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[Baron Blitz Fokheimer]

DAEDALOS513, on 13 December 2025 - 04:48 PM, said:

Or just don't waste tonnage on them. You never see good players running rockets for a reason..

Completely irrelevant to the request.

On the subject of effectiveness, I'd say that they could use a small buff, like upping the ammo counts to an even 50/100/150, or decreasing to 40/80/120 and considerably narrowing the spread.

I'm happy that we have a new weapon to play with. I just kind of wish that this was an additional type on top of the original rocket launcher iteration for extra variety to gameplay.

Edited by Baron Blitz Fokheimer, 13 December 2025 - 05:21 PM.

[shockdiode]

Oxide feels squishy as hell now. Used to be one of my favorite lights, now it kinda sucks. Maybe I'll get used to it but my old boom&zoom style with this thing no longer works at all.

So it goes.

[w0qj]

Thank you MWO; it's been a very interesting year!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New (Mech) Year in advance!

(Cannot wait to see what 2026 will bring to MWO!)

[nopempele]

The rocket launchers "rework" essentially kills them. They were already a very niche weapon, now they are completely useless.

Once again butthurt (literally in this case) Cauldron ERPPC/Gauss campers have their way with Piranha Games. They are the only player segment that is being listened to. No one should ever threaten their pastime of picking targets from 2km. Amazing.

[Strelok7]

w0qj, on 14 December 2025 - 04:50 AM, said:

Thank you MWO; it's been a very interesting year!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New (Mech) Year in advance!

(Cannot wait to see what 2026 will bring to MWO!)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance, as well!

[Ghost of Eden]

InnerSphereNews, on 05 December 2025 - 01:56 PM, said:

As always, a 2 week in-game Patch Science Sale will go live shortly after the patch and include all applicable items for testing.

Just curious if this was shortened due to the Holiday-related events or for other reasons? As currently, the changed Mechs in the patch aren't on sale. At least so far as my game is showing.

[KursedVixen]

simon1812, on 05 December 2025 - 09:50 PM, said:

you guys forgot melee again!!!... PGI I said you forg..you cant hear me never mind...

curious about the new Incubus

not sure about the RAC5/RAC2 adjustment, to me it makes sense that a rotary weapons is very accurate at first and then looses accuracy as one keeps on firing non-stop but thats just me.

very eager to try the rocket launcher, so they finally decided to try and make them worthwhile eh?

"blight now has a small cockpit" ...ok... just the blight?

again congratulations to The Coalition for the ir victory!

Melee is impossible on this game engine Mw5 uses a completely different engine.

[UltraVioletDeath]

Glad to see work on the rocket launcher, I have used the handy armour buff from just carrying R10, otherwise not much use.

Gave new system a run, 1 missile shot is some what useful; if chainfire a stack = they all 1 missile shot.

The constant fire stream is about the speed of an MRM40, with 8dps, similar spread, and runs out proper quick.

Comparing to SRM2 with 1/2 ton ammo = 161dam but you can place ammo anywhere v R20 taking 3 slots on a missile hardpoint, and about the same effective range,

So far R10 + SRM2/4 is the best pairing, but under powered....R20 + MXPL...interesting.

Overall I like what has been done; the 8 shot volley/8dps is a great idea, continuous fire is not, single missile is...use of R10 armour boost + optional damage occasionally.

Changes?

Could I suggest adding in an 8 volley cooldown of approximately 2-4sec. That would bring it on par with MRM, or even other weapon sync without breaking balances...has anyone tried R20 + MXPL rapid spam?...continuous fire should be dropped in favour of an 8 volley + delay, otherwise a short use multi weapon spam could be exploiting this good idea.

Another idea to draw in use of R15/R20 (if a volley delay brought in) is more missiles in the stack...here is why.
R10 = 48 damage = 6x volley of 8 missiles + armour bonus = best bang for buck...with delay make it 64dam = 8x volley
R15 = 88 damage = 11x volley of 8 missiles + armour bonus = ok bang for buck...with delay make it 160dam = 20x volley
R20 = 127dam = 16x volley of 8 missiles + armour bonus = ok but 3 slots...with delay make it 320dam = 40x volley

For the larger R15/20 having an 8 missile volley with a delay would work really well with most other weapons; and at 20/40x volley would be more in line with how much ammo is used by most builds.

Otherwise I can see the continuous fire being an exploit...not as bad as before, but still not as desired by the rework.

[simon1812]

summoner feels sooo slow now...

[mytilus edulis]

the patch sale ended early for mechs. No mechs are on sale in game

[KirbyCrasher]

Please revert the rocket launchers.
I may be late to testing the new and "improved" rocket launchers, as only today did i have the opportunity to play around with them, but no matter what i did or tried they were atrocious. In their current iteration they deal next to no damage, even unloading on a stationary target, and they generate loads of heat, even when firing only two (or at least was my experience with a flea with equal parts medium laser and rocket launcher).
What was once a useful, if niche, weapon for longer ranged mechs that still wanted a close ranged deterrent has been massacred due to a minority of users, most of which stopped using them in that manner after the minimum range was added. As far as my experience goes, the rocket launcher griefers had already stopped playing dedicated mechs by the time rocket launchers were changed. Which makes this a fix to a non-issue; an inconsistent and occasionally annoying gimmick that had alread been patched out
Then again this may be cope due to nerfing my favorite build of my favorite mech, the Wolverine 6R; a mech that could wear down enemy armor from afar with lb5s and solo most mechs by initiating combat with all three rocket launcher 20s. Of course it generated a lot of heat, but the damage convinced most people to disengage, or allowed for a coup de grace on enemies with worn armor.
You don't have to wholly scrap the new rocket launchers, both can exist as different weapons, i just want the old rocket launchers back.

[D V Devnull]

Ghost of Eden, on 17 December 2025 - 02:48 PM, said:

Just curious if this was shortened due to the Holiday-related events or for other reasons? As currently, the changed Mechs in the patch aren't on sale. At least so far as my game is showing.

mytilus edulis, on 18 December 2025 - 12:46 PM, said:

the patch sale ended early for mechs. No mechs are on sale in game

Confirmed... I am not seeing the Mech part of this December Patch v1.4.315.0 Sale either. Sorry to see that it left early... Kind of finding it weird here

~D. V. "confused by the v1.4.315.0 Sale partially falling out" Devnull