Fallout New Vegas

About this mod

A very simplistic and brutal survival-horror simulator, with the sole purpose of torturing you with a challenge not for the faint of heart.

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COMING IN ALPHA V0.2:
-Weather redux. - Original weather scraped, and rebuilt from scratch. Fog much more natural in appearance.
-Color. - Saturation increased, no more black and white exterior world. 
-Mod Start Redux. - Original start location changed, prison escape sequence expanded.  
-New Enemies. - Possessed Soldiers, Hostile Survivors, Scarecrows
-New Locations. - Masonfield, Masonfield Prison, Darkside Gallows, Murder Hills Suicide Point.   
-Lore. - I'm not spoiling this..
-Edits, Fixes, Changes, Additions and more!




Introduction: Welcome to: Your New Hell:

During the early stages of the making of my mod 'Days Of Chaos' it originally went by the name of 'You're Now Here', and was a largely silent hill based overhaul of Fallout New Vegas, but after lore writing, and other changes, 'You're Now Here' changed direction, away from the Silent hill based mod it was intended to be, and became the first version of 'Days Of Chaos' released October 2015. Still dreaming of making a silent hill based overhaul of New Vegas, I decided to restart the 'You're Now Here' project from scratch, under its new name,'Your New Hell', the mod you see right before you.  

Biggest changes introduced by this mod:
-Atmosphere - As seen in the images, the wasteland is now a lot more dark and bleak looking, giving it a more eerie setting. 
-Quests - (Should be) unplayable in this mod.  
-Gameplay - Is now more intense, challenging and survival based. rebalancing has been done in almost every department. 
-Difficulty - Due to the nature of this mod and its rebalancing, the difficulty will be brutally punishing.
-Enemies - A lot of enemies changed, and a lot of new enemies. no friendlies here, everything wants to kill you. And no, no companions. 
-No Power Armor, No energy weapons. 

Some of the most common enemies you will find are:
-Hungers (feral ghouls)
-Rakes (trogs)
-Anguishes (Centaurs)
-Sanquinists (Human NPCs) 

Starting the mod:
"You wake up to find yourself inside a dilapidated prison, with no recollection of your past.. You must escape the prison to have any hope of survival.. both hope and survival are rare things in your new hell.."

To start the mod, make sure the esp is ticked after installing, launch Fallout New Vegas and start a
new game, you will be presented with a character creation menu, (obviously) create your character, and you're ready to play. Hardcore mode is HIGHLY recommended.    

Recommended Mods: 
While these mods are not required, they will enhance your experience with this mod:
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NMC's texture pack - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/43135/?
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HD One Hand Melee by Insanity Sorrow - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42509/?
-Enhanced Blood Textures for NV - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34917/?
-New Vegas Enhanced Camera - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/55334/?
-New Vegas post apocalyptic - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/53890/?
-Digital Nightmare Music Mod - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54916/?

How to maximise immersion:
Here are some things I recommend doing to get optimal immersion when playing this mod.
-Enable Hardcore mode
-Disable HUD
-Lower game brightness
-Using the recommended mods as seen above

Incompatibilities:
Partial Incompatiblities:
 By downloading this mod you may experience partial incompatibilities with other mods. These incompatibilities include features that will overwrite features or changes introduced by other mods that you have downloaded. These incompatibilities are not game-breaking, but may cause an inconvenience to you and will alter the intended way the mod is meant to be played.
Partial Incompatibilities are:
-Weather mods - Your New Hell alters the weather.
-Lighting mods - Your New Hell alters the lighting in many exterior and interior cells.
-Replacer mods - e.g weapon replacers, texture replacers, mesh replacers, etc. Excluding NMC's texture pack and such (I use NMC's myself)
-Rebalancing mods - anything that changes food values, weapon and armor values, damage values etc. 
-SOME enbs - enbs may alter the look of the mod, especially any enb that increase saturation or overrides imagespaces/imagespace modifiers. however, any enb that reduces saturation should be compatible i.e a grayscale enb.
It is recommended that these listed types of mods be turned of whilst playing
Your New Hell so that you get the intended experience, however, if you wish to use any of the listed types of mods, make sure they come after the Your New Hell.esp in your loader order, otherwise, make sure Your New Hell.esp is at the bottom of your load order.  

