I remember vividly, my first trek through the Mojave, coming up to Camp Searchlight, and I remember my dismay at the town's state of decay. I perked up though, for first Sargent Astor promised me "an old rifle" for ending the misery of his fallen brothers in arms. "An old rifle?" I thought surly it must have been a unique weapon, likely good for ghoul stomping. So I put down the wicked creatures, and eagerly awaited my reward. Once again, my heart sank, for I soon realized that "an old rifle" simply meant a generic service rifle in poor condition.

I've wanted to change this since 2010. As I was browsing the Weapon mods here on the nexus, I discovered quite accidentally Tem1980's marvelous "Heartbreaker" and I knew right then and there I needed to figure out how to get it into the game as the quest reward for "We will all go together."

I've finally crossed the threshold from mod user, to mod maker.

So here it is. The gun was made by Tem1980 http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/users/1113813/? who graciously gave me permission to use it in my mod. All credit should go to him for that. Here is his original mod:

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/55384/?tab=3&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fnewvegas%2Fajax%2Fmodimages%2F%3Fuser%3D0%26id%3D55384

I did nerf it just a little since it was initially VERY powerful. Its balance could be tweaked further, but since its not my gun I don't want to mess around with that too heavily.


You do NOT need to download the original weapon mod for this mod to work. That said though, you absolutely should download it anyway to Endorse it for the work done to make it.

In case I haven't been clear, what this mod does, specifically, is it changes the reward given for the completion of the quest "We will all go together" so that instead of getting a generic service rifle, you receive a unique service rifle. It is chambered in .308 and if you coerced Aster into giving you ammo along with the rifle, he will fork over 25 .308 rounds. In the vanilla game he comes off of 50 .556 rounds but I changed it to be more relevent to the rifle he gives you.

Something else to note, in the original .esp made by Tem1980, there exist two mod kits specific to the Heartbreaker. The .308 service rifle carbon fiber parts, and the .308 service rifle extended magazine. According to the original description for that mod,(actually its in the comments section, commented by Tem) they're incorporated into vendor lists. I didn't make any changes to that so they should still be implemented that way. This may cause conflicts with other mods that edit vendor lists, but I honestly don't know that they will or won't. I never even found a way to view vendor lists in the GECK. I'm still learning it. It was my intense desire to make this mod which got me to break into it to begin with. If any issues, compatibility or otherwise come up, please let me know, I'll do what I can to fix it. This mod is pretty simple though, once I finally figured out what I was doing, so I don't foresee there being any conflicts or other issues. I'm confident in it.