Sorry it was probably me lol.

So let me get this straight..... You got out smarted by someone with under 300 ehp an lost a expensive suitan now u cry, nerf, fix, rebalance , make it fair,?! Man gtfo of here!

an now u cry, nerf, fix, rebalance , make it fair,?! Man gtfo of here!

Our suits got blown to crap with 1.2 there is hardly anything we can skill into that's viable

an we die from like two shots from any gun an u want us to practically stand still to place a remote?!

You got owned bro deal wit it, happens to us from a cross the map every day!

re need nothing to be done about them i think player should get to carry more than 3 though its the only effecvtive solution for stupid ppl who act invincible in there preccious full proto gear.. so thats y im throwing them in front of ppl and pressing buttons..

u just place it down some where get there attention they charge then i press button... killed and lav this way to ..it flipped right over me..so stfu and stop hateing and wanting to nerf everything and an even better idead for all the little wining babys who always use proto... maybe u wont lose it if u dont bring it into a match like an idiot!..

oh u can see them place it down just look on the ground most ppl just charge stupidly ahead... so if they place an re down while u r shooting aT THEM u rnt going to see that re on the grounds in plain sight right in front of u...

Ideally there is nothing really wrong with REs. They have a several second activation timer so you cannot just drop and pop (you should of been here when you could really do this). You cannot throw these very far but they can slide an awfully long ways which us users would gladly trade to make them sticky as now they will sometimes roll and just disappear.

It is such a situational weapon that you cannot get mad at a guy for using them. They are the 'trap' weapon and take brains to use.

Except on objectives but people REALLY need to learn to check or just drop a flux just in case.

A few days ago, I was at E-7 on Line Harvest waiting for a blueberry to start hacking C. I`m standing on the slightly raised surface right next to the control panel. Shortly after my teammate starts hacking, an enemy scout throws a remote explosive at his feet and kills him. Seconds later, he does the same thing to me. I don't necessarily have a problem with remote explosives being used this way (I've done it as well), but here are a few things that I noticed during this encounter:

1. The throwing animation is too subtle. It's barely noticeable, and there's no throwing sound to go with the animation.

2. I did not hear a sound when the RE dropped on the ground. I'm fairly certain that they're supposed to make a noise when they hit the ground, but in that instance I didn't hear a thing.

3. I did not see the RE traveling through the air, even though the enemy was right in front of me when he threw it. I imagine it's because remote explosives are cloaked, and that's the reason why only players with low scan precision can see them. I think REs should be visible when thrown if the enemy is in your field of view, but this should only apply if the player is a few meters away from you.

4. This one is due to player error, but I want to mention it anyway. The scout was a few meters away from me, so, thinking that he wouldn't be able to throw the RE far enough, I opened fire. I was wrong, obviously. To address this, CCP could tweak the throwing distance ever so slightly. It doesn't really matter that much to me if they don't, but I think it's worth considering.

5. This one is unrelated to the aforementioned scenario, but I've noticed that when squadmates see things such as remote explosives and proximity mines, they do not show up on your radar or on the ground. Since squadmates can share information such as infantry, installation and vehicle positions, it doesn't make sense to exclude REs and proximity mines.

6. This one is also unrelated, but I think there should be a skillbook that, once brought up to a certain level, allows you to disarm REs and proximity mines. Example: walk up to an explosive, hold O to disarm. It could be accompanied by a skill that shortens the time it takes to disarm explosives.

6. I have one last suggestion, but I suspect this one won't be very popular. CCP could make it so that you have to manually activate REs and proximity mines before they can be detonated. Example: I place an explosive on the ground, walk up to it and press (or hold) O to arm. It could take a set amount of time to arm the explosive (with a skillbook to shorten the activation time), or you could simply press O circle to arm and walk away.

so now you want to nerf REs?.... look you only get 3-4 and they are stationary... you can see them clear as day on the ground if you look and it already takes about 2 seconds for them to activate once thrown before you can detonate.... and how often really can you say this happens to you? often enough its a real problem? or are you just QQing cause you died once like this.... plus they are supposed to have some stealthy aspects.... leave remotes alone CCP...if anything they need to be fixed because 1/2 the time you drop one they just fizzle out of existence...

Not mad at anybody, but they don't take brains to use against heavies. We can't see the explosives on the minimap or on the ground, and our limited mobility makes them hard to dodge, especially when using armor plates.

Not mad at anybody, but they don't take brains to use against heavies. We can't see the explosives on the minimap or on the ground, and our limited mobility makes them hard to dodge, especially when using armor plates.

It's not the REs on objectives that I'm worried about. I rarely get killed by those.

A one on one situation they are not viable against an HMG, you'll long be dead before you can rush in and drop and have time to blow, I've tried. If they are occupied well that's different.

If they had one pre-set and you happened to wander in, that's just great placement.

My advice: Use them a few matches and note how you move and your weaknesses and you'll better be able to combat them and spot when someone is setting one.

6. This one is also unrelated, but I think there should be a skillbook that, once brought up to a certain level, allows you to disarm REs and proximity mines. Example: walk up to an explosive, hold O to disarm. It could be accompanied by a skill that shortens the time it takes to disarm explosives.

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3. Run a suit with 250 armor an shields through a hail of md, faylocks, contact nades , an AR an tell me If that's easy mode!

4. This doesn't happen everydamnday like getting killed instantly from md or Fay splash damage.

5. If your stupid enough to chase a scout you deserve to die for thinking he's not baiting you!

6. Every suit in the game is stronger so we use this thing called" TACTICS"

7. Why shouldn't they kill a heavy? If your dumb enough to step on a land mine shouldn't you die?

Wrong. You cannot see them clear as day if you are a heavy. It has always been my experience that REs are completely invisible when I use a heavy dropsuit. You cannot see them on the minimap OR the ground.

It doesn't happen often because most players only use them on objectives, if they use them at all.

8. You got owned take it soldier

You could use sp to buy these things called skills to prevent this, maybe you should watch the tutorial again

no im right because I have avoided them many times because I can see them... my alt is a heavy and he sees them fine as well...you aren't supposed to see them on the mini map because that would defeat the purpose of them... you have to actually look for them... sometimes they blend in well with the ground or do to imperfect graphics they "sink" into the ground but some part of them is always visable if you know what to look for.... you sir are putting out misinformation to achieve your own ends....shame on you...

Completely disagree with this post. Check for REs next time. Your Idea will give away the position of every RE that is meant for a trap.

They aren't OP. They are meant for placing down to trap enemies to their doom. The whole trapping situation will be flawed with this idea.

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FAil OMGDZ a remote explosive killed me. Get over it. Running towards a person and throwing a remote explosive is a high risk High reward tactic. People who keep asking for nerfs are why this game will burn to the ground. HTFU. I can't believe this is actaully a post in the forums. PURE FAILURE, I am honestly disgusted that people just keep asking for nerfs.

Throwing noise? Take a baseball... throw it a few feet to land on the ground. Did it make a "noise" when you made an underhand throw?

That's the most ridiculous request I've seen on these forums since I started playing.

Dude, stop defending this. You got instapopped. So what?

Had you bothered to read, you would know that being instapopped is not what I'm concerned about.

Not ridiculous at all. Throw something in the air and listen. The object makes a sound when it escapes your hand and when it lands on the ground. I assume the former is the sound you hear when grenades are thrown a few meters away from you.

Yes, you're concerned about not being able to anticipate being instapopped, so you won't to basically derail the entire usage of REs to traps.

You got instapopped in a manner you couldn't predict, so making the RE obsolete to be able to use in a offensive manner is you answer?