Some Beta Q's

[Jakal]

I have a few questions for all you beta guys
1. Does anyone use the rocklet and the thumper? havent heard much about these guns yet
2. How effective is the punisher?
3. Does anyone fly the mosquito? Havent heard much about this either.

Well thats it for now i will probably think of some more later.

[Vash]

1) I use the Thumper a lot. It's great outside where you can rain plasma down on the opposition, it's great indoors for attacking a heavily defended room (bounce your shots around the corner), it's even great against MAXes since it only takes 8 well placed frags to kill one. You just have to be careful of yourself and those around you since the blast radius isnt exactly small.

I cant say much about the Rocklet. I've only used it a few times, but didnt really like it. The rockets seem to slow to effecively hit a moving target, even in CQB, and they dont seem as potent as a grenade <shrug>

2) Pretty effective It's really a great medium range weapon if you just have medium assault. It doesnt seem as accurate at longer ranges as the empire-specific rifles, but the added damage from a grenade makes it a pretty potent little weapon.

The only bad thing is the reload time on the grenade launcher. It's not so bad outdoors when you can duck behind a tree or something, but reloading it in the middle of a fast-paced indoor battle could get you killed :o

3) I dont fly it myself, but it's a real pain when enemy skeeters show up, that's for sure
They have this annoying habit of not showing up on radar. In the middle of a big ground battle, you'll probably never know he's there until you suddenly take chaingun rounds from behind.

Worse still, they can easily find your AMS. If you suddenly find half the opposing force spawn camping you at the ams, chances are a skeeter's been hovering high above it for the last 3 minutes.

[Revoltrix]

1. Rocklet and Thumper on the server I play on are not used very often. I haven't seen it used personally in all the hours I've been playing(that's quite a bit) I assume its not that common and unless you have Reinforced Armor its not very useful.
2. I use the punisher a lot because of its all around mobility. Although its not very effective at long ranges like the suppresor and doesn't do a lot of dmg very fast against armor like the Striker(I play TR). Basically though you won't find a time when you can't use it.
3. Most people use the Reaver to kill people rather than the Mosquito because it is really good and can also take out tanks very easily. Its a pain in the ass if you are infantry because it has hella hp. I don't see many mosquitos around either.

[Robot]

1. Rocklet and the Thumper are widely used. They're both a great AV and AI weapon, although with less shots.
2. The Punisher is a fantastic weapon, in my opinion. It's great, especially if you only have agile armor and Medium Weapons spec. The assault rifle part is great for suppressive fire, while the launcher part is great, especially for rocklets. (I've blown up several reavers using it.)
3. The mosquito isn't used as much as the reaver, but, yeah, it's used.