Gatling Laser Overhaul
I did this. Big big big big thanks to opengts for putting up with my stupid requests from him. He did the Sniper Barrel, the Extended and Extended Bracketed versions of my Laser-Musket Overhaul (that you should check out too). Anyways, there are custom models, the Accelerated barrels, the Splitter and the Gyro-Compensating stuff.
So, why does the Minigun has the Accelerated Barrel and the lousy Tri-Barrel, but not the Gatling Laser? Why does the other Energy Weapons have the Splitter and Gyro-Compensating stuffs?
First, i made the Commando perk work with the Gatling Laser. If you are planning to add something like the Gatling Laser Fusion Core mod, you have to tweak the weapon a little bit else it will conflict.
Right, so what added is the Accelerated barrel, and then Improved Barrels of the Gatling Laser. To make it not wierd and stupid, i renamed the “‘Standard Barrel” to “Standard Barrels” (Fix yer dam gramar Bestheda! jk?)
I decided to played around with the magazine capacity to further normalize the total damage/core. I lowered the capacity of the Charging Barrels, and increased the Capacity of the Accelerated barrels. I did that with the Charging barrel as to not make it outshine the rest of the attachments. It would not tarnish the damage, but will just have less damage/Fusion Core. It’s still the most efficient barrel, but just not so much that would outshine the other attachments.
As for the design of the muzzles, the idea is that the two individual barrels of the Gatling Laser just converge on the middle. Of course unfortunately, i could not change the origin of the projectile from the top and into the middle. xD
Gun Nut 5 is not required, but Nuclear Physicist instead, rank 1 to 3 for the improved barrels, and Science! Rank 5 with the Improved Charging Barrel and the Quantum Gyro-Stabilizing stuff. However that Science! Rank 5 is already included in the zip file should you not want to download once more, although it’s the variant with +2% damage on every level.
I also added the Beam Splitter, Amplified Beam Splitter, Fine-Tuned Beam Focuser, Gyro-Stabilizer, and Quantum Gyro-Stabilizer. Largely mimicking that of the standard Laser Gun, however the Beam-Splitter only has 3 projectiles, 5 with the Amplified Beam Splitter and both have tighter spread. You should try it too, it’s a funny lightshow.
If you liked this mod, please endorse it. Also, check out my other mods. If you’re wondering where was that “Overcharged Gamma Wave Emmiter”, it’s in here. Energy Weapons Capacitor Tweak
tl;dr
– Commando perk works.
– Added Beam Splitter, Amplified Beam Splitter, Fine-Tuned Beam Focuser, Gyro-Stabilizer, and Quantum Gyro-Stabilizer for the muzzle.
– Beam Splitter only has 3 projectiles, and Amplifed Beam Splitter has 5, both have tighter spread than the conventional.
– Added Additional barrels.
– Modified original barrels.
– Standard Barrel: Renamed to “Standard Barrels”.
– Accelerated Barrels: +75% Fire Rate, -25% Recoil, -35% damage, +20% Ammo/Core (to 600), -2 Range.
– Charging Barrels: -75% Fire Rate, +35% Recoil, +300% damage, -60% Ammo/Core (to 200), +2 Range.
– Improved Barrels: +25% damage, +20% Ammo/Core (to 600), +2 Range.
– Improved Accelerated Barrels: +100% Fire Rate, -35% Recoil, -30% damage, +80% Ammo/Core (to 900).
– Improved Charging Barrels: -70% Fire Rate, +25% Recoil, +400% damage, -40% Ammo/Core (to 300), +4 Range.
– Improved Versions require the Nuclear Physicist perk.
– Improved Charging Barrels require Science! Rank 5 perk.
– The Science! Rank 5 is added with the package, but the one with the +2% damage per level.
NOTES:
– The way i heard it, the Rate of fire is capped with the frame-rate of your game. So if your max frame rate is 30, then your max rate of fire is 30. Because Frame Rates can be lowered as the game slows, so does the rate of fire.
– Due to the additive nature of the weapon damage, with all of the bonuses that improves the damage, the Improved Accelerated Barrels inevitably outshines the Improved Charging Barrels in both DPS and Maximum Damage later in the game, despite having less requirements. Because of this, i might tweak this in the future.
Plans:
– I was thinking of changing the Base ROF of the Gatling laser to 18 from 27.7 to not outshine the minigun in the Rate-of-Fire aspect, it’s already too powerful. 14 x 18 APS = 252 DPS, vs 8 x 27.7 = 221.6 DPS of the minigun.
Useful Links:
– Science! Rank 5
– Laser Musket Overhaul
– Energy Weapons Capacitor Tweak
– Gun Nut Rank
– Gatling Fusion Cores
– Gatling Laser Ammo Swap
– How to install mods
– How to install mods manually demo
– How to install mods using NMM demo
