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Subject: Why are there so many Rockets servers?

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Do that many people like rockets games? Unless it's on a hugh map like Infinity it gets old quick. The first time I played a rocket-only was on Prisoner and it was CTF, there were 16 people in the server. I played like crap because I was laughing so hard. Grenades, Spartans and RL's flying around. Forget about getting the flag, life expectency was less then 10 sec. After 5min of playing I said "What's the point?" The reply, "Have fun." My reply "I'm no longer having fun, it gets old" The reply, "Then leave." Good Advice. What am I missing?

  • 06.16.2005 7:47 AM PDT
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Nothing. Some people like it, some people don't.

I don't - I personally think that Heavy Weapons games are for those people who just can't get good with a pistol no matter how hard the try.

Although, in large maps, leading with a rocket launcher may require a modest amount of experience and skill....

  • 06.16.2005 8:04 AM PDT
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Well i think there there becuase people cant handle good players with good old fashion pistol ownage so thet run away to the noob weapons and think that they are good. But we all know who the reall good halo players are the ones who can use the pistol and sniper :)

  • 06.16.2005 8:59 AM PDT
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still need to get good with the sniper.... but i can hold my own with a pistol i suppose. now that schools out, i can play more. rockets arent completely *n*ish, but only if you use them in a skilled way. like for instance hitting a moving target directly from like 30 feet away. that requires some leading skill. anyway... im bored....so heres a blah for you all

  • 06.16.2005 9:09 AM PDT
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Well, for me I think heavy weapons are only good against vehicals, not someone two milimeters from your nose. Also, like you said about your account in the map Prisoner, well, your right .Thier is no point. Finally, I would say that you are absolutly right but, the reason people host Heavy Weapon games, is usualy because they want to see chaos, thier noobs and are still fasinated by big explosions, and to kill someone with a heavy weapon requies olmost no skill.

  • 06.16.2005 9:53 AM PDT

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Alright then i'm not alone. I guess in a pistol dominated match you can consistently die twice as much as you kill but in a rockets match you pretty much die as much as you kill. There is some skill (hopping) but if someone spawns behind you your cooked, there no strafing your way out of it. This brings up a side complaint about the hopping rocket launchers. If you asked any soldier today to run jump as high as he could and fire a LAW, RPG etc. at the ground 10 feet in front of him he think you were crazy. The blast radius on the RL should be increased to be a little more realistic. Same goes for grenade-jumping. C'mon, I'm going to intentionally throw a grenade at my feet and time my jump so that it propels me to a ledge I wouldn't normally reach.

  • 06.16.2005 10:46 AM PDT
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I prefer to stick my own foot in H2 and time my jump...

  • 06.16.2005 10:54 AM PDT
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Yeah, true the blast radius is poor and the jumping is dumb [no one can evade a rocket explosion by jumping up], but it's for the sake of the game, not realism - if you want realism play something like the Battlefield series.

Hmm - rocket only matches are for [1], people who have little skill and just want to play, or, [2], people who are sick of skill games and ar elosing interest in the actual game. Sort of telling as to how the current situation with Halo is going...

  • 06.16.2005 3:00 PM PDT
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well personally i love rockets and many of you may consider me a n##b but in realityi play it because it doesnt take skill and that way everyone has a chancei am skilled i can hold my own with a sniper and a pistol. but i dont play it as much because its not really a chalenge to me anymore i always get top three in it and with rockets its total chaos so the chance that you will win decreases.but i guess sexy legs is right many people are losing interest but i guess its because its a fact of life. thank you for listening to my rambling.

  • 06.16.2005 3:16 PM PDT
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I hate rockets because there just noob tubes. You die so quickly and too many people spawn kill with them.

  • 06.16.2005 4:49 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Well, Heavy weapons eh? cause hw's are less affected by the crappy netcode than the rest of the weapons (sadly). So? people use em. Plus most like the idea that it's easier to kill. I'd like to see some of those clans like cv try without rockets. Last time my clan took them on without heavies they were taken down. and hella hard. ;)

Like sld said earlier, more evend out playing field since all get them.

I hate heavies on bloodgultch. only a couple rockets, and then you're out of ammo, and if ya use a vehicle you're likely to die.. so there's not much choice but to be a stat whore n' get the cheap spawn kills unless you like trying to run into enemy bases with melee only, or chasing down dead enemy flying rl packs for that sweet, sweet ammo count that will probably keep you alive for that extra 10 seconds. :P

  • 06.16.2005 4:51 PM PDT
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it happens all the time in ctf when im out of ammo i just run like hell and throw nades like rosepetals to a king
it works most of the time but rockets can be countered by the super spam vehicle a ghost

  • 06.16.2005 9:56 PM PDT
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getting two tripple killtaculars on all rocket oddball on derilict was fun...
sure CTF is stupid for all rockets, but on some gametypes, such as oddball, where no one realy want to dropp their rocketlauncher to pick up some stupid skull on the ground can be fun because it requires people to act as a team

BUT the bigggest problem with alll rocket games is the number of dropped shots. like when you pull the triger, empty your clip, but it doesn't reload, because the server didn't accwnologe the fact that you fired, and then you can end up fireing an extra shot before reloading. but the problem is, when you fire the shot the server drops, it's often in a critical sitiuation, such as it was the one sniper round that hit your oppenents head, before he started fireing back

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  • 06.17.2005 6:51 AM PDT

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That did remind me of a fun game of rockets i did have. It was oddball in Chiron TL-34. It was challenging fun and very evenly matched.( My team won by 5 sec.) I think if you give the game an objective other then wholesale slaughter it can be enjoyable, but so few server have oddball, etc. gametypes.

  • 06.17.2005 1:35 PM PDT