I need Sniper M82A1 😄

I like the idea of the laser rifle, but not so much the implementation. The animation from the pistol is very annoying, considering that he is holding a gun. I would like the animation to match the type of weapon.
Enuway thx for the mod.

Perhaps it should at least shoot in 3 shot bursts, being a rifle and all.

Ok check in the Discussion section. Vote: Adaptions of Cost and Stats. Post your Suggestion here!

Agreed on the balance suggestions. The range on this thing is bonkers. Combined with the rate of fire. damage, and accuracy, it feels like I'm just cheating. It fires so fast and hits so hard it destroys target dummies before they're done playing.

Hello, am currently using the weapon and enjoying it.
It is sad that the only vanilla laser weapon is the pistol.
If i could maybe point out some balance points:
- The range outclasses the railgun which is a bit weird, i would suggest going 30 v1, 40 v2 this feels more like a combat AR setup to me (1-4x mag cqb scope)
- The resource cost is the same as the laser pistol, maybe go 2 power cells as an "increased draing for range"
- Put the hit rate between the pistol and sniper 70-85%
- Crit could be set to 10 - 30% or to pistol levels as the volume of fire is similar.
My 2 cents, am having fun with it.

now thats what im talking about!

Happy to read that. So it was worth the effort. :)

This is a really nice series of weapons, the more I use it the better I like it.

Tried it out, I like it for my non-combatants, it really adds to the game, like a carbine for officers and support troops in WW2

Texture sizes. This are multi material textures of 1k x 1k
It has over 10 materials and you have about 3 or 4 such texture files per material.
1k x 1k is a bit an overkill considered you won't see the weapons close upfront anyway.
The thing I worry a bit is that those with low memory graphic cards might get into problems.
There would be 2 solutions: reducing to 512x512 which will reduce the size to a quarter or resolve the multimaterial and merge them into one material which means that then are just 4 textures those then with size 2k x 2k. However it is my first such mod and I learnt a lot doing so but in special that it really costs a lot time doing such.

I suspect that they original had Laser Rifles in the game and threw them out later because they might have seen them as OP. It so makes no sense to have Laser Pistols but no Laser Rifles. Eighter you have both or none. In my opinion all the weapon of the game are underpowered. Without a ton of traps and stationary defence tower you do not have a chance. Even a 1 on 1 with those weapons often results in close combats. Yes likely the cost could be incresed but I am not working on the mod anymore and it is not that you get them too early in the game anyway. So i think it is ok as it is. Thank you for your suggestion.

cool mod, though they're a bit overpowered. Perhaps consider increasing the cost to produce? Doubling the electronics and cpu cost would help balance it vs. the laser pistol

Thank you!!

After I added the scope and improved the laser rifle model a bit I am happy with how the rifle pictures look now.

The larger pictures:

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2981453176
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2981453772

With V1.06 I added all new laser rifle Icons from a 3d model that I created and rendered. Now I am not that skilled in 3D weapon modeling. So if anyone is skilled and wants to provide a better looking laser rifle picture for this mod I might replace mine.

Note that the game works with 3 very small and square pictures: 44x44, 60x60 and 72x72 pixel.
Fileformat is .png with an alpha channel. The background will be transparent.

For those that already downloaded this.. (didn't thought you are that fast)
You need at least V1.04 that you can produce those weapons.
If you already did the research before V1.04 then there is NO way to get the recipes activated on the solder workbench anymore because the trigger was missing.