Rocketeer

The **Rocketeer** is one of the 14 primary classes. As a heavy class, it has the second-highest health and the second-lowest speed in the game, after Spray N Pray. In an additional similarity, both classes also wear green clothing, though the same goes for Marksman. Unlike it, however, the Rocketeer can increase its mobility by switching to a secondary weapon or melee. This allows him to jump onto environmental objects like small crates, which he can't do while carrying a Rocket Launcher.

Overview

The Rocketeer's best chance to score kills is often before the target even enters its line of sight. This is because the Rocket Launcher isn't usually strong enough to kill a full-health player; at best, switching to a secondary weapon or melee is the best method to kill the opponent if the Rocket Launcher hasn't fully damaged their HP. The alternative is to try and duck behind some cover while reloading, then shoot the rocket at close range, which carries a risk of killing yourself through blast damage too. Some Rocketeers may even straight-up opt for that, judging the situation hopeless otherwise, and preferring to deny kill points to their enemy.

In the update 1.7.7/1.7.8, the self damage of the rocketeer has been greatly reduced with rocket jump also being added.

Rocketeer will often pop in and out from behind a corner, firing a rocket when spotting the enemy and immediately go back behind the corner to reload/switch to their secondary weapon, and to retreat slightly, to give themselves room once their wounded target turns the corner themselves. Another tactic is to find a choke point (typically an entrance to the tunnel or a doorway) stand diagonally to the side of it so that players going through it can't see you, and keep firing rockets at it, so that anyone trying to go through will get hit. It's not fool-proof because of Rocketeer's relatively low damage, however. Also, the sound heard when the rocket hits a player, as opposed to a regular object, will immediately alert you and any allied player, if applicable.

Rocketeer is a good counter to Hunters: their low health makes them particularly vulnerable to the Rocket Launcher, as the secluded areas where they camp and their own low health makes it hard for hunter to avoid dying. Rocketeer's high health also makes it so that a Hunter must headshot them. Rocketeers fare poorly against fast-moving and close-range classes like Run N Gun, Vince or even Detective, however, because they'll close in distance fast enough to force you into a choice between using the secondary weapon or self-damage.

The Rocketeer class is often easy to play as, but hard to master, while getting kills is not too difficult, the Rocketeer does not get many score points. In FFA matches in particular, experienced Rocketeers will often only soften up the enemy with the Rocket Launcher, before trying to score a secondary weapon headshot to get bonus points. During the Hardpoint matches, however, the Rocketeer is often the best class to play with, to the point it may break the game: since hardpoints are often placed where the only entries to them are chokepoints, Rocketeers can deny anyone the chance to get there, especially if there's more than one. Likewise, the defending players will cluster tightly on the hardpoint, which is a great opportunity for the attacking Rocketeer. Infected can also be a good mode, for this class assuming you have found a good chokepoint to guard.

Lastly, Rocketeer is also a good class to play Pistol only, since its 130 health increases your chances of successfully pumping the enemy player with Pistol's 10 low-damage bullets. This advantage is only magnified if you decide to play with a Deagle (or even an Alien Blaster) instead.

Gameplay Footage

Patch History

Visit the Rocket Launcher page for the history of the weapon itself.

**v3.3.3**
* Rocketeer now gets 25 additional points per kill

**v3.2.5**

* Added Secondary back to Rocketeer

**v3.0.3**

* Removed Secondary from Rocketeer

**v1.7.9**

* Rocketeer can now be used in ranked

**v1.1.0**

* Fixed Rocketeer Close Call glitch

**v0.9.9991**

* Reduced Rocketeer HP to 130
* Rocketeer can now deal damage to himself

**v0.9.999**

* Decreased Movement speed of Rocketeer

The **Rocketeer** was introduced in **v0.9.998**

Trivia

* This class had originally appeared in the 2D top-down shooter vertix.io However, he had a different appearance there, as it wore darker clothing and had a clean-shaved appearance. It also had no other weapon besides his rocket launcher. Rocketeer was omitted from karnage.io, a game was released in between Vertix.io and Krunker and was 3D, but is still played from a top-down perspective. However, the Mr Ops class in that game had the same bearded face as the current Rocketeer, even though he used a different explosive weapon, the "Nade Thrower," and was a successor to the Nademan class in Vertix.io.
* This class has not been buffed much and has been nerfed quite a bit in all its history of patches.
* This class is very common amongst first time Guests and low level or new players.