lul what happened to rocketpods?

I know I been gone for a while but DAMN!

So like apparently we have to aim the rockets directly above infantry / vehicles now since there is virtually no splash damage on ROCKETS anymore?

and EVEN then, we have to spawn the entire salvo in order to GET THE KILL? Yes, ONE KILL.

Talk about 'em nerfs, lulz!

I predict that you won't be finding a lot of sympathy here

And then some. Vanu don't get to whine about rocketpods.

Be happy you still have them. A good number of Forumsiders are still interested in tearing them from your wings, even as the weapon is now.

It's quite hilarious how useless they nerfed the rocketpods to make 'em butthurted groundies happy

EDIT:

Did I forget to mention that the nose gun Banshee has more aoe splash damage than the rockets?

lol...

God forbid people want the ESF's to be balanced.

I find them pretty fun to use against other ESFs and the occasional tank, but im paranoid when it comes to shooting tanks (i know im always going to take a shell to the face because i didn't account for that little hill he could use to get a high enough angle to hit me), infantry though better off using the nose gun.

To be fair, it was a spammy weapon. Spam with rockets. SOE doesn't play the favor game with things that can do that.

Dont you dare bring my banshee into this

You are now playing Infantryside 2. Feet whined until pods got nerfed and in their current state the Rotary was better at killing feet than pods, and more efficient too. The Rotary just got nerfed against feet in the last patch so... there goes that.

Tanks just got tossed a bone in the last patch, and now they can actually perform their role of killing infantry if those infantry are suited to fight infantry. As it always should have been. You can hope that air receives the same bone sometime soon.

Say that to my bursters not on forumside lolpodder scum I will wreck you so help me god.

OP, I emptied I think a full clip right behind an enemy lightning yesterday and it had had like 20% HP left.

Hey bro, I say it show I see it I find it quite funny that a nose gun would do more aoe splash damage than our rockets that are suppose to... you know, splash damage

Get off the high horse. So many of the early BR 100s got there at least partially from rocket pods. The fact of the matter is they were way to overpowered. Whether you want to believe it or not. It's not about being whiny and it's not about being a CoD noob (a term that is becoming all to popular to insult people who half the time don't even play CoD).

Rocket pods are still powerful. You just have to actually hit the infantry now. God forbid you have to be accurate in a shooter.

I am an avid ground player and they need to buff rocketpods, they like so easy to kill. I got ALL THESE ROCKETS that lockon to ESF and like 1 shot them, so easy.

Infantry happened. A large, never ending, still going on chorus of infantry wanting your pods to be as effective as throwing pebbles at them from a high altitude. It is amusing now that to not die to rocket pods all you have to do is take a few steps to the left. And here I am on the ground with an AP cannon / deci / Skyguard / Dual Bursters / Halberd harasser / focused small arms fire / lock on launcher / all dedicated to wrecking your ****. God it's hard being me down on the ground.....

Well, Vanu pods are still the best...but yeah, you're basically right. 80% of my infantry kills were rotary kills, now they nerfed that (thinking that most a2a engagements are on 100m or less) and I just don't feel like engaging them at all anymore.
If one infantry can tank over half a magazine of direct rocket hits (flak armor anyone?) and it only takes one little mistake or reckless act to get your vehicle destroyed, you know something's wrong.
I much enjoy tanking now though. Infantry gameplay is also better - less people with flak armor, and headshots are even more rewarded. That's just my thing now. Plus if **** hits the fan I can eat a tank shell to the chest and shrug it off. Balanced.

The rocket pods at release were definitely overpowered, however all the nerfs after that were over the top and not needed. Honestly flak armour how it is today would have made those rocket pods balanced tbh.

And on the note of having to be accurate, that's kinda silly with an explosive rocket don't you think? It's a HEAT rocket and should damn well obliterate tightly packed groups of oblivious infantry.

Don't want to look up? Don't want to wear flak? Pay the go damn price then. Instead of this incessant whining and ruining the godamn game.

Just stop, please. Stop.

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