EWAR Scouts with REs are difficult to counter. I can understand the rage.

I can also understand the need....they are one of the most effective ways to counter heavies and brick tanked assaults.

Let's also not forget they were nerfed recently....

That said, I've always been a fan of implementing an animation similar to the way a logi needles a friendly when placing an RE, that way they become more of a trap and less of a smart grenade.

What other options are there for the Heavy/Logi blobs?

From what I hear, the 5 second delay didn't take effect like it should have. That being said, Rattati did mention REs are meant for anti infantry traps.

Aside from tossing from a height, there is nothing wrong with REs.

RE's can be nerfed into oblivion once heavies have their HP's cut in half, and rep tools get capacitors.

Cant have the cake and eat it motherfucker.

I have every right in the world to complain.

Scouts are not even close to being as good as a heavy. Heavies are insta-death spitting machines who can't be killed by anything but another of their kind.

INB4 you stroke your E-peen about how many heavies you eat for breakfast, I don't care.

Would also stop tankers from popping out to HMG someone they can't track up close using the turret and then hopping back in and rolling off into the sunset.

The exception to an entry/exit animation/delay should be Dropships, since being able to get out quick is part of the idea of a transport vehicle.

Know see that is how I think RE's should be alos. You set them not throw them.

You missed the point, which was to have the REs take time to set up; hold the button, complete the 'hack' cycle and then the RE is placed and primed. Void was just using your idea of the hack to enter for RE set-up.

Just going to say: I sometimes use R/Es and think they are far too powerful.


How about this, instead of nerfing damage, nerf blast radius or add a delay.

Of course it actually takes skill to Frisbee one into a large group when you are in the open, although not so much wehn throwing it into a crowded doorway or from above.

The REs work great on the Gallente Lag Facility! You know the doorway the heavies come through and the spot they camp with HMGs? 2 REs in those two spots are great traps if you control the objective.

OK, I completely hate REs but I don't have a problem with them. It's a game mechanism.
It's not like they are invisible. If you run up on one and get your ass blown off, it's your own fault. If you let a scout run in the middle of 5 of you and lay them, you need better awareness.
Like I said, I can't stand them, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if they went away completely. But, you can't get mad at an intended game mechanism, find ways to counter it.

RE's are anti-infantry and they are fine.

The last nerf/delay is a bad idea (I don't even know if it's working )

I agree THEY SHOULD NOT BE RESTOCKED BY A NANOHIVE

but honestly, how many of your deaths are from RE's?

The people that complain about them act like there is a plague of RE's everywhere

I play everyday and I think I've died maybe three times in the past two weeks from them

I run mostly assault or a scout as assault

If you run a heavy you should expect to die from a RE more often