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History learns us that valve does not use unlockables to balance a class.
Instead you should try to come up with a weapon that adds something new.

Pretty much all of the past unlockables had a certain mechanic, it can be health leeching, slowdown or things like a bow or a backblast. Valve does not bring out the weapons to balance things(though it can be part of the design goals) instead valve brings them to add content. To lure players back and to keep the game appealing to new players. Thats the reason why valve uses ideas from the steamforums and not from here. New weapons need to be cool and have new mechanics, they need to be gimmicks.

Take the heavy for example. A nice weapon would have been one that spins up faster while doing less damage or having an overheat. This would be a very a nice sidegrade, however it does not add anything new and it would not be as good for marketing / hype as the sandvich. And besides, you should not use a weapon sidegrade to solve certain problems like selfdamage that a class might have.

So if you want to come up with a serious unlockable idea you will need to make sure that its actually a new weapon that is interesting for all players.

faster rockets and mini crits on direct hits sounds cool, would make moar airshots seeable =)

And would change the main style of play alot to as currently people dont risk missing to get a full body shot that often tbh

Would be nice to see, work out the numbers etc and send them to Valve?

+1 very nice idea

its great. but faster rockets will make for rockets nobody can dodge anymore. i’d have a lot of trouble with faster rockets (still 2 hits = dead) as a scout. imagine how the other heavy classes would cry their heart out if the rockets got any faster

Are you saying that at the moment Soldier’s rockets are just on the edge of being too fast? I strongly disagree, but I’m not talking about insanely faster rockets either. Just a subtle change that would give Soldiers a chance to show some airshot skills against jump-spamming scouts on an open area.

its great. but faster rockets will make for rockets nobody can dodge anymore. i’d have a lot of trouble with faster rockets (still 2 hits = dead) as a scout. imagine how the other heavy classes would cry their heart out if the rockets got any faster

Are you saying that at the moment Soldier’s rockets are just on the edge of being too fast? I strongly disagree, but I’m not talking about insanely faster rockets either.

Faster rockets = less damage and i dont think the damage is quite right atm, i think a little less fall off and alot less self damage :x

With demoman i understand why he has so much self damage becasue its so easy to get enemys from a distance but with soldier because of the speed of the rockets i think it should do like 5/10% less self damage :>

Redeemer. The solly needs a redeemer. Nuff said.

HL2 Rocket Launcher

I assume it’s the same than HL1? Shoot it in CP4 of Badlands, right side of the spire, after a while move the dot to the deck. Rocket catches medic’s back.

BOOM ROCKET IS A SPY

^^

Im gonna laugh REALLY hard if soli gets something like a sandwich… Or something that replaces the shotgun

Also shotgun can kill a scout in 2 hits :X Not that it ever does :D