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[Tongo Rad]

The 6/24 Patch Notes say:

"Flamer Ventilation node renamed to Thermal Cycling. Thermal Cycling effect applies to both Flamers and Beams Lasers"

Which ones are Beam Lasers? Aren't all lasers beam lasers? Does this cover binary lasers?

[Meep Meep]

Beam 'lasers' are retasked flamers with a new beam effect. So code wise they fall under the flamer quirk not laser. They renamed the flamer quirk to reflect this.

[epikt]

Tongo Rad, on 08 August 2025 - 05:34 PM, said:

Which ones are Beam Lasers? Aren't all lasers beam lasers? Does this cover binary lasers?

Nope.
Beam Lasers are a clan weapon, firing a continuous (purple!) beam.
Heat wise, they work kind of like flamers.

[kalashnikity]

epikt, on 08 August 2025 - 06:30 PM, said:

Nope.
Beam Lasers are a clan weapon, firing a continuous (purple!) beam.
Heat wise, they work kind of like flamers.

During continuous firing the heat bar ramps up, and when it hits red the heat is dramatically increased.

Just like flamers.

[Meep Meep]

Because they are literally flamers with different stats. Exact same weapon they copy pasted and morphed.

[KursedVixen]

Tongo Rad, on 08 August 2025 - 05:34 PM, said:

The 6/24 Patch Notes say:

"Flamer Ventilation node renamed to Thermal Cycling. Thermal Cycling effect applies to both Flamers and Beams Lasers"

Which ones are Beam Lasers? Aren't all lasers beam lasers? Does this cover binary lasers?

Beam lasers are clan amped up X-pulse since PGI IMHO implimented X pulse wrong. So they gave clans the Beam laser it's as heavy as a ppc 2 slots like a ppc and fires continuously, it uses the flamer heat up bar, when the bar fills the heat output from the weapon increases, rhe weapon itself does 5 damage per second at a range of 600m default and up to 900 max typically you only see mechs with 2 or less ,but some special mechs like the highlander IIC with it's laser HSL can carry 3.