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A pulsed (full auto) laser pistol, a heavy laser pistol, a laser support weapon, and a laser carbine, all with modern design, scoped and non-scoped
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WHAT IT DOES
It adds a new laser pistol, a heavy laser pistol, a laser support weapon, and a laser carbine for now: the fictive MT-2LP (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Pistol), the only slightly larger MT-2HLP (MoraelinTech 2, Heavy Laser Pistol), the MT-2LSW (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Support Weapon), and the MT-2LC (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Carbine) models. All weapons except the LSW are available in both scoped and non-scoped versions. The carbines are also available in versions with or without a buttstock. The buttstock really does nothing except look pretty and add a pound of weight, since a laser weapon would have truly negligible recoil, but some people prefer that look anyway.
The basic story is this: I never really liked the looks of Bethesda's brick-shaped laser weapons. They could have even gone the 50's-60's SF props route, which had very silly looking weapons with lots of rings and coils and wings and whatnot -- think, basically like the Alien Blaster -- but which would at least fit the "the future as they imagined it in the 50's" theme. Or they could have done some modern industrial design. A big brick-shaped weapon with a handle that looks like cheap molded pig-iron, is neither, and IMHO not particularly good looking either. Surely whoever designed those expensive high-tech weapons would pay some designer to make a decent looking frame for it. After all, conventional weapons from that era do look good.
So, since there are other projects that restore the energy weapons to the more "60's SF" look of classic Fallout 2 weapons, I went the opposite route: modern SF design. You know, brushed aluminium, panels, vents, etc. It's not all just design for the looks, though. I've done my best to put some thought into basically functionalism too. The big lens in front, the vents for blowing air over an internal heatsink to get rid of heat, etc, are born out of basically trying to imagine a believable laser weapon.
Note that the design IS lore-friendly. The design style is Streamline Moderne, a style which flourished in the 50's and 60's. They made everything from toasters to buildings in this style. They imagined their SF weapons different, because, well, they had to be different from their present day items. But if someone had actually made a laser pistol in the 50's or 60's, chances are fair that it would have a frame in this style.
Anyway, all three weapons use small energy cells, like the normal laser pistols. To keep the frame reasonably narrow, it's not reloaded via a latch on the side, but by breaking it open like a shotgun or break-top revolver. All three have the same ammo capacity as a normal laser pistol. The damage has been upped a lot and the weapons fire fully automatic, to stay competitive by the end of the game, though nothing over the top. This isn't the Vladimir. Like most of my weapons, they have twice the chance to crit and do double damage to limbs.
The main downside is, of course, that they will burn through batteries about as fast as you'd expect if you go nuts with the full auto fire.
As a twist, all weapons except the LSW do the same base damage per shot, but the heavy pistol and carbine, due to larger internal heatsinks and more vents, can handle firing 25% more shots per second. Basically as a concept it's the same active medium and optics, but with the cooling and electronics beefed up to handle faster charging between shots and more heat. This raises its damage per second accordingly, but at the cost of an identical raise in ammo use, as well as needing more AP per burst in VATS. So basically you can use it to do more damage than the light pistol, but it comes at a cost.
The LSW is conceptually a hybrid of light machinegun and sniper rifle. It's kind of imagining an equivalent of the Bozar as a laser weapon. It is the largest and heaviest of these weapons, and offers the highest rate of fire, and actually slightly out-dps-es the carbine and heavy pistol, but this comes at the expense of being less efficient. Each shot only does 90% of the damage per shot of any other of these weapons. So basically although you can pump the damage into the target a little faster, you need 11% more batteries than a carbine or pistol to do the same damage. It comes as a cost.
All weapons have obviously been polished shiny, but they're heavily scratched, and it looks like the panels come from several different weapons judging by how their stains and scratches don't line up with the rest of the frame. Obviously parts of it have been replaced with parts from other such weapons. (I.e., it's intentional. It's supposed to look used, repaired, and used some more, and repaired some more.)
