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About this mod

Makes penetrator perk work with plasma guns

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  • CHANGELOG !

1.1: Removed a dirty edit on the gauss projectile
1.0: Initial release


  • WHAT ?

In vanilla game, plasma guns dont benefit from the penetrator perk. This simple tweak mod makes plasma guns benefit from the penetrator perk.


  • WHY ?

Because there's nothing in the penetrator perk description saying that it would work with all guns BUT plasma ones. Also one of the official patch adressed a similar issue the gauss rifle had with the penetrator perk... Summary: it pretty much looks like a BUG to me.
I couldnt have carred less about this until, while playing, I found a two-shot plasma gun that happened to become my favorite all-purpose weapon but got pissed when I realized that for some obscur reasons it wasnt working with the penetrator perk.
Searched for a fix but, since I couldnt find one, I made my own...


  • HOW ?

Plasma weapons themselves arent touched at all by this mod, nor the penetrator perk.
In case you worry about compatibility issues or whatever this mod could do to your game, here's the "technical" aspect of the mod:
It does his trick by changing some properties on the plasma projectiles datas, it gives plasma projectiles the "penetrate geometry" property and makes the game engine manage plasma projectiles as if they were "beams" instead of "missiles".
Dont worry about the rendering of plasma projectiles in game, they stay the same as in vanilla. This mod WONT turn plasma guns into some kind of laser weapons.
It's only a little tweak that use vanilla game assets. Added a picture showing in Xedit what exactly my mod does. It only show the first projectile changes, but the two others have the exact same edit in them.


  • COMPATIBILY ?

if you use any mod changing plasma guns, it probably wont conflict at all, but if you got something changing any of the plasma projectiles, it will conflict for sure.
Changes are small so it's easy to merge changes with other projectiles mod using Xedit and transfering/applying changes from this mod to your plasma projectile changing mod.


  • INSTALL ?

Just drop the esp in your data folder and check it in your mod manager whatever it is.


  • UNISTALL ?

Delete/move the esp from your data folder. Should be safe to remove anytime you feel like it. Well maybe avoid doing so on a save where plasma projectiles are flying around, it'll probably have no consequences at all but, better safe than sorry...


  • ISSUES ?

Didnt notice any issue playing with this mod until now and it's safe to install/uninstall anytime you feel like it.