Crazy Fireball-Type Rockets are coming!

Pix must have got their nerf and buff cycle precisely planned. Buff flamethrowers, release shell, increase flame users and then the replacement arrives to nerf the existing ones 😅

I’m in!!

Well, my ice rockets have that reload time.....when my Ice Tyr goes assault and launches, I haven’t seen anyone in any hurry to “rush” me, lol

If firecrackers are weak, then sure.....but watching bots blow up!  That is good content if ya ask me!

In a test server test by AYGIR the cryos beat them on damage. But of course the scorcher has the range.

That’s how it should be since it got range but then we all know that there’ll be an unexpected bug to make it OP.

So, hello Tulu V2.0!

Perfect Spectre loadout!  But, for me........nice upgrade for my Tulu Doc!

Interestingly enough the Scorcher outperforms the Cryo when using them against the Invader.

My hypothesis is that these weapons's special explosion effect takes a certain percentage of the target's robot HP instead of dealing a certain damage value. If this is correct then these weapons will be very effective against tanks, Titans, and other bots who rely on Resistance or Reflector shield.

If you run these weapons with shieldbreakers, it’ll do great against demeters that are healing teammates. Not only will the Absorber shield be useless, you can damage multiple bots

sounds like pixonic to me. they really want people to buy demeters

Alright, after testing these things on the recent test server sessions here's what I found.

The rockets themselves without the detonation effect doesn't do that much damage. Scald is stronger than Pin but that isn't saying much, Scorcher is about the same as Tulumbas, and Incinerator is often bested by Avalanche. The bulk of their damage output comes from the explosion effect.

They have a smaller splash radius compared to Tulumbas or Avalanche, so a precise aim is required to efficiently use these weapons at near its maximum range. Lockdown ammo can be very useful with these weapons.

The detonation effect can be stacked over and over again. There isn't an immunity period like other status effects where you're immune to said effects for 5 seconds. As soon as the detonation happens, you can be hit with the explosion again.

The detonation effect seems to deal percentage based damage rather than the usual fixed value damage (not sure how much). It also bypasses resistance. While this makes the weapon rather weak to use against most normal robots, it makes these weapons extremely powerful against Tanks and especially Titans. I loaded these rockets on an Ares with Lockdown ammo and I can bring down fresh Titans to half or less health with just one single Retribution pass. Most of the damage comes from the detonation effect while Ares's built in weapons does minimal damage in comparison.

Yes, Anti-Control doesn't stop the effect, and Phase Shift does not seem to remove the effect while it's still half charged either. But if you time your Phase Shift right you can avoid the damage from the detonation effect by making yourself invincible right when the detonation is going to happen, similar to the Hellburner Phase Shift trick.

Keep in mind though that this is still in test server, and some things might change once it hits live server.

Weapon doesn’t bypass ancile but detonation does for this revenue generating product.

Oops my mistake. The comment I stated is applicable to resistance. Not for ancile. 
The weapon doesn’t bypass resistance but the explosion. Haven’t observed or heard about the weapon details against ancile.

From what I can understand these new weapons are supposed to be a weird combination between rocket launchers and flamethrowers (who are known to bypass Ancile shields). My theory is that the projectiles aren't actually rockets but more like hyper-concentrated fire(?), or some sort of space-age thermite. To be honest I don't know what it is.