Grenades. Now with natural strawberry-like flavor.
Kamamura
Join Date: 2013-03-06 Member: 183736Members, Reinforced - Gold
Join Date: 2013-03-06 Member: 183736Members, Reinforced - Gold
I get the feeling hand granades are quite useless. They resemble Chinese tourist shop - one goes 'poof' and emits purple stars, the other goes 'meef', and farts funnily, and the third one plays a silly tune. Still, they are too slow to hit the steroid-fast targets of ns2.
You know, the original idea of a grenade is that when you encounter an entrenched enemy position, and you shoot at them, and they shoot at you, you reach for those little f*ckers and the enemy is forced to either move, or fly sky high. To dislodge the enemy from a static, entrenched position. In NS2, nothing like that exists.
Plus they cost 3 res each and bounce in the most insane angles.
You know, the original idea of a grenade is that when you encounter an entrenched enemy position, and you shoot at them, and they shoot at you, you reach for those little f*ckers and the enemy is forced to either move, or fly sky high. To dislodge the enemy from a static, entrenched position. In NS2, nothing like that exists.
Plus they cost 3 res each and bounce in the most insane angles.
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Edit: You can cook them as well so it might be useful for defending phase gate attacks and such.
Cluster are useful for gorge barriacdes, or killing a bunch of skulks that just spawned at a hive. They can also be useful do do some supplemental building damage. It's great to have them, I feel like they supplement JP/Shotty very well.
As for the GAS grenades, it seems quite useful at taking armor down, making it a good opener for taking out thougher buildings or lifeforms. Especially if close together, like throw them at a gorge healing station :P
The other ones seemed so far to be too situational to me, and most of the time not worth it.
if tweaked yes. not the way the small cluster bombs spread out so much in larger spaces and do little damage. you throw one behind a clog wall and yet the smaller nades still don't stay back there and do enough effective dmg to the gorge/hydras.
Yeah, I think the grenades feel a little... lightweight? they seem to be overly floaty so it can be difficult to judge exactly where you should aim them to account for the following floaty-bounces. Maybe I'm just not used to using them yet though.
Grenades can also be used to root out hiding aliens, vent camping aliens, and you can use properly timed grenades to strengthen/hold your position.
By the way, where's my Molotov.
Oh, and I play lerk a lot on aliens and gas grenades haunt me in my nightmares.
Anyway, it is only an option, not a replacement for GL or something.
Tested this earlier in game. 3 people threw 2 clusters each and it was able to take out 3 hydras + 9 clogs.
From what I've seen, the cluster one doesn't do enough damage to structures but to lifeforms it's very devastating. The gas one is perfect for demolition ( 10% of the hive health with a single grenade, if I'm not mistaken ) and it keeps the aliens away from you.
As one said, they are OP but do not tell UWE. Please don't touch ma 'nades, plz! Maybe buff them a little
Oh and I love how the game turned from "Pew Pew Freedom Time!" to Chemical warfare, where the both teams utilize gas to kill each other. Next item should be gas masks, you know to look cooler.
Maybe next will be Nuclear Warfare. You press a little red button and watch how everypony turns to ashes. Radioactive alien, anypony?
Was a gorge there as well? Also how big was the room? I guess my cluster grenade tossing ability isnt that great yet. Like rant said, they feel floaty and the bomblets seemed too random. I do like the idea that the bomblets could hurt/injures any skulks hiding in the area, since it was way too easy to mop up marines who would try to focus fire down a gorge or hydras.
I'm not entire sure this next thing works, but I'm pretty* sure explosives also damage/destroy webs, so there's more ways to knock out a wall of webs than a welder or a flamethrower... and if it's webs near hydras near clogs, well hot damn, man, you just hit the jackpot! You prize is the crushed soul of the gorge player that you just made very, very sad.