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Rescores FNV & DLCs with music from all (and only) classic Fallout games (FO1, FO2, Nevada, Sonora).

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Lore Friendly: Hymn of The New West is a complete music rescore that brings the musical atmosphere of classic Fallout into New Vegas and all of its DLCs, seamlessly and tastefully.

A Darker New West: Hymn makes full use of all classic Fallout soundtracks, including Nevada and Sonora, two faithful Fallout 2 total conversion mods. The music of the two games, composed by the talented Nobody's Nail Machine, is of very high quality and perfectly encapsulates the essence of a bleak and barren wasteland. All of this shifts the tone of New Vegas closer back to that of classic Fallouts. More post-apocalyptic and less post-post-apocalyptic.

Show, Don't Tell: Hymn relies on the use of more subtle, ambient tracks, to let the mood and tension build up organically. It replaces all music in New Vegas that doesn't fit in Fallout, which include:
  • Generic & Uninspiring - Tracks that sound like they can easily fit in any non-Fallout game. This includes all of the military tracks from both NV and FO3.
  • Shallow & Pretentious - Any "epic", grandiose music that tries to artificially create a sense of high stakes and excitement. All combat music, phony drum rolls, etc. The death sound effect is disabled and the level up sound effect is replaced by the more low key one from FO1/2.
  • Eardrum Breakers - The random, sudden loud string instrument playing and high pitch noise blasting your ears.
  • Bad Music - Just straight up bad music... like Hoover Dam.

Quality Over Quantity: Rather than diluting the experience by adding even more bloat to existing music sets just for the sake of it, Hymn does the opposite. It replaces the randomness and repetitiveness with actual variety and purpose. Every change is deliberate and intentional. Every track is hand picked and hand placed. Every single area is play tested. It is consistently high quality throughout the entire game.

Storytelling Through Music: The music placement takes into account just about every factor imaginable, from the overall sound, to the characters and dialogue, to the geography and even the history of the location, etc, to ensure that the right story is told every time. Moreover, there are scripted event-based music changes at certain key story moments, similar to the intro scene in Zion (modified in Hymn), to further enhance the immersive gameplay.

Logic And Consistency: Odd, disjointed music choices are corrected (ie. the disconnect between Red Rock Canyon and the Drug Lab). Many interior areas now retain their exterior music, when appropriate, for a more interconnected feel. Existing music markers are adjusted to have better coverage. A number of new ones are added as well to add more variety and character to certain areas that previously had no music.

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix: Areas that were already unique and memorable like Doc Mitchell's, Goodsprings, Novac, Jacobstown, etc, are left untouched.

