I'm starting up Fallout once again and because I'm shamelessly lazy I'm going to ask your help finding mod to help build my desired experience.

Things I want:

- An Overhaul such as FWE with maximum compatibility with Weapon Mod Kits
- Mods to increase the rarity of items and increase combat difficulty
- A mod to make weapon skills affect performance more realistically, overall more realistic gun play, I want headshots to kill.
- Expanded chems, I think there was one called something like 'Better Life With Chems' but I'm not sure if there's anything better out there.
- A good sound effects replacer for gunshots.
- Any performance/Stability mods that may be needed.

Thanks in advance guys.

Well FWE pretty much covers the first three things you want. Just be sure to use http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4968 for compatibility with WMK. There's plenty of settings for FWE that you can set to make the game more hard-core, setting the rarity of ammo and chems for example. And yes, FWE also has options to increase the difficulty and lethality of combat, your skills and the condition of your weapons will matter.

There's also http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160547-relz-arwens-realism-tweaks-thread-no12/ for another ovehaul. I (shame on me) have yet to use it but from reading your skills will matter when using firearms. Also has a few different optional modules that set out to make life in the wasteland harsher. Unsure about compatibility with WMK, maybe some one could chime in on that.

I haven't used it but I suppose http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1745 would be the go-to one for more chems. Not sure of any others.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8886 for stability.


Oh and if you decide to use EVE with FWE be sure to grab the following patches.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NG1YEAHI

and a fix for Pulse weapons...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=752S4RMQ

Thanks for the help.

Is there any mods similar to Tailor Maid still out there? They all seem to have disappeared.

It's a slightly older version I suppose (never grabbed the one off of Nexus before it was taken down) but here's a download link on FilePlanet...

http://www.fileplanet.com/202535/200000/fileinfo/Fallout-3---Tailor-Maid-Armor-Mod

I use it and there doesn't seem to be any problems.