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For those of you who think that the original accuracy and effective ranges of shotguns was mostly pathetic.
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This is my first mod, so I'm hoping everything works as I intended.
For those of you who think that the original accuracy and effective ranges of shotguns was mostly pathetic this is a simple mod that makes all the shotguns in the game more accurate to varying degrees, thus also increasing their effective range. I hope people feel this also makes the shotguns more balanced, as I always thought they were considerably underpowered compared to other guns in the original version. I now made shotguns much more flexible weapons (as they should be) instead of just being useful at that iffy to get at between point-blank and too close that you somehow totally miss range for buckshot and short range for slugs. I mean, when I find myself using a sniper rifle inside a building instead of my shotgun simply because the shotgun will miss someone just on the other side of the room, it kind of ruins the immersion.
Most shotguns are now accurate enough to effectively engage targets around 25 ft away (my definition of short range) with buckshot, while slugs will give you accuracy comparable to a service rifle.
Since I made the shotguns more accurate already slugs now have a spread multiplier of .5 instead of .35 as a spread multiplier of .35 for slugs would make them way too accurate. I also changed bean bags spread reduction to .6 to keep it balanced. The effective range still of course depends on your gun skill and the shotgun your using. The single shotgun is still the most accurate, followed closely by the Hunting shotgun, while the sawed off still has pretty poor accuracy, though you actually should be able to shoot at a guy's chest from 5ft and not miss now.
This WILL make the shotguns more accurate both in AND out of VATS.
***INSTALLATION***
Simply download and copy the .esp file to the Data folder in your Fallout New Vegas directory.
****This is the beta version of this mod, and I've only tested it a bit myself, so if you try it out please comment back to tell me what you think. I'd like to get feedback on if people think I made any of the shotguns too accurate or not accurate enough or if the spread reduction value on slugs or bean bags need to be changed.
P.S. I also have a 12 Gauge High Explosive shotgun shell mod you can download here for some serious firepower:
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35534
For those of you who think that the original accuracy and effective ranges of shotguns was mostly pathetic this is a simple mod that makes all the shotguns in the game more accurate to varying degrees, thus also increasing their effective range. I hope people feel this also makes the shotguns more balanced, as I always thought they were considerably underpowered compared to other guns in the original version. I now made shotguns much more flexible weapons (as they should be) instead of just being useful at that iffy to get at between point-blank and too close that you somehow totally miss range for buckshot and short range for slugs. I mean, when I find myself using a sniper rifle inside a building instead of my shotgun simply because the shotgun will miss someone just on the other side of the room, it kind of ruins the immersion.
Most shotguns are now accurate enough to effectively engage targets around 25 ft away (my definition of short range) with buckshot, while slugs will give you accuracy comparable to a service rifle.
Since I made the shotguns more accurate already slugs now have a spread multiplier of .5 instead of .35 as a spread multiplier of .35 for slugs would make them way too accurate. I also changed bean bags spread reduction to .6 to keep it balanced. The effective range still of course depends on your gun skill and the shotgun your using. The single shotgun is still the most accurate, followed closely by the Hunting shotgun, while the sawed off still has pretty poor accuracy, though you actually should be able to shoot at a guy's chest from 5ft and not miss now.
This WILL make the shotguns more accurate both in AND out of VATS.
***INSTALLATION***
Simply download and copy the .esp file to the Data folder in your Fallout New Vegas directory.
****This is the beta version of this mod, and I've only tested it a bit myself, so if you try it out please comment back to tell me what you think. I'd like to get feedback on if people think I made any of the shotguns too accurate or not accurate enough or if the spread reduction value on slugs or bean bags need to be changed.
P.S. I also have a 12 Gauge High Explosive shotgun shell mod you can download here for some serious firepower:
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35534