force_ori may be necessary for the "beam" effect to work, but having it on makes the weapons unintuitive and function poorly. The idea was good and I have no problem with giving it a shot, but now it's been tried, it doesn't work well. I think the dev team should just call it a loss and get rid. Win some, lose some.
The idea was good, but Freelancer just really doesn't have the features for beam weapons.