Rocket Launcher? More like wall stainer...

[Arcamean]

I was miffed because I'd just accidently chainsawed an open toolstore box when I found a rocket launcher in a shotgun messiah box. At first I wasn't sure I was really seeing what I thought I was because "Naw there can't be rocket launchers... can there!?". I wasn't sure what to do... do I use it? I mean I've only got four shots and no telling if I'll chance upon more or if I can make them! Eventually curiosity got the better and I shot one at at apartment complex wall... to find it doesn't even punch a tiny hole in brick. :/

Did someone in the coding department accidently delete the epic rocket explosion file so they tried to pass off the wimpy pipe bomb in it's place?

[strask]

Hmph.... last I tried it, maybe Alpha 7 or 8, it made a decent sized hole in a brick wall. I wonder if they reduced its damage or something.

[Arcamean]

I'm going to guess so because man was that a let down, here I thougth I'd found something epic!

[Mytheos]

@OP

Rocket launchers and rockets are VERY rare.

The ammo honestly is so rare you wouldnt really use them...maybe for Base Raids.

A few rockets arent going to bring down a house or anything...even a dozen wont.

[Lenkdrache]

I modieifed my rockets.... now they'll take out half the building, like they should.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

That's the funny thing, and the irony where Hollywood and movies are concerned. Your average rocket launcher and rockets won't even punch a hole through the front radiator of the average SUV. It'll dent the hell out of it and make a large sound, but no major explosion with a huge fireball, no car flipping backwards 10m in the air, etc etc.

They really are underpowered when you see them in use in real life. Anti-tank rockets are slightly different - a heavy penetrating payload that goes through the exterior armor to explode (minimally) inside the vehicle. Still no massive fireball of death.

Movies really have colored our perception of firearms.

[Ketobi]

A lot of Admins set the damage of the rocket launcher to 0 to prevent griefing. Without the configuraton of the server it s hard to say what's going on.

[GirthQQuakes]

Gotta disagree with you on that one Jaga. While Hollywood movies do have a tendency to dramatize things, I cannot imagine a rocket launcher being unable to disable a civilian vehicle.

Go watch some utubes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdRnY-TUb4

[Ranger.Danger]

Theodore a écrit :

Gotta disagree with you on that one Jaga. While Hollywood movies do have a tendency to dramatize things, I cannot imagine a rocket launcher being unable to disable a civilian vehicle.

Go watch some utubes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdRnY-TUb4

Do you think thats the rocket? Or the explosives in the tank? One of those two carries alot more power in a highly condensed space.

[jwalker]

Theodore a écrit :

Gotta disagree with you on that one Jaga. While Hollywood movies do have a tendency to dramatize things, I cannot imagine a rocket launcher being unable to disable a civilian vehicle.

Go watch some utubes.

Well, to be 100% fair, the video you posted was a FGM-148 Javelin, which is an advanced anti-tank rocket, with a guidance system that targets the weak spot of a tank (ie the top), it is an advanced weapon and specifically designed to destroy a tank pretty much outright.

Your standard rocket launcher is the RPG-7 (which is the most common used "rocket launcher" in the world). Below is a video of it being fired at a Toyota of some sort, and it is much less impressive. If you don't want to watch all of the talking and stuff, go to about 2:10 to see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLj4zaoMkRE

[GirthQQuakes]

You'll notice in that video, they miss alot. The one time they had a direct hit, it was with anti armor shell and it penetrated the vehicle with a 10" (?) hole.

Not gonna have much trouble breaking some old brick, or punching through a radiator.

Edi: I agree that hollywood dramatizes the size of the fireball (depends on the ammo used too), in many circumstance. I disagree that a rocket launcher isnt going to give a civilian suv a hole in the radiator. Or be unable to smash to bits a brick and mortar wall.

[jwalker]

Theodore a écrit :

You'll notice in that video, they miss alot. The one time they had a direct hit, it was with anti armor shell and it penetrated the vehicle with a 10" (?) hole.

Not gonna have much trouble breaking some old brick, or punching through a radiator.

For sure, a crumbling brick building is going to have some serious damage done to it, and I guess I may have just put my point across wrong, I wasn't disagreeing that the in game launcher should pack a bit more punch, I was just saying it is probably more along the RPG-7 side of things, and less on the (much more impressive) Javelin side of things. I tried to find an old video I saw of a building being hit by an RPG-7, and couldn't, but while it didn't outright blow up a wall, there was a substantial amount of damage and a sizable hole, not sure what the building was made of though.

Hell, a well placed RPG-7 shot can most certainly disable (not outright destroy) a tank, and if you shot a civilian vehicle in the front of the engine, it would probably cause a crapton of badness for all inside, it is a powerful weapon, my only point was it isn't as explodey as the Javelin.

[YamaKami]

Rocket =/= Missle!

Moving on to the lame block damage, I belive rockets got a nerfing of sorts at some point so that they were not just griefer tools around the same time they were changing how TNT worked. Personaly I would like to see them blow up wooden and decayed bricks and suck easily enough but they should barley scath things like iron walls or reinforced concrete or even a scrap iron wall for that matter. Lots going on with this game and updates in short order though .So I can be patient with the much, much, muich, more minor tweaks like rocket explosions given how rare they are in the 1st place even it;s nearly a non issue entirely.

[Kortontia]

The Portly Jew a écrit :

Theodore a écrit :

Gotta disagree with you on that one Jaga. While Hollywood movies do have a tendency to dramatize things, I cannot imagine a rocket launcher being unable to disable a civilian vehicle.

Go watch some utubes.

Well, to be 100% fair, the video you posted was a FGM-148 Javelin, which is an advanced anti-tank rocket, with a guidance system that targets the weak spot of a tank (ie the top), it is an advanced weapon and specifically designed to destroy a tank pretty much outright.

Your standard rocket launcher is the RPG-7 (which is the most common used "rocket launcher" in the world). Below is a video of it being fired at a Toyota of some sort, and it is much less impressive. If you don't want to watch all of the talking and stuff, go to about 2:10 to see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLj4zaoMkRE

In that video they didnt use a exsposliv warhead, that was a anti armor missel!

big diffence, also the missel in the game is supposely a warhead, so it would be doing more block dmg!

One is used for armored vehicles or complexes, the other is used for building, infantry and so on

[YamaKami]

Cool video, but I think I will duck out before the debate on missles vs rockets vs rocket propelled grenades (aka RPG)...

[muricaderp]

except that the game has seem to have modeled the Rocket Launcher after the AT-4 not the RPG-7. The AT-4 can fire a AST projectile which is specifically designed to blast big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in concrete. I doubt the game is going to specify which types of rockets can be used. I think the developers should be a litte bit more generous in terms of how effective the Rocket launcher is, i for 1 don't care about the "hollywood" effect of big fireballs and crap, but i do care about the concussive force that of which i think the launcher should produce, i mean if i am going to go out of my way to find a 20 mm rocket ammo, u better be damn certain i should be able to make a 2 meter deep crater in the dirt when i fire the thing.