RISC Hyper Laser question

[Syzyx]

Am I understanding IO correctly in that a RISC Hyper Laser is simply a normal laser (Small, Medium, Large) with the added "benefit" that it explodes in exchange for nothing? This seems a bit odd to me.

[Alexander Knight]

Am I understanding IO correctly in that a RISC Hyper Laser is simply a normal laser (Small, Medium, Large) with the added "benefit" that it explodes in exchange for nothing? This seems a bit odd to me.

You are not.  Pages 220 and 221 show the characteristics of a RISC Hyper Laser.  Suffice to say, they are nothing like a normal laser.

[Syzyx]

Thank you. I apparently scanned past those entries on the table a dozen or more times.


Lesson: Don't get old, kids. It's not worth it.

[glitterboy2098]

IIRC, the hyperlaser is basically taking a regular laser, giving it "MOAR POWER" to the point it becomes a "laser-of-doom"... after which it blows up.

[Empyrus]

Actually, the Hyper Laser is a further development of the Improved Heavy Laser technology. Per IO page 93. Better plasma lasing and whatever, and somehow even more explosive than iHLs.

(Too bad we can't add a Pulse Module to a Hyper Laser. The Pulse Modules work only with IS standard or IS ER lasers.)

[Diamondshark]

That would be only one step away from just installing a Booby Trap on your mech, so it's redundant tech.  O0

[Kidd]

whoa I didn't notice this either... looks like 2 Clan ER lasers combined with explodey consequences. might be worth the risc (boo! hiss!) to me, for flavour and for challenging the dice gods.

[Diamondshark]

It's literally exactly two CERLLs stuck together, but bulkier and might explode. I really like it anyway, just purely out of the "FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!1!"-ness of it; it just is too willing to explode in my face (the dice hate me enough already, the last thing I need to do is encourage them).

[SCC]

(Too bad we can't add a Pulse Module to a Hyper Laser. The Pulse Modules work only with IS standard or IS ER lasers.)

Umm, what? Why not, the Hyper Laser IS and IS Laser.

[Alexander Knight]

Umm, what? Why not, the Hyper Laser IS and IS Laser.

But it is not a standard or ER laser.

[SCC]

Why isn't it a standard laser? It lacks ER or Pulse in it's name.

[Alexander Knight]

Why isn't it a standard laser? It lacks ER or Pulse in it's name.

Because it is not a Small, Medium, or Large laser.