Should the homing launcher have improved speed and accuracy against fi

[Hunter]

No.

 

The jet's ability to dodge missiles isn't what makes it overpowered. That prize goes to the laser beam 'o' death cannon they have, and the ground players inability to aim straight up (which leads to dive bombing).

 

Rockstar need to hit the nail on the head, not smash around it and f**k up what they've made.

 

And besides, this would f**k up all other aircraft even more. The other aircraft have already had enough s**t over this weapon. No thanks.

[shadowoperative]

Give the minigun the option to have explosive rounds.

[Troll69]

Only the jet cowards are voting no.

you're damn RIGHT!

[shadowoperative]

There's that word again fanboy.

 

Good one. Not played out at all.

[Gridl0k]

Just reduce the jet cannon range to 60%. Still good enough for missions and good pilots, short enough to catch sh*tty pilots out.

[SkylineGTRFreak]

 

Only the jet cowards are voting no.

you're damn RIGHT!

No, not at all. What you need to realize: you buy the weapon for a relatively low amount of money (in GTA that is). You need to point at a vehicle, press a button and that's it.

No matter how unskilled you see jet pilots, the homing launcher is basically the one tool in GTA that doesn't need skill at all. If anything, make the missiles faster, but the homing worse. You can't have both

[Hunter]

Tell you what, just give me a Hunter and I can take down every jet in the game.

[Troll69]

To all the people saying the helicopters will get shot down even more easily, rockstar can simply add a flare system to throw the missiles off course with the push of a button, giving you enough time to get the hell out of harms way.

[Hunter]

To all the people saying the helicopters will get shot down even more easily, rockstar can simply add a flare system to throw the missiles off course with the push of a button, giving you enough time to get the hell out of harms way.

Well until I see a system like this put in place, I'm not about to vote that this revoltingly overpowered weapon becomes even more overpowered. Sick of helicopters getting a raw deal.

[Troll69]

If the HL doesn't improve somehow or they don't nerf the jet at least, then we're are all just gonna get f*cked over and over relentlessly by the sky noobs. Unfortunately the jets are winning the war against the launchers.

[jatiger13]

Homing launcher, heavy sniper. Jets have to fly in a fairly predictable path in order to dodge a missile.

No they don't. In the jet, I make crazy loops and other things when someone fired the HL at me. There's NOTHING predictable about my "path".

I'm not one of those people who juts start flying in a circle. That's just dumb

Edited February 25, 2016 by jatiger13

[BitBasher]

Just add an EMP weapon that only works against attack jets, has the same purchase price as a Hydra, instantly locks on at the exact same range as the Hydra/Lazer main gun and costs the exact same per shot as it costs to call in the Hydra from Merryweather. The plane would then dive at the ground and crash with eject disabled so the ground person gets the kill.

 

Then it would be exactly fair. If ground people could kill a jet for the same cost and with the same ease as a jet people can kill ground personnel now, how could jet people complain? After all the jets could just go passive, which is exactly what jet players tell ground people to do right now if they don't want to be killed. Plus, for the ground people it would be far more fun that it is now, and the jet people keep saying that fun is important and Rockstar should stop eliminating fun, right?

 

Boom! Problem solved!

[TexasRocks]

NO id love rockstar to remove this unskilled piece of sh*t!!!!!!

Lmao! Says the unskilled guy who has to pump up his KD in a jet.

 

 

When it first came out the HL missile was much faster and tracked better. They should've left it like that.

[Troll69]

Just add an EMP weapon that only works against attack jets, has the same purchase price as a Hydra, instantly locks on at the exact same range as the Hydra/Lazer main gun and costs the exact same per shot as it costs to call in the Hydra from Merryweather. The plane would then dive at the ground and crash with eject disabled so the ground person gets the kill.

 

Then it would be exactly fair. If ground people could kill a jet for the same cost and with the same ease as a jet people can kill ground personnel now, how could jet people complain? After all the jets could just go passive, which is exactly what jet players tell ground people to do right now if they don't want to be killed. Plus, for the ground people it would be far more fun that it is now, and the jet people keep saying that fun is important and Rockstar should stop eliminating fun, right? Very good idea, you should email that to rockstar!

 

Boom! Problem solved!

[Arachne]

I have a better idea!

 

Bring Hunter to GTAO, and make it the best way to fight jets.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Arachne

[BatFerYou]

To all the people saying the helicopters will get shot down even more easily, rockstar can simply add a flare system to throw the missiles off course with the push of a button, giving you enough time to get the hell out of harms way.

 

NO. THE JET RACE MUST SUFFER.

[shadowoperative]

 

To all the people saying the helicopters will get shot down even more easily, rockstar can simply add a flare system to throw the missiles off course with the push of a button, giving you enough time to get the hell out of harms way.

NO. THE JET RACE MUST SUFFER.

I agree. Well put.

[Hunter]

I have a better idea!

 

Bring Hunter to GTAO, and make it the best way to fight jets.

The Hunter's disciples are growing in numbers.

 

Just bring out the Hunter, and make it move like it used to. I can take out any jet with that.

[shadowoperative]

 

I have a better idea!

 

Bring Hunter to GTAO, and make it the best way to fight jets.

The Hunter's disciples are growing in numbers

True. Almost to double digits.

[Mattoropael]

No, buff Technical and Insurgent pickup gun elevation instead.

