The Laser Rifle is a weapon in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
In-Game Description[]
| “ | The Laser Assault Rifle relies on our latest in optics technology to offer a substantial increase in output over the conventional X-9 rifle. | ” |
– Engineering description, XCOM: Enemy Unknown | ||
Availability[]
The Laser Rifle becomes available for production in Engineering after completing Beam Weapons research.
Production Cost:
Tactical Info[]
| “ | An improved version of the assault rifle | ” |
| – Tactical Info, XCOM: Enemy Unknown | ||
Notes[]
- The Laser Rifle's Critical Damage is incorrectly listed as 8-10 in XCOM: Enemy Within.
- The Laser Rifle is a useful stopgap until plasma weapons are available.
- Although it is inferior to the Light Plasma Rifle, the Laser Rifle is both faster to research and cheaper to produce.
- The Laser Rifle becomes obsolete once you have scavenged or built enough Light Plasma Rifles to equip your entire squad.
- While the listed Critical Damage in XCOM: Enemy Within is listed as 8-10, the actual values remain 7-9 due to a game bug.
- Curiously, the EXALT Laser Rifle retains a detachable magazine of its conventional counterpart. This can be explained by reusing the familiar pattern for detachable batteries - or by the laser actually requiring single-use cartridges (not unlike the original gun), containing power cells and/or expendable laser media. An example of a laser that can operate that way is the deuterium fluoride laser.
- The EXALT Laser Assault Rifle works exactly like the Laser Rifle.
Trivia[]
- When the Laser Rifle has been researched, a cut scene plays, depicting an XCOM scientist test-firing the weapon at a cardboard cut-out target using the "live Sectoid" image from the original UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM: UFO Defense.
- When normally fired, it shoots a single laser beam. When used in Rifle Suppression, it lets numerous brief bursts. These are likely low-power blasts just powerful enough to keep the enemy at bay.
- This was changed in Enemy Within to be just one beam fired periodically.
- Unlike the other laser weapons, which have a grey paint, the Laser Rifle has a white paintcoat.
- Another cosmetic difference is that the Laser Rifle is the only beam weapon to not have a flashlight mounted to its frame.
Gallery[]
Concept art
| XCOM: Enemy Unknown Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Grenades | Alien Grenade • Flashbang Grenade • Frag Grenade • Gas Grenade • Ghost Grenade • Needle Grenade |
| Heavy | LMG • Heavy Laser • Heavy Plasma |
| Launcher | Rocket Launcher • Blaster Launcher |
| MEC | Minigun • Railgun • Particle Cannon |
| Pistols | Pistol • Laser Pistol • Plasma Pistol |
| Rifles | Assault Rifle • Laser Rifle • Light Plasma Rifle • Plasma Rifle |
| Shotguns | Shotgun • Scatter Laser • Alloy Cannon |
| Sniper | Sniper Rifle • Laser Sniper Rifle • Plasma Sniper Rifle |