Merge the Quasar Cannon and the Laser Cannon

[Yurichenco]

What would you think if the Quasar cannon had two fire modes? A sustained mode to operate like the laser cannon and a overcharged mode to operate like the Quasar cannon normally does. Additionally, when firing a round with the overcharged mode, it is necessary to change the heat sink as we would with any other laser weapon.
I think this could bring some balance to this weapon that is currently too strong, to the point that it makes other weapons that are used for the same purpose useless.

[FleetCommander USMC]

Honestly a reduced cool down mode or faster charging mode would be great for it in a pinch. I don't think they'll give us anything too spicy since that'd up our game too much, if we had automatic plasma rifles with big mag caps we'd be unstoppable after all.

[John Warhammer]

There's so much bad weapon bloat I'm honestly down for just smashing a bunch of the weapons together as alternate fire modes.

[YELLOWSUPERCAR76]

laser cannon is total ass it could use a rework. It should just overheat and cool down before being usable again instead of the battery. also it could get armor stripping as a buff

[Ryzilynt]

LaQuasar ?

[The22nd]

Yes, just so I can stop accidentally going out with the Laser

[Key]

LASAR QUANNON

[RobeRonin]

i like this more fire modes need to be interesting

[Queltis]

Originally posted by Yurichenco:

it is necessary to change the heat sink as we would with any other laser weapon.

Leave this part out and it would be a great suggestion. That the laser cannon has only 2 heat sinks that burn out almost instantly is a big part of why it's garbage to use.

[Chaos]

A surefire way to get it nerf eh?
Cool.

[Husker_85]

Or just buff the laser cannon. Give it some additional effect on targets to make it stand out in our arsenal

[Tezcatli]

It'd be too versatile at that point. The Quasar is a really good weapon for what it's meant do. If you merged it with the laser cannon. It'd be too good. They'd end up nerfing the hell out of it. Plus why would they merge two pieces of content? I could see a case for giving the laser cannon an 'overburn' mode that delivers damage faster at the cost of burning out the cooling faster. So it wouldn't have the penetrating power of the Quasar. But it could still give it an oh ♥♥♥♥ button. Then again this is sounding like a big railgun and we all know how that went.

[Eudicots]

Combine them both into the OG charge rifle from apex

[Fritösen]

Originally posted by Eudicots:

Combine them both into the OG charge rifle from apex

eww apex

[Xilia]

quasar is kinda in a good spot, it lacks fast damage output compared to a recoilles duo. but in return it can be fire after a delay and cool down while you reposition. if anything else the laser cannon needs a serious buff. an advanced weapon that can only kill 5 or 6 small or 2 medium enemies and then need a long cooldown (and only one spare cool pack) has no use in a horde game.

I suggest almost triple the time before it overheats and a rework on how damage ticks are dealt, it seems to literally tick around a second instead of constant damage, which makes it awkward to kill small enemies with it (how does a small scavenger bug even survive exposure to a 400 - 600 per second damage beam?)

scythe needs the same buff too

[DJ Big Daddy Hairy Love]

i like this idea, i like using the cannon but its not worth bringing because its not much stronger then just the regular primary's but the cannon ♥♥♥♥♥ me because it takes so dam long to charge a shot and because of that i don't feel like the charge time is worth the damage output, so i find myself using something like the recoilless rifle that one hits anything besides bile titans and AT-ATs, or something like the auto cannon which can rain hell and have consistent damage output except for the reload time but the damage I'm putting out feels worth the reload time.