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  1. passinglurker
    considering its the author that just told you it's still WIP I think reports of the projects demise are exaggerated
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    You could just wait for the fo4 new vegas team to get to the silenced smg which is a rotary pan magazine weapon. Or since pan mags are typically pretty high ammo capacity someone could get away with tagging the Neverending legendary effect onto whatever they make until they could court an animator. Only other thing to note would be that the pan mag style is really only called for with rimmed ammo (.303 british, 7.62x54R, and .22lr being the historical real world examples) so unless you are adding new ammo's to the game or disregarding attention to detail for the rule of cool(totally justified btw) the vanilla options you have to work with are .38, .44, shotgun shell, and .45-70.
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    On the topic of commando why not just make it "non-sidearm ballistic with a short barrel"? for example this would make the sawn off double barrel shotgun a commando weapon. A lot of weapons that straddle the line like the pipeguns are still a bit to big to be considered pistols anyway.
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    Real life has squad tactics and doesn't have deathclaws. In a world like fallout you never know when you alone need to get a lot of grenades down range in quick succession ;) P.S. is it possible to get something like the holographic throwing arc effect on a primary weapon?
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    There are things that power armor can do that maxing strength can not though such as negating fall damage so the precedent for further improving handling when in power armor could be there.
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    Read at least the previous page first you'll find your answer(spoilers the answer is technically no). Also again there are other balance and replacer overhauls (W replacers, unbogus, equilibrium, etc) if you can't wait for the complete package and want a comprimise.
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    If you want to make such compromises then there are already plenty of balance overhaul and vanilla weapon replacer mods to choose from already. There is little point in a mod like WARS vs one of those if it isn't complete.
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    I think it's a bit more complicated than that. A standalone mod should behave like vanilla for consistency sake. If you want realism download one of the overhaul mods and patch your standalone weapon mod to be balanced with it.
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    I think someone tried something like this before but gave up and dumped the assets as a modders resource... ah here it is https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22253
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    Thats fair but if you don't mind me making one counterpoint I'd say that the reising is distinct from the thompson. With much lighter weight (delayed blowback vs. essentially straight blowback), more accurate in single fire(closed bolt vs. open bolt), and less suitability for sustained super mutant melting fire (20 round mags, vs 50+ round drums, and rifle grip vs pistol grip) it's niches would either be "the lesser smg you find more commonly/before the thompson that supplies you with the ammo to feed the thompson" or "the rifleman's .45acp weapon". (I'd also add that since it uses combat rifle animations that it'd be an option for super mutants but I don't recall if the thompson doesn't also have animations for super mutants)
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    What about the riesing smg/police carbine (aka the vintage sub machine gun mod)? There was no custom animations made for it but it lines up with the vanilla combat rifle touch points almost perfectly(as in everything but the charging handle, and the folding stock modification).
  12. passinglurker
    does that have to do with how when a weapon is picked up off the ground (be it player or npc) it gives a full mag worth of ammo?
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    It would make sense to at least give the named and boss npc's you're supposed to fight the manual treatment or a default unlimited companion style gun so they don't anti climatically run out (railroad/brotherhood leadership, raider bosses, Kellogg, that plot courser, etc)
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    Sorry I wasn't sure what to call it, but the word I was looking for before was "Animation marker" like what this mod messes with https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10012/ The idea is to have settler interaction with a marker (in the form of something they regularly use like a bed or a chair) trigger the inventory shuffle that supplies them with thier ammo. This is just a laymans spitball.
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    I imagine under what I proposed that If they drop in two ammos then it'd be split between everyone as evenly as possible a dumb but predictable system, but it doesn't sound like that actually saves any trouble on the implementation side of things. hmm... well I think the simplest way to handle this is just give settlers their unlimited ammo but only for the most common/cheapest ammo types that way players that don't want the hassle can just settle for certain weak weapons, and only have to go through the tedious chase down and set up once. another thought what about an interaction point like how settlers are constantly hammering rosa's house at sanctuary or a guard post? where when they interact with it it rearranges their inventory how the player wants you'd have to wait for them all to idley walk up to the interaction point and use it but that would get around some of the complicated scripting issues wouldn't it? As for automatrons. Do they need seperate energy cells for energy weapons or is that supplied internally?
