Weapon Requirements System

Weapon Requirements System

I'm going to lay it straight: if your character has 10 Strength and 100 in every weapon skill (and never drops from there), this mod will literally do nothing for you. And achieving that very thing is a sign that this mod is, after something like 3 years since I first sketched it, finally working exactly as I wanted it to.

Recommended though not required:

• []Detonator Overhaul

  []Reload Reloaded

  Fallout New Vegas introduced a tiny change over the FO3 framework, with all weapons listing Strength and Skill requirement values in their pipboy view. But what was never very clear was... what exactly do these requirements do?

  A few bright minds have pondered this transcendental question, and over the decades, the consensus reached has shed some light onto this mysterious feature. To sum up:

  - Strength and Skill requirements in firearms will increase your weapon sway.

  - The Strength requirement in thrown weapons affects their throwing distance.

  ... What. The. Hell. What about LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE? Why does a loading screen say that not meeting the requirements affects your attack speed in melee when this is patently false? What do skill requirements do for grenades and other explosives? Shouldn't it be dangerous to play with those if you have no idea how to handle them?

  Basically, another half baked mechanic left by Obsidian, which nobody cared much about. FNV was never about the gunplay after all, but I've... seldom... let that stop me.

  This mod is a humongous marvel of scripting to make weapon requirements do something when you don't meet them. So that going straight for the best weapons and ordinance may have another layer of complexity behind it. It has been very hard to make, and even harder to test. What I mean is that at the end of the day I went with my choices about what requirements do on each type of weapon, and for what I've offered in customization, there's some limitations in what you can choose. I hope you find it interesting enough at least. Or not. I tried my best.

  So I'll try to explain what I've done, categorized by weapon type:

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  Firearms

  By fierarms I mean anything that shoots out of a barrel, launcher, anything with a ranged attack you don't shoot with your own hands.

  As explained above, requirements on firearms did something in the vanilla game. Kinda. Their effect was so subtle as to be effectively unnoticeable, and even them had a bug in their implementation. If you're interested: the strength and skill requirement introduce a malus to your spread,