About weapons

[Gunsaremagic]

What are the advantages of laser rifle and heavy laser and what should i manufacture and sell to make some money

[dixiechow]

I like laser weapons....pistol, rifle and heavy. They are powerful and you get them early on. One time "back in the day" I played through to the end using just laser weapons for my soldiers. I always manufactured laser pistols to make money.

[Gunsaremagic]

Originally posted by dixiechow:

I like laser weapons....pistol, rifle and heavy. They are powerful and you get them early on. One time "back in the day" I played through to the end using just laser weapons for my soldiers. I always manufactured laser pistols to make money.

thx :)

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

The laser pistol and laser rifle are just flatly better than their conventional equivalents. Switch to them ASAP. They will struggle to penetrate the heavy armor of the mutons in the late game though.

The vanilla heavy laser is pretty niche. It's pretty much only really good at taking out sectopods. Built into OpenXCom is support for an old mod worth checking out. It's called XComUtil Alternate Heavy Laser or something along those lines. It turns the heavy laser into a laser version of an anti-material rifle and is pretty good.

As for manufacturing profitability, I'll direct you to this page -
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Manufacturing_Profitability

Ed-
Oh, and to mention the other laser stuff -
I really can't say that I'm a fan of the laser tank. The rocket tank just has more utility.

The laser cannon feels inferior to the avalanche missile launcher.

[Gunsaremagic]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

The laser pistol and laser rifle are just flatly better than their conventional equivalents. Switch to them ASAP. They will struggle to penetrate the heavy armor of the mutons in the late game though.

The vanilla heavy laser is pretty niche. It's pretty much only really good at taking out sectopods. Built into OpenXCom is support for an old mod worth checking out. It's called XComUtil Alternate Heavy Laser or something along those lines. It turns the heavy laser into a laser version of an anti-material rifle and is pretty good.

As for manufacturing profitability, I'll direct you to this page -
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Manufacturing_Profitability

Ed-
Oh, and to mention the other laser stuff -
I really can't say that I'm a fan of the laser tank. The rocket tank just has more utility.

The laser cannon feels inferior to the avalanche missile launcher.

cool thx for the help do you know if its possible to run open xcom with steam? instead of just adding it as non steam game? but its not that important

[spooney]

Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

The laser pistol and laser rifle are just flatly better than their conventional equivalents. Switch to them ASAP. They will struggle to penetrate the heavy armor of the mutons in the late game though.

The vanilla heavy laser is pretty niche. It's pretty much only really good at taking out sectopods. Built into OpenXCom is support for an old mod worth checking out. It's called XComUtil Alternate Heavy Laser or something along those lines. It turns the heavy laser into a laser version of an anti-material rifle and is pretty good.

As for manufacturing profitability, I'll direct you to this page -
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Manufacturing_Profitability

Ed-
Oh, and to mention the other laser stuff -
I really can't say that I'm a fan of the laser tank. The rocket tank just has more utility.

The laser cannon feels inferior to the avalanche missile launcher.

cool thx for the help do you know if its possible to run open xcom with steam? instead of just adding it as non steam game? but its not that important

Yes it is possible to run open xcom with steam without adding it as non steam.

[Gunsaremagic]

Originally posted by κz | spooney︼:

Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:

cool thx for the help do you know if its possible to run open xcom with steam? instead of just adding it as non steam game? but its not that important

Yes it is possible to run open xcom with steam without adding it as non steam.

is there a video or tutorial somewere?

[Tetsuri]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/7760/discussions/0/630802979384357741/

[Gunsaremagic]

cool thx

[Fraktal]

"The laser cannon feels inferior to the avalanche missile launcher."

It's superior to the Cannon and the Stingray in range, accuracy and ROF. Avalanches and Plasma Cannons have a fairly high chance of just flat-out blasting a small UFO into pieces whereas with Laser Cannons, you can tear them up with complete impunity and still have enough left over for salvage while spending no cash or storage space on ammo.

Laser Interceptors are the most economic choice for hunting smaller UFOs late game; dispatching Plasma/Avalanche Firestorms against these small fry are a waste of Elerium.

[Tetsuri]

????? just don't shoot them down, especially unnecessary to do so in late game.

I'll say I prefer lasers before you get plasma though. No need to buy ammo or worry about missing.

[MacrossMX]

Personally, my prefer uses for each of the laser weapons are as follows (I also use Openxcom heavy laser mod):

Laser Pistol: grenadier, assaulter. Low Tu cost especially on auto makes it a great CQB weapon.

Laser Rifle: general purpose. Nothing impressive here since the LR is average enough that it can fulfill many roles.

Heavy Laser: sniper, Sectopod Slayer (or a 2x2 terror Slayer). High Tu cost and high power makes it a good weapon for sniping those sturdy aliens as well as your #1 Sectopod slaying weapon if using blaster bombs might kill 3 civs.

[Empiro]

Laser Rifles are super good. Heavy Lasers are kind of crap. Bad aim, high TUs, no auto fire.

If you might face Sectopods, a laser tank is generally better. Maybe keep a few in your craft late game so that if you do encounter Sectopods, you have them ready. However, Stun Bombs and Blaster Launchers work even better.

[Tetsuri]

ya, but this guy is talking about heavy laser using a mod that increased the laser damage.

[feliciastott]

late game I used plasma cannons on all, then just waited for very large to land took 6 blasters 24 blaster bombs and killed with impunity. Before mind control and strengh I moved all my soldiers to some corner aginst eterials. Put noobs in to find out their strenght and use the highest to move ability.