Mod:JSawyer Ultimate

 is a mod for Fallout: New Vegas.

jsawyer.esp was a mod made by Joshua Sawyer - the lead designer and director for Fallout: New Vegas. Essentially it is a difficulty and rebalance mod, which maintains much of the vanilla vision when compared to similar mods, whilst still managing to feel new.

However, it has to be said that the mod might be considered quite crude by present modding standards. There are several errors, numerous inconsistencies, and patching it to work alongside most other popular mods is a nightmare.

That's where JSawyer Ultimate comes in. This mod is a completely reconstructed version of Sawyer's mod, made from the ground up. It has tweaked the odd inconsistencies, expanded the compatibility, re-added some neat elements of cut content, and even covered some additional balance issues which were missed - all whilst trying to maintain the fine-tuned spirit of the original.

Content
This mod is a complete, from-scratch remake of the original JSawyer mod. It aims to stay as true as possible to the source material, and clean up any inconsistencies or errors there were, whilst generally refining things and improving compatibility with other mods. Examples of errors in the original include: message and loading screen text didn't reflect some changes to perks, the stats of some items had not been modified whilst similar items had been, and some unintentional or ineffective changes were included.

Changes and new additions were only made if there was a reason that they could be justified from a balance perspective, and if they stayed true to the perceived intentions of the original. A comprehensive changelog is available on the Docs tab of the modpage, which lists every change made by JSawyer Ultimate, and any differences from the original mod along with justifications as to why.

Several of the original mod's changes are now implemented by scripts. This means that there will be less compatibility issues, less need for patches, and some features can even be made optional. Moreover, this mod will also cover content added by other mods as much as is reasonably possible. One such feature is that JSawyer Ultimate will automatically adjust stats of mod-added armour so they're not out of place next to Sawyer's tweaks.

For all record edits, any appropriate fixes from Yukichigai Unofficial Patch and Unofficial Patch NVSE Plus are included. If a change present in the original JSawyer mod has since been incorporated into YUP, it was omitted from JSawyer Ultimate to prevent unnecessary duplicate edits. Both YUP and UPNVSEP are highly recommended companion mods for JSawyer Ultimate.

Fallout New Vegas contains many leftovers of features that could not be implemented due to the game's short development cycle, but these give us a glimpse of what could have been. JSawyer Ultimate restores a handful of these features listed below, which are intended to compliment the large-scale restorations of a mod like Uncut Wasteland. Credit for these restorations and features goes to the original authors for their ideas.
 * 22LR Varmint Rifle - Restoration
 * Better Armed Bright Followers
 * Lonesome Road - Scorched Sierra Power Helmet