Rockets being deflected by the laser

[Dokujisan]

Carrying over from this topic about the crylink...
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.ph ... 1&start=90


Kozak wrote

I hate to take this thread off topic, I am very interested in this laser/rocket deflection.

Was it the laser bolt itself hitting the rocket, or the impact splash that caused the deflection?

halogene wrote

I think the laser bolt itself hit the rocket. I was shooting parallel to the floor so it shouldn't have hit anything but the rocket. Gotta try this out sometime with two clients in a private game.

But it might be the deflection works even whith the splash push of the laser.

I'm sure someone can provide a youtube video demonstrating this.

Basically when the rocket gets caught in the blast radius of the laser, it changes course. A few of us played around with this effect after observing it during games and going "wtf just happened???". I originally thought it was a glitch in the game. The laser doesn't have to actually hit the rocket. In fact, a direct hit would likely detonate the rocket. From my understanding, the hit-point level of a rocket is high enough where it won't explode when caught in the blast radius of the laser, whereas other weapons will detonate the rocket if the rocket is caught in their blast radius (electro, hagar, mortar, crylink).

You can experiment with it yourself. have someone shoot a rocket constantly at a wall and you laser the floor under the rocket. The rocket will change course.

[Mirio]

Question: you guys didn't know that?

lololol man

[Sepelio]

I noticed this a long time ago lol. I think rocket deflection is cool, but that fact just about every other weapon detonates rockets just pisses me off.

Although it is funny when you nex someone just as they launch a rocket and your nex beam detonates the rocket

[Chubby]

When I was a noob, my brother and I always fired rockets to each other from big distances. I deflected them too.[/u]

[morfar]

I think I deflected a rocket with a electro ball or the rocket was swallowed the ball
Or I remember wrong.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

i remember deflecting a rocket with a nex shot on one of my rare CTF visits.

[Dokujisan]

how is that possible? A nex shot has too much damage for a rocket and it doesn't have any blast radius.

[Oat]

I concur.

I have stopped the RL coming at me with my nex shot (extreme stroke of luck while waving my nex wildly in duration of turning around).

I might have demo on it but I seriously don't want to spend hours looking through it for the specific moment.

Basically the nex goes through the actual rocket while it's flying and explode it before it reaches it's destination.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

wasn't there a discussion about this sorta stuff already?

[Stromboli]

Heck, one time, I was toting a hagar with a few hundred rounds, and managed to pretty much steamroll some guy with a rocket launcher, knocking all of his shots out of the air.