I love punt guns so I was very excited (and surprised) when I saw this. The gun looks amazing but I felt the stats were off so I tweaked some things regarding weight, range, spread and number of pellets. Sure, realistically this thing should fire a huge number of projectiles, but since the damage is divided among the number of pellets, it makes the buckshot and specially the birdshot awfully underpowered.
I also made the long white tube part of the shell invisible with NifSkope and imo the reloading animation looks better without it; I understand the long shell is more "realistic" (even if these guns never used shells lol) but the clipping animation was really off putting on an otherwise great looking weapon.
Personal tweaks aside, this is definitely one of my favorite FO4 mods!
There were actually some punt gun variants that used shells, I based the shell in the mod off of one as it happens. The problem of course is that since the animation was built around standard sized shotgun shells, and I couldn't modify the animation to compensate, the gigantic shell of the punt gun doesn't completely go off screen so it ends up looking iffy. But, the vanilla animations actually looked worse with that chungus of a shell, so I used the animations it uses now. I hope that once I can actually do custom animations myself I can tweak the animation so the shell actually goes fully offscreen.
Oh wow I didn't know there were punt guns that used such oversized shells, that's hilarious! And yeah I understand animations are a problem and I appreciate it using a custom one already. While my makeshift "fix" looks ok on first person due to the perspective, on third person it's silly because you can see you're just reloading an empty piece of brass.
Ive been looking all over Dark Hollow pond for it and cant seem to find. the plugin is definetly enabled so that's not the problem, Does anybody know what side of the pond to find it?
Provided it's not invisible due to Archive Invalidation not being set up, or it missing due to a companion taking it or the ground eating it, the gun is on the west shore of the pond, on a rocky "pier" coming off the shore. There's a chair on it along with a fishing rod and some other knick-knacks; the gun is sitting near said chair. If all else fails there's a second one in the river near Breakheart Banks, perched on a rowboat in the water.
Be careful using explosives near that chair though, you might end up with the Punt Gun at the bottom of the pond. It does have physics when it is on the ground.
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10/10
I also made the long white tube part of the shell invisible with NifSkope and imo the reloading animation looks better without it; I understand the long shell is more "realistic" (even if these guns never used shells lol) but the clipping animation was really off putting on an otherwise great looking weapon.
Personal tweaks aside, this is definitely one of my favorite FO4 mods!
This isn't a shotgun .... this is hand-held artillery!
;-)
I will download this for sure!
EDIT:
Please don't tell me that you can attach a suppressor to this ...