Talk:Weapons/@comment-24.11.130.1-20140126015009/@comment-46.118.8.45-20140126134932

Reasons are "computational" most likely. Beam hit scanning must be "loading" the engine and/or net traffic. At one point they even made cut off for normal "hit-scan" weapons, including sniper rifles... that was not awesome at all! It was "patched" almost right away though.