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About this mod
Modifies the Light Machine Gun meshes to resemble down the M60 Elements, and turn it into a proper M249 SAW lookalike - complete with proper iron sights that align to your crosshair.
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"Big Guns was never going to be part of F:NV, but the GP Machine Gun was going to be a .308 MG that I later decided was unnecessary in the base game. I think my initial idea was to base it on the M60. In the end, the LMG is an aesthetic blend of the M60 and M249 SAW.
We added the .308-chambered Automatic Rifle (BAR) in Dead Money, and I think the limited mag size, high damage, and relatively low RoF set it apart from the LMG." - Joshua Sawyer, Tumblr (replying to me)
Basically there's plenty of mods that add aesthetic friendly M60s (SPAMPTRS's mod, and the Gun Runner M60 being the best examples) that fulfil the old "GP Machine Gun that's an M60" concept. However there aren't many mods that bother to rectify such an addition and make the LMG's aesthetic the other side of the split equation - beyond those that are 4K UHD ports from other games, Nexus image concepts, modder's resources, or variants of the M249 SAW/Minimi that feel too modern for the setting (actually big IMO, the M249 Paratrooper design used today in the US Army looks awful with it's M4 wannabe stock, carbine barrel and godforsaken handguard - idk why they didn't just completely adopt a new AR15-based SAW instead)
Basically this rectifies this by redesigning and tweaking the original Light Machine gun model to resemble the M249 SAW. I wanted to make this a straight edge "keep the original aesthetic as possible" and make the weapon less a direct "it's an M249 SAW!" and more in the FNV art teams "it's heavily based on but not 100% accurate because legal issues, and this is probably a Kyber Pass-esque Gun Runner reproduction"
To install use the modloading tool of your choice...or be insane and just paste the contents in your data file.