Description

I have played and finished the game multiple times and never have I once collected half of the magazines available in the game. Magazines provide minor buffs so I was never interested in collecting them. This mod changes a boring game mechanic in my personal opinion (item hunting/collecting) into a more interesting one (a reward for killing a boss).

Most bosses have mediocre/bad death leveled list rewards. Adding a guaranteed random perk magazine into the pool of rewards, gives you more incentive to fight that boss that you just randomly encountered instead of ignoring it. Also, certain unique actors will drop perk magazines when killed. This is usually tied to quests and your decisions meaning that progressing through quests will also reward perk magazines.

This mod does not touch the original magazines, they're still found in their locations in case you needed to collect a specific magazine.

Types of Bosses:

- Generic Bosses: Such as Deathclaws or Mirelurk Queens. Any instance of this boss killed will always drop a perk magazine.
- Unique Actors: Such as Kellogg or DiMa. Only one instance(the original instance) of this boss will drop a perk magazine. So if you spawn a copy of it from the console, it will not a drop a perk magazine. Theoretically, there should be only one of any of these bosses so there shouldn't be a problem.

List of Bosses:

I have included a text file in the download section containing all the bosses and unique actors. I know the list is small as these are the only ones I know of. Please, if you have any suggestions for more bosses or unique actors, I would be glad to add them to the mod. But also keep in mind that I tried to somewhat balance the mod so that you don't get all the magazines early game. There are a lot of named actors but they're not strong enough to be considered a boss or they're not related to any important quest.

Important:

A settings holotape called "MDFB Settings" will be added to your inventory when you leave the prewar scene or in an ongoing game. You need to use this in order to start the mod. There are two modes available currently: 

- Regular Mode: This mode allows duplicate magazines to drop. It's also very light weight on performance. Choose this if you're ok with duplicate magazines or need performance in general.
- Unique Mode: This mode will guarantee that each magazine you pickup is unique until you exhaust the pool of available magazines in the game. Once you run out of magazines, the magazine pool will reset again essentially allowing you to pickup duplicates. Unfortunately, it comes with a performance hit because it doesn't use FO4's leveled list system. Choose this if you want unique magazines and don't care about performance. 

Compatibility:

This mod uses a combination of injecting items into leveled lists and inserting items to actors on death. It doesn't modify any leveled lists so it should be compatible with any mod.

- Ketaros Treasures
- Legendary Bosses: I was given permission by the mod author of Respawnable Legendary Bosses - Rebalanced to include his changes in my patch because it conflicts with my patch. This means you do not need to install his patch but please visit his page and download his patch to give him support. Thank you very much Laptoprocker.

Installation:

Recommend downloading it from a mod manager. For manual users copy the content of the data folder to your Fallout 4 data folder.

Got a suggestion for the mod?
I am always happy to listen to suggestions and improvements.