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Show me at least three good reasons why buy GDI Rocket Officer over Gunner, or at all.
Yes, it is cheaper, but only slightly so it is better to wait and get Gunner instead.
Yes, Gunner gives enemy more points when killed, but he can make up for it by doning lot more damage.
Do any of you ever use this unit? I use it, but only as a last resort.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192061 is a reply to message #192056] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 19:21  |
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Even if the rocket officer was all i could buy, i'd rather just be a soldier or Sydney. I personally don't like to use Gunners of Mini-Gunners except for Gunner rushes on C&C_Mesa.
And nope... i can't think of any reasons for GDI rocket officer over Gunner.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192111 is a reply to message #192056] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 13:15 |
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Well...Gunner is maybe a good and cheap antivehicle Troooper sometimes he is even better then Sydney because rapidfires is funny against artis... but the GDI rocketofficer is really useless...maybe only if you now at the moment need something to blow up a vehicle
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192120 is a reply to message #192056] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 15:39 |
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There are plenty of pretty pointless units; the rocket officer being one of them. Among this group are Chem sprayers, tib sydneys, and for killing tanks - patch/sbh/officers.
I'd also say that a mobius/mendoza would be pretty pointless as well since you could do about the same damage with a mobius as you would with a gunner and the gunner is longer range. You could say the same with a PIC/rave but in combination with another vehicle, it adds damage (ie rave with light tank/apc)
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192128 is a reply to message #192056] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 16:44 |
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sorry to revamp this point, but just because you kill a person with a said unit doesn't mean it's better. Aside from the fact that a hotwire can lay mines so that a chem warrior would either have to walk around or through them, the hotwire always has remotes. So someone not able to kill a chem warrior with a hotwire is probably more due to the lack of skill for said unit - same goes for the havoc. Though anyone can have a bad day and do really bad even if they're normally good. A person who doesn't know how to dodge a rocket can easily get killed in one hit with a rocket officer, so it doesn't exactly mean they're better than havocs. Just that the havoc isn't experience enough to know how dodge/hit things.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192219 is a reply to message #192056] |
Wed, 08 March 2006 16:11 |
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that's to say just if the guy can't hit a chemical warrior in the head 6 times with a pistol, which is easy enough.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192248 is a reply to message #192219] |
Thu, 09 March 2006 01:03 |
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| Sniper_De7 wrote on Wed, 08 March 2006 18:11 |
that's to say just if the guy can't hit a chemical warrior in the head 6 times with a pistol, which is easy enough.
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A chem warrior has a very big head...
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192260 is a reply to message #192248] |
Thu, 09 March 2006 02:51 |
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| Goztow wrote on Thu, 09 March 2006 08:03 |
| Sniper_De7 wrote on Wed, 08 March 2006 18:11 |
that's to say just if the guy can't hit a chemical warrior in the head 6 times with a pistol, which is easy enough.
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A chem warrior has a very big head...
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That was the most useless comment I've ever read.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192692 is a reply to message #192056] |
Mon, 13 March 2006 12:47 |
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rocket officers WERE useful when n00bstories ran the mod that got the rockets seeking. I headshot countless people, including many good snipers and bunny-hoppers, with rockets because of the seeking ability. They also became useful against vehicles, but not aircraft. On City Fly, you could get a rocket officer at the start, hit enemies from your side of the battle area and do damage to early humvees/buggies.
When that server again runs the mod with the planned fixes, they will again be useful. Until then, they're a poor unit that you should generally avoid.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192737 is a reply to message #192056] |
Mon, 13 March 2006 20:18 |
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Please get back on topic.
Anyway, I think that Westwood has given Rocket Officer to GDI because Nod also has Rocket Officer, and they did not know what unit to put in there instead.
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #192856 is a reply to message #192120] |
Tue, 14 March 2006 20:01 |
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| Sniper_De7 wrote on Tue, 07 March 2006 17:39 |
There are plenty of pretty pointless units; the rocket officer being one of them. Among this group are Chem sprayers, tib sydneys, and for killing tanks - patch/sbh/officers.
I'd also say that a mobius/mendoza would be pretty pointless as well since you could do about the same damage with a mobius as you would with a gunner and the gunner is longer range. You could say the same with a PIC/rave but in combination with another vehicle, it adds damage (ie rave with light tank/apc)
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I was going to say something like that.
Anyways, I never use rocket soldier officers unless I want to fuck around/act like noob/you guys because it's entirely pointless. In AOW most infantry units are useless. Snipers are fine, rave/PICs are usually useful & of course techs/hotties, but that's usually it. You might sometimes use a gunner, but that's it (unless you don't know how to play).
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #193200 is a reply to message #192128] |
Sat, 18 March 2006 09:22 |
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| Sniper_De7 wrote on Tue, 07 March 2006 17:44 |
sorry to revamp this point, but just because you kill a person with a said unit doesn't mean it's better.
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I believe this quote should be displayed in huge flashing letters in a popup message for everyone who enters the Tactics section, it amazes me that nobody gets it. "I killed an apache with a Patch, so obviously the patch is a very good anti-air unit!" seriously, wtf?
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| Re: GDI Rocket Officer, Useless? [message #193209 is a reply to message #192856] |
Sat, 18 March 2006 10:07 |
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| $c0p3 wrote on Tue, 14 March 2006 21:01 |
In AOW most infantry units are useless. Snipers are fine, rave/PICs are usually useful & of course techs/hotties, but that's usually it. You might sometimes use a gunner, but that's it (unless you don't know how to play).
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agreed with that. Other than snipers and hotwires/techs, and sometimes raves/Pics, infantry simply do not compare to tanks in terms of usefulness.
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