Say what you want about Fallout: New Vegas, it’s a game that keeps on. For those who want to team up and explore as part of your very own faction, now you can, thanks to the wonders of ‘New Vegas: Multiplayer’, aka NV:MP.
As you may have already guessed, this isn’t a licensed Fallout update from the devs but a mod specially created to invigorate the post-apocalyptic landscape of this classic 2010 FPS. Personally, I’m more of a solitary gamer, however, I can understand the appeal of being able to team up with your friends and/or other players to investigate the dangers of the turbulent New Vegas strip. Who wants to run into Deathclaws on their own?
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NV:MP is updated regularly, with its latest version (Version 4) adding a wide array of features to improve quality of life in-game. This includes being able to drop items so that other players can pick them up, being able to fast travel, and changes to “death punishments” (aka what happens to you and your loot if you’re killed). The update is pretty expansive, though, as players who use the mod will attest, it isn’t without its flaws.
Still, while very much a work in progress, NV:MP is an impressive creation from a small group of modders and programmers who saw the potential left unrealised in the original. It was highly unlikely that Bethesda would revisit the game, not just because Starfield is still on their lips even if it isn’t on others, but because Fallout: New Vegas was buggy as hell. Not that it stopped it from being critically acclaimed by critics and fans, however, it did sour the experience when the game kept crashing. Fallout: New Vegas was, and still is, a hot mess we can’t live with nor can we live without.
It’s fitting, then, that the multiplayer mod is buggy at times, too. Although Version 4 has ironed out several niggling bugs to vastly improve your playthrough whichever way the wilderness winds blow you. If you want to see exactly what’s been fixed, and discover a whole new side to a Bethesda classic, you can learn about everything on the NV:MP website. After the tragic loss of actor Matthew Perry, known by Fallout fans for his role in New Vegas, what better way to honour his character than with friends?