I threw in a scope too, because, honestly, if someone can make the extreme-precision optics that a weapon-grade laser needs, a scope is easy stuff for them.
For the non-scoped version, realistically the only way to reconcile plain iron sights with a weapon covered in flimsy pannels is that basically they'd be separate metal pieces that are fixed to an internal rigid frame, and only poke through holes in the panels. Also both have to be on the same side of the hinge as the laser optics, so they stay aligned with it even if the latch doesn't align to seconds of arc after being flipped open and snapped back on. I.e., please don't ask for the rear half of the sights to be moved to the far back end, as that would be realistically a recipe for an inherently inaccurate weapon.
They are repaired with their vanilla equivalents. That is to say, the pistol with laser pistols, and the carbine with laser rifles.
HOW TO GET IT
If you're just starting the game, check out the new dresser in your room at the foot of your bed. You'll find the basic pistol, in both scoped and unscoped versions, and even a little ammo in it. This makes it more viable to tag the energy weapons skill in the GOAT. Now you can get to actually use an energy weapon right off the bat.
After that there's crate with the same stuff under Dr Lesko's table in Grayditch, containing all the weapons. It's the table with the holoband on it. It looks like the good doctor had access to some high tech stuff. NB: it's in Dr Lesko's hut in Grayditch, not where you find him in the subway tunnels.
Additionally, Karl in the Family Hideout now sells a lot of batteries. God knows where he found them, but hey, it should keep you in business with the lasers if you have the bottle caps. If you've killed him or something, well, the crate is somewhere around there, but it will be locked.
HOW TO INSTALL IT
Search for "set bInvalidateOlderFiles=0" in your Fallout3.ini file and change it to "set bInvalidateOlderFiles=1", if you haven't done so already.
Extract the archive, with directories, in your Data folder. Select the plugin in the list of data files to load.
If you have texture problems, use FOMM or some other invalidation programs to invalidate the archive.
HOW TO UNINSTALL IT
Delete the .esp file from your Data directory.
Delete the MLaser1 directories in your Meshes and Textures directories.
CONFLICTS
It shouldn't conflict with anything. Worst that can happen is that someone put a crate or something over mine, blocking your access to looting it, but it's unlikely they'd nail the exact same two locations.
LICENSE
Most of the weapon, with the exceptions noted below, is my own work, and I release it in the public domain. You can do whatever you wish with it. Port it to another game, include it in your own mod, retexture it, give it to custom companions, whatever.
I would, of course, be thankful if you gave credit, but if not, I can live with that too. I'm not going to start hounding people because their blaster looks like mine, or anyhthing.
The exceptions are the sounds and the battery, which are Bethesda's. In practical terms this means that it's ok to use it for Fallout 3 or New Vegas (both of which include the laser pistol they were taken from), but if you want to port it to another game, you'll have to replace them with something else. Then again, most other games won't have this particular reloading animation anyway, so you'll probably have to add some sort of magazine of your own instead. Shouldn't be too hard.
VERSION HISTORY
1.07:
Added the Laser Support Weapon
1.06:
Added the heavy laser pistol
Reduced the damage of ALL weapons by 20%, since, frankly, it was balanced for NV not FO3. FO3 doesn't need that high damage.
Removed the carbines from the vault dresser, since you don't need the top DPS version THAT early
1.05:
Lengthened the carbine by about 2 inches, so the front hand should still look like holding it in first person with certain gloves
Changed the carbine to be repaired with laser rifles
Added the versions with buttstock
Redistributed the weights, so lack of buttstock saves 1 pound, and lack of scope another pound
1.04:
Added the laser carbine.
Added energy ammo to Karl.
1.03:
Made the handle less slanted, to avoid some clipping problems with the hand.
Reduced the glossiness slightly
1.02:
Added the non-scoped version, as requested.
Minor tweaks.
1.01:
Redone the textures and normal maps from scratch. Smaller textures too.
