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[HondoXP]

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[fauxpas]

Allegedly not all weapons have advanced versions, eons and equinoxes being two of them.

[Six of Saturn]

They do not exist, another sign of the game being rushed along with no melee weapon modifications and many other things. Laser weapons(in fact all but particle beam weapons) become pretty much obsolete against high level foes.

[wtiger27]

Get a Va'ruun Rifle or pistol. No weapon can beat them aside of a Hard Target for long range sniper kills. Their only drawback is finding ammo.

[Doombringer]

40 weapons have quality mods (each has it's own set)
4 of them do not get advanced: rattler, eon, equinox, sidestar

[Apex Artist]

I find at least in the early game the Equinox is far more powerful in the hands of opposing NPC than it is for the player.
180/13 is the highest version I've found in my 300+ hours of play. You can do better than that with something else in the early game, and by mid-game there are many way more useful weapons for the player.

[StormhawkV]

Originally posted by Apex Artist:

I find at least in the early game the Equinox is far more powerful in the hands of opposing NPC than it is for the player.

That's because NPCs often have automatic versions of the gun and the suit the player starts with has very little energy resistance.

[DANEDANGER]

You know, you can use the cutter as a sort of shotgun, like... mellee close but it also makes use of the laser skill while being classed as a heavy weapon. It outperforms the Equinox, exept for range ofcourse

[Apex Artist]

And of course the two best things about using the Cutter as a weapon is:
1) It's available to use in scan mode, while no other weapon is (hopefully they might change that one day).
2) The Cutter requires no ammunition.

[chris23162]

Originally posted by HondoXP:

At some point vendors sell advanced and supirior gear but I can find an advanced Equinox. Has anyone seen a drop?

Forget that hot garbage and go full particle beam as all the skills stack I'm talking rifles, lasers, particle beams, isolation etc so you end up with well this.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3059955817

I want a handloading version so I can see the damage roll up to just over 7314 damage, but haven't found one yet. Not even sure if these drop with handloading but I hope they do, but seriously forget every other gun and companion and go full one shot kill. Oh yeah this gun fires 6 shots per trigger pull all doing the full damage so nothing lives for long, even terrormorphs on very hard die in just 2 shots.

[StormhawkV]

The Equinox not having an advanced version could be a bug. In fact guns not having superior versions at all could be a bug as well. Particle weapons profiting from the Laser skill is most likely a bug, too. Hard to say what is intended behaviour at the moment.

[Doombringer]

Originally posted by chris23162:

I want a handloading version so I can see the damage roll up to just over 7314 damage, but haven't found one yet. Not even sure if these drop with handloading but I hope they do

Exclusions on rare/epic/legendary abilities are slightly different based on which list is used to generate them.
The one used to generate them from elite enemies and normal boxes does exclude handloading for lasers/particle weapons.
The list used to generate them from gun cases/displays does not exclude handloading.

As a note, overall handloading is x1.0925 damage, lowest roll is x0.525 (~4.14% of the time) & highest is x1.585 (~1.2% of the time).

[Oh Heck]

I'm level 72 and i've never seen a Superior weapon yet. Highest i've seen is Advanced. That normal at this level?

[Doombringer]

There are no superior weapons.

[StormhawkV]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

There are no superior weapons.

^ This. There are only superior spacesuits/helmets/jetpacks but no one can tell if it's intentional. If it stays that way after the first major patch we'll know a lot more.

[Doombringer]

There are no quality omods for weapons beyond 'quality level 4', which is advanced.
xEdit has been working for Starfield for ~2weeks now, you can check the game data.
It if is not in the game data, then not finding it is not a bug.