Buff robotics laser eyes

[StaringGasMask]

Or you can just take them off real quick , shoot then put em back on. I do find it odd that optic blaster doesnt allow this.. should melt eyewear too!

That doesn't work when that thing combusts not only goggles, but masks and most hats, not just space helmets. On testing it set a hard hat and all of its subtypes (sec helmets) aflame. So you'd need to remove all 3 items to fire a single 20 BURN blast that can be dodged with relative ease.
To put things into perspective, that's less than the damage of a phaser, at a much slower fire rate, with rarer items that require surgery and use erebite for their construction, and destroying your items.

Furthermore, and going back to genetics, there is an empowered version of the eyebeams, which fires a laser bolt. The same one fired by laser guns and eguns. That's 45 damage impossible to know when facing, without an unholster sound or any sort of previous warning, and going right through headgear, leaving it untouched.

And besides, this isn't really to nerf the genetics version going through items, it's a complaint about laser eyes not serving any real purpose at all. Their use is already very niche and worse than most other energy weapons, that can be produced much more easily and have much better effects. The idea behind this is to at least make them useful in that specific use, and not a straight up danger to the user, because, let's be real, if you're firing this, you're not using it to gain a decisive advantage in a fight, but rather, as a sidearm in a stress situation where your main weapons are unusable for whatever reason, in which you may not be able to remove items.