i just got my issue of gamepro and it sys mira (a member of your party, i believe) has a weapon whcihc is a wrist mounted rocket launcher'. it allows ehr to fire knockout darts to make the enemy knocked out. she can also fire buster or ion cannons.

 

hmm, a party member worth using?

If that's true, I'd be royaly impressed. As much as I loved the first, each party member was interchangeable to me. I mean, they were different, but for the most part I just picked the guy who annoyed me the least (HK) If this is true then obsidian is trying to create some characters with truly unique abilites and usefullness. Sweet

I read this too (in a magazine). The character is meant to be a bounty hunter. How effective the rocket launcher is remains to be seen.

I think this is a step in the right direction. They NEED to give ALL the NPC's their own unique abilites or weaponry. They hinted at this in KOTOR with Canderous' bio implant. This would give each character something usefull to contribute to the party. In KOTOR, I would think of taking someone like Mission along but stop myself saying, "she'll just get owned, better take HK or Canderous". But if she had something unique to offer, she might not have been warming the bench all the time.

Wrist-mounted rocket launcher just...sounds weird. It should be cool though, I suppose.

I think unique abilities for all characters would really help.. Perhaps T3 can us computers much easer or something?

Didn't the Fett bounty hunters have wrist mounted weapons? I don't remember exactly what type of weapons they were. Rocketlauncher on your wrist though? C'mon....thats a little far-out. Maybe it is some sort of utility weapon....darts and small energy blasts sound better.

Was this a direct quote from an Obsidian employee or just speculation in the magazine?

I saw the same thing in last month's UK PC Gamer, and that was apparently after being sat down with MCA and some other Obsidian and Lucasarts people, so I'd say it's pretty accurate.

While a wrist-mounted rocket launcher may sound kinda out there, it might be cool. If the rockets are very small, a little larger than darts, it might turn out to be very cool.

There's pics of her... concept pics anyway. It looks sort of like fett's wrist blaster.

The wrist rocket launcher looked neat, and it had some pretty impressive-sounding rockets to go with it, but overall, in the demo, I was not impressed with it in combat. It didn't seem to do anymore damage than any other range weapon.

Was this a direct quote from an Obsidian employee or just speculation in the magazine?

i dont know exactly, but it looks cool and i think mira is going to be a very useful character in the game.

I think the wrist rocket launcher was confirmed somewhere....I read about it a little while ago in some interview.

It is. I hope a character has the ability to see the future. Interesting side quest could be envolved.

Yeah, Mira seemed to have great potential in the demo, witty dialogue but not bitchy.

Yeah, she has a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. It may or may not have been useful in the demo. We hadn't undergone the balance pass over all the weapons/items/armor by E3. We have a designer working on that right now.

 

-Akari

Was this a direct quote from an Obsidian employee or just speculation in the magazine?

It was in the ~100 MB video. Mira joins your party. In the description it says she has these wrist mounted rocket launchers and will be able to use any rockets and grenades you come across.

Is it possible we can see a pimpin Energy Flechette weapon like the one used by the Preds in the AvP 2 Expansion pack? That weapon was fcuking awesome!!!

wrist mounted rocket launcher? NICE!

Every NPC has some cool thing they can do. Atton Rand can get up after reaching 0 hp during combat.

Yeah, she has a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. It may or may not have been useful in the demo. We hadn't undergone the balance pass over all the weapons/items/armor by E3. We have a designer working on that right now.

 

-Akari

that developer's name isn't mgnails is it?

Yeah, she has a wrist-mounted rocket launcher.  It may or may not have been useful in the demo.  We hadn't undergone the balance pass over all the weapons/items/armor by E3.  We have a designer working on that right now. 

 

-Akari

that developer's name isn't mgnails is it?

mgnails practically made kotor1! why not?

Jango Fett had a dart-launcher & flamethrower built in his gauntlets, and could fire rockets with his jetpack.

 

They seemed to have gone a step further with Mira and put the entire rocket launcher on her wrist....

The idea of wrist rockets ins't new to gaming. Man, doesn't anyone PnP game anymore?