Maybe it isn't that they aren't applying, but that they are acting as if applied at maximum 100% of the time, even when you don't have them. Personally, I think you should overheat well before you've fired off your full clip. Isn't much sense to having overheat take effect--and wear off--when you are reloading.

Acrually, reloading and overheating at the same time bugs the weapon so you have to draw a different tool, then swap back, then reload. And overheating this gun hurts alot.

So does the gun.

Welp, CCP says you can't bump threads.

So, Bump. Shameless bump, in fact.

Yet again - bump.

Lasers are fun to counter and overall cool weapons. It is sad to hear that skills don't work properly and people prefer using AR/Mass Drivers over the damn Lazzors!

Dont let the Lasors be useless as Nova Knives!

Nothing wrong with Lasers. I use them as my primary Dropsuit and I am having fun with it. I still get taken out. I can kill things reasonable quick. Just leave the lasers as it is an learn all the skill books revolving Light Weapons. You will notice range increase and all that.

Did you even read the entire OP, let alone the rest o the thread? The Laser Rifle ITSELF is fine, but the Operations and Proficiency skills are completely non-functional, and the Light Sharpshooter skill works as advertised, but also weakens midrange game because it effects minimum and maximum.

I use Lasers as a Logi, there is nothing special about getting a kill with it, and I am not saying that Lasers are UP, worthless, or OP, but that the SKILLS are BROKEN. Please read before you post.


Also, 'leave the lasers as it is'? Not going to pick at the grammar, but the entire point of a beta is to tell them when they screw up and break something. So no, I will not leave this 'as it is'.

Oh I'm sorry? Do I have to reply/quote someone on here to be apart of this convo? No I don't. I did read everyone's post. Sorry also if my grammar is bad. I didn't study basic english in Albania. I didn't know people get touche on this subject.

My previous reply in the thread is basically my opinion and the EXPERIENCE I've had during my beta testing of Dust 514

Your EXPERIENCE is one thing, but this thread isn't about something that subjective. It isn't an evaluation of the Laser Rifle as a tool in DUST 514. It is a notice that three skills that effect the Laser Rifle are broken, and should be looked at and repaired.

You may have had a nice EXPERIENCE with the Laser Rifle, but that does not cure the fact that it has broken skills, so take your indignation elsewhere.

I'm not angry lol Far from it brah! Just no need to attack me like as if I've broken forum rules. You act like as I've said something so off topic that you must express how fail I am. I'm on topic. With my EXPERIENCE, those skills are working fine for me. For every skill I've put onto sharpshooting and all other skills I've noticed a small advantage when vsing other players with beams.

Thanks for bringing this up, I want to try most weapons and the LR was on my todo list. Seeing how long it takes me to earn SP, you have potentially saved me a lot of time and effort. +Like.

Persistent issue persists.

I'm comfortable with sharpshooter increasing the minimum effective range of LRs, since the advantage gained is greater than the equivalent for any other weapon.

As for the main issue: I'm genuinely surprised. I wonder is this true for other weapons capable of overheating?

Not sure, I asked people to test them themselves in an enclosed environment but have yet to get any information from, say, a Shotgun specialist on his spread, or an HMG user on his heat buildup.

As for the Light Sharpshooter thing, EVE has a basic idea 'You learn a skill, you learned a skill. You can't unlearn it or redeem it, but it'll never hurt you for doing so.' The fact that the skill hurts laser users at all, therefore, may be unintended, and as such I felt that it should be noted with the completely bugged skills. A skill shouldn't hurt your abilities. Plus, having the laser be useless in medium range after a level or two in Light Sharpshooter really sucks if you are unaware of it, and neither the skill nor the Laser description inform the player of this fatal flaw. The only reason anyone is is because Musta Tornius had a lot of free time and a desire to do his job as a beta tester. Everyone else just chalks it up to enemies having better armor plates or some-such as the player average creeps up. I know I did until I found the research.

Yes, two 'is' in a row is intentional.

Bumping because the minimum range being increased w/ the sharpshooter skill is ridiculous and ruins the guns.

This is the thread that never ends...

It goes on and on my friends...