The Homing launcher depreciation thread

[GAUNTLET HELLFIRE]

 

You can always go passive unless you are using your free unlimited lock on missiles on innocent ground players. The only reason the armed helicopters are not op is because of the homing launcher. Anyone that hates the homing launcher should also hate lock on missiles on armed helicopters unless of course they just want to be able to get easy kills without anyone being able to fight back.

Speak for yourself. I can easily kill any helicopter without a homing launcher.

 

Snipe the tail rotor off a Savage, then it's done. Won't be going anywhere. Or four bullets of a revolver (that's available to level 1 players, or a quick swipe of the minigun, or even a quick auto aim of an assault rifle. It's not hard.

 

Just because certain people have trouble with this, it doesn't mean the game should be ruined due to their shortcomings.

 

Besides, this is a depreciation thread. Depreciation.

 

The Savage isn't the only armed helicopter. The helicopter has to be quite close to you to be able to shoot it with a Revolver or AR and you have to know where it is unlike a helicopter that locks onto players even if you can't see them.

 

 

 

I can't even fly around in my beloved Savage without some random little s**t trying to take me down with this Noob Launcher. Can't remember the last time I was just minding my own business fighting the cops or just flying around without the dreaded HL lock-on warning. Poor Savage has paper mache armor and handles like a flying Rhino as it is. It has to deal with this HL crap too.

 

Best ways to deal with this is to either:

 

Buff Helicopter Armor

Or Give Helicopters flares

Or Level-Lock the HL (At Least 150)

Or Remove It Altogether (Very Unlikely, but a man can dream.)

Or go passive. You don't need to access weapons if you aren't attacking ground players.

Shouldn't have to go passive to avoid the HL spammers.

 

Nothing wrong with passive in an aircraft. I go passive almost every time I use any air vehicle.

 

 

 

Or go passive. You don't need to access weapons if you aren't attacking ground players.

 

 

 

An attack helicopter is used to attack. Clue's in the name.

 

It is unfairly hindered in its ability to do this currently.

 

So you are complaining anyone can easily fight back when you attack them? It may be called an attack helicopter but it doesn't have to be used to attack people.

[livejoker]

God, please don't let depreciation threads become a thing. What's the point of a Bitch & Moan if the forum is flooded with depreciation threads? Everyone is gonna hate everything about the game at some point. Sure, same can be said about appreciation threads so why not make a big appreciation thread? Damnit, counter-argument with myself. f*ck it, let's all love and hate everything at the same time.

*sigh*

We've reached a new low and Lil Jon is damn impressed.

Edited April 13, 2016 by livejoker

[ChumpDelux]

I dropped my homing launcher many months ago and it was my best decision. The only use I had for it was standing on the roof and taking out all three buzzards on wave 10 Processed survival. Even that wasn't a good enough reason for me to keep it so I reverted to the old fashioned way and use a mini gun on those helis.

 

I understand some people adore their homing rockets, but it's just not for everyone.

[tenpennyisplainevil]

I like depreciation threads. Some things just deserve a thread specially dedicated to trashing it. Looking forward to the donk depreciation thread, though I'm not going to create it myself

[The Wandering Hunter]

Level locking the homing launcher is silly, the high levels with miniguns are precisely the people who don't need it

 

How to fix it:

Only allow lock on to armed air vehicles

Give all armed air vehicles flares, usable once every 30 seconds and equip able like all other heli weapons

 

Now, a problem arises, the jet is still op

So nerf the blast radius of the cannons. It would still be good, but far less noob friendly and would require actual aiming

 

And while I'm at it, remove insurance and bs for the kuruma, buff the tank, give me an a-10 and only me, give op a hunter and also I want to be able to control animals in online

Edited April 13, 2016 by The Sole Survivor

[Arrows to Athens]

I wish they would remove the 180 pile drivers the Homing Launcher can do against Helicopters. Its SUPER annoying when you dodge the rocket, then it does a vertical 180 turn in the most impossible of ways and just smashes down on the center of the main rotor.

 

Like who's idea was that?

Yeah, it's very bad and inconsistent at alerting the pilot if it's coming straight for them.

Edited April 13, 2016 by Fearx--

[dead goon]

Hunter.

[Furtive Pygmy]

Now someone should start up a Jet depreciation thread.

