Credits to The6thMessenger
Ported and compressed to 1K with open perms; thank you T6M!
Nexus link: www.nexusmods.com
It’s a Grenade-Launcher, that’s a Sniper-Rifle. Test your skill with a non-hitscan rifle!
Lore:
The XM197 Anti-Materiel “Payload” Rifle was intended to be the answer against the Chinese 35mm-caliber Grenade Launcher, employed with the similar Counter-Sniper role. It fires the 25mm Grenade Machinegun rounds, that are autocannon shells fired with lower propellant and lower velocity – not enough to hit aircraft at higher-altitudes, but just enough against materiel and infantry. Accurized, with variable length of barrels, it can send shells at relatively flat trajectories, to arc over objects, or something in between. Affectionately known as “Payload Rifle”, for it’s capacity to fire standard 25mm autocannon round that has different types of shells for different occasions.
Built from the Red Raptor “Intervention”, chambered from 50-MG and then into 25mm Grenades, it uses a short-recoil operation with a small annular bolt that keeps the bolt-travel short.
Stat:
Damage: 50 + 50 Splash over 200 AOE
Fire-Rate: 16
Range: 203
Accuracy: 73
Weight: 22.4
Value: 749
Caliber: 25mm GL
Capacity: 3/6/12/24
Features:
A Grenade-Launcher that can be turned into a Sniper-Rifle, or a Grenade Machine-Gun.
Custom Sounds.
Leveled-List Integration. Shows up predominantly on Vendor and Gunners. Grenade-Launcher at Level 15, and Sniper variants at Level 25.
Built-in Ammo-Switching System - Can fire different types of projectiles, and can switch dynamically in-between. Legendaries have different ammos.
Comprehensive but optional Ammo-System - that introduces different ammunition and crafting.
Can change skins. Acquire uniques to unlock more skins.
Ammunition:
Lots
Legendaries and Uniques:
Coldburn - “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a darn.” - An armor-penetrating Payload Rifle. Sold in the Institute Concourse.
Flak Cannon - “That’s a stinkin anti-aircraft gun Vincent!” - A modified Payload Rifle that fires Buckshot. Can be found within the safe of Commonwealth Bank.
Hyena Infra-Dead - “Punch your fists into the air and raise a rebel yell! There’s lots of bad’uns out there you need to send to heck!” - An otherworldly Payload Rifle. Locked away in the Cranberry Island at Far Harbor.
Intervention - “Stay out of my territory.” - The basis of Payload-Rifles, firing 50-MG instead. Can be bought from Arturo, in Diamond City.
Lockdown - “Prettier than my girlfriend and twice as nice.” - An energy-based Payload Rifle. Sold by KLE0, in Goodneighbor.
Payback Rifle - “Keep the change, you filthy animal!” - Is a modified Payload-Rifle. Can be won in the Nuka-Cade.
Penetrator - “Shot to the heart, and you’re to blame!” - An optimized Payload-Rifle, designed to fire saboted light-armor penetrators. Can be bought from Tinker-Tom.
Tina’s Tater-Tots - “Roll for initiative, suckas!” - A tweaked Payload-Rifle, able to fire shells that splits into bomblets. Can be bought from )Tiny-Tina) Cricket.
Acknowledgements and Dedications (Credits):
Dak’s Discord - All that I am now in my modding career, even though is small, I couldn’t have gone far without their support.
Degenerate Dak - Didn’t used his assets directly, but I referenced the Attachment pack.
Ophelia Neoma - Green explosion and incendiary explosion.
Henkspamadres - Sticky-Grenade Nif stuffs, and used his code as a basis.
GRY - pointed out and fixed NIF precision error.
Diacute - Moral support.
iamtenspeed - Screenies.
Navarro - Sounds. (So funny thing is that, in his old pages where I got the sounds from says that dude prefers to be contacted. But my referrals that also use his stuff said that he no longer cares anymore. But if there’s some misgivings, please contact me for correction.)
The entitled-guy-formerly-known-as-Aryck-The.One - For while you’re begging mods from authors to no success, while demeaning mine, at least I’m making what I want by the numbers.
The Infographic Show - dafuq are you doing comparing autocannon shells vs bullets?
