how to use the grenade launcher properly?

[Cotizi]

This is difficult though. If they do this it will end up far more of a spamming weapon for flag points and if I had to pick which I would prefer it would be the the abuse of it at short range that we are seeing at the moment.

DC had a pretty powerful grenade launcher at one of its releases that would kill the operator if fired to close but would take out groups of 2-3 players with its splash damage and it was terrible for game play. Basically every infantry map was just constant grenade launcher spamming.

thats a good point.... honestly i get more points just spamming nades as support....i jsut keep throwing them and people keep getting killed by them... works for me. cept for NASTY amounts of Tk's.. just gotta watch where u throw.

[vbl]

Contrary to every other player it seems, I use the GL for long-distance kills and anti-vehicle work.

The M16 and AK are monsters in CQC, and the guys who use the GL for their primary CQ weapon are idiots. It makes more sense to use the rifle for as long as it has ammo in the clip, then switch to the GL for group kills (medics and the revived) and as a backup.

As the rifles' accuracy decreases over distance, I find that the GL, if arc'd right (it isn't hard) is crazy accurate. Plus, the splash allows for some deviation without loss of lethality.

It works wonders against jeeps, and I've handily taken out APCs and MBTs by firing the GL at the lower rear sections of both.

[ZapStarfighter]

Watch the scene in Black Hawk Down where Ewen McGreggor's character rushes out to take out a jeep full of enemies with his M203. He missed horribly on the first shot, but since the enemies are reloading, he reloads also and on his second shot blows the crap out of it. The M203 is actually kind of a "precision" mass damage weapon.

Also, the animation in game on the reload is virtually identical to that of McGreggor's in the movie. Very cool.

[Jmunee3o5]

yeah deffinately, the reloading in the game is very realistic, but i do think that the no0b-tube should have a less arch and more of a straight shot sort of thing going on, also the blast radius. hope its tweaked out in 1.03...

[dfr.mav]

m203 is for people who cant shoot real bullets.

[Odinpalen]

I will give you the quick and dirty way to aim the nade launcher. Look at the above picture with the hud. put the very bottom of the graphic on top of the target for medium and close distances and bingo hits every time. No thinking at all to use it, unless there is distance. But you can walk your nades towards target. Also if you are by a supply box you can spam hard core with the nade launcher.

[Jmunee3o5]

i agree with you 100%... nothing sucks more then you turning a corner, seeing a person shoot at him, he turns around and kills you and himself with an m203.