Picture this: you're trundling through the wasteland, listening to Atom Bomb Baby, when suddenly you see him...Shia LaBeouf an angry Deathclaw, who's decided that your taste in music is an affront to his very existence and that the only recourse is to turn you into meat ribbons. As he bears down on you, frothing at the mouth and calling you a hipster, you frantically grab your gun and open fire on him...but, unfortunately, all you've got is a Thompson SMG and ol' Colt .45 is doing nothing but pissing off the Deathclaw even more. Through a hail of gunfire he surges, grabbing your leg and yeeting your sorry ass at the horizon, sending you wheeling through the air like an orphaned propeller until gravity takes the wheel and sends you crashing down into the middle of Raider camp, where you're promptly riddled with bullets, nails, glass bottles, rubber duckies, hammers and a toilet seat. As you lay dying from toilet seat-induced injuries, you think to yourself "Damn...wish I had a bigger gun..."

Well, wish no more, hypothetical toilet seat victim! Whether it's Deathclaws, Yaoi Guai, Radscorpions or Marcy Long, if you want to stop them in their tracks hard and maybe blow their face off while you're at it, the 4-Bore is just what the doctor ordered!

Disclaimer: Doctors don't recommend using a 4-Bore to treat injury, disease, or ennui. Side effects may include death.

The 4-Bore is an absolute unit of a rifle at the upper limit of what a person can "comfortably" shoot, launching a chonky 2,150 grain projectile that's 1 inch in diameter and can deliver up to 200 lbs of felt recoil. 4-Bore rifles were originally developed as a black powder rifle back in the 19th century for use in hunting big and dangerous game, but fell by the wayside after the development of Nitro Express cartridges, which were generally more comfortable to shoot and more effective in taking down said game. Modern firearm advancements, however, resulted in the 4-Bore making a comeback...

As you might expect, this mod adds a 4-Bore rifle for you to find and shoot baddies with, coming with custom meshes, textures and sounds, as well as a tidy host of customization options, which includes:

8 Receiver options
> 5 Material options
> 7 Wood material options (available for both the foregrip, stock and cheek rest)
11 Scope/Sight options
3 Muzzle attachments
3 "Tactical" attachments (Flashlight, laser sight (Compatible with Auto Beam) and both combined)
> 9 Color options for the flashlight
> 8 Bulb options for the flashlight
> 10 laser color options
9 Ammo type options
3 Barrel length options
7 Stock options

The 4-Bore is a single-shot rifle dealing a base 120 damage, though when initially found it's weaker, requiring refurbishment to improve its damage. Due to its raw stopping power, the 4-Bore also has some unique features: certain ammo types can physically penetrate cover, raining hell on anyone hiding behind a wall, sandbags or yo momma, and certain kinds can also punch through armor. Also, due to the massive kickback this thing has, at lower Strength levels you'll have trouble handling the gun; mostly, this manifests as increased stagger, and if you're a spindly nerd with a strength of 2 or less, you'll not only have the gun get blown out of your grip, but you'll be knocked on your ass and both your arms will be crippled. However, Power Armor will mitigate the kickback of the 4-Bore, allowing you to wield it without any issues, even if you're a spindly nerd.

The 4-Bore doesn't make use of any custom animations, utilizing the Double-Barrel Shotgun animations instead, and so any direct animation replacers for the Double-Barreled Shotgun will affect the 4-Bore as well; any mods that replace the animations in a standalone manner (like the BF1 Deliverer) won't affect the 4-Bore.

The 4-Bore can be found in the Boylston Club, locked up in a display case. Ammo for it, as well as the display case key, can be found in a Master-locked safe placed elsewhere in the Club. There's only 1 to be found in the Commonwealth, but ammo for it can be crafted at a chem station under Utility, and more 4-Bore rifles can also be crafted under Utility, but requires you to have the original rifle, plus rank 4 in Gun Nut and rank 1 in Rifleman.

The mod was packaged and saved using the old-gen Creation Kit, and thus should work on both old-gen Fallout and new-gen Fallout.


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INSTALLATION
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Download manually or with a mod manager, i.e. Vortex or MO2. If installing manually, extract the files from the zip into your Data folder, then activate the mod either from the in-game mods menu or via a mod manager. At the time of this writing, this will not work on game versions prior to 1.10.162. If you desperately want to use it, use FO4Edit to change the File Header of the .esp to 0.95. If you're on VR, use the provided VR version under Optional Files.

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DEINSTALLATION
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Deactivate the mod from the in-game mods menu, or from whatever mod manager you may use. Delete the esp and BA2 files from your Data folder after doing so if you want to clean it out completely.

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COMPATABILITY
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As a standalone gun, the 4-Bore shouldn't conflict with anything. The rifle isn't level-listed but uses a script attached to a maintenance quest to seed some of its projectiles into a formlist so they can trigger gas and oil traps, so there should be no need for any manual patching. However, for the penetration to work a custom collision layer had to be made, which introduced itself to the layer's added to it; this may cause conflicts with other mods that edit the same collision layers.

As mentioned above, the 4-Bore is rigged to the Double-Barrel shotgun animations, and so will inherit any direct animation replacers for the shotgun; mods that assign the shotgun its own standalone animations won't affect the 4-Bore.

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KNOWN ISSUES
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None, but if you encounter any issues, be sure to pop them into the Bugs tab.