I'm pretty sure the new solar rocket sidearm is glitched. No matter what my roll, it never has more than 1 range and most of the time has 0. It needs to be fixed as intentionally making it have that low of a range stat would make it nigh useless.
Hey there, rocket-assisted sidearms deal about 7/8 of their damage as explosive, which is completely unaffected by range. Only the remaining 1/8 of damage is impact damage and will be affected by range falloff.
It is weird to see 0 range, as both The Call and Indebted Kindness do have positive range stats. Definitely interested to see Bungie's commment, if any.
But if it's intentional, it's still not that significant. It can still deal 7/8 damage from as far as away as you can manage to hit with it.