they seem to be weaker than charge weapons, that and they don't upgrade with quality o.O

Is this stronger or about the same as Charge weapons?

Sorry, no. Description updated. I'll gladly link to/include a patch if someone wants to create one, I don't use it myself.

is this CE compatible?

Updated: Removed redundant vanilla textures.

Thanks for letting me know, I apparently didn't give this mod as thorough of a tune-up as I usually try to do. Pushing an update momentarily.

also the textures folder contains vanilla guns for some reason

Updated: Removed changes to vanilla research (didn't even notice that!) and plasma research items should be retained.

Thanks for the report! Please let me know if you see any other issues.

For some reason mod messes up a lot of unrelated techs, like deep drilling, bionics replacements, and marine armor. Deep drilling and Bionic Replacements it adds an extra 3000 necessary research, and replaces Marine Armor with Power Armor which does not require Recon Armor to research. There may be others, these are just what I noticed.

You're very welcome! Please let me know if you see any issues.

Thank you for unofficially updating :-}