Featured Status Request [Uranium Fever]

[Nickchapman3773]

What game is your list for?

Fallout New Vegas

What is your modlist called?

Uranium Fever

Where do you offer support for your modlist?

https://discord.gg/WswmBGXQZt

Link to readme/documentation

https://uraniumfever.net/

Find A Modlist Assets and Meta Information

Modlist Description: Uranium Fever (UF) is a complete overhaul of Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3, with over 1300 mods focused on modernizing, expanding, rebalancing, and enhancing all aspects of both games. Designed for a hardcore gameplay experience, UF draws inspiration from renowned survival-horror titles like STALKER and Resident Evil. UF strives to integrate new content thoughtfully and rapidly. Every addition and configuration is carefully evaluated, and exclusive optimizations ensure stable performance despite the extensive modlist. We consider UF to be the most visually stunning, innovative, comprehensive, balanced, and cohesive Tale of Two Wastelands experience. Enjoy!

1. Thumbnail: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nickchapman3773/Uranium-Fever/main/static/img/mainpage.webp
2. List name and author: Uranium Fever. Kamchatka, DarkSolarLegend, OrgasmicSneeze, & DoktorAkcel (abbreviated Kam, Dark, Sneeze, & Dok)
3. Find out more link: https://uraniumfever.net/
4. Does the game require anything more than the base game: Yes. Fallout 3 and all associated DLC for Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3. https://uraniumfever.net/docs/requirements

• UF is a community-driven project, enriched by contributions from some of the community’s most talented and knowledgeable mod authors, whose expertise and insights have been invaluable.
• UF has access to cutting-edge mods, often available even prior to their official release.
• UF includes numerous custom edits to enhance the player experience, such as adjustments to objects, NPCs, meshes, textures, navmeshes, collision markers, and roombounds.
• UF has been rigorously optimized, with custom enhancements not otherwise found in the modding community, allowing for exceptional performance despite the modlist's large size. - Every mod asset has been evaluated and, when appropriate, reprocessed, downsized, compressed, mipmapped, and BSA-packed.
• Each new addition undergoes careful performance and memory testing to ensure UF remains stable and high-performing as it continues to evolve.

Provide a WebP image for your modlist thumbnail for use in the "Find a List" tools and website promotion.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nickchapman3773/Uranium-Fever/main/static/img/mainpage.webp

When did you release the list on the Wabbajack UI?

11/9/2024 - Though the list was released for testing outside of the WJ client 6/20/2024 and has been supported on discord since that time.

Agreements

• The work submitted in this request is my own, and in my branding and doesn't infringe on existing intellectual property or brands.
• My list has custom patching as required to address any known conflicts, bugs, or crashes
• I agree to fully open, honest and possibly critical examination and discussion of my here submitted work.

[TDarkShadow]

Due to work, illness, and various irl issues, I won't be able to review Uranium Fever anytime soon.
I going to leave this open again, and (hopefully soon) somebody else of the Wabbajack moderators team will be taking a look at it.
My apologies for the delay.

[tr4wzified]

Looking at it now.

[tr4wzified]

Uranium Fever review

Featured Criteria

List meets all featured criteria, it has been up for quite some time now with great support from what I'm seeing.
Uranium Fever-specific files not opted into DP, documentation is very well done with a custom website and very clear instructions.
Installing the list as I'm typing this, but purely from finding the whole texture recompression issue a while back, I'm going in with good expectations about patching quality.
Using the Steam version as I do not own FNV / FO3 on GOG.

Typing this as I'm going through some conflicts and what not. List seems well patched with custom nav meshes for conflicts there, leveled list conflicts seem alright, NPC conflict patches make sense. No obvious errors

Personal notes

Just some notes that don't have anything to do with the featured criteria, but you may find them helpful.

Images on the website all seem to be in PNG

If you compress those to a webp there too, it'll load a lot faster for people on slower connections.
The main image when you first get on the site is a pretty hefty 4MB.
Host seems to serve those quite slowly as I see them get loaded over like 4 seconds on a 80MB/s fiber connection, but that should be an easy fix.

Add scaling info to FAQ

When launching the game, my game was only at 75% size despite setting my resolution correctly in the Configure Game Settings part.
Fixed this by setting DPI scaling to Application on the FNV executable properties.

Lots of stuttering until I capped the game at 59.95

It said users with powerful GPUs can increase the value but it should not exceed more than refresh rate - 0.05, so I capped it at 239.95 as I got a 4090.
Turns out that was a bit much, I coc'd around a bunch to test some areas, but outside the Mojave Desert I was getting pretty major stuttering issues until I capped it at 59.95 instead.

A little bit of guidance on how to start the game would be nice

I get that the list is not really targeting newcomers to FNV / FO3 with the hardcore survival aspects, but I was a bit lost after launching the game and starting a new game x)
Just some short instruction to not try the Vault Door and instead walk towards the end of the hallway would be nice, haha. Or some advice on what starting point to choose

Final judgment

Approved!