Have you ever wanted to rain down 40mm hellfire or .50 Calibre freedom on the unwashed heathens of the Commonwealth? Well if the answer to that question is yes then this patch is for you! This patch changes the weapons for the vertibird gunners to which ever patch is downloaded.

If you want an automatic grenade launcher, then download and install the AGL patch.

If you want a 20mm flak cannon, download the flak patch.

All weapons are from the awesome Machinegun Rebirth and Minigun Rebirth mods.

What this patch does:

Changes the gunner weapon on vertibirds to whichever one you downloaded. The weapon will change from the vanilla minigun when you mount the vertibird and will change to the new weapon. Note that the weapons have the best upgrades available for them attached. For example the miniguns have advanced motors, depleted uranium rounds, advanced barrels and the best receiver.

What it doesn't do:

Change the model of the weapon on vertibirds that do not have gunners mounted. So empty gunner slots will show the vanilla minigun, this is due to needing a new model and skeleton for each patch. I neither have the skill nor the intention of creating custom meshes and skeletons for something you only see for about a second.

This will not retroactively change the weapon for vertibirds already spawned in/in flight/being used for fast travel as the game has already allocated the weapon to that vertibird, but when you land, if you call another vertibird it should spawn with the new weapons (remembering that the model does not update until you get inside the gunner seat)

Compatibility:

I do not think this will be compatible with any mod that alters the vanilla vertibirds and their weapons as I alter the vertibird weapons in this patch.

Any mod that references the vanilla vertibird weapons will also use these weapons if loaded with this patch. 

This mod should be compatible with anything that does not alter the 3 Forms listed below in the note section. If you are unsure, ask the mod author for the mod you want to see if they alter those 3 forms, or download XEdit and take a look yourself.

CREDITS:

Skibadaa for his awesome rebirth mods!

NOTE:

ONLY ENABLE ONE PATCH FILE AT A TIME.

This is because I have replaced the vanilla weapon information under Minigun_Vertibird and Minigun_Vertibird_Player as well as Ammo5mm_NonPlayable.

Those 3 forms change the weapon, to keep the patches as lightweight as possible I kept the vanilla form ID for those 3 items so I made as few changes to the Vertibird NPC/LL as possible. So as all the patches change the same form ID, then whichever is loaded last will be the patch that you end up with.

Can I make a patch that randomises all the weapons in a levelled list? .....No

Not because I didn't want to, but because the Lvl_Vertibird form in the editor, (the one that details what gets mounted where) doesn't seem to like having levelled item lists used instead of individual weapons. This is due to how I handle changing the weapons by also changing the models to match the weapon properly. If you would prefer to have changes in ammunition and aren't bothered about the model, please look at this mod -->  Vertibird Randomised Loadout