- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
the following is a direct quote form the guys who won the mountain dew contest and played halo 2. they say that the rocket launcher is now less poewrful and its blowing radious has been reduced greatly. Also, when you shoot, it moves slow until it gradually speeds up.
what do you think of the change? i like it because it balances things out.
"Rocket Launcher - Found on the second level, outside of the base. Another sweet, sweet change made by Bungie. I personally believe the rocket launcher was way over powered in Halo. This is almost an entirely different weapon. First off, the fatal blast radius feels to be about 50% smaller than Halo. If your looking to kill someone with a rocket, it needs to be a lot closer. Also, to make it harder to get that pinpoint accuracy with your rocket launcher, its rate of fire is dynamic. When you first fire the rocket, it moves really slowly. Then it picks up a fair amount of speed really fast. This may sound like it evens out, but my one buddy that was there, Kemmerer, is a rocket fiend, and the new rockets completely threw him for a loop. There is also the homing feature of the rocket launcher. If you get a red aiming reticule on a vehicle, and fire, the rocket will chase the vehicle. It's nice. Definitely makes those Ghosts easier targets. The homing rockets don't always connect, but they are very very effective. If Bungie was trying to make the rocket launcher more anti-vehicle and less anti-infantry, they did a good job. All in all, I love the changes to the rockets"
want to read the whole article? http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/bdaiber_mountaindew.html
[Edited on 7/30/2004 3:55:09 PM]