How about a damage bonus comparable to the Direct Hit with a little more firing-speed at the cost of longer reload times? Of course, this is a little OP as it deals decent splash damage, so tread lightly and adjust the following accordingly...

Shot type: Projectile
Maximum ramp-up 132% @ 140
Base damage 108% @ 112
Maximum fall-off 51% @ 57
Critical 350
Mini-crit 168-194
Attack interval 0.72 s
Reload (first) 1.02 s
Reload (consecutive) 0.94 s

that's some realy in depth stats

how about it being a 2 shot soldier weapon but basicly have a longer reload time, damage boost, and maybe a -15 health for trying to pick up the damn thing?

From the description he gave i feel like it should give a movement speed pentally and extra damage

-15% move speed -25 % reload speed... +33% clip (+2 rockets) 10% faster shooting rate

Originally posted by -X52-The_Spy_KillerKS:

how about it being a 2 shot soldier weapon but basicly have a longer reload time, damage boost, and maybe a -15 health for trying to pick up the damn thing?

PERFECT!

-20% movement speed.
+30 damage.
-20 health.
Slower reload time.
+20% Faster projectile speed.

Originally posted by cherrygoround:

-15% move speed -25 % reload speed... +33% clip (+2 rockets) 10% faster shooting rate

Looks like you aren't that good in math. The stock rocket launcher has a clip size of 4, so if you want to have 2 rockets more you need to add 50%, because 50% is the half of 4 ... so 2.

Heres my suggestion on what the stats should be if this makes it into the game:

+35% damage bonus
+15% projectile speed
+10% ranged weapon resistance

-50% clip size
-15% movement speed
-50% slower reload speed
-20 max health on wearer

How about having a kit bonus for something or just an item so that when you are killed by melee weapons the person who killed you gets bleeding or something

mehhhhh
How about -2 HP every second while active?
15% more DMG
Move speed of a heavy
No random critical hits.
Not too many buffs so it would be balanced

How about it makes your jump smaller as a bad side affect...

can't rocket jump? decent trade off for the weight aspect, but no one would use it, rocket jumping is to powefull to give up, even for instakill rockets.

Mini crits while rocket jumping.
+10-20% Max pirmary ammo on wearer.
+25-50% Clip size.

No random critical hits.
-50% Reload speed.
-10-20% Movment speed.

+15% damage
+10% radius
-15% reloading speed
-10% movement speed