ghost3142

Bumping for attention

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11634/? Oh my god, there we go, a .50 bigass gun model.

On a whim, how about adding a robot chasis which can mount these manned heavy weapons in the automatron dlc? Sort of a mobile weapons platform.

To recap, mounted miniguns, gatling lasers, handcranked automatic laser muskets for NPC and player use in settlements. Maybes: gauss and plasma variants and models. M2HB model. Handcranked lascannons! Bigger maybes: NPC use in raider/gunner/bos camps. Portability. Upgrade system.

A mounted automatic laser musket could be a low-tech variant of mounted gatling lasers, for raiders and settlers. However, I don't think the minigun animation and the cranking would line up.

I figured the base idea with just the minigun sounded straightforward enough. The more ambitious ideas, in order of expected difficulty... 1. Gatling laser variant. Vertibird Gatling Laser did something like this for the vertibird mounts, but the model was off for some reason. 2. Gauss and plasma variants. Simply changing the projectile type and muzzle flash would work, but maybe even making new models of weapons using vanilla assets? Use the receiver portion of the minigun but change the front to gauss/plasma barrels, like Any Mod Any Weapon? 3. Portability? Admittedly, not practical at all, since all these weapons are already portable anyway. But imagine if its combined with a mod that heavily tweaks recoil for heavy weapons, making firing it out of power armour uncontrollable. 4. Hostile NPC use of mounted weapons in their spawns. Presumably, this would entail actually going to each raider/gunner/BoS camp to specifically add it in, probably to replace turrets? Seems like a lot of work, not to mention taking some usefulness out of the turret hacking perk. 5. Hostile NPC use of PORTABLE mounted weapons. With (almost) no experience in modding, I'd imagine that this would be heavily AI script intensive. I dunno, could be talking out of my ass here.

Like the label on the tin says. Imagine the minigun mount on Vertibirds, but available in settlements to be manned by NPCs or the player. 1. Building a manned heavy weapon post using the settlement system, under the defence section. 2. Like a guard post, requires an NPC settler to man and generate defence points. 3. NPC-manned heavy weapons behave like the vanilla ones in the Vertibird and fire upon enemies. 4. Player-manned heavy weapons behave like the vanilla ones in the Vertibird. 5. If possible, it could expand to other heavy weapons such as gatling lasers, gauss rifles, automatic plasma guns etc. tl:dr: Vertibird minigun mounts, now available on the ground for settlements