Yes, it would be really helpful to either point out the missing crit in the item description so people are warned before buying a potential downgrade ( 1 bonus dmg vs. 15% lost crit chance) or just fix the laser shotgun so it has atleast 15% crit chance like the magnetic shotgun.

Or are we missing some hidden bonus that is not documented anywhere?

Edit: I just found out how you can fix the missing crit from shotguns and sniper rifles:

go to folder ***\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\712967878\Config

and open "XComLW_LaserPack.ini"

there change "SHOTGUN_LASER_CRITCHANCE = 0" to " = 15"
and "SNIPERRIFLE_LASER_CRITCHANCE = 0" to " = 10"
to get the normal magnetic weapon values for crit chance (or add 5 on top of the corrected shotgun value to get plasma values :-)

hope it helps

None of the weapons appear to have crit chance when I look at the .ini...
Do you know the values that the rest of them should be, Warjack?

i believ this has been fixed

Yeah it's been fixed in the latest update.