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Jav6 - Target lock, powerful with good chance of critical, rules most Tournament maps, on CPC, can either be an asset or liability, depending on map and battle conditions. I call it the Sucker Punch weapon, especially on the Shadow cause it comes out of nowhere and takes off a ton of damage.

Rocket Mortars - I have the RM8 and the RM12. The RM8 comes as a pair while the RM12 is solo until it is maxed. You'll have fun for a few games with the RM series, but after a while it gets boring. I do find use for them occasionally for tasks like: "use x mech to kill x mechs >100m" or something like that. They can be useful on the open Tournament maps, and useful on a couple of CPC maps, but honestly, I wouldn't throw resources at this.

Missile Racks - skip the MR6 and get the MR8 when you can. It will rock on the Guardian for a while, but any of the mechs that can carry it can rock it too. I like mine on my Zephyr and it's great except when I run into high HP opponents that can soak up the damage and then kill me before I get back into cover. Missile Racks are best used at close range and against slow moving foes. They will miss most of their shots against strafing mechs - even slow ones, so it's best to shoot them straight into someone's face.

I've used the RPG6 and MR6 a lot, and in my opinion, the RPG6 when ranked up, is the over all better weapon.

Javs are the love children of spirals and aphids. They loose efficacy against higher Armored targets later on in the game, but remain valuable indirect fire tools.

Rocket mortars are the love children of Noricums and Zenits. The only reliable version is the 12 cost variant. All mortars cover the same area in terms of splash down.
8 and 10 fire few rockets, so their hit registration can be iffy, while the 12 version fires the most rockets in the same area of effect, so they have the highest chance of hitting multiple rockets on mechs in the splash zone.

Missile rack 6 are weapons of preference. Their only advantage is how quickly they put damage out. Other 6 cost weapons for their effective ranges either deal more damage overall(Plasma6) have better accuracy(RPG6), or literally can't miss(Shotgun 4)

Missile rack 8 is the burst weapon. Like missile rack 6, it's main advantage is the amount of damage it puts out in a short period of time. Other weapons in the energy slot deal more damage overall, but take more time to do it.

Both missile racks are only reliably accurate around the 30-40 meter mark depending on the enemy mech's speed, and their reload time leaves their user's open to being severely punished if they can't kill or retreat after a salvo.

Way over 50.

Yeah it was truly a... ahem... game changer. 

A little later there was one I loved... Serious Sam.  Think there was a recent remake of that one...

Hexen! Wow, blast from the past!

There was another game...it was by Origin, the people who did the Wing Commander games... Shadow something... I remember running around with no weapons and just kicking the bad guys until I found a throwing star! lol.

It was Shadow Caster, I just remembered!

Descent was cool, but I never got into it. The 3D travel was great at first, but after a while, I lost sense of up or down and it just became one hallway after another. Another cool game was Aliens vs Marines, where you could play as an Alien. Only played a short demo though.