OMG-50

Without a doubt the 50 cal ammo is among the worst of the bunch you can get. Too heavy in survival mode, too expensive for its damage, and it has no matching automatic weapon despite there being one planned by Bethesda at the beginning of Fallout 4's development cycle in the first place. This small mod tries to fix those issues by buffing both the 50 cal hunting rifle and the 50 cal pipe bolt-action rifle by a fair amount, closing the gap between the 308 combat rifle, the 44 magnum revolver, and the Gauss rifle as well as introducing a new automatic weapon, the OMG-50 light support machinegun.

Based upon some calculations and considerations about the official weapons provided by Bethesda up to Nuka-World, the OMG-50 offers the highest damage output of all automatic weapons. This is balanced out by the scarcity of the 50 cal ammunition, as the leveled lists remained untouched. The other two weapons now fill out the gap on the non-auto weapon spectrum, keeping both the pipe bolt-action pistol/rifle and the hunting rifle relevant for a longer time.

As with the update on the Nuka-World edition I also upgraded the hunting rifle even further! Its base damage has now been buffed a little bit, the 38 receiver version got quite a boost to make it at least useful for dispatching ghouls and raiders, and it also got a new receiver for the otherwise all but orphaned 5. 56mm ammunition from the assault rifle.

Update with version 1. 2. 0: Added a new skeleton grip which turns the hunting rifle into a hunting "pistol". The weapon is no longer affected by Rifleman or Sniper, but by Gunslinger. Reduces the AP cost in VATS by 35 % but also increases the recoil. You'll also see a tag on it once the hunting rifle has been chambered for 5. 56 mm ammo. Sound familiar? ;)

Update with version 1. 2. 1: added a skeleton stock for the hunting rifle, which reduces weight and AP costs in VATS at the expense of no additional bash damage and little improvement on recoil control. Basically it's just very useful for VATS but not much else.

Update with version 1. 3. 0: Now you also have a snub-nosed version of the hunting rifle and a tactical pistol stock available. In case you wanna save AP costs and you can go without some range.

-= The stats =-

There are two versions of this mod available (pick only one in the download section!!!). The first one is balanced around the vanilla game, the second one takes the newer weapons from both Far Harbor and Nuka-World into account.

Vanilla game version:

Base damage: 64

Rate of fire: 90

50 cal hunting rifle:

Base damage: 96

50 cal pipe bolt-action pistol/rifle:

Base damage: 80