodge those ghouls in style. Configurable. Better Stand Up Animation Now you don't have to cringe every time you or an NPC wants to get up. Simple edit of vanilla animation files. Falling And Landing Animated Landing on the ground will cause you to stumble, roll, or collapse. Includes 11 animations. Note: To not have somewhat arguable fall damage height changes, use the mod version 1 from the Old Files tab. Graves - Bury Them All With Animation Animated mod that allows you to properly bury the NPCs, should you want so. Configurable.
Sit Anywhere
Simple as that. Muh immersion!
Helpless Falling
Optional mod that will make falling a much more dangerous thing because animation will be much more "confused" and has longer duration before you stand up.
Animated Sleeping 
See yourself sleeping.
Note: for mod proper work, it needs Enhanced Camera mod, take that into account.
Animated Workbenches 
Mod plays animation when you use a workbench.
The Groovatron NV
A poser mod for NV.
Wasteland Guitar Hero
Wanna be a Wasteland bard? Go on :)
WAR MiX Introduces variations to gun animations and movement. No more cloned animations - everyone moves differently. 9mm kNVSE Animation Alternation A set of 8 different reload animations for 9mm pistol, applying randomly every time you reload. kNVSE Gauss Rifle Reload Animation Alternation Makes the Gauss rifle cycle through 13 different rifle animations. ELITE Riot Shotgun Animation Overhaul (kNVSE) Best Riot Shotgun reload anim ever. Get the WRP version. FNV Clean Animations - Red Glare ==NEW== Sawed-Off Shotgun Anim Set - kNVSE Dedicated Sawed-Off Weapon Animations Sawed Off Shotgun Anims Remake Some dedicated kNVSE animations for sawed-off (and Big Boomer) shotgun. Note: These mods make animations for this weapon two-handed instead of one-handed. Different Fatman Animations Improved animations for the iconic badaboomker. Cowboy Fanning and Spinning Weapons Similar mod with a bit different animations and configurable animation chance. Also supports multiple modded weapons (list on the mod page). Binoculars Anim Set Subtle improvement for binoculars animation. Codac R9000 Anim Set And for that quest camera. Meat Prep Animations Restored Restores an unfinished animation marker with unique meat preparation animations and adds them across the Mojave. Female Sitting Animation Replacer A simple replacer for the vanilla female sitting idle. High Heels script A small script to let heels working similar to their counterparts in Skyrim and FO4. NV Automatron and Eyebot Pod Animation This mod adds animation, sounds and makes functionals the Automatron and the Eyebot Pod. Tesla Cannon Animation Fix Fixes the long standing animation issue with Tesla Cannons where the back of the weapon locks in place after firing. Animated Ingestibles Animations for the player and/or NPCs when eating, drinking and using chems. Note: If you'll use this mod, take a minute to return to the very end of the second "Models and Textures" section, and grab Animated Ingestibles versions ofMadMonkey119's food mods instead of vanilla ones. CR Petting Pets Animations ==NEW== New lightweight animations to interact with Pets. Contains keywords support for integration, reactions, sounds, configs and more. Stim Your Friends - Fallout 4 Style NPC Stim ==NEW== FO4 style Stimpak animations for companions. Supports both vanilla companion wheel and JIP CCC. Smooth Weapon Handling ==NEW== Dynamically lowers the first-person weapon based on where you're looking. Smoothly adapts to pitch angle to keep the weapon out of view when you're looking around or down. Explosion Reactions ==NEW== Adds unique first-person animations when the player is hit by nearby explosions. Configurable via the .ini file. Heroic Power Armor Idle Stance Adds a proud stance for when using power armor or another. Jokerine's Pose Pack - Motivation Pack of posing animations useful for screenarchery. Super Mutants Blink Animation This mod adds a very subtle animation: a blink animation to all NV Super Mutants.

Fallout - New California
I'm opening this section with currently the biggest and most professionally made quest/new land mod ever made for New Vegas. New California is hard even to call a "mod", in general. It has a size of a complete game and it's done on amazingly high level of everything - from wordlspace design to character voices and narration.
- A game-sized mod. Basically, an independent game itself.
- Deep and incredibly non-linear storyline, with many charismatic characters and followers, with many different endings.
- A worldspace bigger than any of official DLCs.
- An epic war between The Super Mutants, The Raider Alliance, The Enclave, and The New California Republic.
- Incredible voice acting.
- Professionally-made cutscenes, mass events, new radio stations, new armors and weapons.
You can also watch my complete review of it, as well as 4k scenery showcase.
New California is an unofficial but lore-friendly prequel to New Vegas and I'm strongly recommendeding to play it. You will be stunned, shocked (in a good meaning) and absolutely amazed.
Installation: simple af. Download the file, unpack it. Run the .exe installer, navigate to your NV folder. Profit!
Note #1: NC is a [prequel] to New Vegas, so the best option is to actually play it before your NV walkthrough. Current mod version has a "bridge" to NV worldspace, but my personal recommendation is just to play it, and then start new NV walkthrough itself, because if you'll appear in NV worldspace after NC, you'll be already very strong and NV itself will have close to no challenge for you.
Note #2: in "recommended mods" list, you already have all the mods (besides only Robco Certified).
Note #3: make sure to read the list of incompatible mods. It's not big, but still, read it.
Note #4: New California is such a huge mod that it has dozens of other mods made [for it] by various authors. All those mods are not obligatory to have - but many of them are really good additions to already amazing NC itself. List of such mods is available as a standalone "New Californication" module, in modules section of U.L.T.I.M.A.T.E. below. It also contains my personal recommendations of mods NV mods that are playing great together with New California. Once again, it's recommended to play NC before NV walkthrough, and to either play it without any mods besides "recommended" at NC page, or only with mods from "New Californication" module, and after you finish NC, change your mod list for an actual NV walkthrough.

Autumn Leaves
Absolutely incredible, DLC-sized quest mod with multiple endings, nonlinear walkthrough, over 2000 of fully-voiced dialogue lines and generally amazing mood, inspired by classic RPGs like Planscape Torment and Arcanum, and of course, new items and plenty of new unique perks as rewards. Also, don't forget to install YUP patch and fix patch for it. Also, if you'll experience rare bug when James won't appear in the last part of main quest, look here for a solution.

Now, a series of quest mods from one talented authors. "Someguy Series" is a pack of many quests mods of different type - they can be serious, funny or just ridiculous, but they are all so well-made that you'll like even the "ridiculous" ones. All his mods have a real charm and in total, will give you many dozens of hours of walkthrough.
The Someguy Series
This mod does nothing on its own, but it's a [required core] for all other Someguys's mods. Install it. Now, the mods themselves:
New Vegas Bounties I
New Vegas Bounties II
New Vegas Bounties III
Nearly an iconic series of bounty hunting mods with dozens of various quests where you need to track outlaws - everything with own backstories, challenging fights, humoristic moments and new worldspaces.
The Inheritance
Fully-voiced, lore-friendly storyline from the same author.
New Vegas Killer
Ever wanted to work as an assassin for hire? Think no more.
Lastly - check out other mods in Someguy's profile - you may find some more mods that will fir your taste a lot.
Patches/addons:
New Vegas Bounties I - Immersive Start Removes the message pop-up starting the quest. Now the quest start when taking the note found outside the Prospector Saloon. Someguy Series Tweaks n' Fixes Several fixes and corrections for various Someguy mods. New Vegas Bounties 3 Tweaks Some tweaks for NWB3 as well as Marco redegisn. New Vegas Bounties II transition to New Vegas Bounties III A patch that properly transitions New Vegas Bounties II into III. Weapons Replacer Pack for New Vegas Bounties I and II New models, improved textures and in some cases, new animations for them. Make sure to read the requirements list as you'll need to download some weapon mods for the assets usage of this mod (plugins from them are not needed). Light Machine Gun replacer for New Vegas Bounties II Not included in the mod above, so you may wan to grab this one too. Melee Weapons Replacer Pack for New Vegas Bounties Similar addon for melee weapons. Get the "Melee Wapons Replacer Pack for New Vegas Bounties" file (not the "LE" one). Weapons Replacer Pack for The Inheritance And for The Inheritance. The Inheritance - YUP Compatibility Patch Simple as that. Patch forwards some YUP edits into the Inheritance for consistency. The Inheritance - Bradleys letter bug fix Fixes probably the most notable bug in the mod. Note: This is not technically a mod - just an instruction of what to do in game to get rid of the issue, so make sure to read the mod page. NVBIII Scarred Perk - No Drawbacks What the name says. As soon as you'll finish NWB3, you'll see. Someguy Series Worldspace Ambient Noise Adds natural ambient noises that lacked to the worldspaces of the Someguy Series mods. Modular.

Deimos
A fully-voiced mysterious quest from author of "Falskaar" quest mod for Skyrim.