List of Changes: This list only include major locations that use classic Fallout tracks.
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New Vegas
Abandoned BoS Bunker                    Nevada - Radioluminescence
Abandoned BoS Bunker (Finish)            Nevada - Improper Subdivision
Bitter Springs                            Sonora - La Ciudad del Sol
Black Mountain                            Fallout 1 - Vats of Goo
Boulder City                            Fallout 2 - Redding
Camp Forlorn Hope                        Sonora - Fogbound
Camp Golf                                Sonora - Garage City
Camp McCarran                            Fallout 2 - Vault City
Callville Bay                            Fallout 2 - San Francisco
Canyon Wreckage                            Fallout 1 - Desert Wind
Casino Courtyards                        Nevada - New Vegas V2
Crashed B-29                            Fallout 2 - San Francisco
Crashed Vertibird                        Fallout 1 - Desert Wind
Crimson Caravan                            Sonora - Dayglow
Deathclaw Promontory                    Fallout 1 - Desert Wind
El Dorado Substation                    Fallout 1 - Radiation Storm
Grub n' Gulp Rest Stop                    Fallout 2 - World Map
HELIOS One                                Sonora - Out of Service
Hidden Valley                                Fallout 1 - Metallic Monks
Hoover Dam                                Nevada - World Map
Hoover Dam (Battle)                        Sonora - Desert Rangers
Legate's Camp                            Fallout 1 - Acolytes of the New God
Lucky 38 Basement                        Fallout 1 - Vault of the Future
Lucky 38 Control Room                    Nevada - Sweetness And Light
Lucky 38 Presidential Suite                Nevada - New Vegas
Mesquite Mountains Crater                Fallout 1 - City of Lost Angels
Michael Angelo's Workshop                Nevada - New Vegas
Mojave Outpost                            Fallout 1 - Second Chance
New Vegas Medical Clinic                Fallout 1 - Metallic Monks
NCR Embassy                                Fallout 2 - Vault City
NCR Sharecropper Farms                    Fallout 2 - Modoc
Nellis AFB                                Sonora - City of Phoenix
Nellis Museum                            Fallout 2 - San Francisco
Nipton                                    Sonora - City of Flagstaff
Northern Passage                        Fallout 1 - Second Chance
Old Mormon Fort                            Fallout 2 - Abbey
Old Nuclear Test Site                    Fallout 1 - City of Lost Angels
Quarry Junction                            Fallout 1 - Industrial Junk
Red Lucy's Chamber                        Fallout 2 - Primitive Tribe
Red Rock Canyon                            Sonora - One Way
Remnants Bunker                            Fallout 1 - Metallic Monks
REPCONN Basement                        Nevada - Radioluminescence
REPCONN Checkpoint                        Fallout 1 - City of Lost Angels
REPCONN Test Site                        Sonora - Collapse
Safehouses                                Nevada - Improper Subdivision
Silver Rush                                Nevada - Introduction
The Fort                                Fallout 1 - Khans of New California
The Fort Summit                            Fallout 1 - Followers' Credo
The Thorn                                Sonora - Out of The World (Alternate)
The Tops 13th Floor                        Nevada - New Vegas
The Tops Presidential Suite                Nevada - Ride To Cheyenne
Ultra-Luxe                                Nevada - Introduction
Vault 11                                Nevada - High Wind
Vault 21 Gift Shop                        Nevada - New Vegas V2
Vault 3                                    Fallout 1 - Flame of the Ancient World
Westside                                Fallout 1 - Moribund World
Wrecked Highwayman                        Fallout 1 - Desert Wind


Dead Money
Cantina Madrid                            Nevada - Village
Executive Suites                        Nevada - Industrial
Medical District                        Nevada - Policy
Puesta del Sol                            Sonora - Casa Grande
Puesta del Sol Switching Station        Nevada - Radioluminescence
Salida del Sol                            Sonora - Motel
Sierra Madre                            Nevada - Introduction
Sierra Madre Casino (Powered)            Nevada - New Vegas V2
Sierra Madre Vault                        Nevada - High Wind
Sierra Madre Vault (Opened)                Nevada - Sweetness And Light
Sierra Madre Vault (Elijah)                Fallout 1 - Flame of the Ancient World
Residential District                    Nevada - Industrial
The Tampico                                Nevada - New Vegas
Villa                                    Fallout 2 - New Reno
Villa Clinic                            Nevada - Radioluminescence
Villa Fountain                            Nevada - Introduction
Villa Police Station                    Nevada - Village


Honest Hearts
Angel Cave                                Nevada - Ghost Town
Burial Mounds                            Fallout 1 - Acolytes of the New God
Dead Horses Camp                        Fallout 1 - Second Chance
Ghost Den                                Nevada - Village
Pine Creek Tunnel                        Sonora - Arco Monumental
Sorrows Camp                            Fallout 2 - Primitive Tribe
Southern Passage                        Fallout 2 - Arroyo
The Red Gate                            Sonora - Garage City
Three Marys                                Sonora - Jackals
Vault 22 Dwellers' Guard Camp            Fallout 1 - Metallic Monks


