SWEEP - Sweet Weapon Enhancement and Expansion Package - VANILLA VERSION

This is a complete rebalance and re-integration of all of the weapons and ammo in TTW.

SWEEP is going to be a STARS-style AIO balance/integration plugin for all of the weapon mods across the Nexus that I like - this is the "vanilla weapons" only version of what that file will be. That file will be dramatically different than this one, and require more than a hundred weapon mods from across the Nexus. This version of that project is one for people who don't want to deal with all those requirements, but want my balancing, especially as it relates to my other mods.

NV Only Version Here

Core Design Philosophy:

I once heard someone recite a quote from Sid Meier - "A video game is an interesting set of decisions." I agree with this wholeheartedly, particularly in the case of RPGs, and the experience that I enjoy most in video games is the sensation of overcoming a legitimately difficult challenge, by utilizing a set of interesting and varied tools and decisions, rather than by exclusively perfecting my performance, or exploiting facets of a game's structure or bugs.

In my opinion, both vanilla NV, has a lot of balance issues that inhibit the variety and appeal of player choice and expression.

What is "bad" decision design/balancing?

Imagine if the Debug Mega-Pistol (for those unaware, there's a 9mm pistol in the game's files that kills anything in a single hit, which is used for debug testing) could be found in-game in all playthroughs, in the room that you start in, along with an armor that makes you invulnerable. If you pick up and use them 100% of the time, the game has no challenge, and it's basically just a theme park. The decisions presented to you would merely be aesthetic.

Having a completely overpowered option evaporates the degree to which the presented choices are interesting - it creates a "correct" decision, where every other decision available is statistically worse, and the only reason to make the other choices is for aesthetics, and I don't believe that the dichotomy between an aesthetic preference and a statistically all-around better choice is an interesting decision.

Why are you bringing this up?

In vanilla NV/TTW, there are lots of times where a weapon of a certain caliber will be completely invalidated by a weapon of the same caliber in the next weapon tier. For example, the . 357 Revolver is pretty much completely eclipsed by the Cowboy Repeater as soon as you can get your hands on one - it has a higher capacity, a 23% increase in damage-per-hit, it has almost the exact same DPS, and it's 16x more accurate. As a result, there's basically no reason to stick with the revolver once you can get a repeater, other than a few perk effects and the slower movement speed while holding an unholstered two-