Better Bloody Mess - ESPless

The death animations from classic Fallout are unmatched for their sheer over the top brutality. The description from the original trait reads, "By some strange twist of fate, people around you die violently. You always see the worst way a person can die."

Lots of weapons in New Vegas have their own unique death effects but you can only ever see most of them if you happen to kill the enemy with a critical hit. With this ESPless scriptrunner installed, the Bloody Mess perk will make it so that any enemies that you kill will always trigger your weapon's death effect, whether modded or vanilla. Lasers will always disintegrate, plasma will always melt and fire will always incinerate. If the weapon used to make the killing blow doesn't have a unique death effect, then the enemy will simply explode into a red, gut-ridden, eyeball-strewn paste like always.

This shouldn't be any more overpowered or affect balance in anyway, since these effects are only triggered once you've killed the enemy in the first place.

Note that the script is intentionally designed so that this behavior includes all actors who have been given the Bloody Mess perk, such as by JIP LN NVSE's uNPCPerks feature.

This mod requires the xNVSE, JIP LN NVSE and JohnnyGuitar NVSE script extenders in order to function.

This mod is compatible with everything, including any mods that edit the Bloody Mess perk like changing it to a Trait or whatever. This mod does not take up a plugin slot, so feel free to install it on an existing save.

The script logic of the mod is written to ensure compatibility with mods like B42 Melee Bash or B42 Quick Throw so that death effects are only triggered when the target is actually killed with that weapon.

JazzIsParis and LuthienAnarion for JIP LN NVSE

c6, carxt and lStewieAl for JohnnyGuitar NVSE

ItsMeJesusHChrist for the icon used in the promo image

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