I appreciate your 40k and sci fi stuff. Would making the Tau Pulse Rifle or other late-game plasma weapons from other sources be a good next step?

I thought about adding an early hardmode laspistol cuz I like the sounds of the Dawn of War ones, I haven't had plans for others. Maybe more lasgun variants

That sounds cool too. Lots of magic and ranged weapons though there should also be a need for some melee and possible summon items to add to the palette.

More lasguns are always a plus. Hope we get the Lucius pattern, hotshots or more automatic types. Though some other weapons from other factions or franchises might be appreciated too.

People have been in the Helldivers craze recently so Starship Troopers stuff can be considered too. I remember you said you wanted to add a GOW Lancer rifle or an Aliens Pulse Rifle. Are those being worked on too or are those scrapped?

Here I am asking for new toys like a kid again lol.

I want to say thanks for the planning for the laspistols and similar. I could use some energy based sidearms for my trooper playthrough. Speaking of lasguns, do you also plan to resprite the Bolter and make other variants of it?

Star Trek phasers for new rifles and pistols?

Ive never watched startrek so idk how the weapons really work

That's fair it was just a suggestion. But I can suggest they work like the laser rifles but with different color beams/dusts. They're also used as tools in the show so maybe they can also not be a weapon but a laser drill / beam hammer tool. I was thinking more like the videogames. Here maybe this will help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_v8_ZEDF9o

To be fair you don't have to do the Star Trek weapons. There are definitely better franchises and games to use for making cool weapons and items for your mod. I was just curious and got too excited.

I realize from playing around that when a lot modded enemies in my tModloader worlds fire too many projectiles with lots of dusts, the particles can't keep up and will be omitted to reduce lag.

So now that I think about it, having the laser guns be just beams may be accurate to the sources like Darktide and Fallout but they also risk using up a lot of the particle limits. So the original laser projectile you made was more practical for Terraria's engine performance.

But since you already made that beams, then perhaps configuration for the lasers and other weapon settings might be a good idea so both options don't go to waste.

I just realized this concern and sorry for the sudden change of direction.

I also realize that the CE pistol sound volume actually was pretty decent and I was overreacting at the time. Since it's already being tweaked we can have either a volume configuration for weapons or we can try out the new volume as an experiment. Sincerest apologies for my poor judgement.

Might be repeating some but Tau Pulse Rifles? Aliens M41A Pulse Rifle? Fallout plasma? Guns from the Plazma Burst flash games? Titanfall weapons? Chain swords? Cyberpunk 2077 weapons? Kid Icarus Uprising stuff? Wolfenstein Laserkraftwerk? Overwatch items? Killzone? Just items to consider when we get there.

I was thinking about your idea of early hardmode laspistols and I just remembered the laser gun from the game Another World. So I hope it gives ideas. It's just an option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6FIEl5xbnc

Sorry if I keep adding more suggestions.

- A net gun for catching critters from range.

- Placeable turrets and traps, not just sentries.

- Summoner weapons might be a good option to expand the palette like drones.

- Or maybe new drones with new functions for more options than the Kwad Racer Drone.

- Crysis weapons?

- Splatoon ink?

- Doom weapons?

- Some weapons with right click functions. Maybe I'm just in the mood for rifles with grenade launchers or something that shoots different with a right click.

- Weapons that charge if you hold down the click button.

- Final Fantasy Gunblades.

@coffee009 If you ever find a way to program new projectiles for existing weapons or even make some of them not be deflected off special enemies then go for it. I wish you the best with that.