 

It's almost funny how people keep yelling "the jet is a no-skill griefing tool" while suggesting buffing the most skill-less weapon in the entire franchise as a counter to it.

[Hunter]

 

 

I have a better idea!

 

Bring Hunter to GTAO, and make it the best way to fight jets.

The Hunter's disciples are growing in numbers

True. Almost to double digits.

 

Jesus only had a few in the early days.

 

If I'm lucky, 2000 years later the Hunter might have a few more.

 

Edited February 25, 2016 by Icantthinkofonew

[TexasRocks]

No, buff Technical and Insurgent pickup gun elevation instead.

 

It's almost funny how people keep yelling "the jet is a no-skill griefing tool" while suggesting buffing the most skill-less weapon in the entire franchise as a counter to it.

Precisely. If jet griefers want to be lazy cowards and kill the easy way, give everybody else an easy way to put their sorry asses on the ground. What's the problem here?

[Nutduster]

Only the jet cowards are voting no.

 

Not true. I never thought the homing launcher was a good idea in the first place. There are other things they should do about jets:

 

- Add a cooldown to calling Pegasus (would suggest 5 minutes if the vehicle actually spawns - that way you can call again if you never go pick up your vehicle, but if you use it, or try to, you have to wait)

- Disable passive mode when using an armed vehicle

- Most importantly: give Merryweather mercs fighter jets when going after airborne targets. This is what I wanted from the beginning, before the HL even existed, and I still want it now. People would be more inclined to use this option to take out jet griefers; less inclined to use it on random helicopters and planes, since it's expensive and has a long cooldown on it. (An alternative I used to suggest was a one-use Stinger missile that you had to call Merryweather to get, and was 100% effective as long as you didn't hit a building or something; obviously now that we have the homing launcher, this will never happen.)

 

As for the homing launcher, if they do the things above it's no longer really needed, though unfortunately I don't see them removing it now. They could nerf it a little further for my tastes though. It's already not effective against jets, and it's too effective against everything else. The main thing I think it would need is for the turn radius on the missile to be much larger so it can't turn on a damn dime without losing any speed.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Nutduster

[ViolatingBox]

 

No, buff Technical and Insurgent pickup gun elevation instead.

 

It's almost funny how people keep yelling "the jet is a no-skill griefing tool" while suggesting buffing the most skill-less weapon in the entire franchise as a counter to it.

Precisely. If jet griefers want to be lazy cowards and kill the easy way, give everybody else an easy way to put their sorry asses on the ground. What's the problem here?

 

Go passive, get in jet, dog fight it out for the "easy" kill.

[shadowoperative]

 

 

No, buff Technical and Insurgent pickup gun elevation instead.

 

It's almost funny how people keep yelling "the jet is a no-skill griefing tool" while suggesting buffing the most skill-less weapon in the entire franchise as a counter to it.

Precisely. If jet griefers want to be lazy cowards and kill the easy way, give everybody else an easy way to put their sorry asses on the ground. What's the problem here?

 

Go passive, get in jet, dog fight it out for the "easy" kill.

What about the players who don't want to get in a jet. We need a different ground weapon.

[badnews]

When I was playing last night I could have sworn the HL was even more effective than usual, but could have just been less competant pilots than usual. I still think it could do with abit of buffing though, its pretty obvious the jet is still completely OP

 

 

Only the jet cowards are voting no.

you're damn RIGHT!

No, not at all. What you need to realize: you buy the weapon for a relatively low amount of money (in GTA that is). You need to point at a vehicle, press a button and that's it.
No matter how unskilled you see jet pilots, the homing launcher is basically the one tool in GTA that doesn't need skill at all. If anything, make the missiles faster, but the homing worse. You can't have both

 

It still takes more skill than the jet as you need to keep the jet in your aim for a couple of seconds, whereas the jet you can just go high and divebomb randomly blasting down and get a kill 9 times out of 10, which admittedly can be fun if you fancy abit of trolling but is undoubtedly a cheap way of playing.

Edited February 25, 2016 by badnews

[.Vooodu.]

If they buff the HL everything else in the sky will have problems.

 

But there's passive mode. SO R* can fix passive mode to work on all air crafts EXCEPT armed air crafts.

 

 

If the end result is less hostile armed air crafts. Im all for buffing the sh*t of the HL. Less armed air crafts = less sky trolls. Less laggy cops spawning all over the place. More fun on the ground.

 

So sure.. Buff the HL.

Edited February 25, 2016 by HulioG

[Shneb]

I wish it was more effective against armed vehicles, and maybe less effective against unarmed vehicles. I think it's possible. It's already coded to be more effective against human controlled vehicles then AI controlled vehicles.

[TexasRocks]

 

 

No, buff Technical and Insurgent pickup gun elevation instead.

 

It's almost funny how people keep yelling "the jet is a no-skill griefing tool" while suggesting buffing the most skill-less weapon in the entire franchise as a counter to it.

Precisely. If jet griefers want to be lazy cowards and kill the easy way, give everybody else an easy way to put their sorry asses on the ground. What's the problem here?

 

Go passive, get in jet, dog fight it out for the "easy" kill.

Nah, I prefer fighting on the ground. I'll just keep getting in parking garages or under bridges and sniping jets out. It's a pain though. Much rather fight real players on the ground.

[SpeakersCorner]

Jets? Pff, they're harmless. It's so easy to destroy the jets without HL.