How much dammage can gens take?

[TheRagingGerbil]

7 boomers will kill a gen if they are placed in the perfect spots and all of them detonate simultaneously.

8 boomers seems to be the average.

Lately though, it seem sto have been taking a ninth or tenth boomer on occasion.

[Queensidecastle]

I agree with Jagd. The easiest way to solo drop a Gen is to have at least:

Infiltration Suit
Advanced Hacking
Rexo
Special assault

Sneak into base, hack into a Rexo Decimator loadout, and go own the Gen. It only takes like 30 seconds to unload 3 Decimators anyways. If you really want to be an ass, own the tubes first then go own the gen. It takes way too much time to diddle around with boomers if you are by yourself

[Jagd]

I guess it depends on whether you value stealth or speed higher. Personally, it's speed, cause if I'm in my spec ops mode I always have another generator to drop or module to steal.

[SandTrout]

in populated bases, gen droping with decies is virtualy imposible solo because people will react before you can get all the decie shots off. However, If you drop the tubes first, decies are definately faster. I have SA and CE, so I do whatever fits the situation. Speed or stealth, its your decision.

BTW, in my experience, it takes 10 deci shots to take down a gen, but maybe there's a trick I'm missing.

[Veteran]

The last time I threw a jammer at a bunch of boomers, the boomers didn't explode. I had to detonate them manually, one by one, and it took an awful lot of them to kill the generator.

Is that new?

[SandTrout]

yeah, jammers dont work on friendlys, includening deployables. You have to drop the triggers onto the ground before you can jammer your own boomers because once the triggers are droped, they become "neutral" faction and therefor can be jammed.

[Jagd]

10 shots is right, although its like boomers-- a little buggy, and sometimes takes more. There has been the odd time when my agile stuffed with decimators (4 decis=12 shots) didn't take the generator down.