Solstice SF + Underbarrel Grenade Launcher + Engineer Class + Drop in on top of tower

[Scarr]

This was from earlier last week. Sorry for the quality, it was 23GB and I reduced it too much. 20+ minutes of nade slaugher kill streak.

Wonder how much XP the guy got at the end for killing me?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elNpzYIZ5w

[Figment]

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Do you expect:

1. A compliment or snide remark on being able to get a long killstreak with one shot kill aoe weaponry with infinite ammo and a somewhat poor "I just spam randomly hoping for kills" accuracy, all the while standing still?
2. Remarks that the opposite team are stupid and should have sniped you much earlier?
3. To initiate a discussion about an op weapon combination exploits?
4. To question if you were out of their rendering range?
5. To have people remniscent fondly of a PlanetSide where inventory systems limited players into bringing their own ammo and sharing their own ammo when out, since there was no such bullshit as ammopacks?
6. All of the above?


Just curious.

[psijaka]

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Do you expect:

1. A compliment or snide remark on being able to get a long killstreak with one shot kill aoe weaponry with infinite ammo and a somewhat poor "I just spam randomly hoping for kills" accuracy, all the while standing still?
2. Remarks that the opposite team are stupid and should have sniped you much earlier?
3. To initiate a discussion about an op weapon combination exploits?
4. To question if you were out of their rendering range?
5. To have people remniscent fondly of a PlanetSide where inventory systems limited players into bringing their own ammo and sharing their own ammo when out, since there was no such bullshit as ammopacks?
6. All of the above?


Just curious.

I hope that it is just 3.

Over to you, OP.

[psijaka]

http://cdn2.irishviews.com/irishviews-cdn/lucis-arts-look/combine-harvester4.jpg
Gave up after 6 minutes.

[Babyfark McGeez]

"That was painful to watch"


But this time, only this time, i have to settle with "l2p noobs". I mean, the overall cheapness is very obvious (and that's just the general vibe, not even factoring in this might be a possible exploit of rendering distance),
but if you can pull that off for 20 minutes your opponents must be either blind or dumb.

[Bloodlet]

"That was painful to watch"

but if you can pull that off for 20 minutes your opponents must be either blind or dumb.

This. Plus it's not like people can't buy flak armor.

[Ghoest9]

If you can find enemies that stupid - good for you.

[Rothnang]

So if someone does it with a grenade launcher the enemies are stupid, if someone does it with a fighter it's unfair?:lol:

[Thunderhawk]

So if someone does it with a grenade launcher the enemies are stupid, if someone does it with a fighter it's unfair?:lol:

omg... Can, worms, open.

[Bloodlet]

omg... Can, worms, open.

More like apples and oranges.

[Figment]

More like apples and oranges.

Canned apples and oranges.

[Graywolves]

Every time I see the underbarrelled grenade launcher all I think of is how stupid it is.

No it isn't the same as a rocket launcher. If someone shoots me in the face with the rocket launcher there is a big bright blowing orange ball that somehow travels slower than the grenade. A Heavy also can't sit in place have unlimited ammo from himself.

Pretty much anytime I see these tools that obviously have no purpose other than easy farming I can't see how SOE thought it was a good idea in this game.

[ShadetheDruid]

Pretty much anytime I see these tools that obviously have no purpose other than easy farming I can't see how SOE thought it was a good idea in this game.

Hey now, the underbarrel grenade launcher has more uses than just farming infantry. :p I mostly use mine as a demolitions tool to complement my 2x C4, or as a makeshift mortar for suppressing the enemy lines. Considering when I do that i'm using the Solstice, so if I need to kill someone at mid range it makes more sense to just shoot them. Easier to hit with that than the grenade. ;)

Edit: I should say that i'm playing LA when I do this, not engie, and that I do still think the grenade launcher has issues (at the very least, I think they need to stop it resupplying from ammo packs and make people go to terminals/Sundies to get more). I pretty much intentionally don't farm with it, because that's blah, but there is more to it than farming.

[Gimpylung]

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Do you expect:

1. A compliment or snide remark on being able to get a long killstreak with one shot kill aoe weaponry with infinite ammo and a somewhat poor "I just spam randomly hoping for kills" accuracy, all the while standing still?
2. Remarks that the opposite team are stupid and should have sniped you much earlier?
3. To initiate a discussion about an op weapon combination exploits?
4. To question if you were out of their rendering range?
5. To have people remniscent fondly of a PlanetSide where inventory systems limited players into bringing their own ammo and sharing their own ammo when out, since there was no such bullshit as ammopacks?
6. All of the above?


Just curious.

QFT

The OP just got figrolled

[Sirisian]

That's actually kind of impressive. Having sat up on top of the crown before with my battle rifle I've had long killstreaks. Makes me want to get the grenade launcher just to exploit it like that.

