Rockets effectivity?

[Gauss]

My question to you is how effective with rockets be against Men, MAX Armors, light vehicles, medium Vehichles, and heavy vehicles?

PS- Please excuse my spelling

[Tolvy]

depends which rocket you mean

[Sniper Jack]

A Phoenix is pretty effective against practically anything. The Striker launcher, i would assume, can't lock on to infantry, or else it would be hella powerful.It can lock on to vehicles and aircraft though, and i think some people here underestimate it. The Lancer isn't even a rocket launcher, it's basically a laser cannon, and a nice, powerful, accurate one too. The Decimator is one powerful rocket, but it's dumbfire (i.e. it doesn't home in on your target) but if you can get close enough you and a couple friends can decimate some tanks (hence the name Decimator ) I would think that rockets would have a decent blast radius too, but not some obcenely huge.

[Peacemaker]

Uh, i think he is concerned about arial rockets fired by the reaver. These look to be reasonably powerfull and fire with extreme RoF. Lots of screenis of them blowing stuff up. Im shure a quick run or two will take down the heavy armours. One run on a max will drop it and infantry well u better find a good janitor if they are in a base.

[kid klash]

IMHO, i'd say that the pheonix is the best of em because human inteligence can beat the lock-on thingy anyday.

[Ouroboros]

The human factor is usually what ruins everything. In my opinion, the Striker and Lancer are probably the most effective AV weapons. The Striker because by having a weapon that does not need human control, the speed of it's projectile can be greatly increased, all of this is guesstimated of course. Plus there seems to be a clip of some sort on the Striker, maybe it can lob a few rockets off in a short amount of time before needing to reload.

The Lancer is one of the fastest weapon, I believe only the bolt driver is faster. Coordinated attacks with something that accurate and fast is, well, destructive.

The Phoenix does seem good, but the fact is, while in fly-by-wire mode, the speed of the rocket probably dramatically slowed. In the fileplanet video, it seemed a lot slower then what i would have expected. Not to mention the person is vulnerable while in this state.

[Sando138]

The trick to using a guided-by-wire rocket against players is that:
1: you need to make your first shot count, because your opponent could easily follow the smoke-trail back to you.
2: While the Phoenix is supposed to be immensely powerful, it is only a one shot weapon, and to get the maximum effect you need to be fairly on target.
3: you need to anticipate their movements and react accordingly. IE if you think they are going to turn left, aim slightly left.

[Ouroboros]

The problem is Sando, you are thinking as if it is you versus another person. But in fact theres at least a squad worth of people around you, yes, you would have friends there, too. But someone could easily see that you are in Fly-by-wire mode and take you would with no resistance.

[Jakal]

Dont forget the rocklet. THis isnt really a anti tank weapon but it is probably going to be a great suppression weapon. I've heard that it can be loaded with a lot of different rocket types as well.

[Sando138]

amendment to my suggestions:
4: Launch from behind as much cover as posible. that way, you arent hit as easily when flying by wire.

[Zatrais]

Get the NC defenders to spam phoenixes at the attackers... good luck beating 20 NC's spamming phoenix rockets over the walls at annything that moves near the base they're defending.

[Venoxile]

That would actually be incredibly powerful, I still think that the striker will be best av, then lancer, then phoenix even though im nc. The only real reason I'm NC is I like the colors, and I like the gauss. I plan to be assaulting bases, so the assault rifle really matters to me... I still don't understand why in the polls there are so many pilots, if you really like flying that much, play a flight sim, not an fps.

[Warborn]

The Phoenix isn't designed as an anti-personnel weapon, so it's not going to be any good at it. None of the anti-vehicular weapons will be. That's why they're called anti-vehicular. The last thing the developers are going to do, I'm sure, is turn the game into a rocket launcher fest.

[DuDeMaN]

Zatrais, two words.

Air Strike

[Zatrais]

Originally posted by Warborn
The Phoenix isn't designed as an anti-personnel weapon, so it's not going to be any good at it. None of the anti-vehicular weapons will be. That's why they're called anti-vehicular. The last thing the developers are going to do, I'm sure, is turn the game into a rocket launcher fest.

Theres a movie of a guy getting hit by a shot of a AV VS MAX. He loses alott of health. Annyways, you don't know how good the phoenix is at killing infantry, unless you're a beta tester.

And DuDeMan, the phoenix is an AV weapon... those planes would go down hard and fast.