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The other day while playing with quin and others he enabled the option to pick up a rocket launcher in a insta match. Me and ZeroKnight liked the idea of having a rocket launcher in maps during and insta match. And I don't mean you can spawn with a rocket I mean that there is 1 rocket on the map and you have to fight for it. I would like to see how others feel about this idea and if the had any other suggestions.

Yes. To elaborate further on the idea, it will basically be just like regular deathmatch as far as rocket spawns go. Just like in deathmatch, the rocket spawns only in certain places on the map, and it's a single use thing.

What we thought was, it'd be a neat idea to have in instagib, because it's already one-shot-one-kill anyway. In this sense, just like in deathmatch, the rocket could very well be a game-changer in a tightly locked battle. This way, you could much more easily get multiple kills to turn a game around. I think it's pretty logical. What harm is a pickup-only insta-kill weapon in instagib? :)

Just think about it before voting, and understand the idea is not to spawn with one, but reflect the same behavior as in regular deathmatch.

I suspect there will be people who would object precisely to the sudden game-changing nature of this proposal, but... I'm not one of them.

The sheer lulz of having the guy at the bottom suddenly shoot up after walking into a room out of nowhere and clearing an intense multi-player melee would be worth it.

Well Quin had already done this the day before I posted it http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/redeclipse/changeset/3585

Great idea, except on maps where the rocket is easy to get to right after spawning (like longestyard or echo).

I need to test it before being able to vote, I have both positive and negative feelings towards it.

It is currently default on play.redeclipse.net - so give it a go.

It is exactly as I imagined it. :awesome:

Hmm. I just got an idea. If this seems to favor rocket spamming, or ends up being too frequent of a weapon (like on small maps), perhaps we could introduce a instarocketspawntime variable, which introduces a separate spawn time on the rocket for only instagib.

I don't see it being a huge problem... the maps I've played so far the rocket is pretty rare and either obvious or difficult to reach or both, and it's generally obvious if you're looking at someone that they are packing the RL, so I don't see it being any worse of a problem than, say, the BFG or plasma rifle in a Doom deathmatch. (which is not to say that a lousy map can't make it a problem, but you will always have the poor maps with you.)

EDIT: I hasten to add that BFG/plasma in Doom has the exact effect TLP describes in the first sentence of his post below.

I've tried it on play.redeclipse.net and I must admit, it gives instagib deathmatch more of a "purpose" as you're hunting for the Rocket Launcher. Besides that, it will only net you one kill most of the time, making it not terribly overpowered either. I must say I like it, but I won't be surprised if there are people who wouldn't like it.

TheLastProject {l Wrote}:I must say I like it, but I won't be surprised if there are people who wouldn't like it.

I like it too, and agree. There will ALWAYS someone or some group who does not like something. You can not, nor will you ever be able to please everyone.

Those who dislike it appear to be in the very small minority, which is good, cinta and I like rockets in insta too (and I've been turning it on whenever I play elsewhere too: /rocketallowed 3).

I'm setting up my own RE server, how can I make "/rocketallowed 3" the default behaviour? Which line do I need in my serverexec.cfg for this?