» Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:37 am Dear viewers,
In the future, I plan to work on a mod for Fallout 4. It's really more of a hobby thing, so I'm not sure if it will ever be released.
The gun will be called "FP-?? Liberator" or "Disposable ??", based on the FP-45 Liberator. The FP-45 Liberator was an historical gun developed by soldiers during the Second World War to arm a resistance in Europe against the Nazis. The gun was designed to be compact, cheap and quick to produce. Famously, the gun was faster to manufacture than it was to load it. It was riddled with flaws, however. It was a smoothbore pistol, with only one round and no ejection system, not to mention that it couldn't withstand usage for more than 50 rounds. That was fine, though; it cost only $2.10 to create and could be disposed of upon theoretically acquiring an enemy's weapon. One shot was all it would have taken.
A million were produced, but none ended up in Europe. The Brittish were simply not equipped to airdrop the Liberators and bomb strategic targets at the same time. So they were shipped around from warehouse to warehouse. Most were melted down.
For Fallout 4, I want to make a version of the FP-45 Liberator, as a craftable weapon. It breaks after 50 shots, like the real world equivalent, and it has to be reloaded after each shot. The reload time is long too. Creating a liberator, though, would require the same, if not less resources than repairing better guns, though, meaning that it is a weapon of desperation. A weapon to claim better weapons or better resources.
For that to be able to work, though, it would have to run on ammo that would be easy to find while scavenging. The reason the original gun was a .45 caliber pistol was because the American military already produced those type of bullets in a large enough bulk that it would be easy and cheap to provide ammunition for the Liberator. I would want the same to be true for Fallout 4. I know that in New Vegas, it takes an addon as well as a mission for .45 ACP rounds to appear on the map, though and they aren't as common as, say, 9mm or 10mm.
Which ammo would you say is the easiest to come by?
