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Making the laser's function less useful is absolutely the wrong direction to go.

I completly agree!

[...] the reason I suggested disabling laser for the FC was because it makes little sense to me why the FC can just grab the flag and always laser away making these 6-7 second caps that were all too familiar in nexuiz

A flagcarrier won't be able [making such fast] caps if your team has a good defense.

Shotgun needs SOME secondary.

I don't know if this would be doable, but how about a melee attack (beating someone with the shotgun, would perhaps take 50-60 hp, would need some testing of course).