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  • Poll [21 votes]: Better RL
Subject: Better Rocket Launchers
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Poll: Better RL  [closed]
yes:  48%
(10 Votes)
no:  52%
(11 Votes)
Total Votes: 21

There should be better RLs because they move to slow but are still effective.Do you think so too.

  • 04.22.2004 3:03 PM PDT
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Their extreme power is balanced by their slowness. This is like saying, "should the tank be faster?"

  • 04.22.2004 3:09 PM PDT
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In one of the Bungie Weekly Updates, Frankie did say that using the Rocket Launcher would be more enjoyable now. He didn't elaborate, though...

  • 04.22.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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He also said the rocket hog will have tracking ability.

  • 04.22.2004 3:17 PM PDT
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no, he said he was toying with a rocket hog that had tracking ability.. That means they are playing around with the idea...

  • 04.22.2004 4:11 PM PDT
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I voted "no" because it needs to be balanced.

  • 04.22.2004 4:34 PM PDT
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maybe faster reload time and more amunition.

  • 04.22.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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I think the only thing the rocket launcher was bad agenist would probably be a decent banshee pilot... Only an idiot would make a direct path towards you making very easy shot for a rocket launcher weilding Spartan...

They should give rocket launchers slight, to possible decent tracking abilities on ONLY flying vehicles...

  • 04.22.2004 4:39 PM PDT
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If you are going to make a "new" rocket laucher I think a good way to balance it out would be a faster reload time versus a smaller impact/damage area.
Then again I would be happy if they took the RL out of the game I can't stand those types of guns in games. I always found it rediculous that a weapons most effective use was not to shoot at the enemy but the ground beneath it.
Anyways aren't RLs usually used against hardened positions? i.e. Pill Boxs, Houses, your mom, and so forth? And unless you make an amazing shot and get the rocket/RPG through a window, door, or orifice the most damage would come from the concussive force, and schrapnel (spelling). So that if you are hiding behind a wall, or hill, or pillows, the damage should be low. But I would love to have a ear ringing effect if there were large explosions in your/the MC's immediate area.
I hope they use a different model also for damage with explosives RL/grenades. If you have a target in a small room and you toss agrenade in there the damage should be much higher because the energy has no where to go and bounces back and forth creating everyones favorite "salsa effect" while if you are in a wide open area the damge should be less because the energy can disperse easily.
Anywho just a thought

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[Edited on 4/22/2004 5:08:34 PM]

  • 04.22.2004 5:07 PM PDT
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Maybe if the rockets moved faster but had a slower reload. or The Tracking thing with slower rockets

  • 04.22.2004 6:39 PM PDT
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I think the launcher is perfect the way it is right now. Its perfectly balenced and fair the way it is. If they made a new rocket launcher with holming capabilities, I hope they make some sort of counter-weapon, or a weapon that can defend it or at least make it inneffective or something because a holming weapon is nearly impossible to prevent from hitting you.

  • 04.22.2004 6:50 PM PDT