By request I have rearmed the mighty vanguard with the high-powered laser of the advanced laser tower. This mighty beast while restrained from it's original form is still a power to behold on the battlefield. http://www.mediafire.com/download/6lf6r61ml2969rb/com.igncom1.vanguardpew.rar Please enjoy!
What are the cost differences? Is the mobile laser tower cheaper than the laser tower with in fact more health? That would be redonkadonk...
:/ my marketing is better then my modding....the only change I made was equipping the vangaurd with the triple laser towers weapon. I didn't want to push the mod further then my means.
Oh. Well, I don't think that is a problem because the laser tower fires triple barrel so if you didn't mount 3 barrels then there is the deficiency. Still strong enough though.
It's only got the one turret, but as I decided to check, the triple barrel laser only has the one weapon too, it simply alternates the barrel. So they both have the exact same weapon, the vanguard just fires it out of one hole.
But doesn't that reduce the rate of fire by 1/3, depending on how the weapon is set up? It is tricky. Tools that share multiple muzzles seem to alternate muzzle, multiple tools given multiple muzzles don't alternate but usually fire simultaneously. The only way to alternate fire, is to give the same tool multiple muzzles, and adjust the rate of fire to comphensate for alternating barrels all sharing the same fire rate.
Nope, the muzzles from what I see don't affect the fire rate, so it likely just balanced to take them into consideration. Which....my vanguard isn't........... Well, modding was more about the fun anyway right?
I brought it to your attention so you would know. You can always learn. You can also always fix it *shrug*. If you can't balance it otherwise, then copy-paste the weapon and rename it vanguard-weapon-json-whatever and just change it seperately of the turret.
There's no reason it should: The tool determines the fire rate. The adv laser tool's fire rate is 3.0. It clearly doesn't fire 9 times a second just because it has three barrels. The reason the battleship fires twelve shots at once is because it has twelve tools, each with one barrel. The reason the laser tower fires one shot from alternating barrels is because it has one tool that owns three barrels.