Full Incompatibilities: Full incompatibilities include mods that will absolutely not work with Your New Hell.esp active
Types of mods fully incompatible:
-Overhauls - e.g
DUST, Obscurum Pandemic, Days of Chaos etc.
-Alternate start mods - Your New Hell uses its own alternate start.
-Quest mods - most will likely not work
-Any mods that change locations, although New Vegas Post Apocalyptic should be fully compatible

Issues:
-Missing ghoul/hunger textures - Fixed in update file.
It is extremely important that you report any to me in either the comments or a Private Message.
Although not specifically a 'bug', there should not be any NPCs or Creatures left over from the original game, so if you find any I need to know so that they can be replaced. 

Questions you might have, that I already have the answer for:..
Q:
Another Azrael831 horror mod AND overhaul?
A:Yes, did you expect anything less from me? 

Q: Doesn't this make Days of Chaos redundant?/What's different about this?
A: Absolutely not! Although similar in principle, Your New Hell is very different to Days of Chaos, mainly in the respect that Your New Hell is more horror-survival oriented and has no plot for you to follow, secondly I tried to give this mod a different aesthetic and atmospheric feel, also I made sure to avoid using too many resources that already featured in Days of Chaos. Another noteworthy difference is the balancing of combat and items ingame.

Q: So this mod has no lore/story?
A: Nope. Besides new creatures/setting and vague notes, there's not really any established lore to this mod.This is mainly because it was not my focus when making this mod. However, lore/story might be added in at a later version if desired, especially if someone would like to help me write it.  

Q: With no story and no quests, what is my goal?
A: Survival! challenge yourself to explore and endure the whole tortuous world of this mod, try to master it! if you master it, try a permadeath! its no easy feat, I promise. I dare you to complete 10+ hours of gameplay

Q: What are the plans for the future of this mod?
A: Okay, so this answer can be divided into what i will definitely do, and what id like to do. 
What's definite, is that I will be updating this to fix bugs and add more content/features to the mod. evolution is a must.
As for what I'd like to do, first of all, add some sort of DLC compatibility to this, whether that's making new versions of the DLC areas, or simply adding DLC assets to the mod. next, id like to make some sort of compatibility with big and popular mods, most notably the Dogtown Monster Mod, that I would love to integrate into this. Lastly, I would like to introduce some sort of lore/story line with multiple game 'endings', its just not a priority at the moment. So I'm likely to do these things, but no promises.        

Credits:
Assets used with permissions:
Custom Model 1911 by 45LongColt - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/61227/? 
TTW Pyramid Head by Rausheim and DrownedPeasants - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/60479/?
Woodcutting Axe by WrecklessAbandon http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/57043/?
Mason Jar Mine REDUX by UlithiumDragon - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58840/?
Hellfire Leather Armor by lautasantenni - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37535/?    
Gas Masks of the World by TheLozza - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49475/?


Assets taken from free to use modders resources:
Custom Start Resource by Dakcenturi -  http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37390/?
Qs Critters Resource by Quetzlsacatanango - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41117/?
Creature and Weapon Modders Resources by c.i.b - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/39419/?

gorow333 Monster Costumes Conversion to NV by Kyotita and gorow333 - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/55509/?
Refurbished Buildings Resources by nonoodles - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/60658/?
Creatures Tweaked Textures by id2301 - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/39613/?
Ruger GP 100 by MBile - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48501/?
Moraelins Machete Replacerby Moraelin - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/36999/?  
SpamPTRS Melee Weapon Packby SpamPTRS - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/53390/?
New creatures resource by tumbajamba - http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/7201/?
Psycho Armor and Mask by SenterPat - http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58258/?

A big thanks to Johnspidermc for the custom textures he made for me by request