Lightbulb Launcher

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This is something from an actual dream I once had. I tried building the thing for F:NV back in the day and even got some results, but ultimately forgot about it. Not sure if I would have the time to do that for F4, even if I figure out how the syringer rifle works...

 

Anyway, the idea is: a weapon which fires different kinds of grenades which you craft from lightbulbs. Somewhat similar to the Syringer rifle. In the dream that thing looked like a fat man, but with a glowing lightbulb instead of the mini nuke, but I think some sort of a missile launcher made out of a rusty pipe would be more fitting. When you press reload, you should get the container interface to load it with lightbulbs, which could be:

 

- Molotov: you literally just made a hole into the lightbulb, filled it with gasoline, and closed the hole with some cloth. Works similar to the molotov cocktail. Crafted from 1x lightbulb, 1x fuel, 1x cloth.

 

- Radioactive: just some water and nuclear material, which splashes on impact, dealing minor AoE radiation damage. 1x LB, 1x any water, 1x nuclear material

 

- Explosive: A makeshift explosive grenade. Deals damage maybe between baseball and actual frag grenade? Or even just on par with the baseball grenade. Requires fertilizer and oil, since apparently that's how you get gunpowder in F4.

 

- Frag: like above, but also takes some steel in it's recipe, and creates shrapnel, like the TrueFrags mod does for all grenades.

 

- Nuka: crafted with nuka cola quantum, and causes a similar explosion to the nuka grenade. Maybe requires that Project Blue perk, if Nuka World is installed?

 

And/or all the possible Syringer effects. The difference would be that this weapon is more short-range and AoE, where the Syringer is more of a sniper weapon.

 

 

I'm not even sure if the Syringer/Junkjet loading mechanism is even available for mods, and not hardcoded. If it's not, I'd like some info on that as well, maybe I will give it a shot myself after all...