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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[bluejello]

so, empire specific rocket launchers are released, bit under inpressed with the NC one, too little control for only being able to take down vehicles.

The anti vehicle engie turret is very nice though, and can kill a infantry, but the best part is you can controll it mid-flight, just look where you want it to go.

[forsaken1111]

AV engie turret has been in for a while now. It is very nice

[Jim Groovester]

The TR launcher seems to be a clear upgrade to every lock-on launcher, including the annihilator. Over the course of five rockets it does more damage than each of them, as best as I can tell.

If all the rockets hit it also does more damage than the dumbfire launchers, except to air vehicles.

I want this thing, to reap sweet, sweet NC and VS tears.

[bluejello]

havn't played in a while, so AV engie turret is new to me, and I had a good run in a biolab with it, possibly due to a low number of enemies attacking it.

The VS rocket launcher has one nice feature, and that is six shots per reload, or two fully charged shots.  havn't played with it enough to tell if it is a good rocket launcher or not, I am not a fan of the visible trail for a while however.

[TolyK]

Well, plasma.
I've tried it out in the VR, seems pretty baws, but very obvious.

[Paul]

Yea the new TR launcher seems really good from what I have seen. I was watching a group of TR stand on a hill just massacring every ground and air vehicle that came into sight. Works on everything, lock on, and great damage if all 5 hit.

[Toaster]

I think the Phoenix hate is a bit overstated.  The only glaring issue is the rocket shouldn't despawn at max range.  The range could stand to be 100m longer, but otherwise it's fine.  Longer range means lower TTK anyway, so that's hardly a major issue to buff it.


Using it to scout to track down a sundy's a nice feature.  Its tradeoff is that it's useless against any ESF not standing still, not great versus libs, and gals are always long gone by the time you can get a second rocket off.

[Jim Groovester]

havn't played with it enough to tell if it is a good rocket launcher or not, I am not a fan of the visible trail for a while however.

I tried it out in the VR. I don't remember the exact range of damage, but I think it does less than the default dumbfire launcher against everything. I'm not sure if the instantaneity of the projectile makes up for the damage or not.

The thing toys with your expectations; the chargeup sound makes you think it'll be something amazing that boils tanks and makes enemies weep for their mothers like the Spartan lasers from Halo. And then it doesn't even kill an ESF with a fully powered shot.

[Flying Dice]

Good to see that I wasn't the only one who thought of Spartan Lasers. 

[da_nang]

Too bad it's not a Splaser. It's more of a high-powered double slit experiment gone dwarf'd. Overhyped, complex and utterly detrimental to its original purpose. It would only be more dwarfy if it could kill the elves smurfs in a sea of magma terran blood while simultaneously combusting in our faces causing a massive loyalty cascade among the nearby dwarves VS soldiers, followed by a maniacal laugh from the overseer Higby. For science.

[Paul]

Getting on top of a heavily defended amp station with a grenade launcher and anti-vehicle turret is amazing.

I got 4 prowlers, a lightning, and a sunderer on my first life - the prowlers and lightning with the turret, the sunderer with tank mines dropped from above, as well as about 15 infantry kills using the grenade launcher to drop them on people's heads. I was eventually rocketed to death by a fighter, but the infantry seemed to largely ignore me. I had to kill one guy who flew up after me, but apparently it was such a pain to get to me they didn't come after me a second time. Popped back up there with instant action again and took out another 3 prowlers and a sunderer and a bunch more infantry before the NC Swarm appeared and we capped the place. The prowlers didn't even seem to figure out where they were being hit from - they would just sit there right in my line of fire with their backs facing me.

[palsch]

Still need to play with the Phoenix Freedom Launcher some more in VR, but I kinda like it. Would be nice if it did a bit more damage and need to get used to the controls, but it's about as agile as I'd expect to keep things balanced. Also need to try this.

[Toaster]

Watching a burning tank get closer and closer to your Freedom Rocket is pretty awesome, I must admit.

[Vattic]

Getting on pretty well with the phoenix.

I think the Phoenix hate is a bit overstated.  The only glaring issue is the rocket shouldn't despawn at max range.  The range could stand to be 100m longer, but otherwise it's fine.  Longer range means lower TTK anyway, so that's hardly a major issue to buff it.

I agree.

[Reyn]

At the moment, the phoenix rocket is invisible[last patch broke it, go SOE].

And for people praising the Striker, it's so shit, it's super bad. Try firing it at a moving object, and see what path it takes. In a couple of days you'll see everybody capable of rendering them useless just by diving for a second or two in the ground. And tanks have little to no problem against it, unless the HA has the higher ground. This thing is so sad, it can't hit the AV base turret unless it's on higher ground. I honestly hope they fix the trajectory the rockets take, at the moment it's pretty silly, and I'm not amazed by it.