Fallout: New Vegasis getting a Halloween makeover just in time for spooky season thanks to the work of one horror-loving modder. A recently releasedFallout: New Vegasmod adds some new slasher movie-inspired weapons and wearable gear for Couriers to suit up in, while also placing encounters with Psycho enemies in specific locations across the game’s map.
Fallout New Vegaswas released in October 2010 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Despite having launched nearly 14 years and two full console generations ago, it’s enjoying a lengthy lifespan, thanks in part to its large and active modding community. On popular site Nexus Mods, the game sits comfortably in the top five most modded games, with a whopping 915Fallout: New Vegasmod collectionsavailable for download.
This new holiday-themed mod, which goes by the name Halloween Special - Wasteland Psychos and Serial Killers and was uploaded by user piromods, adds three different pumpkin head masks, a bloody Serial Killer Hockey Mask clearly inspired by theFriday the 13thmovies, and four outfits that provide different sets of stat boosts. While gunsligers get left out in the cold with this mod, it provides close-up fighting fans with a Grim Reaper Scythe melee weapon with two special weapon mods to lower its weight or increase its durability, as well as craftable pumpkin grenades. The grenades release a toxic orange cloud that may cause enemies to enter rage mode and attack anything that comes near them, and while the creator noted that effect was borrowed from theBatmanfranchise, the design sounds like something out of The Green Goblin’s playbook.
Fallout: New Vegas Gets Slasher Movie Makeover for Halloween
In addition to decking out the player character in Halloween-style gear, the mod also adds Psycho or Serial Killer enemies at five differentFallout: New Vegaslocationsacross the Mojave. Players will be able to find these characters at Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm, the Sunset Sarsaparilla Billboard near Snyder Prospector Camp, the highway near Cannibal Johnson’s Cave, the woods on the way to Jacobstown, and an abandoned building in Freeside for a meeting of the monsters.
This is far from the creator’s firstFallout: New Vegasmod. Their page lists 121 different mod uploads, with more than 30 dedicated to the classicFalloutadventure. They range from upgraded retextures forFallout: New Vegascompanionslike Cass and Rex to new weapons like explosive spears and a grenade launcher that fires eight balls and baseballs.
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas.It’s the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead…and that’s before things really get ugly. It’s a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It’s a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way.As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you’ll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare “winner takes all” and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3.Enjoy your stay.
