The Liberty Launcher is a primary weapon for the Soldier. It is an army green rocket launcher with tan wooden handles, a leaf sight, adorned with a white U.S. Army insignia, and a wooden shoulder-rest with a wire frame exhaust port.
The Liberty Launcher's projectile travels at a rate of 1540 Hammer Units per second - roughly 66 mph - 40% faster than the default Rocket Launcher's rockets. However, it can only have three rockets loaded at once, compared to the default Rocket Launcher's four.
Damage and function times
| Damage and function times
|
| Shot type
|
Projectile
|
| Damage
|
| Maximum ramp-up
|
125%
|
112
|
| Base damage
|
100%
|
90
|
| Maximum fall-off
|
53%
|
48
|
| Point blank
|
105-112
|
| Medium range
|
50-90
|
| Long range
|
45-60
|
| Critical
|
270
|
| Mini-crit
|
122
|
| Splash damage
|
| Minimum splash
|
50%
|
9 ft
|
| Damage reduction
|
1% / 2.88
|
| Self-damage
|
27-89
|
| Self damage (rocket jump)
|
27-46
|
| Function times
|
| Attack interval
|
0.8 s
|
| Reload (first)
|
0.8 s
|
| Reload (consecutive)
|
0.92 s
|
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
|
Item set
Crafting
Blueprint
As a Crafting Ingredient
Related Achievements
|
|
Backdraft Dodger
Kill a Pyro who has airblasted one of your rockets in the last 10 seconds.
|
|
|
Crockets Are Such B.S.
Shoot two non-boosted crit rockets in a row.
|
|
|
For Whom the Shell Trolls
Bounce an opponent into the air with a rocket and then kill them with the shotgun before they land.
|
|
|
|
|
Mutually Assured Destruction
Kill an enemy sniper with a rocket after he kills you.
|
|
|
Where Eagles Dare
Get the highest possible rocket jump using jump and crouch.
|
|
Update history
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- The Liberty Launcher was added to the game.
June 28, 2011 Patch
- Added/Refined recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for all of the new weapons in the Uber Update.
Bugs
- Like the Direct Hit and Black Box, the Soldier does not load rockets for the Liberty Launcher when reloading.
- The wooden shoulder-rest clips through the Soldier's shoulder slightly during movement.
Trivia
- The Liberty Launcher was originally named the Jumper's Trumpet, and at one point, simply the Liberty.[1][2]
- The wooden shoulder-rest on the Liberty launcher has a resembelance to the famouse Liberty Bell
Gallery
References
 Soldier |
|---|
| | Weapons |
Primary | | | Secondary | | | Melee |
Shovel ( Frying Pan, Saxxy, Conscientious Objector, Freedom Staff, Bat Outta Hell, Memory Maker, Ham Shank, Golden Frying Pan, Necro Smasher, Crossing Guard, Prinny Machete) · Equalizer · Pain Train · Half-Zatoichi · Disciplinary Action · Market Gardener · Escape Plan | | | |
| | | Abilities | | | | Cosmetics | | | | Item sets | | | | Special taunts | | | | Achievements | | | | Character | | | | Strategy | | | | Other | |
|
x2
x4
Pyro
Heavy
