can you get PALC from laser towers?

[Orion1632]

I think I read somewhere that you can get PALC's from laser towers as they are setting up?

Or was I mistaken?

how is this done?

[Sabrina Bergin]

there is a post on this that requires the use of a freight drone.

[Solomon Short]

AIUI & IIRC...

1) buy some LTs
2) drop them somewhere (probably 1 at a time is best).
3) destroy them before the construction timer reaches zero.

IIRC, in TC you also have the exploit/option of using a freight drone to transfer the weapon off the incomplete tower, then collecting the LT before it completes, so you can repeat the process (the tower gets a new weapon each time).

[OniGanon]

It's Plasma Beam Cannons that you get from Lasertowers. You can equip them on a few M7 side turrets, like the Cerberus and Carrack.

In AP you can use a Freight Drone to collect the PBC from a Lasertower before it finishes its countdown.

Then you can pick up the Lasertower and repeat the process if you feel like being exploity.

Note: while PBCs have quite impressive stats (imagine a Point Singularity Projector as a hitscan laser beam), the AI is absolutely garbage at using them. I'd already read that before but I just couldn't believe it until I saw it in action for myself. It's such a shame.

[Solomon Short]

My apologies for the erroneous information.

[Orion1632]

ah okay, PALC you have to hunt for, PBC you get from laser towers.

Thanks.

[OniGanon]

Yeah, PALCs you only get through luck and prayer.

[hisazul]

Yeah, PALCs you only get through luck and prayer.

Just a lot of xenon smashing. They are nowhere near as rare as kyons and some other drops.

[Sovereign01]

I did a lot of that in the final "Kill 25 Xenon capships", didn't get any PALCs dropping. It's the lack of them that prevents me from getting that Split Pteranodon...