Meh, I kinda hated REs at first(and still do to some extent), but like others have said you just need to keep your distance and be watchful.

i Wonder if it is possible to put remote explosives on a LAV and go kamikaze with it. Imagine a full squad 5X6=30 remote explosives on 1 Militia LAV going full tilit stright into a sagaris. I bet that should be enough to put a tank like that down instantly. Just think of it when friendly fire was on. LAV crashes in sagaris, and causes a chain reaction to all the strapped explosives on the vehicle in a big inferno of tears and ISK. Seriously the devs need to make it so that these things stick on vehicles (not players). When it works in battlefield 3 why not on Dust?

Solution? Don't let the enemy get near you. If you see a guy charging you with a RE, shoot him.

You say you have no chance? What it's not like only certain people can use them. There's no excuse for having "no chance". Adapt. Throw a remote explosive back at the guy instead of complaining about how other people play the game.

Have you ever played Eve Online? You know, the game that is maintained and constantly updated by the same company that is making Dust?

CCP introduced tier-3 battlecruisers capable of wielding battleship-sized guns (glass cannons) meant to be used in fleet battles.

No more than one day after they were introduced into the market, people are already using them to destroy innocent mining ships in high-security space that no chance of defending themselves from the alpha damage they bring. Freighters are helpless even as well even to this day. No one expected these ships to be used in such a fashion. Did CCP do anything about it? No. They just pulled up a chair and had popcorn. Ask CCP. You'd be surprised. Go ahead. Ask them about how they let innocent freighters loaded with tens of thousands of dollars worth of in-game items simply burn to ashes before our very eyes while they sat down and laughed. I laughed as well at the dumb pilots flying those expensive freighters who seemed to have disregarded every warning about it that came three months ahead of time.

Now. Imagine a company with that mentality making and running Dust. I can see it all now.

The nerf to the swarm launchers I can understand (they nerfed it from the pre-E3 build). It's been noted that the remote explosives will have a 5-second delay added to them in the next build which I can also understand.

But to limit weapons just so that they can used in only one way is NOT what I ever want to see. If I want to use a sniper rifle like an assault rifle rifle, would you then want CCP to limit the sniper rifle's use as well since I can kill mercs with it in one or two shots? If I want run up to you in a super-fast, catalyizer-fitted, scout suit with just a skilled up Nova Knife and slash you after I manage to dodge all your bullets from your sub-machine gun, would you think about wanting CCP to limit its use to only as a backup weapon in case I run out of bullets?

It's called thinking out of the box and using a tool outside its operational design.

Gasp! Imagine needing to plan ahead using remote explosives!

I could easily think of a couple of situations:

Plant a couple of them on the road, wait for vehicle to pass by. Watch the fireworks.

Plant a couple of them on a mission objective. Wait for hackers to come. Watch the fireworks.