Beyond Boulder Dome
A completely new land with own creatures, spirit and quests, giving really great presence feeling. Also grab fixes here, here, here and here, as well as new animation patches for the mod's unique revolver and gauss rifle.

Tales from the Burning Sands Complete
A story-driven quest mod, deeply based on narration, storyline and puzzles. Make sure to get two bugfixing/improvements patches here and here , and optionally, this tiny tweak .

Tales of New Reno - Episode Zero (Home on the Wastes) Revisited version of this episode here ==NEW==. Tales of New Reno - Episode One (Greetings from New Reno) Tales of New Reno - Episode Two (Black Napkins) "Tales of New Reno" series - a massive, fully-voiced quest mods series. Highly recommended to be played in proper order (episode 0 ==> 1 ==> 2). Also don't forget to install required core mod for them, which will forward your storyline choices and consequences between the episodes.
Patches/addons:
Weapons Replacers for Tales of New Reno Episode Zero Weapons Replacers for Tales of New Reno Episode 1 Provides improved look for unique weapons in the mod + new animations.

Zion Trail
An adventure in a completely new big worldspace, lore-wise and with a great level design.
Patches/addons:
Zion Trail Redux Worldspace aesthetics/immersion addon. Overwrite the original mod's plugin. Zion Trail - Revised Rewritten and Revoiced One more great improvement addon. Overwrite the original mod's plugin. Zion Trail Redux Double Plus Goodies More extra content for the mod. Requires Zion Trail Redux to work. ZionTrail - YUP Patch for Scripts Patches Flare Gun and Flashbang with YUP corrections to respective scripts. Tales of New Reno Chapter Two Patch Zion Trail Collectibles Adds a quest that begins when you pick up the first Trail Log from Zion Trail. It adds markers to the others, and the quest completes when you've collected all of them.

The New Bison Steve Hotel and Lucky Casino
Old but great and roleplay-wise quest mod to restore named hotel and casino. Quests, encounters and more - everything is voiced. Recommended to get the balancing patch here. If you're using or plan to use ILO, you can also use this addon for much better lighting (take into account you'll also need to install sortomatic addon of the base mod itself, downloaded at the mod Files tab, as well as Sortomatic mod, ofc). Also, install the patch that improves unique weapons look and their animations.

Salt Lake Stories
One of the best quest mods made for FNV, with own flavor - it doesn't quite have the usual "main quest", but rather offers you a vast area to explore, filled with lots of well-written and interesting quests. The only practical downside of it is the fact there's no quest markers (aka GPS navigation) in it whatsoever - you have to navigate yourself through quests with the help of what NPC say and quest logs. Make sure to read the installation instructions.
Patches/addons:
Salt Lake Stories Overhaul Another large improvement patch fixing some bugs, making some logical tweaks and improving the look of some mod locations. Lever Action Rifle Animations for Salt Lake Improvements Improved animations for the named weapons (all anims are packed into the mod, nothing asides needed). Delay Salt Lake Stories Mod won't instantly start at the game beginning/save loading, and will start immersively when you'll reach the related NPC's camp.

Afterschool Special
Take into account that it may be or not be compatible with Goodspings overhaul mods. FCO patch here . Also install the typo patch if you are bothered by such things.
The Collector
Short quest mod - but greatly written & voiced, as well as blending the game greatly, and very much underrated one.
The Rockwell Pursuit
You can also play this mod prequel, but that's on your own choice - it's pretty bugged. Pursuit is a great one, stable and voiced. Install the minor bugfixing patch from here .
The Deterrent
Travel to Storm City to help the Brotherhood Chapter currently locked in a stalemate with super-mutants. A fully voiced mini DLC mod which features one and a half to two hours of content. Race To The Bottom A fully voiced quest from the creator of The Deterrent. The Freeside Coop was robbed by an unknown assailant. Track down the assailants and explore a large new dungeon with difficult decisions to be made along the way.
Novac Public Library
Saxxons Quest Collection
Also install new look and animation patch for the mod's unique hunting rifle from here.
BenTuttle90 profile
For two small, but atmospheric quest mods.
The Couriers Cache
Peace in the Valley
If you want some QOL improvements, install the files that are linked in comment from the user "ConeOfCinder" in the mod's comments section (ovewrite the original mod's files with those).
Kazopert's quest mods
Various little but well-made mods, a great example of "quantity above quality". My personal recommendation to play.
New Vegas Stories
Amazing collection of 5 different quests touching different factions - in places where game lacked some content. Greatly written and choice-driven. Highly recommend. Note: only 3 out of 5 quests in the mod are voiced. If you would like to keep only the voiced one, install this on top.
War Trash - Quest Mod
Mod has minor conflicts with AWOP (listed below). NPCs from both mods spawn in same places sometimes - but nothing game-breaking.
Mysterious House
Mojave Express Courier Delivery Work - Primm Adds a repeatable Courier Delivery Service quest to Primm, with time limits, random encounters, toll booths and more. Optional (but recommended) tweaks patch here (overwrite the mod's .esm). Side Activity - Treasure Hunting Gives the world of New Vegas one more activity. Now you can quite literally comb the desert for money and other trinkets! Retribution - A Legion Quest Mod A rare thing to meet - a series of Legion quests for evil or chaotic type of character in bounty-hunting style, with some nonlinear choice options to go the quests through. In some sense, you can call it "New Vegas Bounties" but for the Legion. Dry Wells - Legion Expansion Lore-friendly quest & land expansion with 20+ quests, 35+ fully voiced characters, new minor factions, a player home, and multiple main questlines. Allows the player to visit Dry Wells before nuking it in Lonesome Road, and expands upon Legion lands in Arizona. ~6 hours of content, with expansive player choice and consequences. The Unforgiven - A New Vegas Western ==NEW== Track down the one that got away in this moderately-sized, western-themed quest mod from the creator of Retribution. Lucky Jim's Cache A small unmarked quest featuring a large dungeon with tons of new, custom assets. Devil's Gulley The Devil’s Gulley is the second installation of a series aiming to improve upon vanilla locations. The Devil’s Gullet is a location outside Goodsprings that was initially an unexplained sinkhole with some fencing around the perimeter. Now, the Devil’s Gullet is clad with a brand-new exterior makeover alongside a new interior and unmarked quest - The Devil’s Gulley. It is a leveled quest that is great for low to mid-level players. I'm Moving On A quest mod about a young woman in Novac, short and touching. Unfriendlier Persuasion Redux Not technically a new quest, but a well made overhaul for the a lackluster, 5 seconds long "Unfriendly Persuasion" vanilla quest. The Caravan Tournament An exciting quest mod featuring the much loved (and hated) caravan game! Hop into a fully voiced adventure that pits you against 5 unique opponents in a battle of the wits. "Lower Rewards Patch" is recommended to install. The Uncanny Valley Research Center A short quest & exploration mod adding a new location to Big MT. Delve into the long-lost Uncanny Valley Research Center of Big MT and discover the surreal facility inside. Join The Think Tank Join The Think Tank restores the cut ending to Old World Blues in which the player can join the Think Tank. Mikeburnfire's NPCs and Quests Adds 25+ fully-voiced NPCs and a few quests to the wasteland for you to find. The Haunted Casino Join a ghost hunter in a perilous expedition to Gally's Hotel & Casino, a long-forgotten part of the Las Vegas Strip. Something dark lurks inside, waiting for you to discover it. The Happy Place - New Vegas Horror A legend permeates the Mojave of a unseen force that attracts children to itself, causing a rash number of disappearances since before even the great war. Every Year, Every October, 15 children leave their homes inexplicably, and are never heard from again. You are hired by a tired detective to investigate, and discover a very interesting house. Xanadu Adds an interesting quest involving a tribal cult in a new worldspace, a cowboyrobot in a dusty basement, a traveling one armed ghoul and a mountain stronghold near Four Winds. Wild Card - Open the Lucky 38 Mod that let you ask Yes Man to open the Lucky 38 for business. The Depths of Depravity Delve into the midst of some of the worst people and organizations that post-apocalyptic life has to offer. Investigate conspiracies, make new friends, meet interesting people and then kill them. Family Matters Fully voiced short quest mod that has you travel across the wasteland to track down a dying old man's family. Note: To prevent some bugs with robots in the game, it's recommended to delete vanilla robot records edits present in the mod plugin using xEdit, as shown on the image. This won't do anything bad to your game as those edits were made/kept mistakenly, most likely. Vault 11 - Story of the Sole Survivor Discover the conclusion of the story of Vault 11. This short but detailed mod aims to show and tell the story of the only original inhabitant of Vault 11 who lived to see the outside world again in an interactive way with a focus on combat. Newline Town Adds a small settlement to Black Mountain, populated by robots. Ice cream guaranteed. Monroeville - A Frontier Town Adds a brand new town to the northern part of the map that aims to flesh out the area and provide a cosy resting spot for when you need to resupply for trips to the more remote areas of the wastes. It comes with several quests, a fully voiced companion with a companion quest and custom perk, two new sets of armor and a player home. Zion's Fire -- Joshua Graham Romance Mod Adds several new quests ranging in complexity, many new voiced dialogue options with Joshua Graham, hidden lore, and an altered "good" ending. Sincerely ==NEW== A small quest mod taking place in the Divide. Stealthtenza - A Quest for a Cowboy Stealth Armor ==NEW== Various quests and adventures to aquire a new Cowboy Stealth Armor, its optional talking AI, a new revolver-shotgun and more. Return of Night Terror - A Quest for a Fiend Stealth Armor ==NEW== From the author of the mod above, a short bounty quest to track and eliminate a thought-to-be-dead Fiend leader, recover his new Raider-styled Stealth Armor. A Quiet Start - Quest Mod Delayers A few simple plugins to delay in a rational way mods that auto-start on game load. Read the mod page for explanations of how exactly each patch is delaying what quest. Idolized Initiation - Join the Kings A way to join the Kings with idolized reputation in Freeside. Rotface to Riches Restores the cut Rotface quest with plethora of options.

Sinitar's Gameplay Overhaul - SGO for NV
SGO is the definitive perk, enemy and balance overhaul I made myself after over a year of work, designed to make game much more challenging, rewarding and fun. From combat to economy, it utilizes the best of NV engine as well as NVSE/JIP functions. It also adds new yet lore-friendly mechanics and around 160 new perks/traits to the game, new achievements, recipes etc - to greatly improve the amount and depth of character builds, allowing you to develop unique characters and playstyles not available before in vanilla game - while keeping them balanced. The philosophy of SGO is to not break the atmosphere and gameplay of New Vegas, but let you enjoy it much more rewarding, refreshed way, allowing you to build much more interesting playstyles and character archetypes - which, in return, will have new challenges due to hundreds of rebalanced NPCs, achievements & consequences, better combat, new encounters & legendary/unique creatures and over 40 unique scripted bossfights, leading to more immersive feeling of the game. SGO can be the only gameplay overhaul in your mod list as well as fit greatly into heavy load order. Full list of features is at the mod page. You can also watch a short teaser #1 & teaser #2 for starters.

Now, a list of mods which are (not obligatory, but can be and play well together) meant to be used together to (mostly) substitute the legendary Project Nevada most notable features with a better script optimization. Project Nevada itself was removed from the guide due to vastly majority of its features nowadays can be implemented through more modern mods.

Project Nevada - Enhanced Vision Standalone Enhanced Vision from Project Nevada. Sound replacers patch here . Cyberware 2281 Standalone Cyberware from Project Nevada. Just Vanilla Sprint 
Simple sprint mod. Drains action points based on armor class (none, light, medium, heavy), and will increase dehydration in hardcore mode (this is unfortunately not configurable). Optional animation replacer here (it's compatible with Just Sprint, not only JAM - the mod is just animation files, no plugin), features extension addon here and patch to be able to spring for free of AP cost out of combat here. Food Not Medicine Alternative to the mod above, useful if you have mods that are adding new food/drink items, or heavily changing vanilla ones - and you want those items to also do not heal. Uses scripts to work, so won't cause any compatibility issues with vanilla records, and work automatically for mod-added ingestibles. Note: If (and only if) you're on NMM, make sure to repack this mod as per mentioned note in stability section related to NVSE .txt mods.

Good, now couple other "big ones", but of a different type:
A World Of Pain
AWOP is a huge project of great quality, great ambience, challenging fights, both creepy and funny encounters and interesting backstories. It adds more than 150!! new locations - caves, bunkers, shops and so on - filled with new enemies, neutral NPCs and quests. This mod alone will give you several tens of hours of exploration. The only moment you need to take into account - most of its NPCs are not voiced, just because mod is maintained by just a few people and itself is just to huge. If that's something you can't tolerate - you can skip it. But, trust me - just after a couple of new dungeons, sweat drips on your forehead for hard encounter and good laughs, you won't pay any attention to this - as the dialogies and quests themselves are written more than great.
Installation:
- Install "A World of Pain" and " AWOP Dead Money 2.0" files from Main Files section.
- Install the update file if it's present. Note: If you're updating AWOP from your previously installed older version, make sure to uninstall your currently installed update file as this means it's for older mod version.
- Install "AWOP Optional Plugins" from Optional Files section. Read options description carefully and install what you like. My recommendation is "Low Loot All and Low NPCs" and "Low 4D Storage" options.
- Download "AWOP Compatibility Patches" and "AWOP Weapon Mod Patches". Install the "AWOP Weapon Mod Patches" - in installer, choose Impact, EVE and WMX options, and then "EVE All DLC" and then "WMX All DLC Merged" options. Do [NOT] install "AWOP Compatibility Patches" file now.
- Download AWOP tweaks addon (get the "NV" version).
- If you're using Saxxon's Quest Collection, download and install patch for it from Didisaan's AWOP patches page .

The N.V. Interiors Project
Similar project more focused on the overall ambience - mod is adding several dozens of completely new, fitting, lore-friendly interiors to explore. It feels like a native part of the game and greatly improve the adventuring/exploring feelings that game is giving to you. The great news here is you can run it together with AWOP to have even more new cells to explore!
Installation:
- Install "NVInteriors Core v2.1.1" and "_NVInteriors_Combo Edition v1.3.4" from the Main Files section.
- Install "NMC_NVInteriors compatibility Patch", Medium version.
- Optionally - install NV Interiors Project Addon - namely the "NV Interiors Addon 1.21" from Main Files and "NV Interiors Addon 1.22" from Update Files.
Note: current version of the addon (not mod itself) is compatible only in case you're not using AWOP (because it require AWOP version of NV Interiors, which is obsolete as NV Interiors is auto-compatible with AWOP now and .esp name is different).

Now let's see some more amazing mods!
Nevada Combat 
Small yet effective combat mod that's aiming on overall rebalance of several dozens of combat values to make fights more challenging but without changing "too much". I made this mod myself to complement other great combat mods, so balance was the most important moment, and it's also highly compatible with most of popular mods - just load NC after other combat mods.
Enemies will react on shooting faster, hide and change weapons more often, but at the same time other ridiculous vanilla AI was balanced too - enemies will be less "ninjas" and "snpiers" and so on. Mod also rebalances weapon reach and has immersive optional unique feature to allow Agility slightly affect your character movement speed. NC will be a good option for both "lite" mods lists as well as a great base for heavy mod lists, in terms of combat. Mod page also has detailed description of features and additional advices about compatibility, so read it carefully :)
Note: It's fully included in SGO, so you don't need it if you're using SGO already.
Alternative Repairing
Repairing system is now greatly improved and expanded. It adds new repair parts for you to craft and buy - to give you more options and add a bit of satisfaction to scavenging junk, as it should be in Wasteland.

NPC Dynamic Combat Styles Actors in combat are assigned a dynamic combat style that is updated based on Confidence, Remaining Health, Faction, Weapon Type and Weapon Skill.
Cover Based Stealth Mechanics
A must-have mod to make stealh part of gameplay much more challenging, realistic, rewarding, but greatly balanced at the same time. It reworks many detection mechanics so stealth will have an actual sense in game now. Mod also allows you to change the overall damage multiplier level in game to adjust it as for any taste - for both spongy/lethal combat lovers. It also allows to change the sneak damage bonus itself. Lastly, it has super-immersive, animated "peak" feature that's both useful for gameplay itself as well as roleplayhing. And the last thing - almost every feature and value of this mod is easily configurable in MCM.
Note: install both main files.
Enemy AI - Tactics - NPC Healing 
Another great mod that balances the combat, making enemies more smart - agressive when needed, carefull when they are injured and so on. It also has unique feature that allows NPC to heal themselves with stimpaks in combat. Compatible with all combat mods mentioned above and recommended to be used together with them.
Installation: download the archive manually, unpack it. You need to keep the "XFO - 9a - Enemies - AI revamp.esp" file and choose only [one] healing plugin to keep, deleting the other two. I personally recommend to use the Low or Med versions. When unneeded lugins are deleted, zip the two files you have, add the archive to your mod manager and isntall as usual.
Important note: healing works, but for better and more logical work it requires a tiny fix which you can make yourself. Click the spoiler button to see the solution:


