Combined Arms Integration Project (CAIP)

What Is This Mod?

Combined Arms Integration Project (CAIP) incorporates all 17 weapons from Combined Arms and its Expansion Pack into the base game with a comprehensive series of edits intended to deliver a streamlined and balanced gameplay experience. CAIP is the spiritual successor to DankRafft's Weapon Pack Integration Project (WPIP), which is no longer available as Dank decided to stop working on it. WPIP included NovaFinch's Combined Arms as well as Russian Assault Pack, but for CAIP I decided to focus only on integrating weapons from the Combined Arms content. Full credit goes to Dank for originally creating WPIP and giving me permission to revise, re-package, and re-release the project in this form.

What Exactly Does This Mod Change?

1. Removes all weapon recipes from the Chem workbench. I removed recipes for both the free "cheat" versions as well as the "preset" versions that cost resources. If you want the weapons, you're going to need to level up and earn them yourself!

2. Removes all placed instances of Combined Arms weapons and ammunition in the world. No more immediately farming end-game weapons from specific locations--you'll need to level up to get the weapons!

3. Disables scripted leveled list injection in favor of a curated selection of manual leveled list edits. Various factions use some or all of the Combined Arms weapons, but I didn't distribute the weapons to Super Mutants, which cannot use modded weapons without certain animations.

4. Adds dozens of attachment collections (called "mod collections" in the Creation Kit) for increased weapon spawn variety. Many weapons only spawned in 1 configuration, so now you'll see them in lots of varieties with more powerful attachments showing up as your player character's level progresses.

5. Adjusts weapons' base damage stats where needed to balance all 17 weapons against each other and comparable base game ballistic weapons. I lean heavily into FO4's leveled world design and have also customized the progression curve for obtaining and upgrading all 17 weapons.

6. Provides a version for playing only with base game ammo and a separate version for playing with the custom calibers. The "Standard Edition" of CAIP provides a more straightforward approach to gameplay by configuring all weapons to only use base game ammo and removing caliber conversions (i.e., each weapon is associated with one caliber). The "Armament Edition" requires Armament and allows for converting weapons to different calibers as defined by Combined Arms (not all calibers used by Combined Arms are available in Armament, but most are). The "Armamen