V1.1
Can be safely added and removed from saved games. For best results, physically remove these weapons from your saved game before removing the mod.
This is a very lightweight mod that adds dual wielded variations of pistols to the game. They can be obtained as early as their regular counterparts, but may also carry into the later game due to their increased firepower. All of them are craftable at their regular stations with no extra research required, for twice the material cost and almost twice as much work to make them.
The only weapons that have been given a dual wield variant are the Revolver, Autopistol and Machine Pistol. The new variants are essentially just clones of the same, with doubled burst count accompanied by an accuracy, cooldown and range penalty, as well as increased crafting costs. Since the same tags are present on these weapons raiders should be able to use them, but their increased resource cost will cost them more points.
So, you may be asking yourself "Why should I use this mod instead of the much better mod that ACTUALLY lets you dual-wield weapons?" And to that I say, don't use this mod instead... Use both and quad wield machine pistols to turn everything into swiss cheese. No, but honestly this is an extemely lightweight mod that only consists of 3 textures and single XML file shorter than most core files.
If you're the type of player that prefers smaller mods with less moving parts (especially around updates), this is a good mod for you. Also, most of the work I put into this mod went into crunching numbers and tweaking the values to achieve balanced damage numbers that don't overshadow anything at Medium and Short ranges, but have the edge over other ranged weapons in their Close range. So, if you're the type who worries about balance issues occuring from mods, this is also a good mod for you.
While I did spend alot of time balancing out the damage of these weapons, they may not be perfect so feel free to provide any feedback you have on this matter.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this mod :)
A separated expansion for this mod which adds dual-wielded weapon variants to Oskar Potocki's Vanilla Weapons Expanded mod can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2084053651
The new mod does not require this base version to function, as all these files are included in that one. This base version remains to serve as a lighter, standalone version for players who do not wish to use Vanilla Weapons Expanded.
