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* The laser carbine, a full-auto sidegrade to the normal laser gun (#78685) ## About The Pull Request This PR adds the laser carbine, a new fully-automatic laser weapon that can be ordered from cargo. A crate of 3 can be ordered from cargo for 1800 credits, locked behind armory access. Here is a video demonstration: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/21979502/6f7fecec-ccb6-4a65-8027-21ab887fb91d Now, I'm sure people are very concerned about the balance implications of this new weapon. Let me give you some hard numbers: The gun deals 10 damage per shot, and has a capacity of 40 shots with a fully charged cell. This means that it has, at most, 400 damage per charge, which is exactly the same as a normal laser gun. In terms of DPS, it can put an unarmored human in crit roughly as fast a laser gun. It is meant to be a sidegrade, not an upgrade to the normal laser gun. It also has considerably lower wound bonus. During testing, when all 40 shots were fired into an unarmored human, it dealt tier 1 burn wounds with the occasional tier 2. I never observed a single tier 3 burn wound during any of my tests. Here's a picture of the different sprites (The last one is animated just like the normal laser gun):  ## Why It's Good For The Game For a long time, there has been a strong push to make crew-available weapons almost entirely energy based. This trend has been contentious, to say the least. Many people prefer ballistic weapons over energy weapons. After spending some time on a different codebase, one where autorifles are still completely available to order from cargo, no emag needed, I think I might know why (or at least part of the reason). Part of what I find satisfying about some ballistics is the fact that they fire quickly and automatically. Energy weapons might be more enjoyable to use if automatic energy weapons are also an option. ## Changelog 🆑 add: The laser carbine, a weak but fully automatic sidegrade to the normal laser gun, can now be ordered from cargo. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@ gmail.com> * The laser carbine, a full-auto sidegrade to the normal laser gun --------- Co-authored-by: GPeckman <21979502+GPeckman@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@ gmail.com>
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