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Originally posted by Sharp@Mar 29 2005, 01:14 AM
Hmm, everyone does seem to prefer Heavy Plasmas, no arguments for all its advantages.
Auto-shot
Lotsa damage
Fairly good accurcay
Now i dont give heavy lasers to everyone, just 2-4 snipers in my squad.
They fire from off-screen and kickass while safely hidden from the aliens.
Also the heavy laser is not weak at all. If you mange to hit all 3 in a HP then yes it does more damage but the Heavy Laser is not for close combat. Its for long range fire support.
The heavy laser can kill any alien you want if the person who fires it is that accurate. One of my best snipers is 83 firing accuracy. Im assuming that the 110% accuracy of the heavy laser aimed shot gives an overall accuracy of 93%, which means if crouched as well should make it almost impossible to miss. My sniper kills anything in her line of fire, and i mean anything. Generally she hits headshots as well so she kills people in one hit.
Adv. Of Heavy Lasers
No Ammo
Good Accuracy
Good damage
My other 3 snipers are +70 firing accuracy and all equipped with heavy lasers, it is really a one-shot one kill. Also when theres those annoying obstacles in the way i can use my snipers to blow them up without wasting ammo and be sure of not killing any of my troops because there soooo accurate.
Somewhere b4 someone said that power armour is resistant to laser, well mabye laser rifles, not heavy lasers, there also good against plasma rifles as well but not totally resistant.
Newayz i luvs my lasers, cheap, effective, accurate and efficent.
Also one more thing, a heavy plasma can only fire 12(last one only 2 times i think) times of autofire before reloading, a heavy laser can fire forever without reloading. Ok so you fire less shots, but your shots are more accurate. My sniper doesnt even have to use the aimed shot, just a few snap shots, she can usually fire 2 while moving a bit, and 3 if practically motionless (i think).
So basically what you should do is give your best shots a heavy laser and the rest of em plasmas.
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I don't know why you'd want to use Heavy Laser for sniping when, for less TU and more accuracy AND damage, you can use Heavy Plasma. HP weighs only the same as a regular plasma rifle. So the only advantages that Heavy Laser has over Heavy Plasma are: 1) better against Sectopod and 2) no ammo.
But just eject your plasma clips right before the end of a mission and you wipe out almost all of advantage (2). If you have more than a few soldiers in a squad, they will have enough ammo among them to finish almost any mission, so there goes the rest of (2).
Since Blaster Bombs are best against 'pods, it doesnt make sense to use Heavy Laser OR Heavy Plasma or any other weapon, so HL is worthless after you get Plasma and Heavy Plasma unless you are really, really, really concerned about lack of ammo and really don't want to use Blaster Bombs against Sectopods.