[hyperar]

God, please don't let depreciation threads become a thing. What's the point of a Bitch & Moan if the forum is flooded with depreciation threads? Everyone is gonna hate everything about the game at some point. Sure, same can be said about appreciation threads so why not make a big appreciation thread? Damnit, counter-argument with myself. f*ck it, let's all love and hate everything at the same time.

 

*sigh*

 

We've reached a new low and Lil Jon is damn impressed.

Go away

[saintsrow]

 

This weapon is like a cancer, gnawing away at the game from the inside out.

I'm sorry to break the news to people, but this statement "_______ is like a cancer, gnawing away at the game from the inside out" applies to every weapon, every tactic, and every player in GTA Online.

 

Everything in GTA0 is used for unfair advantage to spoil other players' fun. This how Rockstar designed the game, and this is how the game is played.

 

We expect better, but Rockstar's happy, and that's all that matters.

[R3CON]

Now someone should start up a Jet depreciation thread.

Why do people hate jets?

http://gtaforums.com/topic/840828-why-do-people-hate-jets/page-1

Edited April 13, 2016 by ikaR3CON

[livejoker]

I like depreciation threads. Some things just deserve a thread specially dedicated to trashing it. Looking forward to the donk depreciation thread, though I'm not going to create it myself

Sorry for making this off-topic but I felt I should add this in before this blows into a full STD.

 

If depreciation threads become a thing that means any negative replies in an appreciation thread should be deleted seeing it's off-topic and it doesn't belong in the thread. There's already so many negative replies in threads about "car appreciation" and then everyone jumps on the guy who dissed the car. But if that logic is applied that means any appreciation post in a depreciation thread is also off-topic. f*ck me, this cycle never ends. It's just gonna be a whole clusterf*ck of what we can and can't say and what's worth keeping on the forum.

 

@hyper: Will do.

Edited April 13, 2016 by livejoker

[Arrows to Athens]

Level locking the homing launcher is silly, the high levels with miniguns are precisely the people who don't need it

 

How to fix it:

Only allow lock on to armed air vehicles

Give all armed air vehicles flares, usable once every 30 seconds and equip able like all other heli weapons

 

Now, a problem arises, the jet is still op

So nerf the blast radius of the cannons. It would still be good, but far less noob friendly and would require actual aiming

 

And while I'm at it, remove insurance and bs for the kuruma, buff the tank, give me an a-10 and only me, give op a hunter and also I want to be able to control animals in online

It would give lower level players an incentive to actually rank up and earn it? Why give such an OP weapon to a level 20 just like that? You have an RPG, which is inferior to the HL, that unlocks at level 100, but the HL is available at any rank. What sense does that make?

[Ocelot]

Don't hate, appreciate. Be smart.

[LogScottWood]

It's all a sense of perspective at the end of the day. From the ground it appears as though jets are this lightning quick, indestructible, over-powered and incredibly manoeuvrable beast that cannot be tamed and cannot be destroyed. Yet, when you're actually in a jet, you feel totally vulnerable and exposed. Every bullet your big mechanical bird takes feels like a knife to the chest. Flying high enough to avoid homing missiles and then plummeting down to hit a ground player with the cannons and then managing to pull up in time to avoid smashing head on into a tree/building is much harder than it appears.

 

You begin to wonder whether it would have been better to spend your $3 million elsewhere on a more peaceful existence away from all this hatred. Once you get in a jet, people immediately think you are a c*nt. It's what I imagine it's like to support Chelsea or openly vote Tory.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Log

[Xiled]

Hydra costs more in shark card prices, thats why you can dodge the homing rocket with barely any skill. I bet them housers have something to do with this.

Edited April 13, 2016 by Xiled

[Arrows to Athens]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or go passive. You don't need to access weapons if you aren't attacking ground players.

 

 

 

An attack helicopter is used to attack. Clue's in the name.

 

It is unfairly hindered in its ability to do this currently.

 

So you are complaining anyone can easily fight back when you attack them? It may be called an attack helicopter but it doesn't have to be used to attack people.

 

But that's the main purpose of an attack helicopter, is it not? Sure, you could use it as a cruising aircraft if you wanted to, but I would rather f*ck off for a Swift Deluxe; the main purpose of that helicopter is to cruise.

[AndyGanteks]

Use the B/M topic guys.