Old World Blues
Big MT                                    Nevada - World Map
Big MT Tunnels                            Fallout 1 - Underground Troubles
Big MT West                                Fallout 2 - Vault City
Construction Site                        Fallout 1 - Industrial Junk
Elijah's Watch                            Nevada - Radioluminescence
Forbidden Zone Dome                        Sonora - Collapse
Higgs Village                            Sonora - Casa Grande
Little Yangtze                            Fallout 1 - Vats of Goo
Saturnite Alloy Research Facility        Fallout 1 - Industrial Junk
Securitron De-Construction Plant        Fallout 1 - Industrial Junk
The Cuckoo's Nest                        Nevada - Policy
The Sink                                Fallout 2 - Modoc
Think Tank                                Fallout 1 - The Vault of the Future
Ulysses' Point                            Fallout 1 - Metallic Monks
X-13 Testing Facility                    Fallout 1 - The Vault of the Future
X-17 Meteorological Station                Sonora - Collapse
X-2 Transmitter Antenna Array            Sonora - Out of Service
X-42 Robo-Warfare Facility                Fallout 1 - Flame of the Ancient World
X-7a "Left Field" Artillery Launch        Sonora - City of Phoenix
X-7b "Boom Town" Target Zone            Fallout 1 - Desert Wind
X-8 Central Facility                    Nevada - Policy
X-8 Institutional Test Facility            Nevada - High Wind
X-8 Testing Facility                    Nevada - Policy
Y-17 Medical Facility                    Sonora - Out of Service
Z-38 Lightwave Dynamics Research        Nevada - Policy
Z-9 Crotalus DNA Preservation Lab        Nevada - Policy


Lonesome Road
Ashton Silo Control                        Sonora - Out of The World
Ashton Silo Elevator                    Fallout 1 - The Vault of the Future
Ashton Silo Station                        Nevada - Wind of War
Cave of Abadon                            Nevada - Serpent Streets
Collapsed Overpass                        Nevada - Serpent Streets
Dry Wells                                Nevada - Radiationless
Hopeville                                Sonora - Desert Rangers
Hopeville Silo Bunker                    Nevada - Wind of War
Long 15                                    Nevada - Radiationless
Municipal Sewers                        Sonora - City of Flagstaff
Pass To Canyon Wreckage                    Nevada - Main Theme
Pass To Canyon Wreckage (Finish)        Fallout 2 - Primitive Tribe
Rawr's Cave                                Sonora - Ghosts
Sunstone Tower                            Nevada - Wind of War
The Courier's Mile                        Nevada - Radiationless
The Divide East                            Sonora - City of Flagstaff
The Divide West                            Sonora - Casa Grande
The High Road                            Sonora - Villa
Waste Disposal Station                    Sonora - Casa Grande
Wastewater Treatment Plant                Sonora - Casa Grande
Ulysses' Temple                            Sonora - Garage City
Ulysses' Temple Maintenance                Nevada - High Wind



Requirements:
All DLCs
xNVSE
JIP LN NVSE Plugin
JohnnyGuitar NVSE



Installation:
Load order doesn't matter too much but it should land somewhere later in the order. Make sure to load it after mods that mess with media sets and before weather/lighting mods.

Hymn is safe to install mid game. (Although, I HIGHLY recommend starting a new game for the full experience. There are just a lot subtleties in the music progression. This is especially the case in the more linear areas like the Dead Money and Lonesome Road DLCs. The music in these DLCs is set up like one continuous story from beginning to finish, with every subsequent track building off of the previous one.)

All required Fallout 1 and 2 tracks are included. The mod does not have dependency on the "Fallout1and2" folder.



Compatibility:
Hymn is compatible with just about anything out of the box. Modded areas, depending on what music sets they use, might require a patch to make use of the custom music sets, but there shouldn't be any hard incompatibility problems. At worst, the music won't sound like it fits well in the area.

Hymn supports New Vegas only. It probably "works" on TTW but I fail to see the point of using it, because the mod vehemently goes against the music design in FO3. It outright removes most FO3 tracks used in New Vegas, which leaves even fewer FO3 tracks to work with. Lastly, I have zero intentions of ever making a TTW version because I'm simply not inspired by any of the stories told in FO3.

The mod doesn't make any changes to the radios.



Notes:
Combat music is disabled completely.



Uninstallation:
A few changes are persistent in save games, which can cause a couple of areas to lose their original music under certain conditions when the mod is uninstalled. I've included an uninstaller.esp file that I had used during testing, which you can use to restore the original music nodes, so the mod is fully safe to uninstall.

To uninstall the mod, disable the mod and load the "Hymn of The New West - Uninstaller.esp", located in the uninstaller folder. Load your save and save the game again. Once this is done, the original music nodes are restored and the uninstaller.esp can be disabled.



Credits:
Nobody's Nail Machine for the Nevada and Sonora soundtracks. Thank you, brother.