Laser questions

[Icky Thump]

1) Is the Energy Pistol good for anything other than the Reaper?
2) Energy Collector - appears to be broken? I've let it charge forever, has all cubes filled in on top (red color? Hasn't changed, not sure if supposed to be green). I walk up to it with a expended Energy Pistol to test, it says to press E to charge the pistol, and nothing happens.

[SIGNAL]

1) Energy Pistol actually fires multiple shots quickly (4 shots IIRC), so multiply the listed damage by 4 to get your real output. It's not the greatest, but at least it only needs power. From what I've heard, its shots can be used in place of laser power, so you can use that for some quick and temporary activations on the go.
2) Energy Pistol actually uses electricity, not laser power.
Laser power items have a red durability bar instead of yellow. These weapons include the Laser Katana and Deatomizer (Spoilers for Hydroplant).

[Icky Thump]

Originally posted by SIGNAL:

1) Energy Pistol actually fires multiple shots quickly (4 shots IIRC), so multiply the listed damage by 4 to get your real output. It's not the greatest, but at least it only needs power. From what I've heard, its shots can be used in place of laser power, so you can use that for some quick and temporary activations on the go.
2) Energy Pistol actually uses electricity, not laser power.
Laser power items have a red durability bar instead of yellow. These weapons include the Laser Katana and Deatomizer (Spoilers for Hydroplant).

1) Ahh i wasn't aware it technically did multiple hits per blast. Good to know!
2) My bad, I called it Energy Collector, but it's indeed Laser Collector, which explains why it wouldnt charge the pistol lol I guess I was just confused because it gives me a context sensitive prompt to "Fill Energy Pistol", which is misleading.

[SIGNAL]

Originally posted by Icky Thump:

I guess I was just confused because it gives me a context sensitive prompt to "Fill Energy Pistol", which is misleading.

Yeah, it can be confusing since the game will substitute names for whatever you're holding, like asking if you want to put furniture in your soup, then denying it if you try.

[Icky Thump]

Originally posted by SIGNAL:

Originally posted by Icky Thump:

I guess I was just confused because it gives me a context sensitive prompt to "Fill Energy Pistol", which is misleading.

Yeah, it can be confusing since the game will substitute names for whatever you're holding, like asking if you want to put furniture in your soup, then denying it if you try.

LMAO

[Khloros]

Originally posted by Icky Thump:

1) Is the Energy Pistol good for anything other than the Reaper?
2) Energy Collector - appears to be broken? I've let it charge forever, has all cubes filled in on top (red color? Hasn't changed, not sure if supposed to be green). I walk up to it with a expended Energy Pistol to test, it says to press E to charge the pistol, and nothing happens.

If not already answered
1: Yes, very good actually, Can deal with a lot of the enemies only kinda sucks against some troopers
2: No thats normal, it holds a charge of 500 laser, which if you destory the laser charger and pick it back up, you will see it says laser(xxx) with xxx being the value its at, also it will hold its charge when you pick it up and place it down.

So what you can do is, ideally you wanna make the deatomizer, and 2 laser chargers, charge up the deatomizer, and one of the laser chargers to full and carry it around with you, when you deplete your atomizer you just drop the charging stand and fill it up, and then swap out the chargers at home base.

[Icky Thump]

Originally posted by Khloros:

Originally posted by Icky Thump:

1) Is the Energy Pistol good for anything other than the Reaper?
2) Energy Collector - appears to be broken? I've let it charge forever, has all cubes filled in on top (red color? Hasn't changed, not sure if supposed to be green). I walk up to it with a expended Energy Pistol to test, it says to press E to charge the pistol, and nothing happens.

So what you can do is, ideally you wanna make the deatomizer, and 2 laser chargers, charge up the deatomizer, and one of the laser chargers to full and carry it around with you, when you deplete your atomizer you just drop the charging stand and fill it up, and then swap out the chargers at home base.

Yeah the Deatomizer is probably next on my list of things to craft. Just recently got the blueprint for it, just need an ingredient or 2. Sounds like a good plan.

[Khloros]

Yeah when i realized that i could carry a fully charged laser charger around and use it as an ammo pack for the deatomizer that was a game changer, basically all i use now is the laser katana, and the deatomizer, i keep the mag bow on me for stealth though.