KotOR2 Blaster Pistol Rebalance 1.0.0

The fact that blaster rifles don't attack twice was a bug in the original game, so I wonder why they didn't fix it in 2. It creates a serious inconsistency with melee weapons, making ranged weapons even less useful.

Hmm... I thought only the repeaters supposed to shoot twice and the regular rifles simply meant to do more damage than the pistols.

That is correct, I simply said rifles since I wasn't sure if it was only repeaters that were meant to attack twice given how inferior two-handed blasters are to single-handed. I suppose repeaters were meant to be an upgrade to fill that niche. I wonder if it would be possible to restore? 

It is. There is a mod like that already. It is for KotOR1 though: