I just think it's lame that a laser trained on you slows you down as if you were getting shot. However, a powerful laser is just that. I wouldn't expect it to be anything less than deadly. Just ask Han Solo.

A laser operators weakness is short range. If he has a solid team/squad that is protecting them.. well, that's the OPness of working as a solid squad. A competing solid squad with a laser operator or sniper is the perfect counter.

So, he stuck with his squad, and killed you in a militia suit.


Hm..

Snipers are my bane, pro snipers though. The beam can't reach them if they're too far, and the beam gives off my exact position lol. It's a shame that most snipers at ambush are noobs, they die so fast.

every shooter ive ever played i snipe so i find it to easy for my kaalikota. also seeing how night maps r coming next build using ur laser will just give away ur positon to me muahahaha

Snipers are my bane, pro snipers though. The beam can't reach them if they're too far, and the beam gives off my exact position lol. It's a shame that most snipers at ambush are noobs, they die so fast.

Wolfman said the Viziam is not suppose to have 20 base damage, its suppose to have 15 like the others. Its fixed in the next build.

Wolfman said the Viziam is not suppose to have 20 base damage, its suppose to have 15 like the others. Its fixed in the next build.

Before you cry nerf, make sure you know what hit you... Fiend you may be speaking about my laser... I have a proto suit...proto laser...3 complex dmg and 3 armor plates...you were in my sweet spot (120%) dmg on shields. and it may have been a head hit too.

Remember the laser has a sweet spot and does only 30% to anything within 50 or so meters.
If I am off base and it was not me sorry. I just think it is easy to make the lasers as useless as missile turrets are I and doubt anyone wants that.

I stopped caring about your opinion when you said you willingly stuck your head out to prove a point.

The problem is that the laser is able to "build" damage when hitting the ground. so laser uses will constant fire their lasers then turn it on people. it should only build damage when ON target and lose that when it is not hitting that same target for any length of time. IE the laser should heat up the target doing more damage over time. not firing it into the air then putting it on target for maximum dmg!

but the laser is the thing getting hotter. I thought.

Disclaimer, never used lasers. Been shot a lot, putting in 12k SP now to test random weapons.

The OP is right as far as physics goes. It should be time on target rather than time on trigger.
Time on target would increase damage as the heat accumulated and could not dissipate fast enough.
Time on trigger means the laser gets more efficient over time at the same time it is overheating.
Typically a system will become less efficient as it overheats.

As it is, the beam acts like an eraser in a drawing program. Warm it up, swish it around, and erase your targets.

But do I want it changed? NO!

I want a fricken laser turret for my Assault dropship! I want to get in on that action and be a Martian War Machine.
The laser and dropship were meant for each other. The laser solves the problem of hitting someone from a moving DS and the DS solves the CQC problem of the laser. It's a perfect combination.

Before you cry nerf, make sure you know what hit you... Fiend you may be speaking about my laser... I have a proto suit...proto laser...3 complex dmg and 3 armor plates...you were in my sweet spot (120%) dmg on shields. and it may have been a head hit too.

Remember the laser has a sweet spot and does only 30% to anything within 50 or so meters.
If I am off base and it was not me sorry. I just think it is easy to make the lasers as useless as missile turrets are I and doubt anyone wants that.

Honestly I find it comical more than anything, but the fact that a high end laser can just pass over you for a second, dealing almost 400 damage...wtf??? I had to test it to be sure, so I poked my head out where he couldn't miss me, and sure enough, his laser just passes by me and 187 shields along with 209 armor, instantly gone (militia gear).

I just find it funny, along with the fact that many "top" players seem to gravitate to either this or the AR....it's just silly. Here's a super accurate weapon with insanely long range that will literally melt any suit it passes over, just stick with your squad and you don't have to worry about being weak in close range.

