With the renewed interest in these old mods, I've uploaded a new version that uses the more robust Weapon Skin Replacer by Iridar. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/1929061963

I'm unlikely to try and get it working myself, I think it'd require rebuilding the mod from the ground up. But anyone else is welcome to have a crack at it.

Good point. What about the Coil Guns version of this though?

The method I used I only ever got to work on vanilla weapons: I never managed to edit the SMGs.

As for having another go at it, I'm not sure it'd be worth it now. Official laser weapons come out in two days and I'd be surprised if Primary Pistols doesn't add support for them in short order.

So saying I find the entity, is this something I can change via .ini files or does it require the mod kit? Or can I ask a favor and can you look into it? :-)

This mod only overwrites the vanilla weapon entities. I'd assume the primary pistol is a custom weapon entity.

Having a bit of an issue and I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure what's causing it. I'm using Primary Secondaries and the Dual Wield Pistols mod. The secondary pistol upgrades to laser, but the primary upgrades to mag. It doesn't seem to be pulling the proper image/model/etc. Any idea as to what I need to do to fix this, or what might be causing this?

Retina-searing visuals - I love it! Thanks for the patch.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1396569850

Beautiful. lasers and coilguns for me.

@MrCloista: You'd need to make a new mod with the same source code. T3 laser's been requested a few times and it's pretty easy to do so I put one together. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1271019474

@Emerd Schwerznger: This mod might be what you're after: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1267164077

How would I go about making this a Plasma, rather than Mag, tier replacer?

Is there a mod that makes this apply to SMGs?

Maybe somehow merge with this "ETC Weaponry for WotC"

Yea Thunder!
Exactly! I'm also waiting for someone to make 5 layers of all the skyscrapers..

ahh great. mags are visually such shit.

I just meant being able to choose both as "skins" for tier 2.

Mechanically it changes the appearance of the mag weapons. If you want mag weapons and laser weapons together the original mod this mod is a patch for will do that.

Does this completely replace the mag weapons, or can I use them side-by-side for cool factor?

It would be great to find a way for all 5 weapons to be togheter as 5 tiers, where Plasma is not the last one (unpopular design), the last one should be either the Laser or the Coilgun (depending if somebody wants to go 3projectiles->Plasma->Laser or 2vanilla-projectiles->Laser->Plasma->Coilgun).

@GreatOldOne This mod won't change them since Coil and Laser guns don't exist for the factions since Long War was made before the expansion.

I hear that the community attempting to port LW to WOTC are considering making them though so there is a chance that this mod will be updated with them if their made.

Looking forward to trying this and the coil gun replacement for plasma. Just one question. How does this mod handle the skirmisher and reaper guns?

I so want coil guns to replace magnetic guns!

If I stayed with 3, I would replace the plasma with the coil guns and keep it all to projectiles.

Both are doable although with that many variants it'd properly be worth doing a general version with a config file so people can reskin whichever tier they want.

I have a request: Can you do a Tier 1 replacer with the magnetic weapons?
With the plasma and magnetic replacers what are in the workshop:
Magnetic - Laser - Coil -----> It would be very good.

is it a lot of work to do a third alternate where laser replaces plasma and T2 stays as Magnetic??

Dude you freaking ROCK! Thank you SO MUCH!

You are a magician, sir!

Ah, okay then. Thanks for the speedy reply!

Unfortunately not. The method I use to overwrite the visuals doesn't seem to work on anything added by other mods.

If we have the Long War SMG Pack installed, will its magnetic version be replaced with its laser equivalent as well?

Lago is killing it right now:) awesome

Yea, I wish for all 5 actually. I will look at that mod. Thank you. Even if I don't use this, thank you, and good job!!!

This turns the XCOM magnetic weapons into laser weapons. If you'd prefer Laser weapons as a tier of their own NStriker's mod (listed as a requirement) will do that.

Interesting, so where do the magnetic weapons fit then?

Love ya, Lago! Thanks for these 2 mods!