This game is designed around precision aiming/damage. The only real good use of explosion type weapons is against the smallest of enemies (skuttlebugs?).
All over medium to large enemies have a 'sweet spot' that you need to hit to do big damage. Using explosion weapons (rockets or grenade launchers) makes it near impossible to hit those sweet spots.
IMHO, explosive weapons are pretty useless. Fun, but useless.
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try hiting the reload button after you shoot i used the hydra in one of my loadouts till i was level 200Originally Posted by dstrollo360
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There are a few lonely explosive weapons - the FRC Big Boomer being one of those. But that beats all the variety options if in the end there is only one or two weapons that are useful.
Got a ~250 EGO legendary rocket launcher with +6 magazine, reloads a shot on kill, a set bonus that caused it to deal bonus damage against full HP targets, and I think a fire proc. Vendored it without regret because it had a slow projectile, a delay before exploding, a small explosive radius, and most importantly, did a meager 1k damage per hit. I understand that the weapons need to be balanced for PvP, but there really ought to have been some other alternative. Perhaps giving players innate explosive resistance or something like that. Even if rockets hit x2.5 harder, they wouldn't be OP in instances because as someone said, most tough enemies have small weapon spots.
I'm not looking for an overpowered weapon. The whole point of this thread is that rocket launchers aren't even effect weapons. They hardly have any redeeming qualities outside of the one or two that people have brought up here. Other than that, what's the incentive to use a rocket launcher with one or two in the magazine that does ~1,000 damage opposed to a revolver that hits just as hard and get get crits? I was expecting something with such low ammo to be capable of making up for that by pulling off some decent damage.
Look at sniper rifles. It's easy to one-shot with a bolt action. Why doesn't a direct hit from a rocket do anywhere close to a sniper crit? Snipers also have a much higher ammo pool to draw from than RLs do. That said, snipers have a niche. Why don't RLs? As of now it's just a greatly underpowered weapon that takes a backseat to the grenade launcher... and just about every other weapon.
I can't remember the actual name, but the multi-projectile RL that you manually detonate to fire four rockets is pretty useful. I use it more than my detonator now that they've been nerfed. If you detonate them at the right moment, you can obliterate enemies. Don't expect them to be useful in PvP, though. Too much reload time for something that can be easily dodged.
The purple swarm rl (main + 5 mini) + awesome bouns stats + the additional 30% damage for ever enemy in the blast radius (I believe that's how the ego perk goes) and you have one BA AoE weapon...
I think that's their niche... The ability to straight demolish any enemies grouped together
The right perks, mods, abilities and stats REALLY bring these weapons ( weapons in general) to life
You have a point but I can't say I've gotten lucky enough to find a swarm launcher. All the ones I've found so far have been breakers or standard single-rocket launchers. That said, it's quite disappointing to know that only one type of RL is useful. I'm really loving my Matchlock Boomstick though. Although I'm curious, how were detonators nerfed? I saw a dev mention "tuning" them but no specifics were given. I had expected that "tuning" was code for "nerf".
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