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** The Personal Defense Lasers use far more resources including five laser turrets and it has a shorter range. Turrets are expendable automatons but you value yourself higher. Your energy reserves are smaller in a power suit than your power grid and just slapping five turrets down would dish out more damage while being easier to keep fed.

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** The Personal Defense Lasers use far more resources including five laser turrets and it has a shorter range. Turrets are expendable automatons but you value yourself higher. Your energy reserves are smaller in a power suit than your power grid and just slapping five turrets down would dish out more damage while being easier to keep fed.fed.
* We can't create anything that involves fluids by hand. Seems fair and realistic. We can't create an engine unit by hand. Seems arbitrary. Somehow, we can assemble a frikin ''nuclear powerplant'' by hand. If we can build nuclear powerplants by hand, why can't we build engine units by hand?
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** That's incorrect though; a single suit of power armor can have a small arsenal of [=PDLs=] fitted into it. This gets more extreme and dangerous when you consider that [=PDLs=] also function while driving a tank, resulting in a mobile death platform.

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** That's incorrect though; a single suit of power armor can have a small arsenal of [=PDLs=] fitted into it. This gets more extreme and dangerous when you consider that [=PDLs=] also function while driving a tank, resulting in a mobile death platform.platform.
** The Personal Defense Lasers use far more resources including five laser turrets and it has a shorter range. Turrets are expendable automatons but you value yourself higher. Your energy reserves are smaller in a power suit than your power grid and just slapping five turrets down would dish out more damage while being easier to keep fed.
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** Bob's Mods avert this with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.

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** Bob's Mods avert this with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass Gunmetal alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.ammunition, as well as petrochemical-derived Cordite propellents.
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** Since the game also have "diesel train" that couldn't run on oil, maybe the guns here are just railguns with a NonIndicativeName?
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** Mass producing a weapon often means you can't customize it, and the focus is often on quantity, not quality. Plus, you're likely going to have more than 1 Laser Turret covering 1 area - so the [=PDL=] has more firepower to make up for the fact that you can only hold 1.

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** Mass producing a weapon often means you can't customize it, and the focus is often on quantity, not quality. Plus, you're likely going to have more than 1 Laser Turret covering 1 area - so the [=PDL=] has more firepower to make up for the fact that you can only hold 1.1.
** That's incorrect though; a single suit of power armor can have a small arsenal of [=PDLs=] fitted into it. This gets more extreme and dangerous when you consider that [=PDLs=] also function while driving a tank, resulting in a mobile death platform.

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* Why is the Personal Defense Laser module for Powered Armor more powerful than a full-sized Laser Turret at the same tier? It deals significantly more Laser damage per shot for less energy.

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** GameplayAndStorySegregation. If the player had to gather gunpowder, it would make guns somewhat border on AwesomeButImpractical
* Why is the Personal Defense Laser module for Powered Armor more powerful than a full-sized Laser Turret at the same tier? It deals significantly more Laser damage per shot for less energy.energy.
** Mass producing a weapon often means you can't customize it, and the focus is often on quantity, not quality. Plus, you're likely going to have more than 1 Laser Turret covering 1 area - so the [=PDL=] has more firepower to make up for the fact that you can only hold 1.
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** Bob's Mods avert this hard with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.

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** Bob's Mods avert this hard with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.
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** Bob's Mods avert this hard with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.

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** Bob's Mods avert this hard with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.ammunition.
* Why is the Personal Defense Laser module for Powered Armor more powerful than a full-sized Laser Turret at the same tier? It deals significantly more Laser damage per shot for less energy.
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** Or it's just another example of AntiFrustrationFeatures. Having to gather another resource to craft such an essential item like ammunition would make the game harder. Sure, they could simply make you craft bullets with iron plate and coal instead of just iron plate, but apparently it was better idea to just ignore coal for the sake of simplicity.

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** Or it's just another example of AntiFrustrationFeatures. Having to gather another resource to craft such an essential item like ammunition would make the game harder. Sure, they could simply make you craft bullets with iron plate and coal instead of just iron plate, but apparently it was better idea to just ignore coal for the sake of simplicity.simplicity.
** Bob's Mods avert this hard with their Military Pack mod, which adds a brass alloy for making casings for the new, higher-tier ammunition.
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* How do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings in a SpentShellsShower?

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* How do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings in a SpentShellsShower?
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** Or it's just another example of AntiFrustrationFeatures. Having to gather another resource to craft such an essential item like ammunition would make the game much harder. Sure, they could simply make you craft bullets with iron plate and coal instead of just iron plate, but apparently it was better idea to just ignore coal for the sake of simplicity.

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** Or it's just another example of AntiFrustrationFeatures. Having to gather another resource to craft such an essential item like ammunition would make the game much harder. Sure, they could simply make you craft bullets with iron plate and coal instead of just iron plate, but apparently it was better idea to just ignore coal for the sake of simplicity.
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** Or it's just another example of AntiFrustrationFeatures. Having to gather another resource to craft such an essential item like ammunition would make the game much harder. Sure, they could simply make you craft bullets with iron plate and coal instead of just iron plate, but apparently it was better idea to just ignore coal for the sake of simplicity.
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* How do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings in a SpentShellsShower?

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* How do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings in a SpentShellsShower?SpentShellsShower?
** The SpentShellsShower is really just the result of RuleOfCool and it's also possible that the guns are powered by compressed air or something. Besides. It would kinda suck for balance purposes if you had to go and make gunpowder in order to make bullets. Maybe the guns use some sort of propulsion that DOESN'T require gunpowder.
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* How do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings?

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do the guns are work without including some sort of propellant like gunpowder in the ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are why would they leave bullet casings?casings in a SpentShellsShower?
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* This troper is curious as to how the guns are firing without including some sort of accellerant like gunpowder. Unless the guns are some sort of coil/railguns I don't see how they should function like that. But then if they are coil/railguns why would they leave casings?

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* This troper is curious as to how How do the guns are firing work without including some sort of accellerant propellant like gunpowder. Unless gunpowder in the guns are some sort of coil/railguns I don't see how they should function like that. But then ammunition? They could work without it but that would make them coil/railguns, and if they are coil/railguns why would they leave bullet casings?
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This troper is curious as to how the guns are firing without including some sort of accellerant like gunpowder. Unless the guns are some sort of coil/railguns I don't see how they should function like that. But then if they are coil/railguns why would they leave casings?

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* This troper is curious as to how the guns are firing without including some sort of accellerant like gunpowder. Unless the guns are some sort of coil/railguns I don't see how they should function like that. But then if they are coil/railguns why would they leave casings?
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This troper is curious as to how the guns are firing without including some sort of accellerant like gunpowder. Unless the guns are some sort of coil/railguns I don't see how they should function like that. But then if they are coil/railguns why would they leave casings?

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