It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

I saw some guy drop remote explosives 10 meters away from me and stand there with the detonator out waiting for me to run out at him

I just kept my distance and sprayed horribly inaccurate fire at him with my smg
30 seconds later neither of us were dead

it was the saddest standoff in the history of dust

My two problems with re that desperately needs to be fixed: 1) can throw them- i've seen players chuck them like grenades and detonate. It's impossible to counter. 2) they detonate after death- this is the most ridiculous and punishes players who kill the re holder and rewards the player who got killed. I think if you get killed before you can detonate then you lost your re and that's the end of it. CCP, please stop rewarding noobs by giving them free kills. If I kill him first, then I won and he shouldn't get a back door victory because of poor game mechanics.

I wouldn't mind them sticking to tanks and such, but the aforementioned points should stand. It's not a nerf, just a fix.

They don't detonate after death. You haven't died until you either succumb to your wounds (not sure on the time delay) or commit suicide.

What's worse is that they're next to impossible to see and they blow up when you kill their owner anyway so you lose both ways.

I'm pretty sure they do

I wanted to test this "detonate after death" thing last night so I flew up to a tower where an enemy was doing his rocket turret camping thing

I surrounded his dropship with remote explosives then switched weapons and hopped up and down in front of his turret

At first, nothing. I expected an immediate explosive response while the upper half of my torso lied at the bottom of the dropship, but I merely saw the gore-spattered turret merrily spewing out more rockets at the control points.

The instant I pressed o to suicide however, there was a bright flash of light, almost as pure and intense as an Amarrian orbital strike. The ringing in my ears did not fade when I respawned.

For some reason, though, it did not count as my kill. The game registered it as the guy in the dropship committing suicide with remote explosives, which I suppose is true from a certain point of view

My two problems with re that desperately needs to be fixed: 1) can throw them- i've seen players chuck them like grenades and detonate. It's impossible to counter. 2) they detonate after death- this is the most ridiculous and punishes players who kill the re holder and rewards the player who got killed. I think if you get killed before you can detonate then you lost your re and that's the end of it. CCP, please stop rewarding noobs by giving them free kills. If I kill him first, then I won and he shouldn't get a back door victory because of poor game mechanics.

I wouldn't mind them sticking to tanks and such, but the aforementioned points should stand. It's not a nerf, just a fix.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

Just had a guy try to do this to me in a game... I was able to just walk away after he set the RE and not take any damage... I was in a heavy suit. I killed him with my SMG.

Anyone who watches someone place a RE then walks into it, is an idiot.

You can literally see their hand full of RE which means he is not holding a gun, which means you back track, line up, and kill the dude.

It is a little HARD to look behind you in a tank.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

THEY DO NOT EXPLODE AFTER DEATH AUTOMATICALLY.

working as intended

I do have a problem with throwing REs from towers though, I discovered this at the start of this last beta weekend and, while hilarious, you'd think the RE would explode on impact.

They're fairly easy to spot,
the only problem I ever had with them is people placing them at your spawn because you always spawn in the same place. Which is really dumb, what kind of spawn system is that?!

It's exactly called a 'dumb spawning system'. While the argument about the dumbness of the spawning system is fair, you can also choose not to spawn into a heavily camped area. Enemies are holding that area for a reason, and a bunch of friendlies spawning without fear in there just to take it over is quite stupid.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

Now I don't know if such a thing already exists in-game but what about an explosives detector? It takes up a slot (maybe the same one as nanohives?) but they highlight all explosives within a certain radius, with upgrades affecting the radius.

They're fairly easy to spot,
the only problem I ever had with them is people placing them at your spawn because you always spawn in the same place. Which is really dumb, what kind of spawn system is that?!

On a lot of other threads there is talk of dropsuit actually having role specific abilities (Command Dropsuits, for example give squadmates proximity buffs to weapon damage, Logistics will be able to hack 10% faster than other dropsuit types) I can totally seeing this being a passive/native ability for Logistics dropsuits. Or, if it isn't, it should be.

