I must admit, I am guilty of grenade spamming. Give me a break though! You get spawn camped by 100s of salivating soldiers outside ready to shove their weapons up your behind so I just spawn, chuck a few grenades and then resupply at the console which is 2 feet away from me. It's actually hilarious if you think about it, you hear some /yelling and crying about grenades while you're still chucking them. PS: The best way since most spawn campers choose to hide behind the barriers is to bounce a grenade off of a wall towards them and if they choose to camp infront of it, then you can simply shoot them to death.
My only main complain is that the grenades are made out of rubber and bounce around. If i throw a grenade at my feets it will bounce and end up like 20-30 meters away. If you throw it into a room they might end up bouncing around in there (depending on how far you throw it). Kinda annoying :/
Grenade spamming is perfectly fine. If you want to be an idiot and zerg a room where a nice grenade could put down 5-10/whatever all at once, you deserve it. There is usually more than just one way to attack a location...if all you can see as a strategy is to rush/zerg, then thats your own fault.
Grenades may be fine. But they ruin fights. They aren't fun to use, or fight against. I don't feel a sense of accomplishment when I chuck a random grenade and get a triple kill. They make the game a spam fest. I'd rather have a good firefight than a stupid grenade throwing competition. Take a lesson from Counter-Strike. It has 'tactical' grenades. E.g., you have to think before you use them, and work with your teammates to have them be effective. They do pretty low damage, half of your health at once if it blows up in your face, in a very low TTK game. The grenades in this game are just stupid, and make indoor fights boring as ****. edit : Nerfing grenades would also bring the other grenades up to par (EMP, etc)
I like grenades the way they are. What I want to see is the other types of grenades being more useful. I don't see the point of flashbanging or using EMP to damage the shields of an enemy when a grenade flat-out kills them.
There is nothing wrong with grenades, they cost resources to buy and can only carry one and can only be resupplied at equipment termninals. If you have any issue, I'd suggest paying more attention. They are marked as a bright red ball and unless someone is exceptionally good at tossing them to explode on contact or just out of sight you should not have an issue with them. If you can't play as your a grenade magnet then I'd suggest staying in vehicles. Outside that I'd recommend possibly playing some thing else as they are not a huge deal.
The current nades are nerfed. If you don't like the current nades, the beta nades would have infuriated you. The blast radius has been reduced and the detonantion timer of the nade has been increased. As well resource cost has been increased from 25 to 45.
Pay attention to the grenade icon flashing on the screen. Invest in Flak Armor. Shield makes you slower, probably that prevents you from dodging granades. Consider players can carry a very limited amount of granades, so the spam is still acceptable. Imho granades are fine as they are, no need to change. They're deadly, but I can live with that, it just need a little attention.
Dayum these new NC's make me ashamed of my faction... Nades are fine, the HUGE nerf is that bright red beacon to tell you "hey! I'm a nade and I think you should get the f**k outta here!!!"
seeing as you have to buy them with resources not a lot of people refill. Also its a grenade... pieces of shrapnel traveling faster than a bullet tearing through vital organs... I'm sure that would kill anyone if not the shrapnel then the shock wave would.
When you compare grenades, to something that shares resources, like the Max unit, do you really feel like the grenade is stronger then the MAX? I mean MAX is like a mobile grenade spammer.I like it
"Today SOE has announced they are nerfing grenades. Grenades will do no damage and instead will shower players with a gentle golden rain." <crowd goes wild> 2 days later, same crowd... "I keep getting shot! Bullets are OP! NERF BULLETS!!!!" Grenades are a tool of death dealing. We're here to kill you. We'll use grenades to do it. You claim it's not fun, but what's not fun is losing. You don't want them nerfed because they're OP, you want them nerfed because they're causing you to lose fights. That is always a bad reason to nerf anything, especially as there are very good counters already in place. Instead of demanding SOE dumb their game down even more, use those counters, maintain situational awareness, and use that lumpy fatty* thing that sits between your ears to figure out how to win. *NOTE: This is not an insult. Brains are composed mostly of fatty tissue.
You made me lol. Nerf bullets would be the next argument. Nerf grenades if you want, I'll just use rockets. Less practical but still effective.
Grenades are beyond awful in ps2... all you people saying they are fine, you have played other FPSes right? PS2's grenades are hands down the worst grenades in any game I have ever played (including PS1). They aren't responsive or rewarding to kill with. The pathetically sloppy handling characteristics cause ridic amounts of TKs. If I was Higby, who wants this game to be e-sport worthy, I would be very embarrassed about the way grenades handle. If grenades didn't have such a giant radius, large dmg, and terrible physics, they wouldn't need to have to have such a long fuse. I don't think they can fix the physics or they would have already. I think they need to reduce the radius by about 1.5m and then reduce the fuse timer by a second or two.
