Firing from the hip in VATS

[Trask]

Hope the title caught someone's attention. You know how there's alternative attacks with melee weapons in vats when you reach a certain skill? I think it would be really cool if the same feature applied to guns, press another button in when picking targets in vats for different effects and costs. The most obvious alternative would be the option to fire from the hip, play the not-aim-down-the-sights-animation for 20% less action points and a 20% hit-penalty, or something. I'm a layman when it comes to all things programming but it would seem to be that this would be a fairly trivial mod to create seeing as all the resources are featured in the game proper.

 

I think it would be lore-friendly too seeing as how when the courier reaches level 30 he/she is pretty much supposed to be a god-made-flesh (god-made-deliveryman :P ) who doesn't break a sweat mowing down feeble radscorpions and raiders. In fact that gives me another idea as I'm writing this, if it's possible, maybe choosing the alternative attack shouldn't change the couriers facial-expression. When your nigh-indestructable wasteland-warrior come under attack by pathetic powder-gangers with guns that can't cause any damage even without your armor on, the expression could be a passive one and imply slight annoyance rather than rage :P

[danielexe]

Hey man I know I'm like 7 years late, but I asked lStewieAl if he could add that feature as an optional in his lStewieAl's Tweaks, and he actually did it, so here.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66347?tab=description

 

It doesn't actually work as you described it, simply, if you aim before entering VATS, it'll aim in VATS and if you don't, it'll hip fire.