@Zaljerem I feel like I remember the turret could be created with alternate materials (Titanium rather than Steel, for instance) prior to the 1.6 update. That doesn't seem to be the case now.

@MkVF that is our current level of tech, I understand the type of metals needed for all this space magic is not in rimworld but the advantage of laser based weapons is they don't require manufacturing of ammo and can just use any extra energy you have, its rimworld after all there is no realism to it, ideally you'd want to use lasers to make plasma weapons in all honestly.

In theory lasers are a horrid weapon for planet combat as they would just set everything on fire including the people firing them, they'd do extremely well in cold environments but that is about it.

@Immortalits
Uh. Modern laser weapon actually requires much more maintenance then big bullet gun, which just requires changing out the barrel after a few dozen shots while laser weapons often needs to have very expensive and hard to make parts made with exotic materials swapped out because they burnt out after a few uses.

And laser weapons also requires "reloading" as you need to wait for the capacitors to charge as while your battery is high performance, it can't release 30kW (almost)instantly.

You can probably put down a few dozen rounds with the 127mm cannon with an autoloader with proper firing solutions before you can charge your fancy laser gun from empty.


I imagine future scifi laser weapons with future scifi power systems probably just requires a quick focusing medium swap after a few dozen shots or something

That is cool that you do that. Never know when one of your mods will be exactly what i need. And with out you updating... Id be out of luck. Im grabbing it just because you updated it and thumbs up.

You make a reasonable point, and if it's useless to you, don't use it. Plenty of other, superior, laser mods out there. I just enjoy updating old mods; whether people like them -or even their usefulness - is secondary to me.

So in real life military, the whole point of laser weapons are a double advatage over projectile ones: energy based, high energy usage BUT no reload required and pinpoint accuracy... just reading that there is a barrel change mechanic makes the whole mod pointless, just one more turret...