Meltdown as a special VATS attack

[BSM]

I didn't quite like the way Meltdown works in NV. Sometimes(specially when dealing with melee creatures) it's rather suicidal to use an energy weapon at all, as killing the creature will potentially cause the explosion to kill yourself.

 

So the way I thought it could work is by making Meltdown a special VATS attack for energy weapons. If the VATS attack kills the enemy, the explosion happens. That way you'll be able to... avoid suicides.

 

I tried to make it(using my minimal skills) with no success, as the meltdown effect itself appears to be hard coded in the engine. I think there's a way to do it using scripts, but I don't know how to create them. So... if someone could make this mod, I'd be really grateful.

[dra6o0n]

Meltdown is located in the perks, so maybe you'd have to rip it out of the game and then modify it so it is only used with ranged energy weapon as a special attack.

[BSM]

perhaps you could just add an effect(so it could be used in the "VATS Attack" box when editing a weapon in the GECK) that adds the perk for a minimal amount of time,just enough for the plasma to reach the target, and then removes it?

 

Again, I don't know much about the GECK, so I don't know if it can be done.

[Akerick]

just asking but, when you finish, could you make one that gets rid of meltdown from melee weapons completely