The next 4 mods can be also used together - but don't do this blindly, decide yourself if you need each of them:
More Realistic Aiming + fix patch
Mod adds slightly noticeable shaking when aiming, as it would be irl. Will fit any taste, as the strength of shaking is configurable in MCM.
JIP Realistic Weapon Overheating
Does how it's named, adding one more realism aspect to your shooting. Highly configurable as well. 
Immersive Recoil 2.0 
Best balanced recoil mod ever made - and also compatible with all weapons and weapon mods and with MCM configuration on top.
Note: load  it after JIP Realistic Weapon Overheating
Immersive Recoil NPC The similar mod from the same author, but for NPCs - really well-made, great for balance purposes if you're running hardcore/semi-hardcore mod list, and configurable in MCM as well. NPCs Sprint kNVSE Simple and effective as that, great combat realism mod - updated and simplified version of original mod. Dynamic Weapon Spread 2.0 An overhaul to the weapon spread system that allows firearms to be far more accurate in certain conditions, and less accurate where appropriate.
Fallout 4 Power Armor Features
Simply E.S.S.E.N.T.I.A.L. mod for power armors - just read mod description page and you'll understand why. It adds plenty of badass and balanced features - from proper power armor sounds to completely new gameplay features and perks (power jumps, Pain Train etc), but what if even more great - you can set these features to be applied to your followers AND enemies as well - for a much more challenging fights.
Note #1: Take a look on patches in Optional Files section. If you're using "T-60 Power Armor" mod - disable/delete that mod's esp, namely the "T60.esp" after you've installed patch for it (the "FO4 PA features T-60 addon" file).
FO76 Style Mutations
A great mod that adds one of the few atually good features from FO76 to NV - an immersive system of mutations - a double adged features with pros and cons.
NAWEMO - NPCs use Ammo Variants and Weapon Mods
Such a small, but simply genius mod with a notable game impact, aimed on realism and more challenging gameplay - an essential one to have for challenging (and rewarding, because you can loot some of the stuff too) game. Diseases This mod adds 9 diseases to the game. Each one have a chance to occur under different conditions and will reduce your character's abilities. Dieases can be curned with chems or pass away with time (if they didn't go into harder phase). Read full description of all features at the mod page. Configurable via the .ini file.
JIP Selective-Fire
This mod introduces a selective-fire system to Fallout: New Vegas. Most projectile-type weapons, capable of automatic fire, will have two or more optional fire-modes for the player to switch between
Unarmed And Melee Revolution
A mod with some unique features for melee builds. Though, the Warrior perk is actually OP, but if you don't like that you can easily adjust or remove it from the mod in FNVEdit.
Economy Overhaul 
Another great mod that rebalances and changes NV economy system to make it more interesting and rewarding.
Balanced Discounts and Barter Fixes Reduces the economy-breaking discounts provided by some merchants and fixes multiple bugs and inconsistencies related to barter modifiers, while sticking true to vanilla intentions.
Mojave Arsenal
Adds ammo variants, reloading parts, and weapon mods as loot, fixes item naming conventions, improves vanilla recipes and so on.
Ammo Crafting Schematics
Similar and different mod at the same time that also makes crafting more interesting. Can be used together with previous mod, but they have some overlappings which you can easily remove in FNVEdit.
Note: also install the "ACS - Dead Money", "ACS - Gun Runners Arsenal", "ACS - Honest Hearts v1_0_2" and "ACS - Lonesome Road v1_0_1" files. You can merge them together without issues.
Equipment Restoration Project
Does how it's named - restores really big amount of cut items, mostly armors and weapons.
Water Overhaul
A great mod for all hardcore lovers and everyone who just want to make survival aspect of the game more challenging.

Bottle That Water
"Bottle water" only alternative if you don't want to use Water Overhaul but still want that bottling immersion. No health regen patch here.
Ultimate Illness Mod
Wanna add more challenge to Hardcore mod? Wanna to have a real test of survival in Mojave? Think no more!
Note: mod should be used ONLY with hardcore mode, and be aware that it's VERY hardcore itself, read mod page, try mod on test save and decide if you need it.

Next few mods are not only compatible, but also play well together, drastically expanding world encounters and adding various new events in absolutely logical, lore-friendly way, unlike the many other popular spawns/population mods:
The Living Desert
This mod adds hundreds of npcs and several scripted events to the world of Fallout: New Vegas; people patrolling the roads, traveling between towns, occupying locations, exploring the desert and reacting dynamically to your choices throughout the game. It's doing everything in lore-friendly, non-intrusive way and it's simple an essential mod for any type of walkthrough - once you've play with it, you can't play without it anymore.
Patches/addons:
Leveled List Overhaul Strip Lights Region Fix patch FCO patch
Mojave Wildlife
Adds hundreds more leveled, vanilla-friendly creature spawn points throughout the whole Mojave, based off unused vanilla leveled lists. All spawn points are meticulously hand-placed and distributed as evenly and fairly as possible. I'd recommend to use "FO3 No Chanced Spawns Version" of the mod, but read the description page and decide yourself. Prodlimen Creature Integration Pack 18 new, mostly lore-friendly creatures, carefully distributed in the Mojave Wasteland as more rare variants of vanilla creatures with unique look.
Mojave Raiders
A great mod that's improving Raiders faction, from the author of previous mod. It balances their loot and adds more of them to fight.
Note : Be sure to use "Nipton Takeover Disabled" version if you're using Nipton Rebuilt or similar Nipton town overhauls. Alternatively, there's a newer, simplified, and much more compatible version available here. Spawns in this version are also configurable through the .ini file.
Faction Wasteland Presence - Improved Edition Adds Great Khans, Securitrons, NCR and Legion patrols and Brotherhood of Steel paladins on lore-friendly locations. Fixed and improved version of the original (now deleted) mod. Prospectors Adds some prospectors wandering around and doing their thing. Note: Not needed if you're using TLD (The Living Desert) already.

Great, let's finish this big section:
Vicious Wastes - Difficulty Mod
Makes combat more dangerous for both player and NPCs and improves the rewarding feeling from level progression via really well-made balancing changes. It also has patches to choose during installation for some popular mods and most of its modules can be disabled in MCM to ensure full compatibility with similar mods, and if you don't like reduced level cap, you can easily adjust it using FNVedit - just dont' forget to revert perk level requirements back to vanilla values, as mod lowered them to fit lower max lvl. I'm personally using this mod as well, with a bit of own tweaks.
Note: Not needed if you're using SGO. Also, if you're not using SGO, but using Nevada Combat mod, use the "No Agility" version as the same features is already available in this mod.
Cirosans Classic Overhaul
One of the most underrated gameplay overhauls on Nexus - its balance many gameplay mechanics in logical way, adds new things like new perks/traits. All its major options are modular to install - giving you ability to choose what you want and don't want. Has DLC support.
Note: Not needed if you're using SGO.
Threshold 
This mod installation is optional - but it's a very much needed one for hardcore players that are using mods that increase weapon dmg. It changes the maximum damage resistance and minimum bleedthrough on damage threshold, in order to improve the effectiveness of armor when using mod/mod lists aimed on higher damage multipliers.
DT Multiplier and DR Adder
This mod is also useful for hardcore players, but unlike previous mod, it's very useful mod in general. It restores DR features that was a beloved protection type in FO3. To maintain the perfect balance, bot DT and DR settings for all armor types are available for you to tweak in MCM - you can adjust the whole system to your taste in order to make own balance between DT/DR to make armor work in NV much more rewarding in general.
Librarian Of The Wastes 
Useful and immersive mod that introduces 3 main features: 1 - Unwanted 'skill books' can be swapped at Mojave Express drop-boxes for other skill books. 2 - The 'Librarian Of The Wastes' perk lets you craft your own (less effective) versions of skill books. 3 - The 'Well-Read' perk lets you craft chems that provide permanent stat bonuses of various kinds. It' really neat and non-intrusive mod that will allow you to build your character better without breaking the immersion.
Note: in my personal vision, some value in the mod should be adjusted a bit (toned down).
Adrenaline
Simple as that - implements Fallour 4 adrenaline mechanics (which was actually pretty cool) into New Vegas.
Famine - A Loot Rarity Mod A similar mod, more light-weight script-wise, but also simpler in terms of feature set. Use one or another, of course. Big MT Disharmony - Factions Fight Each Other Makes the Big MT Inhabitants fight each other. Lobotomites, skeletons, monsters and robots clash! Vicious Wastes Standalone Mechanics Radiation, Agility, Perception, Barter, Charisma and Skill Points features/changes - standalone from origina Vicious Wastes mod. Hardcore Chems - Detrimental chem effects Adds effects to several aid and chem items that affect your hardcore needs in a negative way; stimpaks for example will make you a bit thirsty and sleepy. Inspired by FO4 survival mode but not exactly the same. Fully compatible, no vanilla records edited. Note: If you want it [really] hardcore - get the main file. If you want something less intrusive, get the "Hardcore Chems - Half version" file. Classic Fallout Armor Overhaul Brings the Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics armor and damage system to New Vegas via scripts. GRA Unique Weapons Relocated - DLC Items Returned Distributes GRA DLC weapons in the game world for you to find. Improved version of the original mod with the same name (make sure to endorse it too). Use this mod or the one below. Rewarding Exploring - Improved Edition Similar mod with the same goal but a different approach. Also a slightly improved version of the original mod (endorse it too). If you like the idea of such concept in general, but not sure which mod to pick, just open both original mod pages and read through the locations and ways of obtaining the weapons, pick the mod that you see more logical. Ofc, use only one, not both. Simple Drinks Adds 13 new beverages to the Mojave Wasteland. The Outer Worlds-style Unlocking Minigames Replaces the Lockpicking and Hacking mingames of New Vegas with those found in The Outer Worlds. Weapon Requirements System Implements a working gameplay system so that the Strength and Skill requirements that weapons list finally do something for ALL of them. Allows you to use any weapon, but the dynamic requirement penalties might make using them not so straightforward as before. Amazing functionality and balanced "realism" achieved - not too hardcore yet not too easy, plus fully configurable. Addicted To You A perfect mod for realism/hardcore lovers. Addictions can now be critical and force the player's character to use his drug when he is in withdrawal state. Just as in real life. And add optional negative effects if no suitable object is owned. Grenade Overhaul with New Types Three more grenade types are added into New Vegas (Impact, Gas, and Stun) including some custom explosions and a new sound effect. Several existing grenade types are also made more useful, including Long Fuse Dynamite, Flash Bangs, and Pulse Grenades (now renamed to Tesla Grenades). MFC Grenades and MFC Clusters also have a new custom explosion. Psyker Maybe it was the radiation, or the bullet to your head, but you feel like you're noticing things that others can't see. Perhaps you're going crazy. Or perhaps.. you're becoming a Psyker. Pick a new trait when starting a new game to open new abilities and perks. DFB - Random Encounters Re-adds the threat of the random encounters to the Mojave Wastelands at random encounter locations. Extremely customizable. Use this one or the mod below (this one is recommended). IWS-Increased Wasteland Spawns More "heavier" spawns mod - use this one or the mod above. If using this mod, it's strongly recommended to avoid using any supermassive spawn options for sake of both performance and game balance. Tiny optional tweak available. Player HP Control Suite Mod gives users a full control over their character's HP stat. This achieved by letting users control both their character's base HP and the HP gained from leveling up. In addition it adds an endurance component to HP gain from leveling. All of this can be configured through the included MCM. SurvivalCore - Disease and Gameplay Modifications This mod adds 20+ diseases to Fallout New Vegas, which you or NPCs can catch from a variety of situations. The somewhat con of it is it also modifies ai/combat/stealth as well, which is pretty unnecessary as for mod which purely orients on add new diseases, imo. Still, the survival core of the mod is absolutely beautiful and worth a try, and will make a good fit in hardcore-oriented walkthrough/mod setup. First Aid Reborn - (Far Cry Style animated first aid) Brings back first aid skill from fallout 1 and 2. Animates first aid and some chems.

Survival/hardcore mode related and immersion boosting mods:

Combat related, new character abilities & mechanics, faction improvements and various other gameplay mods:

The True Revival of Luxury - An Ultra-Luxe Overhaul
The Town of Vice - A Gomorrah Overhaul
The Mogul Mausoleum - A Lucky 38 Overhaul
Three beautiful and fresh overhauls from the same author. Lucky 38 one is also compatible with mods that change Presidential Suite (player home) itself. Note: If using "Lucky 38 Lights Redone" mod, do [NOT] overwrite its files.
Iguazu Shopping Center - A Mall in The Strip
A beautiful new interior with fully voiced NPCs and...something hilarious. Compatible and plays well together with previous mods.
Strip Palm Trees Adds palm trees with lights to the Strip. The Strip South Gate
Less Empty Primm - A Primm Town Overhaul
Little Fair in Primm 
Fully compatible and recommended to use with previous mod.

Goodsprings Reborn
Beautiful mod but with great balance - nothing lore-unfriendly or too much added. Note: Use the version 3.7 of the mod.
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Lively Goodsprings Minimalistic but nice. My personal favourite rn. Note: Mod doesn't have a proper folder structure for mod manager installation. Download the file, unzip it, go inside "english" folder and zip the "Lively Goodsprings.esm" plugin and the "meshes" folder. Name the archive "Lively Goodsprings". Now add this archive to your mod manager and install normally.
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Buenas Fuentes - A Goodsprings conversion
Really original and vibrant overhaul of Goodsprings, but not very lore-friendly. Note: If you'll be facing visual bugs, wait till the mod updates to version 2.0 - bug are not dangerous to your save, but can be irritating.
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Goodsprings Overhaul

Novac Reborn
Make sure to choose version you need depending on some other mods you have.
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Novac Redone
Qualitative alternative to previous mod. Keep in mind it's incompatible with Willow companion mod (you can delete the conflicting cell record in this mod .esp to make it compatible).
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Wasteland Touch-ups - Novac
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Novac Reopened Removes the boarded up doors in Novac and adds interiors to the previously boarded up rooms and houses. Chris Haversam also finally gets his own hotel room after completing "Come Fly With Me". The only issue with the mod is that it lacks navmeshing inside the newly-opened rooms. First, download the mod itself, but do not install it - that's just so you can endorse it at the mod page. Now, open the comments sections and download the updated version of the mod (google drive link a few comments below) manually somewhere at your PC, add the archive to your mod manager and install as any other mod. Note: If using Zebumper's "Lively Chris" mod, make sure to delete the "REPCONChrisHavInNovacPackage" record in "Package" records category in the mod's plugin (so only Lively Chris mod's package settings would be applied as they do much more).

Freeside Again
Qualitative Freeside overhaul, also has NVInteriors patch. The only thing it has as flaw are some dirty records so just clean it with FNVEdit. Freeside Facelift Gives Freeside a makeover without going overboard. You can also use the lite version instead.
Luke2172 profile For many standalone mods adding new building or events to Freeside. There's also AIO merged version that combines most of them. Note: If you're using The Retribution quest mod, this author's clinic building takes same building as the Chem Den in Retribution mod. Hence, if you want no conflict whatsoever, either don't install the clinic mod (if you're getting separate files), or delete the clinic from AIO plugin.

Westside and North Vegas Overhaul Adds new buildings and locations to Westside and the surrounding areas, as well as two player homes. Westside Suburbs Uncut Westside Suburbs Uncut is an authentic, lore-friendly attempt to restore the large housing districts cut from around Westside during development the game. Can be used together with the mod above. Detailed New Vegas - Westside More details, secrets and a player home. Detailed New Vegas - North Vegas Square More clutter and 11 new NPCs. Simple Freeside Overhaul Adds many little details to Freeside. Ducts, windows, antennas, ACs and such. Especially on the parts that look unfinished, like the numerous doorless/windowless buildings. Freeside Interiors ==NEW== Adds some new lore friendly interiors to Freeside. A couple of houses, abandoned buildings, some shops and a small sewer level. Compatible with most of known mods affecting Freeside.

Less Empty Nellis From the author of Less Empty Primm and some casino overhauls, a mod which tries to add some custom assets to Nellis in hopes of giving it more personality and character. New robots, photos, signs, posters and structures.
Nipton Rebuilt
Absolutely great mod that allows you to actually rebuild the town. Also install flags pack addon for it.
Lime's Fort Overhaul A vanilla styled visual overhaul for The Fort that seeks to make the area more cluttered, brutal, cultish and overall more evocative of The Legion. Legion Arena Expanded - The Fort Arena Overhauled Overhauls The Fort Arena with more fights and the ability to watch matches. Adds crowds that react to your fights and grow as you defeat stronger enemies. Note: While this mod, Lime's Fort Overhaul and Encounters of The Mojave - The Fort (from Kvatchcount's profile) are technically compatible, using all 3 together will almost guaranteed result into a notable fps drops in the Fort no matter what kind of rig do you have. At the one hand, this is not directly harmful to your game or save, but if you plan to fight at the arena or massacre Legion there, low fps may negatively affect this and make fights really annoying. Hence, it's recommended to have not more than 2 mods from this trio installed at the same time. Lime's Old Mormon Fort Overhaul Vanilla+ overhaul of Old Mormon Fort with progression tied to follower reputation and quests.

