Laser Cutter Improvements

Changes to the Engineer's new alternative primary, the Laser Cutter: see its range, see what the beam really hits, and stop it from healing a turret next to you instead of hitting the enemy you aim at.

Features

• Range indicator. The Laser Cutter reaches 50 m. While your beam reaches that far without hitting anything, a faint orange band of its range sphere is shown ahead of you, with an orange line on the ground where the range ends. It fades out as soon as the beam hits something.
• Beam stops at its target. The game draws the beam with a thin line, but the attack is about 3 m wide, so the beam can heal an ally or hit an enemy while the visible beam goes on past it. With this mod your beam ends where the attack actually stops.
• Turret hitbox for your beam. Because of that width, an allied Engineer turret within about 1.5 m of your aim, or right next to you, takes the hit and gets healed instead of the enemy you aim at. TurretHitboxScale shrinks allied Engineer turrets' hitbox for your Laser Cutter only. Enemies, drones, MUL-T and other players' attacks keep the game's hitboxes.
• Heal and damage. In the game, healing a mechanical ally (turret, drone, MUL-T) stops the beam there. With HealAndDamage on, your beam heals the ally and goes on to damage what is behind it.

Settings

In BepInEx/config/revor.LaserCutterImprovements.cfg, or in game under Settings → Mod Options → LaserCutterImprovements when Risk of Options is installed. Changes apply immediately.

• RangeIndicator (default true): show the range indicator.
• BeamStopsAtTarget (default true): end the visible beam where the attack stops.
• TurretHitboxScale (default 1, the game's size; from 0.1 to 1): the size of allied Engineer turrets' hitbox for your Laser Cutter.
• HealAndDamage (default false): heal mechanical allies without stopping the beam.

Multiplayer

Client-side: only you need it, and you can join any lobby with or without it. In this game the player who fires the Laser Cutter decides what it hits, so the settings change your own beam for everyone: others see your heals and damage as usual. The visible beam and the range indicator only change on your screen; other Engineers' lasers look as in the game.

Source and bug reports: github.com/T-Jayay/LaserCutterImprovements.

Changelog

1.0.1

• New icon.
• The store page now says which problem of the game's Laser Cutter each feature fixes, and separates the quality of life fixes from the balance change (HealAndDamage, off by default).

1.0.0

• Initial release, for the Engineer's Laser Cutter.
• A range indicator while your beam reaches its maximum range without hitting anything.
• Your visible beam ends where the attack stops.
• TurretHitboxScale: a smaller hitbox for allied Engineer turrets, for your Laser Cutter only (off by default).
• HealAndDamage: heal mechanical allies without stopping the beam (off by default).
• Client-side: nobody else needs the mod.
• In-game settings with Risk of Options (optional). Needs HookGenPatcher (mod managers install it automatically).