What do you think? Which weapon(cannons, lasers, magnetic) is better? And why?
For me cannons is better. No real difference in distance, DMG modifier is good, less PAW and CPU, and Ammo can cover different types of DMG. Unfortunately there are no robots with bonus for that weapon.
Mags and guns are the best easy (guns have range issues but, with los in thsi game its not that big of a deal) Mags still have rather high ap cost but its live able becuase of the slower rof than lasers.
Lasers i would rate the worst (while they do more damage than missiles, they cost so much AP that you cannot run an armor repairer and lasers at the same time, effectively making you have to kill them b4 they kill you.) To make lasers viable they should double the damage mods and double the rate of fire from 4 sec to 8 sec [or something similar to this]. The dps should bb the same but it would allow them to actually repair armor. I cannot see lasers working in pvp when you can drain the enemy.
Tho i have to admit this seems to be less of a problem at mech level, where the AT mech gets 3k AP.
Missiles have low damage (only becuase of the very low rate of fire, people say the missile abilities are the weakest but that is only becuase they do not understand that 3% of 14 > 5% of 4, same with damage). Also missile bots are the easiest to run heavy AP costing equipment (like Armor reps etc.) making them effective tanks . Also missle show over hilsl which IS a MASSIVE bonus.