laser cannon should melt armor after sustained fire

[Arches_Aviation]

sustained fire from the laser cannon should slowly melt armor in one specific spot, allowing the laser to penetrate through. alternatively, this specific spot that's being laser beamed for extended periods of time could catch on fire or something.

[Ryzilynt]

If i'm not mistaken it heats the armor and damages through it.

[Shining_Darkness]

It just needs to be changed to increase in damage and heat generation as you hold down the fire button.

[XelNigma]

Laser weapons should definitely melt armor.

Ontop of that, I think any bullet that can pierce a level of armor should also blow off small bits of that armor as it does so. This would give real value to weak weapons like the Liberator Penetrator. because it will slowly tear off bits of medium armor to then get the full damage bonus on medium targets to make up for its lower than average damage.

It would also look really cool seeing everything have battle damage from where people have been shooting it.

Far to many weapons claim to be anti-armor in this game, and then just arnt.

[Shining_Darkness]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

If i'm not mistaken it heats the armor and damages through it.

Only up to medium armor, it doesn't seem to do anything to heavy armor

[Arches_Aviation]

Originally posted by Shining_Darkness:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

If i'm not mistaken it heats the armor and damages through it.

Only up to medium armor, it doesn't seem to do anything to heavy armor

correct. I'm saying for it to eventually damage heavy armor on just a single spot after sustained fire. it wouldnt really throw off the meta, I don't think, since it'd take way longer than aiming the railgun on unsafe mode

[asura]

Originally posted by Shining_Darkness:

It just needs to be changed to increase in damage and heat generation as you hold down the fire button.

This.

This would be the most reasonable way for the laser weapons to work (minus the Sickle that's a laser bolt or whatever tf it is). This would align with modern(ish) weapon examples of heating tanks to cook the electronics (and people) inside instead of punching holes in armor - the heat weapon isn't meant to "melt" the tank but instead destroy the contents.

This would make sense on bugs and bots. But instead we have the Scythe that uh... I don't know what that does but it's not useful.

[Zoopshab]

Thats a great idea.

[DarkFenix]

The laser cannon is more your laser machine gun type weapon, it's not supposed to be a giant-slayer so I'm not sure it's appropriate for it to melt through armour.

The quasar is the energy weapon we're all waiting for. Charge up and release a single powerful laser blast, that one would be worthy of the name "cannon".

[Arches_Aviation]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

The laser cannon is more your laser machine gun type weapon, it's not supposed to be a giant-slayer so I'm not sure it's appropriate for it to melt through armour.

The quasar is the energy weapon we're all waiting for. Charge up and release a single powerful laser blast, that one would be worthy of the name "cannon".

except it kinda sucks in comparison to the base machine gun in the game, it should have differences.

[Grimsdottir]

I think the lazer should be pretty OP to bots somewhat. ♥♥♥♥ against bugs.

[Shining_Darkness]

Originally posted by Arches_Aviation:

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

The laser cannon is more your laser machine gun type weapon, it's not supposed to be a giant-slayer so I'm not sure it's appropriate for it to melt through armour.

The quasar is the energy weapon we're all waiting for. Charge up and release a single powerful laser blast, that one would be worthy of the name "cannon".

except it kinda sucks in comparison to the base machine gun in the game, it should have differences.

Yeah I mean if it were just called the laser emitter, sure I'd buy it not being great against armor... but the orbital laser cannon exists and it is good against armor (and structures). Sure the one on our shoulder is smaller than that but it is still called a cannon and cannons fundamentally are for dealing with armor and fortifications.

[Shining_Darkness]

Originally posted by Grimsdottir:

I think the lazer should be pretty OP to bots somewhat. ♥♥♥♥ against bugs.

Reverse that. I mean it is basically like taking a magnifying glass to ants. It should be good and cooking organics despite armor but only effective against machines after prolonged exposure since overheating is a real problem for any machine.