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"Step into the shoes of NPC man" with this Fallout New Vegas mod that lets you get faction cronies to do your dirty work
Rubbing shoulders with factions is a big part of the Fallout: New Vegas charm, even if it often devolves into you doing a bunch of favours if you don't want to risk ending up on the vilified naughty list for one too many accidental grenade pickpocktings. You do get some nice perks for keeping the likes of the NCR or Legion on side, but a new mod aims to take that to a new level, letting you send faction cronies out on handy odd jobs while you kick your feet up.
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"Step into the shoes of NPC man" with this Fallout New Vegas mod that lets you get faction cronies to do your dirty work
Modder SkullzyRS is working on delivering fully blown fetch quest outsourcing
[Chief Hanlon in Fallout: New Vegas.]
Image credit: Obsidian / Rock Paper Shotgun
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by Mark Warren
Senior Staff Writer
Published on Feb. 18, 2026
Rubbing shoulders with factions is a big part of the Fallout: New Vegas charm, even if it often devolves into you doing a bunch of favours if you don't want to risk ending up on the vilified naughty list for one too many accidental grenade pickpocktings. You do get some nice perks for keeping the likes of the NCR or Legion on side, but a new mod aims to take that to a new level, letting you send faction cronies out on handy odd jobs while you kick your feet up.
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Fallout New Vegas - Be a Quest Giver U_DO_IT MOD]
The mod's called 'U_DO_IT - Faction Quest Assigner' and is the work of SkullzyRS, the creator of a number of popular Oblivion Remastered mods. They've recently turned their hands to New Vegas for a project I can't recall off the top of my head as having been done previously in Obsidian's radioactive RPG.
"I love to roleplay and have always wanted to step into the shoes of NPC man and get someone to do the dirty work for me, so this is the beginning of that idea," the modder wrote in the description of their creation. "The goal would eventually be to get NPCs to actually be able to complete minor or trivial 'go there, get that, bring back' fetch quests for you while you focus on the real and exciting... fetch quests lol, but this is what I have for now as quest editing has been a notoriously bad area to play with in general, so baby steps at the moment."
In its current form, Faction Quest Assigner adds a command device to your inventory that you can use to send NPCs from eight different Mojave factions out on. These jobs are all done offscreen and range from the likes of patrolling and scavenging to sabotage and assassinations. Once you've picked a job, you pick one of four difficulty tiers to dictate how long the job'll take, what rewards you might net from it, and the percentage chance of your goons failing to complete it.
Naturally, the higher the risk, the higher the reward - often in caps or items, plus a dollop of positive rep with that faction. In order to limit the ability to cheese your way straight into the hearts of every group, these little missions come with a cooldown of three in-game days. Overall, I can certainly see it as the sort of mod I might use to help keep the latter stages of a New Vegas playthrough busy. Sure, by that point I'm usually off DLCing, but it's handy to have ways of making it feel like things are still happening on the war front once you reach the pint when everyone's just waiting for the second battle of Hoover Dam to kick off.
Plus, who could reject the idea of being able to roleplay as the Fallout TV Show season 2's Legate Home Alone. Now, if only I can get these cronies to carry me on a big throne...