Cool Lasers HD 1_07

WHAT IT DOES It adds a new laser pistol, a heavy laser pistol, a laser support weapon, and a laser carbine for now: the fictive MT-2LP (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Pistol), the only slightly larger MT-2HLP (MoraelinTech 2, Heavy Laser Pistol), the MT-2LSW (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Support Weapon), and the MT-2LC (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Carbine) models. All weapons except the LSW are available in both scoped and non-scoped versions. The carbines are also available in versions with or without a buttstock. The buttstock really does nothing except look pretty and add a pound of weight, since a laser weapon would have truly negligible recoil, but some people prefer that look anyway. The basic story is this: I never really liked the looks of Bethesda\'s brick-shaped laser weapons. They could have even gone the 50\'s-60\'s SF props route, which had very silly looking weapons with lots of rings and coils and wings and whatnot -- think, basically like the Alien Blaster -- but which would at least fit the \"the future as they imagined it in the 50\'s\" theme. Or they could have done some modern industrial design. A big brick-shaped weapon with a handle that looks like cheap molded pig-iron, is neither, and IMHO not particularly good looking either. Surely whoever designed those expensive high-tech weapons would pay some designer to make a decent looking frame for it. After all, conventional weapons from that era do look good. So, since there are other projects that restore the energy weapons to the more \"60\'s SF\" look of classic Fallout 2 weapons, I went the opposite route: modern SF design. You know, brushed aluminium, panels, vents, etc. It\'s not all just design for the looks, though. I\'ve done my best to put some thought into basically functionalism too. The big lens in front, the vents for blowing air over an internal heatsink to get rid of heat, etc, are born out of basically trying to imagine a believable laser weapon. Note that the design IS lore-friendly. The design style is Streamline Moderne, a style which flourished in the 50\'s and 60\'s. They made everything from toasters to buildings in this style. They imagined their SF weapons different, because, well, they had to be different from their present day items. But if someone had actually made a laser pistol in the 50\'s or 60\'s, chances are fair that it would have a frame in this style. Anyway, all three weapons use small energy cells, like the normal laser pistols. To keep the frame reasonably narrow, it\'s not reloaded via a latch on the side, but by breaking it open like a shotgun or break-top revolver. All three have the same ammo capacity as a normal laser pistol. The damage has been upped a lot and the weapons fire fully automatic, to stay competitive by the end of the game, though nothing over the top. This isn\'t the Vladimir. Like most of my weapons, they have twice the chance to crit and do double damage to limbs. The main downside is, of course, that they will burn thro