and the Laser Muskets aren't so bad on further examination... You wind it up, presumably to build a charge, and with different lengths of winding comes different damage/ accuracy levels. Perhaps something mass produced by the Institute to allow troops to fight after ammo is gone, until the reflecting mirrors are so damaged the gun won't even function?
Actually, the musket thingie uses ammo from the ammo pool, which means that it consumes ammo. If the winding up thing is meant so that the gun isn't reliant on ammo then the ammo wouldn't count down with each wind-up.
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What I mean is that it doesn't charge up its own energy, so what's the point of the wind up feature?
Unless that 900 something ammo is actually not energy cells/microfusion cells but something like the recharger rifle.
Even then I don't get it, why not have an unlimited sign for ammo, use it until it breaks?
