Laser ends really abruptly

If you've seen the laser in action, you probably know what I'm talking about.
It charges up, fires and then after about three seconds it just... ends.

There's no real transition between the laser being fired and not being fired, so it looks really weird. Maybe an animation where the laser shrinks up and then disappears in a flash would look a bit better?

Just a thought.

some stardust?

Would maybe be cool, but the most important i think is when it is fully charged at you cancel it, the animation just stop immediately, should be powering down.

Lasers do that.

You don't see lasers anyway. You usually see the dust or other solid matter illuminated by matter. In our case, we can assume it's some kind of energy beam.

**Fixed.

Its probably some kind of Gamma-Ray or just Plasma-Beam(Maybe we should have to pay metal if we have cooldown that spends resources?).

Gamma ray gun is a laser too you know?

metal planet lazor seems to be a particle beam, and there is nothing wrong with how it looks

No, seriously, it looks awesome!

I would like the option of it being your factions color...because...reasons.

I want to be able to pay money in the game store so that my laser can have a different color. /s

I want a rainbow laser that arcs like a rainbow and everything.

I want a cat chasing laser beam.

If you guys are gonna get all technical about lasers, then you should realize that this can't really be a laser.

The visibility of a laser doesn't really have to do with the species of animal looking for it, unless the laser is emitting light outside of the visible light spectrum. Even lasers which emit visible light would not be visible traveling through the vacuum of space since there's nothing to scatter the coherent beam.

But....But they're robots!

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Yeah, it looks awesome. Also Gamma rays are concentrated beams of gamma particles, while laser are concentrated beams photons. There are differences between photons and gamma-particles, such as gamma-particles are highly charged and therefore a type of radiation.

Because you have not specified whether you are trolling us, I must answer as if you were serious and correct you in case some poor student comes along and tries writing something like that on their physics exams.

There is no such thing as gamma particles. Not to be confused with:
alpha particles (helium nuclei (2 protons and 1 neutron) with a charge of +2)
beta particles (beta negative are electrons, beta positive are positrons with a charge of -1, +1 respectively)

and there are gamma rays which are extremely high frequency (thus high energy) photons.

gamma rays are not charged, though their energy will frequently charge matter it passes though.
About the only thing you said there that was correct is that they are a form of radiation, though your reason for it being radiation was not correct.

And I also agree that it looks awesome, regardless of the science behind it

You literally need to 'hit' the laser with something in order to 'see' it, no matter what kind of observer you are. You can't observer something without interacting with it, and you can't bounce light off light (mostly).

I meant that gamma particles are photons with a high frequency, and to achieve this frequency they need more energy, thats what i meant with charged. I never said that the ray was charged, but that the particles(the photons) were charged, to that state they were highly radioactive(english is not my native language and i know that the correct term is not the photons being radioactive, but probably something else.