What happens if you put a beam augment onto a sniper rifle?

If I were to use the beam emitter augment on a sniper rifle would that raise the damage to a crazy amount or would I have to reload, would it overheat?

Solution 1:

As mentioned here, applying the beam emitter augmentation to weapon that isn't fully automatic will not yield the stated effect from the augmentation. You'll need to use an automatic assault rifle (ie: not for example the Mattock or Revenant, which are single shot and double shot weapons respectively) or pistol.

There is a weapon fire type augment to convert a single shot or burst weapon into a rapid fire weapon but this would need to be separately during construction and I haven't tested if this makes the beam emitter augmentation work.