I decided to make this mod after experimenting with the Quick Modification Weapon mod by Toounx and wishing for a Fallout 4 game where every weapon that you could find was modifiable on-the-go. It was made entirely in xEdit, by overriding the leveled list entries of vanilla weapons with the records of the modded weapons. I also created mod collections for each and every weapon so that enemies will spawn with randomized and leveled attachments. Basically, the more you level up, the more variety of/advanced attachments your enemies will spawn with.

My general philosophy was to sort through the weapons and seperate them by tier/ammo classes (Pipe guns, Pipe bolt actions, combat guns, etc) and replace them with modded weapons. In many cases, I replaced the different variants of weapons with multiple different weapons (for example, semi and full auto pipe rifles, which are replaced by the AS VAL and the Vargo 52 respectively). Due to this, you will see a much wider variety of different weapons spawning on enemies. For some of the variants, like for combat rifle semi/auto, I used the FN FAL, but I made two different object templates within the weapon record, one for semi auto receivers and one for auto receivers, and added keywords to the object templates, more similar to how the vanilla game does it.

In this process, I tried to maintain the same ammo distribution throughout the game, so I would add weapons (for example, .45 caliber weapons) which used the same ammo calibers, so the pipe gun revolver replacement (the M9A1 Baretta) and the Combat Rifle replacement (the Fn FAL) use the same caliber (.45). I am not a gun person so this doesn't bother me, and it makes my life easier so vendors still sell a balanced distribution of (.38, .45, etc) ammo.

For energy weapons, there was not enough QMW compatible out-of-the-box energy weapons, so I decided to replace the majority of energy weapons with ballistic weapons, but I modified the damage values to remove ballistic damage and added energy damage to both the weapons and the receiver upgrades, as well as an energy impact effect to make them feel more like energy weapons (Similar process for the radium rifle replacer). I saved the special AER-15 for coursers, the supposed pinnacle of institute tech, so a true "energy weapon" is much rarer (and cooler).

Unfortunately, there are 4 guns which are not compatible with QMW, but I feel like they needed some love to be able to fit in to this mod, those being the Broadsider replacer, the Fatman replacer, the Gamma Gun Replacer, and the Flamer replacer.

I also added a selection of new melee weapons for the same reasons (of courser, they aren't qmw compatible).

I tried to balance the weapons as well as possible, but I often play with combat overhauls like Better Locational Damage and most recently True Damage, so the balancing isn't dialed in for vanilla combat.