And now a few more qualitative overhauls for smaller places and/or addition/uncut content restorations:
The Great Mojave Interior Overhaul An ambitious project that aims to overhaul many vanilla miscellaneous locations to be more useful, cluttered, atmospheric, unique and if applicable, lived in. Compatible with AWOP, NV Interiors and ILO. In a heavy-modded setup, it will, though, almost surely conflict with some other of your mods here and there, but most of conflicts can be easily got rid of by patching respective CELL records in xEdit - you can watch a simple tutorial with an examples of how to do this here (example is being given with Skyrim mods plugins, but the process is all the same). Patch for Niner companion mod here and a few other patches here .
Lime's Faction Safehouse Overhaul Faction safehouses mod from an author of the mod above. Ranger Sequoia In NCR Safehouse patch here. Note: The LSFO mod's plugin was renamed in latest version, so the patch will not load and show missing master. As a solution, you can simply rename "Lime's Faction Safehouse Overhaul.esm" into "LFSO.esm" - this won't change anything in the mod work itself, but the patch will work normally. Zebumper profile For various mods that are making certain - usually, "forgotten" places, not touched by other mods, like 188 Trading Post, Wrangler etc - but also providing alternatives for popular mod-covered places, like Goodsprings. Interiors Improved - Vault 21 A complete remake of Vault 21 - one of the messiest, laggiest, most poorly designed vaults in Fallout New Vegas. Note: The Great Mojave Interior Overhaul overhauls this place too, so if you prefer this mod, delete the conflicting records from TGMIO plugin. Some fixes and patches here . Hidden Valley Overhauled Reworks the lighting and atmosphere of the Brotherhood of Steel's Hidden Valley Bunker that aims to better realise the potential of the location while staying true to Obsidian's vision.
Powder Ganger Camp North Overhaul
Cal-Nev-Ari
A brand new settlements, really well-made.
Cut Sewers Restored 
Also install the fix patch. Mojave Rooftops + OWB addon
Mod adds rooftops here and thre in Mojave (and OWB worldspace). Will be especially useful for snipers :)
Strip Wall Billboards
Less Empty City of New Vegas ==NEW== A mod that tries to make the remains of the old city of Las Vegas feel like just like that, the remains of a once actual city. Adds a new district west of the Strip inspired by Las Vegas City Center, FO4 and old Fallout. A ton of new assets and buildings like New Robco HQ, Vault-Tec HQ, Poseidon Energy HQ and much more. Note: The mod is in still in development, so can containt some bugs, but those I've personally met were minor, while the aesthetical impact on the Strip feeling is great.
Better Doc Mitchell's House 
More like a "useful" overhaul for this starting cell. Moves stuff around, adds clothes to his dresser, adds a workbench and reloading bench and replaces weapons found in his house etc. Use this mod or the one below, not both together.
Doctor's House - A Doc Mitchell's Home Overhaul This overhaul for Doc's house is more extensive as it expands the interiors themselves, making house bigger. Also changes lighting. Nuka Cola World patch here. Use this mod or the one above. DM's Great Khan Culture More tents with graffiti for Red Rock Canyon. More hides, tanning racks, handmade furniture, totems and pottery. More fortifications and improved look of initiation arena. Much needed love to neglected settlement. Bonnie Springs Decorated Thematically clutters Bonnie Springs. Camp McCarran South Gate Restored Restores the south gate of Camp McCarran mentioned in-game. Tommygunner321 profile For a few nice interior facelifts (and a one lil player home). Tops Suite Upgraded Adds various upgrades to the Tops Presidential Suite to make it more accessible, useful, and enjoyable. Freeside Central Station Adds a bus central station to North Freeside. Vegas Additions A light, highly compatible mod that adds cars and other props to Vegas. Works greatly together with Enhanced Landscapes and Westside Suburbs Uncut mods. Diegonom profile ==NEW== For multiple nice little mods that improve various locations or buildings usually not covered by other mods, such as Red Rock Canyon or Gun Runners kiosk. Lived In North Vegas Square Makes North Vegas Square look like people actually live there. Lived in sewers Much of the population with nowhere else to go lives in the sewers of North Vegas. Now it actually looks like it. Inspired by the Metro series. The Tops Exterior Pre Release Restored A restoration of the original Tops exterior. Ultra-Luxe Fountain Expanded Can be used with all mods changing Strip and Ultra-Luxe. Bathroom Doors Overhaul Replaces and adds bathrooms doors all over the Mojave Wasteland. People can finally take a dump in private. Jean Overhaul An overhaul of the Jean area that attempts to expand the area with additional ruins and buildings. DM's Vault 19 Poseidon Pit Stop Remakes the forgettable Vault 19 parking lot with a gas station, diner and makeshift player hideout. Classic Adobe Raul's Home Redux Because Raul deserves it. Note: If using TGMIO, delete edits to Raul's home in its plugin. DM's Dirty Dino Done Dirt Cheap Amazing overhaul for Dino Bite Gift Shop. DM's Mick's Gun Store How Little We Know Overhaul specifically for Mick's gun corner.

Vault-HQ1 NV - House On The Hill
One of if not simply the biggest player home mods. Really functional and with huge amount of cells/rooms for all posisble needs - from roleplaying and comfy gameplay needs, to screenarchery.
The Overlook - An Interactive Player Home
TIny yet highly interactive and lore-friendly player home.

Lime's Casino Suite Overhaul Overhauls Casino suites to be more atmospheric, useful, and more cluttered. This mod reworks the Tops presidential suite, Tops high-roller suite, the Ultra-Luxe Bon Vivant Suite & The Atomic Wrangler Corner Room. Optionally overhaul's the Lucky 38's Presidential Suite.

NV Novac Apartment
One of the most beautiful and cozy overhauls for vanilla players homes and my personal fav mod for Novac apartment. Note: while it's not mentioned on the mod page, it also (a bit) affects the reception desk room - delete this cell records if you'll be using something like The Great Mojave Interior Overhaul or some other mod that generally affects other Novac interiors. It also (that's likely some kind of development oversight from the last mod update back in 2020) has records identical to vanilla ones for multiple other interior cells - remove those as well, keeping only the edits to motel room itself.
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Living Motel - Novac
A great "lite" alternative to previous mod.
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Living Lucky - Lucky 38
More "vanilla-wise" alternative and my personal #2 favourite.
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Lucky 38 Redesigned
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Lucky 38 Suite Reloaded v5

Elianora's Awesomised Sink
Most detailed anf cozy Sink overhaul.
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Living Sink - The Sink
"Lite" alternative, but also very good-looking one.
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The Sink - Simple Overhaul The most "lite" alternative to Sink overhauls.

Underground Hideout Re-Imagined Updated and improved version of one of the best FNV player home mods ever, both visually/feature expanded and with some of the original mod's issues corrected.
Boat House
Very simple but original player home on the water.
Castle Cove Getaway - Player Home
Wanna small, minimalistic yet rich-looking inside mansion on top of the hill? Here you go.
The Lake House
That's...the lake house, simpel as that. Very vanilla-wise look and has most of things you'll need inside.
Enclave Vault Mod
Enclave-themed bunker with plenty of features.
Goodsprings Schoolhouse Cellar
Small but cozy basement. Not compatible with Afterschool Special quest mod.

Courier 6 Hopeville Safehouse (Lonesome Road)
Courier 6 Sierra Madre Safehouse (Dead Money)
Courier 6 Zion Safehouse (Honest Hearts)
Three mods for three DLCs from the same author - pretty simple and useful for your travels. Take into account that default versions of the mods have some free loot and weapons - if you find this unbalanced, just use the optional "LITE" versions :)

Build your own Mountain Fort
Simple yet badass! Hearthfire-inspired system of building your own little fortress! Very original mod.
Vault - A Player Home
A simple player home in the abandoned vault.
Dos Osos Veterans Club Classic adobe player home for the NCR veterans. Hunt down Legion soldiers and earn yourself a complete set of Scorched Sierra Power Armor. Centurion Homestead Adobe style Legion Home overlooking Cottonwood Cove. Perfect place to erect a building in full view of NCR. Little Apocalypse Quaint little adobe home for Followers Of The Apocalypse players with a green thumb. Twin Rocks Abode Tucked away behind Poseidon's Gas station in Fiends territory lies a sandcrete adobe home abandoned by it's Scavver owner left to collect dust. Dust Devil Adobe Home Little Adobe home made for the Raiders AKA Public Enemy, located Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ and Monte Carlos Suite. DM's Toxic Cave - Enclave Remnants Bunker A tribute to the classic Fallout 2 toxic caves. The Remnants Bunker is now expanded to be an end game player home with enough room for a squad. with robot vendors and a garden. DM's Little Red Rock Ever wanted to have a little place to live with the Great Khans? Now you can. Sanctuary - Home Away From Home Honest Hearts Your personal Honest Hearts Zion hideout. Rozenburg Zeppelin Adds a Zeppelin player home with a view of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam in a Art Deco style. An enthousiastic old timey prospecter protectron follower can be found in the small dungeon leading up to the blimp. Billboard Outlook Adds an original mini settlement to the 188 Trading Post street which player can use as a termporary base. Humble Goodsprings Bungalow Adds a modest bungalow player home to Goodsprings. HMS Thunderchild This mod adds a player home in the form of a transportable boat. Also adds several custom weapons. Dexter's Abandoned Bunker Tiny home filled to the brim with features and interactables with several unlockables. GSCH - Goodsprings Coffee House Adds a small, highly detailed and fully realised coffee-shop styled player home to the north of Goodsprings. The mod is completely faction-neutral and features a full lore-friendly backstory told via terminals notes. Fixer Upper - a Goodsprings Renovation and Trophy House Roll up your sleeves and grab your copy of DIY: Made Simple, its time for a house renovation quest mod! Follow in Easy Pete's footsteps and fix up your new home across several chapters. Don't forget to link your Pip-Boy to your new Decotron and watch as it decorates your home, unlocking trinkets and surprises as you complete 388 in game actions! Overlook Cabin A small player home and accompanying experience lead by notes and atmospheric design. Player home is equipped with a bed, crafting stations and storage for player items. Zion Fishing Lodge Redecorated A simple redesign to the interior of the Fishing Lodge in Zion with the intent of creating a cozy, fully functional player home. Room 22 - A Westside Player Home This mod adds a new motel room to the Westside area that's equipped with all the necessities that a wastelander could ask for! With a working oven, workbench and reloading station this home provides a simple and safe getaway that foregoes the glitz and glam of the strip and blends right in with the surrounding area. Goodsprings Watchtower A watchtower player home near Goodsprings. Optionally, you can use the alternative version for this tower to be located in the far north of the Mojave. Lime's Better Beer Bootlegging Overhauls the vanilla location "Brewer's Beer Bootlegging" to appear more lived and makes the space available as a player home/base. Lime's Better Victor's Shack Overhauls vanilla Fallout: New Vegas location Victor's Shack to be more useful, atmospheric and overall more interesting. Abandoned Monorail Player Home An immersive player home / camp in the wasteland built inside the shell of a crashed monorail car. Features storage, a bed, cooking facilities and a workbench. Complete with a map marker for easy access. Home and Safehouse Tweaks Don't want anything actually new, but just a bit more functionality? This mod adds crafting stations and additional containers to several vanilla player homes. Diegonom profile There's a lack of adobe player homes and this author's mods aim to fix that. A Very Uncreative Jacobstown Bungalow If you ever thought about living next to your buddy Marcus. The Nowhere Cabin Or a bit around, but still nearby. El Cerro Player House A simple player home to rest from the hot and rough wastes, with a nice view and pool.

