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LAS-98 Laser Cannon - Gradual AP Gain 1.5

A Mod for Helldivers 2
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LAS-98: Laser Cannon - Gradual AP Gain

As stated in the short description of the mod, the more you hold down the trigger, the more AP and damage you gain. Here's how it works:


Hold Button for:

0Secs = 350/AP4 ➔ 2Secs = 450/AP5 ➔ 7Secs = 550/AP6 ➔ 8Secs = 805/AP7/40D ➔ 9Secs = 550/AP6 [...]


Durability Increase:

0Secs = 195Durable ➔ 2Secs = 250Durable ➔ 7Secs = 290Durable ➔ 8Secs = 400Durable ➔ 9Secs = 290Durable [...]

The goal with this change? It's just to make the laser cannon funnier and slightly more comfy to use. Because if you have this mod on, you'll still just be doing Laser Cannon shenanigans, except now you can destroy fabricators: hold the trigger down against a fabricator for 8-9 seconds, and it will blow up because of that sweetspot mechanic between the 8th and the 9th seconds.

I do believe this doesn't pick a fight with the Quasar cannon because if you immediately start a new firing sequence after you lose your sweetspot, you'll run out of ICE in a non-ice planet, meaning you're now stuck with a 3.65 second wait on top of having to wait another 9 seconds for the sweetspot... at which point you could've fired two quasar shots. Yeah I think that makes sense in my mind.

I feel like this mod is very much comparable to when Arrowhead updated the senator to be heavy pen, and like all that that really did was make it so people went out to try and find out how many shots it took to kill a bile titan and everyone figured out collectively that you might as well throw sharpies at it and hope one of them lands a crit or something. Good times btw.




AP/Damage Increase demonstration.

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AP/Demo Force Increase demonstration.

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Video Demonstration:

View: https://youtu.be/cY3xwmiAZMs



Installation:

1.
Get Arsenal, the modmanager for Helldivers.

2.
Install Bingus Shared Loader.

3.
Install one of the three files provided via Arsenal(If you install more than one, one will override the other).

4.
Deploy the mods and play the game.




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  1. LAS98: AP Ramp & Sweetspot - Durable Damage Buff.

    I upped the durable damage a smidge to make it feel a little bit better against things like the...
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MrDingus said:
How does it REALLY work? Does the damage rises with the heat sink or is it literally just about holding it? Let's say my heat sink is a little pass 50% if I let go my mouse button, will I lose the damage?
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It does not rise with the heatsink, no, you gotta hold down the trigger continuously. In that sense the Laser Cannon becomes a long-ranged Defoliator
 
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Is it possible to link damage to heat values? like DE sickle. introduces a mechanic based on managing heat value, and make it require a little skill
 
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tudounek said:
Is it possible to link damage to heat values? like DE sickle. introduces a mechanic based on managing heat value, and make it require a little skill
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possible? yes. Not the intention of this mod in specific tho, the idea is just to add some risk reward mechanics to the laser cannon right now where you have to hold down the trigger to gain more value instead of just managing the heat gauge.
 
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YmirAottg said:
newest update buffed durable damage(not a whole lot). Please give it a shot and tell me if it feels better 🙏

Also, Torino, could you send me your version of the HD2MM compat manifest? I wanna compare ours
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I'll test when I can, thank you for the update :3
 
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YmirAottg said:
newest update buffed durable damage(not a whole lot). Please give it a shot and tell me if it feels better 🙏

Also, Torino, could you send me your version of the HD2MM compat manifest? I wanna compare ours
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I just removed the : in the file name inside manifest. that worked before you updated the HDMM version.
 
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coolmen43022 said:
I'll test when I can, thank you for the update :3
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if you don't feel like testing, I can just show you a quick video haha. Thanks to Available-Cabinet, some further testing was performed on the bug front. With the new durable changes you can kill a charger by the leg and a titan by the head if you hold the laser down for 7 seconds: which is really hard to do on the higher difficulties, but if you have a buddy with you, might be a lot more doable.


View: https://youtu.be/zqOoBqH6mEs
 
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torino86 said:
I just removed the : in the file name inside manifest. that worked before you updated the HDMM version.
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Yeah, I figured that out the hard way. I didn't need to go out of my way to rewrite my manifest, just had to remove explorer-illegal signs :p
 
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So reading the lua of the mod, I don't think the numbers in the description are accurate?
Code: 
local DEFAULT_CONFIG = 'stage1_seconds=2\nstage2_seconds=2\nstage3_seconds=3\nstage1_ap=4\nstage2_ap=5\nstage3_ap=6\nstage1_damage_bonus=0\nstage2_damage_bonus=100\nstage3_damage_bonus=200\nstage4_seconds=1\nstage4_ap=6\nstage4_damage_bonus=455\nstage4_demolition=40\n'
Code: 
local durable=({195,250,290,400})[i]

The base value of the laser cannon is:
350/200 AP4 aka ~57.1% durable

and if I'm reading this correctly, this mod changes it to these values:
350/195 AP4 aka ~55.7% durable
450/250 AP5 aka ~55.55% durable
550/290 AP6 aka ~52.7% durable
805/400 AP6 aka ~49.6% durable
 
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throwaway555 said:
So reading the lua of the mod, I don't think the numbers in the description are accurate?
Code: 
local DEFAULT_CONFIG = 'stage1_seconds=2\nstage2_seconds=2\nstage3_seconds=3\nstage1_ap=4\nstage2_ap=5\nstage3_ap=6\nstage1_damage_bonus=0\nstage2_damage_bonus=100\nstage3_damage_bonus=200\nstage4_seconds=1\nstage4_ap=6\nstage4_damage_bonus=455\nstage4_demolition=40\n'
Code: 
local durable=({195,250,290,400})[i]

The base value of the laser cannon is:
350/200 AP4 aka ~57.1% durable

and if I'm reading this correctly, this mod changes it to these values:
350/195 AP4 aka ~55.7% durable
450/250 AP5 aka ~55.55% durable
550/290 AP6 aka ~52.7% durable
805/400 AP6 aka ~49.6% durable
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I believe there is only one thing that isn't accurate. AP7 is not a thing for the sweetspot in the current build, but I kept it in the description to make sense with the gifs :p

Yes, those are the durable changes made by the current iteration of the mod. I'll update the damage values on the description, that was my bad for being lazy.
 
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