The Xavious’ Laser Gun

Fixed drop mesh, now using correct model
Raised max durability at quality 6 from 500 to 750

Buffed enhanced emitter to add penetration and armor reduction
Added armor reduction to laser pistol
Increased armor reduction added by X-ray Modulator
Added new info on UI display for laser
Pyrolytic Modulator ignites additional zombies in an area, proc chance lowered a bit
Cavitating Modulator now can throw zombies away in an area on hit

Reduced radius and proc chance of Cavitating throw
Slightly reduced radius of Pyrolytic Modulator
Increased damage bonus of Enhanced Laser Emitter
Increased damage bonus of Capacitor Bank
Improved Charge usage bonus of Capacitor Bank
Added additional impact effects for each Modulator, still WIP
Increased damage bonus for all three lenses a little bit

Made impact effects for pyro, electro, and cavitating mods only appear if thier respective effect procs

Raised damage for Electro, Pyro, Xray, Cavitating beams
Caused Electro beam to knock affected targets away
Diverging lens now does not affect max range
Collimating lens now boosts range to what Converging lens did
Converging lens now adds twice as much to range
Adjusted muzzle flash and beam effects so it looks kind of like you're shooting a laser beam

Damage model entirely changed, with impact damage severely reduced and instead transferred to the Dwell mechanic. Dwell has three stages, represented by smoking, sparking, and smoldering
Hitting a zombie while they are at least smoking does additional damage based on how much Dwell they have built up. Dwell decays over time if they haven't been hit for 2 seconds.
Elemental effects trip a smaller effect when a laser with an element installed hits a zombie that is at least smoking. When hitting a smoldering zombie, it unleashes a much stronger elemental effect.
Various mods have changed how they interact with the dwell system. Heatsink/unmodded adds one full level of dwell on hit, supercapacitor ads 1.5 levels of dwell, liquid cooler ats 0.5 levels on hit and 0.5 again 1.5 seconds later
Diode emitter adds dwell but does not interact with the bonus damage from dwell, it just has a large flat bonus to the impact damage. It also no longer applies empowered elemental effects when hitting a Smoldering enemy. It still applies a small effect hitting a Smoking enemy
Tech Junkie vol 6, Intellect Mastery 4+5 add a chance to add bonus dwell on hit. Nerd Tats adds +1 dwell on hit.
Beam modulators have all been changed to implement the new Dwell mechanic. New elements, Cryonic and Corrode have been added. Consolidated modulators that combine two existing elements into one mod have been added.
Xray has been conceptually retuned to offer less target penetration and instead apply effects targeting Radiated, Charged, and Infernal zombies specifically.
Instrument cases have been added as a way to store laser mods without eating up excessive inventory space. They offer minor benefits while held.

Increased dwell bonus damage
Adjusted mods to display info in the stats tab
Fixed minor bug that wouldn't display diode emitter recipe as read when it was
Removed warning from entityclasses.xml for modifying zombies that didn't exist
Added a stagger chance to laser hits
Reduced heatmap generation a little

Added 3 more variant instrument cases, White, Black, and Green
White passively detects zombies and animals near you when held. It periodically pings if one is near enough. It also boosts search speed
Black causes enemies to be shocked and ragdolled for a bit when they damage a block immediately near you. Has a small cooldown.
Green increases crafting and scrapping speed while held.
Blue and Red cases have been given a small stamina regen boost while held.
Slowed the rate Dwell stages decay after not being hit with a laser for a few seconds
All instrument cases get a bonus when the player holding it has at least Advanced Engineering 3
Instrument case bonuses add an aura effect and +10 numerical bonus to most, the Black case instead increases radius and proc chance
Instrument cases have been renamed as Field Kits to better reflect their functionality.
Fixed some typos in localization

Changed Cryo Beam Modulator recipe to require Brown dye instead of White
Increased light Electro effect to shock a little longer
Increased the knockback of light Cavitating effect a little
Increased radius of empowered Cavitation
Increased radius of empowered Pyrolytic
Added Korean translation (Thanks JoopoL!)
Cryo Effects no longer cast shadows

Removed Scatter Modulator from recipes completely (it can be added back by uncommenting out the item, you do need to add it manually to progression or loot table yourself though)
Buffed Electro mod to add capped dwell to nearby enemies and then chain shock to enemies with dwell
Fixed Dwell system so it fully adds intended amount of dwell on first hit
Added more Dwell per Super Capacitor hit
Nerd Tats now add dwell in a radius on hit.
Rearranged the element pairing so Phase Arrest is Cryo + Cavitating and Plasma is Pyro + Electro
Reordered recipe unlock order to better match pairings
Renamed Cryonic Beam Modulator to Cryogenic
Diode Emitter now has an increased chance to dismember
Cavitating beam lesser elemental effect will still stagger zombies even if the stumble is still on cool down
Battery repair time increased from 3 seconds to 10
Cavitating empowered burst radius reduced

Added an overheat system to the laser. Higher heat decreases efficiency, cooling mods alter how the heat behaves.
Each shot adds 1 heat. Each shot while at 10+ heat costs 1 extra durability. Each Shot at 20+ heat costs 2.5 extra durability
Heat rapidly dissipates after not shooting for 1 second, if at high heat, after 2 seconds it will dissipate at a slower rate
Relative heat is displayed on LED bar graph, level 1 heat is indicated by green LED and electric crackling, level 2 heat is indicated by red LED and alarm
Heat Sink makes each shot add only 0.75 heat. Liquid Cooler causes heat to dissapate 50% faster. Capacitor Bank halves the durability penalty.
Increased cooldown of Empowered effects
Increased light radius of the Sensor Field Kit while held
Fixed Xray Modulator text display.

