Shotgun pause

In many soldier guides you can read that you should not reload your rocket launcher in the middle of a fight, but try to kill the enemies with your shotgun instead.

All of the good solder videos will show them switching to shotgun because that pause shouldn't be anyway as long as a reload of the rocket.  PLus you get to keep shooting 6 rounds with the shotgun, not just one rocket.

It's not even about pure firepower. It's that shotgun is low-risk, low-damage and rocket-launcher is high-risk, high-damage.

When you only need low-damage to kill a weakened enemy, switch to the low-risk weapon!

Someone said the time for reloading a rocket is 1.2 sec. 

Well, check your cl_interp value - should be 0.8ish unless you've been screwing around with it. Apart from that, don't look at the animation - just quickswitch to shotgun and start mashing fire - sometimes your shots will come out when the animation suggests you might not be able to shoot yet. Get a feel for that timing.

I use cl_interp 0.03. 

If you switch to you shotgun immediately after firing your last rocket, then the delay is quite abit smaller.  You almost switch at the same time you fire the rocket.

TLR, are you sure ?

Hi, I use cl_interp 0.03 too, and have found that, with Solder, it's mainly affecting the Rocket Launcher.  It adjusts the time between you pressing fire and the rocket actually leaving the launcher.  Hope this helps

Why would anyone want any kind of delay for the rockets ? :-)