[Suggestion] NC15 Phoenix Rocket Self-Destruct

Can we please get a remote player triggered self-destruct on the rockets fired by the NC15 Phoenix for when you miss the target and have nothing in close proximity to collide with???

This was also posted on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/2jo28u/nc15_phoenix_rocket_remote_selfdestruct/

I think you can press "E" to leave your rocket?

Its so easy to shoot down that i feel people that die to it should be elligible for the darwin awards.

Plus only 1/2 the rockets even fire right now.

It needs a serious buff or at least functionalitiy. I feel bad for people i kill with it.... Its like punching a vegetable

what I'm talking about is having is having the self destruct be automatically bound to mouse1 while flying the rocket so that if you slightly miss the hitting target with the rocket you can self destruct the rocket and still hit with the splash damage

Why? It has very little splash damage. Of all things to not like about the pheonix, you choose this?

But at least you are doing some damage rather than no damage even if that damage is small

Whatever pal. Id rather 50% of my rockets not dud fire into the ground instead of getting a 20 damage splash ability.

Did I ever say they shouldn't fix the bug where the rocket dud fires, I'm suggesting that this idea be added to the launcher

Like Chingles said, you're better off just hitting E and moving on to the next rocket. Why not try again for a full damage shot?

I had the Pheonix for 2 months before I read on the forums that I didn't have to crash the damn thing into the ground to exit the launch screen...

It should have an afterburner for the rocket increasing velocity by 35%, but it lowers your turning speed by 75% while engaged. It should also be passive and not an attachment.

I'd rather it have a fuel gauge, since the distance tracker isn't so reliable. If you turn the rocket the entire way it will explode well before 200 meters on the screen is reached.

As people said, hit "E"

Also, when you press "E" your rocket will start dropping like a stone. You can use this in case your target is too far below you to steer there, the massive drop has gotten me a few hits that I would never have had otherwise.

One last thing, self destructing would only work against infantry, not tanks which is his primary target. I don't think they will change that.

The splash damage is so low its pointless.

Pressing E doesntt make the rocket airburst. It just exits the camera.

There's not much point in airbursting when:
1) Splash doesn't affect armored vehicles anyways
2) Splash is limited to 100 damage within 2m... which would be like trying to use the splash damage on the Enforcer to kill someone

The only practical benefit to "airbursting" a Phoenix is to start your reload cycle a bit earlier... something which pressing E accomplishes.

That's exactly what I said. It exits the camera, then the rocket instantly starts dropping like a stone.

Wh

Which is what I said earlier.

Dropping=/=exploding

As all the people above stated.. The splash damage on a Phoenix is close to non-existent

Really this rocket needs more of something like afterburner that makes the rocket go faster but unable to steer. Or make the rocket continue on it's ballistic curve when reaching the 300m limit..

I understand that you can remotely control the rocket only up to 300m, but it really grinds my gears that the rocket just disintegrates at 300m mark

Also pressing E when shooting at stationary targets (letting the rocket continue on the target when the hit is inevitable) is useful to slightly increase your DPS.
Another thing I do is when I shoot from a friendly deployed sundy is I switch do my secondary (that stops the reload animation) tap E-E on the sundy terminal, switch back to phenix... This is faster than the whole reload time on the Pheonix.. Again slightly increasing your DPS on a RL with the worst DPS in game.

Note that this only works when your latency is reasonable and you don't have to wait 3 seconds to enter the terminal.

AV weapon.