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Laser Rifle - useless ?

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BTAxis:
Yes.

Takai:

--- Quote from: BTAxis on December 23, 2007, 12:33:25 pm ---Yes.

--- End quote ---

OK. Realistic = like the real thing.

Here are the real things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_weapon#Military

Not very exciting, unless your handheld lasers are only blinding enemies too ;) I don't think there are any clips at all.

Also realism: there no alien invaders and no-one knows how 20XX will look like.

BTAxis:
Nevertheless.

Takai:
How about "fun factor"?

Unless you are really keen to perfectly simulate non-existing weapons you just completely imagined.

In X-FORCE lasers have limited number of shots per mission, but are recharged automatically after. Another reason to keep a sidearm weapon!

BTAxis:
Of course, I agree that the game should be as fun as possible. And if it is necessary to sacrifice some realism to accomplish this, I will do so. However, this is almost never necessary. We can have both.

I don't believe making the laser clipless will really improve the game, and so I will not do this for the official scripts. If you don't like it, that's unfortunate. But you can change this for yourself, as long as you don't want to play multiplayer. You can edit the laser weapon script file (/base/weapons_laser.ufo) and change all the fire modes to use 0 ammo per shot. The laser will still use a clip, but it will never run out.

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