I have never, in my many, many playthroughs of the game(I unlocked the crystal ship through regular play), gotten more than one Mark II laser on a run. The only time I’ve had two on a ship is with the Kestrel A.
I have gotten up to three. It essentially means certain victory. Last night I had two plus two flak guns. It was, well, awesome. I tore the flagship apart like a paper airplane.
I’ve also had one or two and found a Mark III, but I dislike the Mark III. It may be just me but it seems to miss a lot, thereby making its slightly better shots-to-slots efficiency actually a lot worse.
I got 4 with the human A ship a couple of times. As I explained to bldy in the other thread, I prefer mowing down my hapless victims with a sneer and minimal effort to dying all the time, but that was just too easy.
I don’t know that there’s a difference in accuracy with the Mark III but 19 seconds or whatever the charge time is is just too long (unless you have the weapon pre-igniter.)
I didn’t realize this but it seems they reduced the effectiveness of the automatic reloader in AE.
did you know there’s a cuckoo in the game? you can hear it everytime you jump to a beacon.