So another rocket launcher?

Any word on damage? Will it do even less than the current launchers because then it will be pretty useless anyway. Give me a slow heavy damage dumb fire rocket for ground and a fast, lower damage dumb fire rocket for air. Part of the fun is trying to aim the stupid thing. That would mean that if a tank or aircraft is camping, then he'll get a bunch of rockets up his bum. If he stays moving, it's all down to the skill of the HA and the guy behind the wheel. That's the way I would love to play.

MONEY GRAB LOL

Straight upgrade over the G2G/G2A lockons. No sidegrades here, SoE. Stop lying.

Seriously another rocket launcher ?!?!?!?!

if this is truth i promis that i will never ever EVER EVER EVER AGAIN buy a rocket launcher with knowledge it will become a rubbish in less than 2 days after release and than after another week dev's would introduce brand new rocket launcher that will cost another 1000 certs.

They didnt even refund the worthless AA Hawk yet so why would they bring new rocket launcher ?!

Wow, that sucks. I really wish I hadn't wasted 1400 station cash on 2, now redundant, rocket launchers.

Nice, downgrade the existing launchers and release a new all-round one.

And the new one can't be any worse than the old ones. There isn't any room for it to be worse, unless it fired backwards or something.

No mention of a cert refund for players who bought them before this happened?... :'(

I love being NC... ffs

Just needed to highlight these. I guess missiles are a more preferred title for something with a lock-on/guide feature. Now if SOE could rename those items and balance them would make a whole new category of weapons

Yeah. This, I guess.

I wanted to show support for the Devs and bought both lock on launchers on Day 1. First they try to remove the lock on, but back down while nerfing the dumb fire significantly. Then in the same breath they introduce the Decimator. Now, what, a week later? ANOTHER new rocket launcher. I mean, how cynical is this game!

Part of me hopes that there are NOT enough silly kids playing this game and falling for these shameless tactics so that SOE need to reconsider their approach. Getting a bit disillusioned TBH

Are you serious ? They made the G2A launcher available then a week or two ago they made the Decimator and sold it to ppl now a week later they make a new one that combines both ? What the hell ? So what now a week after this one they will make a new one for both air and ground just + 10 dmg? This is ******** .

If you where in tech test then you should remember the annihilator since it was in as the primary rocket at the time. You should also remember how people complained about it making HA to versatile and a counter to everything. Which is ultimately why we ended up with the Crow and the Hawk. So yeah, it is slightly disappointing that SOE has choose to spit on those of us who where under the assumption that the Annihilator would not be making a return and pulled the trigger on the Crow and the Hawk.

If you can't see how this is a obvious upgrade over the Crow and the Hawk then I do not know what to tell you. I personally do not use the rocket launchers for the dumb fire capability.

In all seriousness, its just the final version, completing the cycle of variants. Is it OP? highly doubt it, I HA all the time and 4 out of 5 of my shots are dumbfire, but I quite like having one of the lock on launchers for the added ability to harass tanks at range or keep ESFs from hanging around.

This new launcher has its niche but:

-Forced to wait for lock, even on a tanks rear armour right in front of you, will give it the lowest dps by far, by the time your first missile hits that lovely weak spot after a lock (presuming the lock warning doesn't make him pop smoke or scarper behind something) the dumbfire guy beside you will be most of the way through his reload and ready to fire again.

-Prevalence of countermeasures means this will probably score the LEAST number of hits*, again most of my hits are dumb fire at reasonably close range, the lock on functionality serves as more of a harassment measure.

-No Max/engy turret kills for you - period (on this note the decimator is BRUTAL vs a max, below half health with a direct hit)

I won't be buying it, and i wont be bothered if other folks do, enjoy waiting for that stealth upgraded ESF lock gents,

*presumes a reasonable level of player competence

/endramble

Yea this is true but the missile speed is so low that everything that you are shooting to have enough time to get to know he is about to get shot and enough time to move 1m away to avoid any damage if we can call it a damage.

When it comes to AA lock-on role this weapon is so worthless that it would be best if it hasn't been introduced to players. After last patch meaby 5% of targets you shot your rocket to get actually hit what doesnt mean that damage is crucial or even scare off the plane. You need like 20 direct hits to destroy liberator with this rockets what would take you a couple of minutes.

So we now have 4 different launchers.

normal dumbfire one
a stronger but slower dumbfire
two different lock-ons with a heavyly reduced dumbfire mode
a pure lock-on launcher

the only problem i SEE is that these launcher have 1) to be bugfree [hint G2A and G2G doing no damage sometimes] and 2) be balanced with each other.

If the pure lock-on launcher has a medium lock-on time and reasonable damage i don't understand why people whine about it.
Yes the current ones are bugged and i really hope they fix them.

Okay, but how much damage does it do?

we need to wait for someone to pull the data out of the datafiles and create a sheet.

Why do they keep adding all of these rocket launchers? Do we really need the AV and A2G ones now?

It is like they had these balance rules in Beta and totally forgot them here in Live.

Any less damage than the Grounder and it will heal the enemy target.

Any specifics on the new launcher yet?

It is now my duty to destroy any VS wearing a tobuscus decal...

Oh good a single weapon that replaces two AND has less skill involved to use.

I want to love this game, I do love this game, I am hating, absolutely hating their method of monitazation.

SOE I'm pretty well off, spending money like this isn't an issue to me, but I'm also not a patsy. If you treat me like your female dog I'm not going to keep telling people I just fell down the stairs.