Request: Lasers?

[Girlinhat]

So it occurred to me while looking through a few things, that a lot of turret shots are wasted because they all fire nearly simultaneously and many shots are wasted on the same dead attacker.  And that the travel speed of a weapon's projectile is easily changed.

What would it take, then, to make a weapon that fires as a laser, with an instant or near-instant strike?  If done right, the weapon could be capable of firing multiple turrets/colonists very close together, but due to the instant hit they would all try to fire on different targets once the first had died.

The biggest problem I foresee, is that it'd make the projectile invisible, due to the speed of travel, which wouldn't look too good.  Having a flash of a line would be ideal.

[Evul]

So it occurred to me while looking through a few things, that a lot of turret shots are wasted because they all fire nearly simultaneously and many shots are wasted on the same dead attacker.  And that the travel speed of a weapon's projectile is easily changed.

What would it take, then, to make a weapon that fires as a laser, with an instant or near-instant strike?  If done right, the weapon could be capable of firing multiple turrets/colonists very close together, but due to the instant hit they would all try to fire on different targets once the first had died.

The biggest problem I foresee, is that it'd make the projectile invisible, due to the speed of travel, which wouldn't look too good.  Having a flash of a line would be ideal.

We are working slowly on making a linelaser shot for our lasguns. It needs to done by making a dll file assembl. I actually tested in the xml files and when I shot several shots when off track making it look silly. So a dll mod is definitely needed.

[nuschler22]

I would support this if you changed it slightly.

SHARKS with frickin laser beams.

That is all.

[Jathomas]

Well the laser guns already exist (check out the armoury mod for those here:http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1950.0) but they are looking at a gun of which its bullet is so fast that it hits the target instantly and so cannot miss.