[Bravix]

Wow, they always spot me when I try that stuff. You must have gotten an especially stupid batch of TR.

@Graywolves, it has other purposes. For example, you shoot someone and he runs into a building (waiting for you to enter so that he gets the jump on you.) Launch a nade in there and one of three things will happen.

1. He's too far from the opening and it doesn't hit him
2. It hits and finishes him off
3. It blows up the proximity mine he just set up for ya, potentially killing him.

[Sprintfox]

Don't care about what people talk in here, Scarr. Good job.
Farming people down is allowed, so just do it.

Wonder why no one cries about Lib-Gunners. He's doing practically the same :D

[Bags]

no one cries about libs? wat

have you even been at all involved

[Babyfark McGeez]

...I think they need to stop it resupplying from ammo packs and make people go to terminals/Sundies to get more)...

Exactly that. Maybe some nagging-untill-devs-listen is in order here. :D

[Ghoest9]

Comparing this to aircraft is silly.

Its extremely easy for any group of infantry(or any half decent LA b himself) to stop a tower sniper just by shooting at him with regular guns.

The whole issue here is stupidity.

[Sifer2]

Funny thing is i'm almost positive that back in early beta the underbarrel launcher consumed grenades from your supply. So you didn't get infinite grenades it was 40 at the most. And the ammo kit didn't restore them either. I am kind of the opinion that all explosives really should not be restored by ammo kits as I hate the spam. Though with Rockets its sadly kind of necessary to counter vehicle spam. If they ever fix the vehicle spam with higher resource costs or something then I would be in favor of Rockets not being restored either.

[Bravix]

Funny thing is i'm almost positive that back in early beta the underbarrel launcher consumed grenades from your supply. So you didn't get infinite grenades it was 40 at the most. And the ammo kit didn't restore them either. I am kind of the opinion that all explosives really should not be restored by ammo kits as I hate the spam. Though with Rockets its sadly kind of necessary to counter vehicle spam. If they ever fix the vehicle spam with higher resource costs or something then I would be in favor of Rockets not being restored either.

No one would use under-barrel launchers if they cost resources. They really aren't that useful. Especially when you consider that that the tradeoff for getting one is using the shittiest gun your class can use.

[JesNC]

No one would use under-barrel launchers if they cost resources. They really aren't that useful. Especially when you consider that that the tradeoff for getting one is using the shittiest gun your class can use.

This.

Especially since the January update, the arc/drop is so big that you can't even use them as an impromtu AV tool anymore, at least not at ranges >20m. The only way to get any accuracy out of them now is to fire from (very) high ground with low horizontal distance, as shown in the OP's vid.

Although I wouldn't call the 'S' variants shitty, they have worse stats but make up for it in versality. :D

[ShadetheDruid]

The Solstice SF isn't actually that much worse than the Solstice, at least in any really noticeable way. Though I suppose that depends if you consider the Solstice itself crappy (which I don't, it does pretty much what I want it to and that's enough for me :D ).

[Wahooo]

Comparing this to aircraft is silly.

Its extremely easy for any group of infantry(or any half decent LA b himself) to stop a tower sniper just by shooting at him with regular guns.

The whole issue here is stupidity.

+1

Farm me once shame on you... farm me twice shame on me.

I was killed by a guy dropped into a fight twice in a row last night. I was as angry at myself as I was at all of the people around that let him live long enough to kill me the second time.

Cheap, OP, Doesn't belong... meh. He was able to do this to people that allowed it to happen. Sure a good couple minutes and a bit of a silly kill streak can easily happen like this, but 20 fucking minutes? I blame most of the victims.

[Ghoest9]

For NC I think the Gauss Burst Carbine and the AC-X11 are clearly worse than the Gauss S Carbine.

[Micro]

Hahah, awesome. I tried this myself out today. Got a hellish amount of XP. But I guess the Infil who killed me after my streak got a nice little XP bonus too for me being a really high priority target. :P

[Baneblade]

Half the time my grenade launcher seems to not work at all. No explosion, just having to reload.

So I don't really think it is worth the certs or the weapon you have to use it with.

[ShadetheDruid]

Half the time my grenade launcher seems to not work at all. No explosion, just having to reload.

So I don't really think it is worth the certs or the weapon you have to use it with.

What sort of range are we talking here? It takes 10m for the grenades to arm before they'll do anything. Though you can still hurt people within 10m by hitting them with the inert grenade (you can one shot them if you hit them in the head with it, unless they changed that).

[Aurmanite]

Thread is full of haters.

The underbarrel grenade launcher is a great tool for engineers. Area denial all day.

[Dreamcast]

Just makes me feel better that when I destroy people is thru skill.


Not some skilless n00btube.:D

[Palerion]

145 certs in 21 minutes... My lord.

[OCNSethy]

145 certs in 21 minutes... My lord.

Sigh,,, takes me most of the night to get kind of XP.