CROSS_Blades

Details:

Four mods in one! This mod adds 4 new weapons to the game: The Plasma Katana, the BER2 (Laser Sword), the Crucible Blade, and Plasma-infused throwing Knives. The three melee weapons are fully compatible with CROSS_Crits.

The three swords each have their own customizations. Each weapon has a primary tier upgrade, with each upgrade new effects are added to the blade/laser/edge and old effects become more intense. The BER2 is science focused, while the Katana is a combination of Science and Blacksmithing, and the Crucible is exclusively Blacksmithing.

Even though they deal heavy energy damage they still fully scale with your current strength level (the shishkebab's energy damage doesn't do this, which is why it's kind of bad). Similarly, the Throwing knives scale with your explosives perk. Overall each weapon starts out around the same power as a regular machete, and upgrades 3-4 times to beyond the Kremvh's Tooth's power. The Crucible Blade is unique in that it can be held with 1 or 2 hands, the trade off being fast-short swings vs slow long-range swings.

LORE:

BER2 "Laser Sword": Originally developed by General Atomics as a hedge trimmer the BER project was re-focued after a number of disastrous house fires occurred in field testing. Re-tooled as the BER2, the project was aimed at military contracts. Using past connections General Atomics was able to convince the top brass of the US Military to hold a military trial for the weapon. The term "Laser Sword" was coined in military trials by the largest critic of the idea, Lt. Col Hatte Neuspauper, when quoted as saying "I don't care if its hotter than the sun, we don't use goddamn swords anymore."

Plasma Katana: The Plasma Katana was designed and built by REPCONN on request by the US government when it was announced military trials would be held to test the viability of "Close combat meta-fusion-based weaponry". The principal design was based on crystallized plasma capable of being rapidly heated. While an effective cutting instrument the weapon was ultimately deemed prohibitively expensive, mostly due to the cost of manufacturing the necessary large plasma crystal to form the blade.

Plasma Throwing Knives: A compromise from the development of the Plasma Katana, throwing knives require only a

small fraction of the materials of a full blade, while still a providing a super-heated plasma edge capable of causing heavy damage.

XBOX link: https://bethesda.net/en/mods/fallout4/mod-detail/4081452