Rockets being deflected by the laser

[ai]

I've detonated rocket with nex several times. Unless the people actually fired the rocket off right next to them.

[Sepelio]

Evidently detonating a rocket with the nex is quite hard to do, normally luck or coincidence if they are lined up perfectly. It is true that electro, crylink, mortar, hagar, laser... just about everything screw with rockets. Very annoying when you have a noob spamming at you and they keep detonating

[morfar]

I wonder how many actually stayed on topic in this thread
Deflecting and Detonating are two different things!

[tZork]

well, i experimented a bit. what's weird, not only the laser, but also the Electro, Crylink and Hagar can change the direction of a rocket, when fired at somewhere near. Mortar and RocketLauncher would detonate the rockets. i wasn't able to either detonate or deflect the rocket with Nex and only manage once to detonate it with Laser.

considering the differing reports, i assume it has to do with settings.

Any weapon with radius damage cam deflect rockets. mosy otehr then laser usualy detornated it tho, since they do to mutch damage. you cant kill you _own_ rocket with the nex, just otehr ppls.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

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[Mr. Bougo]

A direct laser hit is usually too powerful, it makes the rocket explode. Me, Rad Ished and FruitieX have been playing around in slowmo and high speed - low damage lasers, deflecting rockets by hitting walls when they come close to them... It was lots of fun... All my attempts at deflecting a rocket with a direct laser hit made it explode.

[KadaverJack]

A direct laser hit is usually too powerful, it makes the rocket explode. Me, Rad Ished and FruitieX have been playing around in slowmo and high speed - low damage lasers, deflecting rockets by hitting walls when they come close to them... It was lots of fun... All my attempts at deflecting a rocket with a direct laser hit made it explode.

It's not the damage that causes the rocket to explode (laser does 35 damage, but a rocket has 50hp), it's the touch event triggered when the laser projectile hits the rocket...

[Komier]

Aha! That makes sense, and now I know how much hp rockets have. Thanks.

[GreEn`mArine]

a rocket has healthpoints ? Hahaha, awesome

[Dokujisan]

Do we know the hp of other projectiles? I tried launching mortars and shooting them with the nex, but I wasn't able to get them to explode.