Definitely think the Black Market should play a larger role in the game, with many more missions and risk to join them (bounties on your head, hassle from the Commonwealth, etc)

Oh okay. Sorry I did not realize there was a bug forum! Hopefully it's fixed soon.

This may be just me and my extensions creating the problem, but now barrels do not appear to work for armor on first try. I used carbon-weavers on heavy meteorsteel and they remained at 150 hp, and they appear to remain at 150 hp as I got hit a few times to test this and the hp started dropping imme...