Rotary magazine weapon

[Oroborus15]

Rotary magazines have always been interesting to me, stacking bullets into a circle instead of side to side was largely abandoned because it's just kind of really in efficient, yet the British airforce still used the Lewis Gun (roughly ww1 era LMG) until the 1960s. Could we get a Lewis gun or similar rotary magazine weapon?

[Moraelin]

Way I see it, the biggest problem there is that the Lewis (or for that matter the Russian Degtyarov designs) would need a new animation for reloading. Far as I can tell, there are very few people around who can make animations, and sadly I'm not one of them.

[passinglurker]

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.

[Nihilisaurus]

the British airforce still used the Lewis Gun (roughly ww1 era LMG) until the 1960s.

The Lewis was officially withdrawn 20 years earlier than that, in 1946.