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LOADS of ammo is a fantastic mod, with one little problem! The ammo holotapes for switching special ammo types was unreliable and frankly downright slow for some guns.This mod is the solution! Change the LOADS Holotape for a BLS one today! Better error messages, tremendously faster and wayyyy less bugs Try for yourself! LMKWYT

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Better "Loads" Ammo Switches!

I just wanted to say thank you to TheTalkieToaster for an absolutely amazing, must have mod, Loads of Ammo - Switchable Ammo Types

Also, if you like either mod please endorse them, it  helps other people find them too :).

Better Loads Switchers (BLS) is really small but really cool mod. After a playthrough with Loads, I can't imagine another without it. If you have used it with New Calibers By BrowncoatGarrus and/or Weaponsmith Extended by Gambit77 then you know what I'm talking about.

There was one problem though. Those DAMN ammo switchers. They were slow, they didn't give you good feedback of the problem and more importantly they could just stop working! If that happened it was the worst, say goodbye to that gun or ammo switching on that gun.

This mod fixes all of those problems. After a short loading time on a gun, the switches can be used to swap between calibers almost instantly, until you switch to a new gun. With this mod you also get better feedback to the problem and it will actually FIX any "broken" guns that can't hotswap. I reverse engineered the script and make them more stable. They will also report issues to the user in-game, removing the guesswork as to why the switches aren't working. This is the main reason I created this mod. It was frustrating to use a LOADS switch and have no idea why it wouldn't swap. With the BLS switch if there is an issue you know what it is.

I maintained the Original Loads's backend, while adding an optimization to the code allowing the switches to operate much faster. They work using a caching system that caches needed ammo info for special caliber (e.g. AP, EXP, IR, INC) swapping. The original programming performed expensive lookup operations every time you tried to swap. I observed anywhere from 1 to 6 seconds until the ammo was swapped depending on the gun. The new Switches will need to load the cache everytime you swap to a different gun and right after you swap to a new caliber. What that means is after you swap ammo types the cache will need to load but if you don't need to swap AGAIN immediately you can swap when you need to!  What that means is that as long as you stay on the same gun you can swap special types very quickly. And whenever you switch weapons you'll have to wait for the cache to load the first request to swap to a special type. I think this is kinda cool actually, makes it fun in combat! :)

If you like Manufacturing Extended and building awesome factories you should check out my other Mod Better Manufacturing. It is a much larger, more complete mod than BLS. It has scrapping machines for Loose Mods, Weapons,  Ammo, Armor  and new MUST HAVE builders,and SO SO much more. Check it out :)



Below is a video comparison of standard loads switche vs the BLS switch. (v1.2.4)



Requirements:
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Absolute Must Haves:

MUST HAVE Loads of Ammo - Switchable Ammo Types
MUST HAVE F4SE installed correctly.


Options in installer:

Weaponsmith Extended Patch
VIS Patch 


Compatibility
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Very small mod should have no compatibility issues if you get the standalone version.

Installation
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With NMM (highly recommended): 
1. Download the Archive
2. Open Nexus Mod Manager
3. Open the "Mods" tab at the top left corner
4. Click on the green "+" sign near the top left corner.
5. Open the BLS archive, after some Loading time it will appear in the mods list under "Better Loads Switches".
6. Right click on the mod and in the list select "Install and Activate"
7. It should pop-up the normal install window. Select the appropriate options and click finish.

Without NMM: 
1. Download the file manually.  
2. Then use your favorite .7z, .zip, .rar program to extract the desired modules from the Data folder in the archive to your Data folder ie: C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\fallout 4\Data.
3. Then in the Fallout 4 launcher select the hidden plugin manager and select the modules to activate them.

Uninstallation
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With NMM:

1. Deactivate/Uninstall the mod in NMM

Without NMM:
1. Delete any file named "Better Loads Switchers-*.esp" from your Fallout 4\Data folder.
2. Delete any Folder named "BetterLoadSwitches" from your "data/Scripts/" folder.

Recommendations: 
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Better Manufacturing 
Valdacil's Item Sorting
More Cages
Manufacturing Extended
Higher Settlement Budget 
Crafting Workbenches
Legendary Modification mod