Added a trigger guard, due to more than one request for a guard.
1.0:
First Fallout 3 Release
It adds a new laser pistol, a heavy laser pistol, a laser support weapon, and a laser carbine for now: the fictive MT-2LP (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Pistol), the only slightly larger MT-2HLP (MoraelinTech 2, Heavy Laser Pistol), the MT-2LSW (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Support Weapon), and the MT-2LC (MoraelinTech 2, Laser Carbine) models. All weapons except the LSW are available in both scoped and non-scoped versions. The carbines are also available in versions with or without a buttstock. The buttstock really does nothing except look pretty and add a pound of weight, since a laser weapon would have truly negligible recoil, but some people prefer that look anyway.
The basic story is this: I never really liked the looks of Bethesda's brick-shaped laser weapons. They could have even gone the 50's-60's SF props route, which had very silly looking weapons with lots of rings and coils and wings and whatnot -- think, basically like the Alien Blaster -- but which would at least fit the "the future as they imagined it in the 50's" theme. Or they could have done some modern industrial design. A big brick-shaped weapon with a handle that looks like cheap molded pig-iron, is neither, and IMHO not particularly good looking either. Surely whoever designed those expensive high-tech weapons would pay some designer to make a decent looking frame for it. After all, conventional weapons from that era do look good.
So, since there are other projects that restore the energy weapons to the more "60's SF" look of classic Fallout 2 weapons, I went the opposite route: modern SF design. You know, brushed aluminium, panels, vents, etc. It's not all just design for the looks, though. I've done my best to put some thought into basically functionalism too. The big lens in front, the vents for blowing air over an internal heatsink to get rid of heat, etc, are born out of basically trying to imagine a believable laser weapon.
Note that the design IS lore-friendly. The design style is Streamline Moderne, a style which flourished in the 50's and 60's. They made everything from toasters to buildings in this style. They imagined their SF weapons different, because, well, they had to be different from their present day items. But if someone had actually made a laser pistol in the 50's or 60's, chances are fair that it would have a frame in this style.
Anyway, all three weapons use small energy cells, like the normal laser pistols. To keep the frame reasonably narrow, it's not reloaded via a latch on the side, but by breaking it open like a shotgun or break-top revolver. All three have the same ammo capacity as a normal laser pistol. The damage has been upped a lot and the weapons fire fully automatic, to stay competitive by the end of the game, though nothing over the top. This isn't the Vladimir. Like most of my weapons, they have twice the chance to crit and do double damage to limbs.
The main downside is, of course, that they will burn through batteries about as fast as you'd expect if you go nuts with the full auto fire.
As a twist, all weapons except the LSW do the same base damage per shot, but the heavy pistol and carbine, due to larger internal heatsinks and more vents, can handle firing 25% more shots per second. Basically as a concept it's the same active medium and optics, but with the cooling and electronics beefed up to handle faster charging between shots and more heat. This raises its damage per second accordingly, but at the cost of an identical raise in ammo use, as well as needing more AP per burst in VATS. So basically you can use it to do more damage than the light pistol, but it comes at a cost.
The LSW is conceptually a hybrid of light machinegun and sniper rifle. It's kind of imagining an equivalent of the Bozar as a laser weapon. It is the largest and heaviest of these weapons, and offers the highest rate of fire, and actually slightly out-dps-es the carbine and heavy pistol, but this comes at the expense of being less efficient. Each shot only does 90% of the damage per shot of any other of these weapons. So basically although you can pump the damage into the target a little faster, you need 11% more batteries than a carbine or pistol to do the same damage. It comes as a cost.
All weapons have obviously been polished shiny, but they're heavily scratched, and it looks like the panels come from several different weapons judging by how their stains and scratches don't line up with the rest of the frame. Obviously parts of it have been replaced with parts from other such weapons. (I.e., it's intentional. It's supposed to look used, repaired, and used some more, and repaired some more.)
