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Once you find that sweet spot, use the ignition hold to keep the flame consistent without needing to hold the trigger. The sons of an Asteroid Miner are investigating his death at the hands of an evil mining corporation. These lasers are supposed to burn through targets (like missiles) and cause their fuel/warhead to explode or their airframe to disintegrate when it hits, although this is also a continuous beam and requires some time to work. Go back to the Village and enter the room to the left of the Atrium where the Pack-a-Punch machine is located.
Mind-affecting weapons such as evil rays and self-immolation rays (which make targets harm themselves by any means available, not limited to immolation). The rays have a different appearance as they have more of an acidic look (much like the colour of the Acid Gat Kit and Acid Gat).
The real life story behind the naming of the Porter's X2 Ray Gun is that Treyarch weapon artist, Max Porter, came up with the weapon as a side project.
As beams are significantly slower than light and usually impossible to survive a direct hit from, tactics revolve around not getting hit in the first place and/or closing as fast as possible to melee range.Quake II and Quake IV both have the infinite-ammo blaster pistol, a Ranged Emergency Weapon, and its bigger and not-so-emergency sibling, the Hyperblaster. Appropriately enough, Nikola Tesla developed plans for his "Teleforce", essentially a particle-beam weapon, but unfortunately ( fortunately?