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[LordNothing]

instant damage pls nerf. increase the min range, increase the spread, drop the damage and make them so you can only fire 0.5 times rather than once.

Edited by LordNothing, 13 January 2019 - 07:54 PM.

[FupDup]

But on a serious note, it's been pointed out that implementing Rocket Launchers as consumables that cost tonnage would make them super hard to balance because they have to be strong enough to make your one shot worth it but weak enough that your one shot doesn't literally one shot kill or cripple fresh armored assault mechs.

This is one of the cases where PGI should've pulled a corerule ignore and made them multi-shot somehow. My own suggestion is that they'd still work as single shot units if you mount just the launcher, but you'd gain the ability to load additional RL ammo for more shots. Damage per missile would have to go down to 1.0 (maybe even lower?) and the cooldown between shots would have to be pretty long.

[Y E O N N E]

Or...just make the rating the number of shots you have and all of them are 10 damage per shot.

[N a p e s]

haven't really played in about a month, are rocket launchers suddenly actually popular?

[FupDup]

N a p e s, on 13 January 2019 - 08:09 PM, said:

haven't really played in about a month, are rocket launchers suddenly actually popular?

No, this is just a meme thread.

[LordNothing]

FupDup, on 13 January 2019 - 07:57 PM, said:

But on a serious note, it's been pointed out that implementing Rocket Launchers as consumables that cost tonnage would make them super hard to balance because they have to be strong enough to make your one shot worth it but weak enough that your one shot doesn't literally one shot kill or cripple fresh armored assault mechs.

This is one of the cases where PGI should've pulled a corerule ignore and made them multi-shot somehow. My own suggestion is that they'd still work as single shot units if you mount just the launcher, but you'd gain the ability to load additional RL ammo for more shots. Damage per missile would have to go down to 1.0 (maybe even lower?) and the cooldown between shots would have to be pretty long.

i suggested something like this back on the pts. id go with making the rockets one shot per tube, but firing one at a time rather than all at once. you can save some for later. the rockets would be rapid fire so you dont loose the surge dps niche. at the same time killing the troll potential through ghost heat. as a result you could up the damage per rocket, increase the damage potential of the rack to something worth the tonnage and getting read of the min range and much of the spread.

N a p e s, on 13 January 2019 - 08:09 PM, said:

haven't really played in about a month, are rocket launchers suddenly actually popular?

trololol

though i did finally get an rl kill with an rl10 in the head of the grasshopper i won in the lootbag event.

Edited by LordNothing, 13 January 2019 - 08:16 PM.

[TheArisen]

N a p e s, on 13 January 2019 - 08:09 PM, said:

haven't really played in about a month, are rocket launchers suddenly actually popular?

THEY'RE BROKEN PTSD CAUSING DEATH MACHINES!!

[Brizna]

My only experimentation with Rocket Launchers was in BJ-2 with two snubs and 4 RL. In theory it looked great, two PPCs for regular trading and 4 RL for that extra damage when you need it the most. In practice RL don't do that much damage and are pretty hot for a weapon you need for burst damage but above all it's way too spread to matter. The snubs turned out not to be that great either, the build sucks, lol.

Edited by Brizna, 14 January 2019 - 01:22 AM.

[dwwolf]

Archer MRM/RL Bomber 4tw!.

[frumpylumps]

You should feel bad for parroting this.

Edited by frumpylumps, 14 January 2019 - 08:04 AM.

[LordNothing]

frumpylumps, on 14 January 2019 - 05:46 AM, said:

You should feel bad for parroting this.

i do believe your sarcasm detector is broken.

[Jman5]

Poor rocket launchers get no respect here!

I run 3 RL-20 on my UAC/5 Orion. It's great when you get into a fight with some big bad assault. He's thinking "Psh, it's just an Orion, what's he gonna do?" then: WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, *DEAD*

"W-w-what happened?!"