The Xavious’ Laser Gun

Description

Put your brain to use and make yourself a laser gun with this mod. It features a custom model, sounds, and effects, as well as a number of unique attachments you can stick on it! 

Instead of using ammo like conventional guns, it uses a charge system similar to the battery system already in game, each time you fire it uses durability, and it can be placed in a battery bank to repair (recharge) it, or manually repaired (recharged) with a car battery. 

To craft the Laser Pistol, you need points in the Electrician crafting skill, starting at 5 points. You will need steel and a workbench to craft this, but each quality level of the laser gun does give you 1 more mod slot, which is where this thing really shines. Governing skills are Intellect and Electrocutioner but I’m not sure how much of an impact they actually make at this point.

The mods are all unique to this weapon, and are learned through the Electrical Traps crafting books, starting at 5 points.

• Tier 1
  Collimating Lens – Range remains unchanged but gives a modest boost in damage.
  Converging Lens – Range is increased noticeably, damage is unchanged.
  Diverging Lens – Range is shortened but you get the best boost in damage.
• Tier 2
  Beam Modulator: Pyrolytic Laser – Gives a decent chance of igniting zombies in an area on hit. Increases cost to fire.
  Beam Modulator: Electro Laser – Gives a decent chance of electrocuting zombies on hit. Increases cost to fire. 
• Tier 3
  Heat Sink – Halves the cost of firing the laser.
  Super Capacitor Bank – Offers a significant boost in damage, lowers the fire rate, and reduces cost to fire by a quarter.
  Liquid Cooler – Offers a huge boost in fire rate but a significant reduction in damage. Only reduces cost to fire by a smaller amount. (This one functions but it needs work.
• Tier 4
  Beam Modulator: Cavitating Laser – Has a chance to cripple or throw zombies in an area on hit. Increases cost to fire, minor hit in damage.
  Beam Modulator: X-ray Laser – Gives laser armor piercing and penetrates multiple zombies each hit. Increases cost to fire, minor hit in damage.
• Tier 5
  Enhanced Laser Emitter – Doubles damage output and adds entity penetration and armor piercing but greatly increases cost to fire.
  Beam Modulator: Scatter Laser – Turns the laser into a shotgun. Increases cost to fire. (This still needs some tuning.)

This is not done yet, but everything does fully work. What I intend to improve in future updates are to give it an actual laser beam particle effect, as currently it only has a custom muzzle flash and impact effect, which I think does sell it as an energy weapon well enough, but it can and will be better. Additionally I need to add more particle effects and sound effects for the various mods installed. I will also probably give it limited compatibility with vanilla attachments like the stock, foregrip, flashlight, and laser sight mods, as well as visible meshes for them attached. 

I also need to tune the numbers for damage and handling and all that to ensure its pretty decently balanced, but that’s relatively easy to do, I just need more testing and feedback.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy!