Butter's Gun Balance
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🔍 Analysis
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- 🏆 #242 of 476 Weapons mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Quick edit of some early game guns so they are viable throughout your playthrough. Changes include the .32 pistol, chinese pistol, minigun, and both assault rifles.(Uniques and DLC are tweaked)
Edit of some early game guns so they are use-able throughout your playthrough. (I did make tweaks to any DLC varients of these guns as well to make them more consistent)
Changes include:
(The critical damage was matched with base if not listed)
. 32 pistol
base dam 6 - 7
crit dam 6 - 10
more accurate minimum spread
chinese pistol
base 4 - 8
crit chance increased by 20%
Very accurate minimum spread
Assault Rifle
base 8 - 10
more accurate
magazine 24 - 20
Chinese Assault Rifle
base 11 - 12
magazine 24 - 30
accuracy unchanged
base 5 - 7
DLC
Infiltrator
base 8 - 10
accuracy unchanged
magazine 24 - 20
crit damage 10 - 12
Uniques
Zhu-Rong Chinese Pistol
base 4 - 9
min spread is now 0
Xuanlong Assault Rifle
mag is still 36
Fire rate increased
base 7 - 9
accuracy increased
base 10 - 14
Still has low fire rate
Crit damage 14 -16
Crit rate is still 2. 0
Wild Bill's Sidearm
base 10 - 13
crit dmg 15 - 17
min spread is now 0
10% more wild
Made the assault rifle and chinese assault rifle shoot a bit faster.
I also fixed one of the pistols having the wrong crit damage.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 3 Mods
- Author
- butter
- Version
- 1.01
- Downloads
- 555
- Endorsements
- 19
- Category
- Weapons
- Created
- 11/4/2023
- Updated
- 2/1/2026
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