Not even QQ, just me smh at how silly this game is sometimes

The other day I got insta-killed by a viziam. This dude didn't even have to heat that thing up, I poked out, he started lasering from a cold start, and I was dead 1/64th a second later. Yeah, lotta good that ~600 HP health did me

It was such a crazy experience, that I really am considering getting myself a viziam. Skill respec soon, so why not? Even the basic laser with 3 complex damage mods owns quite nicely (which for me brings it to the baseline damage of the Viziam with no damage mods, 19.5 something HP). If I decide to go with viziam under same suit loadout, I can pull off roughly 30 HP, which will be freaking insane!

Now hold up there, i'm a laser rifle user and i've got to say, if you don't wanna get melted do not 1) wear militia suits and 2) don't stick your head up until ive moved onto another target, if you keep down i wont miss out on loads of other kills by waiting for you to pop out. Also if anyone gets within close range of me(which isnt hard because im a laser heavy) then im usually almost certainly dead, even by militia suits, even my scrambler pistol cant fight ARs at close range. Its all about timing and waiting for the right moment to strike at me. Enjoy this advice, it may help you to kill me someday:P

lets do a bit of math then...... vk.1 suit with x4 complex damage mods = 40% damage buff (assuming the stacking penalty is still broken), that with a 10% buff from weaponry adds up to 50%. The viziam does 20 damage per shot. 20 x 1.5 = 30. So what we have here is a suit with about 450 hp (using my skills), and a Standard AR that has zero recoil, a higher rate of fire, and charges up damage in this order.....

1 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 30 damage
2 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 60 damage (or 40, or 50 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)
3 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 90 damage (or 60, or 70 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)

Assuming the 90 damage per shot variation is correct your dealing about 1800 damage per second by your last second (before overheat) and you still get about 10 more shots in the fourth second using the viziam.

Pretty much. Also, I doubt that the LR is doing 1800 per second or tanks would not exist. I can drop the shields of a tank with proto LR but it I usually die soon after because the tank has plenty of time to turn and kill me. Yes, the LR is a tear jerker but I don't think it is OP.

Buff damage and remove damage build up over time.

Yay for losing a proto suit with 520 HP because a laser decided to gloss over me for a second.

lets do a bit of math then...... vk.1 suit with x4 complex damage mods = 40% damage buff (assuming the stacking penalty is still broken), that with a 10% buff from weaponry adds up to 50%. The viziam does 20 damage per shot. 20 x 1.5 = 30. So what we have here is a suit with about 450 hp (using my skills), and a Standard AR that has zero recoil, a higher rate of fire, and charges up damage in this order.....

1 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 30 damage
2 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 60 damage (or 40, or 50 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)
3 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 90 damage (or 60, or 70 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)

Assuming the 90 damage per shot variation is correct your dealing about 1800 damage per second by your last second (before overheat) and you still get about 10 more shots in the fourth second using the viziam.

4 x 10 = 40 i think

EVE math, percentage is multiplied.

Two 10% damage mods (no stacking penalty) = 1.21 multiplier (1.10 * 1.10).

Four 10% damage mods (no stacking penalty) = 1.4641 multiplier (1.10 * 1.10 * 1.10 * 1.10)

Except that we do have stacking penalty (yes, it's just a display bug), so it's 29,9% for 4 damage mods.

Proof?

Perfect solution:

Keep damage the same and make it an actual laser shot much like what you see in "Star Wars" instead of a laser beam style gun.

I don't think it is very fair for LR users to just be able to sweep their laser back and forth over the battlefield and kill everyone the laser touches.

The power is fine and realistic...lasers are commonly used nowadays in factories to precision cut thick steel plating and other materials. They are highly powerful. Their just needs to be limitation on the extent to which that power can be used. Make LR users have to take the time to pick their target aim and fire a few shots to take them down...the laser sweeping has to end.

As for cooking the laser... Does anyone realize how much time and luck and ammo it takes to cook the laser somewhere with the hopes to pull it out in battle and get someone? That is a lot of variables..