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Severus Smith
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.01.30 22:14:00 -
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Dunno if it was a bug, intended behavior, or whatever but last night while in a match a lobbed an AV grenade at a Dropship hovering right next to me (It had dropped down to pick up a gunner) and the grenade just passed right by it without homing. I threw two more before it flew off and they did the same thing, or bounced off the side (It was a hectic firefight so I don't know exactly - but I know I was in range and close enough for it to home).
Is this working as intended? I don't want AV grenades to be a viable weapon against Dropships. But when a Dropship is hovering 3 feet off the ground right next to you then AV grenades should work. It is a giant metal vehicle.
Probably a bug, or me failing, but I wanted to check if others experienced this... |
Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
414
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Posted - 2013.01.30 22:38:00 -
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If a dropship is that close av grenades should be a viable weapon.
The only reason av grenades should not be anti-dropship is drop ships can not get in grenade range easily.
A player that is cleaver enough to ambush dropship with grenade, or dropship pilot that thinks it's a hovercraft instead of aircraft should be rewarded with av grenade killed dropship. |
Ghost-33
ShootBreakStab
108
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Posted - 2013.01.30 22:50:00 -
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I have seen it work, a DS was hovering low n slow and one of my Corpmates cooked off all 3 he had and just about junked the DS, some swarmer I believe finished it off. |
Severus Smith
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
163
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Posted - 2013.01.30 22:55:00 -
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Ghost-33 wrote:I have seen it work, a DS was hovering low n slow and one of my Corpmates cooked off all 3 he had and just about junked the DS, some swarmer I believe finished it off. Wait... it took 3 AV grenades to almost kill the DS? How much HP did it have? I thought those things were like LAV's of the sky.
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Jason Pearson
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.01.30 22:59:00 -
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Nope, you can kill Dropships with AV grenades. It's probably a lag issue (he pulled up out of the way on his screen and stuff ya know?)
Source: I've been killed by AV Grenades when flying low to the ground. |
Teresa Endoras
The Mando'ade
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Posted - 2013.02.12 11:55:00 -
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that sounds somewhat dodgy, having grenades killing dropships. If they got lodged in the DS, fair enough. But for a grenade to be able to home in on a DS in mid air is a bit odd.
EDIT: I dont mean if it on the ground, but mid air homing is weird to me. |
Django Quik
R.I.f.t
220
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Posted - 2013.02.12 12:09:00 -
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I've seen AV grenades bounce off LAVs before and not explode - no idea why - maybe this is what happened to you? |
KEROSIINI-TERO
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
248
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Posted - 2013.02.12 19:08:00 -
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It works, at least most of the time.
I've taken down DS with AV grenades. |
Bojo The Mighty
Bojo's School of the Trades
433
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Posted - 2013.02.12 21:34:00 -
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As everyone has said before me, they do work.
As a pilot though, when I'm getting hit by them, it's like a really weak swarm launcher or something. I was watching this guy jump up and pop two. He got me to just over 1/3 of my shields but even with the last one, good luck getting through the armor resistance plates and repper. |
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