More Low Level Weapons

Made for game version

2. 31

TL;DR

It is faster to show you the issue than to explain it, so here is an example.

Take a random Gunner from the Animals. You probably encountered a bunch of copies of this NPC here and there.

What weapon does he use?

Short answer: he is using a pistol.

Long answer: it actually depends both on random chance and on you. Or, rather, on your V.

Because if V encounters this guy at levels 1–16, there is a 50-50 chance of him using either a Liberty or a Nova.

But, starting from level 17, these go down to 3. 7%. What picks up the slack is Quasar with 18. 52% and Lexington and Omaha with 37. 04% each.

And, if that wasn't weird enough, starting from level 33, these probabilities become 1. 75% for Liberty and Nova; 8. 77% for Quasar; and 17. 54% for Lexington, Omaha, Overture, Burya, and Kappa.

On the surface, this may look like it increases the variety of weapons with each level bracket, but, in reality, it just means that you will almost never see this guy use a Liberty if V is high enough level.

And there are cases where this disparity in probability is MULTIPLE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE higher: a Militech recon Sniper uses Nekomata (9. 09%) or SOR-22 (90. 91%), unless V is level 17 or higher, at which point he will be using M-179e Achilles with 98. 91% (!!!) chance.

This mod lets you adjust some numbers to make sure those early weapons are not wiped out from existence by V leveling up.

If you have never even noticed this happening—chances are you do not need this mod.

If you are using my Give 'Em Guns! mod, then you most likely would have noticed that, at low levels, a solid chunk of NPCs would have dropped modded weapons exclusively. This mod fixes that.

The solution

Take a look at this:

Character. AnimalsPrimaryHandgunPool_inline0:

$type: gamedataNPCEquipmentItemsPoolEntry_Record

minLevel: 33

- Character. AnimalsPrimaryHandgunPool_inline1

This is one of the entries in the pool of that Gunner from before. The level for this entry to become active is determined by `minLevel` (33 in this case), while the chance of it being picked is based on its `weight`.

Simply put, the higher the weight, the likelie