My two problems with re that desperately needs to be fixed: 1) can throw them- i've seen players chuck them like grenades and detonate. It's impossible to counter. 2) they detonate after death- this is the most ridiculous and punishes players who kill the re holder and rewards the player who got killed. I think if you get killed before you can detonate then you lost your re and that's the end of it. CCP, please stop rewarding noobs by giving them free kills. If I kill him first, then I won and he shouldn't get a back door victory because of poor game mechanics.

I wouldn't mind them sticking to tanks and such, but the aforementioned points should stand. It's not a nerf, just a fix.

My two problems with re that desperately needs to be fixed: 1) can throw them- i've seen players chuck them like grenades and detonate. It's impossible to counter. 2) they detonate after death- this is the most ridiculous and punishes players who kill the re holder and rewards the player who got killed. I think if you get killed before you can detonate then you lost your re and that's the end of it. CCP, please stop rewarding noobs by giving them free kills. If I kill him first, then I won and he shouldn't get a back door victory because of poor game mechanics.

I wouldn't mind them sticking to tanks and such, but the aforementioned points should stand. It's not a nerf, just a fix.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

My two problems with re that desperately needs to be fixed: 1) can throw them- i've seen players chuck them like grenades and detonate. It's impossible to counter. 2) they detonate after death- this is the most ridiculous and punishes players who kill the re holder and rewards the player who got killed. I think if you get killed before you can detonate then you lost your re and that's the end of it. CCP, please stop rewarding noobs by giving them free kills. If I kill him first, then I won and he shouldn't get a back door victory because of poor game mechanics.

I wouldn't mind them sticking to tanks and such, but the aforementioned points should stand. It's not a nerf, just a fix.

Remote explosives offer some of the most fun to be had in this game. Creativity is the key word. There are so many ways to employ them. As one of the pioneers in RE usage, I have noticed the smarter players are adapting and not blind rushing after me and into my trap. If you can only complain and not use your head, there are other games out there waiting for your "me must kill things with assault rifle only now" way of thinking. The more ways that exist to succeed in this game that don't involve some gun named "Breach" the better.

And no, THEY CAN'T BE THROWN. They are DROPPED a couple feet in front of you. I've blown myself up more times than I'd care to remember by not being outside the blast radius. Another mistake: they DO NOT automatically detonate at death. If you've had kills happen upon dying it was likely that someone was in an RE blast radius when it was set off by gunfire. I've seen people shoot at them thinking they were nanohives or uplinks only to find out otherwise the hard way.

Yes, you can use them against tanks but because THEY CAN'T BE THROWN, you must get in right next to the tank to use them, a huge risk. Not only that, but you must back away so you don't blow yourself up as well. If the tank is moving forward, this is nearly impossible. If you're in front of the tank you'll probably die before you can drop them.

I wish they could be thrown, just like I wish they would stick to things. They have many limitations and many "tells" that allow a thinking adversary the opportunity to take counter measures. Of course, I could always sneak up behind you and finish you before you have a chance to turn around. But this is a legit, assassin-style strategy that can currently be employed with shotguns, as it will with grenades as soon as they can be rolled.

CCP doesn't need to nerf REs. If anything they need to add even more demolitions to have fun with.

I see this often

Scout doesnt even try to use his main weapon instead throws down RE and either kills himself or i kill him before im even close enough to the RE since i saw him drop it

Its a diff playstyle but useless unless its on a spawn point

Throwing a pack of C4 at your feet and blowing up not only yourself but also the Pay-to-win Scout chasing you isn't normal. But when you're immortal it is.

Remember immortality is forever, not just for Beta.

Anyone who watches someone place a RE then walks into it, is an idiot.

You can literally see their hand full of RE which means he is not holding a gun, which means you back track, line up, and kill the dude.

Quoted for truth.

Just like spawn camping it is your own fault if it happens to you.

Just remember eventually you may have to pay for your clones with you hard rather ISK.

It's called tossing remote explosives down, jumping away, and blowing up your enemy. It's just wrong.



Remote Explosives. Not even once.

THEY DO NOT EXPLODE AFTER DEATH AUTOMATICALLY.


Once a person is "Dead", they go into suicide state. If they press detonate at that time, the explosives will go off, which is fine, because its realistic and cool. Also, just shoot the guys dead body once and he dies.

Does anyone use these anymore? REs went Swazy, good job QQers, see what you can nerf outta existance next!