NCR Rearmed Remade

Introduction:

Have you ever wanted an expansion of the gear NCR troopers receive, while still being lore friendly and not radically changing how they look? Want to just add a bit of variety to an already well done faction without completely changing their identity? Sick of all the "overhauls" that just replace the iconic NCR armor with generic combat armor, or worse, make the NCR look like knock off Call of Duty characters?

There was one mod that I've ever found in my 10ish years of FNV modding that even came close to what I was desiring.

It's called NCR Rearmed. It leaves the armor as is, however adds new backpacks, chest rigs and even weapons into the leveled lists of all NCR soldiers. In my opinion it's almost perfect. Almost.

The original mod has a lot of problems.

Firstly, half the backpacks that OpposingFarce adds from Drags New Armor Pack are, quite frankly, missing. The assets are there, textures and meshes all. Despite this, even though he shows the backpacks in the original screenshots, they don't actually exist in the plugin. Furthermore, it seems only one variant of the backpacks that do spawn would even spawn in the first place, meaning all the cool variants that you can give yourself in console won't be distributed via leveled lists. All of this, and the backpacks are completely outclassed by other backpack mods like Alex's Backpack Mod, Canvas Backpacks - Remade and Better Balanced Backpacks in terms of balance and bonuses.

Second, the smaller addition to the original mod: Weapons. Originally, the mod adds 4 weapons: the Service Assault Rifle and Service Marksman Rifle as well as their unique variants, War Winner and Knight Stalker. I quite like the models and was sad that nobody had made a kNVSE patch for them. The grenade launcher on the Service Assault Rifle especially caught my attention as Sigerious has created an excellently animated functioning underbarrel grenade launcher for the Marksman Carbine. Sadly however I couldn't port the animations over fully properly, as both the aimed fire animations and the fire rate were both extremely buggy. Furthermore, NPCs always clipped their hand through the grenade launcher. On the upside, I was fully able to port Hitman47101's amazing animations over to all the new weapons introduced with this mod. Furthermore, the base game Service Rifle had some weird edits in the original which apparently were supposed to better balance it alongside the new weapons, however the difference is minimal and only serves to frustrate when you have other better mods that affect the Service Rifle already.

Third, something the original mod lacks: armor variety. It's supposed to be an expansion of the NCR, but all you see are the same 4 armor variants over and over again. Now, the chest rigs and backpacks do give a lot of visual variety,