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Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.01 00:16:00 -
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MFW I realise that the tank I'm throwing my AV nades isn't a crappy militia tank, it's a Gunnlogi with a decent fit.
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Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.01 10:21:00 -
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Hands up those who can remember the days when AV nades didn't have the homing feature?
Hands up those who thought it was awesome when CCP announced they'd put it in?
Hands up those who remember *why* CCP put it in in the first place?
Oh right. Not too many people. CCP put in the homing because people were running around with AV nades (me included) as a multi-purpose grenade. They did so much damage that the normal AP grenades were pretty much useless in comparison. They didn't only go off near a vehicle, they went off where you threw them, so people were using them as normal grenades aswell.
CCP's answer was to make them explode upon impact on vehicles. It didn't need a buff or a nerf to damage. It's fine in its current state. It also makes sense that an AV nade would be attracted to a vehicle, to cause maximum damage. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.01 10:55:00 -
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It's actually difficult to do that without the homing. "I threw a grenade and it landed about an inch away from the tank, but it didn't blow up. I couldn't get closer because if I popped out of cover too long, I would have died." That's a scenario I face quite often. The cover part, not the grenade not exploding.
The lore is that the AV grenade arms itself when it comes close to a vehicle, and then homes in on it. It works fine at the moment. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.01 11:08:00 -
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No, what I'm saying is that I want to be able to SURVIVE trying to blow up a militia tank, instead of having to run within 5m of the hull, throw a single nade off then get blown to smithereens by the 80GJ blaster.
Even now, half the time I still die because I run out of cover and I die screaming my head off.
I don't particularly care if I die or not, I do things with very little thought of safety (in-game at least), so if I *have* to get close to blow up a tank, I will. Hell, when I see LAVs running round the map, I shoot at them to try to get their attention. If they come straight at me, I throw an AV nade and blow it up when it's close enough. Normally "close enough" is when it's about to run me over. But asking for the mechanic that allows me to use all three of my grenades instead of just barely getting one off (IF i take him by surprise) is ridiculous. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.01 11:22:00 -
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It's really not - only a couple of metres. And that's why you have infantry support. Tanks aren't meant to lone wolf it. Infantry supports the tanks, and tanks support the infantry. Your infantry should have run in and either flushed them out or taken them out. |
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