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Mod, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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5 Mar, 2024 @ 12:45am
13 Jun @ 7:03am
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[WYD] Laser Technology

In 2 collections by Monkey Magic
My Full Build [1.5]
199 items
Additions [1.5]
49 items
Description
There is a lot of turret mods in the Workshop, and most of them introduce a ton of different types, some of which have niche uses at best, and others are often upgraded versions of the vanilla turrets to some degree or another. Foam turret aside, the following can be found in the vanilla game:

Mini-turret - standard rapid fire short range.
Auto-cannon turret - powerful, medium range gun turret.
Uranium Slug Turret - the sniper turret in all but name, slow firing long distance.

There's also the pawn-fired Rocket-swarm launcher, and pawn-manned Mortar, but these are not true turrets.

With the vanilla game covering most of the bases, there is little need for additional turrets, as the only turrets really missing from vanilla are shotgun, and laser. And given the mini-turret is a short-range turret, a shotgun turret would be surplus to requirements. Now do not get me wrong, lots of turrets can be fun, I am pretty much just explaining why I have only added two, rather than a half dozen or so like other turret based mods.

Regardless:

This mod is less of a turret-focused one, and rather a first step into the Glitter World Spacer Tech the vanilla game only loosely touches upon. The mod adds a Spacer Tech research, Laser Technology which unlocks two laser turrets, and three energy cell based guns. They are the laser pistol, the laser rifle and the laser sniper rifle.

EDIT: Added a portable mini-laser turret coz people want nice things.

Partially a revival of a couple older mods that seems to have been lost into obscurity, and partially down to my desire to see an end-game turret that isn't ridiculously overpowered, but still viable - I present the Laser Technology mod. Enjoy.

Now with FIRIN' MAH LASER!! achievement! (requires Vanilla Achievements mod)



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Links to the mods that inspired this one:

Laser Weapons: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2086995417

Laser Turret: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2111043213
9 Comments
Monkey Magic  [author] 13 Jun @ 7:01am 
Updated to 1.6

Please note that I removed duplicate files in this update. If you have an issue, please unsub to remove those files locally, and resub. Thanks for your understanding.
Monkey Magic  [author] 7 Apr, 2024 @ 6:11am 
Please note, if you have a wall of screaming red errors, please either ignore them (not recommended) or disable all your mods, and repopulate them to remove any issues caused by the name changes in the 7th April 2024 update
Monkey Magic  [author] 12 Mar, 2024 @ 8:52pm 
@Ignis Values were based off a steel version of the laser turret. It's vanilla peers are limited to steel, which was used as the base, but the laser turret limited to plasteel rather than steel. What I forgot to do was re-calculate the HP value. This has now been corrected, and the laser turret is subsequently much tankier.

Regarding the mini-laser: unlike it's parent, the mini-turret was supposed to have metallic flexibility, but I forgot to add the field. This has also been fixed. It's accuracy was actually correct, but short and long range values were accidentally swapped. This has also been fixed.

Finally, this is a game, not IRL and so I went with sci-fi movies as a basis for accuracy - to which my turrets are actually much more accurate XD

For full details, check the change notes after the upload.
ignis 12 Mar, 2024 @ 5:10pm 
Also, why high-tech laser turrets are so inaccurate? A real world laser turret made by enthusiast 10 years ago was able to precisely zap flying mosquitos with perfect accuracy.
ignis 12 Mar, 2024 @ 5:05pm 
Are mini turrets meant to be so fragile? Basic mini-turret has almost twice as much HP (if made of plasteel like laser one). Range is also quite lacking.
Monkey Magic  [author] 7 Mar, 2024 @ 11:43am 
That small one should be ... is now minifyable, given it's a mini-turret. I appear to have missed adding it last night, but it was like 3am and I was working on the Chaingun Turret in tandem - since I figured if this was gonna be the late game upgrade to the miniturret , there should be a mid-way upgrade too.
Pasaway 7 Mar, 2024 @ 11:13am 
I hope you will consider making the turrets, or at least the smaller one uninstallable. Sweet mod either way.
Monkey Magic  [author] 5 Mar, 2024 @ 8:31am 
Thanks, I redid the guns too, so they pop more, and added the blue energy cells so they match the turret. Lasers should always be blue IMO. Incidentally, the shots are blue too :P
The Blind One 5 Mar, 2024 @ 7:10am 
I love the new laser turret texture you got going there. Very slick and vanilla friendly in art :steamhappy: