Medium Pulse Lasers; What is it good for?

[BaconHer0]

It's weight and heat to damage ratio is rubbish. Normal medium laser +5 and +10s outperform it drastically.

And since you'll only get it after you finish the game, you'll already have more than enough medium las++ lying around to kit out a Swayback

I don't get why I should keep/use M Pulses. Someone help me out? Does it do bonus to something?

I half expected pulse lasers to be more effective against armour or guarded/entrenched/bulwark, but it seems this mechanic isn't a thing

[Aranador]

It is good for a mech with minimal laser hard points but for some reason you want more laser firepower on it. It is also a kind of story element to introduce developing tech that later becomes the new black.

[Major Horrigan]

most people also agree it is rubbish and the devs have mentioned they will take another look at lostech balance iirc.

[BaconHer0]

Originally posted by Aranador:

It is good for a mech with minimal laser hard points but for some reason you want more laser firepower on it. It is also a kind of story element to introduce developing tech that later becomes the new black.

If this is "the new black" I want the old. Medium Laser ++ does 5 more damage, weighs 1 ton less and produces less heat! And by the time I get access to M Pulse, I have 9x 'Medium Laser +10' in my inventory

[Revener]

Don't compare ++ weapons to non + weapons.

They do have an acc bonus do the not ? and more damage without a +. Wich you pay for with more weight.

[BaconHer0]

Originally posted by Revener:

Don't compare ++ weapons to non + weapons.

They do have an acc bonus do the not ? and more damage without a +. Wich you pay for with more weight.

No... you SHOULD compare it to ++ weapons

What you should do is compare the performance of this rare weapon to the avaliability of other weapons that match or exceed it

This means that at late game if you have access to 2x M Pulse, you should compare it to M Las++ because you have access to both

Economically speaking, it would be irrational to ignore ++ weapons if you have them

Thus, the M Pulse is inferior to the M Las++ despite the fact that the M Las++ is at almost 500% more common than the M Pulse by the time you have access to it