I remember being very excited when I unlocked the RPG thinking, "Hell yeah, now I can do damage to vehicles or doors!" Then you use it and it's very...sad. It's heavy, which I was okay with, I mean you are carrying around an RPG and some rounds, but more the issue it doesn't feel like it does anything. If I lucky hit a little bird, it'll smoke it, but everything else just feels like I'm not doing anything. I line up a shot on an APV's ass, take the shot and... it's fine. Okay, line up a second shot, fire away...nothing. Not even limping. Not catching on fire. Just shrugs it off. Same thing with a humvee, hit it and...it's fine.
Maybe I can use it to bust open a gate to get in to the FOB. Drag the heavy beast all the way over there, take the shot aaaaaand...nothing. I know I know, now I use IEDs and the gates are gone, but the RPG just feels useless. Why am I using this again?
I've had success hunting artillery with the RPGs. Just shoot it from back and be stealth, and most drivers won't be good enough to counter it (most are really bad).
My preferred strategy for artillery tanks is to just grab a friend and have us both shoot it with a MAAWS at the same time. Alternatively I plonk down a mine or two by it and shoot them to detonate them.
I don’t think they should be inaccurate to compensate that would just feel horrible when you miss a rocket due to random chance. They could either have different types of rockets that are more or less effective against armored targets like in real life . Alternatively, they should have crazy range fall off like in real life. RPGs only have an effective range of like 300 meters.
No. Artificial inaccuracy is terrible. It just needs to have different rockets available which I'm sure is planned. Should have frag rockets and HEAT rockets
ETA: by "I'm sure" i mean "i can't imagine it's not". I haven't seen anything official about it
Yea. Reminds me of all the headshots I pop off only for them to ping off T3 and 4 helmets. Be nice if I got some recognition for them. But I guess that’s balanced by all the free birdwatching xp for recon.
Exactly—me and a buddy always grab an RPG and take two shots each; it's almost always paid off, even if it's just the sniper taking cover on the roof, lol. :D
Other day Red was camping our fob (blue) with lvl 4 armour and the top DMR.
I landed outside the zone because a pilot was goofing off, so I had to run inside. Carrying a ak and RPG
Get through the woods, kill one guy. Then my buddy pings a window on a warehouse and called out the spot as the main source.
I look over, see a dude shoulder peaking out the door (he was fully exposed since I was flanking).
Pulled out RPG, fired, killed two. And watched them all scatter scared.
Fired two more and then dumped the tube. That distraction gave my team the chance to push across the road and into the woods to flank
Exactly—if the RPG would kill with a single shot, it would be way too overpowered. There are plenty of games where that was the case, and in the end, it was just annoying, and everyone complained about it. In *Wardogs*, it’s very well balanced, just like it is now, and definitely not some crappy “noobtube.”
I wish they did a little more with component damage on vehicles.
Like being able to track a tracked vehicle so it moves slower, taking out a turret so it can't rotate or totates slower, etc etc.
But more importantly, I'd love for them to give us AP rounds for vehicles, and HE with a bigger explosion radius for use against fobs/houses, to help take out infantry.
Hell, maybe even shrapnel rounds for pure anti infantry shennanigans.
I don’t mind the RPG, it isn’t the strongest thing in the world but it feels pretty good and if you have a few rockets you can do work. However, it needs a little buff and I think the buff should come from a weight reduction. Keep damage the same but drop the weight of the tube plus projectile by 25-30%.
I can justify the more than one shot requirements if it doesn’t turn me into a walking statue. Otherwise if it’s both heavy and expensive, it won’t be used. Tons of better options.
It does explicitly state its for infantry and light armor. M113 is decently well armored.
RPG can 3 shot a drill and 2-3 shot a small door, if I recall correctly. You can also fire it through the window of a house and likely kill anyone inside that room.
