Question about a beam splitter laser rifle

[Lemmy]

I recently made a laser rifle with an amplified beam splitter. It says it deals 64 damage, is this 64 damager per beam, or total?

[Lemmy]

Any help would be appreciated

[Mechanos]

I'd like to know the answer to this also. On one of my weapons, it only adds +2 damage, making the spread not worth it if it's total damage. But if that's the damage per beam.. then it might be worth trying out.

[Ninja]

i would say per beam. but i cant 100% say for sure

[maobe]

afaik the damage its the total of all beams together. the splitter creates an AOE that turns the laser rifle into a laser shotgun.

[Lemmy]

Yeah, I found it out. It's total damage.

[maobe]

i tried combining a splitter with autobarrels. the lightshow is impressive, but thats all... :D

[ImHelping]

I've heard people mention, and it FEELS like it splits the damage across the beams. Which makes me sad, because a laser shotgun pistol looks amazing.

It's my only dissapointent with energy weapons in this game, because otherwise this is the most i've used, and the most fun I've had with energy weapons out of any fallout game since the first one.

God, imagine of laser shotguns did even half damage per beam. A laser shotgun can line up as many VATS shots as usual and has twice the rate of fire of a combat shotgun (why yes I would like to line up 5 shotgun headshots with 5 agility), it would be so spectacular if it did proper damage.

[McKnuckles]

Originally posted by maobe:

i tried combining a splitter with autobarrels. the lightshow is impressive, but thats all... :D

That's likely a mix of the wide spread of the lasers, and that automatic weapons will be doing less damage overall (which means even less damager per laser). Though you may be able to just saturate an area with lasers with it though.

[maobe]

Originally posted by McKnuckles:

Originally posted by maobe:

i tried combining a splitter with autobarrels. the lightshow is impressive, but thats all... :D

That's likely a mix of the wide spread of the lasers, and that automatic weapons will be doing less damage overall (which means even less damager per laser). Though you may be able to just saturate an area with lasers with it though.

well, the splitter reduces accurracy and range, the autobarrels too. the result is, you hitting nothing, and that a lot, until the enemy is direct in front of you. its more kinda melee weapon than a ranged weapon...

[Neshamah]

If I 'split' my PBandJ sandwich with you (cut it in half) I don't have TWO sandwiches. The beam splitter 'splits' the ONE beam into TWO beams, but it doesn't double the damage.

[Acid Rain]

Yeah it's the total damage, it basically makes it a laser shotgun

[McKnuckles]

Originally posted by maobe:

Originally posted by McKnuckles:

That's likely a mix of the wide spread of the lasers, and that automatic weapons will be doing less damage overall (which means even less damager per laser). Though you may be able to just saturate an area with lasers with it though.

well, the splitter reduces accurracy and range, the autobarrels too. the result is, you hitting nothing, and that a lot, until the enemy is direct in front of you. its more kinda melee weapon than a ranged weapon...

Or a laser flamethrower.

[IronyIsGood]

Originally posted by maobe:

i tried combining a splitter with autobarrels. the lightshow is impressive, but thats all... :D

Unless it's a legendary bleed damage weapon. That's 25 extra armour bypassing damage per beam, on a slight delay.
No matter how weak the individual beams are by default, you are going to wreck high level enemies with that.