Does anyone have experience with www.nexusmods.com?

[ericthecleric]

I only just became aware of the above mentioned site, and wow, does it have a massive amount of (free) mods for various games, including Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, for example.

Does anyone have experience of using the site? If you have, is it a good site to use, and are the mods fun?

[Sharoth]

I have never had a problem using it. But then again, I do not use too many mods.

[archmagi1]

Long War for XCOM was/is hosted on NexusMods. Its the only one I've used from their site. As far as quality, its a pretty well curated site from what I can tell, so most of the mods should probably be at least decent.

[Sundakan]

Nexus is basically THE site for mods. There are others but most either have a smaller selection (though there are usually some gems you won't see elsewhere), worse layout, or something else wrong. For the average mod user who wants an easy to browse mod site, Nexus is it.

There's a lot of trash, but if you stick to the Mods of the Month and highest rated stuff you probably won't go wrong for a while.

[GreyWolfLord]

I've used it on occasion. Some of it good, some of it bad, some of it very nasty.

[Peter Stewart]

The site is legit, but modding as a whole can cause unforeseen problems if you don't know what you are doing, especially in Bethesda titles. Make sure you do homework on mods, whether they are in date, how they interact with other mods, and especially if you are installing them properly.

Used properly I've never had issues even whem running 150 mods or more on skyrim.

[ericthecleric]

Thanks to all for your replies! :)

[Kalshane]

I've used that site repeatedly for mods for the Dragon Age series. The only issues I've had is when one mod conflicts with another. I've never had a problem with malicious content or mods not being as-advertised. Not saying with absolute certainty those things don't exist there, just that I've never encountered them.

[Rednal]

Problems with mod conflicts isn't an issue with the site itself. XD

Incidentally, they've been developing the Nexus Mod Manager platform, which helps to download, properly install, and enable/disable mods more effectively. It's worth using.

I've been a member for quite a few years, and I've never had any serious problems.

[Sundakan]

I would actually NOT suggest using the Mod Manager, download Mod Organizer instead.

I used NMM for years, but it has real issues with only downloading PARTS of mods (especially big ones) which, of course, makes them buggier than usual.

Mod organizer also has a bunch of other useful features to make your modding life easier.

[ericthecleric]

Thanks again for all the replies.

I've downloaded and played through some of the Quest/Adventure files now. Some I like more than others. (I also downloaded Project Nevada, FOMM, and the New Vegas Script Editor, which PN needs.)

[Sundakan]

Yeah, if you were to download only one mod for New Vegas, I would suggest Project Nevada. You've got good taste.

When you get the hang of modding, maybe give Tale of Two Wastelands a shot. It takes a bit of work and time to get it up and running, but it's a lot of fun being able to play through both Fallout 3 and New Vegas with the same character (and also works as a sort of backdoor update/patch for Fallout 3 since it adds a lot of the quality of life improvements like the Companion Wheel to FO3 since it all runs off the New Vegas engine).

[Crusinos]

One thing to be wary of on Nexus is that, sometimes, mods for older games get retired by the mod creators. I've run across this at times with Oblivion and New Vegas. And the links they have for prereqs in those older games are also often out of date, so you need to be familiar with the current Nexus URL methodology.

[Kalshane]

Rednal wrote:

Problems with mod conflicts isn't an issue with the site itself. XD

I'm aware of that. I just didn't want to say "I've used it and never had a problem. Go nuts!" :)