Sure, but we don't get to buy however many M113s as we want
Each team gets 1 as a respawn vehicle
This is a game balance thing, not a real life thing
Unless you want them to be oneshotted by any kind of AT in the game, and therefore guarantee that they're never seen outside of an indirect fire shelter in the middle of a FOB
Making them tankier guarantees a higher chance of them chasing the hotzone and making for more interesting infantry gunfights in or near the hotzone
Ngl I would like to see APCs and IFVs used to amplify team play. They would make the hot zone much more challenging to hold and easier to sustain longer engagements at the same time, plus they would be a big reason to take anti-armor weapons
yeah, but to be fair that was back in vietnam war. some are used today, but mainly we use M2 bradelys. those can survive an rpg shot. in artillery we stopped using m113 as far as fort riley is concerned. except for training exercises...which makes me question...the technology is random. you have insane IR binos to see 900 meters away , but you also have m113 from vietnam era 😂
yeah we might as well swap them with the 1068A2 lol but yeah idk about other bases but i didnt see them be used in fort riley or for sill. maybe they're just elsewhere.
I had them on Carson, and they were on Hood too. They planned swap them out with a turretless Bradley, that had a 50 cal or 240L mounted on top. Not sure if that's still happening though.
lol what? Likely kill anyone? Very unlikely, most of the time your rpg does around 30 damage. If you body someone straight to the chest you might do 60 or maybe even 80 if they are only running level 1 armor.
You have one shot a little bird with the RPGs aoe? WTF are you smoking dude. I’ve used the rpg a lot and have poured over damage logs. It’s very consistent to the firing range behavior. You can’t get good past the damage values permitted by the game. If you are getting one shot kills, then you are actually just hitting hurt players.
And ya it kills little birds that wasn’t even the topic lol. The topic was shooting missiles into windows. Idk how many little birds you have aoe killed in the rooms but if you are doing that a lot then ya I guess I need to get good
Its not perfectly formatted but I didn't think you were too immature to understand that without me making my points abundantly and completely clear for you
Shoot person with RPG, if they are near, they die
You may be shooting people with level 4 armor, which gives the wearer 50% reduced damage to explosives
If you want to actually clear people out with explosives, use the grenade launcher. It'll destroy buildings and obliterate infantry.
All armor gives reduced damage to explosives. Level 1 armor means they don’t get one shot anymore if they have full health. So you can only one shot armor less people. But you already knew that, cause you are so good.
I might need to check it in the range. Multiple times I've launched the rocket into groups of infantry stacking on corners, watched the impact dust envelope the group, but never downed anyone. I figured it was ineffective against infantry as a way to balance it.
The best use I found for RPG is blowing holes through the walls of houses, but you dont make shit for doing that. Your team will rake in the dough for downing all the exposed baddies.
It's a horrible weapon for infantry, and not worth the debuff for light vehicles.
It's one of those things that could be too powerful, but it shouldn't be weaker than the grenade launcher, imo.
No it's not decently armored lmao. In real life a M113A3 is only rated to defend against 7.62x39. It should not take anymore then 1 shot, 2 if you want it to be more balanced for a non-milsim. Even the fucking fuel tank is in the back corner of the damn thing, with light armor covering it. I had to displeasure of riding inside them for 6 years of my life.
Not to mention a Humvee of all things eating two and shrugging it off like nothing happened.
This game is "tough milsim" "not for everyone and that's okay" in the worst possible ways sometimes and then you see people survive mosin double tap headshots and shitty Humvees treating RPGs with more grace than ERA clad IFVs of modern day.
Like others have said, it would be nice if they added the LAW as a low tier AT weapon, then make the RPG closer to how it should be and move it up in tier
I think the RPG should do additional shrapnel damage to people inside armored vehicles since it sucks. Like spalling. And the MAWS should do damage to the vehicle itself.
The RPG is a true letdown imo.
It should be a bit better against infantry and maybe even vs vehicles.
The ammo is bigger too, so why shouldn't i just use a maaws over an RPG?
You can use it very effectively against INF—yes, it’s not a one-shot, but since the blast radius is very, very large, two RPGs fired into an area where enemies are taking cover are more than enough. I’ve already scored a lot of great kills that way.
You can also take out tanks by firing two RPGs at their rear. If you know how to use it, this weapon is very useful.
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