Better ammo crafting and weapon modding...Please?

[RetroNutcase]

Wow, as great as I thought the initial features of New Vegas would be, I already find myself disappointed by the heavy LACK of things you can do in the way of weapon modding and ammo crafting.

 

-Ammo Crafting Requests-

Ability to breakdown and create special ammo. The fact you can't make Armor Piercing ammo hurts when it comes time to deal with robots you can't hurt due the DT system. It doesn't help that AP ammo is incredibly hard to come by either. And perhaps a few more ammo types here and there for certain calibers that don't get enough love? How about armor piercing .308 for example?

 

-Better weapon modding-

Considering the popularity of WMK, I'm very disappointed that Obsidian didn't actually base their setup more on WMK. Mods are not only not universal, many mods don't exist for many guns. No laser sight for my Sniper Rifle to buff the accuracy? No silencer for my 9mm to make it a better stealth weapon? No scopes for my assault rifles? C'mon, what's the point of weapon modding if the weapon mods are so restricted? There's no weapon customization there if you can only put a suppressor on a .308 sniper rifle and nothing else good.

[Skarovich]

I support both of these ideas.

I did find it rather odd that you couldn't actually make any special ammo types besides the over/max charge batteries.

And I'd like to add something to the weapon mods: make them non-permanent. Although I'm not sure if that's a something that can be changed. It might be hard-coded. Either way, I'd love to see more weapon mods. I've always loved games with weapon mods and customization: the more the better! Maybe add variants as well. Choose between a red-dot sight or a scope for example, if the scripting will allow it so you can't have both at the same time.