Laser is now repaired with Battery Packs instead of Car Batteries.
Battery Packs can be crafted with Car Batteries or found among electronics loot.

Updated to work with experimental patch 3.0
Added quality tiers for most mods
Added variable stats for Laser Pistol
Stopped dwell based DoT from dealing damage when entity health is low, so it will not bypass Headshot Finisher rules
Added Laser Pistol, Field Kits, Field Packs, and laser pistol mods to intellect weapon based loot lists
Removed dependency from Custom Muzzle Flash mod
Uninstall previous versions of this mod as well as Custom Muzzle Flash and Custom Explosion Particle Loader from 3.0 installs to load this

Field Packs are added. They are an armor mod that offers the passive benefit of the corresponding field kit while equipped.
Additionally, field packs passively collect charge and give player a Battery Pack when charged sufficiently.
Charge rate is dependent on numerous factors like being in more difficult biomes, storms, blood moons, etc.
Warming Field Kit only improves stamina regeneration when stamina is below 50%
Reduced ragdoll cooldown on Cavitating effect.
Traders will now sell battery packs.

Attempted to fix bug where Field Packs would not properly reset progress upon giving you a battery pack in online multiplayer
Prevented Cavitating beam from ragdolling players on hit
Adjusted timing in code to potentially fix Sensor Field Kit from pinging radar too many times
Fixed elemental effects causing full volume sound effects regardless of distance
Increased the cooling bonus Liquid Cooler provides
Cleaned up edges of elemental mod stickers on model so theres no visible square when light is shining on it
Lenses now hide when sighted in for a clearer sight picture
Lens mods now grant an additional boost to damage
Added workbench requirement to craft laser pistol and mods
Electrified Field Kit now extends its effect in its aura to team mates

Added Laser Turrets + Laser Coolant ammo
Made a lot of tweaks and adjustments to the system to hide/show the field packs. Re-equipping them should reset its position if its blocking view in FPV
Added Heat Reclaim mod
Added Battery Expansion mod

Added Laser Turrets + Laser Coolant ammo
Made a lot of tweaks and adjustments to the system to hide/show the field packs. Re-equipping them should reset its position if its blocking view in FPV
Added Heat Reclaim mod
Added Battery Expansion mod

Halved Battery Expansion mod bonus and added a second one for the right side

Updated to work with experimental patch 3.0
Added quality tiers for most mods
Added variable stats for Laser Pistol
Stopped dwell based DoT from dealing damage when entity health is low, so it will not bypass Headshot Finisher rules
Added Laser Pistol, Field Kits, Field Packs, and laser pistol mods to intellect weapon based loot lists
Removed dependency from Custom Muzzle Flash mod
Uninstall previous versions of this mod as well as Custom Muzzle Flash and Custom Explosion Particle Loader from 3.0 installs to load this

Updated to work with experimental patch 3.0
Added quality tiers for most mods
Added variable stats for Laser Pistol
Stopped dwell based DoT from dealing damage when entity health is low, so it will not bypass Headshot Finisher rules
Added Laser Pistol, Field Kits, Field Packs, and laser pistol mods to intellect weapon based loot lists
Removed dependency from Custom Muzzle Flash mod
Uninstall previous versions of this mod as well as Custom Muzzle Flash and Custom Explosion Particle Loader from 3.0 installs to load this

Reduced charge return from heatsink
Gave Heat Reclaim mod a chance to return charge on fire as well
Made the Free Shot buff visible to players called "Efficient Shot"
Higher Heat Sink qualities grant an increased chance to not use charge on fire
Higher Super Capacitor qualities increase sneak attack damage
Higher Liquid Cooler qualities increase cooling rate
Higher Heat Reclaim qualities grant and increased chance to not use charge on fire
Field Kits and Field Packs now apply different bonuses with Tier
Field Kits and Field Packs now have a stat page
Added recipes and progression for all quality tiers for every laser mod, field kit, and field pack
Removed ability to convert left/right battery expansion/heat reclaim from right/left one to prevent easy quality 6 exploits

Corrected an oversight that left only the crafting field kit using leather still for its recipe
Increased the min and max bonuses granted by the sensor and crafting field kits/packs to be in line with the others
Renamed Field Kit and Field Pack to Instrument Case and Instrument Pack
Modified UI to allow instrument cases to have 12 mod slots, it does affect every mod slot display though, may be revisited
Adjusted Instrument Cases so that they are likely to come with mods installed when found in loot
Prevented Sensor Instrument Case and Pack from granting a looting speed bonus if you already have Lucky Looter 5 to prevent errors