Weapon troubles

[Grim Reaper]

I researched magnetic weapons. I went to the engineering tab and clicked on build item, went to the weapons tab, and built magnetic pistols and rifles.

But the rifles will not upgrade for some reason. I searched around and all the solutions seem to only help those who use mods. I do NOT use mods.

I tried relaunching the game and reloading the save and that didn't do anything. And I have no mods to turn off or anything so I'm out of ideas.

[SeriousCCIE]

In my game, the weapons themselves did not become equipped -- especially if I had added whatever items to them (scopes/ammo increase, etc).

I had to unequip the existing weapons and pick the new ones.

I did not encounter any issues when doing that, but I did end up playing a few missions before realizing I had to actually unequip my special upgraded ballistic weapons in order to make use of the new magnetic ones. Think of them as new gear, instead of upgrades, since upgraded gear is the same gear but with duct tape.

[jeffy]

you have to physically equip the gun from the load out menu per soilder

[Reoden]

Huh, if you are using an unmodded game when you go to Engineering > Build Items and buy something that says "[SQUAD UPGRADE]" all soldiers able to use that item should get the upgrade. I've never had an issue with that.

If you use a mod like Long War 2 then you are indeed building individual items you have to manually equip, but OP says he's not using any mods.

Uh.. you sure you were able to afford the mag rifle upgrade and it went through? If you go to Build Items again is the upgrade still listed there? Are you looking at a soldier that can equip a Rifle class weapon (Specialist or Ranger)?

[Roderick]

Sometimes they don't change weapons automatically. Have you tried changing the equipment manually? When the squad upgrade is bought, there should be the standard version available from your weapons loadout.

[Grim Reaper]

so after 1 or 2 missions the option reappeared in my engineering tab. So I either bought the thing twice or something else happened.

[Roderick]

If you research magnetic weapons, you "only" get to buy the upgrade for the standard rifle. The research for the sniper rifle and the heavy gun comes afterwards. Maybe it is that, what you are seeing?
I never had that kind of bug, that's why I am curious...

[Grim Reaper]

I understood that the sniper rifle and heavy gun came from a different research
what i think happened is I spent the resources on getting the magnetic pistol and didn't have enough for the basic rifle.
And for whatever reason the rifle either temporarily changed names in my build tab or it disasppeared altogether until i had the resources for it.

That's my theory anyhow. I might just be talking out of my behind for all i know lol

[Roderick]

Hmmm... the standard rifle and the pistol comes in the same research. Magnetic weapons unlocks the pistol and the rifle. You have to buy/construct it seperatly after research, though.

[Grim Reaper]

Originally posted by Roderick:

Hmmm... the standard rifle and the pistol comes in the same research. Magnetic weapons unlocks the pistol and the rifle. You have to buy/construct it seperatly after research, though.

right that's what i'm talking about. i think i bought the pistol and ran out of resources for the rifle

[Roderick]

Ahhh, ok, it makes sense now. ^^