I do agree with OP on this. These things are powerful, and thus should not be easily spammed. Making these act like other pieces of equipment would be a good fix as it would be a nerf, but would not make them less effective.

P.S. any post that has STFU in it is not a condusive way to discuss or counter an idea. If you believe it to be a bad idea, please feel free to bring up reasons that the idea is bad or hurtful to gameplay.

I've looked at both sides of the argument. I agree that if you can't resupply your res, you should be able to carry your max active. I don't die to REs on null cannons. I die top then being carried by scouts or other classes in cqb. Usually when I'm chasing them. I'm smart enough to listen for them being planted. I know to back off. People who can use them effectively in this manner, more power to you.

But the real issue at hand is this, I have seen people use them as primary weapons. They have had stupid amounts of kills.

Vehicle traps? Simple. Remove the remote detonator for proximity mines, allow them to carry more. But due to their click of a button you are dead stopping power, you should not let hives resupply them. I'm not asking for a damage nerf. I'm asking to make their use more tactical. Instead of allowing someone to spam them for area denial as grenades were used in this fashion. This is not a question of skill. For those who gave constructive feed back instead of looking like a moron, thank you =) people like you are those who are going to save dust, not the whiners.

Thoughts?

I'm sorry, you're right they are weapons. They should be a light weapon or sidearm.

Additionally, just because the have strategy abd good team work they should be allowed to spam a weapon that instakills Abby players within range again and again without so much as firing a shot? Leaving no risk to the user? Sounds a bit unbalanced.

When a scout can cloak, drop in during a gunfight behind the direction of his enemy, drop an re, back up and immediately pooo it, you can't really hear it over the sound of your teammates chatting in your ear, the sound of your gun routing it's clip, the sound of other grenades going off. Sure I can turn around one hundred eighty degrees, flux the re at my feet, before the scout can press the button. No. You can't. You can't turn fast enough.

Again, I'm not asking too nerf the damage, just the resupply from hives to balance their spamability.

Be that as it may, we are supposed to out flank and out smart the re user. That's great. But you don't know whether someone is our not until it's too late. And for slower classes like the heavy, we can't dodge REs very well. All someone has to do in a cqb map for anyone it's have a moderate traffic area, place a few hives, set up the trap, then aggro people to chase them sorting the trap over and over again, removing the need for gun play, abd making the remote explosive their primary weapon. While getting stocked by their hives. I could flux the corners, but I have to stay back at a distance and wait for that to go off before advancing, giving my target time to run away and set up a new trap.

Another example, I was on a domination map with a set of pipes. In skirmish, c is on the hill, bravo is close to domination Sophia is and skirmish alpha it's where the cru is. Anyway, this guy was sitting up there just dropping things on people who came up the steps to assault the point. While engaged in a gunfight, he just dropped them an RE. Puff they were gone. We got smart and tried to go after him. But their team was protecting him from being shot at. We couldn't get near him while blueberries where just throwing themselves at the point getting remote explosives dropped on their head. His allies kept feeding him nano hives, and he just kept guarding the point with these explosives while the team guarded him and always made sure he had ammo.
We tried to snipe him off but he found a way to hide while still maintaining mission effectiveness :-/ leaving us without a counter to this RE spam.no need to aim. No skill by him required. Just push two buttons