THE GOAL:
To discourage the use of Remote Explosives used as a "Grenade" without hurting their intended purpose as choke point and null cannon defence.

IDEA:
Switch proximity and remote explosive damage stats. Then switch their max active/carried stats.

REASONING:
If remotes did less damage a piece, but more could be carried/placed, heavies would not die to a single remote being tossed into their midst. But 2 remotes in a choke point could still kill the people running through. Setting up traps could mean placing more remotes at a time and achieving the same results while tossing them into live groups would be less effective because heavies and even some medium suits could survive a single remote.

For proximities, the idea is just to reduce the number of them but increase their power. As an explosive meant for vehicles it makes no sense that they are weaker than the anti-infantry version. With them being stronger, reducing the number of actives becomes necessary so that the same amount of damage can be achieved per trap (stacked all proximity explosives together).

OPTIONAL ADDITION:
Buff grenades so that people don't need to use remotes as grenades. Seriously. Flux seems to be the only thing people run anymore.

I fail to see a problem with throwing an RE at a heavy and blowing them up.

thoughts?

they have already been balanced and nerfed in both throwing distance and how long till you can detonate them. no further change needed...

Treat the cause, not the symptoms.

thoughts?

itd be cool to have personel proxi mines that detonate without needing to be activated as a variant.
though i dont use remotes or the proxi mines so thats up to someone else.

THE GOAL:
To discourage the use of Remote Explosives used as a "Grenade" without hurting their intended purpose as choke point and null cannon defence.

IDEA:
Switch proximity and remote explosive damage stats. Then switch their max active/carried stats.

REASONING:
If remotes did less damage a piece, but more could be carried/placed, heavies would not die to a single remote being tossed into their midst. But 2 remotes in a choke point could still kill the people running through. Setting up traps could mean placing more remotes at a time and achieving the same results while tossing them into live groups would be less effective because heavies and even some medium suits could survive a single remote.

For proximities, the idea is just to reduce the number of them but increase their power. As an explosive meant for vehicles it makes no sense that they are weaker than the anti-infantry version. With them being stronger, reducing the number of actives becomes necessary so that the same amount of damage can be achieved per trap (stacked all proximity explosives together).

OPTIONAL ADDITION:
Buff grenades so that people don't need to use remotes as grenades. Seriously. Flux seems to be the only thing people run anymore.

THE GOAL:
To discourage the use of Remote Explosives used as a "Grenade" without hurting their intended purpose as choke point and null cannon defence.

IDEA:
Switch proximity and remote explosive damage stats. Then switch their max active/carried stats.

REASONING:
If remotes did less damage a piece, but more could be carried/placed, heavies would not die to a single remote being tossed into their midst. But 2 remotes in a choke point could still kill the people running through. Setting up traps could mean placing more remotes at a time and achieving the same results while tossing them into live groups would be less effective because heavies and even some medium suits could survive a single remote.

For proximities, the idea is just to reduce the number of them but increase their power. As an explosive meant for vehicles it makes no sense that they are weaker than the anti-infantry version. With them being stronger, reducing the number of actives becomes necessary so that the same amount of damage can be achieved per trap (stacked all proximity explosives together).

OPTIONAL ADDITION:
Buff grenades so that people don't need to use remotes as grenades. Seriously. Flux seems to be the only thing people run anymore.

NO. Nerfing damage is the worst way to fix remotes: REs are currently the only counter to heavies spam; they would still be able to kill all non-heavies suits, hence why nerfing damage sounds pretty much like a heavies buff.

As for buffing locus granades, that would actually work in diminishing freesbie REs usage.

Alternate solution: Placer must walk to wall or surface (within 2m) and wait 0.2s to place Remote explosive. To counter the time to place the detonation delay is cut in half.
Thoughts?