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    sounds like a job for laser muskets(I said before settlers/minutemen would favor them for thier logistics). Alternately would it be simpler to have a settlement object that instead of intelligently balancing and maintaining ammo stores just splits whatever you dump in evenly between the settlers? its at least a step above chasing them all down to give ammo.
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    IMO I think you would see laser muskets at all levels of the minute man military progression simply because it would be a logistical godsend for an irregular militia army(this is assuming its ammo free as intended instead of pick pocketing your fusion cells as implemented). Unlike raiders and gunners they aren't in a perpetual loop of "plunder and scavenge guns and ammo in order to plunder and scavenge more guns and ammo" so actually sustaining the supply of other weapons and ammo is going to be limited and they wouldn't want out of ammo soldiers to loot the homes they are protecting looking for a replacement weapon. So instead they give the rank and file guy a hand crank laser and a brick of mutfruit cake for the extra calories he'd expend while saving the other weapons for specialists, officers, and elities, and when the faction gets bigger and more powerful instead of an abundance of bigger guns they just field even more guys with laser muskets and saturate thier enemies in flashlights and support them with artillery imperial guard style.
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    That might be because fallout doesn't really model the advantages of such vs. just sticking a big drum mag on an assault rifle. Anyway the forum has this great topic searching feature. I found this just searching for LSW for a minute.
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    What about instead of legendary weapons, legendary mods? like the sacrificial blade on the machete, or Lorenzo's artifact on the gamma gun. Just a set of weapon parts the player shouldn't be able to produce themselves at a workbench?
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    My favorite word. I don't care about how real/arcade or deep/shallow something is as long as its clean and tidy :happy:
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    a speed penalty just for holding makes sense to me not so much heavy weapons but for awkward bulky weapons like minigun, junkjet, broadsider, etc. For something like a handgun or assault rifle the difference between holding and running with it in your hands, vs. in your magic invisible pack I imagine wouldn't be enough to register to most users. If its a weapon that anyone can heft no problem but only the strong won't flinch from the recoil of firing like 12ga shotguns, .308 hunting rifles, and 10mm/.44cal magnum pistols then the penalty should be more about accuracy, recoil, ap cost, and delaying refocusing the cross-hare after a shot
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    -The Chauchat was primarily a disaster with american troops when converted over to thier ammunition and issued without field manuals, but it worked adequately in its original chambering when operated by troops properly trained in its repair and maintenance as was the case with the french there were even plans to introduce a closed magazine but the war ended. Considering the alternate time line shenanigans that make German last-ditch assault-rifles common place in parts of the Fallout-US its possible that the Chauchat could have received similar improvements and adoption, or alternately scavengers pinched them from museums and wasteland workshops developed a working copy because Its long recoil based self loading action as also found on early automatic/semiauto weapons lends itself well to black powder and dirty ammunition as it holds the bolt closed longer to more thoroughly burn the powder so the only thing that gets dirty from firing is the barrel. And of course it just looks a lot more unique than an AR-10 with a beta-c mag. -Lewis gun. A pan mag is also be pretty unique so that no two guns have too similar a profile
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    I dunno about 7.62 NATO exactly but WWII, and fallout tactics/NV are full of them
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    Heh no arguing from me that reload animations are cooler but I wouldn't necessarily call never ending on a m60 or minigun magical or at least I wouldn't call "assuming all the compatible ammo a wastelander can realistically carry fits in thier big under-slung belt bag or giant feed drum" any more magical than the miniguns present 3rd person reload animation where you one hand extracting the empty drum, pull a giant heavy loaded drum from your hammer space and slot it into place again manhandling this mass of bullets all with one hand holding it from the handle on the butt end often out of power armor and while running... And of-course there is balance because big high capacity weapons have long reloads that cancel out the boon of carrying more bullets while stilling penalizing you with weight and higher AP costs. giving the high capacity niche never ending gives a player more of a reason to pause and consider picking one up vs a handy AR in the same caliber. Anyway that's all I had to say on it I'll respect your decision I just wanted to make my full case.
  25. passinglurker
    A thought what about getting around the reloading animation problems by just giving belt fed weapons the never-ending effect? It would give a very distinct advantage to using a heavy carry weight 5.56, or .308 lmg vs. a lighter magazine fed small arm equivalent set to full auto.
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