0 of 0
About this mod
Adds a unique laser gun to the game with a custom legendary mod that causes the beam to explode with an EM pulse on impact.
- Permissions and credits
As I've gotten higher in level, and especially with the Automatron roving bands of killer robots, I've noticed that at some point your ability to mod better weapons with higher damage no longer keeps up with the increased difficulty of random encounter swarm spawns. I wanted something with an area effect and a little more firepower for dealing with them (especially Rust Devil robots) and thought a gun that could shoot EM pulses would be a pretty handy tool. I looked for something like that on Nexus and found this: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14932/?
When I downloaded it, it didn't work (assume because an update broke a perfectly good mod or something) and figured I'd take a crack at making my own. This is what I came up with.
This mod adds a unique legendary laser gun to the game, located at the southern end of the top level of the elevated highway near the gunner camp at Mass Pike Interchange.
The gun fires a standard (but Institute-blue colored) laser that sets off an EM pulse on impact. The pulse isn't as strong as a grenade or mine, but it's still a little OP if you plan to use it for just regular fighting. It's really intended for situations where you're badly outnumbered by high-level swarms. It's also pretty good for raining death from above if you have a free-flying jetpack mod.
I intended to balance it a bit by requiring multiple fusion cells for each pulse or slowing down the speed of the gun or increasing recoil (or all of the above) but I couldn't figure out how to attach those negative effects to the new legendary weapon mod. If anybody knows how to do that, I'd love it if you'd leave a comment.
The easiest way to find the gun, if you have a jetpack (even a vanilla one, I think), is to travel to the Electrical Hobbyist Club. Right next to it is a break in the elevated highway that you can jetpack jump up to. On the higher level is an abandoned camp and the gun is sitting on one of the two metal shelves.
You can also access this without a jetpack by getting on the same highway further north between the Weston Water Treatment Plant and Fiddler's Green. You will have to walk a pretty good distance down the highway and fight some gunners to get there, but you can get up to the upper level where the gun is. (I had to add a rusted out bus to act as a bridge as the camp was only accessible by jetpack without it.)
All of this, including how the mod was made and where to find it, is explained in greater detail in the attached tutorial video, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/QgmzLwcml6o
When I downloaded it, it didn't work (assume because an update broke a perfectly good mod or something) and figured I'd take a crack at making my own. This is what I came up with.
This mod adds a unique legendary laser gun to the game, located at the southern end of the top level of the elevated highway near the gunner camp at Mass Pike Interchange.
The gun fires a standard (but Institute-blue colored) laser that sets off an EM pulse on impact. The pulse isn't as strong as a grenade or mine, but it's still a little OP if you plan to use it for just regular fighting. It's really intended for situations where you're badly outnumbered by high-level swarms. It's also pretty good for raining death from above if you have a free-flying jetpack mod.
I intended to balance it a bit by requiring multiple fusion cells for each pulse or slowing down the speed of the gun or increasing recoil (or all of the above) but I couldn't figure out how to attach those negative effects to the new legendary weapon mod. If anybody knows how to do that, I'd love it if you'd leave a comment.
The easiest way to find the gun, if you have a jetpack (even a vanilla one, I think), is to travel to the Electrical Hobbyist Club. Right next to it is a break in the elevated highway that you can jetpack jump up to. On the higher level is an abandoned camp and the gun is sitting on one of the two metal shelves.
You can also access this without a jetpack by getting on the same highway further north between the Weston Water Treatment Plant and Fiddler's Green. You will have to walk a pretty good distance down the highway and fight some gunners to get there, but you can get up to the upper level where the gun is. (I had to add a rusted out bus to act as a bridge as the camp was only accessible by jetpack without it.)
All of this, including how the mod was made and where to find it, is explained in greater detail in the attached tutorial video, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/QgmzLwcml6o