Ammo (UN)LIMITED

Ammo (UN)LIMITED

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Ammo (UN)LIMITED
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First of all I’m sorry for the bad english. I hope you will understand at least something
Second, tool used: FO4Edit

DESCRIPTION

Inspired by dhrgusdlrns and his Ammo Weight MOD, I’ve tried to rebalance the vanilla unlimited ammo factor in a similar but very different way.
In this one you don’t have true limits to the amount you can carry (like the mod name), there are only 2 malus types:
1st malus – exceed the ammo type limit signed in the name and you lose AP (action points).
2nd malus – exceed another 20% of the signed limit and you lose more AP.
The effect stacks and if you are exeeding 2 or more ammo types you gain the summed penalties.

I chose this option because it is far more clean, simple and less taxing.
It’s clean because it doesn’t drain your max carry weight, giving you a negative value in some circumstances and issues about it, drained AP at the maximum are simply 0 and deactivated.
It’s simple and less taxing because reaching the 0 has its drawbacks but you can play almost normally, while mid values simply damage the AP amount.

The drawbacks:
Reduced AP means less action possibilities in VATS, less power attacks, less sprints and last but not least….less time holding your breath.
Deactivated AP means all deactivated, then you can’t shoot using VATS, sprint, hold your breath or perform power attacks.

In simple terms….you are TIRED, and in game reaching 0 AP your character has breathlessness with REAL SOUNDS representing it.
As I said, it’s more simple and less taxing, but the drawbacks are in my opinion more tactical and interesting.
Another tactical aspect to take into account is that the malus represents the clumsiness due to the load of ammo that you are carrying.
Clumsiness is like the opposite of agility, agility gives you the amount of AP, then an agile character suffers less the heaviness of the penalties….
….and I think it’s right!

BUGS

I’ve tested nearly every aspect and I found only an issue. It’s about the power armor energy drain and the only way to fix it is to block it.

The power armor has 2 drain effects, one while running and one linked to AP “usage”, but this isn’t the right term because every negative effect to AP affects the fusion core drain, even drugs or others……….and I don’t think it’s right!

Then you can choose between 3 main different plug-in versions:

Power Armor_Fixed – Disables the energy drain effect linked to AP (fPowerArmorPowerDrainPerActionPoint 0.050000 to 0.000000 in game settings).
Power Armor_Balanced – // and increases the simple running drain effect (fPowerArmorPowerDrainPerSecondRunning 0.050000 to 0.100000).
Power Armor_No changes – Like the name….no changes. Use it if you have other Power Armor energy drain MODS or whatever the reason.

I hope this remains the only one, anyway try it and let me know.

VERSIONS

In addition to the Power Armor changes there are other plug-in versions related to the difficulty level:

Easy – exeeding the signed limit for a single type of ammo gives -5 AP.
Medium – // gives -10 AP.
Hard – // gives -60 AP.

There are other 2 options divided for the previous 3:

60 – The second malus, -60 AP for ammo type, gained exeeding the additional 20% of the signed limit.
500 – // -500 AP //

If you ask me wich one is the best, I think the hardest one with -60 AP for single ammo and 500 damaged AP for super-exeeding the limit.
I think it’s more interesting and taking into account that 60 AP is the base action points value of the game, you have to make do with the agility base bonus (10 AP for agility point) or other and more often.

I’ve added 3 optional files to download:

Ammo (UN)LIMITED ita………………Main file, Italian version. Install this one or the english version.

More Action Points – 15xAgility………it gives 15 AP x agility point intead Vanilla 10. It can be an add-on or a stand alone file if you’re just looking for an AP boost.
More Action Points – 20xAgility………it gives 20 AP x agility point intead Vanilla 10. It can be an add-on or a stand alone file if you’re just looking for an AP boost.
To update the values in an existing save we have to update the agility. It’s simple, just wear a dress or consume an item with an agility bonus.

INSTALLATION

Pick one….ONLY ONE….esp file, following the directory structure of the archive (options), then copy the file in the Data directory of the game like all other mods and activate it in your favorite mod manager.
or
// ONLY ONE // // // // and add “Ammo (UN)LIMITED.esp” without quotes in your plugins.txt file placed in your AppData/Local/Fallout4 directory for a manual installation.

To uninstall simply put all your ammo surplus in a container/companion inventory to remove the effects and save. Now you can safely delete the file or files installed.

THE LIMITS

I’ve changed the names like the following list, for example if you have six 10mm Round in your inventory or in looting mode you have found the same,
you will read “10mm Round [550] (6)”, so you’ll remember the first limit, forever! 😉

5mm Round [2500] Flamer Fuel [2000] .38 Round [600] 5.56 Round [600] 10mm Round [550] .45 Round [480] Fusion Cell [480] Cryo Cell [480] Plasma Cartridge [400] .44 Round [360] .308 Round [300] Shotgun Shell [240] Gamma Round [240] Alien Blaster Round [210] Railway Spike [200] 2mm Electromagnetic Cartridge [120] .50 Calibre [100] Flare [50] Fusion Core [40] Missile [30] Cannonball [20] Mini Nuke [10]

The second limit is set to 20% added units, but you have to remember it or “mentally calculate” 😉

5mm Round [3000] Flamer Fuel [2400] .38 Round [720] 5.56 Round [720] 10mm Round [660] .45 Round [576] Fusion Cell [576] Cryo Cell [576] Plasma Cartridge [480] .44 Round [432] .308 Round [360] Shotgun Shell [288] Gamma Round [288] Alien Blaster Round [252] Railway Spike [240] 2mm Electromagnetic Cartridge [144] .50 Calibre [120] Flare [60] Fusion Core [48] Missile [36] Cannonball [24] Mini Nuke [12]

CREDITS & OTHER

Thanks to Bethesda for the MARVelous game
to FO4Edit creators team for an awesome editor
and to dhrgusdlrns for the basic idea
if someone has missed his Ammo Weight Mod, try it

permissions are total-free, change it, burn it, even play with it if you want 🙂
Really, do what you want and enjoy the game