The magic missile launcher is the primary weapon used by Beheaded Firecrackers and Beheaded Rocketeers in the Serious Sam series.
Overview[]
The magic missile launcher is a small low-power handheld weapon and the standard-issue weaponry used by Beheaded Firecrackers and Beheaded Rocketeers. missiles fired from the launcher are very weak; they are slow and take time to reach their target, making them very easy to avoid.
Like the chainguns wielded by Arachnoids, the magic missile launcher is equipped with a techno-magical ammunition replenisher, giving the weapon infinite ammo, though it still has to be reloaded with each shot.
Firecrackers use a different variant of the magic missile launcher, and will shoot a spread of five magic missiles from its weapon, that will spread along the floor/ground in a diagonal fashion (the center projectile shooting straight). These missiles can slide along walls and other tall obstacles if they connect at a low angle.
In Serious Sam 3: BFE, Serious Sam 4 and Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, the Rocketeer's gun takes on an appearance similar to that of a pistol, and has to reloaded manually after being fired, giving it a very slow fire rate.
Tactics[]
- The projectiles fired from this weapon are very easy to avoid, as they are slow. Simply strafing in one direction or jumping over them makes it impossible for them to hit the player.
- However, in the Serious Sam Fusion version of Serious Sam 3, if Serious difficulty is selected, the Rocketeers' projectiles now have a chance of homing in on the player, making them more difficult to avoid.
- In I Hate Running Backwards, the projectiles can be deflected, though this can prove difficult when Rocketeers show up in large numbers.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE[]
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List of appearances[]
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter (First appearance)
- Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
- Serious Sam: Xbox (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam: Next Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
- Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
- Serious Sam: Double D (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam: The Random Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam 3: BFE
- Serious Sam: Double D: XXL (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
- Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE (non-canonical appearance)
- I Hate Running Backwards (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam 4
- Serious Sam Classics: Revolution (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem