It makes sense: when you see a laser beam, you're seeing air molecules that had photons run into them and then re-emitted them. So even a laser with higher-energy photons would appear red from outside the path of the beam.

Finally, the heresy has been redeemed.

@Doc That's very cool! Incredible modding guide you wrote up. Always wonderful to see more modders for this game and that guide is incredibly in-depth. Cheers, dude!

First, I want to say that this is one of my favorite mods! So simple, but such an improvement. No wonder it has a mid-sized town's worth of subscribers. :)

I've figured out how to change individual units' weapon colors (such as if you wanted to just change the Guardsmen and nobody else). It's not as simple or elegant as Pilgrim's work, but it's more targeted. I've detailed how you do it in my modding guide:

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3129734749

Non Heretical lasguns for the win!

Could you make another mod like this to make them blue like the Tanith 1st?

the latter

Turns out neither of those has lasguns/lascannons as their weapons. As far as I can tell, all units that use lasweapons came out before you made this mod. Does it apply to each individual unit, or does it change something in the code that makes all lasweapons red?

It should apply to them, yeah

I'll have to double-check

Does this mod apply to units released after 2020 such as the Devil Dog and Rogal Dorn tank? I haven't played as the Guard yet, and wanted to know if they got the color or not

Mandatory mod for anyone playing guardsman

No more piss-lasers, yay! Thanks!

Playing this game without this mod is insane.

This is the best mod.

Can this affect the tier 4 infantry?? or there is another mod for that??

Nice. Just bought the game and started as the guard and was like whats this green crap they be shootin. Cannon or not I'm used to red lasgun fire from the multitude of DoW games.

A must have mod after playing Darktide and returning to this game.

Booted this game up because I'm taking a break from Darktide beta so not to spoil myself.

Queue up my guardy boiz.

"The hell heresy is this yellow flash light!?"

Installed this mod 11/10 my guardy boiz got their proper lasgun lights.

if y'all ever used a blowtorch...blue flames are hotter homies ;)
this looks cooler tho

red beam is a canon now... just look at the latest official CGI animations by GW....

Red makes sense. Red wavelength carries more thermal energy. Red goes faster. Red is good.

Even if not 100% accurate, it does add some appreciated variation. Now that everything isn't just yellow or blue half the time, it's much more pleasing to the eye

@plague of Frog eh, grew up on Dawn of War which had red lasguns. To me, that's what I like to see. Lore or not, yellow lasguns felt "off".

You do know that the in lore lasgun color is not red and is what the normal game has

A must have mod. Something so simple really adds to the visuals of the experience

I've wanting this for so long, thanks!

To everyone asking for more changes, you can do them yourself with a text editor and basic image editor. Just take a look at the mod folder and you'll see what The Holy Pilgrim did, it's pretty easy and I've made mods for all the colors of the rainbow for all sorts of weapons effects thanks to this mod!

waw ! amazing

This is awesome now make every units shooty zap unique

Thanks mate!

@~HaY~ Nope! You should be able to join them, no problem.

I'm able to use it with folks that don't have it, so you should be good.

Question - Will this mod prevent me from joinning games that does not have red lasers if i play multiplayer?

Thanks for the effort btw!

Thanks alot for the small but atmosphere improving change.

Is it really hot though? Could you change that description to "lukewarm"

Now it would be much appreciated if someone could make a mod that makes multi-meltas shoot a blue/purple coloured beam as seen in DoW 2.

Nice, consistent muzzle flashes!