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Banjo Hero
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Posted - 2013.04.16 16:59:00 -
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Why do you guys think we need claymore mines? Aside from the whole "Front Toward Enemy" thing, the birdshot, and the range (IIRC, they're effective to something like maybe fifty meters) the claymore is pretty much the same thing as this game's RE: a command-detonated anti-personnel explosive. The first two points, directionality and the metal bearings, can be disregarded - unless I'm mistaken, friendlies can sit on the damn things when you set them off, and, the shot, added to the real-life weapon to make it deadly, isn't necessary, because, sci-fi video game. The range might conceivably be a little more desirable in a deployable weapon, but I don't think it's really something worth making a cause of.
"Kill every red dot within this circle 3- or 5- (or whatever it is) meters in diameter" versus "kill every red dot within this 50-meter-long and 20-meter-wide at the base triangle"? Using my admittedly pulled-out-of-my-ass numbers, that makes the RE's area of effect somewhere in the 20m^2 neighborhood, and the claymore's would be like 500m^2. Even if the RE's radius were ten meters, you're still talking only 314m^2. I think it would take about a half-hour from them being put in the game for the forum to be swamped with "OMFG CLAYMOERZ R TEH OP" threads. |
Banjo Hero
BurgezzE.T.F
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.04.16 17:04:00 -
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Bones McGavins wrote:... this discussion is about anti infantry prox mines ...
I saw this after posting the thing I just posted, and now I'm confused...
Um, anti-personnel proximity mines? I thought it was about claymores? |
Banjo Hero
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Posted - 2013.04.16 17:08:00 -
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Sir Petersen wrote:Banjo Hero wrote:A bunch of crap. Has there been a thread on this forum without a "OMFG CLAYMOERZ R TEH OP" discussion on any weapon in this game? :)
Oh, my, no! Not yet, at any rate. :D |
Banjo Hero
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Posted - 2013.04.16 17:21:00 -
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No, no, my confusion is the "proximity" part. While they can certainly be rigged to a trip-wire or a timer or whatever you want, that's all field-expedient jury-rigging and stuff. Out-of-the-box, they're manually triggered. |
Banjo Hero
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Posted - 2013.04.16 17:34:00 -
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Goric Rumis wrote:Banjo Hero wrote:No, no, my confusion is the "proximity" part. While they can certainly be rigged to a trip-wire or a timer or whatever you want, that's all field-expedient jury-rigging and stuff. Out-of-the-box, they're manually triggered. Yeah, I think COD started the video-game convention that claymores are proximity mines.
Ah, right! Haven't played that [pre-emptively self-censored series of colorful profane adjectives] game in years; I had forgotten the way the "claymore" worked in there.
Thanks for clearing that up for me, friend. (Silly me, thinking that words mean what they actually mean. :-P) |
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