Enemy energy weapon fire that cuts through the battlefield fog like scythes and punches through crawler armor.
Pulse lights rip out from the enemy side throughout The Charge, cutting through the fog like scythes. One sparks against the edge of Carl's shield and, by his own reckoning, would have taken half his head off if he hadn't been so thoroughly wrapped in War Protections.
During the Deshrouded window Carl sees the source: helmeted Mercenaries firing directly into the onrushers, the lights of their weapons punching into the charge. A bolt later crashes into his shoulder with the force of a sledgehammer and blows out his Tech Shield entirely, leaving him one hit from death. The heavy version, the Heavy Pulse Gun, shears silently through boulders.
Lances and streams of coruscating light that cut through smoke and shear silently through stone.
The enemy's primary directed-energy weaponry against the crawler assault.