Well, I'm not terribly surprised at the sway your're getting at all given the above information. Your sniper rifle is basically in terrible shape and you're small guns skill is below 50 . . . so that's the issue right there. I'd say our changes are pretty much working as intended. You're going to end up with a base spread value of about 0.80, compared to the vanilla game 0.30. In the original game, weapon condition had no bearing on accuracy, so you need to get sniper rifle repaired up more =)

EDIT: As another point of advice . . . when starting a new character, depending on your playstyle it can be highly advantagous to spend the first 2-3 levels raising you're primary weapon skill as fast as you can. If you have say 6 SPECIAL into agility (for example), you'll have 18 starting skill points for small guns. if you tag it, that raises it to 28. Right when you leave the shack, you level up, so you can sink 7-10 skill points ino small guns (depending on what lvl 30 balancer you're using), which doubles since it's tagged for +14 or +20. If you then take the gun nut perk, you get another +5. So at level 2 you can theoretically have at least 50 in small guns. If you continue to invest in your main weapon skill for another 1 or 2 levels, you can get it up into the 75 range, which will go a long way towards improving your aim.

Remember to crouch down too (i.e. enter sneak mode) . . . as that also improves your aim.

Not that it's the easiest low level encounter, but super duper mart is do-able at level 2 or 3 for me . . . there are a few laser pistols and quite a few energy cells in the right front corner of the store. For what's it worth. Otherwise, what Kai said.

Kelsey works fine with FWE.
ezCompanions might have issues since it's scripts don't account for custom ammo types and try to force itself around some gameplay settings. From the looks of it I wouldn't recommend loading this mod wholeheatedly, but maybe someone else has more experience with it.


The Sniper rifle has the best accuracy rating of all weapons, with only the gauss rifle being equal to it. We can't improve it anymore, since it's spread is at 0, the best possible setting in the game.
The Hunting rifle has also a very good accuracy.

Just to go back to the sniper talk, sniping is great in FWE. I made a sniper not too long ago and it was by far and away the easiest time I had. Starting with a hunting rifle then working up to a real sniper rifle with WMK customizations when I could afford to maintain it, I was popping heads from the extremes of visible ranges with free aim and bullet time.

I mean extreme too, like they were on the very edge of max actor fade. I was geared for stealth and crit damage and could 1 shot almost any humanoid out there. 1 shot, 1 kill sniping is really easy in FWE where it's near impossible in vanilla.

Just to go back to the sniper talk, sniping is great in FWE. I made a sniper not too long ago and it was by far and away the easiest time I had. Starting with a hunting rifle then working up to a real sniper rifle with WMK customizations when I could afford to maintain it, I was popping heads from the extremes of visible ranges with free aim and bullet time.

I mean extreme too, like they were on the very edge of max actor fade. I was geared for stealth and crit damage and could 1 shot almost any humanoid out there. 1 shot, 1 kill sniping is really easy in FWE where it's near impossible in vanilla.

Thanks. I didn't know that the Sniper rifle had the best accuracy. I'll try again. I had good small gun skills before. Now small gun is at nearly 100 so maybe I'll see a bigger difference.

Agreed, my only issue with this is that there are no stores, no sources of energy ammo, and no melee monsters other than animals nearby.

As a regulator you have a pretty good starting position if you know how to make the best of it. You pick up Lawdog, then you head over west to the scrapyard, pick up Dogmeat and loot the raiders. That'll already net you some .32 ammo or some other weapons. Then you can head straight over to minefield, sneak around the edge and kill Arkansas, take his sniper, loot the entire town and all the mines. And voila you have a bunch of equipment, dogmeat, a unique gun and loot to sell for good caps.

Anybody knows where to buy Gauss Rifle M72 or PPK12 Gauss Pistol? I just started playing with FWE so Im only in Megaton.

Probably won't but caps in FO3 come easy. Already have 600 and I just started.

Kai I know you said not to point fingers at FWE when it comes to physical editing of worldspaces, but something happened in Jury Street Tunnels that screwed up the cell big time, everyone (NPCs, me, misc objects) warp to one spot upon entry and swirl in hell. I know the wonder meat maker was edited so that's why I come here.

What other FWE-added Weapons are WMK-itable? I found out about the DE by accident.

I had looked at FWE a while back and decided not to use it, there were a few things I wanted and a few that I didn't. I got the standalone mods for what I wanted and was happy. Due to the everincreasing popularity of FWE I have decided to give it another go. Sweet Christams has it grown! I downloaded it a week ago and have spent this time reading all the readmes. I have, on my own, been using some mods that are already integrated into this latest version so I think I'll be happy with most of the additional content. I'm thinking that I'll try this out as "Vanilla FWE", with out a lot of extra mods. I know that MMM and WMK are not only compatable but recomended, which is good because I hate playing without them, but are ther other mods that people feel add to FWE without over riding its many changes?