Rocket Crit-Rate

I often here a passing mention of this in-game, but not that much in any forum but I think there may be an issue with the rate of Criticals for the soldiers Rockets. I think the main reason not much has been said, is that when playing as a soldier and you start firing crits every few hits you are having so much fun that you don't care. But if you where on the opposite end of a Crit-machine it rarely seems fair.

Now I am not sure what the numbers are, but this is something I have heard from quite a few people online. Does anyone else have an opinion on this issue? Or perhaps their experience with Rocket Crits?

I play as a Soldier a lot (has the most played time logged), and yes, it does seem the Soldier crit-rate is very high. They may have made it that way on purpose, to make up for the difficulty in aiming, that's the only reason why I'd think they'd have done it on purpose.

I don't think it is any higher than any of the other characters, i just think you notice it more since a crit rocket does so much more damage than say a crit bullet from a shotgun or a spy revolver.

One hit with a crit rocket will kill almost anything in one hit as opposed to most of the other items take a couple more hits.

critical rate is not a constant, but a variable depending on your skill level.

I think the base crit rate is 5% but this goes up to 20% if you get a few points in a short space of time.

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You could have 100 crits in a row ( but nearly impossible) it is just all down to probability...

Crit rockets are so fun, even if your on the short end of the stick. Once a scout as running and I saw him double jump in front of the end of the tunnel we were in. I gibbed with a crit in mid-air

Using the binomial distribution, we can caluclate the chances of shooting 100 rockets, and all of them being crit when there was a base chance of 5% of each rocket being crit. (0.05^100)