Useless Weapons...

[H2Yo]

Here I am, I'm going to say it!

CLAYMORE AND AT MINES ARE USELESS!

They are purely a magnet for your own team to punish you. Can anyone tell me they don't feel nervous about leaving an AT mine on the ground? It seems that it will always attract your own team-mates to run over them.

But yes, you are right by what you are thinking. YOUR TEAM DOES SEE LITTLE RED SKULL AND CROSSBONES, but does this matter? Nope!

Ok so I have found a great use for the AT mines, Sprint toward a tank or APC, prone and crawl underneath it and let go a mine. Sure it will kill you in the process if the vehicle moves but its a guarenteed kill.

PS. I have a small question regarding stunts. I have turned off team damage in my own server and have thrown C4 on the rear of a jeep. I've had my friend hoon toward a mound and I've fired the C4. All it did was push the jeep a little; it did not propel it through the air. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[Riggz]

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hmmm..if you're close enough to go prone and crawl underneath then u might as well throw the mine on top and try to run away. Once the vehicle moves the mine will fall to the ground and explode destroying the vehicle. It's the ghetto way of boobytrapping vehicles.

[DrunkenAviator]

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Claymores and mines are not useless... If anything, it's those stupid teammates that are useless... You just have to be extra careful where you lay them... (Ie: don't put them anyplace that's likely to see a friendly body before the enemy)...

[vbl]

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Claymores and mines are not useless... If anything, it's those stupid teammates that are useless... You just have to be extra careful where you lay them... (Ie: don't put them anyplace that's likely to see a friendly body before the enemy)...

Actually, mines really are useless - you can detonate them with a grenade, or any other explosive shot.

[DrunkenAviator]

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I've gotten plenty of kills with them, so clearly they're not completely useless... Again, just requires some intelligence in their use...

[vbl]

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I've gotten plenty of kills with them, so clearly they're not completely useless... Again, just requires some intelligence in their use...

Good luck with that post-patch. As more players realize that they can defuse them with a simple tank shell you'll get a lot fewer kills.

Oh, and the field of mines you laid will be completely gone if 1 goes off, since they can detonate each other now.

Also, nice jab on the intelligence - real classy. Even the smartest engineer can be screwed over by bad game design. Honestly, what are you going to do, reason with them to not be set off by a grenade?

[rnu]

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detle this

[rnu]

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delete this

[Dethleffs]

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dont read it if you arent interested rnu. Not that i care about this thread, but posting things like that wont help and it makes one look silly. About the mines... since they can be detonated by grenades and stuff, theyre pretty much useless indeed.

[Cytrode]

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I wouldn't mind easy defusing of mines(explosives) If the mines were smaller and harder to see, to balance it. As of right now they are huge as hell and easy to see.

[Swanston]

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AT Mines aren't useless, I use them like C4, I throw them ontop of a vehicle then after a few seconds, as soon as it moves again he dies.

If you have enough time to throw C4 on an enemy thats the same amount of time you need to throw an AT Mine ontop of a vehicle. Also sometimes it stays ontop of the vehicle so you don't need it to stay still for the mine to 'activate'.

[H2Yo]

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PS. I have a small question regarding stunts. I have turned off team damage in my own server and have thrown C4 on the rear of a jeep. I've had my friend hoon toward a mound and I've fired the C4. All it did was push the jeep a little; it did not propel it through the air. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

So any word on this?

[timsgameonline]

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now that commanders dont get TKs for arty kills, EA should extend this to mines and claymores. YEs, your teamates are idiots for not seeing the things - its not your fault theyre blind!!! And then they punish you for the Tk. Come on EA tweak this. Its hard enough scoring as sniper or engy, give us a chance!

[rombaft]

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I don't use those mines a lot, but claymores can be very effective, you can plase those things, knowing there will ru an enemy on it and not a teammate, but accidents happen and you will get punished.