Engineers Why do railguns and beam lasers have so few blueprints?

[CATPAIN KIRK]

There was a bug a few months ago, when modding Imperial Hammers with High Capacity Magazine — It would give the railguns 1-2 extra rounds depending on your RNG roll in each "clip", but those extra rounds would be fired off out of sync and without player input.

With a 5-round clip, it would go something like this;
• Hold trigger = 5 shot burst. Release trigger
• Reloading
• 1 shot burst would go off without player input
• Reloading

It got significantly worse when you had a 4-round clip, as it would first fire 4 shots. Reload. Then proceed to fire 2 shots without input.
I immediately removed the mod after nearly hitting clean ships due to the extra shots going off by themselves. Haven't touched the mod ever since that.

I see - only modded 2 so far and both got clip size six in the first run, so either they fixed it by making it default to six or I was very lucky.

 

[Sylow]

I see - only modded 2 so far and both got clip size six in the first run, so either they fixed it by making it default to six or I was very lucky.

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That was in one of the last patches, burst firing weapons now always get a multiple of the burst size when you modify the ammo capacity of a weapon.
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[Heavenly-Hammer]

Long overdue! But I am really pleased that these are coming to Beam Lasers because this is my primary weapon of choice on all my combat ships.

The current offerings have never been much to write home about. I tended to use the Light Weight Mount upgrade simply because its secondary effects often produced the best DPS and most balanced upgrade to the stock version. Seemed odd that this was what worked best over all the other options.

I'm looking forward to seeing exactly what the Overcharged mod will provide. After recently discovering that Thermal Shock reduces your DPS by well over 20%, basically erasing any DPS gains achieved by the primary upgrade, perhaps the Overcharged mod might provide enough DPS boost to counter most or all of that loss and allow you to have a Beam Laser with Thermal Shock that actually has the same or better DPS spec than stock.

There won't be an overcharged blueprint. Also, you can do much better for DPS than beams. Consider moving on.

 

[nathdixon92]

There won't be an overcharged blueprint. Also, you can do much better for DPS than beams. Consider moving on.

They've confirmed Overcharged and Efficient beams for beta

 

[PhanttoM]

I see - only modded 2 so far and both got clip size six in the first run, so either they fixed it by making it default to six or I was very lucky.

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That was in one of the last patches, burst firing weapons now always get a multiple of the burst size when you modify the ammo capacity of a weapon.
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Good to know, thx.