Radio mods:
Radio Hotkey
Adds a new hotkey that can be used to turn the Pipboy radio on or off, and change stations. Hotkey can be changed in MCM.
Combat Radio Toggle Turns off the radio anytime you enter combat. Note: If (and only if) you're on NMM, make sure to repack this mod as per mentioned note in stability section related to NVSE .txt mods.
CONELRAD 640-1240 - Civil Defense Radio
The most endorsed radio mod on NV Nexus - and in this case, that's absolutely deserved! Enjoy the 55 new tracks sustained greatly in style of original game radio - feels like a native part of the game, but adds so much variety and awesomeness!
Platinum Radio
My personal favourite and very underrated radio mod - it's different but still in the same syle, adding a lot to original radio songs variety.
Nuclear Winter Wonderland (Radio Station for Christmas)
Another, winter/xmas-inspired radio mod from the same author.
Wave Radio
Pretty original radio mod that adds a lot of tracks from 30s, 40s and 50s.
Note: it also adds a small cell and new NPCs with certain interactions in Freeside and Strip, so check these cities on separate save if you have overhauls for them before using this mod in actual walkthrough.
Old World Radio
Mod adds 11 new and very different radio stations, with great diversity of broadcast type.
Radio New Vegas Everywhere
Self-explanatory - makes New Vegas radio available in DLC areas as well.
Radio New Vegas Cut Songs Restoration Restores a few songs cut from Radio New Vegas. Enclave Radio Remastered A new dose of patriotism for your Wasteland! Imperium Radio Legion radio station with a voiced DJ who reacts to story events and player choices! Contains 50+ news stories and 25+ songs from popular composers and artists in Classical Latin, Greek and others. If using Dry Wells quest mod, get a patch from its Files tab here . Mysterious Broadcast - Old World Blues Radio Expansion Dreaming's Songs Expanding upon the Mysterious Broadcast/Old World Blues radio station by adding 159 songs. Radio New Vegas Expansion Dreaming's Songs Adds new songs to the Radio New Vegas station. Cowboy Radio A radio station chock full of western songs that are ideal for those treks across the Mojave. There are 40 songs in total from the 50s and 60s. Note: get the main file and keep only the "VA" plugin. Ghoulish Radio A radio station mod that adds a spooky atmosphere to the game. It includes songs from silent hill and the caretaker. Radio Reno 10 jazz and swing songs from 1940th for your FNV. King of the Radio A station containing blues, country and rockabilly songs from the 50's and 60's. Title is based off of Roger Miller's carefree hit, "King of the Road," which the station is modeled after. There are 25 songs in total. M.R.E. - Mysterious Radio Extended Adds roughly an hour of smooth jazz to the Mysterious Broadcast from Old World Blues. Also fixes a bug with "Begin Again" not playing properly. New Love Radio New radio station. 2+ hours of original audio. 20+ voice actors. Lore-friendly ads. Easter eggs. New little and a custom texture and sound weapon as a pleasant bonus. Striptease Radio A new station that broadcasts exclusively to the Strip. Cool blues, swinging jazz and a risque ditty or two. Papa Joc's Radio New radio station with over 40 new songs and custom dialogue lines.
Sounds & Music:
Combined Community Sound Pack
A comprehensive sound overhaul that replaces nearly all weapon sounds with new ones hand-picked from assets of many talented modding stage contributors. It's really well-made and after couple of hours played with this mod I started to see that most of new sounds actually fit better than original sounds.
Note #1: do NOT use the WMX patch from the mod page. Install patch from this page - if you're using both EVE and WMX, install the "WMX-CCSP-EVE-AllDLCMerged v1.1" version.
Note #2: if using Asurah Reanimation Pack, be sure to make custom load order rule in LOOT to load CCSP after Asurah mod and any other patches, like Asurah Reanimation Pack WMX/EVE patch, otherwise some weapon sounds will still be vanilla - and ofc, check the weapon records in Bashed Patch when you'll be finishing your setup, and forward CCSP records properly for those weapons which still won't have them. All Explosion Sounds Overhaul This mod overhauls the entire explosives in the game by overhauling every explosion sounds with authentic recordings, dynamic location and distance system all according to how much a punch each explosive is packing. Awesome Bullet Sounds - Flybys and Whizzes Flyby and ricochet sounds to make your shootouts far more dramatic. Fully compatible with other sound mods. Melee Impact Sound Replacer What the name says. Impactful for real.
Project Nevada - Immersive Primary Needs Standalone Immersive Primary Needs from Project Nevada, giving sounds to certain tresholds when your character is tired/hungry/thirsty. Use this mod or the one below. Some Additional Sounds (SAS) New sound effects for a few events that previously didn't have any - covers same events as the mod above plus few others. Configurable in the .ini file. Use this mod or the one above. Feminine Sound Variants Provides feminine-sounding variants to sounds of consuming Nuka-Cola, Sunset Sarsaparilla and chems addiction/wearoff. DV's Custom Soundtrack Project - Wasteland Music
In my personal opinion, this is the best and really most underrated replacer music pack for New Vegas. It's pretty "different" but greatly fitting the game as the same time, with many tracks being a custom-made covers of original melodies. If you're played NV several times before and want a refreshing touch in game's music - you may be interested in this mod greatly.
Fallout New Vegas Classic Fallout Music
Simple mod that changes many of main NV music tracks to classic Fallout ones.
Music Addition - Mojave Edition This mod adds lore-friendly Fallout 1, 2 & 3 music to the Mojave, instead of replacing any of the OST. Vault 11 Music Fix - High Quality Fixes the music supposed to play when entering Vault 11's sacrificial chamber and provides HQ sound quality for it. Player Voiceset Project Several voice packs to replace vanilla sounds for both male and female courier. Performers Perform The Lonesome Drifter and Bruce Isaac will perform for money. Securitron Siren Sound Restored Adds the cut Securitron Siren from the intro. Consistent Robot Voices This mod restores generic robots in New Vegas to their Fallout 3 voices for both more variety and consistency. No annoying crowd ambient sounds HQ Main Menu Music Begin Again - Menu Music Replacer Replacers the original theme song with Vera Keyes' "Begin Again', featured in the Dead Money DLC. Female Nuka-Cola Drinking Sound Replacer Immersive Pickup Sounds Patched 
Improved version of the original mod with the same name. This mod greatly improves the sound immersion by adding a custom pickup sounds when looting an items, depending on item type.
Ed-E The Random Sounds
The most hilarious sound mod ever made. Why? Install it and play with ED-E for juts a few minutes. You'll see.
Audible Pass Through Bushes Sounds 
Tiny, simple and genius! Now you finally CAN hear the sounds of bushes when passing through them.
Better boots sounds
Another immersion gem that greatly increase type of sounds playing when you're walking on certain different terrain - roads, mud, rocks, grass, wooden floor etc. Vanilla game simply didn't have that.
Installation: you need only one mod version from three first files and "Other surfaces" file in addition. While last file installation works with mod managers, first 3 files have wrong folder structure, so if you want to install them via mod manager, so you can always safely uninstall, you need to do the next: create folder called "sound" anywhere, then download the archive, unpack it, get the "fx", get it and place inside "sound" folder you just made. Then, just archive the "sound" folder and add archive to your mod manager. Then install as usual.
No More Double Open And Close Sounds 
Fixes the notorious sound glitch.
Sound Extender Ever noticed that shooting the Anti-Material Rifle sounds like you're standing in the Grand Canyon, even when indoors? Ever noticed that shell casings hitting the ground always sound like they're landing on concrete, even when you're standing in the middle of a desert? Now it can be fixed. Hitmarker Sounds A mod that adds UI sounds when hitting a living target and taking damage.
FO3 Level Up Music
Replaces Level Up music with one from FO3.
Realistic SFX Replaces many old outdated low quality vanilla sound effects no other mods have covered, and adds new realistic audio. My personal recommendation. Project Reality Footsteps FNV Replaces the vanilla footstep sounds with way more realistic sounding ones, as well as adding over 60 additional sounds and fixing some engine issues. My personal recommendation. Passive Combat Music Tweaked Combat music will only start when certain conditions are met. Fallout Classic Ambient Tracks Adds in more ambient music from Fallout 1 and 2 into the game. Classic Brotherhood Music This mod changes the ambient music inside Hidden Valley and the Brotherhood Safehouse to play Metallic Monks by Mark Morgan. Intro Video Upscale With Benny's Gun Barrel Fix Fixes Benny empty barrel in the game's intro and upscales the video. Quieter Mysterious Magnum LAWS - Low-Ammo Warning Sounds Highly configurable mod that plays a sound when you're low on ammo. Alternate Power Armor Footstep Sounds Changes the Power Armor footstep sounds to resemble the heavy sounding ones in Fallout 4. New Player Voices - Deluxe Edition Changes the female player voice to one with more realistic injury screaming. Also adds5 new optional voices: 3 Male and 2 Female. More Accurate Geiger Clicking Increases the Pip-Boy Geiger clicking beyond the vanilla default in heavy-irradiated areas. Empty Clicks - improved dry fire sounds Different dry fire (empty magazine) sounds depending on a weapon type and some other improvements.
Gruesome Cannibal Eating Sound
Om-nom-nom!

Companions themselves:

Willow - A Better Companion Experience
The most and deservedly known follower mod for NV with more than 1200 voiced dialogue lines. Willow reacts on events, surroundings and just always have something to say. Also install this little improvement patch for her.
Note: if you're using FCO as well, re-install it so you can choose patch for Russel (it's a general advice for this section as FCO installer has patches for some popular follower mods as well, such as Russel, Deliah, Niner etc).
Russell
A fully-voiced male companion from the creator of New Vegas Bounties with own story and over 1200 voiced lines. Visual makeover addon here .
Robco Certified
Best complementing mod for science walkthrough ever. It allows you to build your own robots army and will greatly add to your gameplay diversity as well as roleplay capabilities. Also install this little fix for it and FCO patch (only if using FCO ofc). One more optional addon is available.
Delilah- Mojave MD
Over 300 voiced lines, own storyline, new quests and much more other useful scripted gameplay features in this original follower mod. You can also isntall an optional (but actually great, I'm personally using it) alternative voice acting pack for her.
Desmond Harper Companion
An original male companion mod with 200+ voiced lines and short personal quest.
Molerat Your son-in-law teenager follower with a short backstory and around 250 voiced lines. Tags - A Powder Ganger Companion Tags is an unorthodox companion to provide more options for "evil" couriers to have when choosing who they travel with. He is complete with companion wheel functionality, 200+ lines of dialogue, and an unmarked quest similar to Raul's. Doris The Ninja Doris is just down on his luck. He is a fresh new companion with a unique skillset and over 400+ lines of fully voiced dialogue. Doris packs a custom-made Wakizashi and an undisclosed amount of throwing knives, the Mojave's gonna have a rude awakening with him and your side. Rosa Raider companion with 1,000+ lines of dialogue, new personal quests, custom assets more. Atom A unique, fully-voiced ghoul companion that quite literally lives and breathes radiation. Features hundreds of dialogue lines and everything you need for a post-apocalyptic mailman. Furnia Companion Furnia is a feisty female follower with attitude. She has a somewhat uneven personality, be prepared to be verbally abused by her. Lenny - Grandpa Ghoul from Gecko Lenny, the doctor ghoul from FO2 - now for your NV adventures. Fully voiced with a short personal quest.

Now, 3 mods from the same author that are mostly "cosmetical", but give great improvement - better faces, outfits and weapons:
A Better Cass
A Better Boone
A Better Arcade

Raul Revised More handsome Raul, but still vanilla look. Use this mod or the one below.
Raul as Danny Trejo Overhaul
Because Machete isn't SMSing. Use this mod or the one above.
Sunny Smiles Companion
Sunny Smiles is now a fully featured companion, with voice and lip-sync.
Joshua Graham - Fully-Voiced Companion
Turns Joshua Graham into a possible companion you can take into the Mojave. He's fully functional and fully voiced using Graham's in-game audio files.
Vulpes Inculta - Fully-Voiced Legion Companion
Similar mod from the same author for Vulpes Inculta.
House's Securitron - Voiced Companion-Questgiver
House's Securitron is a fully voiced and fully functional Securitron companion and basically a mobile House; you can ask him anything you can ask House (and more) and progress through the House questline through him.
Sammy The Ghoul Voiced feral ghoul companion. Hope Lies - A FNV Companion Fully-voiced female companion, can be found near Goodsprings Source. Dagger - The Fully Voiced Super Mutant Companion A handsome mutant to accompany you during your travels. Stimpak - The Fully Voiced Eyebot Companion A fully voiced Medical Eyebot with over 230 lines of dialog. Doppler - FETCH Companion ==NEW== In the ruins of Boulder City, where the Legion’s advance on California was halted, lies a robotic companion long thought lost to time. Reactivate him, and gain a loyal companion for life, along with many unique features that will help you on your travels. Includes 1-2 hours of content, a new robodog companion and more. Four Legged Friends Enjoy having Bullets, Shrapnel, Mezcal, Farsight, Digger, or Zippy in your game as a companions.
HARDCORE PETE - COMPANION
Because why not. Obviously OP mod just for fun. Easy Pete probably deserved that :)

Various generally useful mods for companions:
JIP Companions Command and Control
Comprehensive, complex and easy-to-use at the same time, the ultimate companion control framework is here. Mod revolutionizes the way companions are controlled and interacted with, bringing new elements of team-work and tactics, with the intention of making the game look and feel more like a proper role-playing game than an action-shooter. This mod has huge amount of useful features, and with it many mods (like Unlimited Companions, for example) are no longer needed - you simply will have all-in-on mod. So, make sure to read the mod page carefully. Also grab either this, this this or this ==NEW== icon improvement patch, as well as (if want this feature) this addon that will also show new companion icons on the map, and optionally if you want those, animations addon ==NEW==. FollowersPLUS - Teammate Menu Want to improve your follower interactions? Maybe even control/manage them from afar? How about accessing the inventory of a follower miles away? Or even teleporting them to you if you're unsure whether you sent them to L38 or their own home? All this and other features in a single mod. Compatible with JIP Companions Command and Control.
Auto Medic Kit - NPC
Absolutely brilliant mod that allows your companions to use various healing items and chems in combat.
First Aid NVSE
Adds a simple menu and hotkey to allow the use of consumables on followers and nearly any NPC.
Companions Combat-Ready
Simple yet very much needed function. Companions ready their weapons when you do. Supports modded companions.
Note: this feature is included in JIP CCC mod above, so if you're using JIP's one, you don't need this mod.
Cyberware for Companions
Allows you to purchase implants and upgrades for companions, providing them buffs and bonuses.
Companion and Perk Tweaks Simple yet complete mod greatly improving all companions in the game. More fitting stats to companions, improved abilities, general improvements. Couple of player perks were also improved to affect companions as well. Party Banter Adds conversations between companions here and there, with around 200 spliced lines of vanilla dialogues in total. (Not) Your Mule Configurable mod that applies script to reduce companions carry weight value by 50%. Configurable - so you can decrease it even more, or vice versa, making bigger than in vanilla. This Isn't Goodbye Leaving conversation with hired companions will no longer sound like a farewell. Chill Companions When companions are in a familiar and safe environment, they automatically go into sandbox mode. Instead of following you, they wander around, eat, sleep, sit on a couch. Arcade Respects Your Intellect Adds a small dialogue check (requiring 8+ Intelligence) to translate" Nihi Nove Sub Sole" when Arcade is speaking to you, resulting in being able to recruit him by showing your knowledge. Cass outfit redone A simple refit of her clothes. T6M Christine's Outfit Unique wearable Outfit used by Christine in Dead Money.
DEC - Dynamic Essential Companions
This mod is somewhat cheating as for me, but it may be useful for some players. Dynamically assigns essential status to companions and former companions of the player.
Follower Tweaks 
Assorted changes to remove annoying features from some followers. ED-Es no longer constantly 'whir' while moving, perk changes to companions and so on. Affects ED-E, Boone and Rex.