i just played through a tech-victory game to get a sense of the full tech tree... i like doing that with new 4E games. the only tech i didn't pursue to the end was mass drivers. but i was a little confused and dissappointed when i got to the end of the beam weapons branch.

the three high-end beam weapons seem to suck, at least in my version of the game. it seems more like a bug. teh subspace blaster comes up as a 12-space, 6-damage weapon (worse than disruptors and phasors), with one of the phasor graphics. i couldn't even find the subspace annihilator. the doom ray's stats seemed okay at 16/22, but the graphic was for plasma III (which was also dissapointing, since i don't especially like the beam graphics until disruptors).

i downloaded my version. the thought occured to me that this may have happened due to a transmission error, and since the game is easily mod-able i can probably fix it myself if it isn't a full on bug... but i haven't taught myself anything about modding this game, and i even if i find the right file, i don't know what the correct info for the data fields is... any pointers or advise? i'm gonna go look around the game files for a bit.