It's because with how the old spawn system was setup in previous builds, they were used relentlessly for spawn camping.

I don't know, I think the reduction wasn't necessary just nerfing the ability to use them as grenades against infantry. I myself haven't seen a RE kill yet, seems nobody bothers with them anymore.. called it when I found out they were reducing the capacity to 2, no reason to pick it over anything else at that point.

It's because with how the old spawn system was setup in previous builds, they were used relentlessly for spawn camping.

If you got spawn camped at all it's your fault. You shouldn't spawn at objectives getting captured

If you got spawn camped at all it's your fault. You shouldn't spawn at objectives getting captured

It isn't as bad now, i can only get 2 of the 4 or 5 spots i've seen someone spawn.

2 RE + people spawning = death and WAR POINTS! WOAHHH!!

RE's went from
1. Modest throwing distance with 5x
-- Arming time of 2 seconds.
to
2. Far throwing distance with 5x
--No arming time.
to
3. No throwing distance. with 2x
-- 1 second arming (I think.)

In other words, when they could be thrown far, there were too many of them, now that they limp at your feet, there are far too few to be of any practical use.

from a heavy's perspective, they were instakill inescapable pancakes of doom in the previous build. Some dancing pansy in a scout suit would come running up with them in their hand while I fire away with my smg as I try to run and fling it at my feet. Even at a full sprint there was no escape. Hell, even killing the RE-using pansy would sometimes result in death as they SOMEHOW triggered the things from beyond the CRU.

They were far too powerful and deserved every inch of the nerf they received. Now, at least people are using ACTUAL grenades as grenades.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the change to capacity. The change to arm time, yes, this is relevant. Capacity? No, completely unrelated. The arm time allowed them to be used up close as grenades, now it actually takes a chunk of time, plenty for you to move away if you're paying attention.

Bullkitten. Pansies could prance around and do that SAME CRAP 5 times with one suit and they could even be refilled at the supply depots. The number of units any one suit could carry had a huge part to play in the necessity of the nerf. People were stacking 2x of these things and running around with 10 of those little doom musubis in their arsenal.

As I said - they deserved every inch of the nerf they received.

You would have more than five seconds to avoid any explosive recently thrown. You're just butthurt

The capacity was fine but a timer was necessary. Again you're just nad because you got killed by them in the past, if you got killed by them this build guess what? It's your fault. They need the former capacity

Hell no!!
RE use is lame as is with just two of them!!!

SImple reason:

You can only carry up to three grenades and they do 1/3rd the damage in half the radius of a remote explosive.

Well I know that, but even that doesn't really justify a decrease in capacity....

Plus, this change went live at the same time that spawns were changed, so that doesn't really explain it.

In the previous build, they were used as atomic frisbees by the majority of people who carried out. This was a cheap tactic and they were nerfed accordingly.

I believe that the setup in this build is good, perhaps they should have a skill that you need to spec into in order to hold more REs.

You used to be able to lay traps for tanks since you could carry 5 at a time.....now, unless you have a nanohive right next to you this just isn't going to happen. .