I threw in a scope too, because, honestly, if someone can make the extreme-precision optics that a weapon-grade laser needs, a scope is easy stuff for them.
For the non-scoped version, realistically the only way to reconcile plain iron sights with a weapon covered in flimsy pannels is that basically they'd be separate metal pieces that are fixed to an internal rigid frame, and only poke through holes in the panels. Also both have to be on the same side of the hinge as the laser optics, so they stay aligned with it even if the latch doesn't align to seconds of arc after being flipped open and snapped back on. I.e., please don't ask for the rear half of the sights to be moved to the far back end, as that would be realistically a recipe for an inherently inaccurate weapon.
They are repaired with their vanilla equivalents. That is to say, the pistol with laser pistols, and the carbine with laser rifles.
HOW TO GET IT
If you're just starting the game, check out the new dresser in your room at the foot of your bed. You'll find the basic pistol, in both scoped and unscoped versions, and even a little ammo in it. This makes it more viable to tag the energy weapons skill in the GOAT. Now you can get to actually use an energy weapon right off the bat.
After that there's crate with the same stuff under Dr Lesko's table in Grayditch, containing all the weapons. It's the table with the holoband on it. It looks like the good doctor had access to some high tech stuff. NB: it's in Dr Lesko's hut in Grayditch, not where you find him in the subway tunnels.
Additionally, Karl in the Family Hideout now sells a lot of batteries. God knows where he found them, but hey, it should keep you in business with the lasers if you have the bottle caps. If you've killed him or something, well, the crate is somewhere around there, but it will be locked.
HOW TO INSTALL IT
Search for "set bInvalidateOlderFiles=0" in your Fallout3.ini file and change it to "set bInvalidateOlderFiles=1", if you haven't done so already.
Extract the archive, with directories, in your Data folder. Select the plugin in the list of data files to load.
If you have texture problems, use FOMM or some other invalidation programs to invalidate the archive.
HOW TO UNINSTALL IT
Delete the .esp file from your Data directory.
Delete the MLaser1 directories in your Meshes and Textures directories.
CONFLICTS
It shouldn't conflict with anything. Worst that can happen is that someone put a crate or something over mine, blocking your access to looting it, but it's unlikely they'd nail the exact same two locations.
LICENSE
Most of the weapon, with the exceptions noted below, is my own work, and I release it in the public domain. You can do whatever you wish with it. Port it to another game, include it in your own mod, retexture it, give it to custom companions, whatever.
I would, of course, be thankful if you gave credit, but if not, I can live with that too. I'm not going to start hounding people because their blaster looks like mine, or anyhthing.
The exceptions are the sounds and the battery, which are Bethesda's. In practical terms this means that it's ok to use it for Fallout 3 or New Vegas (both of which include the laser pistol they were taken from), but if you want to port it to another game, you'll have to replace them with something else. Then again, most other games won't have this particular reloading animation anyway, so you'll probably have to add some sort of magazine of your own instead. Shouldn't be too hard.
VERSION HISTORY
1.07:
Added the Laser Support Weapon
1.06:
Added the heavy laser pistol
Reduced the damage of ALL weapons by 20%, since, frankly, it was balanced for NV not FO3. FO3 doesn't need that high damage.
Removed the carbines from the vault dresser, since you don't need the top DPS version THAT early
1.05:
Lengthened the carbine by about 2 inches, so the front hand should still look like holding it in first person with certain gloves
Changed the carbine to be repaired with laser rifles
Added the versions with buttstock
Redistributed the weights, so lack of buttstock saves 1 pound, and lack of scope another pound
1.04:
Added the laser carbine.
Added energy ammo to Karl.
1.03:
Made the handle less slanted, to avoid some clipping problems with the hand.
Reduced the glossiness slightly
1.02:
Added the non-scoped version, as requested.
Minor tweaks.
1.01:
Redone the textures and normal maps from scratch. Smaller textures too.
Added a trigger guard, due to more than one request for a guard.
1.0:
First Fallout 3 Release