Yeah, wow; these sites are all mixed up.
Anyway after some playing around (since I had the mats to spare) I feel like the difference between LR and focused aren’t dramatic in the way the weapon works in combat, but I chose focused for my FDL build for the lower mass over LR. The heat is only 5% which I don’t notice. (Maybe I’ll put thermal vent on all 4 of my beams instead of just 2) and the extra armor piercing can’t hurt! There no way I’m Jedi enough to land PA shots at greater than 4Km anyway so there’s no way that damage falloff difference will come into play for me and I decided even slightly lower mass is making my thrusters and shields slightly more effective so... that’s my call.
There’s a lot to love about the efficient mod so I did save that modded PA, but I find it very hard to hit small ships with so I think I’ll be sticking with this at least for fast fighter builds like FDL.
(And shame on Coriolis and Inara for confusing all of us)
